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LEARNING TO SURVIVE

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British firefighter Matt Keogh builds a fire in the bush south of Springbrook last week during a Search and Rescue winter survival course.

U.K. SEARCH AND RESCUE WORKERS LEARNING TO DEAL WITH EXTREME COLD CONDITIONS IN RED DEER COUNTY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Snow, ice, wind and punishing cold — the bitter weather that sends Central Albertans packing for the tropics attracted search and rescue worker from the United Kingdom to Red Deer County.

Sixteen search and rescue workers from England and Scotland crossed the Atlantic Ocean to learn to better cope with extreme cold conditions for international rescues.

Imagine their surprise they got off the plane in Calgary on Jan. 25 and it was a record 17 C. “When we left England it was -2 C. We thought what is this? We weren’t sure if it was global warming or what,” said Dean Nankivell a 24-year fire-fighting veteran with Greater Manchester Fire Rescue.

Luckily for the U.K. crew, more normal January weather kicked in by the end of last week. And Nankivell and the others got a taste of a real Alberta winter before wrapping up their training Saturday with Red Deer County’s Protective Services ‘WHEN WE LEFT department.

The exercise is ENGLAND IT WAS -2 C. part of a partnerWE THOUGHT WHAT ship that evolved over the last few IS THIS? WE WEREN’T years between SURE IF IT WAS U.K. and Red Deer GLOBAL WARMING County search and rescue workers.

OR WHAT.’ Both teams attended a 2012 Tex— DEAN NANKIVELLE GREATER MANCHESTER FIRE RESCUE as training session on collapsed building rescues and got to work together. “They thought our team was well skilled and we developed a lot of respect for each other,” recalled Ric Henderson, director of protective services for the county.

Red Deer County workers have since attended tower rescue training sessions in the U.K. And firefighters from Britain and Scotland first travelled to Red Deer County for training last winter — which was much harsher. They returned last week for a skills update.

As an international search and rescue volunteer, Nankivell said he must be ready to encounter any kind of weather — from Haiti’s near tropical heat to Finland’s chill.

He recalled being unprepared for Japan’s cold while assisting after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck. One problem was that the U.K. search and rescue workers were wearing steel-toed boots when overnight temperatures sank to -5 to -10 C. Nankivell gleaned during his training with Red Deer County’s search and rescue team that steel-toed boots channel the cold right to your feet.

And “once you lose heat it’s very hard to warm up again.”

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Martin Foran of Lancashire, UK. sends some wood chips flying as he works on his bush craft during a Search and Rescue winter survival course last week.

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Interim Liberal leader says it’s too late for co-operation with Alberta Party

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta Liberals have chosen MLA David Swann to be the party’s interim leader over a caucus colleague who pitched co-operation with the centrist Alberta Party in the next election.

Swann says he argued before a meeting of the party executive, board of directors and MLAs in Calgary on Sunday that there isn’t time before an election call to make arrangements with the Alberta Party to join forces for the vote.

He also says it would also be confusing for voters, noting the Alberta Party appears to have been bolstered lately by the collapse of the right-leaning Wildrose.

Alberta Liberal Laurie Blakeman released a statement early Sunday saying she would agree to be interim leader on the condition that she be permitted to negotiate a deal to co-operate with the Alberta Party, and eventually merge with it.

She says a deal would allow the parties to nominate candidates in the constituencies they can win, and to “prepare for and run an election together.”

Former Liberal leader Raj Sherman announced last week that he was stepping down and wouldn’t run in the next election.

“It’s too late with an election likely to be called within the next month or six weeks,” Swann said about Blakeman’s plan during a phone interview on Sunday afternoon. “There’s some concern, and certainly it was expressed today, about who’s making decisions in the Alberta Party, where they stand on some key policy issues, and how it is that the Wildrose feel comfortable in the Alberta Party.”

Swann said any substantive discussion of co-operation or merger with the Alberta Party would need to wait until after the election.

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Teresa Cutts of the Red Deer Central Lions Speed Skating Club heads down the straight away during her 200 metre mass start race at the Red Deer Open Long Track Meet on Saturday at the speed skating oval just outside the Golden Circle. See related story on page B4.

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Man suffers severe leg injury after two home-built aircraft collide in Alberta BASHAW — A 47-year-old man who was in a home-built aircraft suffered a serious leg injury after a mid-air collision with another similar aircraft in Alberta.

RCMP say both aircraft were flying parallel to each other from Carstairs to Red Deer on Sunday

morning when the collision happened.

They say one of the aircraft crashed in a field while the other landed safely.

RCMP Const. Bethany Simpson says the aircraft were small, fully enclosed, single-engine planes that were built from kits.

Police say the Transportation Safety Board is taking over the investigation.

A spokeswoman for the safety board says investigators likely won’t have more information to release until Monday.

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TRAINING: 21st-century stuff Dressing in layers and having extra boot liners that can be switched out if a pair gets wet are some of the other tips the team took back to the U.K. They will also replace metal-handled tools, and exchange old-school wooden snowshoes for lighter aluminum ones. “We’ll be trading some of our gear for 21stcentury stuff,” said Nankivell.

The U.K workers discovered how to keep an injured individual warm by erecting an aluminum foil barrier on the far side of a campfire to reflect heat towards the person lying on the ground.

Sleeping under lean-tos made of pine branches near Crimson Lake in -15 weather, snowshoeing at Springbrook, and lighting a campfire with petroleum jelly, cotton and peat moss were some of the other things the search and rescue workers did during their Central Alberta sojourn.

Although there wasn’t as much snow or freezing as expected in Alberta this winter, Nankivell still felt local conditions were more appropriate than at home, where January temperatures range from zero to 6 C. “It was a perfect opportunity . . . If there suddenly happens to be an earthquake in a cold part of the world, we can reflect back on our training here and have something in our toolbox.”

Henderson believes local search and rescue workers are gaining a reputation for their strong coldweather survival skills. He feels the sessions with the U.K. firefighters were a great experience for Red Deer County workers, strengthening an international partnership.

“We were able to speak about our team and explain some Canadian ways.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Courtenay, B.C. in ’shock’ after mother, baby pulled from river The mayor of Courtenay, B.C., says the community is in a “state of shock” after a mother and her seven-month-old baby were pulled from a river.

Mayor Larry Jangula said the death of the 26-year-old mother is a terrible loss for the Vancouver Island city, where police are still trying to piece together what happened. “Our hearts, and the whole community’s heart goes out to the family involved,” he said by phone on Sunday.

“This will be a terrible blow, and we’re all feeling their pain in our own way.” The woman was pronounced dead just before 7 p.m. on Friday evening, hours after being pulled from the frigid Puntledge River. Her infant son remains in critical condition in B.C. Children’s Hospital.

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LIBERAL: Sets a date He said he is not interested in becoming the party’s permanent leader, but that he is hopeful that Blakeman will consider the job when the party sets a date for a leadership convention.

Premier Jim Prentice has not ruled out calling an early election this spring despite a law mandating it be held in 2016.

The Liberals only have two MLAs in their five-member caucus running again - Blakeman and Swann.

Swann said he will lead the party through an election if it happens this spring. If it happens in 2016, he said the party will have another leader.

Blakeman argued in her statement that it would be possible to create a joint slate of candidates for both the Liberals and the Alberta Party, with one candidate representing the interests of both parties in each constituency.

“I don’t believe it’s feasible to create and register a new political party before the next provincial election,” Blakeman said in the statement.

“We will need to work with the Alberta Party to determine what kind of model for collaboration and amalgamation is feasible in the short time available.”

Blakeman said a memorandum of understanding would need to be signed. After the election, she said the parties could discuss a union.

Party president Shelley Wark-Martyn said the vote for interim leader was “overwhelming” for Swann, and that those in attendance clearly wanted to remain as Liberals.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark stated last week that he was “open” to some form of co-operation with the Liberals.

Alberta Party spokesman Alex Middleton said Sunday that a statement would be released by the party later in the day.

The Alberta Party ran 38 of a possible 87 candidates in the 2012 election, took 1.3 per cent of the popular vote and failed to win a seat.

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Penny MacArthur, left, and Rosemary Miskey put together centrepieces for the Red Deer Arts Council’s Arts and Craft (Beer) event on Saturday afternoon in Festival Hall. Red Deerians could sample fine craft beers, gourmet appetizers, take part in a silent auction and enjoy live entertainment. The event was the council’s first fundraiser, with proceeds going towards their Emerging Artist Award.

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Trading away our rights In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected neurotoxin that had already been banned in Europe. Ethyl Corp., the U.S. multinational that supplied the chemical, sued the government for $350 million under the North American Free Trade Agreement and won!

Canada was forced to repeal the ban, apologize to the company and pay DAVID an out-of-court SUZUKI settlement of US$13 million.

The free trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico was never designed to raise labour and environmental standards to the highest level.

In fact, NAFTA and other trade agreements Canada has signed — including the recent Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with China — often take labour standards to the lowest denominator while increasing environmental risk. The agreements are more about facilitating corporate flexibility and profit than creating good working conditions and

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protecting the air, water, land and diverse ecosystems that keep us alive and healthy.

Canada’s environment appears to be taking the brunt of NAFTA-enabled corporate attacks. And when NAFTA environmental-protection provisions do kick in, the government often rejects them.

According to a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, more than 70 per cent of NAFTA claims since 2005 have been against Canada, with nine active cases totalling $6 billion outstanding. These challenge “a wide range of government measures that allegedly interfere with the expected profitability of foreign investments,” including the Quebec government’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Quebec imposed the moratorium in 2011 pending an environmental review of the controversial gas-and-oil drilling practice.

A U.S. company headquartered in Calgary, Lone Pine Resources Inc., is suing the federal government under NAFTA for $250 million. A preliminary assessment by Quebec’s Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement found fracking would have “major impacts,” including air and water pollution, acrid odours and increased traffic and noise. Fracking can also cause seismic activity.

According to the CCPA, Canada has been sued more often than any other

developed nation through investorstate dispute settlement mechanisms in trade agreements.

Under NAFTA, “Canada has already lost or settled six claims, paid out damages totaling over $170 million and incurred tens of millions more in legal costs. Mexico has lost five cases and paid damages of US$204 million.

The U.S. has never lost a NAFTA investor-state case.”

NAFTA does, however, have a watchdog arm that’s supposed to address environmental disputes and public concerns, the Commission for Environmental Co-operation. But Canada is blocking the commission from investigating the impacts of tailings ponds at the Alberta oilsands.

Environmental Defence, the Natural Resources Defense Council and three people downstream from the oilsands asked the CEC to investigate whether tailings leaking into the Athabasca River and other waterways represent a violation of the federal Fisheries Act. According to the complaint, the tailings ponds, which are actually much larger than what most people would think of as ponds, are spilling millions of litres of toxic liquid every day.

Environmental Defence says the CEC found “plenty of evidence that tar sands companies were breaking Canadian law and lots of evidence that the Canadian government was failing to do anything about it.”

It’s the third time in the past year

that Canada has prevented the commission from examining environmental issues. Canada earlier blocked an investigation into the protection of polar bears from threats including climate change and one concerning the dangers posed to wild salmon from B.C. fish farms.

Trade agreements are negotiated in the best interests of corporations instead of citizens. On top of that, federal and provincial governments keep pinning our economic hopes on volatile oil and gas markets, with little thought about how those resources could provide long-term prosperity. Recent plummeting oil prices show where that leads.

These priorities are screwed up. We end up with a boom-and-bust economy and the erosion of social programs as budgets are slashed when oil prices drop. Skewed trade deals allow corporations to override environmental protections that haven’t already been gutted, and create a labour climate in which wages, benefits and working standards fall.

It’s time for Canada to recognize that a diversified economy and citizens’ right to live in a healthy environment are more important than facilitating short-term profits for foreign and multinational corporations.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks for addressing downtown crime I want to say thank you to our mayor, RCMP and the powers that be at City Hall for addressing the crime in downtown Red Deer.

There is an instant difference to be felt in a dangerous neighborhood.

Today I saw two uniformed police officers (hats and all) on foot patrol in the alley behind the St. Luke’s Church.

Thank you so much to all involved ... maybe we can park our vehicles now and find them in the same condition we left them in overnight, or walk to the corner store without the risk of getting jumped, and worry about our children a little less.

The tax increase is well spent — many of us would lose it in insurance deductibles otherwise.

I know you hear the negatives before you receive positive feedback, but for what its worth: thank you!

Bailey Coltman Red Deer

Crime maps provide important data Re: Crime map proposal loses way, Advocate, Jan. 6, 2015, by Crystal Rhyno I find the above article not only timely, but also relevant in the light of an alarming increase in various forms of crime in Central Alberta. It would be desirable if city council could reconsider Coun. Buck Buchanan’s proposal for the reasons cited below.

Maps have been invaluable tools since antiquity, a graphical presentation of information over space and time. Furthermore, a crime map (like other thematic maps) is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

On the one hand, these maps can simply present the distribution of a phenomenon for a unit area, like the student project on mapping crime in Red Deer submitted in my human geography class at Red Deer College in 2002, using a 3-D DEM technique that showed ‘hot spots’ and other features using GIS Mapping, basically a descriptive study.

Crime maps can also facilitate longitudinal studies by identifying spatial patterns and trends over time. An example would be Kim Rossmo’s study of missing women in Vancouver’s East End, in the 1990s.

As quite rightly pointed out by Bill Stuebing, crime maps can, in this instance, also help create a city crime index by recording reliable victimization data, both violent and non-violent; a database that provides insights into socio-economic factors, the propensity to commit crime, and also crime linkages/ patterns.

Yes, the big picture matters!

Why Red Deer?

I can cite four reasons. We are the third largest city in Alberta, and fast approaching CMA status.

We also have a relatively large per cent of transient population, given our site and situation along Hwy 2 (criminals also consider location!). A third factor is the changing demographics through mostly in-migration. As well, the threat of a provincial economic downturn that could spike criminal activity beyond control.

Now, to the question of money. Obviously, a costbenefit analysis is paramount. The Community Safety committee should explore the cost-effectiveness and, if it is, the project should go ahead, with the city, the public, and the RCMP working in co-operation.

The two subsequent articles in the Advocate (Wake up, people!, Jan. 17; Can you spot the fakes?, Jan. 24) lend further credence to the usefulness of crime

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Excellent care from fire-medics I would like to thank the fire-medics who took such wonderful care of my husband. We were told by the cardiologist that because of their quick response and excellent care, they saved my husband from more damage to his heart.

While looking after my husband, they calmed me down and let me know what was happening.

He is at home recovering with a good prognosis for the future.

Thank you for being there, and for all you do for the people of Red Deer.

With Appreciation, Darlene Dieno Red Deer

Smith woke up Alberta politics Politics in Alberta is suddenly alive! Bursting with emotion, finger pointing, bubble-bursting, charred feelings, tongue-wagging, male chauvinism!

It’s a melodrama of the first order. It’s ugly! It’s beautiful!

Thank you, Danielle Smith, for waking the dead.

You’ve raised the bar on political leadership. Thank

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Students hope ‘sailbot’ Quebec Anglican Church makes history facing major challenges in AIMING FOR FIRST SOLO VOYAGE ACROSS ATLANTIC light of fewer parishioners

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean by wind power alone is an impressive achievement by any standard.

But contending with the unpredictable weather, busy freight traffic, meddlesome fishing nets and treacherous icebergs without anyone in the pilot’s seat is another feat entirely.

This summer, a team of engineering students from the University of British Columbia is hoping its 5.5-metre-long boat will sail into the history books as the first seafaring vessel to successfully traverse the Atlantic entirely solo.

“It’s been tried many times but never actually successfully,” said Kristoffer Vik Hansen, co-captain of the 66-person UBC robotic sailboat — or Sailbot — team.

“Basically we’re trying to make a big, big sailboat, make it autonomous and sail it across the Atlantic Ocean.”

Come August, the crew plans to launch the still un-christened sailbot off the coast of St. John’s, N.L., and hope the vessel survives the 2,900-kilometre, three-week journey to Dingle, Ireland.

“This project is cool because it mixes something that’s really old and something that’s really new,” said Vik Hansen, standing beside the ship’s still-under-construction hull inside the sailbot team’s tool-strewn, on-campus shop.

Hanging above the bustling workplace are the smooth, water-worn hulls and logo-covered sails of the team’s previous competition champions.

“Sailing has been around for thousands of years. Robotics has not been around for that many years,” he added.

“It’s kind of the intersection of two very different disciplines.”

While the university’s sailbot team has officially existed since 2006, its most recent project has been in the works only since 2012, following three successive first-place finishes in international sailbot regattas.

The crew’s continuing success with several smaller two-metre boats helped provide the inspiration behind tackling this summer’s more ambitious, trans-Atlantic challenge.

To complete the journey the sailbot

will use solar panels to power a slew of onboard navigation and obstacleavoidance technology, including thermal imaging to sense boat traffic and icebergs, as well as GPS co-ordinates to steer around inclement weather and fishing zones.

Vik Hansen described the project as an interdisciplinary venture, combining mechanical, electrical and software engineering expertise to overcome the unique challenges posed by trans-ocean travel.

“The uniqueness comes in how we’re basically melting together the different parts of engineering,” said the fifth year integrated engineering student, originally from Norway.

“That’s where we’re unique.”

A number of university and corporate sponsors are underwriting the $60,000 project.

The total cost is now expected to come in slightly above that figure in order to allow the team to install onboard backups that will safeguard against any systems failing partway through the voyage.

Still, the need to consider every possible scenario in a real-life situation is part of the project’s appeal, said Vik Hansen.

“It’s not some kind of lab where everything’s tip-top shape,” he said.

“You’re working with real nature; you’re sailing on the ocean.”

Vik Hansen said there is little demand for automated sailboats in realworld applications.

However, the team’s route-finding programs that take into account and respond to factors such as weather patterns and trade routes could hold commercial value for modern-day ships.

As for this summer’s trans-Atlantic challenge, once the boat launches the team is not permitted to interfere with its journey.

That won’t stop them from travelling overseas to celebrate the sailbot’s anticipated success.

“When we go over to Ireland and we’re out there, waiting for it to come towards us, and we see it coming towards the finish line, that’s going to be the moment,” said Vik Hansen, smiling broadly.

“That’s when the champagne comes.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — As Rev. Yves Samson speaks to his congregation in the Quebec town of Trois-Rivieres, two things stand out: the bilingualism of the sermon and the dearth of parishioners.

Samson holds nothing back when he says that, without radical change, the Anglican Diocese of Quebec could soon be extinct.

“If we want to keep going on (the old) track we will all die,” Samson says in an interview after his French and English sermon to a room full of nearempty pews in the St. James Anglican Church.

The fact Samson, 49, preaches in both languages might not sound radical to many Canadians, but to the Anglican Church — the Church of England — it is.

Several Protestant churches across Quebec have closed rather than turn bilingual.

Samson’s church is Anglican in name only. The 10 people who showed up to mass on a recent Sunday included Baptists, Presbyterians and Unitarians.

The reverend said becoming ecumenical and bilingual is “the new reality” for former anglophone Protestant churches outside the Montreal area.

The new reality reflects the fact that in most regions outside Montreal, Anglo-Quebecers, and much of their culture, are on the verge of disappearing.

The Anglican Diocese of Quebec includes three of the province’s main cities —Trois-Rivieres, Sherbrooke and Quebec City. People who speak English at home in both Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City make up about one per cent of the population. In the 1860s Quebec City used to be 40 per cent anglophone. In Sherbrooke, less than five per cent of residents speak English at home. In the 1860s that number was almost 60 per cent.

In light of this new reality the Anglican Church’s task is daunting: persuade francophone Quebecers to become more religious and then have

them choose to worship in the Church of England, one of the main symbols of the British conquest.

But the church doesn’t seem to have the choice.

The Anglican Diocese of Quebec produced a gloomy report in 2014 about the future of its parishes, which span an area larger than the size of France.

Almost half of its churches have fewer than 10 regular services a year and close to 80 per cent of its churches have a regular attendance of fewer than 25 people.

Forty-five per cent of its churches ran a deficit in 2012 and a stunning 64 per cent of congregations said last year that within five years they would be closed or be amalgamated with other churches.

“We see a grim portrait of our future in this diocese,” the report concluded.

“We need to act quickly on urgent and radical change in our ethos and structures.”

Samson says he preaches in French and English in his two other parishes in Drummondville and Sorel, but doesn’t know if most of the Anglican Church’s congregations are willing to make the change.

But many parishioners in other Protestant churches in Quebec would rather close than introduce bilingual services.

That was the fate of the Anglican Church in the Grand-Mere district of Shawinigan, northeast of Montreal.

The final few anglophone parishioners decided they wanted to keep their services in English only. “(The church) is no longer here today,” Samson said.

The exodus of Anglophones in Quebec hasn’t hurt just the Anglican Church, but also many other Protestant denominations.

Felix de Forest, 79, who now worships at St. James, said the Trois-Rivieres United Church tried some bilingual services but “that didn’t go over too well.”

“I was shocked by some of the reaction I got from some of the older (anglophone) parishioners,” he said.

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Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette (83) reacts after New England Patriots strong safety Malcolm Butler (21) intercepted the ball during Super Bowl XLIX Sunday, in Glendale, Ariz.

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MVP TOM BRADY RALLIES PATRIOTS TO WIN OVER SEAHAWKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Patriots 28 Seahawks 24 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tom Brady and the Patriots made this Super Bowl all about football, not footballs.

Clutch football, spiced by a sensational fourth-quarter rally and a goalline, game-saving interception.

The record-setting Brady threw for four touchdowns, including a 3-yarder to Julian Edelman with 2:02 remaining Sunday night, as New England rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat Seattle 28-24 for the fourth Super Bowl title in the Brady-Bill Belichick era.

But the Patriots (15-4) had to survive a last-ditch drive by the Seahawks

(14-5), who got to the 1, helped by a spectacular juggling catch by Jermaine Kearse. Then Rookie Malcolm Butler stepped in front of Ricardo Lockette to pick off Russell Wilson’s pass and complete one of the wildest Super Bowl finishes.

Brady leaped for joy on the Patriots sideline after Butler’s interception.

“It wasn’t the way we drew it up,” said Brady, who won his third Super Bowl MVP award. “It was a lot of mental toughness. Our team has had it all year. We never doubted each other, so that’s what it took.”

Brady surpassed Joe Montana’s mark of 11 Super Bowl touchdown passes with a 4-yarder to Danny Amendola to bring the Patriots within three points.

Seattle, seeking to become the first repeat NFL champion since New England a decade ago, was outplayed for the first half, yet tied at 14. The Seahawks scored the only 10 points of the

third period, but the NFL-leading defence couldn’t slow the brilliant Brady when it counted most.

“He’s Tom Brady,” Edelman said.

“He’s the greatest quarterback on the planet.”

It didn’t matter how much air was in the balls, Brady was unstoppable when the pressure was strongest.

While pushing aside the controversy over air pressure in the footballs stemming from the AFC title game, the Patriots toyed with Seattle in the final 12 minutes.

Seattle didn’t quit — it never does — and Kearse’s 33-yard catch with 1:06 remaining got it to the 5. Marshawn Lynch rushed for 4 yards, then backup cornerback Butler, who was victimized on Kearse’s reception, made the biggest play of his first NFL season with 20 seconds remaining.

“I just had a vision that I was going to make a big play and it came true,” said Butler, an undrafted rookie from

West Alabama. “I’m just blessed. I can’t explain it right now. It’s crazy.”

Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin was ejected in the final seconds for instigating a near-brawl, delaying the celebration for the Patriots.

Soon they were mobbing one another on the same field where their 2007 unbeaten season was ruined in the Super Bowl by the Giants. They also fell to the Giants for the 2011 title.

But thanks to superstar Brady and the obscure Butler, they are champions again.

Brady has equalled Montana with four Lombardi Trophies and three Super Bowl MVPs. He stands alone with 13 Super Bowl touchdown passes. He was 37 for 50 for 328 yards against the NFL’s top-ranked defence.

He also was picked off twice; Brady was intercepted a total of two times in his previous five Super Bowls.

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Rebels rally late but fall to Raiders in shootout

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Raiders 6 Rebels 5 (SO) The Red Deer Rebels look like a team itching to get out on the road.

The Rebels closed out a six-game Western Hockey League homestand in less than impressive fashion, with Saturday’s 6-5 shootout loss to the Prince Albert Raiders being just a little less humbling than the 4-0 thumping laid down by the Edmonton Oil Kings 24 hours previous.

The Raiders, who were bombed 10-1 the night before in Calgary, were up 5-2 in the third period before Riley Sheen scored twice and Conner Bleackley connected — following a perfect feed from Sheen — to force a scoreless overtime before a recorded crowd of 5,091 at the Centrium.

Then it was on to a shootout, clearly — at least at the present time — not an advantage for the Rebels, who couldn’t beat Raiders netminder Rylan Parenteau on attempts by Sheen and Brooks Maxwell. Rebels goalie Taz Burman denied the visitors’ second shooter, Kris Schmidli, but not the first and third gunners — Simon Stransky and Reid Gardiner.

“At the end of the day we didn’t play very well for two periods,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “Our compete level this weekend dropped off from the way we need to play.

“The kids dug in in the third and got it back, yet as you know the shootout hasn’t been one of our strengths this year, for whatever reason. We have guys who are skilled players, but they’re having a tough go in the shoot-

out.”

The Rebels led 1-0 after one period on Grayson Pawlenchuk’s ninth of the season, but trailed 2-1 early in the second frame as a shot by Schmidli deflected off the stick of Rebels defenceman Brett Cote and past Burman and Matteo Gennaro buried a rebound 54 seconds later.

Presten Kopeck evened the score at 7:31 with a backhand from close range, but Gardiner found the back of the net with a deflection of a Jesse Lees power-play shot at 16:03 and Sean Montgomery beat Burman high on a two-onone break at 19:08.

The Raider upped the count to 5-2 when Gardiner cashed a rebound 1:33 into the third period, setting the stage for the Rebels’s late rally.

Sheen deposited a rebound just 12 seconds after the Raiders’ fifth goal, then picked the far corner from the right faceeoff circle at 8:10 with Prince Albert’s Brendan Guhle serving a hooking penalty.

Sheen fed Bleackley in the low slot five minutes later and the Red Deer captain buried the pass with a one-timer. In the end, though, the Rebels’ late charge netted them just a single point.

“Getting one point out of four at home this weekend was disappointing.

We need to be better than that,” said Sutter. “Our compete level this weekend certainly dropped from where it has been the better part of the whole season.”

The Rebels head west Tuesday for games Wednesday, Friday and Saturday versus the Kamloops Blazers, Vancouver Giants and Victoria Royals.

“That might be a blessing — to get out to B.C. and start dong some team

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Flames rally in third to down Oilers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Oilers 2 CALGARY — Chalk up yet another third period comeback for the Calgary Flames.

Led by Lance Bouma’s first career two-goal game, the Flames scored four times in a furious final 20 minutes Saturday night to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win 4-2 over the Edmonton Oilers.

It is the league-leading ninth time Calgary has won a game when trailing after two periods. It’s also a franchise record.

“We just knew going into that third period that our third is always our best and we had a chance to win it and we knew those were two big points,” said Bouma.

“We’ve done it a lot this year and we definitely have the belief in here going into the third period, whether we’re down by three or down by two, that we can come back in the game.”

Adding to the drama, the Flames had been shutout in its previous five periods.

“Guys never quit. As soon as we got one, there was electricity on the bench and guys were moving,” said Calgary coach Bob Hartley. “Guys show confidence. We’re not scared of being down in the score, it doesn’t rattle us. We find a way to get those big wins.”

Calgary has scored 62 third period goals, which also leads the NHL. The 32 goals against is also No. 1 in the league.

Paul Byron got the comeback started after deflecting in Mason Raymond’s shot at 2:56 for his first goal in 29 games.

The sell-out Scotiabank Saddledome crowd of 19,289

then erupted when Bouma tied it 2-2 at 6:16, snapping a shot through the pads of Ben Scrivens.

The go-ahead goal came 2:33 after that on a power play.

Sean Monahan tried to centre a pass but instead the puck deflected past Scrivens off the skate of Oilers defenceman Keith Aulie.

It was the team-leading 16th goal for the 20-year-old sophomore. Four have them have been game-winners.

“We weren’t ready to play in the third,” summed up Scrivens. “How many times do we have to go through it before we learn our lesson? Hopefully it’s this one.”

Jordan Eberle, who had a goal and an assist, says the team only has itself to blame.

“It was simple mistakes.

We shot ourselves in the foot tonight,” said Eberle. “We turned a couple pucks over and I mean, it’s just been kind of the same case. Every guy in the room has done it. Myself, a lot of guys. It seems like every night there’s a couple plays that shoot us and that’s where we lost.”

Bouma wrapped up the barrage at 16:27 converting a two-on-one pass from Mikael Backlund.

The 24-year-old had a couple chances for the hat-trick when Edmonton pulled the goalie but he couldn’t get it in.

“Two empty nets. I don’t know what happened, probably got a little excited but that’s the way it goes, but I’ll take the two,” said Bouma, who has nine points (two goals, seven assists) in his last nine games.

“It’s always nice to contribute whenever you can. Obviously right now, we’re rolling

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Edmonton Oilers’ Luke Gazdic, right, fights with Calgary Flames’ Deryk Engelland during first period NHL action in Calgary, Saturday. and it’s been a fun go here lately, we just have to keep it going.”

It was an important victory for Calgary (27-20-3). It moves the club three points up on the Los Angeles Kings, who are chasing the Flames for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference.

Benoit Pouliot also scored for Edmonton (13-28-9), who remains second-last in the NHL’s overall standings, four points up on Buffalo.

“I think they came out and played for the win. They went

after it and I think obviously we were on our heels too much, just kind of waiting to win. That doesn’t work,” said Oilers captain Andrew Ference.

Jonas Hiller had 17 stops for Calgary to improve his record to 15-14-2 while Scrivens had 29 saves for Edmonton, falling to 9-17-7.

Edmonton struck first, opening the scoring at 2:43 on its second shot of the game.

Off a faceoff in the Flames end, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins out worked Matt Stajan for the

puck, knocking it into the slot where Eberle put a quick shot past Hiller.

It was the fifth game in a row Calgary has given up the first goal.

Eberle then set up Pouliot at 11:41 for his 11th goal.

Going back to New Year’s Eve, Eberle has 11 points- including seven goals in his last 13 games.

Pouliot has been hot also with eight goals in his last dozen games since returning from a broken foot, which sidelined him for 18 games.

Stats shine favourably on Leafs’ Gardiner

out that regardless of how many shots there are, the ones that do happen when Gardiner’s on the ice tend to be of the “how could he leave that guy wide open like that ... again?” variety.

That’s where the self-explanatory statistic “Scoring Chances Against per 60” (SC Against/60) comes in. But as reflected in the table, as it turns out Gardiner is as good if not better at suppressing opponents’ scoring chances than he is at reducing their shot attempts. Gardiner’s CA/60 and

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SC Against /60 stats are pretty compelling, but they don’t necessarily tell the whole story. For example, if Gardiner plays against much weaker opponents than, say, Phaneuf, then it would be only natural Phaneuf’s numbers would be worse. But as it turns out the weighted average number of shots attempted by the opponents Gardiner plays against is pretty much the same as Phaneuf, Franson and Rielly.

Which strongly suggests that Gardiner’s much lower CA/60 must reflect a genuine ability to suppress opponents’ shot attempts.

One last possible explanation is that maybe the teammates Gardiner tends to play with are carrying the defensive load, and he’s piggybacking on them. The numbers tell us that’s not it either. Gardiner’s primary defensive partners

thews recovered the onside kick that helped the Seahawks beat Green Bay in overtime for the NFC crown, and had a breakout performance Sunday.

Matthews was the 2012 CFL rookie of the year with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Winnipeg agreed to release him so he could pursue a career in the NFL. Having never caught a pass in the NFL, Matthews grabbed four for 109 yards and a touchdown.

Lynch ran for 102 yards, but didn’t get the ball at the 1 on the decisive

have been Korbinian Holzer, Roman Polak and the aforementioned Rielly. Not exactly all-stars. And the forwards he plays most with are James van Riemsdyk, Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak, who, out of 391 forwards who have played 200-plus minutes this season, rank an almost inconceivably awful 391st, 390th, and 387th in CA/60. In fact, Van Riemsdyk’s 71.65 CA/60 is almost double Justin Abdelkader’s 38.55. But I digress.

So Gardiner’s numbers seem real. But how is it possible that there’s such a difference between what the numbers tell us and what our eyes tell us? One possibility is that even a stat like Scoring Chances Against / 60 doesn’t sufficiently take into account the difference among scoring chances. In other words, not all scoring chances are created equal and maybe Gardiner gives up more doozies than other D-men do.

But even that doesn’t seem to be the explanation. If Gardiner really did give up juicier scoring chances, that should be reflected by a lower Leafs’ save percentage when he’s on the ice, but as it turns out the Leafs’ .911 five-on-five save percentage with Gardiner on the ice is higher than Franson (.901) and only slightly lower than supposed defensive stal-

play — a decision the Seahawks will rue forever.

“For it to come down to a play like that, I hate that we have to live with that,” coach Pete Carroll said, “because we did everything right to win the football game.

The teams got down to football under the open retractable roof at University of Phoenix Stadium — the first venue to host an indoor and an outdoor Super Bowl — after dealing with distractions far beyond the typical Super Bowl hype. The Patriots are still being

wart Phaneuf (.920).

So what we’re left with is another example of how perception doesn’t always match reality: Gardiner’s glaring mistakes are having a disproportionate impact on our assessment. His strengths - like getting the puck out of the defensive zone with much greater efficiency than other Leaf defenders - are less flashy and less noticeable, but actually have a much greater impact on suppressing shots and scoring chances than most people realize.

So next time you see Gardiner leave a couple opposition forwards wide open in front of the net while he’s floating around the blueline or checking air in the corner, feel free to yell at the TV but realize that you’d still rather have him on the ice than any other Leaf defenceman.

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It was a game of spurts by both teams before a crowd of 70,288 that was clearly pro-Seattle.

Jeremy Lane made the first big play to negate a nearly eight-minute drive by the Patriots with a leaping interception at the goal line late in the first quarter.

Lane made his first pro interception, but left with a wrist injury after being tackled by Julian Edelman.

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Jake Gardiner isn’t the player you think he is. The prevailing view of the Leafs’ 24-year-old, $4 million (U.S.) per season defenceman is that he plays a high-risk, highreward style that so far this season has led to little reward and lots of rubber flying in the direction of poor Jonathan Bernier and James Reimer.

His elite skating ability has led to flashes of brilliance. But Gardiner’s glaring mistakes in the defensive end have cast doubt on what seemed like almost limitless potential and landed him in not only former coach Randy Carlyle’s doghouse, but also the press box as a healthy scratch on a few occasions already this season.

But even as real and as glaring and as grotesque as some of his defensive zone play has been, would it surprise you to hear that there’s an argument Gardiner is actually the best defensive defenceman on the Leafs . . . by a lot?

Corsi Against per 60 (CA/60) measures the number of shots attempted against a team per 60 minutes the player is on the ice. Gardiner’s 57.2 CA/60 leads Leafs defencemen by a huge margin, more than five fewer than Cody Franson and around eight fewer than Dion Phaneuf and Morgan Rielly.

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Koepka picks up big win at home PHOENIX OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — With an eagle putt that looked as long as his golf journey around the world, Brooks Koepka surged into the lead and stayed there Sunday with a 5-under 66 to capture the Phoenix Open for his first PGA Tour victory.

Lingering for most of the final round, Koepka holed a 50-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the 15th hole and didn’t make any mistakes the rest of the way.

The victory ended a long, arduous road for the 24-year-old from Florida. With no status in America, Koepka played the Challenge Tour in faraway lands like Kazakhstan and Kenya, winning four times to earn his European Tour card and then validating his status as a rising star by winning the Turkish Open last year.

But winning at home brought the strongest validation.

“It feels amazing,” Koepka said after his one-shot win over Hideki Matsuyama, Masters champion Bubba Watson and Ryan Palmer.

Graham DeLaet was the top Canadian in the tournament, coming into the clubhouse four strokes behind Koepka.

The Weyburn, Sask. native shot a 4-under 67 in the final round to finish in a tie for 7th spot.

Nick Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., and Victoria’s Cory Renfrew tied for 59th position at 1-under for the tournament. Taylor shot a 70 on the final day while Renfrew shot a 5-under 66— his best round of the week.

Mike Weir, from Brights Grove, Ont., and David Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., didn’t make it to the weekend after

missing the cut.

Of the five players who had a share of the lead in a wild final hour at the TPC Scottsdale, Matsuyama had the last chance to catch Koepka until his 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole missed well to the right.

Martin Laird, who had a three-shot lead going into the final round, was tied with Koepka going to the 17th until he sprayed it well right into the gallery on the short par-4 hole and made bogey, and then pulled his tee shot into the water on the 18th and made double bogey. He closed with a 72.

Palmer shared the lead with a birdie on the 15th, but he had to settle for pars the rest of the way for a 66. So did Watson, who reached the front of the 17th green only to three-putt from just over 100 feet and made par. He closed with a 65.

Matsuyama, who holed out from 129 yards for eagle on the first hole and was the first player to catch up to Laird, took the lead with a beautiful pitch behind the green on the par5 13th. He went 44 consecutive holes without a bogey until Matsuyama three-putted on the 14th hole, and he never recovered. He shot 67.

Koepka already was eligible for the Masters with his tie for fourth at the U.S. Open last summer, and his victory during the final stretch of the Race to Dubai in Europe last year raised his stock. The victory Sunday should put him at No. 19 in the world.

This was his second victory in his last four starts, both against strong fields.

Koepka had not played since the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa two months ago, taking a full month off away from his clubs and working hard

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Brooks Koepka hits out of a sand trap on the fourth hole during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament, Sunday, in Scottsdale, Ariz. over the last few weeks after a change to his putting stroke.

Back-to-back birdies near the end of the front nine kept him in range. A solid chip from behind the 13th green for a 4-foot birdie kept him within two shots of Matsuyama. And his fortunes changed mightily with his eagle putt on the 15th.

A Florida State alum who describes himself as “chill” had plenty of adrenaline pumping on the 17th hole when he hit 3-wood on the 322-yard hole onto the green and over the back. It came to rest on the red hazard line, a foot from going into the water. He chipped

to about 12 feet and missed the birdie putt that might have clinched it.

And with the pressure of holding a one-shot lead as he went after his first PGA Tour win, Koepka smashed his driver 331 yards down the middle of the fairway.

Arizona State junior Jon Rahm closed with a 68 to tie for fifth. It was the best finish by a Sun Devil still on the golf team playing in the Phoenix Open. The previous best was a tie for 32nd by Phil Mickelson.

However, the top 10 does not get the Spaniard into Torrey Pines next week because he is an amateur.

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LAS VEGAS — Anderson Silva won a unanimous decision in his comeback fight 13 months after breaking his left leg, dominating Nick Diaz at UFC 183 on Saturday night.

Silva (34-6) landed most of the big blows against the taunting Diaz, controlling a strange fight in the same MGM Grand Garden octagon where he shattered his lower leg with a kick to middleweight champion Chris Weidman’s knee in December 2013.

After months of rehabilitation, the 39-year-old Silva didn’t yet resemble the dominant champion who held the 185-pound belt for seven years. Yet he never faced much trouble from Diaz (27-10-1), who couldn’t back up his goading with consistent offence.

“Thank you God for giving me one more chance,” Silva said.

“This is a very important moment for me. I went through a lot of suffering in the past year. At the beginning, I didn’t think I would be able to come back.”

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MELBOURNE, Australia — This was one occasion where Novak Djokovic couldn’t really empathize with Andy Murray, his long-time friend.

As he prepared to receive the trophy for the Australian Open winner for a fifth time in five trips to the final at Melbourne Park, Djokovic turned to Murray late Sunday and offered his congratulations on his friend’s recent engagement.

Nice segue. Murray — to set the record straight — had just lost an Australian Open final for the fourth time, including three at the hands of Djokovic.

Murray won the U.S. Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013 to end decadeslong droughts at the majors for British men, but was clearly upset at his inability to crack it in Melbourne after this 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-0 defeat.

“I wish you a wonderful wedding and many kids,” Djokovic said, kicking off his trophy acceptance speech.

Murray smiled. His fiancee, Kim Sears, applauded from her seat in the crowd.

She’d already drawn attention for her shirt that was emblazoned with the words “Parental Advisory Explicit Content” — a humorous reaction to being caught on camera apparently using expletives during Murray’s semifinal.

“It’s slightly different thinking for me now since I became a father and a husband,” Djokovic explained. “I apologize for changing the subject.”

His outlook on life had changed between his two most recent trips to Australia. He married long-time partner, Jelena, and the couple had a son, Stefan, in late October.

He said his first Grand Slam title since his marriage and the birth of his son had a “deeper meaning, more intrinsic value.”

“Getting married and becoming a father was definitely something that gave me a new energy, something that I never felt before,” he said. “And right now everything has been going in such a positive direction in my life. I’m so grateful for that. So I try to live these moments with all my heart.”

Djokovic now has eight major titles, including his five in Australia, where he won his first Grand Slam title in 2008 and then won three straight from 2011 before losing in the quarterfinals last year to Stan Wawrinka.

The 27-year-old Serbian is now second on the list of all-time Australian Open winners — behind only Roy Emerson, who won six titles in the 1960s and who was in the crowd Sunday.

After two tough first sets decided in tiebreakers, when there was eight breaks of serve and plenty of tension, Djokovic broke open the match after the sixth game of the third set and won 12 of the last 13 games. In the first set, he tumbled to the court, lunging to reach a volley, and needed treatment on his right thumb — shaking his right hand repeatedly. The second set was disrupted for five minutes by a political protester running onto the court, causing a lockdown of sorts, and another momentum shift. In the third set, it was fatigue, with Djokovic appearing to be struggling badly.

“I was just weak. I went through the physical crisis in the matter of 20 minutes and, honestly, didn’t feel that too many times in my career,” Djokovic said. “But knowing in the back of my mind that it was a similar situation two years ago in Australian Open final, where two sets went over two hours, was a similar battle. Then I felt that I had some physical edge over him in that match. That was in back of my mind. That was something that kept me going.”

After the match, Djokovic had plenty left in his legs, able to high-five a long line of ballboys after the presentation.

“Novak has won five times here now, there’s no disgrace in losing to him,” said Murray, who now trails 16-8 in career head-to-head matches.

Murray and Djokovic have known each other since their early junior days, and often hit against each other for practice. Seeing Djokovic in pain apparently unnerved Murray.

Djokovic’s win on Sunday followed up on top-ranked Serena Williams’ win in the women’s final Saturday night against Maria Sharapova, giving the 33-year-old American a sixth Australian and 19th Grand Slam title.

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B4 Taking hockey to new depths

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Central Alberta has produced a number of top level hockey players, but they all play the game above water.

Kolby Bargholz, 16, has quickly developed into one of the country’s top players playing underwater.

The Grade 11 Lacombe teen is part of Canada’s national underwater hockey development team and will be part of the U19 squad heading to Spain for this year’s world championships in August. But first this coming weekend she has been invited to play in a tournament with Canada’s U23 B team in Chicago.

Considering she just took up the sport three years ago as a way to train for the summer swimming season, she has come a long way in a short time.

“It’s exciting, it’s a lot of work too but it’s worth it,” said Bargholz.

When she isn’t playing for the national team or training with members in Calgary, she is playing for the Central Alberta Underwater Hockey Club Sharks.

The team has grown from just a few players when Bargholz joined to 18 members.

The program is still very much in the grassroots stages of the sport, but Bargholz is showing that local players are able to hang in with other more established programs in the province.

On Sunday, the Sharks hosted a mini-tournament in Lacombe. With weather conditions affecting travel, however, numbers were limited for those coming in to play from Edmonton and Calgary. Instead, the teams were blended together and they turned it into a round robin exhibition.

Still, it was an important experience for local players.

“These tournaments are for the novice players, they train the kids develop excitement for them because they get to play against somebody different or play with somebody different,” said Sharks president, and Kolby’s mother, Kathy Bargholz.

It is these types of tournaments where Kolby cut her teeth, and she is impressed with how far the sport has come in the region.

“When we first started there would be maybe four or five people that showed up to practice — I remember a few times where no one showed up except for me and (coach Gillian Parker),” she said. “Now it’s growing a lot and it’s good because it wasn’t even a thing for a while and not a lot of people knew about it ... now a lot more people are hearing about, which is good. It’s a fun sport.”

The Sharks are also coached by Sean Weibe and both have world championship experience.

Underwater hockey is just what it sounds like. The game is played at the bottom of a pool with a weighted threepound puck and short sticks while swimmers wear flippers, goggles and a snorkel instead of skates and a helmet.

There are 10 people to a team with six players in the pool for each side at a time. The object is to put the puck into a steel trough known as a cuttle or a gully, but with the game played underwater, there is little to no communication so chemistry is extremely important.

The game was developed in England in the 1950s and 60s as a way to train the divers in the navy during the winter.

Kolby usually plays forward, but has been switched

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Lacombe’s Kolby Bargholz (front in blue suit) moves the puck forward during a recent underwater hockey game. Bargholz, 16, has quickly developed into one of the country’s top players and will be part of the U19 squad heading to Spain for this year’s world championships in August. back to defence with the national team.

“She’s a strong swimmer, she’s quick and she can play either forward or defence because of it,” said Kathy. “She can play forward quite easily, but they’ve switched her to defence because she can get right in there and go for the puck ... and understands the play.”

Those skills were quickly recognized by Parker and she was invited to join the national development program last year.

The tricky part is an inability to practice as a team. Bargholz does work with four other members of the U19 club in Calgary, but the other five all live in Ontario and Quebec.

Before they go to Worlds in Castellon de la Plana, Spain in

Lions speedskating club wins six medals at Alberta Open

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Central Alberta Lions speedskating club more than held their own against some of the top up and coming athletes in the province during the 2015 Alberta Open in Red Deer on the weekend.

With 25 local kids in the field of 85, Red Deer skaters found the podium six times in the six different divisions.

For a young developing group of skaters, it was a big showing for the club.

“We’ve got quite a young group of skaters, there’s lots and lots of potential,” said Lions club president Shawna Pearman.

Boys and girls were folded into the same divisions and races, with skaters divided by their personal bests in the different events.

Connor MacDougall led the way for the Lions with an overall third place finish in Division 2 while Mara Jenkins was third in Division 3, Erin Findlay was third in Division 5 and their was a Red Deer sweep of the podium in Division 6 with Charlotte Cutts first, Grace Webster second and Eoin Wolfe third.

The Lions also placed a number of other skaters in the top five, including Stefanie Spicer in fourth in the top division, Rachel O’Connel fourth in Division 4, Lukas Yzerman fourth and Ashley Marburg fifth in Division 5, and Teresa Cutts fourth and Vivienne Blignaut fifth in Division 6.

For three local skaters — Stefanie and Lauren Spicer, and Jenkins — the competition was a warm up for the Canadian Age Class Long Track Championships in Saskatoon this Saturday and Sunday.

They qualified after an age class event in Calgary over the Jan. 16-17 weekend, as the club selected their top skaters.

“It’s not going there for performance to win a medal, your going there for the expe-

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Connor MacDougall of the Red Deer Central Lions Speed Skating Club chases Casey Riess around the final corner of the 500 metre mass start race at the Red Deer Open Long Track Meet on Saturday at the speed skating oval just outside the Golden Circle. rience and to do the best that you can,” said Pearman. “It’s a stepping stone, and once you get to that you want to go to the next level.”

Stefanie Spicer, 15, has been competing in speedskating for eight years and this will be her second time at the championship and has also competed in the Alberta Games twice.

The Hunting Hills Grade 10 student is hoping to set new personal bests at the championship, but will be leaning on her past experiences.

“It’s a lot different than a normal, smaller competition,” she said, adding she will be skating in the 100-, 300-, 500and a 3,000- metre race in Saskatoon. “It’s higher profile and there are higher stakes.

It’s cool to be able to compete against a whole new group of people that are the best in the country.”

Heading into the weekend, the ice threatened to be a big story for all the wrong

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE Kyle Sheen sniped three goals as the Bentley Generals gunned down the host Innisfail Eagles 8-0 in a Chinook Hockey League game Friday.

Cam Maclise and Torrie Dyck each added two goals for the visitors. Brett Robertson also scored, while Bentley netminder Travis Yonk-

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reasons, due to the unseasonable warmth of the prior two weeks. But, thanks to the dropping temperatures and city staff who prepared the ice, the effects of the weather were minimal.

“Our ice is fantastic right now,” said Pearman. “The last two weeks with all the warm weather we had to cancel skating because it was two soft. It was kind of touch and go even this week, it was soft, but they spent the whole week flooding it and maintaining it, so it’s really good ice.”

The changing conditions, however, will be a boost to the skaters heading to Saskatoon, as that track is also outdoors.

It’s a big advantage to be able to train on the outdoor ice and get used to it because it is definitely different with the hardness and it’s going to be more rough,” said Spicer.

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man made 14 saves for the shutout.

Travis Ziegler made 30 saves for the Eagles, who were assessed five of nine minor penalties.

The Generals close out their regular-season schedule this Friday against the Stony Plain Eagles at 8:30 p.m. in Eckville.

The Eagles finish off with a home-and-home set against the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs, Friday at home and Saturday in Fort Saskatchewan.

August, they will hold a team training camp in Ottawa a week before the tournament.

But playing in tournaments where teams get blended together will help Bargholz in this manner.

“We play on different teams all of the time ... even when I’m in Calgary when we play games for practices, the teams are always mixed, so you have to get used to whoever is playing,” she said.

The top teams in the world are Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain and South Africa, as the sport is still largely in the development phase in Canada, though the men’s team did win a world championship in 1986.

For Bargholz in Spain gaining experience is going to be the most important thing,

particularly the opportunity to see a different part of the world.

Her long term goals in the sport are also still in a wait and see mode.

“At first (underwater hockey) was just something to do for fun, I guess I still do it for fun but with competitive swimming you can only go so far with it if you’re not in a winter club,” said Bargholz. “I will see where it goes, I heard you can get some scholarships out of it.”

NOTES — The Sharks alternate months, playing on Sundays, at the Canadian University College in Lacombe and the Michner Pool in Red Deer.

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JUNIOR B HOCKEY The host Red Deer Vipers fired 52 shots at Stettler Lightning netminder Simon Thieleman Saturday but came out on the short end of a 4-3 score in Heritage Junior Hockey League action.

While Thieleman was making 49 saves, teammates Brandon Hoskins, Dylan Houston, Reese Anheliger and Michael Neumeier were putting pucks past Vipers goalie Rylan Bardick, who was also busy while facing 40 shots. Justin Corbett, Nick Glackin and Mitch Morrison notched the Red Deer goals.

The Lightning, who led 2-1 after one period and 3-2 after 40 minutes, were zero-forthree on the power play. The Vipers were two-for-six with a man advantage. ● The Vipers were 5-2 winners over the host Three Hills Thrashers Friday, getting 2 goals and an assist from Cole deGraaf and single markers courtesy of Kale Lapointe, Justin Van Tetering and Matthew Thiessen. Brian Beaulieu and Randy Hanger scored for Three Hills.

Klay Munro made 25 saves as the winning goaltender.

Greg Pols stopped 45 shots for the Thrashers, who were down 1-0 after one period and 4-1 heading into the final frame.

Red Deer was one-for-four on the power play while Three Hills was one-for-three.

In other weekend Heritage League contests: ● The Blackfalds Wranglers, with Bryce Boguski scoring twice, downed the Mountainview Colts 4-1 Saturday at Didsbury.

Cole Laing and Garrett Glasman also tallied for the

Wranglers, who jumped out to a 3-0 lead after one period and were zero-for-four with an extra man.

Trent Hermary contributed three assists to the Blackfalds attack, while Kyle Baumgardner made 33 saves for the win.

The Colts, zero-for-three with a man advantage, were outshot 38-34. ● The Thrashers were 7-3 losers to the visiting Airdrie Thunder Saturday, their goals coming off the sticks of Spencer Fournier, Connor Ablett and Patrick Fougere.

Three Hills, zero-for-two on the power play and holding a 43-40 shot advantage, got a 33-save outing from Brady Hoover. Airdrie was zero-forthree with a man advantage. ● The Ponoka Stampeders suffered a pair of road losses — 7-3 to the Banff Bears Saturday, 24 hours after falling 7-4 to Mountainview.

Kwyn Hiebert potted a power-play goal for the Stamps in Saturday’s setback, while Brandon Duthie and Cody Lemon notched even-strength markers.

Zane Steeves and Eli Falls combined to make 49 saves for the Stamps, who were outshot 56-41 but didn’t give up a power-play goal.

Lemon, Duthie, Nate Higgins and Austin Aucoin scored for Ponoka in Friday’s loss at Didsbury. Steeves made 35 saves before being replaced

by Falls, who stopped all six shots he faced.

Ponoka, outshot 48-28, was one-for-six on the power play.

The Colts scored three goals on 13 man-advantage opportunities.

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Grizzlies slay Drumheller Dragons on back of pair of goals from Sheen OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys erupted for three thirdperiod goals Saturday en route to a 5-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Drumheller Dragons.

Colton Sheen led the Grizzlys with a two-goal performance, while Logan Kerner, Jade McMullen and Ty Mappin also connected for the hosts in front of 345 fans at the Sportsplex.

Ryan Jevne, Connor Boyd and Mitchell Cook replied for

the visitors.

Jesse Gordichuk made 25 saves for the win. Dragons netminder Jonny Hogue turned aside 24 shots.

Olds was two-for-six on the power play; Drumheller zerofor-three.

The Grizzlys return to action Tuesday against the host Okotoks Oilers, then visit the Calgary Mustangs Thursday before hosting the Calgary Canucks 24 hours later.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 51 37 9 3 2 231 Regina 50 27 17 4 2 185 Swift Current 51 23 23 1 4 151 Moose Jaw 51 20 27 3 1 146 Prince Albert 50 21 28 1 0 146 Saskatoon 49 15 31 2 1 140

GA 160 160 170 190 182 207

Pt 79 60 51 44 43 33

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 50 35 12 1 2 Calgary 51 29 17 1 4 Red Deer 50 27 15 3 5 Kootenay 52 27 24 0 1 Edmonton 52 24 22 4 2 Lethbridge 49 12 31 3 3

GF 205 219 176 173 153 137

GA 142 150 162 189 147 213

Pt 73 63 62 55 54 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 51 39 8 3 1 222 Victoria 52 28 20 3 1 178 Kamloops 52 20 26 3 3 152 Vancouver 51 20 28 1 2 146 Prince George 53 20 31 1 1 157

GA 129 160 191 177 230

Pt 82 60 46 43 42

GA 135 172 138 148 154

Pt 66 65 56 52 51

GP 50 53 50 49 51

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 31 15 3 1 31 19 0 3 25 19 3 3 24 21 3 1 24 24 0 3

GF 177 192 139 139 142

Saturday’s results Calgary 5 Edmonton 0 Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 0 Saskatoon 4 Swift Current 0 Kelowna 5 Kootenay 1 Regina 6 Lethbridge 2 Prince Albert 6 Red Deer 5 (SO) Seattle 3 Prince George 0 Kamloops 3 Vancouver 2 (SO) Portland 6 Everett 3 Spokane 4 Medicine Hat 3 (SO) Victoria 3 Tri-City 2 (SO)

50 50 47 48 51 50

29 27 21 20 22 14

12 16 16 19 25 33

9 7 10 9 4 3

67 61 52 49 48 31

149 134 115 136 144 94

129 124 132 136 156 179

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 49 32 16 1 65 Pittsburgh 50 28 14 8 64 N.Y. Rangers 47 28 15 4 60 Washington 50 25 15 10 60 Philadelphia 51 22 22 7 51 New Jersey 50 19 22 9 47 Columbus 48 21 24 3 45 Carolina 49 17 26 6 40

GF 158 145 139 147 140 113 120 105

GA 139 129 112 129 151 138 151 129

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 49 32 11 6 70 St. Louis 49 32 13 4 68 Chicago 50 31 17 2 64 Winnipeg 51 26 17 8 60 Dallas 49 23 19 7 53 Colorado 50 21 18 11 53 Minnesota 49 23 20 6 52

GF 149 160 155 142 157 131 135

GA 115 120 115 132 159 141 140

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 50 32 12 6 70 147 134 San Jose 50 27 17 6 60 139 135 Vancouver 48 27 18 3 57 131 124 Calgary 50 27 20 3 57 144 129 Los Angeles 49 21 16 12 54 134 132 Arizona 50 18 26 6 42 116 170 Edmonton 50 13 28 9 35 115 166 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Montreal 1, Washington 0, OT Detroit 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Ottawa 7, Arizona 2 Dallas 5, Winnipeg 2 Philadelphia 1, Toronto 0 N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 1 New Jersey 3, Florida 1 Boston 3, Los Angeles 1 Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 1 Calgary 4, Edmonton 2 San Jose 2, Chicago 0

Tuesday’s games Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Raiders 6, Rebels 5 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 9 (Bobyk, Musil) 8:43 (pp).

Penalties — Lees P.A. (high-sticking) 6:58, Strand RD (tripping) 8:50, Vanstone P.A. (tripping) 15:24.

Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Schmidli 10 (Lees, Lange) 3:39 (pp).

3. Prince Albert, Gennaro 7 (Leverton, Yorke) 4:33.

4. Red Deer, Kopeck 15 (Nogier, Gay) 7:31.

5. Prince Albert, Gardiner 23 (Schmidli, Lees) 16:03 (pp).

6. Prince Albert, Montgomery 3 (Gennaro) 19:08.

Penalties — Feser RD (hooking) 2:13, Maxwell RD (tripping) 15:15, Leverton P.A. (roughing) 19:31, Johnson RD (roughing) 19:31, Sheen RD (roughing) 19:31.

Third Period 7. Prince Albert, Gardiner 24 (Glover, Lees) 1:33.

8. Red Deer, Sheen 14 (Johnson, Bobyk) 1:45.

9. Red Deer, Sheen 15 (Bobyk, Gay) 8:10 (pp).

10. Red Deer, Bleackley 24 (Sheen, Cote) 13:13.

Penalties — Guhle P.A. (hooking) 7:31.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout Prince Albert : Stransky goal, Schmidli miss, Gardiner goal.

Red Deer : Sheen miss, Maxwell miss.

Shots on goal Prince Albert 5 13 10 2 3 — 30 Red Deer 13 11 10 3 2 — 37 Goal — Prince Albert: Parenteau (W, 15-13-1); Red Deer: Burman (LS, 6-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Prince Albert: 2-4; Red Deer: 2-3.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 51 32 15 4 68 Montreal 49 32 14 3 67

Detroit Boston Florida Ottawa Toronto Buffalo

GF GA 166 133 130 111

Sunday’s Games Arizona 3, Montreal 2 St. Louis 4, Washington 3 Nashville 4, Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 4, Vancouver 2 Monday’s Games Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Washington, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Flames 4, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Eberle 13 (Nugent-Hopkins) 2:43.

2. Edmonton, Pouliot 11 (Eberle, Petry) 11:41.

Penalties — Aulie Edm (fighting) 5:18, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 5:18, Gazdic Edm (fighting) 5:22, Engelland Cgy (fighting) 5:22, Hendricks Edm (roughing) 6:23.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Jones Cgy (cross-checking) 7:54, Pouliot Edm (hooking) 12:51.

Third Period 3. Calgary, Byron 6 (Raymond, Jooris) 2:56.

4. Calgary, Bouma 7 (Jones, Backlund) 6:16.

5. Calgary, Monahan 16 (Giordano, Wideman) 8:39 (pp).

6. Calgary, Bouma 8 (Backlund, Jones) 16:27.

Penalties — Roy Edm (hooking) 8:27, Fraser Edm (slashing) 12:51.

Shots on goal Edmonton 9 5 5 — 19 Calgary 15 6 12 — 33 Goal — Edmonton: Scrivens (L, 9-17-7); Calgary: Hiller (W, 15-14-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-1; Calgary: 1-4.

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Sunday’s summaries

● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Arena.

Blues 4, Capitals 3 First Period 1. St. Louis, Steen 16 (Schwartz, Oshie) 2:34 (pp).

2. Washington, Ovechkin 30 (Green, Backstrom) 9:50 (pp).

Penalties — Beagle Wash (slashing) 1:30, Reaves StL (interference) 8:51, Cole StL (roughing) 12:19.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Steen 17 (Oshie, Tarasenko) 11:45.

4. Washington, Ovechkin 31 (Backstrom) 14:30.

5. St. Louis, Jaskin 5 (Schwartz, Stastny) 15:57.

Penalties — Beagle Wash (high-sticking) 0:34, Backes StL (boarding - major) 5:25, Backes StL (game misconduct) 5:25, Oshie StL (roughing) 13:24, Orpik Wash (roughing) 13:24, Ovechkin Wash (tripping) 17:59.

Third Period 6. St. Louis, Tarasenko 25 (Steen, Oshie) 6:13.

7. Washington, Alzner 4 (Green, Ovechkin) 12:28.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal St. Louis 13 16 11 — 40 Washington 8 18 10 — 36 Goal — St. Louis: Elliott (W, 15-5-2); Washington: Peters (L, 2-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — St. Louis: 1-3; Washington: 1-3.

Tuesday

● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, Ponoka at Sylvan Lake, Lacombe at Stettler, Lindsay Thurber at Camrose, Rocky Mountain House at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs.

Kingsmen, Rusty Chuckers vs. Silver Spurs, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wild 4, Canucks 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 6:46, Carter Minn (fighting) 6:46, Zucker Minn (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:58, Burrows Vcr (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:58, Vanek Minn (hooking) 11:06, Edler Vcr (hooking) 14:37.

Second Period 1. Minnesota, Parise 21 (unassisted) 7:26.

2. Minnesota, Spurgeon 7 (Niederreiter, Granlund) 9:26 (pp).

Penalties — Brodin Minn (tripping) 2:02, Edler Vcr (high-sticking) 8:23, Suter Minn (delay of game) 10:09.

Third Period 3. Minnesota, Vanek 10 (Granlund) 7:08.

4. Vancouver, Kenins 1 (Horvat, Edler) 12:20.

5. Vancouver, D. Sedin 10 (Vrbata, H. Sedin) 13:21.

6. Minnesota, Zucker 17 (Suter) 19:05 (en).

Penalties — Vanek Minn (holding) 10:12.

Shots on goal Minnesota 5 8 7 — 20 Vancouver 11 7 19 — 37 Goal — Minnesota: Dubnyk (W, 14-6-2); Vancouver: Miller (L, 24-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Minnesota: 1-2; Vancouver: 0-4.

Coyotes 3, Canadiens 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Galchenyuk 14 (Gallagher, Gilbert) 1:15.

2. Montreal, Galchenyuk 15 (Desharnais, Sekac) 4:55.

Penalties — Vermette Ari (high-sticking) 2:48.

Second Period 3. Arizona, Korpikoski 5 (Erat, Yandle) 17:43 (pp).

Penalties — Shinnimin Ari (cross-checking) 12:46, Malhotra Mtl (boarding) 16:13.

Third Period 4. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 14 (unassisted) :32.

5. Arizona, Korpikoski 6 (Gagner, Yandle) 3:17 (pp).

Penalties — Gilbert Mtl (hooking) 1:57.

Shots on goal Arizona 9 14 9 — 32 Montreal 10 5 5 — 20 Goal — Arizona: Domingue (W, 1-0-0); Montreal: Tokarski (L, 5-4-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Arizona: 2-2; Montreal: 0-2.

Predators 4, Penguins 0 First Period 1. Nashville, Josi 9 (Forsberg, Weber) 4:05.

2. Nashville, Bourque 3 (unassisted) 6:38.

Penalties — Pgh Bench (too many men) 16:29.

Second Period 3. Nashville, Nystrom 6 (Beck) 19:19.

Penalties — Beck Nash (hooking) 1:51, Volchenkov Nash (interference) 4:49, Perron Pgh (hooking) 5:47, Jarnkrok Nash (holding) 9:34, Jarnkrok Nash (Embellishment) 11:43, Perron Pgh (interference) 11:43.

Third Period 4. Nashville, Fisher 12 (Forsberg, Josi) 8:20 (pp).

Penalties — Sutter Pgh (goaltender interference) 2:07, Crosby Pgh (slashing) 7:22.

Shots on goal Nashville 7 7 10 — 24 Pittsburgh 5 11 5 — 21 Goal — Nashville: Hutton (W, 3-4-4); Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 23-11-5).

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

Speedskating 2015 Alberta Open Long Track Outdoor speedskating Red Deer Division 1 1. Mathias Bathe, Calgary 2. Vincent Laanstra, Calgary 3. Mason Muller, Lethbridge 4. Stefanie Spicer, Red Deer 10. Brandon O’Connell, Red Deer 14. Cody McCuaig, Rocky Mountain House Division 2 1. Isaac Sherwood, Calgary 2. Casey Riess, Edmonton 3. Connor MacDougall, Red Deer 7. Lauren Spicer, Red Deer 10. Liam Graham, Red Deer Division 3

1. Jasmine Belisle, Peace Wapiti 2. Kaleb Jacobsen, Calgary 3. Mara Jenkins, Red Deer 10. Brinley Davidson, Red Deer 11. Laurel Jenkins, Red Deer Division 4 1. Nicolas Guerrero, Calgary 2. Lucas Petty, Lethbridge 3. Max Poulin, Calgary 4. Rachel O’Connell, Red Deer 6. Zach Munday, Rocky Mountain House 9 Dermot MacDougall, Red Deer Division 5 1. Joshua Read, Calgary 2. Paige McLennan, Calgary 3. Erin Findlay, Red Deer 4. Lukas Yzerman, Red Deer 5. Ashley Marburg, Red Deer

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Lance Thomas for the remainder of the season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Louis Domingue from Portland (AHL). Assigned G Mike McKenna to Portland.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Brian Lashoff to Grand Rapids (AHL). Loaned G Jonas Gustavsson to Grand Rapids for conditioning.

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Announced F Lukas Sutter was reassigned to the team by the New York Islanders.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Announced RW Martin Frk was reassigned to the team from Toledo (ECHL). Recalled C Alden Hirschfeld from Toledo.

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National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 33 15 .688 — Brooklyn 18 28 .391 14 Boston 16 30 .348 16 New York 10 38 .208 23 Philadelphia 10 38 .208 23 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 40 8 .833 — Washington 31 17 .646 9 Miami 21 26 .447 18 Charlotte 20 27 .426 19 Orlando 15 35 .300 26 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 30 19 .612 — Cleveland 29 20 .592 1 Milwaukee 25 22 .532 4 Detroit 18 30 .375 11 Indiana 17 32 .347 13

ECHL — Suspended Wichita’s Kenton Miller two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 30 game against Quad City.

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HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Jamie Oleksiak and RW Brett Ritchie to Texas (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled G Andrei Vasilevskiy from Syracuse (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Cameron Schilling to Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Nathan Oystrick from his professional tryout contract.

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

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

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Philadelphia at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

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Orlando at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

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Memphis at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

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The Red Deer Fencing Club earned four medals at the Edmonton Open on the weekend.

Devyn Hurry earned silver in U20 men’s epee while Kameron Lamont earned silver in U20 women’s epee. Sean Seitz brought back bronze in the U17 men’s while Karren Lyver got bronze in the Open women’s event.

The Open is a provincial circuit event with points accumulated going towards national rankings.

Friday

● Senor high basketball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls/boys tournament.

Sunday’s Games Miami 83, Boston 75 New York 92, L.A. Lakers 80

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 35 12 .745 — Houston 33 15 .688 2 Dallas 32 17 .653 4 San Antonio 30 18 .625 5 New Orleans 25 22 .532 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 32 16 .667 — Oklahoma City 23 24 .489 8 Denver 19 29 .396 13

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● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs. NWS, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Queens 5 Griffins 2 EDMONTON —The Red Deer College Queens took a big step towards clinching an Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference women’s hockey playoff spot on the weekend.

On Saturday in Edmonton they beat the MacEwan Griffins 5-2, moving 10 points up on MacEwan for the final post-season berth with six games remaining.

The Griffins have given the Queens trouble all season, beating them five times in the six games they had played, heading into this weekend, but the twogame sweep — RDC won 2-1 on Thursday in Red Deer — is a sign the Queens are rounding into form.

“Again we’re playing a simple hard nosed style and winning a lot of puck races in the offensive zone which led to a lot of quality chances,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz in an email. l0“Our special teams were the difference tonight and it was nice to see our power play executing and creating quality scoring opportunities. We’re on a bit of a roll and we just have to keep playing hard to keep it going. “ Rachael Hoppins, Jessica Anderson, Kaley McMurtry and Megan Jones all had one goal and an assist for the Queens while Ashley Graf scored the other goal.

Freshman goalie Summer Roberts made 22 saves in the win. ● The RDC Kings men’s hockey team (9-12-0-3) earned their second tie in as many nights in Fort McMurray on Saturday, this time earning a 5-5 sawoff with the Keyano College Huskies (11-8-1-4).

Riley Point had two goals and two assists for the Kings while Riley Simp-

son also scored twice. Logan Sceviour had the other RDC goal as Kraymer Barnstable stopped 18 of 23 shots.

Point’s second goal gave RDC a 5-4 lead at 18:49 of the third period, but they were unable to hold on for the crucial win as Drake Hart tied it up at 19:47. ● The RDC Kings men’s basketball team (14-4) was unable to complete the road sweep against the Medicine Hat College Rattlers (13-5), falling 81-78 on Saturday.

The Kings had rallied for an 84-68 win the night before, but MHC’s gym, known as the Snake Pit, has always caused RDC trouble.

On Saturday, the two teams battled back and fourth with MHC taking a late 80-78 lead. However, Jake Cusumano rimmed out a last second shot for the Kings and the Rattlers salted the game away with a free throw.

JP Leblanc was named RDC’s player of the game with 16 points while Justin Jarvis had 17 points and Mike Zurakowski 15 off the bench.

The Kings were also without starters Matt Johnson, Brian Prensolo and Tyler Wise, but still hold on to a share of first place in the ACAC South with the Lethbridge College Kodiaks despite the loss. ● The RDC Queens women’s basketball team (2-16) played one of their best fourth quarters of the season on Saturday, but still wound up on the wrong side of a 57-49 score with the Rattlers (10-8).

The Queens went shot-for-shot with MHC in the fourth, both scoring 20 points, but it was the first three quarters that sank RDC, as they scored 29 points in the first 30 minutes.

Desirae Paterson led the Queens with 15 points while Morgan Dool had 13.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Brendan Swanson of Red Deer North West Motors battles for the puck with his Edmonton SouthWest Oil Kings Kings opponent during Saturday afternoon bantam B hockey action at the Dawe Centre.

MINOR HOCKEY Major midget Parker Smyth scored twice in a losing cause as the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs dropped a 6-4 Alberta Midget Hockey League decision to the host Calgary Flames Sunday.

Luke Coleman and Kale Howarth also tallied for the Chiefs, who were outshot 37-31. Cole Sears made 31 saves for the visitors.

Major midget girls Breanna Martin and Cassidy Holman scored unanswered second- and third-period goals as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs edged the visiting Peace Country Storm 2-1 Sunday.

Sarah Murray stopped 25 shots for the Chiefs, who outshot their guests 27-26.

On Friday, Martin, Jordyn Burgar and Abagael Thiessen scored for the Chiefs in a 5-3 loss to the visiting Southeast Tigers. Bailey Knapp turned aside 18 shots as the hosts were outshot 23-19.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels Black dropped a pair of weekend contests — 9-1 to the host Calgary Flames and 3-0 to the visiting Calgary Bisons.

Hayden Clayton notched the lone goal against the Flames, while Wyatt Argent made 46 saves for the Black, who were outshot 55-16.

The Rebels Black were outshot 49-20 in the loss to the Bisons. Argent made 46 saves in a losing cause.

The Red Deer Rebels White got goals from Josh Tarzwell and Keaton Sawicki in a 4-2 loss to the host Airdrie Xtreme Saturday. Duncan Hughes made 31 saves for the Rebels Black, outshot 35-15.

Major bantam girls Kaley Mueller’s third-period goal, her second of the game, earned the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs a 3-3 draw with the host Calgary Rangers Saturday.

Brookyln Park also scored for the Chiefs, who got a 21-save performance from Mandi Fitzsimons while being outshot 23-21.

Alberta’s Rocque wins another junior curling title MANITOBA’S CALVERT BEATS SASKATCHEWAN’S HERSIKORN FOR MEN’S TITLE nary-round action, Calvert and his rink of third Kyle Kruz, second Lucas van den Bosch and lead Brendan Wilson, put together a 10-draw win streak to finish the competition with the gold medal.

“I’m in a little bit of shock right now,” said Calvert. “We’re just overwhelmed and super-excited about winning the national championship, and I’m sure it’ll sink in a little bit more tomorrow.”

Manitoba never trailed, taking single points in the first two ends, one more in the third and a beautiful chapand-lie deuce in the sixth to go up 5-2.

“It wasn’t an easy shot, and definitely wasn’t easy to look at from the hack,” said Kurz of the sixth-end shot.

“You couldn’t see the inside of it, and if it’s heavy at all, it’s hanging outside

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Kelsey Rocque has done it again.

The 20-year-old Edmonton native captured her second straight women’s gold medal at the Canadian junior curling championships on Saturday night as Alberta beat Ontario’s Chelsea Brandwood 8-2.

Rocque, who won last year’s title with a different lineup (all of whom exhausted their junior eligibility at the end of the season), will now take aim at her second straight world junior women’s title.

She’ll be joined by third Danielle Schmiemann, second Holly Jamieson, lead Jessica Iles and coach AmandaDawn Coderre at the 2015 world junior championships, beginning Feb. 28 in Tallinn, Estonia.

“It definitely doesn’t get tired,” said Rocque.

“To wear that Maple Leaf on your back is absolutely incredible. To do it twice?

There’s no words.”

The Albertans controlled most of the game, taking the lead with a deuce in the fourth end and then adding a steal of one in the sixth when Brandwood was just heavy with her last-rock draw looking at two Alberta counters.

Brandwood had a shot TELUS to get a deuce back in the OPTIK TV seventh but rolled a bit too far on her open hit and settled for a single. Alberta would respond with a deuce in the seventh and never looked back.

Rocque became just the fourth skip to win backto-back Canadian junior women’s titles — the others being Alberta’s Cathy King (1977, 1978), Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt (2001, 2002) and Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes (2008, 2009).

In Estonia, she’ll try to match Scotland’s Eve Muirhead as the only skips to repeat as world junior champions.

His tournament didn’t start the way he wanted it to, but Winnipeg’s Braden Calvert made up for early disappointment the rest of the way.

The defending champion and his rink from Manitoba scored a deuce in the 10th end on Sunday to defeat Saskatchewan’s Jacob Hersikorn 8-6 in the 2015 Canadian junior curling championships finals.

After falling in his opening draw to Quebec’s Felix Asselin in prelimi-

and we’re not getting our deuce. But I had full confidence in him making that shot— he makes those left, right and centre.”

Saskatchewan would bounce back with deuces in the seventh and ninth ends, sandwiched around a Manitoba single to tie the game.

In the 10th, though, Hersikorn’s lastrock draw attempt came up short and Calvert didn’t need to throw his final stone.

“I think being here once and doing it once definitely helped us focus on what we had to do and helped us handle the nerves a bit better,” said Calvert.

“I thought we were a lot more comfortable this year.”

Calvert defeated Alberta’s Karsten Sturmay 7-3 on Friday to lock up a

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Earlier today, Hersikorn threw a double-takeout with the last rock of the game in an 8-6 win over New Brunswick in the semifinals.

The clutch shot put Saskatchewan in the final against Manitoba. “(Hersikorn’s) made a lot of shots when we got in trouble. He clutched up and made those draws, hits, triples and doubles, just to make everything possible to get us where we are,” said Saskatchewan third Cole Tenetuik.

Sunday’s win marked Manitoba’s third straight Canadian juniors men’s gold medal, after Calvert’s victory last year and Matt Dunstone’s win in 2013.

Calvert and his rink will represent Canada at the upcoming world junior curling championships beginning Feb. 28 in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Heritage survey starting this spring

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF All the unique aspects of some older Red Deer homes — from prime ministerial visits to original woodwork — will soon be documented by city officials.

A two-year heritage survey is starting this spring on more than 200 Red Deer properties that are 70-plus years old, said Janet Pennington, the City of Red Deer’s heritage community development co-ordinator.

“This is what municipalities are supposed to do,” she added, under the Alberta Historic Resource Act. But Pennington also believes it’s a worthwhile undertaking for the city’s posterity.

“It’s really nice to have unique heritage buildings in our community,” she added, since their presence reminds us of the Red Deer’s history, and “helps give us a sense of community identity and pride.”

Pennington is confident interesting properties will be discovered during the survey. “We already know of one home where Sir Wilfred Laurier stayed there in 1910. It’s one of the most incredible houses,” she added, although the address couldn’t be revealed out of privacy considerations for the owners.

All never-before-surveyed Red Deer homes and commercial structures built before 1945 will be identified and photographed. “We want to know does the house look like it used to when it was originally built? Does it have vinyl siding on it?” said Pennington.

Building histories will also be compiled so heritage value can be assessed.

Not all older structures are worth preserving. Pennington is interested in finding the exceptional few — whether they are in mostly original condition, or have notable historic significance.

The owners will be approached to see whether they are interested in obtaining municipal or provincial historic designation for these buildings, she said.

This would make it possible to obtain grant money for restoration and conservation. It would also make it much harder to have the structures

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Homes along 43 Ave. like this one between 53 and 55 Streets may be considered for Heritage status. torn down in future — municipal or provincial government permission would be needed and Pennington said it’s virtually never given.

Red Deer has already lost buildings of significance. The downtown Arlington Hotel and the Botterill House, once located on Ross Street across from Jackpot Casino, were both demolished after inspections determined they were structurally too far gone and repairs would be too costly.

Pennington said one goal of the survey, which will cost $120,000 over two years (this year a $30,000 province grant was received and the city matched it), is to hopefully prevent

other notable homes or commercial properties from falling into disrepair.

One eye-catching structure that already has historic designation is the old Red Deer armory and fire hall, which was turned into the children’s section of the Red Deer Public Library.

Pennington said it needs a new cedarshake roof, so the city has applied for a provincial grant towards the $200,000 cost.

Cronquist House is a “Red Deer resource,” while St. Luke’s Church and the Ross Street Cenotaph have received provincial historic designations. Pennington knows some property owners will balk at applying for histor-

ic designations for their buildings out of fear that future renovations will be restricted. But she said the province and municipality have become more accommodating about what’s allowed for historic buildings.

Even expansions projects can be approved, as long as they are in the character of the building, she added.

“They cannot tell an owner, ‘You can’t paint your front door green.’ They are more flexible.”

The second phase of the survey — creating a consolidated inventory of all heritage sites in the city — will be done in 2016. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Kerry Towle will seek Tory nomination

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF “Doing what’s right is always right,” said former Wild Rose MLA Kerry Towle, who’s officially seeking to run as a Tory for the Innisfail/Sylvan Lake riding in the next election.

Towle told about 20 supporters at the Innisfail Legion on Saturday that she never regretted her decision to cross the legislative floor to join the government side last November If she becomes a Progressive Conservative candidate in the next provincial election, she said she will “continue to be a vibrant and strong voice for our seniors, our kids and an agricultural sector that we are all proud of.”

Although Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood also wants the Tory nomination for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Towle is confident she should win the membership vote.

“I am the best and the strongest candidate for this riding, and I intend to prove it . . . I’ve never been afraid of a fight,” she added.

Towle was elected as an opposition Wild Rose Party MLA in 2012, and gained a high profile for her vocal sup-

port of seniors and health care issues.

She became controversial when she and Little Bow MLA Ian Donovan left the party to join the governing Tories.

This started a Wild Rose exodus — nine other opposition party members, including former leader Danielle Smith, also joined the Progressive Conservative government a month later.

And Albertans who supported the Wild Rose Party reacted by expressing outrage and betrayal.

Towle acknowledged some displeasure remains about her floor-crossing.

But she counted 40 angry constituents out of 629 people who contacted her over the last couple of months, so she believes there’s “overwhelmingly” more support.

“I was always on the side of offering a solution and not just pointing out what’s wrong” with government policies, said Towle, who noted many people had told her during the last provincial byelection that “Wild Rose had gotten really negative and that was not right for Alberta . . .

“It’s time to stop the negativity and work together for all Albertans.”

Towle stressed she would be a “proud” part of the Tory team in the election, which is rumoured to be

planned for this spring.

New leader Jim Prentice offers a clear vision and “solid suggestions on how to move forward”— including ideas on dealing with falling oil prices and for diversifying the provincial economy, said the MLA, who suggested these were lacking under former PC leader Alison Redford.

Towle’s nomination was endorsed on Saturday by Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis, who stood by her in Innisfail.

Denis described her as a caring, hard-working politician who fights for victims’ rights in the criminal justice system, and other important causes.

No matter on which side of the legislature Towle has sat, “Kerry puts your interests first and wants to be your representative in Edmonton and not the other way around,” he added.

Denis urged Albertans to sign on as Tory party members, so they can vote for Towle as riding representative — and also to ask four friends to sign on too. “This will involve a lot of hard work. We will need each of your votes.”

Towle, who has two daughters with her husband Brad Towle, said her eyes are open to how the political process works. “Constituents, I do it for you.

By LANA MICHELIN Advocate staff

Kerry Towle, MLA for Innisfail/Sylvan Lake, announces she’s seeking the riding’s Tory nomination for the next provincial election. Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis lends his support at the Innisfail Legion.

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Unleashing the creativity of the streets

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Art from the Streets is encouraging people to unleash their creativity and perhaps pickup some insight into their lives.

Heidi Pedersen, who is studying to be an art therapist, is one of the volunteers at the downtown art studio and gallery, located at 4935 51st St. in Red Deer, next to Potter’s Hands soup kitchen.

“The thing about art is it kind of bypasses the filter. When you’re just talking with someone, you have the chance to think about what you’re going to say before you say it and you can do that editing and make sure you’re saying just the right thing. When you’re making art, you don’t necessarily have that filter. It’s all right there on the page,” said Pedersen, who will be volunteering at the studio until mid-April to listen to what people want to say about the paintings or drawings they create.

She said it’s when people talk about their art that they discover insights into their own issues.

But they don’t have to talk if they don’t want to, she said.

Pedersen, who is enrolled in distance learning program with Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in Nelson, B.C.,

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Artist Heidi Pedersen, right, and Roz Kathrein work on their projects at the Art From the Streets program at Potters Hands in downtown Red Deer. said during her studies she has also noticed that people with an addiction are less controlled by their addiction when they are focused on making art.

Art from the Streets has been operating for about five years in space

donated by Potter’s Hands and encourages people facing challenges, like homelessness or addiction, to drop in.

Art supplies and admission are free.

Art volunteer Gertie Clark said interest has waned. Currently only about

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five people visit on a regular basis.

“We want to stir up the interest again,” Clark said.

Pedersen said people certainly don’t need art experience to participate.

“It’s kind of a misconception that you have to be an artist to do art. You really don’t have to be. Anyone can come. Anyone can join. We’re not doing anything fancy here,” said Pedersen as she doodled with pastels.

Volunteer Roz Kathrein, a native arts and crafts instructor, said she’s seen people create some fabulous art through the years after they claimed they couldn’t even draw a stick man.

“Nobody is really born an artist. If you have the incentive to try, and you keep doing it, you just get better at it.

That goes for anything you do,” Kathrein said.

She said making arts and crafts are helpful ways to reduce stress and boost a person’s spirit.

“You feel like you’ve accomplished something and you start feeling good about yourself.”

Art from the Streets operates Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Who is the middle class?

CANADIAN POLITICIANS FOCUS ON THE GROUP, BUT WHO ARE THEY TALKING TO?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s middle class is the darling of doting politicians everywhere — the focus of a growing list of election promises, the subject of endless speeches, the precious voterich prize whose support can make or break a political party in this year’s federal election.

The importance of the middle class is not in question. But its membership certainly is. Who belongs to this club anyway?

Politicians and economists often have different definitions of the middle class, a demographic Canadians will hear more and more about as the October election date approaches.

“One of the troubles with the term middle class is it’s so elastic and there’s not a clear-cut definition,” said Charles Beach, an economist and Queen’s University professor emeritus.

In research literature, Beach said there are two different arbitrary yet conventional definitions of the middle class.

One ranks family incomes from poorest to richest and then isolates the middle 50 per cent.

The other method, Beach added, orders all family incomes from lowest to highest, selects the middle income (the median) and then includes everything from between 50 and 150 per cent of that number.

But when it comes to politics, Beach describes the term “middle class” as a convenient phrase politicians can sculpt any way they like to relate to a

large segment of the population, particularly since surveys have shown most Canadians consider themselves part of this group without quite defining what it is.

Politicians have recently offered clues on who they believe fits into the middle class, to varying degrees of detail.

Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver suggested recently that families with kids that have pre-tax, annual incomes of about $120,000 were part of the middle class.

The Opposition New Democrats’ definition focuses on the middle 60 per cent of income earners, while the Liberals describe the segment as the largest group of Canadians whose earnings allow for things like decent housing, education and retirement.

Economists feel more comfortable sticking to statistical models, but even those within the research community have different methods of characterizing it.

An internal Finance Department document produced for Oliver shows that differences exist between political and statistical interpretations of the middle class.

The July memorandum, signed by deputy minister Paul Rochon, defines the middle class as a narrow, 20-percent slice — or the middle fifth — of all Canadian households.

In its example, the department described middle class as households where members 16 and older took home an average 2010 income between $34,400 and $44,900, after adding government transfers and deducting tax-

es.

The department, which included its interpretation in a broader document exploring the “economic situation of Canadians in middle-class families,” acknowledged the subjective nature of the term.

“There is no consensus definition of ’middle class,’ nor is there an official government definition,” said the memo, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Major political parties have already made the middle class a focus of their pre-election discourse.

“If you want to fight for the middle class, you do it by putting more of their money back in their pockets,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said at a Jan. 25 campaign-style event in the Ottawa area.

NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen said parties attempt to woo the middle class because so many people think of themselves as part of this demographic — even some of those making more than $250,000 per year.

Cullen doesn’t think there’s a perfect statistical definition for the middle class, but he says his party focuses its policies on the middle three fifths of income earners — or 60 per cent of Canadians. Economically speaking, he described the well-being of that segment as a key indicator of the country’s economic health.

“That’s a critical component of an advanced economy,” Cullen said in a recent interview.

“If that middle group is not doing well, it’s almost impossible for the

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economy in general to be doing well.”

The Liberals were less specific in describing the middle class.

Liberal finance critic Scott Brison said in an email that many experts have differing views on where the middle class starts and ends, particularly when accounting for the regional cost of living and family size.

Without setting statistical parameters, Brison defined the demographic recently as “the broadest swath of Canadians whose working income gives them the capacity to provide decent housing, quality of life, and a good education for their families, while saving for a dignified retirement.”

Kevin Milligan, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, says economists prefer to leave middle-class descriptions to people in other fields.

“That’s very much a sociology concept that I’m not comfortable defining,” said Milligan, who has been an occasional adviser to the Liberal Party on economic policy.

“I tend to prefer to look at numbers and I define things in those ways .... I’m happy to talk about what happens in the middle of the income distribution or the median or the middle quintile.”

One method of defining the middle class from a median income is by setting parameters that encompass all incomes between 75 and 150 per cent of the median number.

The Finance Department document also crunched the numbers this way using the 2010 income data. In this example, it identified “middle class” as 47 per cent of Canadians.

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This photo provided by McDonald’s shows a portion of their 60-second “Pay With Lovin’” spot that’s part of a Valentine’s Day promotion that will start today. The restaurant will give away free meals to random U.S. customers who agree to “Pay with Lovin’” for two weeks. McDonald’s will accept fists bumps, dances and calls to loved ones with heartfelt messages instead of paying for their meal by more traditional methods. The promotion was announced through a Youtube video released on Friday and was also mentioned as the subject for the company’s Super Bowl ad on Sunday.

Decades of boom-and-bust commodity prices, worker shortages and being at the mercy of the weather has virtually removed the word optimism from the vocabulary of many Canadian farmers. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many are looking at the current run of low fuel costs with a certain degree of suspicion.

“At the moment things are good right now,” said Lynn Jacobson, president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, who also farms 600 hectares near Enchant. “If it lasts into spring is going to be another question. In the long run, though, you’ve got to think about all the infrastructure that relies on that fuel price and if some of that stuff is delayed or not done that could hurt us in the future too.”

The recent plunge in fuel prices has been a welcome relief across the agricultural sector, helping ease the pain of low grain prices for growers and boosting profits for cattle ranchers.

One of the biggest costs on the farm is fuel for farm equipment.

Diesel fuel has dropped significantly to less than $1 a litre on the Prairies.

“It’s significant on a larger farm if you can lower your fuel costs by a third,” said Gary Stanford, who farms 2,000 hectares southwest of Lethbridge.

But there is doubt.

“If the oil price stays down too low, and the federal government can’t afford to keep their budgets going, and they start looking for revenue, I’m hoping they’re not going to try and put this on the back of farmers and raise our taxes,” Stanford said.

Converting your RRSP to a RRIF At some point in their lives, Canadi- sult in a big tax hit. With an annuity, ans who have a registered retirement you lock in for the rest of your life (insavings plan (RRSP) will have to de- terest rates are very low right now) and cide what they are going to do with all you lose control of your money. The the money they’ve socked away over majority of Canadians (more than 80 the years for their retireper cent) choose a RRIF.” ment.

Many Canadians may not The majority of Canadibe fully aware of the tax ans convert their RRSP inimplications of RRIF withto a registered retirement drawals and whether conincome fund (RRIF) after version to a RRIF requires a they turn 71. change in the plan’s investA RRIF is an extension ment strategy. of an RRSP. While an RRSP There are a number of is used to save for retirereasons why the timing of ment, a RRIF is used to sysconverting to a RRIF is imtematically draw income portant. during retirement.

Once you convert to a Under current rules, an RRIF you are required to TALBOT RRSP must be converted eiwithdraw a certain amount BOGGS ther to an RRIF, an annuity, each year. Withdrawals are or paid out in a lump sum considered taxable income by the end of the calendar and are added to your other year in which you turn 71. income. Withdrawing funds “Converting to a RRIF is the most early or withdrawing more than resensible option and is the overwhelm- quired may end up putting you in a ing choice of most Canadians,” said higher tax bracket.

Sylvain Brisebois, managing director As well, once funds are withdrawn of BMO Nesbitt Burns in Ottawa. from your RRIF you lose the benefit of “Cashing out your RRSP could re- tax-deferred growth.

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Assuming you start at age 71, the withdrawal rate is 7.38 per cent of the value of your portfolio, rising each year in increments to 8.75 per cent by age 80, 13.62 per cent at age 90 and a maximum withdrawal of 20 per cent at age 94 and beyond.

If your spouse is younger than you are, you can base minimum payments on his or her age, allowing for lower minimum payments and tax-deferred growth of your investments for a longer period of time.

Your taxable income from your RRIF and other sources can impact your eligibility for government benefits such as the old age security and could result in a reduction and clawback of some of these benefits.

So consider timing and the amount you need to withdraw before making a decision.

Your RRIF can hold a variety of investments, just like your RRSP, and you may want to select a diversified portfolio that allows for both the flexibility of short-term funds to withdraw annually, as well as longer-term equities or mutual funds for growth.

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RRIF does not necessarily mean you should change your investment strategy.

“If you convert to a RRIF, your portfolio probably should not undergo a lot of change,” Brisebois said. “The change being made is due to the passing of time, not the fact that money is moving from an RRSP to a RRIF.” There are also estate considerations associate with RRIFs. Consider naming your spouse as the successor annuitant of your RRIF. This designation allows RRIF payments to continue to go to the surviving spouse without interruptions and minimizes estate administration and taxes.

“Studies have shown that about 40 per cent of Canadians don’t fully understand the tax implications of RRIF withdrawals,” Brisebois said. “Advisers have a lot of work to do in this area on behalf of their customers.”

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

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Traders to focus on oilpatch, jobs data

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Earnings news and a heavy slate of economic data will set the tone on stock markets this week.

Investors will get the first of the quarterly earnings reports from energy sector heavyweights such as Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) and Suncor Energy (TSX:SU).

Markets are already braced for lower profits. Analysts expect Imperial Oil to post earnings per share of 83 cents, down sharply from $1.24 a year ago.

And Suncor’s earnings are expected to come in at 43 cents, a long way from last year’s 66 cents.

But the big question is what sort of outlook can be expected in an environment where oil prices have plunged about 40 per cent just since the end of November. That is when OPEC ruled out cutting production levels to support prices that had already started to fall sharply from the highs of last summer.

“With the volatility in oil prices, it’s going to be near impossible for any oil

STOCK MARKET LOOK AHEAD company to give accurate guidance as to where things are going to go,” said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at Raymond James in Ottawa.

“How can (senior managers) make any sort of projection, run any sort of model. They don’t know if the price of oil is going to be higher or lower?”

Several energy companies have already moved to slash capital spending and some have decided to cut dividend payments to preserve cash flow.

“So, in this environment for the oil companies, it’s a function of staying lean, keeping costs under control and getting through the storm,” Pashootan said.

“We know at some point oil prices will start to go back up to what is more reasonable. The question is when.”

Oil prices ended last week on an up note, moving as high as US$48, bouncing off mid-week levels around $45.

Markets will be also looking to a raft of American data as the U.S. economy

has been the top global economic performer for many months. Growth in China has stalled and the European Central Bank is just now embarking on a program of quantitative easing aimed at stabilizing the eurozone economy and boosting inflation.

Markets will digest data on growth in the American manufacturing sector when the Institute for Supply Management releases its January survey on Monday. Factory orders and vehicle sales data come out Tuesday, the latest trade picture is released Thursday and the week is capped off by the latest snapshot of American job growth.

Economists are looking for the U.S. economy to continue a trend that has seen the creation of around 250,000 new positions a month.

“It certainly did look like through the end of last year, and hopefully into the start of this year, that the U.S. economy and the job market had regained some significant momentum . .

United Steelworkers calls on workers at 9 US refineries to strike after contract talks stall

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The United Steelworkers Union called for its refinery workers to stage their largest walkout in more 30 years Sunday, saying its negotiations with Shell Oil Co. broke down less than two weeks after they began.

The union asked about 3,800 workers at nine refineries mostly in Texas and California to strike shortly after their previous contract expired after midnight.

Negotiations over a new contract started Jan. 21. The call for a strike happened after United Steelworkers, or USW, rejected Shell’s fourth contract offer. The union said Shell refused to provide a counter offer and that the company’s representatives had left the bargaining table.

“We had no choice but to give notice of a work stoppage,” USW International President Leo W. Gerard said in a statement.

A Shell representative said in an email that the company remains “committed to resolving our differences with USW at the negotiating table to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement.”

USW Spokeswoman Lynne Hancock said the union wants a three-year contract and is focused on health care costs, safety, the use of contractors and staffing concerns, as well as wages.

ICAO holds safety meeting on aircraft tracking, conflict zone flights

United Steelworkers represents about 30,000 workers at refineries, terminals, petrochemical plants and pipelines across the country. Shell is serving as the lead company in national oil bargaining talks with the union.

Any agreement reached between the union and Shell would then be used as a pattern for negotiations involving local unions.

The union called for a strike at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, the Shell Deer Park Refinery in Deer Park, Texas, and the Tesoro Carson Refinery in Carson, California, among other locations.

Shell said its Deer Park operation has started strike contingency plans and will continue operations “in the normal course of business.” It did not elaborate on the plans in a brief statement.

The remaining sites not targeted for a strike will operate under contract extensions that renew every 24 hours until one side in the negotiations decides that they have reached an impasse, Hancock said.

She added that negotiators normally reach an agreement on a new deal by the time these national contracts expire, or they extend the contract a few days to continue negotiations.

“We haven’t had a work stoppage like this since 1980,” she said.

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Greece’s new prime minister says he won’t clash with creditors, will pay debts off A day after Greece appeared on a collision course with its creditors, new radical left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tamped down the rhetoric by vowing to pay off debts and not act unilaterally. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who had a tense meeting with Eurogroup leader Jeroen Dijsselbloem in Athens on Friday, has brought forward a trip to Paris, London and Rome to meet his counterparts.

. ,” said David Watt, chief economist at HSBC Canada.

“Certainly the (U.S.) oilpatch will get squeezed but hopefully the broader gains in the rest of the U.S. economy will still create a positive job environment.”

Canadian jobs data also comes out Friday and economists expect Statistics Canada to report that the economy cranked out 5,000 jobs in January.

That is below the average monthly pace of 10,000 jobs a month registered in 2014 but then expectations for this year are very modest.

“For 2015, the fallout from the energy sector will be felt in private payrolls out west, while government hiring will get hit from lower (oil) royalties and related restraint,” said CIBC World Markets economist Nick Exarhos.

“We can only hope manufacturing will use the lift provided by the weaker Canadian dollar to spur employment growth in the back half of the year.”

The TSX ended last week with a gain of 113 points or 0.8 per cent while New York’s Dow industrials fell 389 points or 2.22 per cent.

Tsipras says he never intended to act unilaterally and expressed his certainty that Greece and the creditors will reach an agreement. He also pledged to pay back Greece’s debt to the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which, along with the European Commission, form the “troika” of Greece’s creditors. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias by telephone on Friday to congratulate him on his appointment and underscore “the United States’ interest in continued close bilateral co-operation with Greece,” said a State Department official.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The International Civil Aviation Organization will hold a high-level safety meeting this week to look at the global tracking of commercial aircraft and flights over conflict zones.

More than 800 participants are expected to attend the four-day international gathering at ICAO’s Montreal headquarters.

The United States, Australia, the Netherlands and Malaysia are sending large delegations to the conference.

ICAO, the UN agency that governs civil aviation, says on its website the conference will review the current situation, look at how to manage aviation safety in the future and study ways to increase regional co-operation.

Emerging safety issues will be discussed Tuesday.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 last March serves as the backdrop. The plane went down while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The meeting will review an industry report that was the result of a task force set up by the International Air Transport Association following the tragedy. The report, submitted late last year, noted there are areas of the world where tracking capabilities are limited by interference issues and the lack of communications infrastructure.

The task force came up with a set of performance criteria that include identifying the position of an aircraft at least every 15 minutes.

The vast majority of commercial flights are fully tracked, but there are gaps in certain areas of the world.

IATA, whose 250 member airlines represent almost 85 per cent of all air traffic, notes that more than 100,000 daily flights operate safely around the world.

The ICAO conference will also look at recommendations on how to deal with risks to civil aviation that occur in conflict zones.

Last July, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a surface-toair missile while flying over a war-torn section of Ukraine.

ICAO acted quickly, setting up a task force of state and industry experts to look at risks to commercial aircraft over conflict zones.

The group met several times in 2014 and in August agreed to set up two pilot projects.

One involves the establishment of a new centralized system that would promptly share information about the risks of operating in conflict zones.

ICAO says a European version of the system has already undergone some preliminary trials. The other project will explore how the so-called NOTAM system that’s already in place could be better used to share urgent and critical information. NOTAMs are notices issued by government agencies and airport operators to alert pilots to potential hazards along a flight route that could affect safety. ICAO works with its 191 member states and global aviation organizations to develop international standards and recommended practices.

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“That’s wrong; that has to change,” OTTAWA — The head of a new international commission wants Cana- said Rudd, adding Baird is just the da’s tough-talking foreign affairs min- person to help him to “structurally alister to help him reform the United ter the rules” of the WHO. “He’s what I would call a pragmatic Nations World Health Organization internationbecause it alist. And responded ‘YOU HAVE INSTITUTIONAL CRED it’s practitoo slowly AND GRUNT BECAUSE YOU ARE cal probto the Ebola lem-solving, A MIDDLE POWER, WHICH OVER crisis. rather than Former DECADES HAS CONTRIBUTED SO having a Australian MUCH TO THE UN SYSTEM.’ seminar on prime mincastles in ister Kevin — KEVIN RUDD the air” that Rudd is FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA will lead to the head change, said of the InRudd. dependent “He speaks with a high degree of Commission on Multilateralism and he slipped into Ottawa largely unnoticed credibility from a realist perspective; this past week to meet one of his co- he wants to see the UN function and chairs: Foreign Affairs Minister John function effectively.”

Rudd addressed top-level managers Baird.

Baird and Borge Brende, his Nor- and experts within Foreign Affairs, wegian counterpart, are co-chairing and said he wants to tap them to help him in his two-year mandate to recomthe commission.

It aims to repair what many see as mend changes to UN institutions.

He said Canadian officials “know an ineffective UN system to help it cope better with threats to global se- the UN system backwards” and have curity such as terrorism and interna- decades of experience.

“You have institutional cred and tional pandemics.

Baird and Prime Minister Stephen grunt because you are a middle power, Harper have frequently criticized the which over decades has contributed so UN, the world’s largest multilateral much to the UN system,” he said.

Rudd’s upbeat assessment on Canbody, as being ineffective and inward ada’s engagement with the UN is in looking.

Many international observers, in- contrast to a view presented earlier in cluding the departing French ambas- the week by the French ambassador, sador to Canada this past week, have who said he’s noticed Canada distancnoted with alarm that the Harper gov- ing itself from the institution in recent years. ernment is pulling away from the UN. Philippe Zeller cited the Harper But Rudd says Baird’s tough-minded approach makes him a good fit as a government’s decision to withdraw partner over the next two years as he from the Kyoto Protocol and the Conseeks concrete ways to make the WHO vention to Combat Desertification and its decisions not to join the Arms more efficient.

Rudd said he’s focusing on recom- Trade Treaty or ratify the Convention mendations that will help make key on Cluster Munitions.

“When it’s such a question as to how UN institutions run better.

That includes the decades-long as- to deal with desertification — well, it’s piration to reform the Security Coun- difficult to accept, to see a leader like cil, which has been hopelessly dead- Canada, countries that are known for having developed aid policy since the locked on the Syrian crisis.

Rudd has also joined other critics 1960s, to decide to go out.”

The UN desertification convention who have blasted the WHO for being too slow to respond to the West Africa fights the spread of droughts. Harper has said Canada withdrew because the Ebola outbreak.

“In the 21st century, with globaliza- program is too bureaucratic.

Rudd’s commission was launched tion and mass communication, mass movements of people, we must have last fall by the International Peace a fully competent integrated global Institute, a non-profit think tank headhealth system which can say, ’we have quartered next to the UN in New York a problem,’ and send a red flare up City.

Baird has been outspoken about the straight away,” Rudd said in an interneed for the UN to reform, but has view on Friday.

The problem, he said, is not with usually singled out the UN Human the leadership of WHO director gen- Rights Commission for criticism, not eral Margaret Chan, but with struc- the WHO.

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CARROT RIVER, Sask. — Mounties and citizens are searching the trails around a northern Saskatchewan community after a woman got a wrongnumber phone call from someone who claimed she crashed her snowmobile.

RCMP say the caller told the woman on Saturday that she was trying to reach her grandmother, Katherine Pierce, to say she had run into a tree while riding with her sister about six or seven kilometres from Carrot River.

The caller said her name was Cassandra, but there’s no last name.

She told the woman she was disoriented and couldn’t remember her grandmother’s phone number.

The number she called from was blocked and police say they haven’t been able to trace it.

Staff Sgt. Chad McLeod says investigators have tried to find the grandmother but haven’t had any success.

“They’ve tried to find ’Katherine Pierce’ in the Carrot River or Nipawin areas and there’s nobody, and that just adds to the mystery,” McLeod said.

He said the information was also

clouded by the fact that it was being relayed to police second-hand from the woman who got the wrong-number call.

“The lady did the best she could but she was probably caught off guard at the time,” McLeod said.

Police say they are concerned about the well-being of the two people.

In 2010, Kerri Canepotatoe, 18, died after walking for help when she and three others got stuck on a logging road in Saskatchewan and a civilian RCMP dispatcher got distracted and forgot to send a tow truck.

Her cellphone call to an RCMP call centre died, and while she was able to give partial directions about her location, a robbery call that came in afterward and the dispatcher never forward the information for follow-up.

McLeod said the call about the snowmobilers could be a hoax, but police don’t know that, and must continue to search for them until they determine otherwise.

“We have to keep going until we rule out other options,” McLeod said.

McLeod said there isn’t a lot of snow around Carrot River at the moment, which means there aren’t a lot of trails the snowmobilers may be on.

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Soulful Noize is an accomplished local band made up of musicians with disabilities — but not defined by any limitations.

In fact, group members are building a following because of their abilities.

“We just walk to a different song,” stated Soulful Noize’s drummer James Hutcheson.

The band is building a demanding repertoire, performing Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall and other selections.

Soulful Noize was created about a year and a half ago. The band members — vocalist and bassist Terrence Delaney, pianist Richard Langohr, African drum and tambourine player Larissa Campeau, drummer Hutcheson, and bassist and band leader Tom Ball — share similar tastes in music, and connect with each other and the audiences through this passion.

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BIGGER SUPER BOWL WEEKEND GROSS EVER NEW YORK — American Sniper shot down another box-office record: Its $31.9 million is the biggest Super Bowl weekend gross ever.

According to studio estimates Sunday, the Clint Eastwood film narrowly surpassed the previous top Super Bowl weekend draw.

The concert film Hannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour earned $31.1 million earned in 2008.

Hollywood often avoids competing with the Super Bowl as movie-going falls dramatically on Sunday, but American Sniper has proven an unlikely sensation.

It has now made $248.9 million in six weeks (and only four weeks of wide release), making it the most lucrative war movie without adjusting for inflation. (The distinction was previously held by Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.)

The competition was thin, as Hollywood held off any high-profile releases, largely ceding the weekend to football.

The Weinstein Co. animated adaptation Paddington came in a distant second with $8.5 million in its third weekend.

In a virtual tie with it was Paramount’s found-footage, time-travelling thriller Project Almanac.

Made by Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, Project Almanac led a trio of new releases with modest box-office ambitions.

Black or White, a racially-charged custody drama that reteams Kevin Costner with The Upside of Anger director Mike Binder, opened in fourth with $6.5 million.

Costner put up his own money to help finance the film, which Relativity Media distributed.

Open Road’s The Loft, a much-delayed remake of a 2008 Dutch thriller directed by its original filmmaker, Erik Van Looy, attracted little interest. It made just $2.9 million.

That wasn’t much more than the $1.5 million pulled in by a package of TV reruns.

The HBO series Game of Thrones earned that in 205 Imax theatres by showing previously aired episodes ahead of the April debut of the show’s fifth season.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak.

Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. American Sniper, $31.9 million.

2. Paddington, $8.5 million.

3. Project Almanac, $8.5 million.

4. Black or White, $6.5 million.

5. The Boy Next Door, $6.1 million.

6. The Wedding Ringer, $5.7 million.

7. The Imitation Game, $5.2 million.

8. Taken 3, $3.7 million.

9. Strange Magic $3.4 million.

10. The Loft, $2.9 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theatres (excluding the U.S. and Canada), according to Rentrak: 1. Taken 3, $31.4 million.

2. Seventh Son, $21.7 million.

3. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, $17.8 million.

4. Penguins of Madagascar, $16.3 million.

5. Exodus: Gods and King, $10.9 million.

6. Miss Granny, $9 million.

7. The Theory of Everything, $8 million.

8. Into the Woods, $7.3 million.

9. Big Hero 6, $7.2 million.

10. Ode to My father, $7 million.

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“My love goes out to the entire cast and crew,” Gomez-Rejon said. “This movie was about processing loss, but really to celebrate a beautiful life and a beautiful man, which is my amazing father ... to celebrate his life through humour.” The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle’s documentary about six movieloving teenage boys isolated from society picked up the grand jury prize for best documentary.

“I stalked these kids on the street one day and here I am,” Moselle said.

Comedian Tig Notaro, whose documentary Tig premiered at the Festival, hosted the ceremony. She also told the audience that she used to volunteer at the Festival in the mid-’90s.

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Calgary’s hard-rocking grunge band Burning Daisy will perform on Saturday at The Zoo in the Innisfail Hotel.

The band formed in 2012 is led by Irish native Liz Pomery, who harmonizes to catchy hard rock with bassist Al Pujo and guitarist Jonny Vincent.

Burning Daisy, which became known for doing a series of flood-relief concerts in Calgary in 2013, finally put out an album that was two years in the making, Evil Monkey.

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MACNAMEE Henry “Kenny” Aug. 8, 1946 - Jan. 26, 2015 Born in Jamaica Henry Dwight Rodriques McNamee (Kenny to his friends and family) was born August 8, 1946 to Kermit and Nora McNamee. Kenny was the youngest of five children.

He leaves behind two sisters, June McNamee and Barbra Hamilton and two brothers, Geoff and Tony McNamee.

Kenny has two nieces, Tanya Hamilton and Sarah McNamee, and three nephews, Michael Hamilton, and Justin and Jason McNamee. He also has two great nieces, Sydnee and Marley. The world lost one of its special people on January 26, 2015. Kenny, we hope you’re getting your fill of Ackee, salt fish, and green banana! May heaven be kinder to you than this world was. Kenny marched to the beat of his own drum and that’s what made him so special. Ya always knew he cared about his friends and family. Kenny had a huge heart, and we miss him everyday! We love you Bredren!! Kenny came to Canada 35 years ago from Jamaica. To all his friends from Red Deer and everywhere, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Toronto.

Kenny made his way all over.

He was a great carpenter, drywaller, basically, a jack of all trades. Red Deer seemed to be the place that Kenny would always come back to.

All the women in his life were all his girlfriends. He was quite the charmer, a ladies man to say. He will be sadly, sadly missed from his family and friends. Kenny will leave this world with integrity, respect, and his intelligence.

A memorial of Kenny will be at Loaves & Fishes on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 11 a.m.

PHILION Anne Marlene (nee Chenier) Mar. 6, 1941 - Jan. 29, 2015 Anne passed away suddenly at the age of 73 years. She leaves behind her siblings; daughter, Michelle; grandson, Vince; and great grandson, James; as well as the other loves of her life, Benji, Bailey and Rollie. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the S.P.C.A. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

McCORRY Frederick January 29, 2015 Fred was born in Camrose in 1954 to Rose and Paddy, he was the second youngest of six children. Rose then re-married Bob Sakowsky, who became Fred’s second Dad. Fred spent his first 34 years in Camrose during which time he made many lifelong friends. Fred’s family started in 1977 with the birth of his daughters; Tanya, Shyla and Brittany. Fred then moved with his wife, Kerry, and children to Kelowna and dabbled in many adventures and again acquired some lifetime friends. In 2001, Fred and his family moved back to Alberta settling in Red Deer were he started his painting business. Fred leaves to mourn his wife of 34 years Kerry (Chadwick); his daughters, Tanya McGinnis and her children, Connor, Rowyn and Isibeal; Shyla Jensen (Jamie), Doryen and Maddy; Brittany White (Jeff) and Riley. He also leaves behind numerous extended family and friends.

Fred was predeceased by his father Paddy, his mother Rose, sister Helen, son-inlaw Matt and nephew Tyler.

Fred loved life, had an incredible sense of humor and never sat still for long.

He loved the outdoors, fishing, golfing, music trivia, (“The Oilers”) and his second home, Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

His last years were very busy with his family - especially his grandchildren whom he adored. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

In Memoriam KIRSCHENMAN, Bruce William February 1, 1979.

You will always walk beside us.

Love Mom and sister Brendalee

309-3300

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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P/T COOK WANTED ~ Weekends & evenings. also Till/Coffee cart person, P/t to F/T. Phone Donnetta @ Red Deer Bingo Centre 403-347-4504

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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COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

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CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

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Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719

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GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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A year ago today, God took you to his side.

We said our goodbyes, with tears we could not hide.

Wife, Mom and Grandma, all in one.

Your gifts to us will never be undone.

During the year, events have come and gone.

Your presence isn’t here, but your spirit lives on.

We are a progressive company and require an individual for our Blackfalds office who enjoys being busy and can adapt to a constantly changing environment. Duties include health and safety support and advisement, fielding of paperwork, safety statistics, maintenance and addition to Safe Work Manual, field site audits and other safety duties as required. Previous health & safety experience in a civil underground utility construction industry preferred. NCSO designation an asset.

Lovingly remembered by your children, Brenda (Darcy), Craig (Audrey), and grandchildren: Payden, Chase and Nolan

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits.

Fax resume to Human Resources: 403-885-9122 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

FT and PT shunt truck drivers needed in Innisfail, AB. Fax resume to 403-227-2743 or call 403-227-2712 for more information.

TURPLE BROS. LTD. Is taking resumes for: Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing or power sport industry.

F/T positions avail.

Please email resume to HR Department brenda@turplebros.ca

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ProServe Certificate and 37543 HWY 2N Fax resume w/drivers be fully exp. in wine 700 3020 22 St. abstract to 403-886-4475 service. Professional FOOD ATTENDANT appearance is a definite Req’d permanent shift requirement. weekend day and evening Must have Ref’s & Exp. both full and part time.

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Locally based, home every Apply in person or fax Aides night! Qualified applicants resume to: 403-314-1303 must have all necessary FT child caregiver in Red valid tickets for the position Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid being applied for. & CPR. Supervise and Bearspaw offers a care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, very competitive salary 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. and benefits package THE RUSTY PELICAN is pret_lady@yahoo.ca along with a steady now accepting resumes for work schedule.

FT CHILDCARE help in 4 F/T Exp’d Please submit resumes: Penhold HS grad LINE COOKS at Attn: Human Resources supervise in absence of all stations. MUST HAVE: Email: parents, meal prep., LUCKY’S LOUNGE payroll@bearspawpet.com located in Jackpot Casino, • 2 yrs. relevant exp., housekeep, $10.66/hr; Fax: (403) 252-9719 or 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset requires Waitress’s completion of High Mail to: Suite 5309, genedith2004@yahoo.com Fri. - Sun. Please apply in School, be reliable, 333-96 Ave. NE person at 4950 47 Ave. self motivated, work FULL-TIME IN-HOME Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 No phone calls please well under limited caregiver for employer supervision in fast ejabagat at 36 Jamieson paced environment.

Ave., Red Deer for four Restaurant/ children: newborn, 20 mo.

Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years Hotel hr. wk. dependant on exp. old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and 733644 Ab Ltd. some light housekeeping.

O/A The Rusty Pelican $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high Location of employment: school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp.

4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Call (403) 986-4154 or Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com email: bennett2014.bkkp@ gmail.com or Call 403-347-1414 Clerical or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected Administrative Assistant for an interview will be (part-time) opportunity contacted. available at Our Lady of Victory Camp. For more THE RUSTY PELICAN is information please go to now accepting resumes for www.olvc.ab.ca or www.

Exp. Bartenders, caedm.ca/careers Full knowledge of all Start your career! cocktails, inventory control, must be of professional See Help Wanted nature and be capable of working all shifts.

Apply within: 2079-50 Dental Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be IMMEDIATE OPENING accepted. Only candidates FOR EXP’D. DENTAL selected for interview will RECEPTIONIST be contacted.

We offer competitive wages & flexible hours.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is Must be willing to work days, now accepting resumes for evenings & some Saturdays.

F/T DISHWASHER Please drop off resume Must maintain work ATTN: Marina station to sanitary at Bower Dental Centre measures and be capable or email: of working all shifts. marina@bowerdental.com Apply within: 2079-50 UNIQUE exp. Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. HYGIENIST required.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone New grads welcome. P/T calls WILL NOT be to F/T position. accepted. Only Candidates Please drop off resume selected for interview will ATTN: Marina be contacted. at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com

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Plant Laborer for our Kuusamo facility.

The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11.

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Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing.

Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299

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LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

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APARTMENT size fridge $100 or trade for small apt. size deep freeze, 403-348-1905 LG WHITE over the range microwave oven, 1000 watts, Model MV-1510M, exc. cond., $175 403-352-8811

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DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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Mobile Lot

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PADS $450/mo.

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Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo. also Timberstone Way, 2 blks. of Timothy Drive and Trump Pl. $97.00/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, roof snow removal?

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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1/2 DUPLEX, Kentwood area, bi-level, 2 bdrm, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, deck, fenced yard, shed, for sale by owner, $247,600. Move in ready 403-505-6742

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

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A lifestyle you have more than earned Stunning new Laebon home in the Timbers-Red Deer 1426 sq.ft. 3 bdrms/2baths, large private master suite $499,900 Call Samantha 403.392.6261

ANDERS AREA Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres.

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1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 154,000 km.403-352-6995

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Metcalf Ave. Martin / Muldrew Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

J.J.Lehane, Q.C. Johnston Ming Manning (Innisfail) LLP Barristers and Solicitors at: 5035-49th Street Innisfail, Alberta, T4G 1V3 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of LAURA JORDAN who passed away on May 25, 2014 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by March 4, 2015 and provide details of your claim with: BMO Trust Company 5th Floor, 10199 - 101 St NW Edmonton, AB T5J 3Y4 Attention: Jenna Carvalho, Trust Officer If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

Notice to Creditors and Claimants ESTATE OF

DEWEY ALLAN BALL

Amazing new Laebon Home 1452 sq.ft. modified who died on bi-level with large private January 1, 2015 master suite 3 bdrms/2baths $394,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by

March 9, 2015 and provide details of your claim with:

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Ukranian war displacing thousands MANY FLEE AS SEPARATIST OFFENSIVE INTENSIFIES IN EAST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SVYATOHIRSK, Ukraine — As fighting escalates around the town Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, a growing wave of civilians are fleeing their homes, taking the risk of being struck by stray projectiles on their way, and often leaving family members behind.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that around 1,000 of Debaltseve’s residents have been evacuated in the past days. Many end up at a government-owned holiday camp in the resort town of Svyatohirsk, where the sound of artillery fire is replaced with an uneasy quiet.

“With every slam of the door or whistle, we are reminded of the explosions and everything that happened.

But we are getting used to the quiet, which is an unusual feeling,” said Ira Akhmutova, 15, who left Debaltseve together with her mother and the few things they could carry.

“My dad and my grandmother are still in Debaltseve. Telephone connections are very poor and I am very worried about them,” Akhmutova said.

Fighting has been most intense in the last week around the governmentheld town, a strategically valuable railway hub that has been almost entirely encircled by rebel forces. Only one road remains open for escape, and that has been targeted by artillery fire.

Ukraine’s government said Sunday that 13 of its troops were killed and another 20 wounded in a day of fighting across the east.

Among those who left their homes to go to Svyatohirsk is Galina Maksimenko, 63, and one of her granddaughters.

After one episode of heavy shelling, she recalls pleading with her late son’s wife to take her two daughters away from Debaltseve on a government bus for evacuees. The daughter-in-law refused, saying she wanted to remain near her husband’s grave.

“I begged her, said to her: ’You have to save the living. You cannot bring Andrei back. Escape with your children,”’ Maksimenko said.

And still, the daughter-in-law refused to budge.

“So my husband grabbed my coat and that of one of my granddaughters and locked us out in the street. And then he shouted: ’Save this one. If they refuse to be saved, at least try save one of them,” Maksimenko said.

Busses are being dispatched daily to Debaltseve by Ukrainian authorities

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People carry their belongings as they walk to a bus to leave the town of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Saturday. Fighting between government and Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine has intensified in recent days as rebels seek to encircle the town of Debaltseve, which hosts a strategically important railway hub. to carry out as many civilians as possible.

Vasily Stayetsky, deputy chairman of Ukraine state emergency service, told The Associated Press that a projectile crashed Sunday by the town hall, which now serves as a mustering point for those wishing to leave.

“Six people were wounded — Three were civilians, one was a soldier, and another two were representatives of the state emergency services,” Stayetsky said.

Debaltseve has been without power, water, household gas and heating for more than 10 days. Only the relatively mild weather has lightened the extreme discomfort. Mobile phone signals waver between sporadic and nonexistent.

In a Svyatohirsk camp recreation

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room, one six-year old boy, Sergei, filled in a coloring book and casually told of how a shell fell by a shop in Debaltseve. He said he couldn’t tell if it was a Grad or an Uragan rocket.

Prospects for a settlement between the warring sides looked dimmer than ever after negotiations in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, collapsed amid acrimony Saturday.

Ukraine’s envoy at the talks, former President Leonid Kuchma, told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that rebel representatives threatened to renew full-scale hostilities along the entire line of contact between the opposing forces. Kuchma said separatists also demanded to redraw a division line agreed by government and rebel forces in September.

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Horror, fear in Japan after video purports to show IS beheading hostage Goto

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Members of the Russian curling team Kirikov compete during an exhibition curling tournament at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Sunday. St. Bazil’s Cathedral is at the background left.

Islamic extremists attack Nigeria’s biggest city from four fronts

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigerian troops Sunday repelled Islamic extremists who attacked from four fronts on Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, with several civilians killed by aerial bombs and grenades and mortar shells on the ground.

Soldiers said hundreds of insurgents died. Terrified residents fled homes shaking from five hours of heavy artillery fire and streamed in from the outskirts of the besieged city of 2 million, already crowded with another 200,000 refugees from the fighting.

In a separate attack, a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber killed himself and eight others Sunday at the home of politician Sabo Garbu in Potiskum, in neighbouring Yobe state, according to witness Abdullahi Mohammed.

Garbu is contesting a legislative seat in Feb. 14 balloting that includes a presidential election too close to call.

Boko Haram denounces democracy.

For weeks Boko Haram has been closing in on Maiduguri, the group’s spiritual birthplace, and if it were able to plant its Islamic State-style flag there, even briefly, it would give them a major boost as the group loses ground in remoter areas, said Jacob

Zenn, author of a book about the insurgents.

Its third attack in a week on Maiduguri came as Chadian forces launched a winning offensive, acting on an African Union directive for Nigeria’s neighbours to help fight the spreading Islamic uprising by Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram extremists.

International outrage has grown over attacks across the border into Cameroon and increasing ferocity that culminated in the slaughter of hundreds of civilians in Baga on Jan. 3.

A Chadian jet fighter supported by ground troops bombed the extremists out of Gamboru and Kolfata on Saturday and from Malumfatori on Thursday, witnesses said.

Chadian troops in Kolfata were “dancing around their country’s flag and chanting,” farmer Awami Kolobe said, quoting refugees who returned across the border from Cameroon.

The towns had been under the sway of Boko Haram for months. Gamboru is about 140 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri, and Baga is another 100 kilometres north of Gamboru, on Lake Chad, where Nigeria’s borders converge with Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

African leaders at a summit Saturday authorized the creation of a 7,500-strong multinational force to fight Boko Haram.

rebel officials did not address any specific demands, but accused Ukraine of acting in bad faith and pursuing offensive manoeuvrs against their forces and civilians under their jurisdiction.

In Donetsk, the main rebel-held city, three civilians were killed and four wounded in shelling, the city administration said.

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday, a day after a similar call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Merkel’s office said the German, French and Ukrainian leaders voiced disappointment at the failure of Saturday’s talks and called on Russia to use its influence with the separatists to resume the negotiations.

TOKYO — Appalled and saddened by news of journalist Kenji Goto’s purported beheading by Islamic State extremists, Japan ordered heightened security precautions Sunday and said it would persist with its non-military support for fighting terrorism.

The failure to save Goto raised fears for the life of a Jordanian fighter pilot also held by the militant group that controls about a third of both Syria and Iraq. Unlike some earlier messages delivered in the crisis, the video that circulated online late Saturday purporting to show a militant beheading Goto did not mention the pilot.

Jordan renewed an offer Sunday to swap an al-Qaida prisoner for the pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who was seized after his F-16 crashed near the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria, in December.

Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani told The Associated Press that “we are still ready to hand over” Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces death by hanging for her role in triple hotel bombings in Jordan in 2005.

Al-Momani also said his country spared no effort to free Goto.

The slaying of Goto, a freelance reporter whose work focused on refugees, children and other victims of war, shocked this country, which until now had not become directly embroiled in the fight against the militants.

“I feel indignation over this immoral and heinous act of terrorism,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters after convening an emergency Cabinet meeting.

“When I think of the grief of his family, I am left speechless,” he said. “We are filled with deep regret.”

Threats from the Islamic State group prompted an order for tighter security at airports and at Japanese facilities overseas, such as embassies and schools, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said.

He said it would be “inappropriate” to comment on the status of the Jordanian pilot.

With no updates for days, al-Kaseasbeh’s family appealed to the government for information on his situation.

But for Goto’s family and friends, the beheading shattered any hopes for his rescue.

“Kenji has died, and my heart is broken. Facing such a tragic death, I’m just speechless,” Goto’s mother Junko

Ishido told reporters.

“I was hoping Kenji might be able to come home,” said Goto’s brother, Junichi Goto, in a separate interview. “I was hoping he would return and thank everyone for his rescue, but that’s impossible, and I’m bitterly disappointed.”

According to his friends and family, Goto travelled to Syria in late October to try to save Haruna Yukawa, 42, who was taken hostage in August and who was shown as purportedly killed in an earlier video.

“He was kind and he was brave,” said Yukawa’s father Shoichi. “He tried to save my son.”

“It’s utterly heartbreaking,” he said, crying and shaking. “People killing other people — it’s so deplorable. How can this be happening?”

Abe vowed to continue providing humanitarian aid to countries fighting the Islamic State extremists.

Bowing to terrorist intimidation would prevent Japan from providing medical assistance and other aid it views as necessary for helping to restore stability in the region, he and other officials say.

But the government spokesman, Suga, said Abe would not link the hostage crisis to his efforts to expand Japan’s military role in “collective self-defence” with the U.S. and other allies.

The White House released a statement in which President Barack Obama also condemned “the heinous murder” and praised Goto’s reporting, saying he “courageously sought to convey the plight of the Syrian people to the outside world.”

The White House said that while it isn’t confirming the authenticity of the video itself, it has confirmed that Goto has been slain. Japan also has deemed the video highly likely to be authentic.

Highlighted by militant sympathizers on social media sites, the video bore the symbol of the Islamic State group’s al-Furqan media arm.

Though it could not be immediately independently verified by The Associated Press, it conformed to other beheading videos by the group.

Many Japanese expressed dismay over the news.

“I feel so sad and angry. Why didn’t the government rescue Kenji?” said Mayuko Tamura, 31, a pediatrician who along with her husband and their 8-month-old baby joined a few dozen people gathered in front of Abe’s official residence Sunday afternoon to show their sympathy for the hostages.

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“Lots of folks have the big four-wheel trucks. The snow doesn’t really slow them down.”

Parts of New England — still recovering from a blizzard early last week that buried the region in snow — braced for Monday.

The weather service said that many parts of New England could get between 8 and 14 inches (20 and 35 centimetres) of snow and that parts of western Massachusetts and Connecticut could get as much as 16 inches (40 centimetres).

Boston schools were scheduled to be closed Monday.

A winter storm warning was in effect for New York City starting at 7 p.m. Sunday and was expected to remain in effect until Monday evening. Mayor Bill de Blasio said residents should be ready for a snowy and icy commute.

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Still not officially a candidate, the former New York senator, secretary of state and first lady sits far atop early polls against a small field of potential rivals for the Democratic nomination. None of them seems to be in any hurry to move into the race.

Few Democrats see an insurgent candidate on the horizon in the mould of Barack Obama who defeated Clinton for the 2008 nomination. That raises the potential of a pedestrian Democratic primary season with few televised debates and little of the drama expected from a crowded and likely combative race on the Republican side.

“No one wants a complete coronation, but it’s hard to see who a credible challenger will be,” said Steve Westly, a California-based fundraiser for Obama’s campaigns who is supporting Clinton.

Clinton has been meeting in New York with a group of advisers that includes longtime loyalists and veterans of Obama’s races.

But the work of campaign planning involves trying to figure out when to get into the race, how to avoid giving off a sense of inevitability and how to generate enthusiasm among the party’s base for the general election without the benefit of a spirited fight for the nomination.

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Blizzard conditions developed in Chicago — where more than a foot (30 centimetres) of snow was expected by evening — and other Midwest locales as the system slowly crept eastward into Pennsylvania and western New York state. Parts of the northeastern New England states still digging out from a storm early last week were readying for yet another round of snow to arrive Sunday and last through Monday.

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Dear Annie: I am close to my parents, dren from previous marriages. and my husband and I love to visit them From Day One of our marriage, he when we’re in town. We always stay in made it clear he did not want to pay for their home, not only because it is con- Christmas, birthdays, weddings, etc., on venient for us, but because I know my my side, which was fine. I’ve taken care of mother would be upset if we didn’t. my side, and he’s done his.

The problem is my sister and her chilWe are now at an age where we need dren. While we are at my parents’ house, to put our affairs in order. He wants each she drops the kids off each morning, and child to get the same amount from our they stay until nearly midnight (even on estate. I disagree. I want the amount to be school nights). My sister does not work divided in half, and each half then dividoutside the home. She simply wants the ed between the children on each side. time for herself.

We have not been arguing about this.

One of the children plays a video game, We just haven’t taken care of the arrangeloudly, all hours of the day. He screams ments. I will agree to whatever you say. – obscenities at the TV and Taking Care of Business will not respond to our kind Dear Business: Generally, insistence that he turn down we believe all children should the volume. I have tried gently be treated equally when dividbroaching this topic with my ing an estate, because othermother, to no avail. We have wise, there is rancor between trouble falling asleep at night, the children. However, if you as we have to listen to the brought vastly unequal assets sound of gunfire and obsceniinto the marriage and the chilties from the guest room. dren were not raised togethIs there a kind way to tell er, the situation is different. my mother that we would like Please discuss these issues to have child-free time without with an estate attorney, who the grandchildren present? Is will help you sort through the MITCHELL this overstepping our role as possibilities and reach a deci& SUGAR houseguests? – Just Want Peace sion that satisfies both of you. and Quiet Dear Annie: “Tired and DisDear Peace and Quiet: You gusted Other Half” wrote that are not overstepping to want a her husband is disrespectful good night’s sleep, but you have and puts her down in front of no say over Mom’s rules, such as they are. their children and friends. She said she’s We are sure Mom loves having you, but been married too long to leave. Your reshe is not likely to make waves with your sponse was good, but I was married to sister, who lives closer and with whom such a man. He refused to understand she needs to have a good relationship. what the problem was and would not go You will lose that battle. for counseling, because I was the one Tell your mother you understand why with the problem. she indulges the grandchildren, but from There are men who will not benefit now on, you will spend at least one or two from counseling, nor will their wives or nights at a hotel in order to rest and will their relationships. I suspect it’s a high visit her during the day. Please be nice percentage of older men. I was married about it. Mom has enough aggravation. We for 32 years, and I stayed too long. – Califeel sorry for her and especially for those fornia kids, who are growing up with so little paAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy rental guidance. Your sister could benefit Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors from some parenting classes, but it is un- of the Ann Landers column. Please email likely that she will take advice from you. your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.

Dear Annie: My husband and I have net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators been married for 19 years. We have no Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, children together, but we each have chil- CA 90254.

ANNIE ANNIE

Monday, Feb. 2 within partnerships? There is no right or CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: wrong answer, but it will require that both inShakira, 38; David Jason, 75; Christie Brin- dividuals are on the same page. It will be an kley, 61 enlightening day. Your perspective on what THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Most encoun- you truly want to achieve will be expressed ters today will be enlightening and surprising. now!

You might be in real conflict between your VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Through feelings and the reasons behind them. So, darkness comes light, so what are you truly these interactions with others in your life will afraid of? Focus on the positive, but do adhelp you understand yourself better and this dress the past. This area of your life needs to will bring in some surprising clarity for you. It be seen differently now. The key ingredient is time to let go of fears that you might have today is to have more confidence in yourself. about advancing towards your passions and Trust that your aims are obtainable! purpose.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The more you HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your communicate with others, the better able you birthday, this year will prove to be just what will be to tackle your soul’s path, what you you need in order to reach your true pur- want to see have happen. There’s something pose in this life. There is no that is not sitting right with you todoubt in my mind that you day. You’ll figure out what it is by will finally understand what having casual conversations with you are here to do. Let go others. Expand your circle now! of any fears that are preSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): venting you from truly expeToday is the day to understand riencing an increase in peryour emotional expression more. sonal confidence and this You are more able to find out the will trickle into the energy truth about why you feel slightly of your resources. Expand out of tune with what’s going on. your horizons!

The truth of the matter is that you ARIES (March 21-April know your direction going forward.

19): It’s a good day to meet You simply need to know your soul up with others. Everyone more. will benefit from your words SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. LARISA MAIRA and thoughts, but this is 21): Express yourself today. Greatnot to say you have the er insight with creative projects will OZOLINS answers. You might simply be highlighted now and you will have the proper questions. have epiphanies and guidance It’s a good day to start takfrom above to help you translate ing yoga classes or any your passions into reality. Underspiritual work. Even therapy will help! stand that you are the only one responsible TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It is truly the for your own limitations. time to examine and reflect on what you want CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): After to see have happen for you professionally all the hard work you have been putting in and personally. You understand right now without recognition, your family and those that what you want is not in line with what within your soul group or home environment you are experiencing within life. Share your will give you full praise. This is just what you view with others, allow change to happen. need in order to release why you feel a little GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have down and how you can uplift yourself again. two options today. Either you will feel out of AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It is a balance between how you feel about oth- day to know yourself better, to express those ers’ opinions of you or you will use today’s qualities as they come up instinctively. Share energy to understand yourself on a more what’s on your mind with others, as it will no profound level. Meet up with new individuals doubt help you with your journey towards now. They will help you open your eyes in enlightenment and self-discovery. Organize full! yourself and let go of fears today!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Whatever PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are happens today, avoid any arguments. Talk confident with the service you provide others, out your feelings as there will be epiphanies also with your health and work. So, what’s coming in that will help you resolve limita- creating stresses for you to not go after your tions towards your ambitions. Your confi- ambitions? It’s simple — you need your inner dence does not reside in others’ opinion of thoughts to catch up with your outer world. you. It is solely based on what you see in this Take time to understand yourself better. world.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is it that ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her you truly want to achieve for yourself and column appears daily in the Advocate.

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