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Alberta Animal Services adoption centre manager, Alyssa Eisner holds four month old Charlie a wolfhound husky cross that is ready for adoption at the Red Deer Petland location. Charlie along with 3 of his possible litter mates is one of about 200 dogs recently rescued by Alberta Animal Services.

ALMOST 50 DOGS RECOVERING IN RED DEER FROM MILK RIVER SEIZURE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Three shelters in Red Deer are nursing almost 50 dogs back to health following the largest seizure of neglected dogs in Alberta’s history.

Alberta Animal Services, Red Deer SPCA and Klassic Kennels are caring for the canines after taking them in nearly two weeks ago.

Erica Coomber, Alberta Animal Services shelter administrator, said the dogs were severely underweight, malnourished and parasite-ridden when they arrived on Jan. 14.

The shelter is caring for 22 dogs, a mix of mostly adult large breed dogs, including Irish wolf hounds, sheepdogs, malemutes and komodors.

“They were literally skin and bones,” said Coomber. “You could see their whole skeletal structure.”

The animals were among the 201 dogs seized from a rural property outside of Milk River in Southern Alberta in two stages by the SPCA. Sixty dogs were voluntarily handed over on Dec. 23 and the remaining 141 were seized through a search warrant on Jan.13. A puppy and an adult dog with untreatable medical issues have since died.

Jim deBoon, of Klassic Kennels, is taking care of

14 dogs at the north-end facility.

“The dogs were in overall poor health,” said deBoon. “They were nervous. They were scared. But they are rebounding very quickly and they are doing well.”

Coomber said in addition to be being malnourished and underweight, the canines had a laundry list of parasites, including tapeworms, roundworms, giardia and mange. The shelters have been dealing with the health issues.

“They will need a lot of work,” said Coomber.

“They have lived outside their whole life. They don’t know how to be a dog. They are just learning to play.”

Roland Lines, Alberta SPCA spokesperson, said the dogs did not have sufficient protection, particularly for winter conditions.

“Most of them were tied on chains that were staked in the yard so they were just finding shelter under abandoned vehicles and trailers and whatever they could find,” said Lines. “It was horrible conditions for these dogs. There was no doubt these dogs were in distress.”

Lines said they have encountered situations where dogs are kept in such conditions, but never on this scale.

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It’s still months away from pouring its first pint, but a proposed Red Deer microbrewery is a step closer to satiating the thirst of local beer enthusiasts.

Troubled Monk Brewery received development approval from the city’s municipal planning commission on Wednesday, setting the stage for the business to set up shop in Red Deer’s Riverlands district. It’s chosen a 5,100-square-foot bay at No. 1, 5511 45th St. for its production facilities and tasting room.

Red Deer resident Charlie Bredo, who is developing Troubled Monk Brewery with his brothers Kevin and Graeme, expects to install a 17-hectolitre (1,700-litre) brewhouse in early April and be selling

by June or July.

“We want to come out with between two and four styles of beer to start,” said Bredo, who thinks the local market will embrace craft beer.

“I think the culture of craft beer is really cool and I think a lot of people in the area don’t realize that there’s so much to beer.”

Beer will be available on site, both for tasting there and to take home. Cans and kegs will also be sold to bars, restaurants and liquor stores, said Bredo.

“I think there’s a solid demand out there for local beer.”

The company has hired a student from Olds College’s brewmaster and brewery operations management program to serve as its brewmaster, and expects to source as many ingredients as it can from Central Alberta. It’s also hoping to choose beer names with historical or cultural connections to this region — such as Pesky Pig Pale Ale, in honour of Red Deer’s famed slaughterhouse escapee Francis the Pig. “We’re going to sell our beer throughout Alberta but we’re proud to be from Red Deer and we want that to show,” said Bredo.

Red Deer city council opened the door for businesses like Troubled Monk Brewery three weeks ago when it amended the city’s land use bylaw to allow microbreweries as a discretionary use in the Riverlands and Railyards districts.

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Stolen goods seized from notorious residence PENHOLD

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A man faces additional charges after police seized drugs, weapons and stolen tools and equipment from a notorious Penhold residence.

Innisfail RCMP Staff Sgt. Chris Matechuk said a search warrant on Saturday netted the stolen goods, including a replica firearm and rifle reported stolen from Three Hills. The charges came after a two-week investigation.

Since July, police received 70 complaints about suspicious people, vehicles and incidents at the residence. Police say the suspect is linked to 40 of those complaints.

“The community is very frustrated,” said Matechuk. “They are seeing all this activity. ... We have received a lot of positive comments from the community and relief that we were able to make an arrest.”

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Matechuk said the stolen goods were linked to crimes throughout Central Alberta, including in Blackfalds, Sylvan Lake and Innisfail. No dollar value for the stolen property was provided.

Police believe a few criminals are responsible for most of the property crime in the region, Matechuk said.

“Criminals do not have boundaries, so this task force was created to share information to better target the prolific offenders.”

While police were searching the Penhold house, the suspect pulled up in his vehicle and was arrested on outstanding warrants. Two other occupants were also arrested. A male youth, who was inside the home, was also arrested.

Police said they seized drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine from the vehicle.

Red Deer Supt. Scott Tod said this is a really good start for the task force because it has only been running for two weeks.

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Police will continue to keep an eye on the property.

Matechuk told reporters that the suspect has been arrested four times and charged five times since July. The most recent warrant was issued for his arrest on Jan. 5. His charges related to stolen property, failure to comply, driving without a valid licence and other offences.

Matechuk said the criminal activity at the home was not limited to Penhold.

Staff Sgt. Chris The investigation was conducted Matechuk by the newly-formed regional Property Crimes Tasks Force and the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, a division of ALERT. “A search warrant was also conducted in September,” said Matechuk. “The activity wasn’t confined to our jurisdiction. Combining our efforts with our task force really brought a quick resolution to making these arrests.”

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Calgarians rally to urge province to act on new cancer centre for city on Wednesday

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Cattle die after livestock transport truck crashes on Hwy 36 in Central Alberta CASTOR — Icy roads and fog are being blamed for the crash of a cattle transport truck in central Alberta.

RCMP say the truck rolled on Highway 36 Wednesday just south of Castor.

The driver suffered minor injuries.

Police say many of the cattle either died in the crash or were injured and had to be euthanized.

Boil water advisory issues for town of Wainwright and military base WAINWRIGHT,. — Residents of the Alberta community of Wainwright and its nearby military base have been placed under a boil water advisory.

Officials said the advisory was issued as a precaution due to increased turbidity levels, along with a structural defect within the water treatment plant.

As a result, water used for drinking, preparing food, for making infant formula, making ice cubes, washing fruits and vegetables and to brush your teeth should be brought to a rolling boil for at least one minute before being used.

According to officials, activated carbon water filters such as Brita filtration systems are not a safe method for treating water under this advisory.

No illnesses have been reported, and officials

CALGARY — More than 100 protesters held a rally at the government’s southern Alberta office in Calgary to push for action on a new cancer centre for the city.

They chanted and held signs urging Premier Jim Prentice to make the cancer treatment facility a priority.

Myka Osinchuk with the Alberta Cancer Foundation said 43 Albertans are diagnosed with the disease every day and the province can’t afford to wait.

“Calgary is the only major Canadian city that does not have a comprehensive cancer centre, so Calgary patients who have cancer have to go to no less than five different hospitals to receive their care,” Osinchuk said Wednesday.

Protesters banged on drums and chanted “Build it now.”

Jenn Birchall, who has Stage 4 breast cancer, inspired people at the rally with her story of perseverance and told the crowd the time to act is now.

“I think it’s ridiculous that this hospital has been announced and re-announced and re-announced and I think the government needs to follow through on their promises.”

David Swan, Liberal MLA for Calgary-Mountain View, said people he has spoken with are outraged by the government’s lack of movement.

Health officials announced plans in March 2013 for a new cancer centre to be built at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary to replace the aging Tom Baker Clinic.

They said at the time the new complex would include inpatient beds, cancer diagnostic and treatment technologies, an outpatient facility and dedi-

cated research space.

But in December, a health official said all projects were being assessed due to falling oil prices.

Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley said the Tory government has long neglected the health-care needs of Albertans.

“A state-of-the-art cancer centre with the capacity to help southern Albertans has been badly needed for years, and the longer we wait the more we risk compromising their care,” she said in a statement Wednesday.

“Cancer is a traumatic enough experience without having to worry if your treatment will be delayed or undermined because of overcrowding and failing infrastructure issues.”

Fatal hit-and-run suspect arrested in Fort McMurray, to be returned to Ontario MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - RCMP in Fort McMurray, Alta., have arrested a man accused of running down and killing an attendant after stealing gas in Mississauga, Ont. Abdullahi Mohamoud, 22, was charged with failing to remain and criminal negligence causing death but fled Ontario before his first court appearance.

His arrest follows an incident in May 2011, when someone pumped gas and drove off without paying.

The attendant, Hashem Atifeh Rad, 62, chased after the car and was fatally injured as it left the lot.

The arrest of Mohamoud, of Mississauga, who was thought at one point to be in Saskatoon, followed a tip and a five-month investigation.

Police say he will first be prosecuted for charges in the western provinces before being returned to Ontario.

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DOGS: Reached out The Alberta SPCA enlisted the help of the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society, which reached out to animal care facilities across the province to hold and care for the dogs because of the large number.

Deanna Thompson, executive director of the society, said the agency deals with cases of neglect and this is by far one of the worst and the most extensive.

Thompson said all the animals were emancipated.

“We had one with a broken leg,” she said. “One with a broken jaw. We have another dog missing part of his leg so he will need a full leg amputation.”

The SPCA were required by law to hold for the animals seized under the search warrant for 10 days.

The 10-day hold expired on Jan. 24 and on Jan. 25, the ownership of all the dogs was turned over to Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society.

Once the dogs are spayed, neutered and in good enough health, they will ready to be adopted. Some of the dogs are already at the Petland Adoption Centre in Red Deer.

Both Coomber and deBoon said the dogs are putting on weight and starting to become socialized and less nervous.

“We are looking for people who are willing to give as much time as they can to these dogs so they can rehab,” said Coomber.

Charges are pending against the property owner.

The SPCA officers were called to the property after a tip from the public. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

MICROBREWERY: Step forward “I think this a wonderful step forward into the Riverlands neighbourhood and I look forward to similar ventures coming down the pipes,” said Coun.

Ken Johnston during the municipal planning commission meeting.

The commission did have to grant a relaxation of the minimum number of parking stalls needed for the multi-tenant building where Troubled Monk Brewery will operate — to 38 from the required 42.

But city staff pointed out that the microbrewery’s peak periods will differ from those of adjacent businesses, on-street parking is also available, and more public parking could be developed as Riverlands evolves into the mixed-use neighbourhood that the city contemplates.

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Police seized stolen property and drugs from a notorious Penhold residence on Jan.24.

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The commission’s approval is for a 15-year period.

Drummond Brewing Company has been operating in Red Deer’s Edgar Industrial Park for almost seven years. It’s done so under a site-specific bylaw previously passed by council.

And Lacombe council has given first reading to a bylaw that would amend that city’s land use bylaw to allow microbreweries there, with a public hearing and subsequent readings scheduled for Feb. 9.

The move was prompted by another proposed craft brewery, Blindman Brewing, which would also be locally owned and operated.

Bredo said more microbreweries would be positive for the industry, and this region, since they’d help raise public awareness about craft beer.

But starting such a business is no small commitment, he pointed out, with the associated investment in the million-dollar range. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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SEIZED: Intelligence “There’s lots of targets out there,” said Tod. “It’s just a matter of looking at our intelligence and figuring out who is the best target.”

Gary Raymond Auvigne, 39, of Penhold is charged with failing to comply with undertaking, three counts of stolen property, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a stolen firearm, use of firearm during commission of an offence, use of replica firearm during commission of an offence and possession of what police believe to be crystal meth for the purpose of trafficking.

The other three men and youth were released.

Police are still investigating and more charges may be laid. Auvigne is in custody and will appear in Red Deer provincial court today. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Watchdog won’t probe oilsands tailings ponds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The three countries that run the North American Free Trade Agreement’s environmental watchdog have voted against an investigation into how Canada oversees Alberta’s oilsands.

The unanimous decision by Canada, Mexico and the United States comes despite recommendations from staff at the Commission on Environmental Cooperation.

They had concluded there were enough questions about how environmental rules are enforced on oilsands tailings ponds to justify an investigation.

The commission was created in 1995 to win environmental support for NAFTA by providing a safeguard that the deal wouldn’t boost commerce at the expense of clean air, water or land. Commission staff investigate public complaints that Canada, the United States or Mexico aren’t living up to their laws and recommend a “factual record” if they find enough grounds.

In 2010, a number of individuals and environmental groups filed a complaint with the commission that Canada wasn’t upholding its Fisheries Act. They pointed to research that suggests an unknown amount of tailings from the oilsands are seeping into groundwater and damaging fish habitat.

Last August, the commission’s legal staff decided there was enough supporting evidence to recommend an investigation.

But Canada did not respond to the allegations.

The government pointed to commission rules that say it’s not allowed to review any issue currently before the courts and a man from Fort McMurray, Alta., had filed a legal action that levelled similar criticisms about the tailings ponds.

That action had been heard in February and the man confirmed to The Canadian Press that he considered the matter closed. The appeal period ended last fall.

Still, Canada argued that commission staff have no independent power to determine whether the case was active or relevant. The government’s word should have been enough to block the investigation, it said. “(Staff) should have proceeded no further in its analysis and terminated the submission.”

However, a statement from the United States suggests that country would be open to reconsidering the request now that the legal action is officially over.

“Nothing in the (North American Agreement on Environmental Co-operation) would have precluded the submitters from filing another submission on these issues,” it said.

It’s the second time in two months environmentalists have lost bids to begin investigations into Canada’s activities.

In December, Canada used a similar argument to team up with Mexico and defeat a motion to look into salmon farms along the British Columbia coast.

Environmental groups and First Nations had accused Canada of violating its own laws by allowing the fish farms, which they said harm wild salmon stocks by spreading parasites.

The commission’s internal staff had recommended an investigation be done.

But Canada won the vote by arguing the issue was already the subject of a court proceeding in B.C.

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A new species of dinosaur with a neck half the length of its body, shown in this artist’s rendition, has been discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists in China.

Alberta researchers find long-necked dinosaur in China

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A new species of dinosaur with a neck half the length of its body has been discovered

by University of Alberta paleontologists in China.

And the researchers wonder if the ancient Chinese may have viewed a similar skeleton, leading to the enduring myths of dragons. The fossil, which included a large neck vertebra with the head attached, was named Qijianglong. That translates to “Dragon of Qijiang,” in honour of the fossil’s discovery at a southern China construction site near Qijiang City in 2006. Tetsuto Miyashita, along with Lida Xing and renowned paleontologist Philip Currie, were involved in the discovery, which has been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

“There is one theory that the Chinese got an inspiration for the dragon by looking at a dinosaur skeleton in the ground,” Miyashita said. “They stumbled upon a long-necked creature like this and they didn’t know what it was.

“So they put the crocodiles and snakes that they knew together to picture a big, mythical creature like dragons.”

Miyashita said there are plenty of species of dinosaurs with long necks, but they are usually only onethird of the body length. This one would have had a neck about 7.5 metres in length.

“These ones are an extreme species.”

Miyashita said the neck of the Qijianglong was filled with air to prevent it from being top heavy. He said it was a herbivore and lived on land about 160 million years ago during the late Jurassic period.

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Prentice dismisses complaints that spring vote would be unfair EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is showing very little sympathy for opponents who say it’s unfair for him to call a snap election.

Prentice says he is working on a game-changing financial plan to pull the province out of the ditch of low oil prices, and says it’s up to everyone in the legislature to get on board.

Prentice hasn’t confirmed there will a spring election, but has said his plan to revamp Alberta’s economy will need a mandate from the people. Alberta by law doesn’t have to hold an election until the spring of 2016, but there are provisions to allow it to be called sooner.

All political parties are now scrambling to nominate candidates, and the Liberals and Wildrose parties don’t even have permanent leaders in place.

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Do we need an election?

JIM PRENTICE KNOWS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, SO HE SHOULD JUST DO IT

BY PHIL ELDER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE What does the collapse of Alberta’s opposition parties mean?

First, Rachel Notley’s NDP has to be seen as the big winner. What other opposition party has the record, the money and organization?

She’ll get more seats, at least in Edmonton. Not so much in Southern Alberta, although Shannon Phillips in Lethbridge West could win.

Who knows where Calgary will go?

Not NDP. Probably Liberal David Swann, maybe Green and/or Alberta Party leaders, the rest Conservative?

Say it ain’t so!

Second, if Premier Jim Prentice is ruthless, he will call a snap election in order to win 75-plus seats. Just like the old days.

Of course, he’ll use the excuse about needing a mandate to deal with the latest gutting of oil and gas revenues, and the need for public support of the harsh measures (mostly expenditure cuts) that his party’s continued economic mismanagement has caused.

Only in Alberta could a new premier of the perpetual governing old party get away with this “under new management” business.

We must admit there’s a slight case for a new premier seeking a mandate — otherwise, the province will have

been governed by an unelected leader for a year and a half — but the parliamentary system provides for this kind of turnover. He still commands the confidence of the house, and since last fall’s byelections, he does hold a seat.

But a true statesman might decide not to waste a critical month electioneering when he knows what needs to be done. Surely enhancing the province’s welfare is more important than party advantage.

What needs to be done?

Given the apparent dimensions of Alberta’s projected $6-billion to $7-billion deficit, most people would agree that both revenues and expenditures have to be assessed. Some people have the delusion that we can solve the problem by “cutting out the fat” in government expenditures, without hurting the quality of the public and support services we all depend upon.

Surely we can dismiss this lunacy, but some cuts are feasible. I’m no expert in public finance, but even the Fraser Institute (which seems to think that no tax is a good tax) suggests abolishing corporate subsidies. Of course, careful analysis might conclude that some of these programs should continue, but starting there is far better than the meat-axe across the board cuts executed by the much-overrated Ralph Klein government in the mid 1990s.

There may be other programs that have become outdated (for example,

let’s do a cost-benefit review of Alberta’s foreign missions). If so, now’s the time to cut them.

Another strong candidate for elimination is the remarkable severance and pension payments that make life cushy for well-paid government executives.

Once a compassionate review of government expenditures is completed, we’ll still have a multibillion-dollar shortfall, especially true now as we have surely reached the point where we decide never again to use oil and gas revenues to finance ongoing government programs.

Which brings us to the next solution.

We have to acknowledge that not all taxes are bad. Remember American Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. saying “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization.” People who disagree with this forfeit their credibility.

If Albertans expect their programs to function well, we need the taxes to pay for them. It’s as simple as that.

But some taxes are better than others. Economists identify progressive and regressive taxes, depending on their relative impact on various income groups. For instance, every other province and territory in Canada imposes progressive income taxes, which levy an increasing percentage on higher income groups. Why not Alberta?

After all, except for ideological outriders whose policies favour the rich, ev-

eryone seems to agree that’s fair.

I don’t know very much about the combined impact of corporate and income tax — some believe this amounts to double taxation. I’d want to hear from tax experts before meddling too much with the structure. But why not return the rate to where it was a decade ago? Was Alberta so unfair then?

I’m also inclined to suggest that we ensure our oil and gas royalty rates are at least as high as they were under Peter Lougheed, or maybe the average of other similar jurisdictions. As Lougheed said, “Alberta should act more like an owner.”

Finally, we come to a sales tax. The flat, universal nature of this tax could be a problem, although Alberta is the only province without one. So it could be set at a low rate, say three per cent, with rebates for low-income Albertans.

I like the premier’s reminder that “we are all in this together.” This is true and grownups will ask not “What’s in it for me?” but “How can I help?”

But the fundamental principle is that we shouldn’t volunteer the poor and disadvantaged to bear the burden.

Fairness, not continued favouring of the well-off, is essential.

Phil Elder is emeritus professor of environmental and planning law with the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).

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Weak climate leadership has provinces stepping up If we don’t have an adult conversation about climate change and carbon pricing at the federal level this year, then when?

The void should not be filled by the provinces. It demands federal leadership.

But if there is timidity at the federal level right now, you can blame Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The Conservative attack chorus has had a number of negative impacts on political discourse in this country, but two are clear.

Just as neither Tom MulTIM cair nor Justin Trudeau will HARPER talk about running deficits — the Conservatives’ fanatic budget-balancing religion is now gospel here — neither opposition leader is anxious to take to the streets to talk about carbon pricing.

For the first half of this Harper majority, barely a day passed in the Commons without a government backbencher rising to decry the NDP’s job-killing, $21-billion “carbon tax,” a cap-and-trade proposal that, according to Conservatives, would cancel Christmas, blacken the summer sun and lead us down a path of ruination.

Sunday, in a campaign-style speech, Harper took a different tack in a message apparently aimed at Trudeau, saying, “You can’t help the middle class with a so-called carbon tax, which, as we all know, is a tax on everything.’’

It would merely reverse his cuts to the GST, the

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prime minister asserted.

All three leaders are also aware that in uncertain economic times, environmental concerns fall down a list of priorities for Canadian voters, so the current battleground revolves around middle-class pocketbook issues and our personal security at home.

Mulcair this week accused Trudeau of hoisting the white flag on carbon pricing, abdicating leadership and outsourcing the job to the provinces.

The NDP leader is not focusing on the environment, but he is not shying away, either. He told an economic audience in Ottawa on Tuesday that he would use revenues from carbon pricing to invest in what he says will be a $5-trillion global renewable energy market by 2030.

Trudeau raised questions last week when he said the provinces should implement carbon pricing policies. But the Liberal leader is expected to lay out a national carbon-price strategy in which he will attempt to lead on principles and targets, but acknowledge it cannot be a one-size-fits-all national approach. He will argue you cannot overlay the same policy on different provinces with different economies. And he would certainly be careful there are no echoes of a certain Ottawa dictate known as the National Energy Policy.

By spring, four provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and (it is expected) Ontario, home to 86 per cent of the population — will have carbonpricing programs in place or, in the case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, in the discussion and consultation phase. B.C. has a revenue-neutral carbon tax, Alberta a levy on companies that fall short of energy efficiency targets, and Ontario is expected to join Quebec in an international cap-and-trade program.

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Trudeau will argue that the provinces will have to implement their own programs because the B.C. levy at the pump would not work in Alberta where the problem lies with high-end emitters. He will argue that the most significant emissions reduction move was the Ontario Liberals’ move to mothball coalfired power plants.

Mulcair would institute a national program but will endeavour to get provincial buy-in.

Both opposition leaders will argue that Harper’s inaction on climate change is the prime driver behind his stalled pipeline and resource export plans.

Waiting for Harper to move on carbon pricing will be futile because there is no sign he is being pushed in that direction by his Conservative base.

He did, however, speak positively of the Alberta model in a year-end interview with the CBC, suggesting it was something “on which you could go broader.’’ As an international outlier, Harper must drop his insistence on continental action and move on some type of regulations against large greenhouse-gas emitters in the lead up to this year’s global climate summit in Paris. It will likely be more aspirational than substantive; a bid to move the issue off the table.

Provincial premiers are right now driving carbon pricing in this country and their meeting here on Friday could provide further impetus.

Wynne will also convene a summit of sub-national governments from the Americas this summer. Things are moving on this file, even though you’d scarcely know it in Ottawa.

The premiers deserve credit. But this should be a debate driven at the federal level.

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CANADA BRIEF Quebec judge rejects challenge by merchants prosecuted for violating sign law MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has rejected a legal challenge by about two dozen businesses that were prosecuted for not respecting the province’s French Language Charter.

But lawyer Brent Tyler quickly announced Wednesday he plans to appeal the ruling, which he says didn’t surprise him.

“I told my clients: ‘Don’t even try and think about getting involved in this case if you don’t want to go the whole distance,”’ he said outside the courtroom.

The merchants, who operate businesses in and around the Montreal area, were charged with violating the sign provisions of the law, better known as Bill 101.

The law requires the marked predominance of French on public signs, posters and packaging. It also applies to Internet postings.

Violations included bilingual outdoor signs where the English text was equal to the space allotted to the French text; commercial signs written only in English; and the online promotion of goods and services exclusively in English.

One of the defendants’ main arguments was that the French language is no longer threatened.

Couple reunited with RV trashed in Texas A Canadian snowbird couple has been reunited with their motor home that was stolen on New Year’s Eve in Texas — or rather with what’s left of it.

Dennis Klone, of Slave Lake, Alta., said the recreational vehicle was taken from a storage facility in San Antonio, where he and his wife own a home.

Two weeks later police found the vehicle in a lot along with other RVs, pickup trucks, sports cars and a trailer full of beer.

Klone said the RV was in dismal condition.

The front door was gone, the refrigerator ripped out of the wall and glass from a shattered mirror littered the ground.

There was blood on the bed, condoms on the night stand as well as a bucket full of drug paraphernalia. Engagement, wedding and family photos were missing. “The frames are there, but the pictures are gone,” the 65-year-old said Wednesday in a phone interview from San Antonio.

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Feds spend $700K in court fighting veterans class-action lawsuit sponse as “hypocrisy,” noting that the issue for ex-soldiers is not the system itself, but the amount of funding within it.

“It is not the new veterans charter that is the problem, it’s adequacy of the funding given to those programs and the sufficiency of the awards given to our veterans through the application of the charter,” Valeriote said.

“Spending $700,000 a year to fight vets in court is not supporting our troops,” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair fumed during one heated question period exchange with Harper. “Closing nine veteran services offices is not supporting our troops, either.”

The ex-soldiers are plaintiffs in a classaction lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court, calling the charter discriminatory under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it does not provide the same level of benefits and support as the old pension system.

In a statement of defence filed by federal lawyers, the government argues Ottawa has no special obligation or “social contract” with veterans, and that it is unfair to bind the current government to promises made nearly a century ago by another prime minister.

Mike Blais, president of Canadian Veterans Advocacy, called the legal bill “unconscionable” and called on the government to drop the lawsuit and negotiate a settlement.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government has so far spent nearly $700,000 fighting a disgruntled group of wounded Afghan veterans in court- a revelation that on Wednesday rekindled a political controversy the Conservatives had hoped was behind them.

During question period, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to cast the ongoing court battle as the legacy of a flawed policy that was foisted on Parliament nine years ago by Paul Martin’s Liberal government.

“The government is defending a decision of the previous government, supported by all parties in the House of Commons,” Harper said, referring to the new veterans charter, which the Conservatives have championed since coming to office in 2006.

“Since the previous government imposed the new veterans charter, it has enhanced veterans services and programs by some $5 billion — opposed by the Liberals and NDP.” In response to a written question posed by the opposition, the Department of Justice said it spent $694,070 in legal fees, while National Defence spent $3,231. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau used the cost to demand in the House that the lawsuit be dropped. Liberal veterans critic Frank Valeriote described the government’s re-

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Lawyers for the government say the ruling in July didn’t grant that right and so the coverage system now in place doesn’t violate the decision.

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“That money should have been spent on veterans,” Blais said.“Taxpayers deserve better. I think if taxpayers knew that this government, Stephen Harper, was spending so much on lawyers —government lawyers — to fight the wounded in court, they would appalled.”

At issue in the court case is a 1917 pledge made on the eve of the Battle of Vimy Ridge

by Sir Robert Borden, who was prime minister at the time, that effectively said the country would not fail to show its appreciation for those who’ve served.

Although never explicitly codified in law, that pledge has guided the country’s policy towards veterans for decades. The government’s apparent attempt to abandon it has been central to the recent unrest among veterans. The government had hoped some of that unrest would be muted by the decision earlier this month to shuffle Julian Fantino out of Veterans Affairs and replace him with Erin O’Toole, a retired air force officer. O’Toole spoke in the House of Commons this week about the government’s “tremendous obligation, recognized as far back as Robert Borden,” but he emphasized that the policy was “not frozen in time.”

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‘Loopy’ jet stream behind weird weather

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — While easterners dig out after wintry blasts and blizzards, normally frigid prairie cities are into their second week of a January thaw that has seen overnight rain in Edmonton and shirt sleeves in Calgary.

What’s up with the weather?

“You can explain the weather outside your window by the position of the jet stream,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada. “What we’ve seen in this past week is — wow — the loopiest jet stream.”

The jet stream is a river of fastmoving, high-altitude air that normally moves west to east in a more-or-less orderly fashion and basically over North America’s middle latitudes.

Normally, it divides cold northern air from warm southern air. Sometimes, air masses of different temperatures hitch a ride on the jet stream and, when they collide, storms result.

But this year, said Phillips, the jet stream has been careening up and down the continent “like a drunken sailor,” weaving from the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. It has left behind it nearly a metre of snow in Massachusetts and 17-degree C temperatures in Alberta.

“We’ve seen this warm in the West and cold in the East before, but this time what’s different is we’re seeing these record warms and we’re now talking about an epic storm on the east

part of the continent,” Phillips said.

“It seems to be exaggerated.”

As well, what used to last for a day or two now stretches past a week.

“What’s really changed is the duration of these weather events.”

The forces that drive the jet stream have changed, said Jim Byrne, a climatologist at the University of Lethbridge.

The stream is controlled by the positions of the continents and the temperature difference between the top of the globe and the tropics. North America hasn’t moved, but the temperature gradient has as climate change warms the Arctic.

“The question is always: ‘Is this caused by climate change?’ and it’s the wrong question,” Byrne said.

“The question is: ‘Are these storms made more powerful by climate change?’ and as far as I’m concerned the answer is absolutely yes.”

Byrne said he’s seeing five to 10 storms a year of an intensity that would have been unheard of a generation ago, although most occur over oceans.

It’s a pattern that seems to be consistent with a recent controversial theory that links the wobbly jet stream, unusual and long-lasting weather events and melting Arctic sea ice.

Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Jersey has suggested that an Arctic Ocean with less ice absorbs more sunlight and warms faster. That reduces the temperature difference between north and south, which allows a slower and more erratic jet stream to

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Thursday’s map of the Jetstream . drift between the two instead of flowing evenly east-west. It also serves to block weather patterns in place that would normally move along.

Francis says the stream is about 14 per cent slower than it was in the ‘90s.

The debate, said Byrne, centres largely around the strength of the ef-

fect that Francis describes.

“Whether they’re just quirky oneoffs, it’s hard to say,” Phillips said. “We need more data, more years.”

One thing, he said, is certain.

“There are surprises in weather and climate and I think this is one of them.”

Montreal teen allegedly Latest Winnipeg water robbery to help tests clear, but boil-water committed terrorist group advisory still on

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — The most recent tests done on Winnipeg’s water supply came back clean Wednesday, but the city’s 700,000 residents remained under a boil-water advisory while the results were verified. Mayor Brian Bowman said it could be Thursday afternoon before yet another round of tests was completed and people would be able to safely drink the water without boiling it first.

“I’m pleased to advise that the testing we’ve conducted in the last 24 hours has come back negative, which means, according to our experts ... (the original samples) are false positives,” Bowman said at an update.

Under provincial guidelines, a boilwater advisory cannot be lifted until two consecutive retests come back clean.

“The province has the authority to lift the precautionary boil-water advisory. Once we receive that indication, we’ll obviously notify Winnipeggers as quickly as possible.”

The advisory was put in place Tuesday after coliform and E. coli showed up in extremely low levels in six of 39 water samples taken during routine testing. Businesses and residents were being told that tap water was safe for bathing and laundry, but were advised to boil it for at least a minute before drinking it. Officials said the testing and re-testing was being done as quickly as possible. Samples need time to grow in the lab because they are bacteriological tests.

Once the advisory is lifted, the city

will turn its attention to figuring out what happened. Geoff Patton, acting director of Water and Waste Department, said the same worker took all six of the suspect samples, but what went wrong is still a mystery.

“We’ve evaluated all of our operations systems. We’ve evaluated the protocol, the procedures. We spoke to the lab. We spoke to the tester. There is nothing that is showing up as anything that would lead to these issues,” he said. “We need to look at several other issues and we are going to be doing that over the next little while.”

Many residents had already appeared unfazed by the earlier test results that showed E. coli and coliform.

Most coffee shops and restaurants were open, although some menu items were not available. Schools were also open, but some warned students to bring bottled water because the water fountains were closed. It was business as usual at city pools.

Hospitals saw no sign of a spike in illness, and surgeries and other services went on as usual.

Dave Bilyk, a homeowner in south Winnipeg, said his family was coping well and did not feel the need to rush out and buy bottled water.

“We boiled about five or six litres worth and that way we can run it through the Keurig (coffee maker) for coffee in the morning and we can use it for brushing our teeth and so on,” he said Tuesday night.

Brian Wills said he, his wife and four children were not too worried. He even used a bit of tap water to brush his teeth — something the city advised against.

MONTREAL — A Montreal teenager facing two terrorism-related charges linked to a robbery will have a trial date set next month.

The 15-year-old appeared Wednesday in youth court, where his lawyer was granted a request to postpone proceedings until Feb. 16.

Federal prosecutors allege he committed a robbery for the benefit of an unspecified terrorist organization.

Authorities also say the adolescent is charged with planning to leave Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group abroad.

Wearing grey sweat pants and a black-and-grey hoodie, the accused listened quietly as he sat between two guards. His lawyer said his parents were not present because they knew the postponement was coming.

The adolescent will remain detained until the next court appearance.

The teen pleaded guilty to a separate robbery charge in November and was to have a sentencing hearing on Wednesday.

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“For now, the facts of the case are inseparable,” Vauclair said outside the courtroom.

The RCMP announced the terrorism charges last December and declined to provide any other information about the case pending the ongoing proceedings.

A spokeswoman for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said the teen boy’s arrest marks the first time a minor has been charged with trying to leave Canada to commit a terrorist offence since the Criminal Code was amended in 2013.

A federal prosecutor who was also present Wednesday told the court she’s considering seeking an adult sentence.

“I advised my colleague in court that I’m presently considering an application ... and that I would advise the court at the next court date,” Lyne Decarie told reporters.

According to the Criminal Code, being convicted for committing an offence on behalf of a terrorist group carries a maximum life sentence.

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Raptors rule court against Kings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 119 Kings 102 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors turned good defence into torrid offence Wednesday night as they lit up the slumping Sacramento Kings 119102.

Greivis Vasquez and Jonas Valanciunas combined for 21 points in a redhot third quarter and the Raptors won their fourth straight while handing the Kings their seventh straight loss.

Toronto (31-15) connected on 17 of 34 three-pointers, erasing the season high of 15. The franchise mark is 21, set in 2005 against Philadelphia.

Tied 54-54 at the half, the Raptors outscored Sacramento 39-22 in the third when they converted eight of 10 three-pointers. Vasquez and Valanciunas had four points apiece in the first half before coming alive in the third.

Toronto coach Dwane Casey pointed to the defensive efforts of Valanciunas and Chuck Hayes on Sacramento big man DeMarcus Cousins in the third.

“I thought the defence set the tempo for our offence,” said Casey. “We started being more aggressive offensively.

Physicality. It was almost like we were afraid to touch them in the first half.

And once we got into them physically, started putting our hands on them, touching them, starting blitzing Rudy (Gay) a little bit more — I think he only had five points in the second half — that’s when our offence got clicking and got going in transition.”

“Our best offence was our defence,” added Vasquez, who finished with 17 points.

Sacramento (16-28) has lost eight of its last 10.

“Neither team was really playing good defence,” sad Cousins. “It was preached, it was said that whichever team decided to be the first team to play defence was going to win the game and they decided to play defence first.

That’s the story.”

Cousins finished with 13 points and nine turnovers.

Lou Williams had 27 points off the bench and Valanciunas finished with 15 as seven Raptors finished in double figures.

“They’re playing with a lot of confidence and they’re talented guys,” said Sacramento coach Tyrone Corbin, who finished his playing career as a Rap-

Surprise players often the star in Super Bowl

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — Almost all football fans know Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch and Rob Gronkowski.

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks wouldn’t be playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday if it weren’t for their superstars. But both teams got here with lesser-known players coming up big at key times.

Jermaine Kearse caught a touchdown pass in overtime in Seattle’s win over Green Bay in the NFC championship game. Julian Edelman threw a TD pass in New England’s division-round win over Baltimore.

There’s Rob Ninkovich, Michael Bennett and several others. Often, surprise players are the stars in the Super Bowl.

Just look at last year when Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith was the unlikely MVP in Seattle’s win over Denver. Smith returned a Peyton Manning interception for a touchdown and recovered a fumble in a 43-8 rout. Now the former seventh-round pick hardly plays on defence.

“That’s the beauty of our team that anybody can have an MVP-type of day,” Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin said Wednesday.

“That’s what makes us special. I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody nobody talks about is MVP.” Brady, Wilson, Lynch, Gronkowski and LeGarrette Blount have the five best odds of winning the MVP award.

But Smith is listed at 100:1 by Bovada.

“To get to this point and to win these games, it’s not about anything more than that,” Smith said. “That is how we can be successful.”

Ninkovich, one of New England’s top pass rushers, is also at 100:1 odds.

He had eight sacks in each of the past three seasons and will be a key factor in trying to contain Wilson.

“You can’t run past him,” Ninkovich said. “Those are when the big plays happen. You have to be under control, but also not just stand there and not do anything to affect him in the pocket. So you just have to be smart.”

Bennett has helped solidify Seattle’s defence since arriving from Tampa Bay before the 2013 season.

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Toronto Raptors forward DeMar DeRozan, right, drives the to the net against Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore, left, during first half NBA action in Toronto on Wednesday. tor.

Ex-Raptor Gay, booed all night, led the Kings with 22 points. The rude reception was criticized by Toronto star DeMar DeRozan.

“He didn’t do nothing. Quote me on that, stop booing Rudy,” said DeRozan who had 12 points on the night.

Canadian rookie guard Nik Stauskas, a first-round draft choice from Mississauga, Ont., making his pro debut in Toronto, finished with eight points from 17 minutes.

Cousins ran into foul trouble in the third quarter, picking up three fouls in short order. Toronto went on an 11-2

run with Valanciunas and Vasquez accounting for all the points as the Raptors led 73-66.

Toronto reeled off another 10-0 run to pad the lead to 90-72 and went into the fourth leading 93-76. Vasquez was good on all four three-pointers he attempted in the third.

The message of the night was Toronto is headed in the right direction.

“We’re in a good place, we’ve got to keep growing and getting better,” said Casey. “We’re not there yet but let’s keep that positive vibe of getting better and doing it as a team and be proud of this team.”

“Obviously we want to continue this winning streak and then continue to get better,” added Vasquez. “We’re not far behind where we want to be but we can’t be too happy. We still haven’t done anything. We’re beating teams that we’re supposed to beat. We’ve got to remain humble and hungry and understand we do have to prove ourselves.”

The Raptors wore their camo uniforms, complete with short sleeves, in honour of Canadian Armed Forces Appreciation Night. More than 400 military and their families were in attendance.

Goaltending tandem rounding into top form for Queens If goaltending is the back bone of a in this league everything is so tight,” hockey team, then the RDC Queens ap- said Andrews. pear to now be in good hands.

“You want to be that goalie up in After a rough start to the season, the the top three, but when you only get 12 tandem of Moriah Andrews and Sum- shots a game and you give up a goal, it mer Roberts have rounded into one looks bad.” of the top duos in Alberta Roberts has faced a highColleges Athletic Conferer shots per game count with ence Women’s hockey.

153 in seven games, and her With goal scoring at as GAA is third in the league much of a premium as it at 1.14 with the second best is in women’s hockey, the save percentage at .948. But self-inflicted pressure on she also carries a losing rethe two to be perfect has cord at 3-4, which includes a been immense. pair of 1-0 shut out wins.

But they both started to “I’m just doing my best ... I play their best when head don’t go into games thinking I coach Bob Rutz told them, need to get a shutout but it’s Andrews in particular, to definitely on my mind a little relax. bit,” said Roberts, 18.

JOSH “Bob pulled me aside With the team’s recent ofALDRICH and said ‘when you get in fensive resurgence, the two the door, drop everything, goalies have played even betjust think about hockey,” ter, confident that one goal said Andrews, 19, who had against is not the end of the a heavy course load in the first semes- world. ter and was getting used to playing “I don’t have to go into games so with a bigger work load. “I started do- nervous now, I have that feeling that ing that and I started visualizing be- my team is going to back me up if I fore games and it’s really worked for make a mistake,” said Roberts. me.”

Rutz is not concerned about either The meeting with his veteran goal goalie. keeper came a few weeks into the seaBoth have an even keeled, calm son with the Queens sitting at 0-4. An- demeanor, are tall but athletic and drews had been afflicted with a bad get a long. They even know each other habit of surrenderfrom their minor hockey days when ing a bad goal a Andrews, a Regina native, played with game, but those isthe Swift Current Wildcats and Robsues appear to be a erts, a Martensville, Sask., product, thing of the past. played with the Regina Rebels Midget “She was trying AAAs. to put the whole Early in the season was all about weight of the world adjustments for the two netminder. on her shoulders Andrews was coming off a freshman and mentally she season in which she played in just five thought she had to games, stuck behind starter Camille win games for us,” Trautman. Roberts, meanwhile, was said Rutz. “We just Moriah Andrews trying to get used to a higher level of told her ‘your job play. is not to win hockey games for us, your They have since figured things out. job is to give us a chance by making the “They give us a lot of confidence saves you need to make.” back there,” said Rutz, noting he is Andrews, in her second and final comfortable splitting time all of the year with the team, is ranked fourth way through the playoffs. “I like to in the league with a 1.72 goals against think we’re pretty solid in our D-zone average but eighth with a .904 save per- most of the time, but we’re at the point centage — a result of her early strug- now where we know they’re going to gles and low shot count of 166 in nine make the saves they should make and when you have that kind of confidence starts.

SAIT’s Laticia Castillo, for example, in your goalies it gives you the confihas played in one less game but has dence to play more aggressively 5-onfaced 63 more shots and carries a .921 5.”

The Queens have undergone a transsave percentage but a GAA of 2.21.

For most goalies, it’s a case of the formation in their confidence. Commore shots the better. With less shots, ing out of Christmas they were sitting there is less room for error and it is in last place, but in the three weeks since, they have since gone 4-0-2, with more difficult to keep focus.

“There’s tons of pressure, because both losses in shootouts. That run has

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“The whole entire atmosphere in the room is changed,” said Andrews.

“After Christmas we were all hanging our heads a little bit, but Bob said ‘it’s pretty much a new season, just give it all you’ve got and let’s see where we can go’ ... Now we’re second in the league.”

The Queens (7-5-4) will have their hands full this weekend with a homeand-home series with the MacEwan University Griffins (5-9-2) who are playing for their playoff lives, sitting in fourth place — the top three teams make the post-season.

They play tonight at 7 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena and on Saturday in Edmonton.

The Queens have only won once in six games against Summer Roberts MacEwan this season with two shootout losses and only one loss by more than one goal — 2-0 on Oct. 24.

“They’ve always been our toughest competition ... I think this is going to be the two biggest games we’ve had all year,” said Andrews. “We just have to come to the rink ready and prepared.

We have to start strong and play the whole 60 minutes.” ● The RDC Kings (9-12-0-1) are in Fort McMurray this weekend to play the Keyano Huskies (11-8-1-2). The Kings are coming off a sweep at the hands of the second place NAIT Ooks (18-3-0-1). ● RDC basketball is back off a bye week and in Medicine Hat to play the Rattlers. The Kings are 13-3 this season and will be facing a tough MHC team at 12-4. The Queens’ (2-14) struggles have continued since the Christmas break While the Rattlers (8-8) have improved since a 5-7 start to the season. ● Queens hockey player Kaely McMurtry and Kings volleyball player Adam Turlejski were named Boston Pizza RDC Athletes of the Week. McMurtry scored four points (two goals, two assists) in a pair of wins over the SAIT Trojans this past weekend. Turlejeski, showed why he is fast becoming one of the top middles in the ACAC, dominating at the net in a sweep over the Ambrose Lions. He finished with eight blocks, 10 kills and three digs in the two 3-0 match sweeps. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Djokovic downs Raonic in quarterfinals AUSTRALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — It was difficult to tell who was more pleased with reaching the Australian Open semifinals: No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic, advancing to his 25th at a Grand Slam tournament, or 19-year-old Madison Keys, who beat Venus Williams to get into her first.

Djokovic was simply overpowering as he beat Canadian Milos Raonic 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2 in exactly two hours at Rod Laver Arena in a night match on Wednesday, never facing a break point.

The four-time champion, who has dropped his serve only once through five matches, lined up defending champ Stan Wawrinka on Friday.

“I’m a self-critic, but tonight there was not much I could complain about,” Djokovic said. “From the first game until the last, I played the way I wanted. I feel very good about my game at the moment.”

Keys overcame a left thigh injury to beat Venus Williams 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, and will next play a five-time Australian champ also named Williams — topseeded Serena — on Thursday.

Keys, who said watching the Williams sisters inspired her to take up tennis, talked about the sheer thrill of being in the final four of a major for the first time.

“It’s amazing,” said Keys, who was coached by three-time major winner Lindsay Davenport. “And I get to enjoy another moment next round.”

Serena Williams beat last year’s finalist, Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2, 6-2, but she was not 100 per cent — she has a cold that made her voice hoarse.

“I’ve been sick the past few days, and it’s just getting worse and worse, but hopefully it will get better,” Williams said. “I heard there’s a virus going around with a lot of the players, and I caught it.”

There had been some hope that the semis might feature an all-Williams matchup at a major for the first time since the 2009 Wimbledon final.

Williams’ win didn’t bode well for the other three women left — No. 2 Maria Sharapova plays Ekaterina Makarova in the other semi — as in the five past times Williams has advanced to the semis at Melbourne Park, she’s won the tournament.

Venus’ loss ended an encouraging 10 days for the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion. She hadn’t advanced to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam since the 2010 U.S. Open, and struggled to recapture her form after being diagnosed in 2011 with Sjogren’s syndrome, an auto-immune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain.

“It already feels like a long season

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Milos Raonic reaches out for a shot to Novak Djokovic of Serbia during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday.

Raonic drops to 0-5 against Djokovic MELBOURNE, Australia — Canadian Milos Raonic lost a chance to play a second Grand Slam semifinal after losing 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2 to Novak Djokovic on Wednesday at the Australian Open.

The eighth seed, from Thornhill, Ont., was beaten by the top seed and world No. 1 for the fifth time in their career series. Djokovic beat the 24-year-old Raonic three times in 2014, including in a French Open quarter-final.

Raonic, the 2014 Wimbledon semifinalist, ended with a modest 14 aces in the match that lasted two hours.

Raonic, who never earned a break already, so many matches in a row,” said Williams, who won the WTA event in Auckland to open the year. “Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep this up.”

The other men’s match on Wednesday was also a three-setter, but it got interesting at the end. Wawrinka beat U.S. Open finalist Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (6), letting slip a 6-1 lead in the third-set tiebreaker and eventually needing six match points to close the victory.

Nishikori made a big error at the wrong time, attempting a drop shot from the back of the court that bundled

point while losing his own serve three times, recorded 31 winners to go with 36 unforced errors.

“I wish I would have served better in certain moments, but I didn’t lose because of my serve,” said Raonic.

“He just didn’t allow me to organize my game.”

Raonic said that by the end of the match, Djokovic was doing a good job of playing deep and never allowing him to move forward.

“He was pretty much on the baseline the whole time and I was further back. I just could not get my organization, figure out my patterns and play on my terms.”

Raonic, who is now 0-5 against world No. 1 opponents, leaves Melbourne with a record of 14-5, making this his most successful major by the numbers.

The pair took 55 minutes to play their opening set on the Rod Laver Arena as the opener went into a tiebreaker. Djokovic sent over his fifth ace for a 5-3 lead and eventually converted on a third set point.

The top seed quickly consolidated, breaking to start the second set, a margin which held up as the Serb swept the second set for a solid twoset lead.

It was the same story in the third set for Raonic, whose big game was neutralized by a fluid Djokovic attack.

The Serb broke twice for a lead after Raonic saved a break point with his 14th ace.

Djokovic closed out victory on his second match point after a doublefaults on the first. The win was his tenth without a loss against Canadian opponents.

into the net. That set up another match point for Wawrinka, which he converted with an ace, his 20th of the match.

“Phew, I’m still nervous,” Wawrinka said in his post-match interview on court. “It’s never easy with his returning. You have to go for it.”

Nishikori said he had a difficult day.

“I was struggling with my serve ...

I couldn’t get good rhythm in the first and second set,” Nishikori said. “He was a little bit better today.”

Djokovic also looks impressive as he progresses towards a fifth Australian

Open title. He won the title here in 2008, his first major, and three years in a row from 2011. With Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal gone from the other side of the draw, his major opposition for another trophy could be Andy Murray, if he beats Tomas Berdych in the other semifinal on Thursday.

One match away from that opportunity, Djokovic was pleased to have added to his Grand Slam semifinal tally that started at the French Open in 2007.

“It never gets old being in the last four of a Grand Slam,” Djokovic said.

STORY FROM PAGE B1 Son says Gordie Howe’s improvement dramatic after stem cell treatment BOWL: Surprise stars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Gordie Howe has responded so well to stem cell treatment that his son Marty wants the Hockey Hall of Famer to undergo the procedure again.

Gordie suffered two strokes late last year and had “maybe a month to live,” Marty said, when his family took the 86-year-old to Mexico in December for the treatment.

Gordie Howe can walk again, his speech is improving and he’s gained weight that he lost, according to his son.

“He is doing so much better,” Marty said Tuesday in Calgary. “It’s a joy to have him with us still.

“Hopefully, in my mind, we’re going to have another treatment of this probably within two months.

“I’m actually hoping if he keeps doing what he’s doing he’ll be able to travel again and maybe get to five or six events a year so people can see him another time.”

Gordie Howe, known as “Mr. Hockey”, holds NHL records for most games played (1,767) and seasons played (26). He won the Stanley Cup four times as a Detroit Red Wing and also played for the Hartford Whalers.

His 801 career goals rank second only to Wayne Gretzky’s 894.

Gordie Howe and Gretzky are scheduled to appear Feb. 6 in Saskatoon at a dinner, which Marty said will be a “trial run” on how his father responds to travel.

Marty Howe was in Calgary alongside NHL alumni Darryl Sittler, Marty McSorley and Lanny McDonald to promote a pro-am hockey tournament in Gordie’s name that raises money for Alzheimer’s and dementia research.

The April 17-19 tournament is in its fifth year and has raised a total of $1.5 million, according to organizers. Gordie became involved with dementia research because his wife Colleen died in 2009 of Pick’s disease, which is a form of dementia.

Gordie is now also affected by dementia, which Marty does not expect to change with stem cell treatment.

“He still has dementia,” Marty said. “It’s not a cure, but it sure prolongs life and the quality of life that you have is greatly increased.”

Gordie is in Lubbock, Texas, with his daughter Cathy Purnell. What appeared to be a setback after his return from Mexico was caused by dehydration, said Marty.

“The biggest thing was his swallowing,” he said.

“With dementia, your brain forgets how to do it. That’s where he was.

“He had lost so much weight. He was down to 175 pounds. The Gordie Howe that everyone is used to, he didn’t look like Gordie Howe. He was starting to fade away.”

The family was contacted by Stemedica Cell Technologies in San Diego, Calif., about treating Gordie in a stem cell clinical trial.

The treatment is not yet approved in the United States.

The family made the difficult decision to fly their ailing father to San Diego and drive him to Mexico.

“We were told to have the hospice come in and take care of his meds and everything and just let him go peacefully and we just weren’t ready,” Marty recalled.

“Every once in a while you could see in his eyes that there was something in there still that was Gordie that wanted to get out.

We wanted to give him the chance.”

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The defensive end gets overlooked on a unit known for the “Legion of Boom” secondary featuring Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor.

“I don’t really worry about the atmosphere of the game,” Bennett said. “I think for us we treat every game exactly the same and we’ve been in every situation we could possibly be in.”

Here’s a list of some surprise stars from past Super Bowls: DEXTER JACKSON: Jackson had two interceptions to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in the 2003 Super Bowl. Teammate Dwight Smith returned two picks for touchdowns against Rich Gannon and Oakland’s top-ranked offence, but Jackson got the MVP award. Jackson signed a $14 million, five-year deal with Arizona in free agency, but was released after one season and returned to the Buccaneers.

LARRY BROWN: Brown became the first cornerback to win Super Bowl MVP when his two interceptions helped the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in 1996. Brown leveraged that performance into a $12 million, five-year contract with the Raiders in free agency, but lasted only two seasons in Oakland and started just one game.

DAVID TYREE: Tyree only had 54 career catches, but he’ll forever be remembered for the helmet grab that helped the New York Giants beat the Patriots 17-14 in the 2008 Super Bowl, snapping New England’s perfect season. Giants quarterback Eli Manning was the MVP of the game.

TIMMY SMITH: After running for only 126 yards as a rookie in 1987, Smith set a Super Bowl rushing record with 204 yards and scored two TDs to help the Washington Redskins beat Denver 42-10. Quarterback Doug Williams was the MVP of the game.

Smith played only two more seasons in the NFL and ran for another 476 yards total.

ROD MARTIN: Martin had more interceptions (three) against Ron Jaworski in Oakland’s 27-10 win over Philadelphia in the 1981 Super Bowl than he had in his first four seasons in the NFL. Martin eventually went to two Pro Bowls and was a productive player for eight more seasons. Quarterback Jim Plunkett was MVP of the win over the Eagles.

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Showing no signs of slowing down PREDATORS ROOKIE FILIP FORSBERG CONTINUES TO BE A TOP CONTENDER FOR CALDER TROPHY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Predators forward Filip Forsberg shows little sign that he’s slowing down as a rookie just yet.

He became the first Predator ever to score in the All-Star Game as he scored not once but twice in Columbus playing with the league’s best, and he didn’t stop scoring once he got back to work in Nashville.

Forsberg added another goal in his first game back from the break, keeping him as the team’s leader with 16 goals this season.

Forsberg wasn’t even sure if his latest goal went in, just taking a chance throwing the puck at the net Tuesday night in a 4-3 overtime win over Colorado.

“I kind of heard everyone celebrating, so it was good,” Forsberg said.

It’s been that kind of season for the 20-year-old right wing from Ostervalla, Sweden. He had played 18 games with Nashville combined over the past two seasons under coach Barry Trotz after picking him up from Washington as part of a trade that sent Martin Erat to the Capitals. Forsberg managed only one goal with Nashville and spent most of his time in the AHL in Milwaukee.

That prompted him to work hard to make sure he stayed in Nashville, where the Predators currently are second in the Western Conference off to a franchise-best start at 31-10-5.

“I was just really determined all summer to come back from last season’s up-and-down season and try to play good hockey again,” Forsberg said. “I always knew I had it in me and I was just trying to prepare as well as possible for this season, and it’s been working so far.”

A coaching change that brought in Peter Laviolette and his offensive approach have been a perfect fit for the 6-foot-1 right wing.

Forsberg already has set franchise records with 26 assists and 41 points as a rookie. He also has the team’s rookie mark for scoring at least a point in seven consecutive games. With 26 games left starting Thursday night at St. Louis, Forsberg needs three goals to top Alexander Radulov’s record of 18 goals in a season set in 2006-07.

The rookie credits the Predators with playing a more up-tempo game now under Laviolette, a change from when defence might have been the top priority under Trotz.

“I want to play offensive hockey and that’s what our team wants to do, too, and that fits me pretty good,” Forsberg said.

Laviolette said the rookie was a deserving late addition to the All-Star Game because of injuries to Ev-

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In this photo taken Jan. 27, 2015, Nashville Predators center Filip Forsberg celebrates with defenseman Shea Weber after scoring a goal against the Colorado Avalanche during an NHL game in Nashville, Tenn. Forsberg shows no signs of slowing down just yet. The only rookie at the All-Star Game scored twice among all the NHL’s big names, and he added another in his first game back from the break. geni Malkin and Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh. Laviolette coached Forsberg with Team Toews but didn’t learn until after the game that the rookie had set yet another Nashville mark scoring the Predators’ first goals in an All-Star Game.

“He had a terrific start to this season,” Laviolette said.

Forsberg has been a favourite for the Calder award for the NHL’s top rookie since early this season.

He is tied for the league’s lead with his 16 goals, and he leads in assists, points and with his plus-25

rating. His 41 points ranks him 26th in the league, and he’s tied for third with four-game winning goals.

He just missed his fifth game-winner Tuesday night when Nashville gave up a late goal before winning in overtime.

For all of Forsberg’s creativity and touch with the puck on his stick, he also is helped by playing on Nashville’s top line with centre Mike Ribeiro, who’s tied for sixth in the league with 32 assists.

“Playing with Mike Ribeiro basically all year really helped me to develop and have this early success,” Forsberg said.

After disappointing loss, Eugenie Bouchard not included on Canada’s roster for Fed Cup Canucks meet before tie against Czechs practice to discuss identity

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Coming off an uninspired loss in the first game after the NHL all-star break, Willie Desjardins had a pointed chat with his Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday morning.

“We talked about our team identity,” the head coach said of the meeting before practice. “We talked about who we are ... the things we do when we play our game. We asked each other: ’Is that how we played (Tuesday) night?

And if it isn’t how we played, is that acceptable?’ I don’t think the guys felt we played our best game.”

While the Anaheim Ducks currently sit atop the NHL standings, the Canucks generated just seven shots over the final two periods of a 4-0 defeat.

“If we can live with not playing our best game, we’ll play that way lots of nights because it’s a tough league,” added Desjardins. “That’s what we laid out and it’s up to each of us to look at it.”

Canucks forward Jannik Hansen, one of Vancouver’s most consistent players all season, said it was a good refresher with 36 games left and the team currently in a playoff spot in the Western Conference.

“It was all about back to the basics that we were handed out at training camp — what we’re about, how we need to play, what we need to do in order to be successful,” he said. “Nothing has really changed since we showed up in the summer. It’s still the same team, it’s still the same group of guys, and we need to play the way we did early on: four lines, hard to play against, making sure we’re competing.”

The main culprit for Vancouver’s up-and-down play recently has been a lack of offence. The Canucks have scored just three times over their last

three games and have failed to find the mark at home in 176 minutes 21 seconds — nearly nine periods.

“We’re not happy where we are right now with our game,” said defenceman Dan Hamhuis. “We had a long talk about it as a group, had a hard practice. We know we have some work to do. Scoring is one thing, but that’s the result of playing well in a lot of other areas on the ice. Focusing on our process needs to be a lot better.”

Desjardins shouldered some of the blame for not having the team ready to play against Anaheim after Vancouver went 3-2-0 on a five-game road trip prior to the all-star break.

“It’s up to the coaches to have them ready and it’s up to me to have them ready,” he said. “I think our level could have been better.”

The rookie coach also added it looked like the players’ heads were still back at the beach or on the slopes.

“I think we came off the break, and we were still in the break mode when we played,” said Desjardins.

“We weren’t at the level we needed to compete the way we needed to compete. That one’s gone and it can’t happen again. We’ve had a few of those at home and we know that and we have to react accordingly.”

Vancouver (26-17-3) has a mediocre record of 11-9-1 at Rogers Arena so far this season compared to a stellar 15-8-2 mark away from home.

Desjardins touched on his club’s inability to win battles on Tuesday night so it was perhaps no coincidence that the Canucks were put through a number of 1-on-1 drills Wednesday.

“If you want to win in this league you have to play hard. You just have to,” said Desjardins. “Teams are way too good. I didn’t think we competed maybe the way we needed to, and I believe we (can) compete that way.”

TENNIS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Tennis Canada is still holding out hope that its top player Eugenie Bouchard will be on court for an historic Fed Cup tie next week against the Czech Republic.

Vice-president Eugene Lapierre said Bouchard, ranked seventh in the world, has yet to confirm whether or not she will play against the defending Fed Cup champions Feb. 7-8 in Quebec City.

A three-woman team announced Wednesday did not include the Westmount, Que., native, but they have until two hours before the draw on Feb. 6 to finalize their roster and add a fourth player. Bouchard’s absence would leave little star power in the best-offive series. The Czechs will be without their top two players, as world No. 4 Petra Kvitova and No. 16 Lucie Safarova are not on their team roster.

It will be Canada’s first appearance in the elite World Group I. Bouchard did much to get them there by going 4-0 in wins over Serbia and Slovakia in 2014.

“It’s the first time we’re there and we’d like to go to the next round and make it to the semifinals,” said Lapierre. “But Eugenie knows that, and

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If Bouchard opts out, Canada will likely go with a young prospect as its fourth player.

Bouchard reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open this week before falling in straight sets to Maria Sharapova. After the defeat at the first Grand Slam of the season, Bouchard was asked if she was looking forward to Fed Cup. She replied that she didn’t know if she would be playing or not, adding she planned to visit with family and take some time off to rest.

A reporter followed up by asking why she wouldn’t play.

“That’s something I was going to decide after the tournament,” Bouchard said. “You know, my tournament ended like half an hour ago, so I’m still going to talk to my team and make the best decision for me if I can play or not.”

It is a busy time for Bouchard, who is entered in an indoor tournament the week after the Fed Cup in Belgium.

The Canadian roster includes Toronto’s Sharon Fichman (No. 135), 17-year-old prospect Francoise Abanda of Montreal (No. 202) and doubles specialist Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa (ranked No. 60 in doubles).

The top-ranked Czechs will be represented by Karolina Pliskova (No. 20), Tereza Smitkova (No. 68), Denisa Allertova (No. 107), and Lucie Hradecka (No. 142).

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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 156 154 164 178 167 201

Pt 75 57 49 44 41 31

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 48 34 12 1 1 Red Deer 48 27 14 3 4 Calgary 49 27 17 1 4 Kootenay 50 26 23 0 1 Edmonton 50 23 21 4 2 Lethbridge 47 12 29 3 3

GA 137 152 149 181 142 201

Pt 70 61 59 53 52 30

GF 198 171 204 168 149 132

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 49 37 8 3 1 211 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

THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 2015

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 49 35 9 3 2 219 Regina 48 26 17 3 2 176 Swift Current 49 22 22 1 4 145 Moose Jaw 49 20 25 3 1 142 Prince Albert 48 20 27 1 0 139 Saskatoon 47 14 30 2 1 134

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

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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

GA 125 154 167 180 218

Pt 78 56 42 42 42

GA 128 164 132 142 147

Pt 64 59 52 50 50

Tuesday’s results Swift Current 3 Brandon 2 (SO) Kelowna 4 Red Deer 3 (SO) Medicine Hat 6 Lethbridge 3 Wednesday’s results Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 1 Edmonton 2 Kelowna 1 (SO) Lethbridge 6 Kootenay 3 Seattle at Kamloops, late Victoria at Portland, late Friday’s games Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Detroit 48 28 11 9 65 Tampa Bay 49 30 15 4 64 Montreal 46 30 13 3 63 Boston 48 25 16 7 57 Florida 45 20 15 10 50 Toronto 49 22 23 4 48 Ottawa 46 19 18 9 47 Buffalo 48 14 31 3 31

Buffalo at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 8 p.m.

GF 144 158 126 126 111 143 126 90

GA 123 131 108 121 127 152 128 171

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders47 32 14 1 65 Pittsburgh 48 27 13 8 62 Washington 48 25 14 9 59 N.Y. Rangers 45 27 14 4 58 Philadelphia 49 20 22 7 47 Columbus 46 21 22 3 45 New Jersey 48 18 22 8 44 Carolina 47 17 25 5 39

GF 155 143 144 135 134 117 109 102

GA 130 124 124 110 149 145 135 122

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 46 31 10 5 67 St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 Chicago 47 30 15 2 62 Winnipeg 49 26 15 8 60 Colorado 49 20 18 11 51 Dallas 47 21 19 7 49 Minnesota 47 21 20 6 48

GF 141 148 148 138 128 146 130

GA 107 111 108 122 141 154 138

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 48 32 10 6 70 143 124 San Jose 48 25 17 6 56 131 132 Vancouver 46 26 17 3 55 124 118 Calgary 48 26 19 3 55 140 126 Los Angeles 47 20 15 12 52 129 126 Arizona 47 16 25 6 38 108 160 Edmonton 48 12 27 9 33 110 160 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Arizona 3, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 Pittsburgh 5, Winnipeg 3 Columbus 4, Washington 3 Carolina 4, Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 3, Dallas 2 Detroit 5, Florida 4 Nashville 4, Colorado 3, OT Calgary 4, Buffalo 1 Minnesota 2, Edmonton 1 Anaheim 4, Vancouver 0 Wednesday’s Games New Jersey 2, Toronto 1, SO Washington 4, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago at Los Angeles, late Thursday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

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

Columbus at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Today

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

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday summaries Capitals 4, Penguins 0 First Period 1. Washington, Ovechkin 28 (Alzner, Backstrom) 4:50.

Penalties — Carlson Wash (hooking) 7:35, Wilson Wash (fighting) 13:14, Sill Pgh (fighting) 13:14.

Second Period 2. Washington, Ovechkin 29 (Green, Backstrom) 17:19 (pp).

Penalties — Hillen Wash (slashing) 8:15, Perron Pgh (goaltender interference) 12:51, Bortuzzo Pgh (interference) 15:40.

Third Period 3. Washington, Fehr 15 (Laich, Orpik) 11:02.

4. Washington, Green 5 (Kuznetsov, Johansson) 12:24.

Penalties — Downie Pgh (fighting) 10:41, Latta Wash (fighting) 10:41, Downie Pgh (Abuse of officials) 10:41, Ovechkin Wash (roughing) 14:03, Ovechkin Wash (holding) 14:03, Sill Pgh (roughing) 14:03, Kunitz Pgh (high-sticking) 15:26, Ward Wash (tripping) 18:15, Brouwer Wash (roughing) 19:01, Perron Pgh (roughing) 19:01.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 11 8 8 — 27 Washington 8 14 14 — 36 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 22-10-5); Washington: Holtby (W, 23-10-8).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 0-4; Washington: 1-3.

Devils 2, Maple Leafs 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Tootoo NJ (tripping) 13:00, Santorelli Tor (delay of game) 18:11.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Clarkson Tor (high-sticking) 1:50, Zubrus NJ (high-sticking) 4:20, Gardiner Tor (holding) 7:57, Zajac NJ (tripping) 18:52.

Third Period 1. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 21 (Bozak, Clarkson) 11:49.

2. New Jersey, Larsson 2 (Havlat, Elias) 17:10.

Penalties — Fraser NJ (roughing) 1:53, Holland Tor (roughing) 1:53, Jagr NJ (holding) 3:42, Larsson NJ (slashing) 12:59.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — New Jersey wins 2-0 Toronto : Santorelli miss, Bozak miss.

New Jersey : Gomez miss, Josefson goal, Elias goal.

Shots on goal Toronto 7 11 9 3 — 30 New Jersey 6 7 9 1 — 23 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (LO, 16-14-4); New Jersey: Schneider (W, 17-19-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 0-5; New Jersey: 0-3.

Curling 2015 Canadian Junior Curling Championships CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Standings and results Wednesday after Draw 15 at the 2015 Canadian junior curling championships from Jan. 24-Feb. 1 (all times Eastern): MEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W L Manitoba (Calvert) 7 1 Alberta (Sturmay) 6 1 Quebec (F.Asselin) 6 1 New Brunswick (R.Comeau) 6 2 B.C. (Henderson) 5 3 Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 5 3 Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 3 4 Ontario (Ma.Calwell) 2 5 Seeding Pool Team (Skip) W L N.L. (G.Smith) 3 4 P.E.I. (T.Smith) 3 4 Nova Scotia (Manuel) 3 5 Yukon (Wallingham) 2 6 N.W.T. (Mat.Miller) 1 6 Nunavut (K.Komaksiutiksak) 0 7 CHAMPIONSHIP/SEEDING ROUND Wednesday’s results Draw 13 New Brunswick 8 Quebec 6 Manitoba 6 Saskatchewan 3 Seeding Pool Ontario 6 Nova Scotia 4 Northern Ontario 9 P.E.I. 5 (extra end) Draw 14 B.C. 9 Saskatchewan 3 N.W.T 11 Nunavut 2 P.E.I. 7 Nova Scotia 3 N.L. 9 Yukon 8 (extra end) Draw 15 Alberta 8 B.C. 3 Manitoba 6 New Brunswick 4

P.E.I. (V.Smith) Northern Ont. (Burns) Yukon (Horte) N.W.T. (McKay-Saturnino) N.L. (Hill) Nunavut (Pinksen)

Northern Ontario 10 Ontario 4 Nova Scotia 8 Yukon 6 (extra end) N.L. vs. P.E.I., NA Thursday’s games Draw 16, 6:30 a.m.

Quebec vs. Saskatchewan Alberta vs. Ontario Draw 17, 11 a.m.

Alberta vs. Quebec B.C. vs. Northern Ontario Ontario vs. New Brunswick Nunavut vs. Yukon N.L. vs. N.W.T. Draw 18, 3:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. B.C. Manitoba vs. Northern Ontario

4 5 5 6 7 8

CHAMPIONSHIP/SEEDING ROUND Wednesday’s results Draw 13 Manitoba 10 New Brunswick 7 Alberta 9 Saskatchewan 4 B.C. 5 Quebec 4 Draw 14 N.W.T. 12 Nunavut 5 Northern Ontario 11 N.L. 8 Saskatchewan 10 Ontario 8 Manitoba 7 B.C. 3 Draw 15 Nova Scotia 9 Quebec 6 P.E.I. 6 Northern Ontario 5 (extra end) Yukon 9 N.L. 7

Friday’s games Draw 19, 4 a.m.

Manitoba vs. Alberta Ontario vs. Saskatchewan Northern Ontario vs. Quebec Draw 20, 9 a.m.

Nova Scotia vs. N.W.T. Nunavut vs. P.E.I. End of championship/seeding round WOMEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W Alberta (Rocque) 7 B.C. (Brown) 7 Nova Scotia (Fay) 5 Ontario (C.Brandwood) 5 Manitoba (Peterson) 5 Saskatchewan (Streifel) 5 Quebec (E.Gagne) 4 New Brunswick (J.Comeau) 3 Seeding Pool Team (Skip) W

4 3 3 2 1 0

Thursday’s games Draw 16, 6:30 a.m.

Quebec vs. New Brunswick; B.C. vs. Ontario; Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan.

Draw 17, 11 a.m.

Nova Scotia vs. Manitoba; Alberta vs. B.C. Draw 18, 3:30 p.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Quebec; Alberta vs. Nova Scotia; Ontario vs. New Brunswick.

L 0 1 2 2 3 3 4 4

Friday’s games Draw 19, 4 a.m.

Nova Scotia vs. Ontario; New Brunswick vs. Alberta.

Draw 20, 9 a.m.

Northern Ontario vs. N.W.T.; Yukon vs. P.E.I.; Nunavut vs. N.L. End of Championship/Seeding Round

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Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER — Suspended New York Yankees SS Tyler Palmer (GCL) 50 games after testing positive for Amphetamine, Arizona RHP Felipe Perez (Hillsboro-NWL) and Pittsburgh 1B Kevin Ross (West Virginia-SAL) 50 games each for second positive tests for a drug of abuse and free agent RHP Raymond Hanson 80 games after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance Furosemide, all violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated C Mike Ohlman for assignment. Named Jim Misudek as manager of media relations.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Gordon Beckham on a one-year contract. Designated OF Dayan Viciedo for assignment.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Announced Jeff Bagwell will be an instructor at spring training.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Joe Carter special assistant to the general manager.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OF Dian Toscano on a four-year contract. Designated OF Jose Constanza for assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Ben Rowen and LHP Erik Bedard on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jenrry Mejia on a one-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Announced David Montgomery will assume the position of chairman and Bill Giles will take the position of chairman emeritus.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Traded OF Travis Snider to Baltimore for LHP Stephen Tarpley and a

player to be named.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released INF Nick Schwaner.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed INF Trevor Martin and OF Jon Gaston.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Will DuPont.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed C Brendan Slattery.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed G Jorge Gutierrez to a 10-day contract.

UTAH JAZZ — Signed F Chris Johnson to a 10-day contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association SEATTLE STORM — Traded F Camille Little and G/F Shekinna Stricklen to Connecticut for the third and 15th picks in the 2015 draft.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed P Richie Leone to a future contract. Named Chris Hewitt defensive backs coach, Matt Weiss cornerbacks coach, Drew Wilkins defensive coaching assistant, Richard Angulo tight ends coach, Mike Macdonald defensive assistant and Andy Bischoff offensive quality control coach.

DENVER BRONCOS — Named Wade Phillips defensive co-ordinator, Brian Pariani tight ends coach and Joe Woods defensive backs coach.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed P Kasey Redfern to a future contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Matt Cavanaugh quarterbacks coach.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Reinstated coach and vice-president of football operations Rob Keefe.

Canadian Football League

Source says Bruins place veteran forward Simon Gagne on waivers A person familiar with the decision has told The Associated Press that the Boston Bruins have placed veteran forward Simon Gagne on waivers for the purpose of releasing him.

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the move made Wednesday.

MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Signed WR S.J. Green to a three-year contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined N.Y. Islanders F Cal Clutterbuck fined $2,000 for diving/embellishment during a Jan. 19 game against Philadelphia.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Brendan Shinnimin from Portland (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Placed LW Jeremy Morin on injured reserve.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Jyrki Jokipakka to Texas (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled D Alex Petrovic from San Antonio (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled F Raphael Bussieres from Alaska (ECHL) to Iowa (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated F Tuomo Ruutu from injured reserve.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Albany D Seth Helgeson and Oklahoma City C Travis Ewanyk one game.

LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled D Joey Leach from Fort Wayne (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled G Rob Madore from Cincinnati (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Recalled G Scott Munroe from Kalamazoo (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended free agent F Andrew Conboy 20 games, Stockton D Mario Larocque four games and Utah D Patrick Wellar two games.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES— Signed G Branden Komm.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed D Daniel Sova.

FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Loaned D James Martin to Lake Erie (AHL).

MISSOURI MAVERICKS — Released F Sebastian Geoffrion.

The decision is regarded a formality. Two weeks ago, the Bruins announced Gagne was placed on their “suspended” list and would miss the remainder of the season following the death of his father in December.

Gagne is a two-time 40-goal-scorer with Philadelphia. The 34-year-old was attempting a comeback with Boston after missing all of last season.

He had three goals and an assist in 23 games with the Bruins this season.

Friday

● JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls/boys tournament. ● 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

● Speed skating: Alberta Open long track meet at Golden Circle oval. ● JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls/boys tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m., Caroline; Lethbridge White at Red Deer TBS, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A;

● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Southwest at Olds, 3:45 p.m.; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday ● Speed skating: Alberta Open long track meet at Golden Circle oval. ● Peewee AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Lethbridge White at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Bow Valley at Lacombe, 3 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Peace Country at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Southwest at Lacombe, 2 p.m.; Taber at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Elks, 2:45 p.m., Arena; Foothills at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.

Basketball Red Deer Women’s League Triple Threat 57 Xpress 34.

TT: Tamara Mckelvie 19 points; Player of game — Jessie Charchuk. Xpress: Julia de Vos 12; POG — Karley Waisanen.

Big Ballers 34 Spartans 31 BB: Katrina Papenhuyzen 9; POG — Courtney Janke. Spart: Jaci Horvath 10; POG — Amy Cote.

Hoosier Daddy 43 Storm 42 HD: Danielle Clifford 17; POG — Clifford. Storm: Mandy Carroll 10; POG — Carroll.

Rampage 49 Funk 48 National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 31 15 .674 — Brooklyn 18 27 .400 12 Boston 16 28 .364 14 New York 9 37 .196 22 Philadelphia 9 37 .196 22 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 38 8 .826 — Washington 31 15 .674 7 Miami 20 25 .444 17 Charlotte 19 27 .413 19 Orlando 15 33 .313 24 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 30 17 .638 — Cleveland 27 20 .574 3 Milwaukee 23 22 .511 6 Detroit 17 30 .362 13 Indiana 16 31 .340 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 33 12 .733 — Houston 32 14 .696 1 San Antonio 30 17 .638 4 Dallas 30 17 .638 4 New Orleans 24 22 .522 9 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 32 14 .696 —

Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers

23 23 .500 19 27 .413 16 30 .348 8 37 .178 Pacific Division W L Pct 36 7 .837 32 14 .696 26 20 .565 16 28 .364 12 34 .261

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Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia 89, Detroit 69 Cleveland 99, Portland 94 Toronto 119, Sacramento 102 Denver 93, New Orleans 85 Houston 99, Dallas 94 Minnesota 110, Boston 98 Atlanta 113, Brooklyn 102 New York 100, Oklahoma City 92 San Antonio 95, Charlotte 86 L.A. Clippers 94, Utah 89 Washington at Phoenix, late Thursday’s Games Milwaukee at Orlando, 5 p.m.

New York at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

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Friday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Portland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

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

Dallas at Miami, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.

Football NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz.

Team Irvin 32, Team Carter 28 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 At Glendale, Ariz.

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

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Super Bowl, Feb. 1 Spread O/U NEW ENGLAND vs. Seattle 0.5 48.5

NFL Draft Order Does not include trades W-L-T Pct. 1. Tampa Bay 2-14-0 .125 2. Tennessee 2-14-0 .125 3. Jacksonville 3-13-0 .188 4. Oakland 3-13-0 .188 5. Washington 4-12-0 .250 6. N.Y. Jets 4-12-0 .250 7. Chicago 5-11-0 .313 8. Atlanta 6-10-0 .375 9. N.Y. Giants 6-10-0 .375 10. St. Louis 6-10-0 .375 11. Minnesota 7-9-0 .438 12. Cleveland 7-9-0 .438 13. New Orleans 7-9-0 .438 14. Miami 8-8-0 .500 15. San Francisco 8-8-0 .500 16. Houston 9-7-0 .563 17. San Diego 9-7-0 .563 18. Kansas City 9-7-0 .563 19. Buffalo 9-7-0 .563 20. Philadelphia 10-6-0 .625 21. Cincinnati 10-5-1 .656 22. Pittsburgh 11-5-0 .688 23. Detroit 11-5-0 .688 24. Arizona 11-5-0 .688 25. Carolina 7-8-1 .469 26. Baltimore 10-6-0 .625 27. Dallas 12-4-0 .750 28. Denver 12-4-0 .750 29. Indianapolis 11-5-0 .688 30. Green Bay 12-4-0 .750 30. x-New England 12-4-0 .750 31. x-Seattle 12-4-0 .750 x-Super Bowl champion will select last and the loser of the Super Bowl next-to-last in all rounds, regardless of the record of such participating clubs in the regular season.

Tennis Australian Open Thursday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $32.9 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Women Semifinals Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Ekaterina Makarova (10), Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles Men Semifinals Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. JeanJulien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (6), Romania, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (4), Brazil, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5).

Wednesday Singles Men Quarterfinals Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Kei Nishikori

(5), Japan, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Milos Raonic (8), Canada, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.

Women Quarterfinals Madison Keys, United States, def. Venus Williams (18), United States, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Dominika Cibulkova (11), Slovakia, 6-2, 6-2.

Doubles Men Quarterfinals Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and David Marrero, Spain, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5).

Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (6), Romania, def. Dominic Inglot, Britain, and Florin Mergea (14), Romania, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Women Semifinals Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan, and Zheng Jie (14), China, def. Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (13), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Julia Goerges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld (16), Germany, 6-0, retired.

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE

YOUTH BOWLING

MINOR HOCKEY

Seven different scorers help Eagles down Chiefs

Heritage Lanes in Red Deer are hosting the Youth Challenge provincial bowling championships this weekend.

The tournament will feature 10 zone teams from around the province of 15 bowlers, between the ages of 13 and 19 years old, competing in girls, boys and mixed competition.

Brendan Innes will lead the Red Deer contingent having won the zone roll-off four years in a row, averaging 263 at the most recent event.

The top three girls and boys, based on their nine game average, will advance to the Canadian championships in Edmonton from March 26-29.

Action runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Levi Glasman scored twice in a losing cause Tuesday as the visiting Red Deer Aero Equipment Chiefs dropped a 6-5 Alberta Minor Midget AAA Hockey League decision to the Calgary Canucks.

Braidon Westin, Luke Puto and Taylor Melanson accounted for the other Red Deer goals, while netminder Riley Katchuik made 36 saves.

The Chiefs outshot their hosts 47-42.

The Innisfail Eagles will carry momentum into Friday’s 8:30 p.m. home date with the Bentley Generals following Tuesday’s 7-4 Chinook Hockey League win over the host Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs.

The Eagles spread their scoring around, getting a goal from each of Darcy Bomersback, Dan Vandermeer, Jason Nopper, Matt Hunter, Jeff Archibald, Ty Clay and Justin Cox, who also picked up two assists.

Travis Ziegler stopped 26 shot as the winning netminder.

Chiefs goaltender David Tetrault also made 26 saves.

The Eagles, who led 4-1 after one period and 6-3 after 40 minutes, were two-for-five on the power play. The Chiefs failed to connect during five man-advantage opportunities.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 B5

All eyes on Woods at Scottsdale

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tiger Woods returned to the Phoenix Open and received cheers, boos and gasps.

All on one hole.

There is rarely a dull moment with golf’s biggest star, especially at the PGA Tour’s rowdiest venue. Even though Woods has played at TPC Scottsdale only three times, what defines his experience at the Phoenix Open is not a trophy, rather it’s some beer, a boulder, an orange and a gun.

So a typical pro-am Wednesday was anything but that — especially at the par-3 16th hole.

Woods managed to deliver another memory. His 9-iron was just left of the pin when it turned enough left that it tumbled into a bunker. The cheers turned to boos, and Woods tugged the bill of his cap in mock shame. Seconds later, the cheers returned from the full house.

And then the gasp — instead of blasting out of the sand, Woods bladed the shot over the green and into the front row of the gallery.

It was quite a scene, and this was not lost on John Wood, the caddie for Hunter Mahan, who was in the group ahead of Woods on the 16th. The caddie looked around at the enclosed arena, where it was hard to find an empty seat. And this was for a pro-am. “This is usually about one-third full,� Wood said. “I have never seen it this packed on a Wednesday. Never.�

The difference?

He looked over his shoulder at Woods on the tee box and pointed his thumb in that direction.

Record crowds are expected this week at the TPC Scottsdale, though the forecast is for cold and rain on Saturday, the biggest day. The Super Bowl is in town. Woods is playing for the first time in 14 years. The field includes Phil Mickelson, Masters champion Bubba Watson, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler.

All eyes, however, are on Woods.

There’s too much history with him,

even at a tournament he rarely plays.

Of the three aces Woods has made as a pro, none gets replayed as much as his debut in the Phoenix Open in 1997. When the ball disappeared into the cup, it set off a celebration so wild that fans began throwing beer cups onto the tee. Woods was so excited he missed the high-five with Omar Uresti. “Then on top of that, just smelling and hearing the beer hit behind me on the tee box,� he said. “The more eerie part was when we were playing 17 and 18, everybody didn’t really care.

They were walking in, because they had seen what they wanted to see and 16 was empty. So we looked back on 16. You see all these beer cups everywhere on the tee box, and probably maybe an eighth of the people there.�

Two years later, Woods had a chance to win while playing the in the final group with Rocco Mediate. What stood out that day was a tee shot left into the desert scrub and his ball landing just short of a waist-high boulder. It might have been the heaviest loose impediment ever moved — with help. Woods summoned help from the gallery, and they heaved with all their might to get the boulder out of the way of his swing on the par-5 13th. “I thought it was lighter than it was,�

Woods said. “I thought I could move it.

Evidently it took like five other dudes to do it.�

He added a twist to the tale this week. They moved it the wrong way. “They moved it in the direction which I didn’t want to have it moved,� he said. “So that means I had to start the ball off to the right, because I hit the ball in the right bunker. But I wasn’t going to have them go back in there in the cactus and move it back the other way.�

Later in the day, a fan who had been heckling Woods was found to have a gun in his fanny pack. The gun was registered. Woods never felt threatened, though it let to headlines as far away as New Jersey and Britain.

The final year in 2001 was thought to be the final straw. Woods finished 15 shots behind the runaway Mark

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tiger Woods hits out of the bunker on the ninth hole during a practice round for the Phoenix Open golf tournament on Tuesday, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Calcavecchia, but a young fan threw an orange onto the green as Woods was getting ready to putt. Those close to Woods said that was a big reason why he never returned until this year.

There were other factors, such as the appearance money he used to get for going to Dubai and then Abu Dhabi, along with the extended winter break that meant also skipping Kapalua.

He’s back in Phoenix, and the buzz is louder than ever. Woods didn’t make a hole-in-one on the 16th hole. He hit into a bunker. No one showered the tee box with beer cups. There were no high-fives. But as he was playing the 17th hole, fans began filing out of the bleachers behind the green, and the front row of stands were half-empty.

They saw what they wanted.

Two distinctly different teams on Super Bowl media day THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT MEDIA DAYS THIS YEAR. FIRST, THERE WERE THE PATRIOTS, WHO TRIED VERY HARD TO NOT BE OVERLY INTERESTING. THEN CAME THE SEAHAWKS. “Sometimes when you have people doing too much, they just forget who they are and they aren’t happy. And when you’re happy, you do a lot of things better.� “We give them the chance to be at their best,� said Carroll. “That’s why we do celebrate their uniqueness.�

That’s why Sherman could challenge Roger Goodell for the second time in three days, while the Patriots — outside of owner Robert Kraft — have stayed silent. But freedom can run both ways. Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch opened Media Day with, “I’m just here so I don’t get fined, so y’all can sit me and ask me all the questions y’all want, I’m going to answer with the same answer. Y’all can shoot, if y’all

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He then answered “I’m here so I won’t get fined,â€? over and over until everyone lost interest. If he would only graduate to clichĂŠs nobody would care, but spiritually, Marshawn Lynch is clearly a Patriot, just as Rob Gronkowski is spiritually a Seahawk.

But there is common ground, too. Browner said that listening to Belichick break down football philosophy this week, he felt like he was listening to Carroll speak. Seahawks defensive end O’Brien Schofield said, “Our first rule is Respect The Team,� which could be a Patriots slogan. It’s two paths to the same place, and here they are. The Seahawks had fun getting here: The Patriots, probably less. Either way works, as it turns out.

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PHOENIXâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that Media Day at the Super Bowl is undignified, precisely.

No, wait. It is exactly that. It is a pit of wretched humanity, clustering around football players like moths to flame.

Stunt media, military media, media asking about religion, media desperately asking some silly thing or another.

This year, there were Mexican puppets, and a guy in a hat wearing a barrel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all relaBRUCE tively ridiculous.

ARTHUR That common thread aside, though, there were two different Media Days this year.

First, there were the New England Patriots, who tried very hard to not be overly interesting. Then came the Seattle Seahawks.

Take it away, defensive end Michael Bennett. Tell us about riding that police bike on the sidelines after beating Green Bay to get here, to start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black people canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t steal anything from the police, bad things happen,â&#x20AC;? said Bennett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t steal it, I borrowed it, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sticking to.â&#x20AC;?

Michael, what about the Patriots? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today should be the sex cut-off day for the Patriots. It takes a lot of testosterone to beat us.â&#x20AC;?

Michael, sorry about the bright camera light there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see nothing. I feel like I got pulled over.â&#x20AC;?

The Seahawks have guys who will deliver clichĂŠs like champions, just as the Patriots have Rob Gronkowski, a free radical in their controlled environment. But overall, the difference is this: The Patriots recommend that players obscure the interesting. The Seahawks have the option of clichĂŠs, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re free to be a show, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The difference is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re two coaches on two different sides of the spectrum. One is old school, hardnosed and Pete Carroll is a great guy, he keeps it looser,â&#x20AC;? says Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner, who was in Seattle for three seasons after leaving the CFL, and who still talks like a Seahawk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On our way to walking into meeting rooms in Seattle you could hear music blasting, pumping, but none of that is going on in New England. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all business-orientated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Carroll) is the ultimate playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never met any coach like him as far as the way he approaches the game. He keeps it loose around there which keeps guys loose and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not walking on eggshells.â&#x20AC;?

The Seahawks tell tales of pranks, of mini-basketball competitions before meetings, of goofy videos shown before they study film. They love it. Bill Belichick? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the definition of an eggshells guy.

In meetings he is known to tell players what questions to expect the next day, and gives them answers.

Some say he makes fun of players who say too much. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, somebody obviously said too much if you know that,â&#x20AC;? says Patriots cornerback Kyle Arrington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to be professional and classy, we want to respect our opponents, respect the game of football,â&#x20AC;? says New England receiver Matthew Slater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody when they get here they buy in, one way or the other. They buy into the Patriot way.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed. As Wes Welker told Sports Illustrated after leaving the Patriots in 2013, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m answering questions from the Denver media, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried about what the Broncosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; people are going to think.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m worried about what Belichick will think. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that crazy?â&#x20AC;? Asked about this, former Patriot Willie McGinest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who despite being an NFL Network broadcaster doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like talking too much about the Patriot Way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; grumbled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wes talks too much to the media at times.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;People hate us because, you know, when you talk a lot of smack, people usually hate you,â&#x20AC;? said Bennett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But when you talk a lot of smack and you back it up, they hate you even more. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what it is. People hate Sherman because he says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best corner, and he plays like the best corner. So, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like one of those things where people just hate us because of who we are, but we embrace it. I like it. I like when people hate us, because our stocks go up, our jerseys are higher selling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty cool.

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CALENDAR

ST JAMES GATE PLAYS THIS WEEKEND

THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Opening reception for Saeed Hojjati will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Jan. 30 at The Gallery on Main in Lacombe in celebration of the exhibit — Moments of Change open Jan. 30 to Feb. 20. ● Annual Freeze the House Charity Bonspiel presented by Fas Gas in support of Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta will play out Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 at Pidherney Curling Centre.

To register as a participant contact jennifer@rmhcentralalberta.org, or to volunteer contact linda@rmhcentralalberta.org. Registration fee includes three games, draw prizes, awards, Friday night mixer, and Saturday night dinner and dance.

Saturday ● Random Snowshoeing at Kerry Wood Nature Centre is available on Jan. 31 from 1 to 4 p.m. Drop in and give it a try, weather and snow-levels permitting. No high heels, please. Admission by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403346-2010. ● Spruce View Lions Annual Old Time Fiddle Jamboree and Dance will be held on Jan. 31 at Spruce View Community Hall.

Happy Hour and beef on a bun supper at 5:30 p.m.

Fiddlers perform from 7 to 9 p.m. with dance to follow.

Piano accompaniment provided.

Adults cost $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Fiddlers and preschoolers free. Net proceeds to youth programs. Fiddlers are asked to preregister. Door prizes. Contact Darwin at 403-986-2004 or Neil at 403-728-3798. ● 101 Dalmatians Movie Fun event at Red Deer Public Library Children’s Program Area will be featured on Jan. 31, 2 to 4 p.m. in celebration of the library’s 101 birthday. ● Guess Who? family mystery storytelling guest will take participants on a journey to the world of games, crafts, puppet shows, character appearances, and scavenger hunts on Jan. 31, Feb. 28, and March 28 at the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 1 to 2 p.m. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Jan. 31 session is called Gopher or Groundhog? All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission.

Sunday ● Bentley United Church holds services on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Coffee and fellowship are offered following the service.

Call Rev. Brenda Kersell at 403-885-4780, or Gail at 403-748-2935.

Monday ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on Feb. 2.

Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● Delburne United Church Ground Hog Supper will take place on Feb. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Hall.

Tuesday ● NERDcraft 101: DIY Booked Shoes will be offered to youth ages 12 to 18 years

on Feb. 3 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in WaskasooKiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Literalize old shoes and decorate them with pages of old books, and graphic novels. Bring a pair of old shoes — heels, boots or flats — with solid sides. All other materials supplied. ● Central Alberta Council on Aging General Meeting takes place on Feb. 3 at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre starting at 9 a.m. Guest speaker will be Alan G. Sinclair, Executive Director, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with an update on the hospital. Fee of $3. Contact Shirley at 403343-0767. ● Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Call 403-742-4273.

Cowboy Church will meet on Feb. 3 and 17. ● Town and Country Dance Club offers dance lessons on Tuesdays, Feb. 3 to March 10 at BowerKin Community Centre. A Step Above Basics begins at 7 p.m. and Basic Social Dance begins at 8 p.m. Cost is $35.

Contact Doug or Doris at 403-728-3333, 403391-3016, or doris@airenet.com to register.

Wednesday ● Sylvan Lake Legion potluck and jam session is held the first Wednesday of each month from noon to 4 p.m. Come to play, sing, dance or listen. Admission is $2, including coffee and lunch at 2:30 p.m. Potluck begins at noon followed by the jam session at 1 p.m. Contact Margie at 403-746-3153. ● Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Dick and Friends is on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held Feb. 4 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium. Listen to a cyclist’s library tour across the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, and share your own travel adventures, and enjoy a coffee or tea. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100.

Thursday ● Makers’ Club meets on Feb. 5 at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library to join in Lego free play and building from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. For those ages seven years and up. Lego donations welcomed at Dawe and Downtown Library branches. ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Feb. 5 event features pianist Milton Schlosser from University of Alberta Augustana Campus as musical guest. Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Feb. 5, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Black Velvet Band. Admission is $7.

Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403346-3896. ● Stettler Genealogy Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month — next Feb. 5 — at Paragon Place, Stettler. All are welcome to learn about where various ancestors came from. Contact Chris at 403740-3636. ● Red Deer College School of Creative Arts presents Thursday Live Concerts, Studio A, RDC Arts Centre, Feb. 5, 1 p.m.

Admission $2. ● Red Deer College School of Creative Arts presents Pride and Prejudice adapted

by Jon Jory for the novel by Jane Austin and

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Singing Valentines by Wild Rose Harmonizers are available to serenade your loved one on Feb. 13 and 14. Four handsome men bearing a red rose will visit the recipient at home or work and perform two tender love songs. The cost is $40 in Red Deer and $45 outside Red Deer, with $10 going to Normandeau School to purchase band instruments.

A photo of the occasion will also be included.

For bookings, contact Fran at 403-347-0436, or Ralph at 403-347-9852. Book early as limited spaced are available. The deadline is Feb. 12. For more information visit www. harmonizers.ca. ● Sacred Heart Church Used Book Sale will be held on Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the church hall for 50 cents to $1. Book donations accepted on Feb. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Phone 403-346-9013. ● Ponoka Moose Lodge Old Time Dance will be held on third Saturday of each month, next Feb. 21 with Eddy Chwill, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Cost is $12, ($10 for Moose members.) Potluck lunch. Top name bands. See www.AlbertaDanceNews.com, or call Jean or Fred at 403-783-8587 for more information. ● Red Deer and District SPCA National Cupcake Day is coming up on Feb. 23. Participants are asked to register at www.nationalcupcakeday.ca, bake cupcakes and host a National Cupcake Day Party on Feb. 23 with proceeds to support the Red Deer and District SPCA. A free Cupcake Host Welcome Package will be sent to participants in the mail. Donations can be made online. Phone 403-3427722 or development@reddeerspca.com. ● Canadian Firearms Cours-

es are offered at Cottonwood-Gordon Hall.

Non-restricted: Feb. 28 starting at 8 a.m.; Restricted: March 1 starting at 9 a.m. For more information call 403-224-2881 or firearmscourses@gmail.com. ● St. Andrew’s United Church Pancake Supper will be offered on Feb. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Lacombe. Costs are $7 for adults, $4 for youth, and $20 for a family with proceeds to Camp Kasota. Contact Dennis at 403-7826890. ● Crimson Lake Provincial Park Family Day will be celebrated on Feb. 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Day Use Area. Free of charge to enjoy snowshoeing, geocaching, s’mores, hot chocolate, snow-golf, snow-soccer, fat bike demonstration, snow forts and graffiti.

Contact Alberta Parks at 403-845-8309. ● Family Day Friday Dance will be held on Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at Festival Hall. Based on dances of days gone by, the evening will feature live music, a dance lesson, games and fun for the whole family. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.countrypridedanceclub.ca. ● Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic will hold a photo identification clinic on Feb. 12 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 301 5008 Ross St. The clinic offers free affidavits of identification that are notarized by a lawyer.

This ID does not replace government issued ID but is intended to help people access basic services while replacing their proper ID. To book an appointment, phone 430-314-9129, see www.communitylegalclinic.net, or email to info@communitylegalclinic.net. ● Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society

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Rollicking dance music by St. James’ Gate will be played at a beertasting fundraiser for the Red Deer Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Award on Saturday at Festival Hall. The Art and Craft (Beer) night begins at 7 p.m. takes in Red Deer at Festival Hall. Craft beer, live and silent auctions will be held, beer and appetizers from local restaurants will be served, and there will be dancing to live music. Tickets are $50 ($350 for a table of eight) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Proceeds will go towards ongoing funding for the Emerging Artist Award, which is a legacy from the Lieutenant Governor or Alberta Awards’ presentation in Red Deer. directed by Lynda Adams, Mainstage, RDC Arts Centre, Feb. 5 to 7, and Feb. 11 to 14 at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 7 and 14 at 1 p.m. Purchase tickets online at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626. ● Rimbey Annual Women’s Conference will be held on Feb. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Peter Lougheed Community Centre in Rimbey. Keynote speaker is Zaheen

Nanji on Unlock the Power of You, Embracing Change, and there will be six concurrent sessions, entertainment by comedians James Uloth and Steve Mazan, catered lunch, vendors, prizes and more. Registration fee is $35 until Jan. 29, and $40 after. Register at Family and Community Support Services in the Rimbey. Call 403-843-2030.

Valentine’s Sweetheart Dinner will take place at Cronquist house on Feb. 14. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. followed by scrumptious six course meal. Tickets are $150 per couple or $170 per couple in a private room. For tickets call 403-346-0055. ● Red Deer Action Group is seeking volunteer board members to help set the direction of the organization. See www.rdactiongroup.ca, or phone 403-343-1198 to find out more. ● Red Deer College School of Creative Arts presents Student for a Day. Check out Motion Picture Arts program, Feb. 12, and Music, Theatre, Entertainment Production, Theatre Performance, and Creative and Visual Art on Feb. 13. To register, email creativearts@rdc.ab.ca. All students will receive complimentary ticket to Pride and Prejudice.

Red Deer College School of Creative Arts presents Pianos Galore, Feb 22, 7:30 p.m.

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College instructor Dale Wheeler will be joined by Debra Bakland, Cheryl Cooney and special guest Ruston Vuori, together with CUC orchestra, in a multiple-piano extravaganza showcasing several Bach concerti along with the premiere of a work by Dr. Cooney. Purchase tickets online at www. bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626. ● Stettler Agricultural Society has two upcoming events. Stettler Ranch Rodeo Competition will be featured on Feb. 15 starting at 11 a.m. with five events: branding, sorting, penning, trailer loading, and doctoring.

Teams of four with a minimum of one female per team invited to enter for a cost of $400 per team.

To register, phone 403-742-6288. Accepting the first 15 teams. Free to watch. Family Day Sleigh Rides will also be offered on Feb. 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. weather permitting at the Ag Society Grounds. Free chili and a bun, and hot chocolate served. Donations to the food bank appreciated. ● Mental Health in the Workplace with Margaret Trudeau, keynote speaker, will

be held at Lacombe Memorial Centre, on Feb. 24, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lunch provided.

Cost is $60 per person including a copy of Trudeau’s book Changing My Mind. For information, call 403-782-5531. Information and registration see www.action-group.ca. ● Soulful Noize will be rocking The Hub on Ross on Feb. 6, 7 to 9 p.m. Costs are $15 per person, or $30 per family cash at the door. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Feb. 7 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Runaway Train. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Jim at 403-638-6563, or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Notre Dame High School Fine Arts presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Feb. 12 to 14 at 7 p.m., and Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. at Red Deer Memorial Centre.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students, and free for children under five from Notre Dame High School or from cast members. Special Preview Night will be held on Feb. 11, 7 p.m. with pay what you can admission for the general public. Contact stephanie. layden@rdcrs.ca. ● Cystic Fibrosis Canada Central Alberta Chapter meets at Bethany Care CollegeSide on various dates. Phone 403-3475075 for details. ● Forshee Community Hall old time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m., next Feb. 6. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country Gold North Band. For more information, call 403-748-3378. ● CrossRoads Church Seniors Gems monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-347-6425. Visions Country Gospel will perform on Feb 10 for a Valentine’s Luncheon.

Listings open to cultural/non-profit groups. Fax: 341-6560; phone: 314-4325; e-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com by noon Thursday for insertion following Thursday.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan offered a precedentsetting prisoner swap to the Islamic State group Wednesday in a desperate attempt to save a Jordanian air force pilot the militants purportedly threatened to kill, along with a Japanese hostage.

Late Wednesday, the pilot’s father met with Jordan’s king who he said assured him that “everything will be fine.”

King Abdullah II faces growing domestic pressure to bring the pilot home. However, meeting the Islamic State’s demand for the release of a would-be hotel bomber linked to al-Qaida would run counter to the kingdom’s hard-line approach to the extremists.

Efforts to release the pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto gained urgency with the release late Tuesday of a purported online ultimatum claiming the Islamic State group would kill both hostages within 24 hours if the alQaida-linked prisoner was not freed.

By Wednesday evening, there was no word on the fate of the hostages and no sign a swap was underway. In a possible indication of a holdup, Jordan’s foreign minister wrote on his Twitter account that Jordan had not received evidence the pilot was alive and healthy.

The scope of a possible swap and of the Islamic State group’s demands also remained unclear.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said Jordan is ready to trade the prisoner, an Iraqi woman convicted of involvement in deadly Amman hotel bombings in 2005, for the pilot.

Al-Momani made no mention of Goto, and it was not clear if the swap proposed by Jordan would satisfy the hostage-takers.

Any exchange would set a precedent for negotiating with the Islamic State militants, who in the past have not publicly demanded prisoner releases. Jordan’s main ally, the United States, opposes negotiations with extremists.

The release of Sajida al-Rishawi, the al-Qaidalinked prisoner, would also be a propaganda coup for the militants who have already overrun large parts of neighbouring Syria and Iraq. Jordan is part of a U.S.-led military alliance that has carried out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in recent months.

Participation in the alliance is unpopular in Jordan, and the capture of the pilot has only exacerbated such sentiments, analysts said.

“Public opinion in Jordan is putting huge pressure on the government to negotiate with the Islamic State group,” said Marwan Shehadeh, a scholar with ties to ultra-conservative Islamic groups in Jordan.

“If the government doesn’t make a serious effort to release him, the morale of the entire military will deteriorate and the public will lose trust in the political regime.”

The pilot’s family, meanwhile, is increasingly vocal in its criticism of the government.

Several dozen protesters gathered Wednesday outside King Abdullah’s palace in Amman, urging the government to do more to win the release of the pilot.

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A man comforts the wife of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who is held by the Islamic State group militants, during a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday. Jordan on Wednesday offered a precedent-setting prisoner swap to the Islamic State group in a desperate attempt to save a Jordanian air force pilot the militants purportedly threatened to kill, along with a Japanese hostage. must be returned home,” the protesters chanted.

The pilot’s father, Safi al-Kasaesbeh, was part of the group and was allowed into the palace, along with his wife, to meet Abdullah.

“The king told me that Muath is like my son and God willing everything will be fine,” al-Kasaesbeh said afterward.

Earlier, he criticized the government’s handling of the crisis. “I contacted the Turkish authorities after I found that the Jordanian government is not serious in the negotiations,” he told The Associated Press. “The government needs to work seriously, the way one would do to free a son, like the Japanese government does.”

Jordan reportedly is holding indirect talks with the militants through religious and tribal leaders in Iraq to secure the release of the hostages.

In his brief statement, al-Momani only said Jordan is willing to swap al-Rishawi for the pilot, but not if such an exchange is being arranged. Al-Rishawi was sentenced to death for her involvement in the al-Qaida attack on hotels in Amman that killed 60 people.

In Tokyo, Goto’s mother, Junko Ishido, appealed publicly to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “Please save Kenji’s life,” Ishido said, begging Abe to work with the Jordanian government until the very end to try to save Goto. “Kenji has only a little time left,” she said in a plea read to reporters. Ishido said both Abe and Japan’s main government spokesman had declined

Hanrahan’s shooting came a day after a 17-year-old student was killed on his way to school.

Also Tuesday, a 25-year-old woman was killed on the other side of the city.

The shootings come as police struggle with a shrunken force and an uptick in violent crime.

Islamic extremists rampaging in northeast Nigeria, surrounding city of Maiduguri

to meet with her.

Later, a few dozen people gathered outside the prime minister’s official residence, holding banners expressing hopes for Goto’s release. “I have been trying to keep my hopes up and believe that Mr. Goto will return. I have this faith within me,” said Seigo Maeda, 46, a friend of Goto.

The militants reportedly have killed a Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, and the crisis has stunned Japan. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, 26, was seized after his Jordanian F-16 crashed in December near the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria.

He is the first foreign military pilot the militants have captured since the coalition began its airstrikes in August.

This is the first time the group has publicly demanded the release of prisoners in exchange for hostages. Previous captives may have been freed in exchange for ransom, although the governments involved have refused to confirm any payments were made.

Goto, a freelance journalist, was captured in October in Syria, apparently while trying to rescue Yukawa, 42, who was taken hostage last summer.

The Islamic State group broke with al-Qaida’s central leadership in 2013 and has clashed with its Syrian branch, but it reveres the global terror network’s former Iraqi affiliate, which battled U.S. forces and claimed the 2005 Amman attack.

killed in seven villages in Adamawa state this week, according to resident Emmanuel Kwache.

“They slaughtered people like rams and they burned down our houses after looting food,” Kwache said.

“There’s no presence of troops, some residents are hiding on top of hills, while those that could not run were abducted, particularly youths and women.”

State legislator Adamu Kamale said he has appealed in vain for troops since the attacks began on Friday.

On Monday the militants moved into Michika town, he said.

In Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and some 200 kilometres north of Michika, people fleeing other Boko Haram attacks say the militants warned they are preparing to massacre them in Maiduguri and that “there will be no mercy.”

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): THIS DATE: Oprah Winfrey, You should be feeling quite 61; Tom Selleck, 70; Sara good and happy today. If any Gilbert, 40 issues pop up, make sure THOUGHT OF THE DAY: you are simply dealing with On the plus side, the present moyou will be able ment in time. to express yourThere is a self more clearly tendency to get today. On the upset if you are not so positive looking to hold side, there could someone acbe some minor countable for disputes now. past actions.

Yesterday Leave them should have in the past and opened you up start anew now. to greater truth.

V I R G O Today is not (Aug. 23-Sept. the day to paLARISA MAIRA 22): You will feel rade around anquite excited toOZOLINS nouncing your day. truth to all.

Perhaps you You still have will feel like you to mid-Februare on the verge ary, when Mercury goes for- of something, but can’t quite ward, to fully understand that put your finger on it. knowledge and wisdom.

Others in your life will surHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If to- prise you now. day is your birthday, this year News related to the past is your call to awaken to your being in the past will make truth. you feel a healing overcome This can be anywhere you now. from what is going on within LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): the world, to simply allowing Today is a day to observe your soul’s energy to come others in your life. They will through and represent your be expressing their truth withauthentic self in this world. out any inhibitions and this Others have presented you will create greater harmony. It with their truth. might even inspire you to find Now it is your turn to fully a resolution to issues related express your true values and to personal self-expression. find your soul group.

Avoid silly arguments by beARIES (March 21-April ing more present.

19): You will be feeling quite SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. excited today or at least feel 21): There is a lot of energy more energized than usual. asking you to express yourGet out there and communi- self in many wonderful ways.

So, channel that excitement cate with all you can now.

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TAURUS (April 20-May gelic informants.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 2220): Today is a wonderful day to get out there and socialize Dec. 21): The way things are with friends and other groups going for you now, there is no doubt that you should be you are part of.

You will be more than feeling good today.

Be present, don’t look able to express yourself just as you please, but refrain back, focus on the here and from starting anything new. now and things will no doubt elevate to a higher level for Deal with old contacts.

Reconnect and express you.

Express what makes you your gratitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June unique in this world today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 2220): Yes, your ruling planet Mercury is still retrograde, so Jan. 19): If you want to know don’t sign anything in con- the way forward now, look to crete, but do express your- your past.

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Learn more by interacting family members and your with new individuals today. roots.

You believe that you are Avoid arguments with those on a new course of action, from your past.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are truly in touch Feb. 18): Do something towith your feelings today. Let day that will still inspire you in those lines of communica- two years.

Do you know what that tion be open for as long as is? It’s truly living in the presyou can.

This will help you, not only ent moment and expressing to think of new ways to ap- your soul’s truth. If you feel proach your future direction, irritated, it is because you are but also to heal past wounds living in the past — anxious. that have tripped you up In the future, relax in the

cessful and responsible members of society.

For the others, there are undoubtedly myriad reasons: difficulty in finding employment, poor wages and high turnover, substance abuse, mental illness, laziness and overly indulgent parents who issue no consequences for loitering.

Studies show that job-hopping is no more excessive for this generation than previous ones.

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She came back once for clothing and then informed me that I could go in with the rest of her family for her Christmas present to furnish an apartment for her and said boyfriend. That was the last straw.

I gave her a Christmas card with a note saying her gift is that she does not owe me the two months’ rent and four months’ storage of what is still in that bedroom.

My granddaughter and her mother are both upset with me. I feel she was deceitful, rude and disrespectful of my home and me.

I am not handing out any more favours until she grows up. Am I wrong?

— Tough Love Grandma Dear Tough: Not at all, but you cannot expect your freeloading granddaughter and her enabling mother to agree with you.

You do not owe anyone a furnished apartment.

Do whatever you think best and ignore the rest. We’re on your side.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Run Out of Ideas,” whose high-school graduate nephew plays video games in his parents’ house all day and seems to have no interest in growing up and being responsible.

This nephew has lots of company.

Please address the “boy crisis” in this country.

Thousands of young men in their late teens and 20s are just like the nephew: “perfectly content not to go anywhere in life.”

Your advice wasn’t wrong, but it ignored the fact that his nephew represents a social trend and a problem.

Maybe you should explore what’s wrong with our society that so many young men are so disinterested in being productive and pursuing success.

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I agreed and asked for a minimum rent to cover utilities.

She attends school on a scholarship and MITCHELL works two full& SUGAR time jobs, and I postponed payment of rent until her next student loan came through.

The problem was, her unemployed, single-parent boyfriend with no car or driver’s licence was here all the time.

I offered suggestions of nearby job opportunities and the chance to work off his “rent” by helping out around the yard.

But he always had an excuse as to why the jobs wouldn’t work out and never seemed physically up to doing any yard work.

I did my best to make this situation work.

However, they were having parties when I was away and trashing my home. After the second time we had words, they left, leaving most of her stuff here.

She then decided to move in with her parents, although she was actually living with her boyfriend and his parents.

My son and daughter-in-law have not said or done anything about this situation.

I think they are enabling their daughter.

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Red Deer North race on BUCK BUCHANAN AMONG THOSE WHO MAY SEEK TORY NOMINATION

BY MARY-ANN BARR RED DEER ADVOCATE At least two people are seriously considering seeking the Progressive Conservative nomination for Red Deer North, now that Mary Anne Jablonski is stepping down, come the next election.

Red Deer city Coun. Buck Buchanan confirmed on Wednesday that he is giving the idea serious thought.

“Yes, I am definitely considering it,” Buchanan said.

A second person, a woman, said she would likely make an announcement next week, but in the interim asked that she not be identified because she hadn’t decided.

The Advocate tried to contact three

other people who might be in the running. However, none of them were returning calls on Wednesday.

Jablonski announced on Monday that after five terms, she will not run in the next provincial election.

Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas has not announced his intentions. He is meeting with his constituency board on Friday and expects to make an announcement after that.

Buchanan, a retired RCMP officer, is in his third term on city council.

He said that no one expected a provincial nomination would be needed so soon.

The current city council was elected in 2013, to a four-year term.

The next legislated date for a provincial election is 2016. However, Premier Jim Prentice can go to the polls

sooner.

Recent developments, in particular the drastic decline in oil prices and provincial resource revenue, has led to full-on speculation of a spring election.

That speculation has increased with a number of MLAs recently announcing they will not run again, clearing the way for others to seek nominations and prepare for an election. Prentice said he wanted all PC nominations done by March 15.

Buchanan described recent weeks in provincial politics as a “blur” and people might not have made commitments to municipal politics if they had known a provincial election would come earlier.

He could continue as a member of city council if he were to win the nomi-

nation, until such time as he is elected MLA. “I’m still trying to figure out processes, what needs to be done and who you need to talk to.

“The provincial scene for me would certainly be different ... a different animal to skin ... going from nonpartisan politics to party politics is a different twist,” Buchanan said.

The PC nominations for Red Deer North and Red Deer South have not yet opened, nor have dates been set should there be a vote.

Michael Dawe said Tuesday he wants to run again in Red Deer North, but hasn’t decided what banner he will run under — Liberal, independent or maybe under a Liberal, Green Party and Alberta Party cross-endorsement. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Man who skipped last day of trial arrested

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Malley was a family friend, court told

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF In the weeks and months before she was killed in a deadly explosion, Victoria Shachtay was scared and frustrated as the nest egg she had evaporated.

Sarah Shachtay was testifying Wednesday at the trial of the man accused of her sister’s murder.

Sarah Shachtay told police immediately after the blast she didn’t believe Brian Malley, who is charged with first degree murder, was responsible.

Malley was close with the Shachtay family. When Victoria was baptized, Malley attended. When Sarah and Victoria’s mother Lou Bercier died, Malley attended the funeral. Defence counsel asked Sarah if Malley attended Victoria’s funeral, suggesting he had. Sarah said she could not remember.

Victoria was killed on Nov. 25, 2011 while opening a Christmas present disguising a bomb.

The Crown believes financial matters are at the centre of the murder.

Victoria, 23, had invested $575,000 of an injury settlement she was awarded after a 2004 crash that left her paralyzed. Her financial advisor Brian Malley, 57, is charged with first degree murder.

Sarah Shachtay testified Wednesday that money was starting to run out. Victoria had stopped spending and was becoming wiser. Victoria had also looked in to going back to school.

The biggest concern for Victoria, Sarah said, was making sure she could provide for her daughter Destiny.

Just after the car crash, Victoria had

continued to work her part-time job at the co-op gas bar in Innisfail. But she stopped working there.

After Victoria’s crash, the Shachtay residence was not accommodating to Victoria’s injuries. Malley’s home-building company built the family a wheelchair accessible bungalow and allowed the family to live in his grandmother’s house, which was also wheelchair accessible, while it was being built.

Sarah recalled seeing Victoria given cheques from Malley and had regularly heard Victoria asking Malley for money or to meet up.

On the day Victoria died, Sarah had just arrived home from working the graveyard shift at Tim Hortons. She was asleep when her husband awoke her. Her step-father Rick Bercier had called to tell Sarah the news of Victoria’s death.

Sarah drove to Didsbury to pick up Bercier and then they went to Innisfail to give their statement to police.

Sarah testified that she told police she didn’t think Malley could be the suspect.

The last time the sisters were together was the Sunday before the blast. An arrangement had been made between the two that in exchange for providing $7,000 up front for Sarah to buy a car, Sarah would provide weekend caregiver services to Victoria to “work it off.”

Sarah said Victoria was going broke, and part of that could have been from spending.

Victoria was in three motor vehicle collisions between 2004 and 2011, and she received more than $750,000 in injury settlements.

Earlier Wednesday Victoria’s personal injury lawyer Janice Chapman testified.

Chapman said Victoria received $681,705 in a settlement from the 2004 crash in 2007 as well as a $33,000 advance during court proceedings.

Two years later, Victoria was involved in another crash, but suffered significantly less severe injuries. The settlement from this collision, which was awarded on Aug. 12, 2011, totaled $20,000.

Over the seven years between the first collision and her death, Victoria slowly regained some strength and feeling in her arms and was able to drive.

In 2011 she was involved in a third collision. This time she was the driver and had severely damaged her vehicle.

That vehicle had been heavily modified to enable her to drive it, since she did not have the use of her feet.

She had contacted Chapman about a settlement to cover the property damage costs to the vehicle, but had not pursued it further.

The Crown alleges Malley killed Victoria to cut his financial loses. Victoria was a client of his and she invested $575,000 from a settlement she received in 2007. She became paralyzed in a 2004 crash and was confined to a wheelchair.

By 2011 the money had run out and Malley was paying Victoria out of his own bank, credit and overdrafting his accounts.

The Crown believes he paid her about $44,000 from his own accounts.

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

Police have arrested a Red Deer man who missed the third day of his trial on charges arising from a fatal collision. He is now in custody.

Brent Robert Cameron, formerly of St. John, N.B., was on trial in mid-January on charges of leaving the scene and with public mischief for filing a false report to police.

Charges were laid in connection with the death in Red Deer of Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18. Bertin had recently moved to Red Deer from his hometown of Botha, located about 13 km east of Stettler.

His body was found on the northbound lanes of the Taylor Drive Bridge at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2012.

Evidence in Cameron’s trial, which opened before Justice John Little in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Jan. 13, indicated that Bertin was walking home from attending a concert.

RCMP witnesses testified that Cameron reported his vehicle stolen later in the day and that it was found damaged and abandoned on a side street in Riverside Meadows, a few blocks from the scene of the collision.

Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker and defence counsel Glenn Allen of Wetaskiwin had been prepared to make their final arguments in the trial on the morning of Jan. 15.

However, the final stages of the trial did not proceed because Cameron did not show up. Allen advised the court that Cameron’s father, who had come from St. John to follow the trial, was unable to offer an explanation for his absence other than to state that he had been anxious and unable to sleep.

The judge issued a warrant for Cameron’s arrest, including an order that no other judge or justice of the peace should allow him to be released.

Police issued a statement enlisting help from the public in locating Cameron, whom they believed may have returned to his former home in New Brunswick.

However, Cameron was arrested quietly at a residence in Red Deer on Jan. 24 and remains in custody pending an appearance before Little in Red Deer on Monday. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Province to review dispute progress

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta Municipal Affairs will meet with Lacombe County and Sylvan Lake representatives next month to review their progress in resolving a planning dispute.

The county appealed the town’s Municipal Development Plan (MDP) earlier this month, citing concerns that the plan wasn’t specific enough about lake protection measures.

SYLVAN LAKE, LACOMBE COUNTY PLANNING In its appeal, the Lacombe County says the MDP “fails to include satisfactory and specific provisions addressing setback distances, municipal reserve dedication, environmental reserve dedication and environmental reserve easements, and planting of native vegetation.”

As part of a resolution agreement from January 2012 dealing with similar concerns, the town agreed to rec-

ommend the 30-metre setback for the MDP, says the appeal.

The town has suggested specific environmental protection measures such as setbacks are better left to more detailed planning documents required as developments go ahead.

Further, a commitment to protecting the lake is clearly laid out in the plan, says the town, which doesn’t own any lakeshore land itself.

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

County commissioner Terry Hager said the two municipalities have yet to meet. “(Mediation) hasn’t started yet, but we anticipate that’s the route we’ll go.”

Both sides are to meet in a provincial government office in Red Deer on Feb. 23 to bring Municipal Affairs staffers up to speed on progress towards resolving the dispute.

Provincial staff want to know if the municipalities have tried mediation and what had been achieved. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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PM not taking part in Premiers meeting Friday

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers will sit down Friday in Ottawa to discuss energy, skills training, internal trade barriers and the need for infrastructure funding as plummeting oil prices threaten the federal government’s bottom line. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has skipped the Council of the Federation meetings for years, isn’t attending this one either as the premiers meet just a few blocks from his office.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne invited Harper to the gathering earlier this month, and recently expressed disappointment that he’s not showing up.

“It’s a frustration to me; I think it would be better if we did have an opportunity, as premiers, to have a discussion with him,” she said in an interview.

“I think it’s better for the relationship, which is better for the country ... when he has an opportunity to deal with us as a group, directly, and we with him.

But it’s his choice and he hasn’t chosen to do that.”

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard agreed.

“It’s always good to have a meeting between the prime minister of Canada and his provincial and territorial counterparts,” Couillard said earlier this week.

“I think it’s a good practice, but it’s not up to me to comment on the agenda choices of Mr. Harper.”

During the daily question period Wednesday in the House of Commons, the NDP’s Guy Caron chastised Harper for failing to attend the meeting.

Harper’s parliamentary secretary, Paul Calandra, defended his boss.

“The prime minister continuously meets with premiers,” Calandra said, adding cabinet ministers also consult “all the time” with their provincial counterparts.

Wynne says the premiers will discuss the so-called

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BRIEFS Parking lot standoff suspect in court on Monday A 17-year-old Red Deer male youth faces several charges following a police standoff in the parking lot of an industrial park near Red Deer on Monday afternoon.

The youth, who cannot be identified due to the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with one count each of assault with a weapon, mischief under $5,000, theft of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, and using a firearm or imitation firearm while committing an indictable offence of theft.

The standoff occurred outside at Schlumberger Ltd.’s pressure pumping base in McKenzie Industrial Business Park, just south of Red Deer.

Blackfalds and Innisfail RCMP, ALERT, Police Dog Services and the RCMP helicopter were all involved in the response.

The incident began at about 2 p.m. after an employee went out to his truck when its security system was triggered. He was confronted by a male with a handgun. The employee was able to escape, then called police.

About 75 people who were working outside in the Schlumberger yard were told through company loudspeaker to come inside.

The incident ended peacefully around 4 p.m. with the arrest of the 17-year-old suspect.

RCMP said the firearm turned out to be a replica pistol.

The suspect made his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday. He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear on Thursday in Red Deer youth court.

Canadian Energy Strategy, a initiative involving all 13 provinces and territories focused on climate change and clean energy. Coulliard will provide an update, she said.

The premiers will also discuss skills training, as well as internal trade barriers.

Two western conservative premiers, Alberta’s Jim Prentice and Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall, will not be in Ottawa for the meeting. Wall’s office says he’s participating via conference call, while Prentice is sending the province’s municipal affairs minister in his place. A spokeswoman for P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz, the meeting’s host, wouldn’t comment on whether the fact two leaders who are on the front lines of the oil price crisis would not be there in person would diminish the meeting’s effectiveness.

The Council of the Federation’s main function is to present a united front among the 13 provinces and territories when dealing with the federal government. In addition to its formal meetings twice a year, the council gatherings allow premiers to discuss a host of issues concerning their provinces and territories on the sidelines of official events.

“Obviously Premier Wall feels that’s not the case, (but) personally I prefer to meet face-to-face on a regular basis,” Bob McLeod, premier of the Northwest Territories, said Tuesday in Ottawa.

“It’s a very good forum for us. As a small jurisdiction, we really benefit from interacting with larger provincial premiers.”

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she’ll represent Wall and Prentice, and the interests of the West, during the meeting.

“The three of us have a plan that we put together to create free trade between us, to lobby the federal government for modest investments in infrastructure, to grow the economy; we’ve got a plan to work together on skills training,” she said earlier this week.

Deer to discuss Alberta’s finances at a Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon set for Monday.

Oberle is one of the Conservative cabinet ministers who have been touring the province since Jan. 13 to talk about Alberta’s fiscal situation in advance of the release of the 2015 provincial budget.

Oberle will focus on the oil price decline and its impact to Alberta.

MLAs return to the legislature on March 10 and the budget will be presented later that month.

The luncheon runs from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Black Knight Inn, at 2929 50th Ave. Admission is $30 each for chamber members and $35 for non-members.

To register for the luncheon, go to www.reddeerchamber.com.

Red Deer principal among best in nation A Red Deer woman has been named one of the top 40 school principals in Canada by a national charity that promotes public education.

Cathy Gukert, principal of École Mountview School, is one of four Albertans on the list of outstanding principals in Canada.

Those chosen were judged on how their exceptional leadership contributed to improving student achievement.

A national selection committee, including government, business and education officials, judged principals based on 16 criteria.

The award comes from The Learning Partnership, a national charity dedicated to building stakeholder

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Judge rules against dropping perjury charge for Mountie in Dziekanski case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - A judge has refused to throw out a perjury charge against a Mountie accused of lying about what happened when a Polish immigrant was stunned by a Taser and died at Vancouver International Airport.

Const. Gerry Rundel was one of four officers involved in the October 2007 confrontation with Robert Dziekanski that resulted in his death.

A public inquiry was held in 2009, and each officer was called to testify about the high-profile incident.

Entered as evidence were notes made by the officers, their testimony, and video of the encounter from a bystander.

The Crown subsequently brought charges against all of the officers, alleging they made up a story for investigators together and then lied at the inquiry to further mask their deception.

Crown lawyers presented evidence relating to six particular instances they contend proves their case, court heard on Wednesday.

But Rundel’s lawyer disputed the claim with a broad application to withdraw the charge and end the trial, arguing the prosecutors’ evidence was too flimsy to support conviction.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper told court in her oral ruling that the motion required her to engage in limited weighing of the evidence, but not conclude whether the accused is guilty, draw factual inferences or assess the accused’s credibility. partnerships to support promote, and advance public education in Canada.

Principals are chosen by their peers, staff or parents.

Gukert will be honoured at a gala on Feb. 24 in Toronto.

It is the 11th year for the awards. To date, more than 350 principals have been honoured for their strong leadership in public education.

Underwater hockey tournament on Sunday Members of the Central Alberta Underwater Hockey Club will pull on their flippers and snorkels for a tournament at Burman University swimming pool in Lacombe on Sunday.

The tournament at Burman University (formerly Canadian University College) is open to the public.

Admission is free.

The Central Alberta Sharks, a unisex team made up of players aged eight to 18, will compete against teams from Calgary and Edmonton from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Games consist of two 15-minute periods. Teams use small paddles called a pusher to propel a weighted puck on the pool floor into their opponents’ goal.

Underwater hockey originated in England in 1954 and is now played in several countries.

The Central Alberta team, organized three years ago, has grown to 18 players.

Burman University’s pool is located at the Physical Education Centre located at 6602 Maple Dr. For more information, visit www.cauwhc.com.

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Castor-area murder case preliminary hearing set A 10-day preliminary inquiry has been set for 2016 for the two men accused of killing three people on a farm near Castor.

Jason Klaus, 38, and Joshua Frank, 29, elected to be tried by Court of Queen’s Bench judge and jury.

They both face first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Gordon, Sandra and Monica Klaus.

Gordon, 61, Sandra, 62, and Monica, 40, were believed to have died in a fire at the Klaus’s farm residence near Castor on Dec. 8, 2013. The remains of Gordon and Monica — Jason’s father and sister — were found on scene. However, Sandra’s remains were never found. Police believe her remains were destroyed in the fire.

The preliminary inquiry is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 29 to March 11, 2016. Preliminary inquiries are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard told Judge Jim Mitchell in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday that they had canvassed earlier dates that would work for both the Crown and the two defence counsels. However, February 2016 was the earliest that complied with everybody’s schedules.

Collard made a point of attempting to schedule a pre-trial conference within the next two weeks.

The hope is that through discussions with defence counsel, they can reduce the time needed for the preliminary inquiry and find earlier dates that work for Crown and defence.

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One hundred trillion. Nope, it’s not the national debt. That mega-number is the population of microbes living it up in your digestive system.

Most of you think about this inner zoo only when it pumps out too much gas at an embarrassing moment or sends you running to the toilet with diarrhea.

But these days, there’s a lot of important research going on about this inner world, and it’s revealing that these bacteria are essential for your good health.

As Dr. Mike points out in his new book, This is YOUR Do-Over, changing your inner zoo or microbiome so it has a healthy mix of these little critters is a key step to reclaiming or maintaining your health. Then you can make sure potentially harmful bacteria in the mix don’t trigger problems such as autoimmune diseases, persistent infections (like C. diff.) and even heart woes.

In fact, if you keep the inhabitants of your microbiome plentiful and diverse, they can keep your arteries young, strengthen your immune system and help you slim down and live longer.

So time for a gut check! Here’s how to start your gut-biome do-over today. ● Move it. Moving your body regularly — walking, riding your bike, hit-

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DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN ting the gym — helps support a more diverse mix of gut bacteria. In a recent study of 40 pro rugby stars, researchers from Ireland’s University College Cork found that the players’ intestinal biome contained a wider variety of bacteria than that of fairly sedentary men the same age and size. The rugby players also had Akkermansiaceae — a bacterium that’s been linked to lower risk for obesity. That’s another reason for a minimum 30-minute daily walk, seven days a week, shooting for your target of 10,000 steps every day. ● Enjoy probiotic-rich foods. Yogurt, kefir (a fermented milk drink) and fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi

increases your risk for clogged arteries, memory dysfunction and cancer.

Egg yolks elicit the same response, changing your inner zoo in favour of harmful bacteria. Red meat also may prompt bacteria to produce substances that interfere with the constant, healthy renewal of the inner lining of the intestines, increasing your risk for colon cancer. ● Watch your portions. Overeating encourages the growth of a gut-bug strain called Firmicutes that could accelerate weight gain, say researchers from Washington University in St. Louis. Turns out Firmicutes break down foods with extreme efficiency, making more calories available to your body for use — and weight gain! That means overeating could be a double whammy: You’re eating more calories and absorbing even more. In one study, a 20 per cent increase in the number of Firmicutes in the human gut made an extra 150 calories a day available for absorption. So keep your calorie intake in a healthy lower range to encourage growth of bacteria that make fewer calories available.

The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen of Cleveland Clinic, are authors of YOU: Losing Weight. For more information, go to www.RealAge.com.

and tempeh (a soy-based meat alternative) are good sources of beneficial bacteria. Many yogurts contain helpful probiotics. Look for the words “spore forms” or “live, active cultures” on the label. (Spores are activated in your gut rather than killed by your stomach acid.) Probiotic-rich foods often deliver Lactobacillus gasseri, shown in two recent studies to discourage weight gain and help with weight loss. There’s also evidence that a daily serving of probiotic-enriched yogurt can cut your risk for antibiotic-related diarrhea by two-thirds. This condition is triggered when the meds wipe out both the bad and good bugs in your digestive system and is a problem for 39 per cent of people who take antibiotics. ● Feed Æem plenty of fibre. Two important beneficial bacteria — bifidobacteria and lactobacilli — love munching on a family of plant fibres called fructans, especially a type called inulin. It’s found in abundance in bananas, onions, garlic, leeks, asparagus, artichokes, soybeans and 100 per cent whole-wheat foods. ● Eliminate red meat and processed meats. Gut bacteria release substances when they break down red or processed meats. The substances end up in your bloodstream, causing inflammation throughout your body, which

Foods for your fitness fiasco Have you been working out tireless- fitness is what you consume post workly since the New Year in an attempt to out. This is when your cells are the tackle those New Year’s resolutions? most “hungry” for nourishment and reSince 2012, over 60 per covery. So this is where givcent of Canadian adults ing it the best is important. have been found to be overYour recovery smoothie weight or obese. Whether should consist of simple seeking to achieve your carbohydrates for immeweight loss or fitness goals, diate refuel. This does not you’ll want these tips on the mean refined white sugar. food you eat to feed your fitThink very little fat and no ness fiasco! fibre as they slow the rate The foods you eat play of carbohydrates entering an important role in ridthe bloodstream. ding your body of excess fat, Balance that simple carbuilding muscle/body strucbohydrate with an alkalineture, recovery and repair of forming protein, such as KRISTIN cells and tissue, enhancing hemp seeds. Hemp seeds FRASER performance, increasing enare known to speed up reergy levels, as well as lonpair of soft tissue damage gevity. caused by physical activIf you fail to shift your ity and have natural antidiet, you will fall short of inflammatory properties to achieving your best results. keep your body reaching Here’s how to keep things simple. optimal performance. They also have The strongest factor to nutrition with a strong “fill factor,” which allows you

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to eat as little as three to four tablespoons and feel fuller faster. Other alkaline forming proteins include quinoa and spirulina. Use a four-to-one ratio of carbohydrate to protein, which will help the muscles absorb the carbohydrate.

Use whole foods. I like to look at recovery smoothies including coconut water, additional water, a hemp-based protein powder, banana, blueberries (for the antioxidants), and some form of greens (kale, swiss chard or spinach) for a good starting balance.

From here, you can add a few additional “super foods” for added performance support — things like maca root powder, which is known to offset the effects of stress, regenerate fatigued muscle tissue and build strength.

Avoiding, as always, the processed, refined or fried foods will always be of benefit.

Being more active and working towards fitness will naturally shift your dietary behaviours to want more whole

foods, but cravings can still sneak in there.

Be mindful each day of what you are consuming and be sure to take the time to breathe, relax, have a cup of tea or go for a walk to counterbalance the hard work you are doing in the gym so as to not over indulge in the wrong foods.

Keep your focus on nutrient density: black beans, avocados, seaweeds (use them as wraps), hummus, fresh vegetables, sautéed vegetables with chickpeas.

And enjoy simple desserts of coconut milk (put in refrigerator overnight) with a little vanilla tossed in with some fresh strawberries and shaved dark chocolate. It’s a much healthier alternative for a sweet treat in your fitness journey.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday.

She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

Test suggests e-cigarettes may release cancer-causing chemical

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Using certain electronic cigarettes at high temperature settings could potentially release more formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, than smoking traditional cigarettes does, new lab tests suggest.

The research does not prove a health risk — it involved limited testing on just one brand of e-cigarettes and was done in test tubes, not people.

It also does not mean e-cigarettes are better or worse than regular ones; tobacco smoke contains dozens of things that can cause cancer.

But it does highlight how little is known about the safety of e-cigarettes — battery-powered devices that heat liquid to deliver nicotine in a vapour

rather than from burning tobacco.

“It’s a potential red flag,” one independent expert — Stephen Hecht, a chemist and tobacco researcher at the University of Minnesota — said of the study.

“Under some conditions, e-cigarettes might be generating more formaldehyde than you’d want to be exposed to. But I don’t think we know enough yet. There’s a huge variety in the makeup of these cigarettes and how they are used.”

The study was published Wednesday as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine. The journal said it had been reviewed by experts in the field.

Formaldehyde is found in many things — certain building materials, disinfectants and embalming fluid.

An earlier study found e-cigarettes generated less formaldehyde than regular cigarettes do, but that study looked at just the gas portion of the

vapour.

The new one looked at the liquid particles in the vapour, like the spray from an aerosol can.

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The sad end of two eras The year’s first issue of Inside Out- guised as editors. Eventually I chose doors, the newsletter of the Outdoor the honourable way out by seriously Writers of Canada, contained a major questioning word counts and per-word shock for Canada’s outdoors writers: rates. To this day, former readers tell the January-February 2015 me Western Sportsman was issues would be the last for not worth reading after Red two of Western Canada’s retired. Gradually the magoutdoors publications, Westazine became an outdoors ern Sportsman and The Outgear catalogue interspersed door Edge. here and there with simplisIn his Executive Directic where-to and how-to. tor’s Report, T.J Schwanky Writing colleagues tell called it the sad end of two me that Outdoor Canada eras and recalled that he editors drive them nuts, had published hundreds of but they pay well. From my pieces in the two magazines start I felt their “slant” was over the years. I, too, wrote important, not necessarily a great deal for both magawhat the writer knew to be zines, not in recent years, true. In the late ’80s, edibut I am not surprised, nor tor in chief, the late Teddi BOB particularly saddened by Brown, decided OC needed SCAMMELL their demises, which I have a back page humour column, been expecting for many and wanted me to do it beyears now. cause she “loved my stuff.”

The company that owns them has Among Teddi’s many virtues, there announced that they will be replaced was no scintilla of a sense of humour; by a Western edition of Outdoor Cana- instead, a soppy sentimentality that da and, presumably, BC Outdoors will some people think is a sense of hucontinue to publish, for both of which I mour. For six months or so we haggled have done a modest amount of writing over her email edits of half a dozen over the years, most enjoyably from my of the humour pieces I had submitstandpoint with BC Outdoors. ted, during which she removed anyExpected or not, the news of the thing that would actually make anysinking of Western Sportsman and The one laugh, especially out loud, and left Outdoor Edge caused a good deal of my pure mush that would make the eyes of writing life to pass before my eyes. In a very few sops tear up and their lower the late 1960s, or early ’70s, just after I lips quiver, while the vast majority started these columns in The Advocate, would retch.

J.B. (Red) Wilkinson, a staffer of The At a final edit lunch at an OWC conRegina Leader Post, turned up in my vention in Courtenay, B.C., I told Teddi Red Deer law office. this would never work, and regained Red was thinking of starting an out- custody of all my manuscripts. Her doors magazine and was “scouting” eyes teared up and her lower lip quivthe few and far-flung outdoors writ- ered, but she and Outdoor Canada paid ers in Western Canada and trying to for lunch. sign them up. I reluctantly signed on, Around this time, The Outdoor Edge and fondly remember Red’s frequent was starting up, and took me on as nagging calls … “What have you got in their back page humour columnist. In your typewriter?”

1995 Good Old Guys, Alibis and Outright Eventually Red assembled as tal- Lies, a selection from my outdoors huented a stable of writers as I have ever mour, was published. It included my been associated with and, generally, original versions of every one of the gave us our head in a mix of “me and pieces Teddi had worried over. It beJoe” stories, and issue-related fea- came a Canadian best seller, went into tures. One of my proudest memories is a second printing, and won the outof my WS article, Trophy Rules = Stunt- doors book of the year award of the ed Mules, changing the way mule deer OWC. were managed in Alberta.

Edge was conceived as the magazine But Red retired, sold to an outdoors of three Western provincial and two media company, and we got a series territorial wildlife federations and the of hotshot young bean counters dis- Alberta Fish and Game Association.

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Final edition – The Outdoor Edge.

Despite being heavily subsidized by the members of these groups, the outdoors media virus soon infected Edge.

Columnists and other writers were constantly being given shorter word quotas, there was more mindless where-to and how-to, but endless room for all the advertising they could possibly drum up.

At the start, Edge writers were asked to accept lower rates because it was an institutional magazine, but I noticed the bean counters were receiving

regular raises. So I effected my usual escape by suggesting it was about time the writers got a hike, and got told to take a hike. The last real refuge of Alberta outdoors writers and readers is Alberta Outdoorsmen, a truly remarkable reading melange of “me and Joe” story stuff and columns and articles dealing with important Alberta outdoors issues.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

A guide for choosing fresh flowers In a world where people think noth- still have buds attached. Flowers that ing of paying up to $5 for a upscale cof- are in full bloom are initially more fee, fresh flowers are still considered attractive but the flowers will fade a luxury. Typically, flowers quickly as they are old. are purchased as gifts but Never purchase flownot for oneself. ers that are wilting. They This did not change when may recover for a short pepre-packaged bouquets of riod but they are past their cut flowers became availprime. able at grocery and box When purchasing a packstores, making it easy to aged bunch of flowers, look grab a bunch before headto see if how much water ing through the till. Dependis in the container. Choose ing where purchased, the flowers that have wet stems. cost of a bouquets of flowCustomers lift the flowers ers is similar to two to four out of the water to take a lattes. closer look at them and There are exceptions. don’t always put them back World wide, the demand for in the water.

LINDA flowers increases at ChristWhen choosing roses, TOMLINSON mas, Valentine’s Day, and look for stems where the Mothers Day, which in turn roses buds are in an upincreases the cost to the right position. The buds consumer. Expect to pay more for flow- should be showing colour but not fully ers on these occasions. opened. They should also be firm to Fresh-cut flowers will last at least the touch. two weeks if they are given proper If the blooms are showing, look at care. the calyx, the green portion that holds Be sure to purchase only fresh flow- the petals in place. On fresh flowers, it ers. Look for ones that are in bud or will be upright, but as the flowers age,

the calyx will turn downwards.

Single-stemmed large roses are large with many petals. Older petals are often removed to increase the saleability of the flower. These flowers are not fresh and will drop their petals faster than fresh flowers.

Rose heads that have started to turn downward are called bullets. They will not open and should never be offered for sale.

If the weather is cold, cut flowers benefit from more than one layer of paper between them and the outside world. Ask the people at the till for another layer of covering.

Once the flowers are at home, recut the stems as they are put in a vase.

Cut stem callas over to conserve moisture once the stem cannot access liq-

uids. Re-cutting the stem and changing the liquid every four or five days will increase the amount of moisture that reaches the flowers, keeping them fresh longer.

Remove all leaves that will be submerged in water. If they are not removed, they will rot.

Use the crystals that come with each bunch of flowers. They add some nutrients to the water and keep fungus away.

Fresh flowers have a place in every home. Take care of them and they will be attractive for a few weeks.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

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Labour numbers revision reflect cuts: NDP

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OTTAWA — The New Democrats are seizing on Wednesday’s revision of Statistics Canada’s labour force numbers for 2014 as further evidence of the damage done by federal cuts to the national numbers agency.

Statcan lowered the number of jobs gained last year and also increased the jobless rate for December as part of what it described as a routine update resulting from a change in the census data used to calculate the figures.

It said the unemployment rate for December 2014 was 6.7 per cent, compared with its initial estimate of 6.6 per cent, and the estimated number of jobs gained last year was 121,300, down from 185,700 estimated earlier this month.

The agency has been starved of resources, said New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen, who cited the 2010 decision to cancel the detailed, mandatory longform census as the source of the problem.

The decision has deprived Statistics Canada “of the basic resources it needs to do its job to provide incredibly valuable information to Canadians and Canadian business,” Cullen said.

“It weakens our ability to understand what’s happening in our economy.”

Finance Minister Joe Oliver insisted Wednesday the revisions are not significant, in the grand scheme of things.

“There’s some statistical revision and the point is we’ve still created almost 1.2 million net new jobs,” Oliver said, insisting that the changes won’t affect the government’s plan to deliver a balanced budget.

“Individual months vary, I’ve said that constantly.

The trend is positive.”

The Statistics Canada revisions follow a surprise move by the Bank of Canada to cut its key interest rate last week because of the drop in oil prices and

the potential consequences for the economy.

CIBC noted the Bank of Canada’s decision to cut rates last week may now look slightly less surprising.

“We thought that a 15,000 per month pace in employment growth wasn’t great, though respectable, but the now reported 10,000 per month pace clearly shows that the labour market failed to make significant headway last year,” CIBC economist Nick Exarhos wrote in a note to clients.

“The Bank of Canada is more concerned about the path of oil prices, and their impact on investment and hiring going forward, but today’s revisions suggest that the economy might not have been on quite as firm ground as earlier believed.”

As part of the revisions, Statistics Canada said the number of full-time jobs gained last year totalled 158,300 compared with its earlier reading of a 190,300.

The number of part-time jobs lost in 2014 was revised to 37,000 compared with the initial estimate of a loss of 4,500 for the year.

New thrift shop opening Saturday

NEW STRIP MALL IN LACOMBE

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Frugal shoppers will soon have a new place in Red Deer to seek out bargains.

Salvage Attic Thrift Shop is scheduled to open this Saturday at 186 Northey Ave., the former location of Glendale Video. Owner Sara Postnekoff said her 1,600 square feet of space is packed with merchandise in anticipation of opening.

Although Salvage Attic will accept “mostly anything” from donors, Postnekoff expects most of its retail offerings to consist of household goods, clothing and furniture.

She thinks the shop’s north Red Deer location is a good one, since there are no other thrift shops in the area. Another thing that will separate Salvage Attic from the competition is its designated charities.

“We’re going to be donating a lot of money to animal shelters,” she said, noting that most other nonprofits focus on people in need.

“We need to start helping the animals too.”

Postnekoff has worked in retail for 10 years, but wanted to start her own business and help the community.

She’ll accept donations from anywhere, and will give 10-time donors a 20 per cent discount on their own purchases.

Salvage Attic will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday.

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An 8,800-square-foot strip mall takes shape in Lacombe at 4801 63rd St., near the new Best Western Plus Inn & Suites. The building will contain up to five bays, ranging in size from 1,200 to 3,600 square feet. It’s expected to be completed this spring, with Michael Gouchie of Royal LePage the leasing agent and Camdon Construction the general contractor.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Oilsands giant Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) is bracing for a prolonged stretch of low oil prices, announcing Wednesday it’s taking $700 million out of its 2015 budget, released just a month and a half ago.

The Calgary-based company said its budget for this year now sits at between $1.8 billion and $2 billion. In mid-December, Cenovus figured it would spend between $2.5 and $2.7 billion, which was already 15 per cent lower than 2014 levels.

“I believe crude oil prices will rebound, but the timing is uncertain. We’re taking the actions we deem prudent to help protect the financial resilience of Cenovus without compromising our future,” said CEO Brian Ferguson in a release.

U.S. benchmark crude for March delivery was at around US$44 a barrel on Wednesday. Cenovus is assuming a US$50.50 price for 2015.

When Cenovus released its initial 2015 budget, crude prices were at US$60 and the company was expecting US$77 West Texas Intermediate crude for 2015. Last summer, crude was well above US$100.

Bearing the brunt of the budget cuts are the bulk of Cenovus’ conventional drilling program in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan and longer-term oilsands projects. Its core Christina Lake and Foster Creek oilsands projects in northeastern Alberta will continue to be funded. Cenovus expects its total crude production to be between 195,000 and 212,000 barrels a day, slightly lower than the range it predicted back in December. The company plans to shuffle its employees within the company to better align with its spending plans. Its contract workforce will be reduced, but it didn’t say by how much.

Ferguson said there could be some silver lining in the downturn.

“As a result of the dramatic slowdown across the energy sector, we expect to see continued reductions in demand for labour, service and materials. This should create potential opportunities for us to drive improvements in our cost structure.”

Cenovus shares were off by about three per cent at $28.90 on the Toronto Stock Exchange around midday Wednesday.

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BRIEF Loonie drops below 80 cents amid tumbling oil, U.S. interest rate speculation TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell sharply Wednesday to below the 80-cent US level as oil prices retreated to fresh six-year lows and traders considered a less dovish than expected announcement on interest rates by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The loonie lost 0.75 of a cent to 79.87 cents US, its lowest close since April 2009.

The Fed has been generally expected to hike rates from near zero around the middle of this year.

But there has been growing speculation that the Fed could opt to move much later in the year because of a stubbornly slow global economic recovery.

While the Fed said Wednesday that it would remain “patient” in beginning to normalize monetary policy, it also had positive things to say about the American economy. Among them, that economic activity is expanding at a solid pace, household spending is growing moderately and that household purchasing power has been boosted by sharply lower gasoline prices. Oil prices retreated with March crude down $1.78 to US$44.45 a barrel, the lowest close since early March 2009, amid fresh inventory data showing U.S. crude supplies at 80-year highs.

Prices fell after the U.S. Energy Information Administration said U.S. oil supplies rose by 8.9 million barrels last week, far higher than the 3.5-millionbarrel increase that economists had expected.

Prices have plunged 55 per cent from the highs registered last summer because of a glut of supply on world markets. They have plunged 40 per cent just since the end of November when Saudi Arabia opted to leave production levels unchanged.

On Wednesday, Barclays further cut its outlook for West Texas Intermediate, used as the North American benchmark for prices. Barclays expects WTI to average US$42 a barrel in 2015, down from its Dec. 1 forecast of $66. It expects WTI to rise to $57 a barrel in 2016.

Imperial Oil evaluating future of its 500 company-owned gas stations CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. (TSX:IMO) is thinking about selling 500 gas stations to partners who would continue to sell fuel under the Esso brand.

Roughly two-thirds of Imperial’s 1,700 Esso stations across Canada have been operating under what it calls a “branded wholesaler” model for about 15 years. The Calgary-based company said Wednesday it’s looking into whether it makes sense to do the same with the remainder.

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ExxonMobil Corp., would supply fuel to those stations. It will also look at growth opportunities for its On the Run convenience store banner.

Brad Merkel, vice-president of fuels and lubricants at Imperial, said it’s too soon to say how much money the company could make from the sale. It’s also too soon to say whether the stations will be sold in one fell swoop or through a series of deals.

“I would say we’re not ruling anything out at this point in time,” said Merkel.

“We have about 12 branded wholesale partners today and we expect that all of them might be interested in at least pieces of the business and we think there’s parties out there that might be interested in all of it. We’ll look at all of our options.”

The assessment should take about six to eight months, he added.

“We’re looking for partners who really share our vision and are willing to invest in helping us to grow our business.”

Potash Corporation raises quarterly dividend 9% to 38 cents U.S. a share SASKATOON — Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. announced a nine per cent increase in its quarterly dividend Wednesday, a day before the fertilizer giant releases its fourth-quarter and year-end results. Saskatoon-based PotashCorp (TSX:POT) said the dividend, announced after markets closed, will rise three cents to 38 cents US per share, payable May 4 to shareholders of record on April 13.

“With our potash expansion program nearing completion, our board and management team continue to review our future cash flow potential and the best opportunities to provide superior returns to our shareholders,” president and CEO Jochen Tilk said in a release announcing the increase.

“This increase reflects the confidence we have in our business model and the belief that dividends will continue as an important element of our capital allocation strategy.”

Exco Q1 profit soars 43% on 88% jump in revenue TORONTO — Exco Technologies Ltd. (TSX:XTC) has announced a big increase in fiscal first-quarter revenue and earnings and says it will increase its quarterly dividend 20 per cent.

The Toronto-based maker of products and equipment for the die-cast, extrusion and automotive industries says net income in the three months ended Dec. 31 increased 43 per cent to $9.6 million as sales revenue shot up 88 per cent to $119.9 million.

The profit amounted to 23 cents per diluted share and compared with earnings of $6.7 million or 16 cents in the same year-earlier period when sales totalled just under $64 million. Exco said the inclusion of revenue from Automotive Leather Group Pty, acquired on March 1, was primarily responsible for the significantly higher year-over-year sales in the quarter.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 120.16 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.02 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 19.02 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.39 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market was sharply lower Wednesday as oil closed below the US$45 mark amid data showing U.S. crude supplies at 80-year highs.

Losses picked up at midafternoon as doubts arose about the Federal Reserve waiting until late this year to hike rates.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 231 points to close at 14,602.88.

The Canadian dollar dropped 0.75 of a cent to 79.87 cents US. The Fed has been widely expected to move around mid2015 but there has been growing speculation it might move later.

While the Fed said Wednesday at the end of its interest rate meeting that it would remain “patient” in beginning to normalize monetary policy, it also pointed out positives about the American economy, including that economic activity is expanding at a solid pace.

“The statement signalled policy-makers view conditions as improving, teeing up for a return to a more normal policy stance,” observed RBC assistant chief economist Dawn Desdjardins.

The Dow industrials dropped 195.84 points to 17,191.37, the Nasdaq lost 43.51 points to 4,637.99 and the S&P 500 index was down 27.39 points at 2,002.16.

Oil prices retreated $1.78 to US$44.45 a barrel, the lowest close since early March 2009, after the U.S. Energy Information Administration said U.S. oil supplies rose by 8.9 million barrels last week.

That was far higher than the 3.5-million-barrel increase that economists had expected.

Prices have plunged 55 per cent from the highs registered last summer because of a glut of supply on world markets.

The TSX energy sector dropped 4.85 per cent. Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) lowered its 2015 capital budget to between $1.8 billion and $2 billion because of the price slump.

That figure is more than 15 per cent below last year’s spending levels. Its stock dropped $1.73 to $22.94.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.15 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.71 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.82 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.90 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.79 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.68 First Quantum Minerals . 11.94 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.76 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.96 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.16 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.60 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 45.36 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.11 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 15.57 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.07 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.95 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.17 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.28 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.01 Canyon Services Group. . 6.43 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.94 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.98 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.29 The gold sector fell three per cent as February bullion declined $5.80 to US$1,285.90 an ounce.

March copper edged two cents higher to US$2.48 a pound and the base metals group was down 1.5 per cent.

On the earnings front, Canadian National Railway’s (TSX:CNR) quarterly profit surged by nearly a third to $844 million or $1.03 per share, six cents ahead of estimates.

Revenue was up nearly 17 per cent at $3.2 billion, beating estimates of $3.12 billion.

CN also boosted its quarterly dividend 25 per cent to $1.25 a share. CN stock lost $1.13 to $84.03.

“When you look at rails and run they had, it is unrealistic to expect any significant upside unless there is an unforeseen growth catalyst,” said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at Raymond James in Ottawa.

“Relative to the volatility we have seen in markets and relative to what we’ve seen in their peer group . . . I think investors should be happy with that.”

And Apple’s quarterly net income rose 38 per cent to $18 billion or $3.06 a share while revenue hit $74.6 billion as it sold 74.5 million iPhones, which also beat estimates.

Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.60 a share on revenue of $67.39 billion. Its shares were up 5.65 per cent to US$115.31.

In Canada, CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) had $236.3 million or 74 cents a share of quarterly net income, up from 60 cents per share or $189.8 million a year earlier.

Cash generated from CGI’s operating activities increased more than five-fold to $339.2 million and its shares ran ahead $1.49 to $48.41.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,602.88, down 231 points Dow — 17,191.37, down 195.84 points S&P 500 — 2,002.16 down

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Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.95 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.47 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.71 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.37 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.69 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.24 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.83 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.015 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.04 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.74 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.34 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.58 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.10 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.20 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.25 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.52 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.33 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.49 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.25 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.96 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.64 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.30 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.22 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.71 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.93 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.44 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.19 27.39 points Nasdaq — 4,637.99, down 43.51 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.87 cents US, down 0.75 of a cent Pound — C$1.8977, up 1.22 cents Euro — C$1.4133, up 0.17 of a cent Euro — US$1.1288, down 0.92 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.45 per barrel, down $1.78 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,285.90 per oz., down $5.80 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.33 oz., down one cent $750.06 kg., down 32 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $9.80 lower $449.80; May ’15 $9.70 lower $445.40; July ’15 $7.40 lower $441.50; Nov ’15 $6.90 lower $428.20; Jan. ’16 $6.90 lower $429.90; March ’16 $7.40 lower $433.70; May ’16 $7.70 lower $437.20; July ’16 $7.70 lower $441.40; Nov. ’16 $7.70 lower $440.60; Jan. ’17 $7.70 lower $440.60; March ’17 $7.70 lower $440.60.

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

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 490,120 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 490,120.

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve reiterated Wednesday that it will be “patient” in raising interest rates from record lows even as the U.S. economy moves steadily closer to full health.

The Fed signalled in a statement after its latest policy meeting that no rate increase is imminent despite the economic gains. A key reason is that inflation remains well below the Fed’s target rate.

And it said the pressures holding down inflation — mainly plunging oil prices — have intensified. The Fed said it thinks inflation will decline further before eventually reaching the central bank’s 2 per cent target rate.

Yet the Fed sketched a brightening picture of the economy — with a strengthening job market, lower unemployment, rising consumer spending and higher household purchasing power fueled by lower energy prices.

Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, said the statement suggests that the Fed “is still taking the view that the collapse in oil prices is a net positive for the economy.”

The Fed’s statement also made clear that policymakers still think the impact of low oil prices on inflation will be temporary, Ashworth said The statement was approved on a 10-0 vote.

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On Wall Street, stocks fell after the Fed’s statement was issued in midafternoon, though prices were also pressured by the continued fall in oil prices.

And the yield on the 10-year Treasury note touched 1.70 per cent, the lowest level this year. It edged back up to 1.72 per cent late in day, compared with 1.82 per cent late Wednesday.

The Fed’s emphasis on low inflation could affect when it decides to raise its key short-term rate from near zero.

Many economists have forecast a rate hike in June, but some have pushed back their predicted timetable.

The Fed’s statement did not explicitly mention the weakening global economy.

But it did say the Fed planned to take “international developments” into account in determining when to start raising rates.

The Fed operates with two key mandates: Maximizing employment and keeping prices rising at a moderate pace of 2 per cent.

The U.S. economy’s steady growth and a strengthening job market would normally argue for a move to begin raising rates to prevent high inflation.

The Fed has kept its benchmark rate near zero since 2008 to encourage borrowing, spending and investment and support the recovery from the Great Recession.

The Fed’s key rate affects rates on many consumer and business loans.

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BRAY Ronald Paul 1938 - 2014 Mr. Ronald Paul ‘Ron’ Bray of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully in his sleep at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the age of 76 years. Alberta born and raised, Ron’s interests included fishing, hunting, his dogs and spending time with his family. Ron was well known in the community for his expertise in repairing air tools for many local construction companies. He will be lovingly remembered by his two sons, Ron Bray Jr., Michael Bray, his granddaughter, Sydnie and his best friend, Flo. He will also be sadly missed by his many dearly loved nieces and nephews in Washougal, Washington, United States.

The family wishes to honor Ron’s request that no formal Funeral Service be held.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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JOHNSON Johnny James May 7, 1933 - Jan. 24, 2015 Johnny passed away at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the age of 81.

He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Shirley; his son, Darren; his three daughters, Nancy (Kevin), Kim (Stu), Tammy (Ray); as well as treasured grandchildren and great grandchildren. His memory will also be cherished by his surviving siblings, family and many friends. Johnny was raised in Rumsey, AB by his parents Johnny and Mary Johnson, together with ten brothers and sisters.

Beloved by all was Johnny’s tremendous sense of humour and we ask that you bring yours to a Celebration of his Life at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at High Noon. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Johnny’s name may be made to Calgary Health Trust (www.CalgaryHealthtrust.ca): Designate Trauma Unit #44 or to a charity of your choice.

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COOKSON Winnifred “Ann” It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Winnifred Ann Cookson. Ann peacefully departed this world on January 25, 2015 at 11 p.m. with family members at her side. Mom was born in Wetaskiwin to Winnifred and Norman Doupe on November 2, 1936. Ann is lovingly survived by her husband of 58 years, Jack, and her four children: Bruce and Hania and children Kasia and John of North Vancouver; John of Lacombe and daughters Mandy and Jasmin of Calgary; Rob & Shirley (Mitchell) of Zurich, Switzerland; and Sally and Ken Weenink of Lacombe; and children Matt of Calgary, Chelsea of Red Deer, and Jill of Edmonton.

She is also survived by her brother, Rod Doupe and family of Wetaskiwin; sister, Lorna McTavish and family of Red Deer; brother-in-law, Ken and Betty Cookson of Lacombe; and sister-in-law, Margaret Fox of Vancouver.

Ann was the bedrock that kept the family farm together and functioning while her husband Jack was away for the years that he was a member of the Alberta Legislature in the 1970’s.

Mom was caring and loving, had a good sense of humour, and a feisty spirit. She was not one to complain even though she suffered in pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis during the second half of her life. For the care, love and patience that was extended to Ann during her last two years, the family would like to extend its sincere thanks and appreciation to Dr. Matt Unger and to all the incredible staff at the Lacombe Hospital Long Term Care. A celebration of Ann’s life will be held on Saturday January 31, 2014 at the St. Andrews United Church in Lacombe, 5226-51 Avenue at 2:00 p.m. with a time of fellowship and remembrance to follow in the adjoining hall. Donations in her name would be gratefully received for Long Term Care, 5430-47 Ave., Lacombe, AB T4L 1G8 or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting: www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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AKRE Cecil January 7, 1914 - January 25, 2015 Cecil passed away on January 25, 2015 at the age of 101 years. He is predeceased by his wife, Christina; granddaughter, Jolene; and by three brothers and three sisters. Cecil will be lovingly remembered by his sister, Mildred Joel; his children, Elaine (Ray) Gabert and Lorne (Rachel) Akre; six grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. For those who wish to pay their respects, visitation will be held on Friday, January 30 from 11:00 a.m. until noon at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Cecil’s honour may be made directly to the C.N.I.B. Condolences may be forwarded to family and friends at www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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Obituaries HEINTZ Faye Alice (Dickson) Jul. 7, 1936 - Jan. 26, 2015 Faye is survived by her husband, Leslie, two sons; Terry (Lenora) and Dale (Patricia), two brothers; Garth (Betty) and Doug Dickson, sister-in-law, Darlene Dickson, eight grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Faye was predeceased by two sons; Randy and Kenneth Heintz, granddaughter, Andrea, brother, Dennis Dickson, and sister-in-law, Lluella Dickson.

A Memorial Service will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. Inurnment will take place at Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 11 East, Red Deer County, prior to the service at 1:00 p.m. Many thanks to the Palliative Care staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Faye’s honor may be made directly to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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MacKENZIE John Robert “Murray” June 29, 1929 - January 24, 2015 Murray MacKenzie of Lacombe, Alberta passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 85. Murray was the youngest child of Robert and Amanda MacKenzie, and younger brother of Isabel and Viola. Murray grew up in Lacombe, and was active in central Alberta hockey, playing with numerous junior teams and finally the Lacombe Rockets. As a young man he joined his father in the livestock industry, and in 1953 he studied in Iowa to become an auctioneer. At this time he met his wife to be, Mona Creighton, and they were married in 1953. They moved to a farm just south of Lacombe where they raised their three children Stephen (Betty), Laura (Andrew) and Maureen (Bob). Murray travelled to eastern Alberta as a cattle buyer, visiting many farms and ranches where he made life-long friends. He was the owner/operator of the Coronation and Hanna auction markets. The Lacombe Bull Sale was one of his favourite sales to work. The farm was sold in 1988 and Murray and Mona moved into their current home in Lacombe. Murray co-founded the Lacombe Kinsmen Rodeo, and the Western Canada School of Auctioneering, the first of its kind in Canada.

Murray was dedicated to service in his community, and was active in the Kinsmen, Lions, Masons, and was a Legion member until the time of his passing. Murray loved the game of golf, and spent many afternoons at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club. Murray, Mona and their friends travelled to various courses in Alberta, the US, Mexico, and New Zealand. They enjoyed camping and fishing the lakes of Alberta. For 21 years they headed south to their winter home in McAllen Texas to be with their many snowbird friends.

Murray led by example and was a loyal and dedicated husband, father, grandfather ,great grandfather, friend, and well respected cattleman. Murray enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren Katie, Sarah, Genevieve (Shane), and Scott, and his great-grandchildren Sareen and Augustus. A celebration of Murray’s life will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe on Monday February 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, his family asks that memorial donations be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6, or at http://www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences to the family may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366 or 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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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

JOHN R. O’SULLIVAN The moment that you died my heart was torn in two one side filled with heartache, the other died with you I often lie awake at night, when the world is fast asleep, and take a walk down memory lane, with tears upon my cheeks.

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

I hold you tightly within my heart and there you will remain.

Until the joyous day arrives, That we will meet again. ~Lovingly remembered by his family

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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

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F/T AND P/T JOB AVAIL. ON DAIRY FARM, WEST OF BLACKFALDS., Email: wildroseholsteins @cciwireless.ca

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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.

Excellent spoken & written English communication required. Send resume to aramark6685@gmail.com or fax @ 403-314-7504

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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.

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For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

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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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HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER 2803-50 Avenue,

BEARSPAW is a Red Deer moderately sized oil and is seeking gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr.

Drumheller areas. We are • Answer phone calls, currently accepting take reservations. applications for a JUNIOR OIL AND • Check in/out guests.

• Balance cash out & GAS OPERATOR attend to guest needs in our Stettler Field.

HOUSEKEEPING Applicants need to be ROOM ATTENDANT mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard ~14.00/hr. and learn quickly.

• Clean & vacuum rooms, Associated industry public areas, pool etc. experience eg. instrumen- • Replenish amenities, tation or facilities linens & towels. construction experience • Adhere to Holiday Inn would be an asset but is safety standards. not necessarily required.

All positions are permanent This position offers a Full-time/Part-time, shift diverse and challenging work & weekends. work environment with Education: Above Secondary competitive pay, attractive Work Experience not benefits and the ability to essential, training provided. grow within the organiza- Fax resume to 780-702-5051 tion. Applicants must live HOLIDAY INN or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute Red Deer South, commute of the work Gasoline Alley, place location (Stettler).

37471 Hwy 2S, Please Submit Resume’s Red Deer County Attention Human is seeking Resources FRONT DESK CLERK Email: payroll@ ~ $14.00/hr. bearspawpet.com • Answer phone calls, Fax: (403) 258-3197 take reservations.

Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 • Check in/out guests.

• Balance cash out & attend to guest needs.

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT ~ $14.00/hr.

COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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

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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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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

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

Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr.

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HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to 733644 Ab Ltd. transport rail crews O/A The Rusty Pelican throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based Location of employment: out of RED DEER. No 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. overnight stays required.

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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 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for

F/T DISHWASHER Must maintain work station to sanitary measures and be capable of working all shifts.

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GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

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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.

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TURPLE BROS. LTD. Is taking resumes for: Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing or power sport industry.

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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.

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Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres.

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Lebanese Hezbollah hits Israeli army convoy KILLS 2 SOLDIERS; ISRAEL STRIKES BORDER AREA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHEAR YASHUV, Israel — The Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a salvo of missiles at an Israeli military convoy in a disputed border area Wednesday, killing two soldiers and triggering deadly clashes that marked the most serious escalation since the sides’ 2006 war.

The flare-up, which also left a U.N. peacekeeper dead, added to the regional chaos brought on by neighbouring Syria’s civil war. Hezbollah indicated the attack was in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on its fighters inside Syria earlier this month.

The violence sparked fears in both countries of yet another crippling war between the two foes. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel would respond “forcefully,” and the military fired artillery shell barrages that struck border villages in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah responded with rocket fire on Israeli military positions.

The Israeli military said five anti-tank missiles hit the soldiers as they were travelling near Mount Dov and Chebaa Farms, along a disputed tract of land where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet.

The soldiers were in two unarmored white vehicles without military insignia when they were struck from a distance of about three miles (five kilometres) away, according to Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman.

Israeli media aired footage showing the charred, smouldering vehicles after the

strike, which also wounded seven Israeli soldiers.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. peacekeeper, a Spaniard, was killed in cross-fire after rockets were fired at Israeli positions and Israeli forces responded. He said the cause of death was under investigation.

However, Spain’s ambassador to the U.N. blamed Israel for the death of the peacekeeper, identified as 36-yearold Cpl. Francisco Javier Soria Toledo. “It was because of this escalation of violence, and it came from the Israeli side,” Spanish Ambassador Roman Oyarzun Marchesi told reporters at U.N. headquarters.

He did not elaborate. However, Lebanese security officials said earlier that the peacekeeper was killed by Israeli shelling that struck near a U.N. base inside Lebanon.

They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The Security Council, meeting in an emergency session, condemned the peacekeeper’s death in the strongest terms and offered its deepest sympathies.

In a statement, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he conveyed Israel’s condolences for the death in a conversation with his Spanish counterpart.

The dead Israeli soldiers were identified as Capt. Yochai Kalangel, 25, and Sgt. Dor Chaim Nini, 20.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki condemned the Hezbollah attack and expressed support for Israel’s “legitimate right to self-defence.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israeli soldiers treat a wounded soldier near the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday. A missile fired by the Lebanese Hezbollah group struck an Israeli military convoy killing two soldiers in an apparent retaliation for a deadly airstrike attributed to Israel that killed many Hezbollah fighters in Syria earlier this month. The violence was the deadliest Hezbollah attack on Israel since a 2006 war between the two sides.

Hezbollah said the operation was carried out by a group calling itself the “Righteous Martyrs of Quneitra,” suggesting it was to avenge an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian portion of the Golan Heights on Jan. 18 that killed six Hezbollah fighters, including the son of the group’s slain military commander, Imad Mughniyeh, and an Iranian general.

Israel has braced for a response to that strike, beefing up its air defences and increasing surveillance along its northern frontier.

“Whoever stands behind today’s attack will pay the price in full,” a statement from Ne-

tanyahu’s office quoted him as saying. Netanyahu said that Iran, through Hezbollah, was working to establish a base in southern Syria from which to launch attacks against Israel.

“We are working resolutely and responsibly against this attempt,” he said.

He said Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Lebanese government shared the blame for attacks against Israel emanating from their territory.

Despite his strong words, the Israeli premier is unlikely to want to get mired in a messy and costly conflagration ahead of his re-election bid on

March 17, with Israelis weary following a year that brought both the 50-day Gaza war and a spike in deadly attacks by Palestinians.

Rocket and artillery fire continued on both sides of the border for hours after the initial attack.

The Israeli military said mortars were fired at several Israeli positions in the border area and on Mount Hermon in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, causing no injuries. It said Israeli forces responded with fire toward Lebanese positions, and evacuated Israeli visitors from a ski resort in the area.

Separatists claim key new victory is within grasp

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — Separatist forces in eastern Ukraine said Wednesday they have almost fully encircled government forces in a town that hosts a strategic railway hub, putting them within grasp of a decisive new victory.

Eduard Basurin, the deputy commander of the separatist forces, said the highway linking the town, Debaltseve, to other government-held areas has now fallen into rebel hands. The encirclement of the town has not, however, been fully executed, Basurin said.

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Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko confirmed Debaltseve is surrounded on two flanks and is being heavily targeted with Grad multiple rocket launchers. Other officials denied government forces were close to folding and said separatist claims were exaggerated.

Debaltseve is one of multiple flashpoints that have flared up across eastern Ukraine since the start of the month, when full-blown fighting between Russian-backed rebels and government forces erupted anew following a month of relative tranquility.

Since the conflict started in April, it has claimed more

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than 5,100 lives and displaced over 900,000 people across the country, according to Ukraine government estimates.

Advances by separatist forces threaten to definitively torpedo the chances of reviving an internationally brokered peace deal reached in September that established a line of contact between the warring sides.

That agreement was signed in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, by rebel leaders and representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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Anecdotal evidence suggests unemployment is rife.

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Gaining control of key economic assets is become a pressing goal for the rebel command.

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“Deblatseve is a key railway link without which there can be no real connection between the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics,” he said.

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longer in force.

Roman Turovets, a spokesman for Ukrainian military operations in the east, said fighting is raging all along the more than 300-kilometre (190-mile) long perimeter between government and separatist territory.

Rebel offensives appear addressed at consolidating the viability of the would-be breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Ukraine and NATO accuse Russia of lending vast military support to the rebel cause. But few are suggesting Moscow is doing much to prop up the economy of the selfproclaimed republics, and it

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LUANN Jan. 29 1982 — The British House of Lords refuses to hear the case of Canadian First Nations people looking for entrenchment of rights.

1967 — Terrorists bomb the Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and consulate in Toronto.

1946 — The racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti.

1936 — The first members of major league baseball’s Hall of Fame are named in Coop-

erstown, N.Y. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson are in the initial class.

1916 — Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.

1897 — Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, helps found the Victorian Order of Nurses at the request of the National Council of Women.

1856 — Alexander Dunn is awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854. He is the first Canadian to receive the honour.

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ENTERTAINMENT Art was obsession for Toller Cranston

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BRIEF Ghostbusters cast set with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones NEW YORK — The Ghostbusters reboot has set its all-female leads with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and a pair of Saturday Night Live performers.

Director Paul Feig announced his stars by posting their pictures on Twitter on Tuesday.

Joining McCarthy and Wiig are Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Feig tweeted that Sony Pictures will release the film in July 2016. Production is expected to begin later this year. The new Ghostbusters updates the original 1984 film and the 1989 sequel.

Wiig and McCarthy both starred in Bridesmaids which Feig directed.

He has since worked with McCarthy on all of his films, including their upcoming action comedy Spy. McKinnon joined SNL in 2012. Jones first came to the show as a writer and transitioned into a featured player last fall.

LATE FIGURE SKATING GREAT FOCUSED HIS CREATIVE SIDE ON ART AFTER LEAVING THE ICE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Carnegie to hold 125th-anniversary concert in May 2016 and commission 125 new compositions

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

The painting A Married Couple, by Toller Cranston is shown in a handout photo. Once Cranston left the ice behind, he focused his restless creative ingenuity on art. And it became a “terrifying obsession” for the figure-skating great, who died on the weekend. ] “The inclination, the subject matter, the concepts, the sense of colour, the people, the worlds, the imagery — miraculously — was in evidence when I was six years of age,” Cranston said.

“Every painting (I’ve done from) when I was six until now when I’m 58, seems to come from that very same world.”

If nothing else, then, his work was distinctive. And his proponents argue that should count for something.

“No one was painting like that,” said Michelle Kirkegaard, Canadian art adviser and owner of the Adele Campbell Gallery, a Whistler, B.C., space that has hosted exhibitions of Cranston’s work.

“Anyone that has seen a painting, without seeing the signature, could say: ’That’s a Toller Cranston.’

And I think that’s a sign of a very disciplined, mature and creative individual.”

The Cranston signature style had no shortage of devotees, people who spent thousands of dollars to acquire his work.

Cranston’s hunger for the validation of the art establishment, however, wouldn’t be sated in his lifetime.

“In the echelons of the art world, the top level of which would be official recognition — he wasn’t part of that world. He was loved by the people who collected his work,” said celebrated Toronto artist Charles Pachter in a telephone interview Wednesday.

“There’s a certain type of people that fits the milieu of the official art museums,” he added. “Toller wasn’t one of those people.”

He knew Cranston. The Canada Day they spent together and among friends in 1978 was immortalized in Pachter’s painting Six Figures in a Landscape.

Pachter describes Cranston’s work as “kind of like Disney on acid — like the Wicked Queen from Snow White.”

“He was outlandish, outrageous, creative, funny, droll,” Pachter remembered. “He was a character.

He was a true original.”

More of Cranston’s work is sure to emerge with the eventual excavation of his cluttered residence in Mexico. Even when he was alive, it wasn’t easy to maintain a reliable record of his work.

“As soon as he put his signature on a painting, it was out of his life. It was like it didn’t exist,” explained Talbot.

“He’d paint some masterpiece, something fabulous, a $30,000 to $40,000 painting, and he wouldn’t even know where the damn thing was. ... This is a six-foot-by-six-foot painting that you knocked yourself out on for two months and you don’t even know where it is? The level of dysfunction was spectacular, but it’s just the kind of guy he was.”

NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall will celebrate its 125th-anniversary with a gala concert on May 5, 2016, featuring Renee Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Lang Lang and Yo-Yo Ma. The program also will include Martina Arroyo, Audra McDonald, Jessye Norman, Emanuel Ax and James Taylor, Carnegie Hall said Wednesday. As part of the anniversary, Carnegie announced plans to commission 125 new compositions over five years.

Carnegie’s 2015-16 season opens Oct. 7 with Alan Gilbert conducting the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of a Magnus Lindberg composition, Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe” Suite No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto with Evgeny Kissin.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies from Nov. 17-21.

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Strauss’ Elektra with Christine Goerke on Oct. 21.

Rosanne Cash will curate a four-concert series.

Selections of Rolling Stone magazine’s near 50-year archive coming to Google Play for free NEW YORK — Selections of Rolling Stone magazine’s near 50-year archive will be available for free on Google Play.

Rolling Stone made the announcement Wednesday.

Articles from its archive will be available Friday for Android and iOS phones and tablets.

All of its issues will be represented.

Rolling Stone was launched in 1967.

The first cover featured a still image from John Lennon’s film How I Won the War. The magazine has featured a number of top interviews with musicians and celebrities over the last five decades, reviews of albums and songs, and political reporting.

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TORONTO — Once Toller Cranston left the ice behind, he focused his restless creative ingenuity on art — an all-consuming enterprise that he wryly referred to as his “terrifying obsession.”

The floridly innovative figure-skating great died at his home in Mexico on the weekend of an apparent heart attack at age 65.

Even while marching to uncommon acclaim as a figure skater, he attended art school and conducted a career in art.

Once he retired, Cranston funnelled all his boundless energy into painting. He painted with such prolific intensity that his output is now most often characterized by its staggering volume.

Terrifying Obsession was the name Cranston suggested for an exhibition of his work, which was being prepped for a cross-Canadian museum tour prior to his death, according to longtime agent Christopher Talbot.

And Cranston, always at odds with the figure-skating establishment, would have derived great validation from finally being accepted by art’s old guard.

“I think his fondest wish would have been to have a show at a real, proper establishment art gallery,” said Canadian fashion pillar Jeanne Beker, one of Cranston’s closest friends, in a telephone interview from Paris on Wednesday.

“That was his dream: to have something at the Art Gallery of Ontario or somewhere, some retrospective, something. He felt he deserved to be there.

“He always felt that the world saw him as a skater first and an artist second. And it really drove him crazy.”

Talbot, who sometimes communicated with Cranston on a daily basis about his work, agreed.

“In his mind — and it’s maybe only in his mind — he never achieved the status he should have had as a figure skater. And he really wanted that as a visual artist,” said Talbot, president and founder of Art Evolution Gallery, in a telephone interview from California.

If Cranston never lived to see that recognition, it certainly wasn’t for lack of effort.

He retired from skating in 1997, more than a halfdecade after his move to a sprawling compound in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. During the later stages of his skating career — and especially afterwards — Cranston was consumed by art.

Friends recall an almost exclusionary drive. As Talbot tells it, Cranston was a “fish out of water” any time he was dragged from his work. “’Terrifying obsession’ really encapsulated Toller’s role as an artist,” Talbot said.

“He was just tenacious. He drove himself relentlessly. ... He couldn’t stop.”

Cranston’s Mexican home — or his “little ShangriLa,” as Beker calls it — became an overstuffed testament to his passion, even after he sold off a major part of his collection while still living in Toronto.

A characteristically idiosyncratic sanctuary, Cranston’s walled-in property was blanketed by a lush, professionally maintained garden. Inside, it was overgrown with artwork — by Cranston and by others, especially local Mexican artists whose work he acquired voraciously.

“Every square inch of his house,” marvelled Talbot. “If you look at a wall, you can’t tell what colour it is because there’s that much art on it.”

Beker recalls marvelling as Cranston bought works in an almost “hedonistic” fashion, collecting local artisans’ painted bowls and dishes and glass art, which he’d hang from the ceiling.

“If he saw something he liked he’d want to buy not one but 10 or 20,” she recalled.

“I often felt that I was in the middle of a Toller Cranston painting when I was sitting there in his garden or one of his rooms. They would envelope you that way.”

In Cranston’s estimation, his artistic style evolved little over a lifetime spent furiously creating — simply because it started off so clearly defined.

As Cranston explains in an interview on the Art Evolution website, his colourful compositions grew from an interest in Eastern influences that he established at an unusually young age (specifically, he references Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Turkestan).

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Clara’s Big Ride doc is about people and mental health

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Clara Hughes rode her bike 11,000 kilometres for 110 days around Canada to get people talking about mental illness. She’s pleased the documentary “Clara’s Big Ride” isn’t just about her.

A one-hour television special chronicling her journey airs Wednesday on CTV and will also be available all day on CTV.

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But Hughes instead provides the thread between stories told

by Canadians affected by mental illness: a teacher who has depression, anxiety and panic attacks; a university student who attempted suicide; a community worker in northern Canada trying to prevent youth suicide; a soldier with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Hughes, winner of six Olympic medals in cycling and speed skating, was to join them in Toronto on Tuesday for a special screening of the documentary.

“Of course it brings back so many emotions of what that ride was,” she said. “What I like the most about it, and what I think people will be very surprised at, is most of it is not actually about riding a bike. It’s not about me. It’s about 10 different stories along the way of predominantly younger Canadians and what their struggle was, what their story is.”

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A wildly miscast Hilary Swank came in for most of the harsh criticism for her unconvincing portrayal of an orphaned French aristocrat who hatches an elaborate scheme to reclaim her birthright, a diamond necklace. Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Adrien Brody and Joely Richardson also star.

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Backstrom A family falls victim to a serial arsonist, drawing a detective (guest star Angelique Cabral, “Enlisted”) with experience in such cases into the investigation, in the new episode “Bella.”

Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) has different ideas about who may be responsible, especially when evidence vanishes from the crime scene. On the personal side, Backstrom has trouble with neighbors from his younger years. Eddie McClintock (“Warehouse 13”) also guest stars.

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The Nature of Things A new episode called “Mystery of the Monsoon” presents a strikingly cinematic look at a category of storm that some cultures in India view as the soul of that country.

The documentary examines monsoons from the perspectives of fishermen, farmers and wildlife wardens, all of whose lives are directly affected by the heavy rains, as well as the viewpoint of meteorologists, who try to predict the location, timing and volume of the downpours.

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Parenthood Fans of the series both have and haven’t been looking forward to this episode: “May God Bless and Keep You Always” is the last one, closing out the drama’s six-season run. Co-star Lauren Graham promises the Braverman family gets a definite feel of closure, with solid indications of the directions in which the characters’ lives are headed.

Other cast members bidding farewell to their roles include Peter Krause, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.

Hughes became a spokesperson for the Bell Let’s Talk campaign because of her own experience with depression.

The documentary does address the ride’s physical and mental toll on Hughes, who internalized inspiring and heartbreaking stories she heard from people along the way. She sometimes rode 200 kilometres in a day. Hughes relied on husband Peter Guzman, who rode with her, and a support team to help her to the finish line.

“That exhaustion that was briefly shown was an every single day reality probably for the last 85 days of the ride,” Hughes said.

So the woman who says “movement is my medicine” has chosen to process and reflect on her ride by embarking on another long-distance journey.

Hughes and Guzman hiked 850 kilometres of the Appalachian Trail from Dec. 3 to Jan. 12 and winter-camped along the way.

They intend to return to the trail in February and eventually complete the 3,746-kilometre trek that traverses 14 U.S. states.

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The biggest moment of the show’s season — declaring “The Biggest Loser” — arrives in this “Live Finale,” with all 20 contestants reuniting and showing how much they’ve lost over the course of the episodes.

Those already taken out of the competition still could leave with something, since they’re all eligible for an “at home” prize. The biggest reward, of course, will go to one of the three finalists ... who will get $250,000. Alison Sweeney is the host.

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It’s been almost seven months since the 42-year-old from Winnipeg concluded her epic ride on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. She participated in 235 events in 105 communities.

Hughes feels she achieved her goal of starting a conversation about mental illness and removing the fear of talking about it.

But she sees Canada’s health system and how it treats mental illness as another mountain to be climbed. A woman struggling with an eating disorder says in the documentary that she was told by her doctor to “just eat something”.

Another with depression says she was told by her physician to not talk about it because people would judge her.

“What I’m seeing is we have a big problem in that the system is not there, and if it is there, it is not yet trusted for people to reach to,” Hughes said.

“The conversation is stimulated and people are really reaching out more and more and more, but what is there for them to reach out to? This is the reality.”

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Late motherhood is nothing new YOUR GREAT GRANDMOTHER DID IT, TOO

BY JENNA HEALEY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The shift toward late motherhood — commonly defined as motherhood after 35 — is often presented as a story of progress and technological liberation from the biological clock.

The narrative goes something like this: Before the widespread availability of the pill, women had no choice but to have children in their teens and early 20s.

But the introduction of effective contraception meant that women could trade babies for briefcases.

And technologies such as IVF, egg donation and egg freezing allow women to beat the biological clock, freeing them from the tyranny of their own biology. A recent Newsweek headline, for example, announced that women can now “freeze” their biological clocks, while the cover of Businessweek urged women to “Freeze Your Eggs, Free Your Career.”

While this triumphal narrative contains a few grains of truth, it is as simplistic as it is satisfying.

History shows us that the “best age” to have a child is very much a product of the cultural and economic moment, not a just dictate of biology that we need to escape.

Changes throughout the 20th century In motherhood manuals published in the early 20th century, eugenicists warned women to wait until they were at least 24 to have children, lest their offspring suffer from both their biological and emotional immaturity.

But the manuals also cautioned women from waiting too long, as postponing childbirth also increased the likelihood of sterility.

In the late 1920s, one sociologist recalled that couples who had children soon after marriage were the targets of gossip and severe judgment.

The Great Depression also added to the popularity of postponing pregnancy, as economic anxiety dampened the desire to procreate, and American birth rates dropped.

In 1942, physician Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, complained of the selfishness of young couples who preferred consumer comforts to the demands of child rearing.

In fact, it was only after World War II that early parenthood became a cultural norm. A strong economy and widespread embrace of domesticity encouraged both early marriage and childbearing, resulting in a “baby boom” that lasted almost two decades.

In 1957, birthrates among American teenagers hit an all-time high, at 96.3 births per 1,000 adolescents ages 15-19.

To compare, the current birth rate for teenage girls ages 15-19 is 26.6 births per 1,000 women.

The postwar tendency toward early childbearing, which we now imagine to be the product of some kind of biological inevitability, was actually a cultural aberration.

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Economic necessity The roots of our modern discussion on delayed parenthood lie in the 1970s, when the average age at first birth began to increase dramatically.

The number of women having their first child between the ages of 30 and 34 almost doubled, from 7.3 births per 1,000 women in 1970 to 12.8 per 1,000 in 1980. But the 1980 figures mirror those recorded between 1920 and 1940, where the number of first births among women ages 30 to 34 averaged 12.1 births per 1,000 women. By 1986, the first-time pregnancy rate for women between 30 and 34 hit 17.5 per 1,000 births, an increase of 140 percent over 1970 levels. By the late 1980s, post-30 motherhood was becoming the middle-class norm.

And the trend has only intensified: In 2013, the first-time pregnancy rate for women between 30 and 34 hit 29.5 per 1,000 births.

This shift towards midlife pregnancy that started in the 1970s was, of course, connected to both the widespread availability of new contraceptive technologies and the successes of second-wave feminism.

But there is a third, often overlooked, catalyst in this story: the flagging economy.

The 1970s saw the combination of runaway inflation with stagnating growth.

The real value of wages fell dramatically. In this environment, the movement of middle-class women into the workplace was not just liberating — it was an economic necessity.

Two working parents were now required to achieve the middle-class status that a single income used to support.

The return to delayed childbearing was not a dramatic break with the past, but a continuation of a trend that began before the World War II. Delaying parenthood to invest more time in education and career development became a favored strategy for surviving in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

This move back to later parenthood produced its fair share of cultural anxiety. In 1978, a columnist in The Washington Post coined the expression “biological clock” to describe the dilemma of women who

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The media had a heyday after a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1982 warned that female fertility dropped off sharply after the age of 30.

A self-help industry of pregnancy guidebooks, courses on tape and magazine features tackled the challenges of “Pregnancy Over 30.”

Using technology to escape biology Reproductive technologies are often cast as the heroes of this story. Women who waited too long to have children were “saved” by the ingenuity of these technologies, tricking their own biology to have children later and later in life.

This narrative has two problems. First, it implies that women who have children in their 30s or even their 40s always need reproductive technologies to conceive — they don’t. Fertility is highly individual, influenced by both members of the couple hoping to

conceive. Surprisingly little is known about the exact decline of fertility with age. There is no magic age limit for pregnancy that applies to all women.

Second, it implies that using fertility technologies to delay pregnancy is a story of progress, of technology trumping biological limitations. Carl Djressai, father of the birth control pill, recently predicted that by 2050, all women would use egg freezing and IVF to reproduce.

The resulting “Mañana” generation will be able to delay pregnancy indefinitely and without consequence.

This is not inevitable. In fact, this vision of the future may be less about triumphing over biology, and more a statement of how our society and corporate culture treats working mothers.

If we continue to treat childbearing as an impediment to economic productivity (see Facebook and Apple’s egg freezing programs, for example), we may be closer to Djressai’s vision of the future than we think.

E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015

Celebrating the Babies of 2014

Madden Wayne Albert November 19, 2014 Son of Colby & Kristen Albert

Miya Lily Barsalou February 15, 2014 Daughter of Donovan & Rachel Barsalou

Wyatt Xavier Belter May 10, 2014 Son of Vince & Jessica Belter

Jaxon Caleb Blaeser September 18, 2014 Grandson of Ron & Bev Mundle

Emilee Marie Booth May 27, 2014 Daughter of Brad & Lisa Booth

Charlize Camryn Bosovich May 23, 2014 Daughter of Cameron & Vanessa Bosovich

Brier Roebie Bradley April 8, 2014 Son of Toby & Donna Bradley

Lincoln Edward Brayford September 3, 2014 Son of Martin & Jeanna Brayford

Sophie Dawn Burk May 31, 2014 Daughter of Wayd & Tamara Burk

Brynleigh Anne Carroll August 27, 2014 Daughter of Chris Suderman & Brianna Carroll

Lakyn Marisa Clements September 28, 2014 Daughter of Russell & Jaclyn Clements

Jacob James Dixon Colberg January 17, 2014 Son of Eric & Tina Colberg

Landon Fletcher Corkum May 23, 2014 Son of Jason & Tiffany Corkum

Ella Marie Cox July 30, 2014 Daughter of Ritney Cox & Brenda Cox/Austin

Ada Rose Delaney August 24, 2014 Daughter of Matthew & Kyra (Leimert) Delaney

Lily Eve Ann Dial November 26, 2014 Daughter of Nathan Dial & Cassy Arns

Jake Edward Dickin June 12, 2014 Son of Scott Dickin & Amanda Kinch

Adam James Dillman March 9, 2014 Son of Kevin & Kathy Dillman

Kale Bruce Everson March 26, 2014 Son of Dalen & Danielle Everson

Sarah Lilian Fluney November 18, 2014 Daughter of John & Jennifer Fluney

Emily Lynn Foster March 28, 2014 Daughter of Blair Foster & Christa Elliott

Patrick William Foster July 2, 2014 Son of Chris Foster & Tiffany Brown

Grace Marie Fowler October 8, 2014 Daughter of Justin & Renee Fowler

Mason Melvin Frank June 11, 2014 Son of Nick & Krystle Frank

Marshall Karl Funk August 23, 2014 Son of Ryan Funk & Laura Karl

Caitlin Loyia Galicz February 22, 2014 Daughter of Brian & Lindsey Galicz

Allie Tyne Gardiner March 17, 2014 Daughter of Tyne and Nicole Gardiner

Ashton William Adyn George May 11, 2014 Son of Shaun & Miranda George

Bentley Bishop Germain March 15, 2014 Son of Michael & Kelly Germain

Corbin Cecil Goddard August 14, 2014 Son of Shaun & Terra Goddard

Ariana Marie MacKenzie Goulding July 5, 2014 Daughter of Chris & Crissie Goulding

Ardith Petunia Logan Grainger September 19, 2014 Daughter of Chris Grainger & Catherine Logan

Evan Robert Dean Gregory March 16, 2014 Son of Jamie & Tanya Gregory

Sawyer Marie Gruntman March 11, 2014 Daughter of Chad & Lisa Gruntman

Ashton Jeffrey Jackson September 30, 2014 Son of Kyle & Kelsey Jackson

Kapuaokalani Johnson November 19, 2014 Daughter of Kaniela & Jaysie Johnson

Bryson Rane Jones May 20, 2014 Son of Mark & Nicole Jones

Wyatt Kolibab September 20, 2014 Son of Michael & Sarah Kolibab

Mikale Ryan Lewis Kopitoski February 14, 2014 Son of Ryan & Amber Kopitoski

Nash Hardy Kenney March 18, 2014 Son of Darren & Jody Kenney

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 E3

Celebrating the Babies of 2014

Lincoln Willem Korth March 5, 2014 Son of David & Cayenne Korth

Nasia Wendy May Koussouris May 5, 2014 Daughter of George & Kelli Koussouris

Dierks James Lang January 11, 2014 Son of Riley and Carly Lang

Makayla Chow Lemus October 22, 2014 Daughter of Andre Lemus & Melissa Chow-Lemus

Devin William MacDermid May 29, 2014 Son of Dave & Christine MacDermid

Mira Riann Macnaughton July 4, 2014 Daughter of Brent & Sona Macnaughton

Lucy Anna-Mary Mah April 6, 2014 Daughter of Chris & Brigitta Mah

Madelyn Kenna Mah July 22, 2014 Daughter of Nick & Jessica Mah

Alexa Grace Manuel November 21, 2014 Daughter of Nathan Manuel & Nikki Curtis

Elliot Maria Maracle July 16, 2014 Daughter of Jordan & Jaymee Maracle

Arlo Jacob McAllister September 11, 2014 Son of Kevin & Amy McAllister

Radie Jane McCreery September 23, 2014 Daughter of Adam & Kim McCreery

Ilayna Lexus McGillicky September 18, 2013 Daughter of Travis & Beth McGillicky

Gwen Charlotte McPherson December 3, 2014 Daughter of Mike & Heather McPherson

Jamieson Patrick Nicholas Mee November 1, 2014 Son of Jordan Mee & Courtney Foulds

Lily Elizabeth Moe September 14, 2014 Daughter of Bradley & Crystal Moe

Hazen William Morgan January 27, 2014 Son of Kelsey Morgan & Shalynn Johnson

Mason Donald Murto February 19, 2014 Son of Jason & Courtney Murto

Nate Brandon Music February 22, 2014 Son of Mark & Kristin Music

Reneh Joy Nicklom August 25, 2014 Daughter of Tyler & Ashley Nicklom

Trace Harley Noble September 2, 2014 Son of Curtis & Carla Noble

Jordan Kylie O’Neill January 17, 2014 Daughter of Craig & Heidi O’Neill

Elliot Sidney Parsons September 1, 2014 Son of Cory & Joanne Parsons

Aria Jasmine Judith Petch January 15, 2014 Daughter of Tyler & Janelle Petch

Nathan Alexander Pfaff June 5, 2014 Son of Chris & Jen Pfaff

AJ Carson Radford July 12, 2014 Son of Chance & Telissa Radford

Wyatt Stanley David Rieder April 23, 2014 Son of David Rieder & Stacy Dick

Kiren Peter Roberts June 14, 2014 Son of Ben & Jenessa Roberts

Kian William Roberts-Morsette September 7, 2014 Son of Jimmy Morsette & Autumn Roberts

Kaylem Robert Roth August 29, 2014 Son of Danny & Amanda Roth

Mason James Roy November 10, 2014 Son of Luke Roy & Michelle Stenhouse

Naomi Janice Colette Salyn September 12, 2014 Daughter of Daryl & Megan Salyn

Grayson Chris Cahill Saringo June 20, 2014 Son of Jonah & Shannon Saringo

Finnley Faith Maire Sawula January 4, 2015 Daughter of Ryan & Carrie Sawula

Issac William Schalk March 29, 2014 Son of Seth & Shannon Schalk

Logan Robert Silvernagle May 9, 2014 Son of Stu & Eloise Silvernagle

Kate Aubrey Sopkow August 17, 2014 Daughter of Mark & Tamara Sopkow

Matteo James Sopkow July 16, 2014 Son of Brad & Jordana Sopkow

Mason Victor Spady July 20, 2014 Son of Craig & Kristen Spady

Daxton Byron Steve McQuaid January 1, 2014 Son of Aaron & Amanda McQuaid

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015

Celebrating the Babies of 2014

Karleigh Elizabeth and Karson James St. Germain May 24, 2014 Daughter and Son of Shane St. Germain & Joanie Korth

Quinn Lawrence Toepfer January 25, 2014 Son of Doug & Alisha Toepfer

Rylee Kim Weinkauf October 12, 2014 Daughter of Jordan and Brittany Weinkauf

Weston Abel Stewart January 21, 2014 Son of Tyler & Cassie Stewart

Iliana Grace Turner January 3, 2014 Daughter of Kyle & Liz Turner

Riley Rae White January 28, 2014 Daughter of Jeff & Brittany White

Deziray Marie Vogelaar March 20, 2014 Daughter of Lenard & Angela Vogelaar

Rachel August Williams July 16, 2014 Daughter of Darren & Katherine Williams

Lukas Richard Sudeyko October 28, 2014 Son of Marshall & Jolene Sudeyko

Hayden Carla Thompson November 21, 2014 Daughter of Jordan & Justine Thompson

Emery Lee Walker February 3, 2014 Daughter of Brad & Summer Walker

Rachael Lyla Warren June 9, 2014 Daughter of Mark & Dolores Warren

Kinley Alexandra Wilson August 11, 2014 Daughter of Neil & Dawn Wilson

Connor Evans Wood May 9, 2014 Son of Sean & Trina Wood

Charlotte Camille Wright December 29, 2014 Daughter of Charles & Sheree Wright

Congratulations to all the new parents of 2014!

Congratulations

to these

Babies on Parade

Winners!

Sarah Lilian Fluney November 18, 2014 Daughter of John & Jennifer Fluney

Connor Evans Wood May 9, 2014 Son of Sean & Trina Wood