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Government expecting extended oil slump

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The provincial government is digging in for an extended period of low oil prices, says Energy Minister Frank Oberle.

“We’re projecting that this will be two, three years before any reasonable recovery,” said Oberle, following a presentation at a Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Monday. “We’ve got to plan for that kind of a time horizon.”

That planning is underway now, as the Alberta government prepares to table its 2015-16 budget.

“There will be no frills; there will be no new programs; there will be cuts — as much as we can, out-

side of core services,” said Oberle. “Albertans will notice it, that’s for sure.”

The three-term MLA from Peace River, who assumed the energy portfolio in September, emphasized to his Red Deer audience how damaging sub$50 oil is to government coffers. It’s expected to take a $6-billion to $7-billion bite out of revenues this year.

“That’s the equivalent to the entire education budget; it’s equivalent to one-third of the salaries of the entire public sector, including doctors and nurses and teachers.”

To help address this budgetary shortfall, the government plans to cut expenditures, said Oberle. This includes hiring for critical positions only, limiting expenses for travel and training, and cutting spend-

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ing on goods and services.

Higher oil and gas royalties are not on the table, he added, and Premier Jim Prentice has also made it clear that he does not want to introduce a provincial sales tax. But other taxes could be tapped for more revenue, said Oberle.

“There are fuel taxes, sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, income taxes — the government collects revenues from a number of sources. We’re considering all of them.”

The province also has about $5.5 billion in its cash contingency reserve, and is in a good position to borrow money, he said.

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2019 CANADA WINTER GAMES

Community members named to board

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

ence for us,” he said.

The team tracks them with four-wheel drive vehicles and then on foot. They need to get within 50 metres to use the dart gun.

A booster shot will be given in a year. Vaccinated mares are identified by their markings, which are carefully catalogued. Both shots will prevent mares from getting pregnant for three years.

After years of lobbying the government to preserve the wild horses and do away with an annual capture program, the society announced last November it had entered into a five-year wild horse management agreement with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.

A large area was set aside west of Sundre for the society to work with the horses, which are considered feral, not truly wild, by the government. About 330 horses have been counted and documented in the area.

In all, about 880 horses roamed the West Country at last count.

Besides the vaccination program, the province also approved the society’s horse adoption program.

Injured or abandoned foals and adults that have strayed onto roads or private land are targeted.

Red Deer’s 2019 Canada Winter Games board of directors started taking shape on Monday with the announcement of 10 community board members.

The 10 community and business leaders were chosen from 51 nominees to sit on the governance board for the games.

“We were overwhelmed. We can say with all honesty all 51 could have sat on this board,” said Scott Robinson, chair of the nominations working group, at a press conference at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum on Monday.

“It was a great response. Not just the amount of people who applied. People who have great credentials and backgrounds told us we’ve got something here that’s important to the community.”

Lyn Radford, chair of the 2019 Canada Winter Games board, will be joined by the following community members: Hugh McPherson, a former school principal with experience in several large-scale athletic games in Red Deer; longtime volunteer and project manager Russ Wlad; Deb Beck, who has leadership and board experience; vice-president of Melcor Developments and Catholic school trustee Guy Pelletier; past Red Deer College president Ron Woodward; former Red Deer mayor Gail Surkan; former RDC coach and athletics director Allan Ferchuk; North Central Francophone Education Region school board trustee Nicole Lorrain; co-chair of the 2016 MasterCard Memorial Cup Ron Lariviere; and Vellner Leisure Products president Marty Vellner.

Robinson said the working group was looking for people with experience to run an organization of the size and magnitude of the games, with reach into the community, region and province.

He said those who were not chosen to sit on the board have been contacted because there will be a lot of leadership opportunities as work on the games proceeds over the next four years.

Rather than being involved in the hands-on, dayto-day activities to organize and run the games, the board of directors will set policy.

He said the board will take over in March or early April and one of its first responsibilities will be to hire a CEO for the games.

Close to 70 paid staff and 6,000 volunteers will be part of the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer.

“Over the next 45 days or so, the transition team is still in charge of taking us from the bid committee to the host society,” Robinson said.

Radford called her new board members her “dream team.”

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The Star Cast for Hunting Hills High School’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, rehearses a scene on Monday night. Two different casts will perform throughout Feb. 3- 7, with performances open to the public on Feb. 5-6 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. Tickets are available at the door.

West Country wild horse pregnancy prevention program underway

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An innovative program to vaccinate West Country wild horses against pregnancy to control populations is off and running.

About half of the target 19 mares have been vaccinated since early January by a team comprised of a veterinarian, a University of Calgary researcher and volunteers from the Wild Horses of Alberta Society (WHOAS).

Bob Henderson, president of the society, said a candidate herd for the program was identified through a database created by volunteers, who have counted, logged and photographed the horses that roam the wilds about 60 km west of Sundre north of the Red Deer River.

Horses are given a birth control vaccine by using a dart gun. It hasn’t been easy, through tracking the herd and isolating candidates for the program.

Unlike last winter, when heavy snowfalls kept horses from wandering too far, lighter snow cover this year has led to more roaming.

“This year they’re moving quite a bit more so it’s making it a little bit more difficult for us to precisely locate them,” Henderson said.

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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Landowners north of Bashaw watched two homebuilt airplanes crash after colliding in midair on Sunday, Bashaw RCMP said Monday.

Sgt. Cameron Paul, commanding officer for Bashaw, said the witnesses, who just happened to be outside at the time, saw the craft flying close together before they collided around 11:30 a.m.

The pilots — one man is from the Carstairs area and the other is from Calgary — were both travelling from Carstairs to Red Deer Lake. They were about six km south of their destination when the collision occurred.

After the planes collided, the plane that was most damaged — a Christavia MK-1 — went down in somewhat of a controlled descent but landed roughly, Paul said.

The plane ended up in a farmer’s field off Township Road 424 and Range Road 221. The pilot, the man from Calgary, suffered a severe leg injury.

The other pilot, whose plane had less damage, called the collision in, and then was able to land safely nearby and help the injured pilot.

He suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

The injured pilot, 47, was taken to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton by STARS.

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AHS Public Health Dietitian Shelley Cooper demonstrates how to create a quick, but healthy homemade soup during the Primary Care Network’s Health Cafe presentation, Marvelous Meals in Minutes on Monday. Two different sessions were held with about 30 people in attendance at each one.

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OBERLE : AAA credit It’s the only province that doesn’t currently have a net debt, and could borrow without jeopardizing its AAA credit rating.

Balancing the budget with spending cuts would do more harm than good, said Oberle, and potentially push the province into a recession.

“That would be irresponsible, especially with Alberta’s population rising so rapidly.”

The province’s population grew by 100,000 last year, pointed out Oberle, and that necessitates spending on infrastruc- Frank Oberle ture like schools and hospitals, as well as on government programs and services.

In the longer term, the Alberta government must reduce its reliance on energy revenues, he said. The province has no control over oil and gas prices, and due to its limited access to export markets faces a $20-a-barrel price discount on crude oil, relative to world prices.

Oberle said Prentice and his government have been working hard to develop improved pipeline access to coastal ports and refineries.

As for critics who say past governments have failed to diversify Alberta’s economy, Oberle challenges this assertion. Trade between Alberta and the other provnces has triples since 2005, he said, and shipments of manufactured goods to the United States have jumped during the past decade.

The value-added output of Alberta’s petrochemical, forestry and agricultural sectors is increasing, he added.

“We’re doing very well in diversifying, and cities like Red Deer and places like Nisku are leading the way.

“There’s more that we could do, and my department is looking at some opportunities, as are other departments.”

The Alberta government may look at incentives as a way to encourage investment in non-traditional revenue streams, he said. And the province’s low taxes should also continue to attract businesses.

“We continue to have the most competitive tax regime in the country, by far.”

If you were to apply British Columbia’s tax regime to Alberta, he said, it would extract an additional $11 billion a year. Adopting Nova Scotia’s tax structure

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Two wild horses of the West Country. would mean an extra $24 billion.

Ultimately, this province will emerge from the current economic turmoil and prosper, said Oberle.

“Alberta has been through this before and we’ll come out again. We have some very unique advantages that other provinces don’t have.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

In about a month, the remaining board directors will be announced.

They will include two members from the Canada Games Council, one member from Sport Canada, one from the City of Red Deer, and one from Red Deer College. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

GAMES : Turnaround day

HORSES: Small herd

She said in preparation for 2019, board and transition members will be checking out the 2015 Canada Winter Games to be hosted by Prince George, from Feb. 13 to March 1.

She is particularly interested in experiencing ‘turnaround day.’

“Turnaround day is when 1,800 athletes leave and when 1,800 arrive. That is a day you’ve got to make sure everyone knows what they’re doing,” Radford said.

Radford is also keen on finding out more about the types of events and activities that Red Deer organizers will need to host in 2019.

A small herd of seven horses that had settled on an area leased for cattle has been rounded up and moved to about 20 acres donated by Calgary construction company owner Art Kohanik and his wife Helen. Corrals have also been built and in the spring it is hoped school education tours can be arranged.

“We’re just going to keep them safe and allow them to live out their lives in peace,” Henderson said.

Two of the mares are pregnant and adoptive homes have been found for their foals when they arrive. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Utility rates set to go up in Central Alberta

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Central Albertans will have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for utilities starting on March 1.

Red Deer city council voted 7-1 to approve the Utility Bylaw that sets the 2015 rates for residents and South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission customers.

City residents will see on average a 1.7 per cent increase or $1.65 more on the monthly bill for garbage, wastewater, recycling and yard waste services.

But it will be the residents in Innisfail, Bowden, Olds, Mountain View and Red Deer County that will feel the bigger pinch.

The six communities are on a sewer line that connects to Red Deer. A utilities rate review revealed that the six municipalities have been undercharged for costs associated with the treatment plant for several years.

Residents will now pay 80 cents per cubic metre for treatment as part of a phasing in plan that will tack on about 10 cents the following year. The new rates will be phased in over three to five years.

Coun. Paul Harris voted against the bylaw because he thought it was not

fair to Red Deer residents.

Harris said the region hasn’t been paying its share for the last few years as it was shown in the review.

“Now we need to charge them what we should be charging them starting tomorrow not trying to phase it in over the next four to five years,” said Harris. “It’s just that simple.”

Mayor Tara Veer said the transition plan will protect against rate shock.

She said council landed on a plan that is both fair and defensible before the commission.

Communities have hired consultants to review the city’s rate models to better understand where the numbers are coming from.

The rates for all users will come into effect on March 1.

Coun. Buck Buchanan was absent for personal reasons.

In other council news: ●Red Deer’s waste management facility will continue to handle waste from the Town of Blackfalds.

Council authorized city manager Craig Curtis will enter into an agreement with the town for a period of up to four years.

The city began collecting the waste in 2011 as a temporary measure while the planned Plasco facility was expected to be constructed.

Since that time the Central Waste Management Commission ended its affiliation with Plasco.

Council heard accepting the waste has had little operational impact on the city. ● The city’s pre-eminent project to convert the former civic yards into a thriving mixed-use district is moving along.

Council gave first reading of a borrowing bylaw for $24.5 million for the Riverlands Project. The money will be used for on-site development, service grade and remediation. The site consists of 25 acres of city-owned land. ● Council gave first reading to an Electricity Utility Bylaw that will see the average resident who uses 600 kwh/ month will pay $2.85 more each month.

The increase reflects electric, light and power distribution tariff rates for 2015.

The bylaw will come back to council for second and third reading on Feb.23.

School bus driver killed, students injured in crash near Grimshaw

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the accident and spoke with some students who were keeping warm in their parents’ vehicles, waiting to go home.

“They were obviously very shaken up. They had just been in a horrific crash.”

Parents of the students were notified and counselling was to be provided to students and drivers who need it, Bennett said.

The students are from Kennedy Elementary School, Grimshaw High School and Holy Family Catholic School — all in Grimshaw.

Betty Turpin, superintendent of the Holy Family Catholic School division, said four of her students were on the bus, including the one who was flown to Edmonton.

She said the student was “doing OK,” and the others had already been released from hospital.

Counselling was also being provided to help students gear up for boarding buses Tuesday, she said.

Police said the stretch of highway where the crash happened has three lanes — one south and two north.

A preliminary investigation shows the truck was travelling in the outside northbound lane and the school bus was going south, then crossed the cen-

tre line. RCMP wasn’t able to say if weather was a factor.

“We do know that at the time there was a bit of a snow-sleet mix,” said McKinley.

“I can’t say specifically what that would have done to the road conditions.”

Grimshaw is about 600 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

A school bus driver was killed and several students were injured in a crash with a transport truck in northwestern Alberta on Monday.

RCMP said the crash happened about 8:20 a.m. on Highway 35 north of Grimshaw.

The bus was taking 14 students to classes at elementary and high schools in the Peace River area.

All of the kids, ages eight to 18, went to area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor scrapes and bruises to broken bones and a head wound, said RCMP. “One of the children has been flown to an Edmonton-area hospital with serious but not-life-threatening injuries,” said Cpl. Carol McKinley.

She said it appears the bus crossed the centre line into the path of the oncoming truck.

Grimshaw Fire Chief Lance Bushie said the students were tossed about as the front of the bus was crushed and the semi landed in a ditch. Both drivers were trapped in the vehicles and crews had to use equipment to free them.

Students managed to get out of the rear door of the bus on their own, he said.

The 36-year-old truck driver was also flown to hospital in Edmonton with serious but not lifethreatening injuries.

The 60-year-old male Better hearing starts here. bus driver died on the way to hospital.

We put 75 years of listening Paul Bennett, superintendent of the Peace Rivexperience to work every day. er School Division, which BETTER HEARING THROUGH owns and operates the PROFESSIONAL CARE bus, said the driver had worked as a spare driver in 2013 and went on the substitute list again last month.

The man was trained and qualified and being considered for a full4928 - 53 Avenue, Red Deer time position that had FOR YOUR PERSONAL recently opened up, said CONSULTATION & APPOINTMENT Bennett.

Call 403-347-4703 Out of Town 1-800-661-4703 Bennett drove to the crash site shortly after Locally Owned and Operated, Internationally Connected.

A former pharmacist pleaded guilty to several charges relating to a prescription painkiller scheme that included about 14,000 pain pills distributed from an Innisfail Shopper’s Drug Mart.

Karen Nevett, 35, pleaded guilty to fraud under $5,000 and possession of a controlled substance. The charge of theft over $5,000 was withdrawn by the Crown.

Nevett was given a two-year conditional sentence and a $100 fine.

Police said she removed a portion of the drug from close to 14,000 Dilaudid capsules over a period of two years.

Investigators believe other drugs were also affected, including off-the-shelf remedies.

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PLANES: Homebuilt The homebuilt planes have single engines, full fuselages and wings.

Paul said building planes from kits is not uncommon. It’s a lot cheaper to purchase a kit and build a plane than purchasing a light aircraft, he said.

He’s has seen what is put into a homebuilt airplane. “Sometimes you can’t even tell the difference.”

In June 2011, Bashaw RCMP detachment also attended a plane crash in the area. That crash claimed the lives of two people who were flying from B.C. to Central Alberta.

Paul wasn’t at the Bashaw detachment when that crash happened but he has seen crashes in other detachments.

It happens more frequently than people realize, he said.

And “probably not many,” survive incidents like the one on Sunday, he said.

All of Bashaw RCMP’s investigative material will be going to Transport Canada. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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The urban wasteland WHAT HAVE HIGHER LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT DONE FOR OUR CITIES RECENTLY? The 2015 winter conference of Canada’s premiers passed last week. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice did not attend; he was otherwise engaged with an oil price crisis and an election date to call.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper likewise did not attend.

He simply does not engage, not with premiers.

Off the top of my head, I can’t recall a single headline or major issue being raised from this GREG conference — NEIMAN and I was watching (sort of).

No matter.

The really important national conference of Canada’s political leaders is set to take place in Toronto this week. And this group isn’t even fully recognized in our Constitution.

The political leaders who most come in contact with our daily lives are our city mayors. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is the one most often quoted, and he puts the importance of Canada’s cities this way: if the feds make a major decision, most Canadians will hear about in three weeks; if it’s made

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by a province, you’ll know it in three days. When a major decision is made in a city, Nenshi says most people will know about it in three hours.

The Toronto conference is for the 22 largest Canadian cities. If you go by the 2011 census, the cutoff is Kitchener, population 220,000 at the time. Together, these 22 cities contain almost half of Canada’s total population.

An aside: for the record, Red Deer was No. 57 in 2011. And here’s something I’ll bet most Albertans don’t know (and I’m certain most MPs in Ottawa, nor most of the federal cabinet don’t seem to know): in the 2011 census, Calgary was Canada’s third largest city. Edmonton was No. 5. Vancouver, which everyone talks about as a major city right after Toronto and Montreal, was No. 8.

The issues these cities face affect more people, in a more direct and daily way, than the issues handled by the feds or the provincial governments.

Do you really care if a barrel of oil or the Canadian dollar is up or down a point or two today? Or do you care that you can get to work on time, that your family is safe and that when you open the tap, clean water comes out of it?

Far more than the federal government, far more than any provincial government, the cities are united by the common issues they face.

Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail ran an excellent story quoting

several Canadian mayors on a short range of issues. What impressed me about their comments was their common cause.

What do the mayors of Canada’s largest cities fret most over? Infrastructure costs, with transportation and transit topping the list. Housing problems seem to follow closely after that.

If people cannot move easily in their cities, they quickly make their city councils very unhappy. Here’s one reason: a U.S. report I read said that in cities that have public transit, cycling and walking fully integrated, about nine per cent of annual household expenses go to transportation. In cities that do not, just moving around can consume up to 25 per cent of average household costs.

The feds worry about terrorists in Afghanistan or wherever. The provinces worry about their regional economies. City governments worry if their people are unhappy.

Fixing the structural causes of people’s unhappiness in cities takes money. The cumulative wish lists of Canada’s mayors for upgrading transportation and mass transit is many tens of billions of dollars.

But the Canadian Constitution does not give cities the power to raise money for these projects — even if by doing so, they could save their residents 10 per cent or more on their yearly house-

hold expenses. Taxing the value of real estate in their borders is about all the revenue power cities have, and it’s by no means enough.

So they have to get that money as tax transfers from the agencies that have the power to raise it: the feds and the provinces. It’s supposed to be our money, for our benefit anyway, isn’t it?

But from the article I read, contact between mayors and federal decision makers looks pretty thin. Only Toronto Mayor John Tory — a former head of Ontario’s PC Party — seems to claim regular conversation with a wide number of Ottawa decision makers.

Nenshi reported his personal contact with the prime minister happened at the last Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast: hi and bye.

The vast majority of Canadians live urban lives today. In Alberta, all of our major cities rank in the top 100 in Canada (Grande Prairie being the smallest at No. 91 in the 2011 census).

Politicians should forget trying to define who is middle class. Define the needs of what makes Canadians happy in cities and you’ll win their votes.

In Alberta, we will have both a provincial and federal election this year.

For all the money we city-dwelling taxpayers send these governments, what have they done for us recently?

Neiman is a retired Advocate editor.

Follow him at readersadvocate.blogspot. ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

Dangerous omissions in anti-terror legislation Stephen Harper, in word and deed, has told Canadians that his war on terror is a never-ending race between a government which will become ever more intrusive in the name of protecting the population and terrorists who will forever be searching for new means of evading detection.

Bad things will still happen, the Conservative prime minister tells us, nothing is foolproof and nothing will drop a bubble of protection over the Canadian population.

All of this may be true, but limiting himself to a view that things will be always thus in our “war” with jihadist extremism means Harper’s antiterror law is strictly reactive, not proactive.

This will likely be a politiTIM cal winner for the prime minHARPER ister, but he chose to do nothing to reach out to those fearful of a step-by-step erosion of civil liberties, he chose not to take one simple step to make his case, he has decided to put his legislation in place in perpetuity and he has given short shrift to any effort to turn the tide against homegrown radicalization.

Talk of dealing with root causes in our current political climate invites ridicule from the government, but Harper could have emphasized there were two prongs to his strategy. He chose not to.

There is a program, under the watch of Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, meant to combat radicalization roots at home and we are told that more money could be available for the program.

But the government made no mention of that on Friday.

A spokesperson for Blaney says his Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security, a gathering of experts from Canadian religious and cultural strata, has “deepened its dialogue with communities about radicalization to violence, extremism indicators and points of intervention.’’

It is providing training to law-enforcement agencies to detect terrorist indicators and warnings and works on “tailored intervention” programs for those showing signs of radicalization.

But, according to Blaney’s website, this group has not met since last June.

Ottawa has committed about $5 million to “root cause” research on homegrown terror over the past three years, searching for answers to what makes people susceptible to recruitment into violent extremism, the “psychology of the Internet’’ and the domestic ramifications of our involvement in Iraq.

The RCMP has also instituted a program known

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as Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), but the Conservatives have been coy about increased RCMP funding for such programs.

In this realm, Harper’s Conservatives do not go as far as some allies, including the British, who would require colleges and universities to implement antiradicalization programs.

But there are other notable omissions.

Harper has chosen not to provide parliamentary oversight of expanded CSIS powers laid out in the legislation and in so doing he has ignored similar programs from some of our closest allies, including the United Kingdom and the United States.

Harper says he “doesn’t buy the argument” that every time you protect Canadians you take away civil liberties, a glib dismissal of oversight that he likens to so much opposition caterwauling.

Similarly, Harper refused to sunset any of his provisions, which would allow them to expire in the years ahead so they could be debated in a future Parliament in a potentially changed security environment.

Without sunset clauses, the potential for these laws to be in place in perpetuity soars.

Finally, since Harper says this legislation is a direct response to twin terror attacks that killed two Canadian soldiers last autumn, it would presumably

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We have been told the video confirms the Conservative conclusion that the Parliament attack was terrorism and that Zehaf-Bibeau makes specific reference to the Canadian military and foreign policy.

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plans were recorded, forming crucial evidence in the case.

The undercover officer, posing as a wealthy businessman involved in real estate, first met Esseghaier in June 2012 on a flight to California.

That officer testified Monday afternoon that the relationship he built with Esseghaier led to the man calling him one of his brothers.

A conversation which took place at Esseghaier’s apartment was played for the trial, in which he spoke about his time in Iran and “a Palestinian friend” in Toronto — a reference to Jaser — who was “in the Jihad truly,” court heard.

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OTTAWA — John Baird, one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s most trusted and high-profile cabinet ministers, is resigning his foreign affairs post and will not seek re-election later this year.

Multiple Conservative sources tell The Canadian Press that Baird announced the news Monday, and the news shocked even some of his cabinet colleagues.

It is still unclear where Baird is headed, and International Trade Minister Ed Fast appears poised to take over as acting foreign minister.

“The minister is looking to turn the page on twenty years of public service, and like anyone in public office is looking for new opportunities at the young age of 45,” said a Conservative close to Baird, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Some Tories are speculating the politician from Ottawa is headed to a career in the private sector.

“These are potentially peak earning years for him,” said one Toronto-area Conservative.

For Harper, Baird is the second key minister to resign from cabinet in less than a year. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty died last April shortly after announcing his departure from cabinet. Like Flaherty, Baird is also well-liked by his caucus colleagues.

Baird has spent a lifetime in politics, joining the Progressive Conservative youth wing and going on to work in the Parliament Hill office of cabinet minister Perrin Beatty. In 1995, he won a seat in the Ontario legislature, and went on to hold a variety of posts in the government of Tory Premier Mike Harris.

Baird was one of the “blue” Tories who supported the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties, but more importantly supported Stephen Harper’s bid for the leadership of the new Conservative Party of Canada.

When the Conservatives formed a government in 2006, Harper gave him the lead role in ushering through the first major piece of legislation, the Federal Accountability Act, as president of the Treasury Board.

Later, as environment minister, he helped to sever Canada’s commitment to the Kyoto Accord on climate change.

As Transport and Infrastructure minister, he ushered through millions in stimulus spending in the midst of the economic downtown.

In this last portfolio at foreign affairs since 2011, Baird has gone from being the prime minister’s pitbull during question period to a more statesmantype role on the world stage.

He has been the voice of Harper’s foreign policy, one that is resolutely pro-Israel, outspoken against Russia’s incursions into Ukraine, and circumspect about multilateral organizations such as the United Nations.

Baird has taken on some key issues, including speaking out forcefully on discrimination against gays and lesbians internationally, and against forced child marriages.

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TORONTO — Two men accused of planning a terrorist attack on a passenger train travelling between Canada and the U.S. were motivated by Islamic extremism and spent months plotting to murder as many people as they could, their trial heard on Monday.

Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier both face multiple charges in the alleged Via Rail plot. Not-guilty pleas have been entered for both of them.

On the first day of the trial, Crown lawyer Croft Michaelson said the pair made up a terrorist group operating in Canada in 2012.

“Mr. Esseghaier and Mr. Jaser, motivated

by Islamic extremism, agreed that they would murder persons to instil fear in the community,” Michaelson said in his opening remarks.

“They did this so that Canadians and Americans would remove their troops from Muslim lands.”

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CALGARY — Naheed Nenshi of Calgary has received an unexpected birthday gift after being named the No. 1 mayor in the world by an international urban research institute.

Nenshi, who was nominated by Calgarians and other Canadians, has been awarded the 2014 World Mayor Prize.

The urban research group says he has become the “most admired mayor” of any large Canadian city.

It describes him as an urban visionary who doesn’t neglect the nitty-gritty of local government.

It says Nenshi is a role model to many in North America and Europe for decisive management, inclusivity and forward thinking.

The mayor of Ghent, Belgium, was the runner-up.

The only other North American mayor to make the Top 10 in the honours given out every two years is from Houston.

“What a great surprise. What a great birthday present even,” Nenshi said Monday on his 43rd birthday.

“I understand there were scores of people — Calgarians and Canadians — who wrote in letters of recommendation, who wrote in their own comments.

To me that’s very humbling. It’s very kind of people to take that time.”

Nenshi is to be awarded a trophy later this year.

An official with the City Mayors Foundation based in London praised Nenshi for his work.

“Mayor Naheed Nenshi is a great communicator and listener. He is sincere when discussing everyday problems with folks in the street and can mesmerize a learned audience when talking about the future of Calgary,” said Tann vom Hove.

Vom Hove also praised Nenshi’s leadership and management skills, which proved vital in 2013 during extensive southern Alberta flooding that hit Calgary hard. He proved his mettle again during a power outage in the city’s downtown that lasted for several days last October. In thousands of tributes received by the organizers of the World Mayor Project, Calgary citizens described their mayor as honest, inclusive and generous.

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communities — had a population of 116,407. About a third of that — 39,271 — were part of “project accommodation,” or work camps, which these days often more closely resemble hotels or lodges.

“The population is what really drives the services you have to provide, so whether it’s about having the right road kilometres that are paved and in good shape or it’s how many garbage pick ups you have to make or snow clearing that you’re doing. It could affect how many parks you’re putting in the neighbourhoods,” Blake said in an interview in her downtown Fort McMurray office.

For Blake, today’s low oil prices aren’t the biggest worry.

“I’m more concerned about what happens when this turns around and whether we’re going to be prepared adequately.”

According to the census, the municipality has seen overall growth of 124.5 per cent since 2000. The work camp population has grown an average of 17 per cent a year between 2000 and 2012.

“We had so much growth in such a short time, that we were already behind the eight ball,” said Blake.

“And so getting caught up now, it’s actually a good place for us to take that reflection time and make sure that we have what we need for the people that are here without overshooting.”

Like Sanders, Blake sees some potential benefits now that the pace has slowed a bit, such as more contractors to bid on projects. The slowdown means “maybe a little time to regroup” but “no doom and gloom,” said Catherine Koch, vice president academic at Fort McMurray’s Keyano College.

About a third of the college’s 2,500 students are pursuing careers that are in some way related to oil and gas, whether that be The JennAir refrigerator and welding, range advertised on operatJanuary 31, 2015 were ing heavy advertised at the wrong prices. e q u i p ment or Please see in store for power encorrect pricing. gineering

FORT MCMURRAY — The city at the heart of Canada’s oilsands is no ghost town, but things have slowed down a bit in Fort McMurray, Alta.

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to the president of the local chamber of commerce.

“Do you know what? To me — for us — this is nice,” Nick Sanders said in an interview at a downtown cafe that had a smattering of customers in the middle of a weekday morning.

“We have a chance to sit back and say ’Ok, let’s figure out what we need to get ready for the next increase in oil Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS production.”’

The city at the heart of Canada’s oilsands is no ghost town, but things have Oil prices are the lowest since the Great Recession hit about six years slowed down a bit in Fort McMurray, An aerial view of Fort McMurray is shown ago, hovering below US$50 a barrel in this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 photo. throughout much of January after having plunged from a summer high of Koch said she’s finding that, if any- Buffalo Housing & Development CorUS$107. But Fort Mac has not ground thing, those courses are in higher de- poration, said rents aren’t climbing as to a halt. According to the Canadian mand. For instance, apprentices may rapidly as they used to during boom Association of Petroleum Producers, have clocked all the work hours they times, but they’re not falling either. the oilsands churned out 1.9 million need, but haven’t had time until now “We anticipate a levelling off,” barrels a day of crude at the end of to complete their academic training he said. “A one bedroom apartment 2013. That’s projected to rise to 2.3 milto get their certifications. As things around here could cost you over $2,000 lion this year thanks to projects that slow down, companies are able to free a month, $2,200 a month and it goes up are already in the hopper. up their employees to upgrade their from there. Where, in most other arSo most of those who call Fort Mcskills, she said. eas in the province of Alberta, they’re Murray home continue to have staBryan Lutes, who leads the Wood about half of that.” ble jobs, whether it’s driving trucks at mines north of town or pouring pints for those workers when the day is done. It’s the expansions and new projects that are up in the air, as companies try to get a handle on where * ** prices are heading long term. Bearing or the brunt of the downturn so far have been contractors from elsewhere who rely on those temporary construction TAX-FREE SAVINGS ACCOUNT 54 month RRSP/RRIF/TFSA GIC jobs, often flying directly to and from site and residing in work camps for weeks at a time.

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“Very little needs to change globally for the price of oil to jump up,” he said. “That would be our biggest worry — is that, have we slowed it down too much?”

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels lost their appetite for home cooking; now they’ll attempt to rediscover their hunger on the road.

“We’ve had some really good runs here. Now we’ve hit a bit of a bump in the road,” Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt said Monday, following a practice session at the Enmax Centrium.

The Rebels, who leave this morning for a three-game trip in B.C., closed out a six-game homestand Saturday with a 6-5 shootout loss to the Prince Albert Raiders. The night before, the Edmonton Oil Kings invaded the Centrium and came away with a 4-0 victory.

“I think a lot of it is we’re doing some good things, but we’re not doing

those good things enough,” said Truitt.

“Consistency is a big thing, it’s about maximizing our effort and our pace.

“Our pace has gone down a bit and

we’re not playing to our capabilities right now. We’re kind of in between and the recent results have shown that.

If you’re trying to separate yourself from a team like Edmonton and stay ahead of Calgary and perhaps catch Medicine Hat, you can’t shoot yourself in the foot.”

So while the coaching staff is somewhat concerned with the club’s recent drop-off, Truitt insisted there’s no cause for alarm.

“It’s just a matter of getting back to it,” he stated. “If we were searching for answers about if we could ever get to that top level, that would be one thing.

But we’ve been to that level and we’ve been there for awhile. The sharp shock we’ve felt the last couple of games has been good for our team.”

Defenceman Haydn Fleury, who cut his leg with his own skate blade during

the first period of Saturday’s game and didn’t return, should be in the lineup Wednesday when the Rebels take on the Kamloops Blazers.

“It’s just a matter of him getting the stiffness out and he should be able to go right away,” said Truitt.

Fleury needed eight stitches to close the wound.

“The positive thing is he didn’t cut the muscles in his leg,” said Truitt.

“He had a workout today, he was on the ice earlier. Our pregame skate in Kamloops will be the time he has to chomp down on it.”

The Rebels will be in Vancouver Friday to face the Giants and will go up against the Royals Saturday at Victoria.

Red Deer’s next home game is Feb. 13 versus the Lethbridge Hurricanes. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Red hot Flames soar past slumping Jets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Jets 2 CALGARY — The wait is finally over for Calgary Flames off-season acquisitions Brandon Bollig and Raphael Diaz.

Both scored their first goals of the season Monday night — and both came in a big three-goal third period as the Flames downed the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Monday night.

“They’re two guys that have lots of friends in the locker-room because they’re great workers. They take care of their teammates,” said Calgary coach Bob Hartley. “They’re easy guys to work with and both, in an important game, they come up with each their first goal. I can tell you that players were really happy on the bench.”

With a one-goal lead headed to the third period, the Flames struck on the power play at 4:24, making it 3-1 when Diaz took a pass from Joe Colborne and blasted a shot past rookie goaltender Michael Hutchinson.

“It came back to me and then I closed the eyes and shot,” said Diaz with a chuckle. “It’s real nice to get the first goal and it was a big win for us.”

Signed as a free agent after winning a job in training camp, it was the first goal in 36 games for Diaz, whose last goal came against Calgary on March 28, 2014, while he was with the New York Rangers.

Less than three minutes later, Colborne set up Bollig’s first goal in 61 games at with a nifty pass that Bollig converted at the side of the net.

“Coming here, I kinda wanted to make them look good for trading for me, so it was not ideal to wait that long to put one in. It’s nice it finally came,” said Bollig, acquired from Chicago at the NHL Draft in June in exchange for a third round pick. After sitting as a healthy scratch seven times in the first half of the season, Bollig is playing his best hockey of the year.

“I know I’m not here to score goals, but it’s nice when it happens,” said Bollig. “Last year I had a pretty decent year as a fourth-liner, point-wise. It wasn’t ideal to wait that long, but I’ve been getting a lot of chances.”

Bryan Little answered right back to make it 4-2 but Sean Monahan’s team-

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Winnipeg Jets Adam Lowry, right, gets checked by Calgary Flames Deryk Engelland, left, and Josh Jooris during second period NHL action in Calgary, Monday. The Flames won the game 5-2. leading 17th goal into an empty net with 2:33 remaining put the game away.

David Jones and Mason Raymond also scored for Calgary (28-20-3). Winners of seven of their last nine games, the Flames move into third place in the Pacific Division. Calgary is two points up on Vancouver, although the Canucks hold three games in hand.

Blake Wheeler had the other goal for Winnipeg (26-18-8). The Jets have come out of the all-star break and lost four straight in regulation including

three in a row on the road, where they have the NHL’s best road record (148-5).

“We have to bear down more. Every guy, including myself, has to step it up a little bit more, and focus a little bit more,” said Hutchinson. “For myself, I have to make that extra save and for the players, they have to try and hit the net and bear down when you do get those scoring chances.”

The Jets are back in action Tuesday when they play in Vancouver.

“We’ve got to get back to our game.

We have to come back harder, we have to allow our D to step up and take away the other team’s time and space,” said Wheeler. “This is a team we played tonight with a lot of skill that can come at you in waves and we just didn’t do a good enough job.”

Jonas Hiller made 17 saves to earn the win and improve his record to 1614-2.

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Patriots’ Super Bowl win will haunt Seahawks PHOENIX—It was just the other day with 1:06 left and a timeout in their that Tom Brady was talking about his pockets on a miracle catch. Jermaine last two trips here, the narKearse had the ball glance row losses, and how they off his hands and bounce off reverberated. “You rack his legs as he hit the ground your brain for all the things and pop up into the air that you could have done where he fumbled around better to help the team,” he until he caught it. Every said. “If I made this read, if time the Patriots have lost I made a throw here on this in the Super Bowl one play play, you know. That’s what has been magic, and it has you deal with for the rest of gone against them. This was your life.”

David Tyree if David Tyree The Seattle Seahawks was a juggler and an achave the rest of their lives robat. The ball was on the to look forward to, and five-yard line. Lynch poundBRUCE that’s now a part of it. They ed it down to the one.

ARTHUR were one yard from a secNew England was screwond consecutive Super ing up, too. The Patriots Bowl. Marshawn Lynch had weren’t trying to let Lynch run for 102 yards. They led score. “Trying to win the the league in rushing as a team. They game, man,” said Patriots defensive were one yard away. tackle Sealver Siliga. The Patriots They had gotten to the six-yard line didn’t call a timeout, even as the clock

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was bleeding down and they were up four and a touchdown would beat them. Whoops.

And then Seattle threw the ball.

Why did they throw the ball? Russell Wilson, one of the great running quarterbacks on the best running team in football, with a running back whose raw power is elephantine, and Seahawks offensive co-ordinator Darrell Bevell called an inside slant to Ricardo Lockette, who had three catches all day and 11 receptions in 16 games this season. Head coach Pete Carroll said it was because the Patriots were in a jumbo package and the Seahawks were just going to run it in on third or fourth down if they had to. Why not go best on best, then? Well, they liked the play. They’d used it before.

The Patriots knew they had used it before. Rookie Malcolm Butler, undrafted out of West Alabama, had been beaten on it in practice on Wednes-

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day. He jumped the route. Interception — the only one thrown from the oneyard line by any QB all season. There were 20 seconds left, and the Seattle Seahawks had thrown away the Super Bowl. It was incomprehensible. New England won Super Bowl XLIX 28-24, and it was the fourth championship for Brady and coach Bill Belichick, a decade after their last one.

“That was my fault,” said Carroll, who could have vetoed the play, but didn’t.

“I put the blame on me,” said Wilson. “Because I’m the one who gave them the ball.”

Wilson said there was no checkdown on the play. Bevell told reporters Lockette could have gone harder to the ball.

Holy hell, that was something else. One of the worst play calls of all time, and you blame the soldiers.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bucks 82 Raptors 75 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors were on a roll, and appeared to be on the cusp of winning seven games in a row for the first time in 13 years.

Instead, their good vibe came to a screeching halt in an ugly 82-75 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday that snapped the team’s six-game winning streak, and left its captain Kyle Lowry speaking in terse four-word sentences.

“Had a bad game,” said Lowry, who finished with just two points and five assists.

When asked about the team’s lowly 32 per cent shooting percentage, Lowry answered: “Had a bad game.”

DeMar DeRozan scored 16 points, Jonas Valanciunas had 12 points and 13 rebounds, while Lou Williams finished with 12 points and Terrence Ross added 10 points for Toronto (33-16).

Khris Middleton had 25 points to lead the Bucks (26-22) in their first win over Toronto in seven matchups.

The Raptors arrived home for the first of five straight games at the Air Canada Centre on a high, their sixgame winning streak ending a woeful stretch of eight losses in 11 games.

But they trailed by as much as 18 points against a Bucks team that was already missing guard Brandon Knight (sore quadriceps), then lost O.J. Mayo — he picked up double technicals and was ejected with 4:08 to go in the first half — leaving the Bucks with eight available players.

“That was a stinker,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. “We didn’t have any energy for whatever reason.

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FLAMES: Loose puck Hutchinson had 23 stops for Winnipeg. His record falls to 14-7-2. Ondrej Pavelec stopped all four shots he faced in relief.

Calgary broke a 1-1 tie two minutes into the second period on a perfectlyplaced shot by Raymond.

Picking up a loose puck and bursting into the Jets end, Raymond snapped a shot inside the far goal post for just his second goal since way back on Oct. 19.

After Blake Wheeler opened the scoring 1:09 into the game, Jones tied it three minutes later on a play set up by Mark Giordano, who was playing in his 500th NHL game. The Flames captain leads all defencemen in scoring with 43 points (11 goals, 32 assists).

Notes: Sven Baertschi was inserted for Calgary in place of Mikael Backlund (ill)... Continuing his recovery from shoulder surgery, Flames 2014 first round pick Sam Bennett practised with the main group for the first time.

He wore a yellow non-contact jersey...

Calgary placed David Wolf on injured reserve after getting a cut on his leg in his NHL debut on Saturday.

ARTHUR: Surprised “I’m just as surprised as everyone else,” said Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner, the former Seahawk. “I don’t know what they’re thinking. It’s simple. Turn and give it to the best running back in football.”

“We had it. I don’t understand how you don’t give it to the best back in the league on not even the one-yard line,” said Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin.

Travel, it doesn’t matter. We came out, wasn’t into it.

“Energy, focus whatever it is, we didn’t bring it tonight and that’s one that we all are responsible.”

The Raptors went into the fourth down 73-60, and with four of five starters on the bench — Greivis Vasquez was the only starter to play significant minutes in the fourth quarter — finally showed some life, much to the relief of a capacity crowd of 19,800 fans at the Air Canada Centre that included Orlando Franklin of the Denver Broncos.

“The second unit came in and got 13 straight stops and that’s all we were doing, looking to play hard and I thought the second unit did,” Casey said.

Toronto sprinted out on a 15-2 run, and tied the game at 75-75 on a Tyler Hansbrough tip-in with 3:45 left on the clock. The Bucks missed 15 straight shots before Jared Dudley’s jumper with 2:07 to go put the Bucks up by four.

Former Raptor Jerryd Bayless drained a three, pumping his fist in celebration, to put the visitors up by seven with 29 seconds to go, virtually sealing Toronto’s fate.

The Raptors were outshot 41 per cent to 32 per cent and coughed up 19 points on 16 turnovers. Williams went 1-for-12, Vasquez was 3-for-11, and Ross was 4-for-12.

“It was all us,” said DeRozan. “We missed a lot of easy shots. A lot of easy shots that we normally make — Lou, myself and Kyle. It was like that all down the line.”

The Raptors were looking to win seven straight for the first time since their franchise-best nine wins in a row in the spring of 2002.

“We were on the half-yard line, and we throw a slant. I don’t know what the offence has going on, what they saw. I just don’t understand.”

In their locker room several Seahawks said the same thing, though more profanely. That one yard will haunt them. The play call will echo in their ears forever.

It was a towering game. New England made the first mistake, a Brady interception under pressure, and he looked like Anthony Calvillo late in his great CFL career, when he started bailing out on throws before getting hit. Seattle’s Jeremy Lane, their third corner, mangled his arm on the return, and Brady picked his replacement apart for a 7-0 lead. The teams exchanged a flurry of scores to end the half — three touchdowns in the last 2:16, including Seattle going for it with six seconds left in the quarter, on a pass play that worked. They threw it to six-foot-five former CFL rookie of the year Chris Matthews. He made his first four NFL catches in this game, and Carroll and Bevell had the guts to throw it in that situation: 14-14 at the half.

And then Seattle started rolling, started snarling. They lost terror pass rusher Cliff Avril to a concussion but they scored twice more, started hitting Brady harder, started to make him dance, and he threw another interception. It was 24-14 with eight minutes left, and every throw Brady made felt like a piece of his huge and complex legacy. He clawed back the lead. He was the MVP. The what-if will hang in the air forever, but he has four Super Bowls and he’s not done. Nobody thought about Deflategate. As owner Robert Kraft said, “We won 28-24, and we didn’t touch the balls.”

“We’ve been on the other end of this twice now, and being ahead late and not being able to make the plays to win, and this time we made the plays

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San Jose Sharks right wing Melker Karlsson makes a shot against Edmonton Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth as Oilers defenseman Mark Fayne tries to defend during the first period of their NHL game Monday, in San Jose, Calif. The Oilers outlasted the Sharks in the shootout winning the game on a Rob Klinkhammer goal in the 13th round. The Oilers won the game 5-4.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Boston is postponing its victory parade for the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots because of heavy snowfall.

Mayor Marty Walsh said late Monday that the city will delay the celebration until Wednesday morning. The city had announced earlier that the

downtown parade would take place Tuesday.

Walsh said in a statement that the city and team have agreed to hold off because of Monday’s snowstorm. It dumped more than a foot of fresh snow on the Boston area made commutes treacherous.

Boston has already cancelled school Tuesday. It was the fifth snow day in the past week as the city has seen a record 34 inches of snow in seven days.

The Patriots are on their way back to Massachusetts on Monday following their 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in Arizona.

to win,” said Brady. “Just awesome.

What an experience.”

New England cemented their place as one of the great dynasties in football history, maybe the greatest. The Seahawks ended it with punches, a mess, stupid. This game will leave you wondering how the hell it all happened for years. Amazing.

This is why it works. On Friday commissioner Roger Goodell said “I’m available to the media almost every day of my job, professionally,” and then he declined an interview Sunday with Bob Costas of NBC, who broadcast the game. The President talked to NBC; the commissioner didn’t. He blew off the NFL Network, too. He didn’t even try to avoid being seen as a hypocrite.

But at least it beat his Super Bowl morning appearance two years ago on Face The Nation, in which he refused to accept any link between football and concussions. That was almost a year after Junior Seau killed himself.

Seau was found to have chronic trau-

matic encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE was cut out of the proposed concussion settlement with one third of the league’s retired players. In September of last year, the Seau family withdrew from that settlement, and is still pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit against the NFL. Seau’s son stood in as his father was elected to the hall of fame.

The son was careful what he said.

Layers upon layers, and Goodell remains on the throne, supported by 32 owners whose collective instincts barely extend as far as one another’s profits. The season was so full of scandal, of farce, of Chris Berman speaking about domestic violence during a broadcast before blurting out, in mid-sentence, “AND THE PUNT IS BLOCKED!” And then the games start and they wash it all away for a while, every time, even as the awful parts of the league are right there, right in front of you.

This game was transfixing. It will echo forever. And that, as ever, is what allows all the other stuff to fly.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada heads into the world alpine ski championship with medal potential but little momentum.

Races start Tuesday in Beaver Creek, Colo., with women’s super-G. Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., hopes to build on winning the first World Cup medal of her career this season.

Former world men’s downhill champion Erik Guay and Olympic super-G bronze medallist Jan Hudec won’t compete in the world championship because of knee issues.

Manuel Osborne-Paradis won World Cup silver to open his season, but the man alongside Guay and Hudec in Canada’s “big three” had a rough January.

He hasn’t raced since crashing Jan. 18 in Wengen, Switzerland. Osborne-Paradis wiped out again a few days later in a training run in Kitzbuehel, Austria, and withdrew from that race.

The 30-year-old from Invermere, B.C., has severe bruising on his right side. Osborne-Paradis was preparing to race in pain unless it dissipates before Wednesday’s super-G and Saturday’s downhill.

“I’m a competitor and there’s nothing that I want to do more than ski fast,” he said. “I really think a big part of how I do is if I can start getting used to skiing with the pain.”

Slalom specialist Marie-Michele Gagnon of LacEtchemin, Que., continues to hover near the podium, but has yet to step on it this season.

The World Cup circuit measures a skier’s consistency over a season. The bi-annual world alpine championship is a test of performance on demand similar to the Winter Olympics.

“The competitiveness is as high as the Olympics for us,” Yurkiw said. “It’s just that the Olympics is the one everyone watches.”

The world championship rarely leaves Europe.

The last gathering in North America of the world’s top skiers was in nearby Vail in 1999.

Racing as close to home as the event ever gets, Canada’s 14-skier team could use the spark of a medal.

The Canadian men’s speed team is familiar with Beaver Creek’s Birds of Prey course. It’s been a regular men’s World Cup stop since 1999. OsborneParadis doesn’t love it.

“For a course that already doesn’t suit my abilities as a ski racer, it’s going to be tough to get my head wrapped around doing well here,” he said. “It’s steeper and I do better on medium terrain.”

The new women’s Raptor track hosted a test World Cup in 2013 when Yurkiw was 15th in super-G.

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Canada’s Erik Guay skis in the Men’s Super G at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on Feb. 16, 2014. Canadian alpine skier Erik Guay has pushed back his return to competition and will sit out the upcoming world championships. The 33-year-old Olympian from Mont-Tremblant, Que., had surgery to replace cartilage and bone in his left knee in June after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on the same knee in March.

She’ll race the downhill Friday.

“It’s definitely a rugged course,” she said. “You have to have hair on your chest for this track.”

Canadians won back-to-back men’s downhill titles in 2009 (John Kucera) and 2011 (Guay). Kucera has since retired.

Guay is still coming back from a pair of off-season knee surgeries. The 33-year-old from Mont-Tremblant, Que., has pushed back his projected return to racing until after the world championships.

Calgary’s Hudec, a downhill silver medallist in 2007, underwent knee surgery last month.

The last world championship medals won by Canadian women were Melanie Turgeon’s downhill gold and Allison Forsyth’s giant slalom bronze in 2003.

Gagnon is a contender in next week’s slalom if she can string together two fast runs instead of just one.

She’s also one to watch in next Monday’s combined event of a slalom and a downhill. Gagnon became the first Canadian woman to win a World Cup combined

event in 2013.

Yurkiw finished second in a women’s downhill Jan. 16 in Cortina, Italy, for her first career World Cup medal. The 26-year-old was also fourth in Lake Louise, Alta., in December to help her to a current world ranking of ninth.

Erik Read of Banff, Alta., will make his world championship debut in Colorado. He’s the son of former Crazy Canuck Ken Read. Toronto’s Philip Brown, Ottawa’s Dustin Cook, Morgan Pridy of Whistler, B.C., Ben Thomsen of Invermere and Calgary’s Trevor Philp round out the men’s team.

Yurkiw and Gagnon will be joined on the women’s squad by Erin Mielzynski of Collingwood, Ont., Marie-Pier Prefontaine of Mont-Saint-Sauveur, Que., Toronto’s Candace Crawford, Valerie Grenier of Mont-Tremblant, Que., and Mikaela Tommy of Wakefield, Que. The world alpine championship concludes Feb. 15.

Carroll stands by decision at end of Super Bowl loss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — Less than 16 hours later, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was still stunned by the outcome while defending the decision to call a pass from the 1-yard line in the Super Bowl’s closing seconds, a choice that will long be debated.

So close to another celebration. So close to becoming the next NFL dynasty.

“The shock of disappointment that this game gets away from us and goes another way right at the finish line,” a sombre Carroll said Monday, before Seattle returned to the Pacific Northwest after the 28-24 loss to New England. “It’s something that we have to deal with that in the long run of it will make us stronger, and we’ll be able to put it in some kind of perspec-

tive. It’s pretty hard right now.”

Carroll stood by the decision for Russell Wilson to throw from the New England 1 with 26 seconds left, a pass that was intended for Ricardo Lockette and intercepted by Malcolm Butler.

Carroll also defended offensive co-ordinator Darrell Bevell, who was widely criticized for calling a pass with Marshawn Lynch in the Seattle backfield.

“We’re so lucky to have him. He’s been absolutely instrumental in everything that we have done,” Carroll said. “There is no reservation in that thought, and don’t make it out like there is, because he is an awesome guy on our staff, and he is crucially important to our future as well.”

Carroll said the clock and the Seahawks’ timeout situation dictated they would have to throw once and possibly twice from the 1. He gave credit to Butler

for making the interception and fellow cornerback Brandon Browner for jamming up wide receiver Jermaine Kearse on the play, creating open space for Butler to break on the ball.

Seattle decided to throw after seeing New England bring in its goal-line defenders, Carroll said.

The Seahawks were also attempting to melt as much time from the clock with Tom Brady standing on the other sideline.

“We easily could have gone otherwise, but when they sent their goal-line guys in, I know that we have the advantage on the matchups in the passing game so let’s throw it. It’s OK,” Carroll said. “One of those downs we were likely to throw the ball — maybe two of those downs we would have thrown the ball depending on how we had to save the clock. We had to get all of our plays.”

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The 21-year-old left-hander, who rose through three minor-league levels last year before making his major league debut in September, spends most of the off-season driving on the open road, camping in the mountains, and surfing on the ocean waves — all while living out of a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia microbus.

The large, mustard-coloured vehicle, which Norris named Shaggy, remains one of the only major purchases from the US$2-million signing bonus the Blue Jays gave him in 2011 after selecting him in the second round of that year’s draft.

“I do it to be alone and to find peace within myself,” Norris said from Toronto’s spring training complex in Dunedin, Fla. “I love my teammates and family but I’m not the kind of person who likes to be around a ton of people. I’m a thinker, I like to be alone with my thoughts.

“When I’m out there, it’s just me, Shaggy and God and I can really connect with myself. It’s very peaceful.”

For the past three years, Norris has fashioned a tradition out of driving from his home in Johnson City, Tenn., to Dunedin, stretching the 1,100-kilometre trek as long as he can.

He cooks meals on a backpacking stove — chicken stir fry is his specialty — and stops wherever he pleases along the way.

“Depending on where I am, there’s a lot of surfing, a lot of just hanging out,” Norris said.

“I like to explore so sometimes I’ll just stop at the side of the road and look around. There’s no plan involved.”

Love of the outdoors runs in the Norris family.

With Great Smoky Mountain National Park just 116 km down the highway from his childhood home, Daniel’s parents, David and Sandra, would take their kids on frequent camping excursions.

David Norris sells and repairs bicycles out of his shop in Johnson City. Melanie, Daniel’s sister, had her wedding ceremony — complete with a camp-out style reception — in the North Carolina mountains last summer.

“It’s always been a part of me and that’s definitely what kickstarted my interest,” Norris said. “But I’ve tried to take it to the next level over the years.”

Norris has gained increasing notoriety for his dedication to outdoor living.

A photo he tweeted of himself shaving his thick beard with an axe caused a stir earlier this year.

Though the shot was staged for a modelling gig — he hasn’t even taken a razor to his facial hair since October — it helped solidify Norris’ persona as a rugged woodsman.

His long hair, which he’s been wearing in a bun at

the top of his head, and his wide array of flannel and officially reports to the major league side of camp denim shirts all add to that image. for the first time.

That’s not exactly how he wants to be seen, This spring, Norris will compete against rightthough. handers Aaron Sanchez and Marco Estrada for the “It doesn’t necessarily bother me, but all the at- fifth spot in the big league rotation, but a bullpen job tention is surprising,” said Norris. “I’d rather be could be up for grabs as well. known for being the best baseball player I can be — “I had so much fun in the big leagues, I just want that’s my passion, that’s my dream. to get back there,” he said. “Obviously I want to start, “All this other stuff, I think it’s important because but if it comes down to me heading to the bullpen to people want to know who they’re cheering for, so I help Toronto win games then heck yeah, I’m down. ... can agree with it in that sense. I want people to know “Best case scenario: Sanchez and I have the best who I really am and that’s what’s being portrayed.” spring training we can and we make it a really tough While not everyone understands Norris’s Moun- decision for the Blue Jays.” tain Man lifestyle, the Blue Jays say they don’t have a problem with their top prospect’s off-season adventures.

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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

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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

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WHL Scoring Leaders

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.

Friday, February 6 Spokane at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Tim McGauley, Bra Cole Ully, Kam Adam Tambellini, CAL Connor Rankin, CAL Jack Rodewald, MJ Chase De Leo, Por Nikita Scherbak, Eve Austin Carroll, Vic Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Jansen Harkins, PG Adam Helewka, Spo Luke Philp, Koo Tyson Baillie, Kel Brayden Point, MJ Matt Needham, Kam Jake Debrusk, SC Nicolas Petan, Por Colby Cave, SC Carson Stadnyk, Eve Ivan Nikolishin, Eve Ivan Provorov, Bra Chase Witala, PG Rihards Bukarts, Bra Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Travis Brown, Vic Peter Quenneville, Bra Travis Sanheim, CAL Joe Hicketts, Vic Brett Pollock, Edm Conner Bleackley, RD Chase Lang, CAL Kohl Bauml, Eve Justin Kirkland, Kel Reid Duke, Bra Tyler Soy, Vic Parker Bowles, TC

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GF 158 145 145 147 140 113 120 105

GA 139 129 115 129 151 138 151 129

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 52 26 18 8 60 Dallas 49 23 19 7 53 Colorado 50 21 18 11 53 Minnesota 49 23 20 6 52

GF 149 160 155 144 157 131 135

GA 115 120 115 137 159 141 140

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Gay Sheen Bleackley Johnson Cote Kopeck Maxwell Feser Musil Pawlenchuk Polei Fleury Doetzel Nell Strand Nogier de Wit Bobyk Adamson Toth Grman Burman Mahura Goaltenders

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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

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

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

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 Calgary 51 28 20 3 59 149 131 Vancouver 48 27 18 3 57 131 124 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

Sunday’s Games Arizona 3, Montreal 2 St. Louis 4, Washington 3 Nashville 4, Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 4, Vancouver 2 Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 6, Florida 3 Calgary 5, Winnipeg 2 Edmonton at San Jose, late 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.

Wednesday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Flames 5, Jets 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Wheeler 14 (Little, Ladd) 1:09.

2. Calgary, Jones 8 (Giordano) 4:16.

Penalties — Wpg Bench (too many men) 8:40.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Raymond 7 (Baertschi) 1:59.

Penalties — Little Wpg (interference) 12:31, Baertschi Cgy (tripping) 15:13, Byfuglien Wpg (roughing) 20:00, Bouma Cgy (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 4. Calgary, Diaz 1 (Bouma, Colborne) 4:24 (pp).

5. Calgary, Bollig 1 (Colborne, Byron) 7:23.

6. Winnipeg, Little 19 (Ladd, Chiarot) 8:43.

7. Calgary, Monahan 17 (Gaudreau, Russell) 17:27 (en).

Penalties — Perreault Wpg (tripping) 2:25, Stajan Cgy (high-sticking) 11:55.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 6 6 7 — 19 Calgary 8 8 12 — 28 Goal — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (L, 14-7-2); Calgary: Hiller (W, 16-14-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2; Calgary: 1-3.

Rangers 6, Panthers 3 First Period 1. Florida, Barkov 6 (Boyes) 4:09.

2. NY Rangers, Nash 30 (unassisted) 8:49 (sh).

Penalties — Girardi NYR (tripping) 7:49.

Second Period 3. NY Rangers, Hayes 7 (Zuccarello, McDonagh) 2:51 (pp).

4. NY Rangers, Staal 3 (Fast, Hagelin) 9:28.

5. Florida, Bolland 2 (Bergenheim, Jokinen) 12:51.

6. Florida, Pirri 7 (Bolland, Boyes) 15:30 (pp).

Penalties — Petrovic Fla (hooking) 1:52, Girardi NYR (tripping) 15:04, Bolland Fla (cross-checking) 17:45.

Third Period 7. NY Rangers, Boyle 6 (unassisted) 8:10.

8. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 8 (Kreider, Brassard) 15:58.

9. NY Rangers, Nash 31 (Stepan) 18:07 (en).

Penalties — Kopecky Fla (goaltender interference) 10:58, Huberdeau Fla (roughing) 17:35, Staal NYR (roughing) 17:35.

Shots on goal Florida 12 10 14 — 36 NY Rangers 9 8 21 — 38 Goal — Florida: Luongo (L, 18-13-8); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 25-11-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 1-2; NY Rangers: 1-3.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Named Frank Robinson senior adviser and the honorary president of the American League. Suspended Boston minor league SS Ricardo Cubillan (Lowell-NYP) 76 games after testing positive for a metabolite of Nandrolone; free agent minor league INF Wilson Betemit 50 games and San Francisco minor league RHP Ethan Miller (Salem-NWL) after testing positive for Amphetamine; and free agent minor league 1B Tanner Norton 50 games following a second positive test for a drug of abuse; all violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with RHP Garrett Richards on a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Signed RHP Ronald Belisario, INF Alexi Casilla and LHP Robert Zarate to minor league contracts.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with C Gerald Laird on a minor league contract.

CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with LHP Paul Maholm on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 1B Lucas Duda on a one-year contract. Named Ryan Ellis short-season hitting co-ordinator, Benny DiStefano outfield co-ordinator, Lamar Johnson hitting co-ordinator.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with 1B Brandon Belt on a one-year contract and with

RHP Cory Gearrin, LHP Braulio Lara, RHP Curtis Partch, LHP Nikolas Turley, INF Carlos Triunfel and OF Justin Maxwell on minor league contracts.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Casey Janssen on a one-year contract.

Designated RHP Eric Fornataro for assignment.

California League RANCHO CUCAMONGA QUAKES — Announced the resignation of manager P.J. Forbes. Named Bill Haselman manager.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Sold the contract of C Chris Bianchi to Los Angeles (NL).

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released INF Stephen Branca.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed OF and hitting coach Lew Ford.

Frontier League FRONTIER GREYS — Signed INF Zach Tanner.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Richard Barrett, OF Richard Seigel and RHP Tyler Thompson to contract extensions.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF R.J. Fuhr.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed 3B Taylor Ard. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed RHP Miguel Ramirez and OF Marquis Riley to contract extensions.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Named Brent Metheny hitting coach.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Signed G John Lucas III to a 10-day contract.

NHL PLAYERS OF THE MONTH NEW YORK — Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin is the NHL’s first star of January after scoring a league-high 12 goals in 13 games over the month.

Ovechkin also led all players with six powerplay goals and 59 shots on goal to power the Capitals to a 7-3-3 January and the second wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference.

The Moscow native leads the NHL with 31 goals, 14 power-play goals, six game-winning goals (tied) and 248 shots in 50 games this season.

He is the fifth player in NHL history to record at least 30 goals in each of his first 10 seasons, joining Mike Gartner, Wayne Gretzky,

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Red Deer Vipers exploded for five firstperiod goals and went on to an easy 10-1 win over the Ponoka Stampeders in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Monday at the Arena.

Red Deer got two goals from each of Justin Corbett, Dustin Spearing and Brett Hoppus, who also picked up a pair of assists. Nick Glackin, Connor Veroba, Justin Moltzahn and Cole deGraaf, who added two helpers, also scored

RDC TRACK AND FIELD RDC athlete Jonathan Allan placed second in the men’s 300-metre event of the first ACAC indoor track meet Sunday at the University of Calgary with a time of 38.57 seconds.

Mitchell Dore of RDC finished fifth wth a time of 39.81.

In the men’s 600m event, Austin Midkiff of RDC was 11th in 1:41.23, and Noah Arychuk of RDC was fourth in the men’s 3,000m with a time of 9:59.11.

The RDC 4x400m relay team finished fourth in 4:00.15. RDC was fourth in men’s team points with 22.

Two members of the Red Deer Titans Track Club also competed in the men’s division, with Brayden Posyluzny posting respective times of 7.53 and 8.99 seconds in the 60m and 60m hurdles, and Darren Posyluzny recording a time

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS—Signed F James Michael McAdoo to second 10-day contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Signed G Tanisha Wright, C Carolyn Swords and F Rebecca Allen.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Named Dan Quinn coach.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed OT Matthew O’Donnell.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Robb Akey defensive line coach.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Signed DB Derricus Purdy. Traded C Zack Williams to Las Vegas Outlaws for the No. 1 overall pick in the waiver claim order.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Recalled D Jyrki Jokipakka from Texas (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Jacob de la Rose from Hamilton (AHL).

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Traded F Anthony Collins from Quad City for future considerations.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Announced MF Tim Cahill has left the team by mutual agreement.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed F Adam Nemec.

TORONTO FC — Announced F Sebastian Giovinco was transferred from Juventus (Serie A-Italy)

Mike Bossy and Jari Kurri.

New York Islanders centre John Tavares is January’s second star after scoring eight goals and adding eight assists in 12 games to lead the Islanders to the top spot in the Metropolitan Division.

Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask went 7-13 with a 1.61 goals-against average, .949 save percentage and one shutout over the month to claim the third star award.

In weekly awards, Montreal goaltender Carey Price is the NHL’s first star after a nearly perfect week in the Canadiens’ net. Price posted a 3-0-0 record with a 0.66 goals-against average, .980 save percentage and two shutouts to backstop the Canadiens to three win in four games. He started the week with 40 saves in a 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday. for the winners.

The Vipers led 8-0 after two periods before outscoring their guests 2-1 in the final frame.

Tye Munro potted the lone Ponoka goal.

Klay Munro turned aside 30 shots in the Red Deer net, while Zane Steeves and Eli Falls combined to make 38 saves for the Stamps.

The Vipers, who return to action tonight against the host Blackfalds Wranglers (7:30 p.m.), were assessed five of nine minor penalties. The clubs split two fighting majors.

Red Deer is in High River Friday to face the Flyers and hosts High River Saturday at 8 p.m. of 8.99 seconds in the 60m event. Eric Lutz of Hunting Hills High School had a time of 2:05.34 while running an 800m leg for a relay team.

On the women’s side, Celine de Wit and Anna Duda of RDC finished seventh and eighth in the 300m event with respective times of 49.69 and 49.99, while RDC athletes Robyn Hebert (2:06.04) and Melissa Ray (2:17.08) were eighth and 10th in the 600m and Samantha Debree placed seventh in the 3,000m with a time of 10:57.34.

The RDC 4x400 relay squad was third in 5:14.72 and the women’s team finished fourth in points with 16.

Hunting Hills students Dina Iatrou and Jill Stewart also competed in the women’s division, with Iatrou posting respective times of 1:47.55 in the 600m and 1:09.52 during a 400m leg with a relay team, and Stewart, who is also a member of the Red Deer Titans, recording times of 11:50.37 in the 3000m and 68.89 while running a 400m leg during the relays.

Today ● 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.

Wednesday ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● JV basketball: Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Rocky Mountain House at Ponoka, Wetaskiwin at Stettler, Innisfail at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

(The Drive).

Thursday ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7:5 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs. NWS, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday ● Senor high basketball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls/boys tournament. ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● College basketball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7 p.m.

Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer North Star at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena.

● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m., Eckville. ● WHL: Red Deer at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. (The Drive).

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls/boys tournament. ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary North Star at Red Deer Black, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Royals at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie Black at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Olds at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m.

Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena; ● WHL: Red Deer at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Stettler at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Southwest at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer North Star, noon, Arena; Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Orangemen, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs.

Kingsmen, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Monstars, Wells Furniture vs. Triple A Batteries, Alken Basin vs. Johns Manville, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Football NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 At Glendale, Ariz.

New England 28, Seattle 24 Super Bowl Champions 2015 — New England (AFC) 28, Seattle (NFC) 24 2014 — Seattle (NFC) 43, Denver (AFC) 8 2013 — Baltimore (AFC) 34, San Fran. (NFC) 31 2012 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 21, New Eng. (AFC) 17 2011 — Green Bay (NFC) 31, Pittsburgh (AFC) 25 2010 — New Orleans (NFC) 31, Indianap. (AFC) 17 2009 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 27, Arizona (NFC) 23 2008 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 17, New Eng. (AFC) 14 2007 — Indianapolis (AFC) 29, Chicago (NFC) 17 2006 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 21, Seattle (NFC) 10 2005 — New England (AFC) 24, Philad.(NFC) 21 2004 — New England (AFC) 32, Carolina (NFC) 29 2003 — Tampa Bay (NFC) 48, Oakland (AFC) 21 2002 — New England (AFC) 20, St. Louis (NFC) 17 2001 — Baltimore (AFC) 34, N.Y. Giants (NFC) 7 2000 — St. Louis (NFC) 23, Tennessee (AFC) 16 1999 — Denver (AFC) 34, Atlanta (NFC) 19 1998 — Denver (AFC) 31, Green Bay (NFC) 24

1997 — Green Bay (NFC) 35, New Eng. (AFC) 21 1996 — Dallas (NFC) 27, Pittsburgh (AFC) 17 1995 — San Fran. (NFC) 49, San Diego (AFC) 26 1994 — Dallas (NFC) 30, Buffalo (AFC) 13 1993 — Dallas (NFC) 52, Buffalo (AFC) 17 1992 — Washington (NFC) 37, Buffalo (AFC) 24 1991 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 20, Buffalo (AFC) 19 1990 — San Francisco (NFC) 55, Denver (AFC) 10 1989 — San Fran. (NFC) 20, Cincinnati (AFC) 16 1988 — Washington (NFC) 42, Denver (AFC) 10 1987 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 39, Denver (AFC) 20 1986 — Chicago (NFC) 46, New England (AFC) 10 1985 — San Francisco (NFC) 38, Miami (AFC) 16 1984 — L.A. Raiders (AFC) 38, Wash. (NFC) 9 1983 — Washington (NFC) 27, Miami (AFC) 17 1982 — San Fran. (NFC) 26, Cincinnati (AFC) 21 1981 — Oakland (AFC) 27, Philadelphia (NFC) 10 1980 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 31, L.A. Rams (NFC) 19 1979 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 35, Dallas (NFC) 31 1978 — Dallas (NFC) 27, Denver (AFC) 10 1977 — Oakland (AFC) 32, Minnesota (NFC) 14 1976 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 21, Dallas (NFC) 17 1975 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 16, Minnesota (NFC) 6 1974 — Miami (AFC) 24, Minnesota (NFC) 7 1973 — Miami (AFC) 14, Washington (NFC) 7 1972 — Dallas (NFC) 24, Miami (AFC) 3 1971 — Baltimore Colts (AFC) 16, Dallas (NFC) 13 1970 — Kansas City (AFL) 23, Minnesota (NFL) 7 1969 — N.Y. Jets (AFL) 16, Baltimore Colts (NFL) 7 1968 — Green Bay (NFL) 33, Oakland (AFL) 14 1967 — Green Bay (NFL) 35, Kansas City (AFL) 10 NFL Draft Order 1. Tampa Bay (2-14); 2. Tennessee (2-14); 3. Jacksonville (3-13); 4. Oakland (3-13); 5. Washington (412); 6. N.Y. Jets (4-12); 7. Chicago (5-11); 8. Atlanta (6-10); 9. N.Y. Giants (6-10); 10. St. Louis (6-10).

11. Minnesota (7-9); 12. Cleveland (7-9); 13. New Orleans (7-9); 14. Miami (8-8); 15. San Francisco (8-8); 16. Houston (9-7); 17. San Diego (9-7); 18.

Kansas City (9-7); 19. Buffalo (9-7); 20. Philadelphia (10-6). 21. Cincinnati (10-5-1); 22. Pittsburgh (11-5); 23. Detroit (11-5); 24. Arizona (11-5); 25. Carolina (7-8-1); 26. Baltimore (10-6); 27. Dallas (12-4); 28.

Denver (12-4); 29. Indianapolis (11-5); 30. Green Bay (12-4). 31. Seattle (12-4); 32. New England (12-4).

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 33 16 .673 — Brooklyn 19 28 .404 13 Boston 16 30 .348 15 1/2 New York 10 38 .208 22 1/2 Philadelphia 10 39 .204 23 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 40 9 .816 — Washington 31 18 .633 9 Miami 21 26 .447 18 Charlotte 21 27 .438 18 1/2 Orlando 15 36 .294 26 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 30 19 .612 — Cleveland 30 20 .600 1/2 Milwaukee 26 22 .542 3 1/2 Detroit 18 30 .375 11 1/2 Indiana 17 32 .347 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 36 12 .750 — Houston 33 15 .688 3 Dallas 33 17 .660 4 San Antonio 30 18 .625 6 New Orleans 26 22 .542 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 32 16 .667 — Oklahoma City 24 24 .500 8 Denver 19 29 .396 13 Utah 17 30 .362 14 1/2

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

8 40 .167 Pacific Division W L Pct 37 8 .822 33 16 .673 28 22 .560 17 29 .370 13 35 .271

24 GB — 6 11 1/2 20 1/2 25 1/2

Monday’s Games Charlotte 92, Washington 88 Cleveland 97, Philadelphia 84 Milwaukee 82, Toronto 75 Brooklyn 102, L.A. Clippers 100 New Orleans 115, Atlanta 100 Oklahoma City 104, Orlando 97 Dallas 100, Minnesota 94 Memphis 102, Phoenix 101 Tuesday’s Games Denver at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Utah at Portland, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Orlando at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Jan 26-Feb. 1 Monday Club 55+: Neil Garbutt 287 high single; Garbutt 687 high triple.

Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Marcel Serre 262; Ken Bement 671.

Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Harvey Von Hollen 293; Von Hollen 818.

Wednesday club 55+: Mario Campos 297; Don Knowler 818.

Wednesday 7 p.m. mixed: Chris Bristow 297; Bristow 644.

Thursday morning ladies: Toni Cocks 323; Cocks 735.

Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed: Franklin Mclellan 273; Mclellan 654.

Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Matt Desjardins 252; Desjardins 416.

Monday scratch league: Ty Skjonsberg 311; Karie Kreutz 775.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Hockey players Megan Jones and Riley Point are the Boston Pizza RDC female and male athletes of the week.

Jones scored once and collected two assists as the RDC Queens swept a two-game weekend series from the Grant McEwan Griffins to extend their winning streak to five games.

Jones leads all ACAC de-

fencemen in scoring this season with four goals and 10 points.

Point, meanwhile, turned in two strong performances for the RDC Kings in a weekend set with the Keyano Huskies at Fort McMurray.

In Saturday’s 5-5 draw, he contributed two goals and two assists and was named RDC player of the game.

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‘Sold a bill of goods’ CRITICS DECRY DELAYED OTTAWA REPORT ON BITUMEN TOXICITY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Critics say the federal government has been trying to hide legitimate concerns about the consequences of oilsands pipelines by keeping a report under wraps on the possible environmental threats posed.

“We are being sold a bill of goods by this government,” New Democrat environment critic Megan Leslie said Monday.

“If this report has been around since 2013 and not been released, then it makes me think they must be trying to hide something.”

Francois Poirier, president of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project, downplayed such concerns.

“There have been a number of studies by reputable third-party and scientific organizations ... that demonstrate that diluted bitumen behaves just like any other type of crude oil product that’s transported through our pipeline,” he said.

In an emailed statement, Phillipe Reicher of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association made a similar point.

“Generally speaking, we have no op-

erational evidence that indicates that diluted bitumen behaves differently than other forms of crude oil,” he said.

But the unpublished report on environmental threats from oil and bitumen pipelines says little is known about potential toxic effects of oilsands products in oceans, lakes or rivers.

“In particular, research on the toxicology of bitumen is lacking,” says the draft report, which was commissioned in response to concerns raised at the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings.

The document comes as Canada debates pipeline proposals for moving large amounts of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries and ports on both coasts and into the United States. It was obtained by Greenpeace under freedom-of-information legislation.

A spokesman for the department of Fisheries and Oceans said a more complete, peer-reviewed version of the report is to be published in the coming months.

Canadians need that information now, said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace. He said Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tories approving Northern Gateway in spite of important knowl-

edge gaps shows a dangerous lack of caution.

“The fact they’re saying full speed ahead even though they know it’s a lot more dangerous than they’ve been letting on publicly should be a cause for concern,” he said. “It throws into question the regulatory approvals process when they withhold this kind of information.”

An early draft of the report lays out 10 specific “knowledge gaps” about bitumen and various substances used to dilute it when it’s pumped through pipelines.

“Very little information is available on the physical and chemical characteristics of oilsands-related products following a spill into water,” it says.

“Research on the biological effects of oilsands-related products on aquatic organisms is lacking.

“A better understanding of the fate and behaviour of these products is critical for assessing the potential risk to aquatic organisms.”

The draft finds that Orimulsion, a Venezuelan product about two-thirds bitumen and one-third water, is “highly toxic to fish” — 300 times more toxic to embryos than heavy fuel oil.

Prentice says rally in oil prices won’t save province’s budget

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON, United States — Alberta’s premier says a recent rally in the price of oil won’t help the provincial government much as it tries to plug a multibillion dollar hole in its budget.

Jim Prentice says US$50 a barrel oil is better than $40 a barrel, but the province still needs to find more stable sources of revenue to deal with what will be a sizable deficit.

Prentice says prices will fluctuate, but analysts expect them to stay low for up to two years.

Oil closed just below US$50 a barrel today after falling below US$45 a barrel in recent weeks.

The benchmark has fallen more than 50 per cent in the past seven months, threatening the profits of energy companies and leaving Alberta with a $7 billion hole in its budget.

The 61-page draft includes 14 pages of references to peer-reviewed academic studies as well as to government and industry publications. They date from 1976 to 2013 and include articles from a wide variety of scientific journals.

The government spokesman said funding has already been provided for five research projects on possible bitumen effects on fish and shellfish.

A federal report released Jan. 14 echoes many of the concerns from the unreleased review. It concluded little can be said about how bitumen changes as it weathers, how it interacts with sediments or whether it would float or sink.

“Research regarding how bitumen products will further biodegrade in the environment is insufficient,” it concludes.

Reicher added that industry is sponsoring a literature review of its own into how a “broad range” of industry products behave in water.

That study is to be set by the Royal Society of Canada — an association of many of Canada’s most senior scientists — and is expected to be published this fall.

SUNSET GRILL

Each $1 drop in the average price over the course of a year costs the province $215 million.

The province predicted a barrel of West Texas Intermediate would average US$92 a barrel this fiscal year ending March 31. That was revised to almost US$89 in November as prices fell.

Prentice has signalled everything is on the table as the government attempts to deal with its revenue shortfall, including possible tax hikes, spending cuts and wage rollbacks for government workers.

“The price levels that we continue to be at is still in the range that produces a very sizable hole in terms of Alberta’s finances,” Prentice said from Washington.

“Certainly $50 a barrel oil is better than $40 a barrel oil — I understand that. But it still produces a deficit that is very sizable in terms of the Alberta government’s budget going forward.”

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

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BRIEF Target liquidation sales could start Thursday, retailer seeks court approval TORONTO — Liquidation sales at Target’s Canadian stores could begin as early as Thursday.

Target Canada will seek court approval Wednesday to allow a group of liquidation companies to start to sell off the contents of its Canadian stores.

The U.S.-based retailer announced last month that it will be closing all 133 of its Canadian stores and laying off more than 17,000 staff, just two years after its highly anticipated launch north of the border.

The company took over old Zellers stores and opened in Canada in March 2013, but failed to deliver on customer expectations.

In explaining the decision to close its Canadian stores, chief executive Brian Cornell said he didn’t expect Target Canada to reach profitability until at least 2021.

Target Canada has been granted court protection from creditors and is now in the process of winding down its operations. In addition to its remaining inventory, the furniture and equipment will also be sold during the liquidation sale.

Court files specify the liquidation companies are not to advertise the sales as “bankruptcy” or “going out of business” sales.

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aviation chief is issuing a number of recommendations in light of two unprecedented tragedies involving his country’s major airline.

In his opening remarks today, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told a high-level international safety meeting in Montreal the fact that an airplane could go missing and flight recorders could not be recovered is unacceptable.

His comments come in the aftermath of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which went down last March while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board and was officially declared an accident last week.

The senior Malaysian official also called for the real-time global tracking of commercial aircraft as soon as possible and extending the transmission life of underwater locator beacons installed on aircraft flight recorders.

He also told the International Civil Aviation Organization conference today that, when it comes to flight risks, there should be mandatory reporting of relevant information to a centralized system so that information would be promptly shared.

Canadian dollar rises as oil prices advance, traders look to heavy slate of data TORONTO — The Canadian dollar advanced well over ¾ of a U.S. cent Monday as oil prices gained ground for a second day and traders looked ahead to a heavy week for economic data, capped by Canadian and U.S. job reports for January.

The loonie was up 0.84 of a cent at 79.31 cents US on hopes that a bottom is in sight for oil prices, which have plunged more than 50 per cent since the highs of last summer.

The March crude contract in New York rose $1.33 to US$49.57 a barrel.

Prices had jumped almost $4 on Friday amid news of a big drop in U.S. rig counts as producers respond to oversupply.

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Gasoline Alley should soon have another restaurant, as work continues on the new Sunset Grill on Leva Ave. The 2,700-square-foot franchised restaurant will specialize in breakfasts. It will have seating for around 115 plus patio space. Sunset Grill is adjacent to the new Gasoline Alley Boston Pizza, which is already operating, and in front of the new Microtel Inn & Suites, which is expected to open shortly. The developer of Sunset Grill and Microtel Inn & Suites is Alan Arsenault.

Wynne rejects beer sales in corner stores as Ontario reviews rules on alcohol

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario is preparing changes to the way alcoholic beverages are sold, but it will not permit beer sales in corner stores, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Monday.

Former Liberal premier David Peterson first promised Ontarians in the 1980s that they’d be able to buy beer and wine at a corner store, just like their neighbours in Quebec. But Peterson never delivered on the pledge, and Wynne said the idea is now off the table.

“We’re not going to have beer in convenience stores,” she said. “There is change coming however.”

The Ontario Convenience Stores Association said the province has more than 200 LCBO agency stores — convenience stores in small, remote communities that sell LCBO products — and asked the government to expand that model.

“By piloting an expansion of this program in an urban or suburban community ... government will be able to build on the success of this program while stimulating local economies and increasing LCBO revenues,” said spokesman Dave Bryans.

The Progressive Conservatives said Wynne shouldn’t dismiss the idea of selling beer in corner stores because the LCBO agency stores have operated

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for decades without any problems in their communities.

“It is available in (some) convenience stores, just maybe not in downtown Toronto,” said PC finance critic Vic Fedeli. “I think the public is ready for the discussion.”

Wynne said she’s been concerned for years about the foreign-owned Beer Store’s virtual monopoly on 80 per cent of beer sales in Ontario.

“I was concerned about the functioning of the Beer Store ... about the access of craft brewers to the Beer Store, and so from that time I’ve been committed to making change,” she said. “It’s not whether there will be change. It’s just a matter of what that change will be, so stay tuned.”

Wynne appointed former TD Bank CEO Ed Clark to examine the relationship between the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Beer Store and look at the alcohol distribution system as part of a review of all government assets.

“They’re looking at the LCBO and, as a result of that, looking at the Beer Store, so there are changes coming,” she said.

Clark rejected privatizing the LCBO in an interim report, and recommended the Beer Store give taxpayers a “fair share” of its profits or have the government auction off its virtual monopoly if the consortium won’t pay an undetermined fee.

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Imperial oil forges ahead with oilsands projects

COMPANIES

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market surged more than 200 points Monday, led by a strong run-up in energy stocks on hopes that oil prices may have found a bottom.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 226.99 points to 14,900.47.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.84 of a cent at 79.31 cents US. New York indexes also closed sharply higher, recovering from initial disappointment with a weaker than expected reading on manufacturing.

The Dow Jones industrials ran ahead 196.22 points to 17,361.17, the Nasdaq was 41.45 points higher at 4,676.69 and the S&P 500 index gained 25.86 points to 2,020.85.

The TSX energy sector climbed 4.5 per cent as oil prices advanced for a second day with the March crude contract in New York up $1.33 to US$49.57 a barrel. Prices had jumped almost $4 on Friday amid news of a big drop in U.S. drilling rig counts as producers respond to oversupply.

This was good news for investors who have seen oil prices collapse on world markets due to a glut in global supply. Prices have plunged more than 50 per cent since the highs of last summer. “We are starting to see companies forgo new projects or investment to expand existing projects and, as that happens, some of the expectation for future supply growth is starting to get trimmed,� said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. “And so, over time, the market’s expectations for where that bottom is for oil will be adjusted as more and more of these stories come out about companies laying down rigs or trimming back on future investment.�

Investors also digested earnings reports from energy sector heavyweight Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO), which posted fourthquarter earnings of $671 million or 79 cents a share, seven cents ahead of estimates. Earnings were down 36 per cent from a

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.03 First Quantum Minerals . 12.28 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.73 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.59 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.28 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.53 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 46.48 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.20 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.10 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.93 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.71 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 24.71 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.26 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.88 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.90 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.45 Canyon Services Group. . 7.43 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 25.13 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.34 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.37 year ago while production averaged 315,000 gross oil-equivalent barrels per day, down from 329,000 barrels a year ago. Its shares were ahead $2.11 or 4.5 per cent to $49.35.

Canadian Oilsands (TSX:COS) was a major gainer, up 20.4 per cent to $9.45, after TD Securities raised the target price of the stock to $8.50 from $8.

Metal prices were mixed with March copper unchanged at $2.49 a pound and the base metals component gained four per cent.

Financials also lent support, up 1.45 per cent.

The gold sector was flat as April gold billion closed down $2.30 to US$1,276.90 an ounce.

Meanwhile, the Institute for Supply Management’s index on U.S. manufacturing showed the sector expanded at a slower pace for a third straight month as a stronger U.S. dollar and damage from the collapse in oil prices weighed on business spending.

The ISM’s index came in at 53.5, down from 55.5 in December.

Markets have been sensitive to any signs of weakness in the U.S. economy, since it has come to be viewed as the major prop for the overall global economy. 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.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,900.47, up 226.99 points Dow — 17,361.17, up 196.22 points S&P 500 — 2,020.85, up 25.86 points Nasdaq — 4,676.69, up 41.45 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.58 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.51 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.73 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.96 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.35 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.69 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.14 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.020 Precision Drilling Corp . . .6.61 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.35 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.55 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.98 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.17 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.42 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.18 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.05 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.26 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.80 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.59 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.60 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.50 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.75 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.52 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.02 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.79 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.91 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.35 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.33

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1.06 cents Euro — US$1.1336, up 0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.57 per barrel, up $1.33 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,276.90 per oz., down $2.30 (April contract)

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $2.00 lower $451.40; May ’15 $2.10 lower $447.30; July ’15 $3.00 lower $444.80; Nov ’15 $2.10 lower $433.10; Jan. ’16 $2.10 lower $434.70; March ’16 $2.10 lower $439.20; May ’16 $2.10 lower $443.10; July ’16 $2.10 lower $447.00; Nov. ’16 $2.10 lower $446.20; Jan. ’17 $2.10 lower $446.20; March ’17 $2.10 lower $446.20.

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

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 518,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 518,960.

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Energy East looks to mitigate beluga concerns

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — An oil export terminal on the Saint Lawrence at Cacouna, Que., remains part of the official Energy East pipeline plan as TransCanada seeks a way to mitigate the impact on beluga whales, the project president said Monday.

The proposed $12-billion, 4,600-kilometre pipeline from Hardisty, Alta., to the Atlantic Ocean will include marine terminals in Cacouna and Saint John, N.B., Francois Poirier said in a speech to the Canadian Club.

A large map showing the pipeline route, including the contested Quebec port, was projected on screens as Poirier made the economic case for the west-toeast oil pipeline that could carry up to 1.1 million barrels a day. “Energy East is far and away a better alternative than the status quo,� he told the business-oriented audience.

TransCanada (TSX:TRP) suspended preparatory work on the Cacouna port last fall after a Quebec Superior Court judge issued an injunction against seismic work in the St. Lawrence estuary to protect threatened beluga calving grounds.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard waded into the debate in December, suggesting TransCanada might want to consider a new port location given the beluga whale is a candidate to become an endangered species.

A federal advisory committee has recommended the beluga’s status be downgraded to endangered from threatened, and Poirier told reporters after the speech the shifting status is influencing TransCanada’s project design. “Obviously that raises the bar in terms of the importance of mitigation strategies — if, in fact, it’s appropriate to continue with our plans at Cacouna,� said Poirier.

He said the port will not proceed “unless we can satisfy ourselves that we can develop mitigation strategies that result in no impact to the beluga population.�

Poirier suggested the company is still looking for an alternate Quebec terminal on the Saint Lawrence, although the project remains viable with only the Saint John port.

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The Calgary-based oil producer and refiner aims to start up two major oilsands projects this year: an expansion to its Kearl mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and its steam-driven Nabiye project to the south, around Cold Lake, Alta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The business environment of the past several months, with the dramatic decline in global crude prices, illustrates the cyclical nature of the oil and gas business. Imperial plans and operates its businesses with a long-term perspective that results in resiliency across a wide range of market conditions,â&#x20AC;? CEO Rich Kruger said in a release Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our resiliency is achieved in large part due to our long-life, high-quality assets, integrated business model and ongoing focus on business fundamentals.â&#x20AC;?

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Kruger said Imperial Oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will closely monitor and respond to market conditions but its near-term plans remain â&#x20AC;&#x153;largely unchanged.â&#x20AC;?

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Meanwhile, steaming has begun at the $2-billion, 40,000-barrel-per-day Nabiye project near Cold Lake, Alta., with bitumen production expected this quarter. Imperial reported Monday that its fourth-quarter profit was down 36 per cent compared with a year before, reflecting operational issues as well as the dramatic decline in crude oil prices. The existing Kearl mine continued to operate below capacity, with output averaging 66,000 barrels per day during the fourth quarter, during which excessive vibration in the ore-crusher unit prompted a precautionary shutdown.

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At first, only Maddison Alexander’s face is visible as she and her father, Shane Alexander, slide through the fresh powder on the Bower Ponds sliding hill on Saturday morning. Eventually, Shane emerges from the cloud of snow. Just a few people made use of the hill throughout the day, with temperatures dropping as low as - 21C with the windchill. The forecast calls for light snow and cool temperatures through the week, except Wednesday, when the sun will shine and a high of -3C is expected.

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Voir dire forces delay in trial No witnesses were called on Monday in the trial of an Innisfail financial advisor accused of the murder of a quadriplegic mother.

Brian Malley, 57, is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on a first-degree murder charge. He is accused of sending a Christmas gift disguising a bomb to a former client.

Victoria Shachtay, 23, was killed on Nov. 25, 2011, when she opened the gift on her dining room table.

The pipe bomb exploded, killing her instantly.

Instead of witnesses on Monday in Court of Queen’s Bench, a voir dire — a trial within a trial to determine if evidence is admissible — occurred.

Because the trial is in front of a judge and jury, the jury is excused for the voir dire and submissions are made to the presiding judge, in this case Justice Kirk Sisson.

A publication ban prevents the disclosure of what occurred during the voir dire because it was not presented to the jury.

The trial resumes today in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

The trial is now in its third week and is expected to last four or five weeks in total.

Catholic schools dip into reserve fund $1 MILLION NEEDED TO COVER ENROLMENT RISE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Catholic is dipping a little deeper into operating reserves to cover its 2014-15 budget.

Last spring, the regional school division expected to use $690,000 of its $10-million reserve to meet its $94-million operating budget.

The division now anticipates the shortfall will grow to $1 million, which will be covered by reserves.

Superintendent Paul Mason said the division expected to hire 23 new teachers for the 2014-15 school year, but ended up requiring more. To meet the demand, more teachers were either hired

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Development frozen until mapping done

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A development moratorium on a swath of land west of Sundre could be extended until the end of July.

Mountain View County put restrictions in place on a low-lying area known as McDougal Flats in November because the area was a potential flood risk. The moratorium was to expire at the end of this month.

It had been hoped that long-awaited provincial flood mapping and regulations accompanying Bill 27 — which proposes limits on development in flood-prone areas — would be complete by then.

The county is reluctant to approve any new development without knowing what sort of restrictions the province may impose.

However, the province hasn’t completed its review. County planners have proposed extending the moratorium by six months to give the province time to finish its work.

First reading on a bylaw to extend the moratorium was approved last month and a public hearing, possibly followed by second and third readings, has been scheduled for Feb. 11 in council chambers in Didsbury.

Magaretha Bloem, county director of planning and development services, said it’s important to wait.

“For the moratorium, it’s most important we have the (flood zone) mapping because that will allow us to go and amend our statutory plans and our Land Use Bylaw,” said Bloem.

The proposed bylaw is identical to

the previous version, with the exception of the expiry date.

The moratorium proved controversial. About two dozen people spoke against the initial version of the bylaw in a public hearing that lasted five hours before it had to be adjourned.

Much of the opposition that council heard was from residents who felt their homes were not in an area that had flooded previously — and was not expected to flood in the future — and should not have been included in the original map.

Using more detailed information that had become available on topography, water flows and historical flooding data, council opted to reduce the size of the area affected by the moratorium.

The changes mean an area that has seen significant residential development in the McDougal Flats region is no longer included in the floodway.

Coyote Creek Golf and RV Resort, a small subdivision to the south and parts of Molmac subdivision remain in the floodway.

Bloem said in light of previous experience, the public hearing has been set for 1 p.m., when more time will be available should the issue draw a large crowd again.

It is difficult to judge whether the issue will generate as much interest this time around, she said, adding that fewer letters have been sent in than previously.

In anticipation of the restrictions, the county stopped accepting development applications in identified floodways in 2012. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

or staff ended up working fulltime instead of part-time.

“For the past couple of years, we’ve enjoyed relatively high student population growth and with that student population growth comes additional reserves. This year we had some needs that required the hiring of extra staff, so we strategically used our operating reserves in order to meet the needs of students,” Mason said on Monday.

Red Deer Catholic schools saw a 4.1 increase in enrolment in the fall with a total of 8,887 students across the division, including a 13 per cent increase in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten students.

The division operates 19 schools, plus an online school

and an outreach school, as well as serving 600 students in a home education program.

Mason said it is the proper time to use reserves.

The province has yet to present its 2015-16 budget, but has been looking at ways to boost revenue and trim costs.

“Oil prices being what they are, and looking at anticipated cuts as all departments are, we’ll look to continue to strategically use our reserves in order to meet the needs of students,” Mason said.

In addition to Red Deer, the Catholic school division operates schools in Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail and Olds. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Moore joins race for PCs in Red Deer North

BY MARY-ANN BARR RED DEER ADVOCATE Calling it a “new day” under Premier Jim Prentice, Red Deer County Coun. Christine Moore said on Monday that she wants to become the MLA for Red Deer North.

Moore, 53, announced at a press conference that she will seek the Progressive Conservative nomination for the constituency.

“It’s a calling. I feel this is the right time for me.”

“We need to be fiscally accountable because we have to provide for the future, but we have to find a way.

We have to look at a new way of doing things and this is much what Premier Prentice is saying. Find a new way so that we can make Alberta sustainable.”

While a provincial election has not been called, low oil prices and the loss to provincial revenues has triggered speculation that Prentice will call one this spring.

After five terms, Mary Anne Jablonski, MLA for Red Deer North, has decided not to run again. Late last week, Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas also announced he will not seek reelection.

Moore does not live in Red Deer North. She lives in Red Deer County Division 6, the closest division to the Red Deer North constituency.

She said that she isn’t required to live in the constituency but she identifies closely with it because of family business ties to it, her children went to school there and she has campaigned there for Jablonski. Moore is married to David and they have three children.

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countable framework.”

She said the City of Red Deer and region have urgent priorities that require a strong voice in Edmonton.

“We need major expansions to our courthouse, hospital and Red Deer College ... and what will be the future of our beloved Michener Centre?”

Moore has served on the Red Deer Catholic school board as board chair and trustee, the Red Deer College board of governors, the Central Alberta Children and Family Services Authority, and helped launch an annual celebrity dance charity fundraiser.

She worked for British Airways in England, as a flight attendant/language specialist from 1985 to 1993.

Moore was only elected to Red Deer County council in 2013. She said she will continue to represent Division 6.

She will only leave those duties if she is elected MLA. Jablonski attended Moore’s press conference but she said she is not specifically supporting Moore.

“I’m waiting to see who all the nominees are. I know that Christine is a good candidate. I know that she would do a good job. I will remain neutral. I will be there for anybody who asks me questions or asks for support as far as finding out what the routine is, what the process is, because I want what’s best for Red Deer.”

The only other candidate to declare they are seeking the PC nomination for Red Deer North is Matt Chapin, 28, a restaurant worker, who in the past has run unsuccessfully for Red Deer city council and mayor. City Coun. Buck Buchanan said earlier he is considering seeking the nomination.

No one has announced intentions to seek the PC nomination for Red Deer South. The PCs have not announced nomination dates for either riding. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Cab surveillance photo of home invasion suspect.

Home invasion suspect took cab to scene of crime Red Deer RCMP are seeking public assistance to locate a man involved in a home invasion on Saturday night.

The man took a cab to a mobile home in Mustang Acres, where he knocked on a door.

When the door opened the man punched the resident several times.

The assailant stole an undisclosed amount of cash, the victim’s cellphone and some cigarettes. The suspect returned to the cab, which had been instructed to wait.

The victim suffered bruises and cuts but did not require medical attention. Police located the stolen phone outside the mobile home.

RCMP attended the residence, searched downtown where the suspect was dropped off and were assisted by RCMP helicopter. The police search did not locate the suspect.

Police have released photos of the suspect.

The man is described as having dark skin, dark eyes. He is believed to be about 1.7 metres (five feet six to seven inches) tall and 77 kg (170 pounds).

He was wearing a multi-coloured jacket.

Anyone who can assist police is asked to call 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Ex-Mountie awaits sentence in sexual assault case A former Mountie will have to wait a bit longer to learn his sentence after his sexual assault conviction.

Ambrose Gregory Wolfe, 60, pleaded guilty to sexual assault on Oct. 6, 2014, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

He assaulted a woman while he was posted to the Rocky Mountain House RCMP detachment.

The identity of the victim is covered by a court ordered publication ban protecting the identities of sexual assault victims.

Although it is estimated that sentencing on the matter would only take one day, defence and Crown have been unable to find dates to appear before Justice Kirk Sisson, who is hearing another case.

Wolfe’s sentencing has been ad-

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Charla Bradley takes advantage of the freshly fallen snow on snowshoes near Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Saturday afternoon. The nature centre held a random snowshoeing event where Red Deerians could rent a pair of snowshoes for a donation to the centre. Just a handful of people turned out, with -14C temperatures that felt more like -21C. journed to the next arraignment date, March 2, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Sex assault, kidnap suspect has new lawyer A man accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and abandoning a woman in the wilderness near the O’Chiese First Nation has new counsel, a year ahead of his trial.

Kevin Roy Gladue, 37, has hired Red Deer defence counsel Jason Snider. Snider was put on the record on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench during arraignment.

Gladue is charged with aggravated sex assault and several other offences in relation to an attack on a woman who eventually escaped and lived on berries and rainwater for 12 days before being found by an oilfield worker.

The woman can’t be named because Criminal Code provisions protecting the identity of sexual assault victims.

Gladue is set to stand trial on Feb. 2, 2016, before a judge and jury in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Man who skipped on trial must now await new date A man who disappeared near the end of his trial appearing by closedcircuit television from the Red Deer Remand Centre on Monday.

Brent Robert Cameron, 26, failed to show for the last day of his trial in January. He is charged with leaving a collision to avoid prosecution and

public mischief for filing a false report to police.

Those charges were laid by Red Deer RCMP after the death of Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18. Bertin’s body was found on the northbound lanes of the Taylor Drive Bridge at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2012.

Cameron was expected to be in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Jan. 13 for closing arguments in his trial.

However, he did not show up. He was arrested on Jan. 24.

His counsel, Glen Allen of Wetaskiwin, had not had a chance to canvas new dates for the trial to continue. As a result, the proceedings were moved to March 2 for the next Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench arraignment date in the hopes of finding some court space.

Murder suspect remains in custody, no court date The man accused of the murder of a Potter’s Hands resident, whose body was found in a freezer, still has no

start date for his trial.

Facing a second-degree murder charge, Mark William Bitterman has been in custody since his June 13, 2013, arrest.

Curtis Leroy Rangen, 43, was found on May 3, 2013, in the freezer of his suite in an apartment complex in Riverside Meadows in Red Deer.

Crown prosecutor Ed Ring and defence counsel Kim Ross are working to find dates, or potentially resolve the matter.

Ross said Bitterman has a litany of other charges, some of which relate to an escort-scam he is accused of being a part of.

Police allege that dates were arranged online between Red Deer men and a woman.

When the man arrived for the date, two men would instead rob and hold the man hostage.

Ross said he was hopeful he could work with Crown counsel to globalize the charges into one court matter.

The matter is set to return to Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench arraignments on March 2.

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DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — As Ukrainian troops fought Monday to defend a strategic railway hub, Russianbacked separatists pledged to boost the size of their force and Washington pondered whether to expand its assistance to Ukraine to include lethal aid.

President Barack Obama has so far opposed sending lethal assistance, but an upsurge in fighting in eastern Ukraine has spurred the White House to take a fresh look at supplying Ukraine with such aid, a senior administration official said.

Since the unrest in eastern Ukraine surged anew in early January, the separatists have made notable strides in clawing territory away from the government in Kyiv. Their main offensive is now directed at Debaltseve — a government-held railway junction once populated by 25,000 people that lies between the rebel-held cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Almost 2,000 residents have fled in the last few days alone.

Rebel forces have mounted multiple assaults on government positions in Debaltseve but all were repelled, a spokesman for Ukrainian military operations in the east, Andriy Lysenko, said Monday.

“The units that have arrived in support of our troops in Debaltseve are

counterattacking and denying the enemy the opportunity to complete the encirclement,” he said.

Separatist fighters burst through Ukrainian lines last week in the village of Vuhlehirsk on the road west of Debaltseve, getting access to a ridge overlooking the highway running north from the town.

On Monday, Associated Press reporters saw Ukrainian tanks shooting from open fields at the tree line on that ridge. Minutes later, the tanks rolled back onto the highway, leaving a heavy trail of mud in their wake, and taking up new field positions a few hundred meters (yards) away.

In a co-ordinated defensive manoeuvr, Ukrainian forces fired barrages from Grad multiple-rocket launchers toward the same area.

Despite the government’s insistence that it intends to retain control of Debaltseve, rows of trenches near a bridge 15 kilometres (9 miles) to the north suggested a backup plan in case the town falls.

Elsewhere, the rebel stronghold of Donetsk came under heavy, sustained shelling once again. City authorities said Monday 15 civilians had been killed over the weekend in the fighting, while Ukraine authorities said five soldiers had been killed and 29 wounded overall in the east in the past day alone.

Meanwhile, the leader of the

separatists in Donetsk, Alexander Zakharchenko, said new mobilization plans aim to swell the ranks of rebels to 100,000 fighters. It’s not clear how many fighters the rebels have now or how many able-bodied men are still available in rebel areas. Zakharchenko didn’t say where he aimed to find apparently tens of thousands of troops.

Russia has acknowledged that some of its citizens are fighting among the rebels as volunteers, but rejects the Ukrainian and Western charge that it’s backing the insurgency with troops and weapons. Western experts say, however, that the sheer amount of heavy weapons under rebel control shows extensive help from Moscow.

“While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training,” Zakharchenko said. “We expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades — five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade.”

Zakharchenko blamed Ukraine for the collapse of the latest round of peace talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk over the weekend and argued that the rebel offensive was the only way to protect residential areas from Ukrainian shelling.

“Force is the only way to protect our cities, villages and streets from the shelling,” Zakharchenko said.

The U.S. official said Obama is reconsidering sending lethal assistance

Falling oil prices raise alarm in North Dakota towns that invested in construction projects THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WATFORD CITY, N.D. — High crude prices catapulted North Dakota into the top tier of the global oil market and doubled or tripled the size of once-sleepy towns that suddenly had to accommodate a small army of petroleum workers.

But now that those prices have tumbled, the shifting oil market threatens to put the industry and local governments on a collision course. Farming and ranching communities that committed to building homes, roads and schools for the swelling population are worried about how they will pay for those improvements as oil-related tax revenue evaporates.

“Everyone is asking the same question: Holy cats, where do we go from here?” said Dean Bangsund, an economist at North Dakota State University. Bangsund has tried to help oil-rich McKenzie County gauge its needs, with an eye toward balancing growth against revenues. But none of his economic models were pessimistic enough to match how low oil prices dropped.

For now, the oil extraction goes on. Despite the price plummet, drilling remains profitable in the heart of the state’s Bakken oil patch, due to the sheer volume of crude flowing from socalled hot-spots.

And so the building continues in Watford City, a century-old town that once marked the end of the line for the Great Northern Railroad. Roughly 60 rigs are drilling in surrounding McKenzie County — 40 per cent of the rigs statewide. New neighbourhoods and retail centres creep ever deeper into former wheat fields.

“We’re making a new, 15,000-person city in the middle of a pasture,” said Brent Sanford, mayor of Watford.

The county, which a decade ago had a population of about 5,000, has become a magnet for “man camps,” where newly arriving workers and their families live in trailers, RVs and just about any other structure that can stand up to North Dakota’s whipping winds.

The pace of growth over the past decade has been “hyperventilating,” slackening only slightly as oil prices have fallen, Sanford said. “You can’t catch a breath.”

With oil prices hovering near $100 a barrel for most of the past four years, ambitious plans were laid out to transform the city from a chaotic, sprawling crash pad for transient workers into a larger, more livable community. Sanford and other local leaders drafted a long wish list — more housing, more schools, better roads, a new water treatment plant and expanded law

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Developers eager to cash in started construction of thousands of apartments and singlefamily homes. A new high school and civic centre began to take shape. Then oil prices began to drop, falling to roughly $50 a barrel now.

Watford and McKenzie County have joined other western North Dakota counties in seeking help from the state.

Politicians and business leaders from the region flocked to the Capitol in Bismarck to press the Legislature for a larger stake of what’s left of the oil revenues.

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The official, who insisted on anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said Obama is specifically concerned about the besieged Ukrainian military’s capacity for using high-powered, American-supplied weaponry. The president has also argued that no amount of arming the Ukrainians would put them on par with Russia’s military prowess.

The U.S. so far has limited its supplies to the Ukrainian military to nonlethal aid, such as gas masks and radar technology to detect incoming fire.

Speaking in Moscow, Konstantin Kosachev, the head of foreign affairs committee in the Russian parliament’s upper house, warned Washington that supplies of lethal weapons to Ukraine would lead to “further escalation of the conflict,” the Interfax news agency reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was on a trip to Beijing for a meeting with his Chinese and Indian counterparts, accused the United States of encouraging Kyiv to crush the rebellion by force.

In Budapest, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country will not provide weapons to Ukraine and supports negotiations and a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

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Woman trapped in her sexual identity Dear Annie: I’ve lived my entire life feel- recollection of it. ing as though I was born the wrong genI am on medication for bipolar disorder, der. Transitioning is not an option. I was but only recently have I admitted to myself born female and look it. I would have a that the root of my problem is probably my hard time passing as male. Also, gender dysphoria. I wake up evI have heard nothing but horror ery morning disappointed that I stories regarding the surgery. am still trapped. Are there any There appears to be resourcresources for my specific dilemes galore for those changing ma? — Forever Trapped from male to female, but everyDear Forever: We are sorry thing I’ve read about my situayou have had so much difficulty tion seems to assume I must be finding support. There are seva lesbian. This is not the case. I eral organizations that help the am attracted to men. If I transiLGBT community. We also know tioned to male, I would be a gay that many surgical outcomes man. for transitioning female to male I’m not really sure what to have been successful. You can call myself. Because I will not find resources and information MITCHELL be transitioning, “transgender” through The Community of LGdoesn’t fit, and “transvestite” BT Centers (LGBTCenters.org), & SUGAR doesn’t cover it. I realize I am the Human Rights Campaign still a female, but I feel humili(hrc.org) and PFLAG (pflag.org), ated wearing dresses and skirts. as well as GLAAD.org, femaletI don’t find anything sexy about omale.org, ftmguide.org and the women’s clothing, as a transvestite might.

GLBT National Help Center (glbtnationalThere seems to be no place in the LGBT helpcenter.org). community for my situation. My peers have Dear Annie: My breasts have very obvitold me that I am gay. Others say I will ous veins visible near the surface of the never find someone to love unless I become skin. The left and right breasts have very more “feminine.” different vein patterns. My boyfriend says All of this indicates that my personal- the veins should be symmetrical or nearity doesn’t matter. I have done extensive ly so. (My left breast is larger, but I don’t therapy for bipolar disorder in the past, but see how that would affect the veins.) What it hasn’t been helpful. One therapist actu- should I do? — Both Sides Now ally told me my aversion to dresses means I Dear Both: According to our medical exhad been sexually abused, even if I have no perts, there is no reason to be overly con-

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HOROSCOPES Tuesday, Feb. 3 understand how your god-given gifts CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS are able to help others and to know DATE: Rebel Wilson, 29; Isla Fisher, if you are on the right track now. An 39; Nathan Lane, 59 emphasis will be placed on THOUGHT OF THE DAY: your passions and having Today, we have a Full Moon a good time. You are confiin Leo. This will help us dent and the Full Moon will determine if we are on the help you take proper steps right track towards fulfilling forward. our aspirations. This energy TAURUS (April 20-May strongly encourages you to 20): You are being asked to follow your dreams and pasfully represent your true sions. We also have a mystic self on a public level and rectangle aspect formation, within your career. There an astrological formation will be a rethink and reinvolving 2 retrograde planview of what you want to ets. This again reinforces transpire for you with your the need to make sure you public status, within your LARISA MAIRA are spirituality satisfied profession and personal OZOLINS with your soul’s purpose life. Ask an older mentor and to make sure you are for advice and listen. benefiting others as well.

GEMINI (May 21-June HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If 20): The Full Moon reflects today is your birthday, this back to the new start, New year promises that you will no doubt Moon in Aquarius, with your higher fulfil your soul’s purpose. You will self and foreign travel. Perhaps you be more courageous and will let go of have a deal or paperwork coming in all the past troubles. Follow your pas- for you now. Expand your mind; learn sions and you really cannot go wrong what is truly going on within the world. this year. Don’t jump to conclusions Express your truth today! and truly hone in on one gift and move CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Full yourself towards it. Assert yourself in Moon in Leo will have a lasting feel a positive manner and your finances for you till the 18th of February. It will will increase! highlight your resources, either within ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will a partnership or yours, but you now

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cerned. As one physician put it, “Breasts are sisters, not twins,” meaning the size and vein patterns aren’t symmetrical. Instead of letting your boyfriend diagnose you, please talk to your doctor about this.

Dear Annie: My heart went out to “Desperate for Answers,” who said her parents compared her to her sibling, and she came up short.

In junior high, I felt inferior to my siblings because they got good grades, but no matter how much time I spent on my homework, my grades were never as good.

I rarely saw them working at all, and here I was, trying so hard.

Years later, I discovered I was dyslexic, and reading was complicated and difficult for me.

Also, when I was in the 9th grade, an observant science teacher told my parents I needed glasses. I thought everyone saw things the same way I did. I was shocked when I walked out of the optometrist’s office.

“Desperate” should have her eyes checked and also see whether there are any hidden learning disabilities. It was too late for me when I made my discovery, but hopefully, it won’t be too late for her. — Been There, Done That Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

are thinking up new ways in order to expand. What does your soul want to be remembered for?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Full Moon in your own sign will highlight the new start that you had within relationships, either business or romantic.

Focus on resolving what isn’t working and you’ll be able to find a resolution.

Much will be revealed about you today, especially about yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Full Moon in Leo will highlight what you are conscious of and what you are currently becoming aware of at an impressive speed. This can relate to anything to do with work, health, and your proper service to others. You will be guided to the best outcome. Trust it!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Full Moon in Leo will emphasize your friends, wishes and group associations and how these interactions create confidence for you. There may be a highlight on children and your inner child.

There are powerful shifts going on — focus on your wishes!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This Full Moon in Leo is going to highlight you on a public level, within your professional life. So to put it as simply as I can, find out what you want to share with others and how you want to present it. Just focus on what you truly value about yourself now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Kangaroo seen hopping around Austria, confusing many VIENNA — A kangaroo is on the loose in frigid and snowy Austria, hopping his way toward dispelling a famous slogan.

“No kangaroos in Austria” T-shirts and souvenirs have been big-sellers for years in the alpine nation, since some people confuse Austria with Australia.

Anton the kangaroo bounded away from his owner several weeks ago and has been living rough ever since, disappearing into forested land every time someone tries to capture him.

State-run broadcaster ORF posted a photo of the Australian marsupial on Wednesday sitting in a snowy backyard near the town of Braunau on the border with Germany. Anton looks fit and is expected to find enough food to survive the winter.

This Full Moon in Leo will ask you to rethink and revise a plan to help you express your personal gifts to others.

It’s time to communicate with friends about what has been going on and resolve issues. Find that confidence in your vision now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This Full Moon in Leo is asking you to pull out that confidence you have and find the best plan to push yourself forward.

This could involve restructuring your diet or your finances. There is no doubt that you are confident with whatever you do from this point forward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This Full Moon in Leo will highlight others in your life, but not only that, it will highlight interactions with significant relationships. They will have you rethinking your own philosophies on life and perhaps even what you will share with others going forward.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Full Moon in Leo today will highlight rethinking and reviewing the services you provide others in your life and also your work, health, daily routine and activities. You are giving this a lot of thought. You are confident and simply want to take the most appropriate step.

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In this photo taken Thursday a stormtrooper costume is displayed in view of Chewbacca and military uniforms as part of an exhibit on the costumes of Star Wars at Seattle’s EMP Museum. The creators of the new exhibit, with 60 original costumes from the six Star Wars movies, are hoping to gather geeks, fashionistas and movie fans together to discuss how clothing helps set the scene. The exhibit: Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume, will be in Seattle through early October and then travel across the United States through 2020.

Star Wars exhibit shows influence of costumes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — The creators of a new travelling exhibit on the costumes of Star Wars are hoping to gather geeks, fashionistas and movie fans together to discuss how clothing helps set the scene.

But mostly, the exhibit that opened this past weekend at Seattle’s EMP Museum is an opportunity to see 60 original costumes from the six Star Wars movies in one room — from Princess Leia’s slave bikini to Queen Amidala’s wedding dress, which has not been part of any previous public display.

The exhibit, Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume, was created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts and will be travelling across the United States through 2020. The exhibit is scheduled to be in Seattle through early October and the creators have not yet announced the next stops.

The exhibit designers want people to know this is a rare opportunity to see the costumes up close and personal, without Plexiglas in the way. But be warned, the alarm system will loudly rebuke anyone who leans in too close.

Photography is allowed, but no flash, tripods or selfie sticks. The Darth Vader costume is set off on its own, perfectly arranged for selfies.

Videos of filmmaker George Lucas, costume designers and star Natalie Portman, along with the descriptions under the costumes, share a wealth of insider information about costume construction and idea development.

The displays also talk about cultural influences from Africa to Asia. Quotes from actors talk about the way the costumes made them feel, from Carrie Fisher’s experience in what she called the bikini from hell, to the power the Sith lords felt in their getups. Gloomy lighting and music from the films permeates the exhibit space.

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A Canadian documentary about the early days of Greenpeace has snagged two prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Saskatoon film editor Jim Scott earned the world cinema documentary editing award for his work on How to Change the World at a gala Saturday.

The film also claimed the Candescent Award, a prize that recognizes social-issue films. Written and directed

by Jerry Rothwell, How to Change the World traces the organization’s origins to a group of Vancouver neighbours who united to protest atomic bomb tests in Alaska.

LOS ANGELES — Former rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, founder of one of the genre’s leading labels, had his $2 million bail revoked in Los Angeles after his arrest in running down and killing a man.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says detectives asked a bail commissioner Monday to keep the Death Row Records founder behind bars because he NEW ITEMS EVERY is a possible flight risk.

WEEKEND Authorities also cited Knight’s history of violent crimes and the possibility he would intimidate witnesses.

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“The costumes help the characters really come to life,” said Laela French, the Lucas Museum’s senior manager of exhibits and collections.

She talked about the visual clues the costumes offer, such as the way Anakin Skywalker’s Jedi robes darken as he gets older and closer to becoming Darth Vader.

Most people don’t notice that Luke Skywalker’s robes also darkened through his trio of films, showing the mix of light and dark in his character as well, French said.

Star Wars experts may not learn anything new, but a lot of people probably don’t know that the lights in Queen Amidala’s dramatic red throne room gown were powered by a car battery that had to be worn underneath the heavy costume during filming of The Phantom Menace.

Among the other display descriptions: Amidala’s wedding dress was made partly out of an Italian lace bedspread; and Chewbacca’s fur is a combination of Yak hair and mohair.

The costumes are displayed on faceless mannequins instead of life-size figurines to put the emphasis on the clothes and not the characters, French said.

Because the costumes for the second trilogy of films — the prequels — were so much more elaborate and interesting, the exhibit shares many more of them, including several walls of clothing worn by Queen Amidala and her attendants.

But the highlights of the exhibit for most people will be the old ones, including the two droids, which were costumes worn by people, not puppets as some assume. Most of the puppets and computer-generated creatures are not represented. Yoda is present, but slightly hidden.

There are no hints of the new movie, scheduled to come out at the end of 2015.

Some gift shop highlights: Chewbacca slippers, storm trooper knit cap and a travel T-shirt that says “Welcome to Tatooine.”

TORONTO — The space station fire in Gravity, Man of Steel’s Smallville battle. The volcano eruption in Star Trek Into Darkness.

Three Canadians behind special effects technologies that helped create those scenes will be feted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this weekend.

Robert Bridson of Richmond, B.C., Vancouver’s Ben Cole, and Andre de Winter of Penetanguishene, Ont., will receive separate honours at the academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday.

Actors Margot Robbie and Miles Teller will host the event, which will present 21 awards to 58 recipients.

“I hear it’s a great party because everyone knows in advance that they’re winning, so the mood is upbeat,” said Bridson.

“I’ll take my wife down. I think this is probably the best date I’ll ever take her on,” he added with a laugh.

Bridson is getting a Technical Achievement Award certificate for what he described as “the early work in figuring out how to efficiently store volume data” for film and commercial studios.

For instance, if a movie scene requires a coastline with a wave crashing in, the software he “helped write the guts” for will “store, in detail throughout, the volume of water information about how fast it’s moving, what direction it’s moving, how much air is dissolved in it and so on.”

The St. John’s native said he and his partner started making the software, called Naiad, 13 years ago.

Back then, big studios had in-house tools “that were difficult to use and had some issues, but there wasn’t anything off-the-shelf that people could use to do the really impressive, big work.”

The first adopters of the technology were Weta, a New Zealand design and effects facility that worked on Lord of the Rings, and creative studio Framestore in England.

Since then, Naiad (which was acquired by Autodesk) has been used to create major movie scenes including the aforementioned Gravity and Star Trek Into Darkness sequences, as well as the coastline shot in Avatar. Cole is also getting a Technical Achievement Award certificate, for the design of MPC’s Kali Destruction System. Colleagues Eric Parker and James O’Brien are being recognized alongside him for their work on tech components that support Kali.

Cole said their work has provided a new way of doing a wide range of high-scale, high-quality destruction effects in film.

Examples include the aforementioned Man of Steel scene as well as the slow-motion destruction of a Japanese-style pagoda in 2011’s Sucker Punch and the rendering of a boat that gets ripped to pieces by an anchor in X-Men: First Class.

“Most of the movies that MPC has worked on in the last five years have had this technology in there somewhere,” said Cole, 40, who was born in England and has lived in Vancouver since 2008.

De Winter is getting a Scientific and Engineering Award plaque for the mechanical design of the Leica Summilux-C series of lenses. He’s being recognized alongside lain Neil, who did the optical design for the lenses.

The lenses have been used in films including XMen: The Last Stand, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Birdman.

“It still astonishes me to this day, when you get a chance to peek behind the scenes, at how a movie was constructed,” said Bridson, 38.

“It’s just flabbergasting how much is now routinely done fully computer-generated. I think the really exciting thing is that we’re getting towards the point where you don’t necessarily need to be a giant studio to make a really compelling film.”

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HAITSMA Irene Lillian July 19, 1926 - Jan. 28, 2015 Irene Haitsma passed away at Shalem Haven, Calgary, AB on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the age of 88 years. Irene will be lovingly remembered by her children, Clarence (Veronica) Haitsma and Joyce (Martin) Wiehler; grandchildren, Shaeffer (Gil) Haitsma, J.D. (Crystal) Haitsma, John (Sara) Wiehler, Eric Wiehler; great grandchildren, Ashur, Reuben and Oscar.

Irene is also survived by her brothers, Lorne (Phyllis) Anderson and Earl (Marilyn) Anderson.

Irene was predeceased by her husband of 32 years, David. Grandma/GG was a selfless, kind and patient woman. A Funeral Service will be held at Westlife Church (formerly Springbank Community Church), 32242 Township Rd. 245, Calgary, AB on Thursday, February 5 at 2:00 p.m., with visitation beginning at 1:00 p.m.

Interment to follow at Eden Brook Memorial Gardens, 17 Avenue and Lower Springbank Rd. SW. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to The Salvation Army, 1731 - 29 Street SW, Calgary, AB T3C 1M6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.edenbrookcemetery.ca.

Arrangements entrusted to EDEN BROOK FUNERAL HOME AND RECEPTION CENTRE, 24223 Township Road 242, Calgary AB, Tel: 403-240-4032.

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Obituaries HENNING Rev. James July 18, 1931 - Jan. 31, 2015 Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 6, 11 a.m. at St. Andrews Church, Lacombe, with Rev. Ross Smillie officiating. In lieu of flowers and cards, you are invited to contribute to the Mission and Service Fund through your local congregation, or through the United Church General Council office 3250 Bloor St. West, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario M8X 2Y4, or to the outreach program of your choice.

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.

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DOBBS Bryon “Jack” Bryon “Jack” Dobbs passed away suddenly while vacationing in Mexico on Tuesday, January 27, 2015.

He is survived by his wife Lois, son Derek, daughter Nicole Dobbs-Noel (Rick), grandsons Logan and Leland, brothers Daryl (Jean), Carmen (Charlotte), Allan (Ester), and sister Linda. He leaves to mourn countless nieces, nephews, and friends. A celebration of life will be held at the iHotel on 67th Street in Red Deer on Friday, February 6 between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

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MARGARET ALLEN (FISKE) Sept. 4, 1933 - Feb. 3, 2012 Memories have a lovely way of bringing back our yesterdays Each of us in our own way have special thoughts of you today Always remembered, always loved, Jack, Chris, Shelley, Todd, Sharon, Doug and families

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Requires to work at these WHAT’S HAPPENING ST $15.00 Per Hr. Must be Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. CLASSIFICATIONS able to pass drug & alcohol testing & fit test.

37444 HWY 2 S 50-70 Excellent spoken & written 37543 HWY 2N English communication 700 3020 22 St. required. Send resume to FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift aramark6685@gmail.com Lost weekend day and evening or fax @ 403-314-7504 both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + MISSING DOG, benefits. Start ASAP. BLACKFALDS, Oilfield Job description white, male, intact, Irish www.timhortons.com wolfhound/sheepdog, very Education and experience thin, brown collar, last not req’d. seen Jan. 21 near FasGas. Apply in person or fax Recent rescue, shy/timid, resume to: 403-314-1303 may be lured with food.

Info to AARCS emergency line 403-554-0893 COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

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LODGE Henry 1924 - 2015 Mr. Henry Alfred Lodge of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the age of 90 years.

Henry was born on April 19, 1924 at Danville, Quebec.

He will be lovingly remembered by his sons; James (Ann) Lodge of Port Moody, British Columbia, Michael (Danielle) Lodge of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Peter (Kathy) Lodge of Sylvan Lake, Alberta and Jeffrey (Lisa) Lodge of Calgary, Alberta, his daughters; Judy (Harbans) Sawhney of Newmarket, Ontario and Marilyn Massie of Edmonton, Alberta, his grandchildren; Paul (Rezarta) Sawhney and their children, Jackson and Henry, Erik (Janessa) Lodge and their children, Kohen and Nate, Karen (Michael) Hansen, Jennifer (Alex) Temple and their daughter, Isabelle, Andrew (Serena) Lodge and Cheyenne Lodge. He will also be sadly missed by his sister, Betty Martinovic of Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and dear friends.

Henry was predeceased by his loving wife of fifty-seven years, Elizabeth, a brother, Stanley Lodge and a sister, Phyllis Foley. A Memorial Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, In Memoriam February 6, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Henry’s honor may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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KEAST Esther ‘Dolly’ 1930 - 2015 Esther ‘Dolly’ Lucille Keast (nee Trenaman) passed away at the Rosefield Care Center in Innisfail, on January 30, 2015 at the age of 84 years. She was the eldest child of Roy and Leona Trenaman. Dolly married Rodney Theodore Keast on September 15, 1953. She was predeceased by Rod in 2011. Dolly is survived by two sisters, Jean Christensen and Sharen (Stuart) Rude; two nieces, Donna (Roger) Frere and Linda (Bill) Sandstrom; three nephews, Don Christensen, Greg (Gail) Rude and Brad (Aggii) Rude; and special family friends, Andy Agioritis and Marlane Sandstrom. She will be missed by many other relatives and friends. The family would like to thank the staff at the Rosefield Care Centre and Dr. Adam Hrdlicka for all the kindness and the exceptional compassionate care that they provided to Dolly over the past two years, but more so over the past week. A Memorial Service will be held at a later date. If desired, Memorial Donations in Dolly’s honor may be made directly to the Innisfail Health Centre Staff Education Fund, 5023 42 Street, Innisfail, Alberta, T4G 1A9. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in the care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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FT child caregiver in Red Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid & CPR. Supervise and care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. pret_lady@yahoo.ca FT CHILDCARE help in Penhold HS grad supervise in absence of parents, meal prep., housekeep, $10.66/hr; 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset genedith2004@yahoo.com FULL-TIME IN-HOME caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp.

Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com

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Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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Administrative Assistant (part-time) opportunity available at Our Lady of Victory Camp. For more information please go to www.olvc.ab.ca or www. caedm.ca/careers

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR EXP’D. DENTAL RECEPTIONIST We offer competitive wages & flexible hours.

Must be willing to work days, evenings & some Saturdays.

Please drop off resume ATTN: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com UNIQUE exp. HYGIENIST required.

New grads welcome. P/T to F/T position.

Please drop off resume ATTN: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

HOSTESS Mature professional familiar with maitre d’ capabilities. Would be an asset to have a current ProServe Certificate and familiar with wine service.

Professional appearance is a definite requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact.

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Must hold a current ProServe Certificate and be fully exp. in wine service. Professional appearance is a definite requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact.

P/T COOK WANTED ~ Weekends & evenings. THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for also Till/Coffee cart perExp. Bartenders, son, P/t to F/T. Phone Full knowledge of all Donnetta @ Red Deer cocktails, inventory control, Bingo Centre 403-347-4504 must be of professional RAMADA INN & SUITES nature and be capable of req’s. working all shifts.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Apply within: 2079-50 Exp. preferred. Also Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. BREAKFAST ROOM Fax 403-347-1161 Phone ATTENDANTS, calls WILL NOT be early morning shifts, accepted. Only candidates flexibility req’d. Only selected for interview will serious inquiries apply. be contacted.

Drop off resume at: Classifieds...costs so little 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Saves you so much! or fax 403-342-4433

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Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

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

Professionals

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HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

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EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

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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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

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A.R.C Builders Agricultural Residential Commercial Builders .We look after all your new construction needs as well as all of your renovation and repair needs as well as roofing sidling and flood or fire repairs.With over 35 years in business its hard to beat our experience. To contact us call 4037283734 or 4033184510 or email us at philbieganek@gmail.com BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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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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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE: •

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

Buying or Selling 2 yrs. relevant exp., your home? completion of High Check out Homes for Sale School, be reliable, in Classifieds self motivated, work well under limited supervision in fast paced environment.

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Location of employment: 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 email: bennett2014.bkkp@ gmail.com or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

for our Kuusamo facility.

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

This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan.

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

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

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F/T DISHWASHER Must maintain work station to sanitary measures and be capable of working all shifts.

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Beautifully framed. $40.

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TRAGICALLY HIP concert Mon. Feb. 9 in Calgary, good seats, pair for $155 403-391-3335

PAINTING, 8.5 x 28 Chief Crowfoot signing Peace Treaty. $200.

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EG Auctions 9th Annual Speed Show & Collector Car Auction March 13-15, 2015 Westerner Park, Red Deer Special Guests Rick & Kelly Dale: American Restoration Dan & Laura Dotson: Storage Wars Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext 102 consign@egauctions.com EGauctions.com

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

NECKLACE, beautiful tiger claw. $200. 403-347-7405

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SILVER pierced earrings, made in Israel, never been worn, appraised $135, asking $100. 403-227-2976

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

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

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BACK PACK, $8 QUILT, Queen size pink floral $10; 403-347-5316 KNITTING MACHINE, portable, in case, large quantity of wool, knitting needles, various sizes. $15. for all. SOLD LIGHT & WALL covers, white, 10; assorted openings. $10.

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

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

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Keeping up with demand for heroin MEXICO OPIUM GROWERS SAY THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO PLANT MORE ACRES TO MEET U.S. HEROIN DEMAND

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streams, they are usually near creek beds, with black plastic tubing bringing the water down to drip or spray systems at each plant.

The herbicide kills both the poppies and anything around them. No one in these villages has been told what it is.

And it can kill or damage local Ocote pine trees, allowing beetles to move and attack the weakened trees, and then neighbouring trees, farmers said.

“The money the government spends on aerial spraying would better be spent on long-term development projects,” Nava Reyna said.

When the buyer stocks enough opium paste from the farmers, he calls his cartel bosses to have it picked up and taken for processing at a lab.

From the Guerrero mountains, most of the opium paste is shipped to wholesale collection points like Iguala, a city at the crossroads of several highways, including the interstate from Acapulco on the Pacific Coast to Mexico City.

There it is packed aboard passenger buses for “shotgun” smuggling to labs sometimes as far as the U.S. border.

Once the paste becomes heroin, it is moved like any other drug in cars, trailers, buses, and mules across the border to the U.S. market.

There are no mega-labs for heroin, unlike those for meth. Though there are raids, they’re generally small and they don’t make news.

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Many farmers say they would like to give up poppy cultivation and plant legitimate crops, in part because of the bloodshed the trade has brought.

Some growers are trying. In two of the three self-admitted opium growing villages the AP visited, residents have tried planting avocados, a crop that can bring cash income at similar altitudes in the neighbouring state of Michoacan. They have also built trout ponds.

But the trout are small because of a lack of food, and avocados take at least seven years before they yield a viable amount of green, shiny fruit.

One farmer proudly showed off the 2- and 3-year old avocado trees he had planted on his steep hillside plot of about 20 acres. Because the trees can produce for four or five decades, he may someday have a plot his children and grandchildren can make a living from.

But cultivation is expensive. So meanwhile, the farmer walked further down his plot, into a narrow creek valley, where his “flower garden” grows.

He waited to score his bulbs until noon, “because the sun draws the gum out.”

“This,” he said, pointing to the poppy bulb he has just scribed with a cutting tool to let the sap leak out, “is what finances that” he said, pointing uphill to the avocado trees.

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SIERRA MADRE DEL SUR, Mexico — Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero.

The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in woodplank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.

Mexican farmers from three villages interviewed by The Associated Press are feeding a growing addiction in the U.S., where heroin use has spread from back alleys to the cul-de-sacs of suburbia.

The heroin trade is a losing prospect for everyone except the Mexican cartels, who have found a new way to make money in the face of falling cocaine consumption and marijuana legalization in the United States. Once smaller-scale producers of low-grade black tar, Mexican drug traffickers are now refining opium paste into highgrade white heroin and flooding the Top; Villagers gather to talk about world’s largest market for illegal drugs, their communities and dependence using the distribution routes they built on growing opium to make a living in for marijuana and cocaine. the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains of It is a business that even the farmers don’t like. In a rare interview with Guerrero state, Mexico. Many farmers reporters, the villagers told The As- say they would like to give up poppy sociated Press that it’s too difficult to cultivation and plant legitimate crops, ship farm products on roads so rough in part because of the bloodshed the and close to the sky that cars are in constant danger of tumbling off the trade has brought to their state. Some single-lane dirt roads that zig-zag up to growers have tried planting avocados the fields. They say the small plastic- and built trout ponds, but the trout wrapped bricks of gummy opium paste are small because of a lack of food, are the only thing that will guarantee and avocados take at least seven years them a cash income.

“Almost everyone thinks the people before they yield a viable amount of in these mountains are bad people, fruit. and that’s not true,” said Humberto Right; An opium grower shows how Nava Reyna, the head of the Supreme Council of the Towns of the Filo May- he “milks” a poppy flower bulb to or, a group that promotes development obtain opium paste. The Sinaloa cartel projects in the mountains. “They can’t farms out most production of opium stop planting poppies as long as there paste to smaller traffickers, according is demand, and the government doesn’t to growers, law enforcement and provide any help.”

Villagers granted the AP access to drug-trafficking experts. That kind of their farms and agreed to interviews decentralized system is a recipe for only if they were not identified, fear- setting Guerrero’s small, feuding drug ing it could draw attention from government drug eradicators or vengeful gangs, the Rojos, Pelones, Guerreros Unidos and others, against each other. traffickers.

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents say there are no local users. They hate the taste of the bitter paste, which they sometimes rub into radios they carry in a region far from telephone lines or cellular towers. their gums to sooth an aching tooth.

When the poppy plants finish flowIt all goes for export, a lucrative ering about three months into the winbusiness mostly run by the Sinaloa ter growing season, a farmer armed Cartel.

According to the DEA’s 2014 Na- with a razor-sharp, thumb-scorer and tional Drug Threat Assessment, Mexi- a metal scraping pan can collect 300 co produces nearly half of the heroin grams of opium paste, worth 4,000 pefound in the United States, up from sos (more than $275 USD), in a single 39 per cent in 2008. While Afganistan day.

The price for the relatively lowis by far the world’s largest producer, it largely sends to markets in Europe quality marijuana the farmers used to grow at lower elevations has fallen, and Asia.

Mexican government seizures of possibly because of the legalization opium and eradication of poppy plan- and medical use of higher-quality U.S. tations have skyrocketed in recent marijuana. Most law enforcement ofyears. The trends are consistent: Opi- ficials say it’s still too early to docuum paste seizures in Mexico were up ment an impact. But the farmers see a 500 per cent between 2013 and 2014; change. They only get about 250 pesos poppy field eradications were up 47 (about $17 USD) per dried, pressed per cent; and seizures of the processed kilogram (2.2 pounds) of marijuana, drug increased 42 per cent. Along the compared to 13,000 pesos (nearly $900 U.S. border they are three times what USD) per kilo of opium paste.

One wiry farmer with a joking manthey were in 2009.

Mexican heroin has become cheap- ner and a baseball cap noted that’s er and more powerful at a time when more than he could make in a month at Americans hooked on pharmaceutical any legitimate job, if there were any leopiates are looking for an affordable gitimate jobs around. But they can lose alternative. Combined with danger- a season’s work in a few minutes to ous additives like fentanyl, a synthet- the government helicopters that spray ic opiate also produced in Mexico, it powerful herbicides on any fields they is blamed for a wave of new addic- find.

Towering pine and fir trees on the tions and overdoses in the U.S. Herohillsides help shield the poppy fields in deaths doubled from 2011 to 2013, while deaths from cocaine and pre- from view, and some of the mounscription opiates remained steady, ac- tain villages that protect their forests cording to the Centers for Disease Con- from illegal logging do so to hide their fields. trol.

But they are detectable to the expeIt used to be that Mexican cartels shipped brown heroin from Colombia rienced eye, rare spots of green in the along with their home-grown black tar. winter, when most other crops have But all producers are making the high- been harvested. Since they use gravitygrade white now, and Mexican crim- fed irrigation systems from mountain inal gangs have learned that they can increase their profits exponentially if they manage the whole production chain, as with methamphetamines, which they also control from precursor to user.

The Sinaloa cartel farms out most production of opium paste to smaller traffickers, according to growers, law enforcement and drug-trafficking experts interviewed by the AP. That kind of decentralized system is a recipe for setting Guerrero’s small, feuding drug gangs, Weidner Motors Ltd. in Lacombe is currently accepting the Rojos, Pelones, Guerapplications for a full time reros Unidos and others, against each other.

Since 2012, Guerrero has been Mexico’s most violent state. But only reFOR THEIR cently has it gotten world PARTS DEPARTMENT attention, when 43 college students disappeared last The successful candidate must be performance driven, September and are asoutgoing and possess excellent service skills to efficiently sumed murdered by the serve the public and our service facility.

Guerreros Unidos, who We offer an excellent family run work environment, modern had close ties to the mayor in the town of Iguala facilities along with offering a competitive salary and and reportedly viewed the benefits package. students as a rival gang.

Previous General Motors training or Parts experience is The growers won’t say preferred and may accept someone currently enrolled in which gang buys the opithe apprenticeship program. um paste they produce on small plots. But a buyer Please submit resume: affiliated with the local Att: Bernie Parent gang lives in almost every Parts Manager village, acting also as a Ph 403-782-3626 Fx 403-782-7040 lookout. Most can be idenBernie.parent@telus.net 54207B3 tified by the short-wave

Drop off or mail to: Scott Williamson, Production Supervisor Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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LUANN Feb. 3 1975 — A new Syncrude agreement saves the tar sands project: Alberta gets 10 per cent, Ontario five per cent, and Ottawa 15 per cent.

1972 — Canadian team attends the opening of Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, the first held in Asia. A total of 35 nations and 1,231 competitors take part until Feb. 13.

1941 — Government extends compulsory

military training from one month to four.

1947 — Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada. It is likely the lowest temperature on record in North America.

1916 — Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven.

The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick-thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The rebuilt building, containing the Commons and Senate, in the Gothic revival style, is completed in 1920.

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Mischief radiates from her It is always her bedroom that has “I can’t until I lock up the beast!” muffled sounds of mischief radiating She screams back at me. She sounds from it long after the bedtime rituals extremely put off that I would even are through. question the very actions of her She is the one singing her tune plight. loud and unabashed as I desperately “Lay down!” I begin to get pertry to hear what my mother-in-law is turbed. saying to me on the other end of the “BUT THE BEAST!” She counters. telephone line.

You see, this is the thing with the She is thunderous not only in voice girl. She doesn’t relent. She doesn’t but also in spirit. At any given mo- give in. ment, her hair flows freely and un“Sophie, this is ridiculous! It is gettamed. And each time she ting too late to be screwglances in my direction, her ing around.” glinting eyes capture me And this is where we with a knowing waywardbutt heads, my daughter ness. and I; because I do not She is my wild child. enjoy conceding either.

On any given day, I can The next thing I know, recount about a hundred a four-year-old is stomptimes where I find myself ing her feet towards my pulling my hair out in accorbedroom while her hands dance to her antics. Maybe are compacted into tiny she managed to lock the dog fists and she wears this in the tiny enclosure that is scowl that is about to imher dollhouse. Or perhaps plode an adorableness she has divvied up her play computing device someLINDSAY dough and buried it in the where.

BROWN many, many remote places She parades right up of her bedroom and is now ME PLUS THREE to my bedside, looks me calling it hidden treasure. dead in the face and says, The point is, usually, we “Look Mama. Barry (her live in chaos. huge stuffed bear) has a Just the other night, I was writing pet beast. But he needs to be locked this exact column on my laptop. I sat up at night because if he isn’t …” a propped up in my bed and looked pause, I’m assuming for dramatic efacross the hallway to where my fect. “Well, he’ll eat everyone in the daughter should have been sleeping. house. And sorry — but his favourites Instead of doing such, however, she are moms.” was standing atop her princess sheets Well there it is. There is that pivattempting to reach the shelf that otal line that comes spluttering out of hangs over her bed. the kid’s mouth that makes me laugh; “Sophie, go to sleep — it is an hour which means suddenly all is forgiven. past bedtime!” I say not even wonderShe ambles back to her room, gets ing what she is doing because at this the beast in its cage and seconds after point I cannot care to. her head falls upon her pillow, she is

asleep.

She is my wild child.

She lives to push boundaries and play at centre stage. She is abrupt, forthright and utterly honest. It seems as though trouble follows her and around any corner, I could find my Sophie in some sort of mind-boggling shenanigans.

Time and time again I’ve told myself, it’s just a stage — this too shall pass. But as I get to know my daughter more and more with each passing day, I realize it is no stage — it is her.

She is free. She is free from the worries that many children have. She could care less what other people think of her. Her mind is her own and does not seem to be easily swayed.

She is strong in her resolve when it comes to anything at all.

And it is all of these things that make me realize that I cannot wish away these traits of hers.

Yes, it can be trying walking into your bathroom with a four-year-old covered in blush and sloppy mascara lines running down her face.

And yeah sure, it is a little depressing when she tells me that she is better at doing her own hair because she likes it in seven hair clips haphazardly positioned around her skull.

The sheer ideas that float in and out of her head are pure genius and absolute absurdity all at the same time.

But when all is said and done, I am going to let her be her. I will embrace the unique human being she is and enjoy the beauty she creates in this world.

Because she is my wild child — and she is my daughter.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

Keep the intimacy alive Question: My fiance and I can’t to wait begin our new lives together. I’ll confess, though, that I’m afraid this excitement will wane into routine and familiarity — particularly with our sex life. Do you have any advice for how we can keep the spark alive?

Jim: Congratulations! You may have seen examples suggesting otherwise, but let me encourage you that with work and commitment, marriage —and sex — can remain exciting and fulfilling until “death do you part.” Let me offer you these five areas to focus on: ● Open communication: Make a practise of “checking in” with each other. You will encounter challenging issues in your marriage, and respectfully talking and working through them is an essential contributor toward a healthy sexual relationship. ● Frequency of sex: This can vary among couples. It’s more important to be intimate with regularity and work together to keep your sex life a priority. ● Understanding life stages: Different seasons of life — such as parenthood, illness, or aging — can influence marital intimacy. ● Beyond the bedroom: Sex is an important part of marriage, but other aspects of your relationship must also be nurtured to experience a satisfying sex life. “Date” and become a “student” of your spouse.

Be respectful, affirming, affectionate, kind and forgiving toward each other. ● Emotional safety: Sexuality and intimacy are all about vulnerability, and you can’t be vulnerable unless you’re convinced it’s safe to do so.

Fall apart or fall together: it’s time to change

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sider the possibility that life knocked it down on purpose. Not to bully you or to punish you but to prompt you to build something that better suits your personality and your purpose. Sometimes things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

The journey through life should be exciting with promising twists and turns, new vistas and awe-inspiring views. If it’s a well-worn and utterly predictable path, it’s time for change.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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ence and reveal to us, perhaps for the first time, our personal power.

I heard a metaphor once regarding our journey through life. Imagine that you’re driving a familiar route to work each day. In fact, you’ve driven this route so many times that you’ve actually worn a rut in the road. Ruts so deep in fact that you can engage your vehicle’s cruise control and take your hands off the wheel. Your vehicle travels the road with little or no effort from you.

And the only time you experience any discomfort is when you try to get out of the rut.

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“Breakdowns can create break- motion, ever changing. That is the rule, throughs. Things fall apart so things can not the exception. And whether you fall together.” like it or not (and I know people who — Author unknown don’t) you should at least “Do you recall what you acknowledge that life can said when it happened?” be unpredictable and pre“Oh yes,” Johnny repare for the unexpected. sponded. “I said, my life is To expect life to remain falling apart!” static is unrealistic and a I was speaking with my little sad. Sure, we all want friend Johnny about the some predictability but if week his world collapsed. life has become one long I think Johnny used the endurance test, it’s time to term “double whammy” to wake up and do something describe losing his job and about it. having his wife announce ● Second, successful that she was leaving him living is made up of effecall in the same week. tive transitions. A transiYears later now, Johnny tion is the means by which had married a wonderful you move from one state of MURRAY woman and was happier being to another — from FUHRER than I’d ever seen him. He one change to the next. also had a better, more fulExamples of transitions filling job having decided could certainly be (as with — following the breakup Johnny) losing a longstand— to try his hand at someing job or the ending of thing new and different. a relationship, but could “As it turned out,” he said, “my life also be leaving home, moving to a new was falling apart so it could fall to- city, having children, children leaving gether.” home, or retiring. Effective transitions As American essayist, lecturer and happen when we take action. When we poet Ralph Waldo Emerson so aptly do something both internally and exexpressed it, “Life is a journey, not a ternally. When we accept responsibildestination.” It’s a journey filled with ity for our life. crossroads and back roads, peaks and ● Third, all of us have ingrained valleys, dead ends and open roads. patterns and belief systems, many To continue with the metaphor, some- of which no longer serve us. Without times we can spend so much time on awareness, it’s easy to become stuck the same dreary path that we become in old ways of thinking and being. It’s oblivious to a better, healthier route. interesting to note that when we leave Johnny had lost interest in his job. behind old operating systems and open He’d been doing it for years and it was ourselves up to experiencing someno longer challenging nor rewarding. thing new, change can happen quickAs a result, he hadn’t invested much ly, but we’re no longer resisting or as effort into it. His marriage was emo- afraid of it. tionally bankrupt and for all intents Experts suggest there are five recand purposes had ceased to exist years ognizable stages that accompany tranprior. It was only familiarity that kept sition: loss, uncertainty, discomfort, Johnny trudging down the same path. understanding and integration. The That and the misguided belief that dis- emotions that accompany these states enchantment and predictability were run the gamut from anger to panic, his lot in life — that he deserved noth- depending upon how we perceive and ing better. negotiate each transition. In my exOn the surface it seems like John- perience, effective transitions result ny’s life was destined to fall apart. from letting go of attachments. As we Who’s to say? Had he not lost his job let go of people and events to which or been faced with the end of his mar- we’ve become attached, we also let go riage, he may have continued along the of the beliefs that have imbued these same path — unfulfilled and regretful individuals or situations with special — right until the end. significance or meaning. Part of the Reflecting back, Johnny realized falling apart and falling together prothat his life had been guided — for the cess involves removing the perceptual most part — by fear and resignation: filters that distort the world we experifear that change could result in something even more uncomfortable, and resignation resulting from a lack awareness of better options. Both states resulted from Johnny’s exceptionally low level of self-esteem.

Sometimes life does need to fall apart in order for something better to arise. Other times, life requires tweaks, adjustments and even major overhauls to stay in balance. Both require a state of awareness that is seldom available to the person who lacks positive self-worth.

That said, here are some insights and basic techniques that may help on your journey. Abiding by them may help keep you grounded and better able to avoid unnecessary pitfalls. ● First, life is always in

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Salty-sweet honey-peanut

POPCORN Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Salty sweet peanut honey popcorn is an easy-to-make, yet delicious snack.

The recipe is simple, with just enough sweetness from a hit of honey to balance the salty peanut flavor. Using coconut oil for the popping rounds out the flavour.

BY MELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Powdered peanut butter sounds, pardon the pun, a bit nuts.

While fitness buffs sang its praises when it first hit the scene a few years ago, I scoffed. But after seeing it take up more and more space on the shelves of my local supermarket, I caved and bought it for the first time.

At first I stayed fairly traditional in my usage: I added a scoop to my chocolate or banana morning smoothie, or added it to cookie dough to make a lower calorie peanut butter cookie.

But it grew on me. Soon, I was adding it to curries and sprinkling it on my oatmeal or over frozen yogurt. It really is quite good.

Powdered peanut butter is just what it sounds like — peanut butter that has had all of the moisture and most of the fat removed. You’re left with a fine powder (similar in texture to cocoa powder) that has the flavour of regular peanut butter. It can be used as is or reconstituted. For the latter, you just stir 1 tablespoon of water or other liquid (such as almond

SALTY-SWEET PEANUT-HONEY POPCORN Prefer the microwave? Use unflavored plain popcorn and pop according to package directions, then transfer to a large bowl and proceed with the recipe starting with the honey.

Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 8 1 1/2 tablespoons coconut oil 1/2 cup popcorn kernels 1/4 cup honey 3 tablespoons powdered peanut butter 1/2 teaspoon fine salt In a heavy, large saucepan over medium, heat the coconut oil.

Sprinkle in the popcorn kernels and give a quick

milk) into 2 tablespoons of powdered peanut butter until smooth.

One serving (2 tablespoons) of reconstituted peanut butter has a fraction of the fat and calories of traditional peanut butter — 45 calories, 5 grams of protein, 1.5 grams of fat and 1 gram of sugar. Compare that to the 188 calories, 16 grams of fat, 8 grams of protein and 3 grams of sugar in the real deal.

I love the creamy decadence of real peanut butter as much as anyone, but it’s worth considering powdered if there are times when you want the flavour with a leaner profile.

Plus, I find powdered peanut butter can be used in ways the regular stuff can’t. For example, this recipe for salty-sweet peanut popcorn. It is awards season, after all. So I figured I’d share my favourite popcorn treat.

The recipe is simple, with just enough sweetness from a hit of honey to balance the salty peanut flavour. Using coconut oil for the popping rounds out the flavour. It’s truly addictive!

Food Network star Melissa d’Arabian is an expert on healthy eating on a budget. She is the author of the cookbook, “Supermarket Healthy.” http://www.melissadarabian.net

Coconut oil

stir with a wooden spoon to coat the kernels in oil.

Continue cooking and stirring until the first kernel pops.

Once it does, cover the pan and, using oven mitts, grasp the pan by both the handle and the lid, then gently shake the pan (on the heat) to keep the kernels moving as they continue to pop.

Do this for about 2 minutes, or until there is a 2-second delay between pops.

Remove the pan from the heat and transfer the popcorn to a large bowl.

Be very careful; the popcorn will be very hot.

Drizzle the honey over the popcorn, then use wooden spoons to toss to coat evenly. Sprinkle the peanut butter and salt over the popcorn, then toss again to coat.

Nutrition information per serving: 110 calories; 30 calories from fat (27 per cent of total calories); 3.5 g fat (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 9 g sugar; 2 g protein; 160 mg sodium.

Popcorn kernels

The finished product: salty sweet peanut honey popcorn

Honey

Powdered peanut butter