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Hundreds of Red Deer School students hit the trails at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area Tuesday to take part in the annual school ski loppet. Here the skiers head out on the three-km ski course. A five-km event was also held at the same time. The race had been postponed from last week due to cold weather.

Grow-op shuttered

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A $2.5-million medicinal grow-op was shut down near Olds last week.

Police say the owner “grossly exceeded” the amount of plants authorized under its licence.

Olds RCMP Cpl. Mike Black said the licence permitted 543 plants on the property north of the town.

A total of 2,137 plants, valued at $2.5 million, were located inside the home and in Quonset huts on the property. Police also seized $40,000 in cash proceeds of crime.

RCMP Olds and Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) discovered the massive operation after tips about suspicious activity at the

property.

The plant count makes the grow-op the largest dismantled by ALERT’s Green Team in more than two years.

Charges are pending against three men and two women and were expected to be laid this week.

Four children were in the home at the time of the search on Thursday and Children and Family Services assisted with the investigation.

Alberta Health inspectors deemed the home uninhabitable.

A former landfill in the west end of Red Deer County will see another round of cleanup, pushing the price tag to over $3 million.

The Kevisville Waste Transfer Site was closed in 2010 when the Yankee Flats site was opened. County residents had been taking their garbage to Kevisville, about 10 km southwest of Spruce View, since the 1980s.

After Kevisville was closed, an environmental

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assessment was done on the site. It showed contaminants in the soil posed potential risks to groundwater and nearby environmentally sensitive areas.

Several years ago, $1.6 million was put aside by the county to excavate the garbage and take it to another landfill. The hole was then filled in and reseeded to grass.

During that remediation work, the contractor discovered additional buried garbage. The extent of the garbage pit was mapped out and tenders called to complete an additional cleanup phase.

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TORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS CLAW BACK FUNDING TO AUDITOR GENERAL EDMONTON — Tory members on an Alberta legislature committee insisted Tuesday that no one can tell them what to do, but then they followed through on an order from Premier Jim Prentice to claw back funding to the auditor general.

“We as committee members have full-fledged parliamentary privilege. We decide what’s right and what’s wrong in front of us,” government backbencher Jason Luan of Calgary told the committee before the vote.

“I don’t care if it’s my neighbour commenting on anything. It could be my friends, my constituents and, in this case, this premier.

“It’s all up to us sitting here with the full privilege to decide what we’re going to vote on.”

All eight Progressive Conservatives on the allparty legislative offices committee voted to rescind a decision made last week to reinstate $546,000 to the auditor general’s budget. Liberal Laurie Blakeman and the NDP’s David Eggen voted against the move.

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The parade rolls through on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, in New Orleans. The crowd was thick along St. Charles Avenue, where the route of Zulu, the day’s first big parade, merged with that of Rex, one of the most elaborate. Rex was followed by two long “truck parades” — floats built up from flatbed trailers and decorated by costumed riders.

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BRIEFS RCMP asking for assistance to solve robbery in Innisfail Police want the public’s help in solving a robbery early Tuesday morning at the Super 8 Motel along Hwy 2A in Innisfail.

A lone suspect entered the motel and demanded cash from the staff members. The suspect bran-

police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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GROW-OP: One in Mountain View County

FUNDING: Reinstated just last week

In December 2012, ALERT dismantled a 2,233-plant grow-op in Parkland County. The largest grow-op in the province was found in High Prairie in August 2010 with 6,500 plants seized.

Between April 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, ALERT seized approximately 36,306 marihuana plants, with an estimated street value of over $44 million, from grow operations around the province.

New medicinal marijuana rules came into effect last year. According to those rules, the users must purchase the medicinal marijuana from federallyapproved commercial-sized companies.

Currently, there are 15 federally licensed producers in Canada under the new Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations. They are authorized to sell or provide dried marijuana to eligible persons under the legislation.

There is one licensed grow operation in Mountain View County governed by Health Canada under the new legislation.

A court injunction is in effect for those who are appealing to keep the right to grow marijuana under the old legislation.

Those individuals who were previously authorized to grow marijuana under the previous legislation and meet the terms of the court order will be able to continue to do so on an interim basis until the court issues a final decision sometime this year.

To report suspicious activity or a suspected marijuana grow operation in your community, contact

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dished what appeared to be a black handgun.

He fled with an undisclosed amount of money in a dark-coloured Caravan driven by a second unknown suspect.

The first suspect is described as about 30 years old, 1.77 metres (five feet 10) and 73 kg (160 pounds).

The suspect was wearing a red sweater, black balaclava and a gold-coloured watch.

The RCMP is asking the community to report any suspicious persons or vehicles that they observed in the area between the times in question.

If you have any information on this or any other crime, you are asked to contact the Innisfail RCMP at 403-227-3342. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or via Internet at www.tipsubmit.com. You may be eligible for a cash reward.

Last Tuesday, several Tories on the committee voted with the opposition members to reinstate the money. It was a portion of $1.8 million which had been cut from the auditor general’s office in December to help the government save money.

They said the auditor general needed the cash and provided value for money.

But a day later, Prentice announced he was directing the committee to reverse the decision, because the cash wasn’t available due to low oil prices.

Committee chair Matt Jeneroux, an Edmonton Tory MLA, called the meeting for Tuesday, but said no one directed him to do so or told him what to do.

He said the committee reversed its decision based on new information on looming budget cuts and additional research that showed Alberta funds the auditor general well compared with other provinces.

During the meeting, Tory members were criticized for surrendering the committee’s traditional arm’slength integrity.

“If you allow the premier to dictate how you vote in these committees ... then what’s the point in even holding these meetings?” Wildrose Opposition MLA Rick Strankman asked.

Strankman is not on the committee and could not vote. The party has no representative since a mass floor-crossing to the Prentice Tories late last year.

The committee’s two opposition politicians suggested Prentice’s power is growing and unchecked in the legislature.

The trial against a former financial advisor accused in the bombing death of a single mother entered its fourth week with testimony about the use of a metal pipe purchased by the accused.

The Crown is winding down its case.

Brian Malley is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on first-degree murder charges.

Victoria Shachtay was killed on Nov. 25, 2011, when she opened a Christmas gift left on her doorstep. That gift disguised a bomb, which detonated as she opened it on her dining room table.

As Shachtay’s financial advisor, Malley was responsible for an investment worth more than $575,000 that Shachtay had received in a settlement.

Shachtay was paralyzed in a 2004 car crash and in 2007 she received her settlement.

That money, plus a loan valued at more than $200,000, were invested. But by April 2011, the money was gone.

Over a four-year period, Malley gave Shachtay more than $44,000 out of his own accounts, the last transaction was on Oct. 15, 2011.

The Crown alleges Malley killed Shachtay to cut his losses.

Testimony on Tuesday shed some light on the use of plastic sleeves and steel pipes around natural gas line work.

The questions centre around the claimed use of a steel nipple, pipe with threading on both ends, that was six-inches long and two-inches in diameter.

Malley claims to have purchased the pipe to cover a gas line at his mother-in-law’s house in Edmonton.

A concrete pour was done there in October 2013.

The Crown alleges that the pipe was instead used in the construction of a bomb used in the murder of Shachtay.

Const. Joany Paradis toured Innisfail with the assistance of Wayne Stiglitz, a former colleague of Malley with Kodiak Homes, a home-building company in Innisfail.

They looked at the gas lines of 17 residences built

by Kodiak Homes over a 15 year-period. All of them used PVC or plastic piping around the gas line for protection.

Please see COURT on Page A3 “The fact a premier has gone up on television and said, ’I demand the committee cut this money’ ... reflects very badly on Alberta and very badly on the premier,” said Blakeman.

“Premier Prentice is arrogant. He’s autocratic. He likes to make backroom deals and this is just the latest manifestation of it,” added Eggen.

Officials in Prentice’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.

Auditor general Merwan Saher said in a statement that his office will continue its work despite the budget cut.

“With a two per cent reduction to our current budget of $27.3 million, we will ...(use) our professional judgment to determine what specific work we can and cannot do.”

CLEANUP: 25,000 tonnes of waste to be removed The tender identified about 25,000 tonnes of waste to be removed.

Six tenders were received. Council approved the lowest tender, $1.28 million from Pidherney’s Inc. on Tuesday.

Once complete, the total cost of cleaning up the site is expected to be about $3.1 million, including expenses related to reporting, testing, monitoring and project management.

Mayor Jim Wood said the money is well spent.

“We’re doing the right thing for the residents of Red Deer County,” he said.

“It’s unfortunate that it costs as much as it does but we need to lead by example.”

The site will be returned to an agricultural state, he said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Woman who killed family to remain under curfew MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A curfew remains in place for a southern Alberta woman convicted of murdering her parents and younger brother when she was 12.

The woman’s defence lawyer asked a judge at a hearing in Medicine Hat on Tuesday to release her client from the restriction that is in effect between 11:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

But Justice Scott Brooker ruled to hold off on any change.

Defence council Katherin Beyak said outside court that the curfew is to be re-examined Aug. 20 once the woman has been living on her own for a few months.

“Right now there is still some supervision in the placement that she’s in and she’ll be moving to a situation where there won’t be any supervision at all,” Beyak said.

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BRIEF Victims of fatal rollover near Edmonton from China EDMONTON — Mounties say three people who were killed and one who was seriously injured in a highway crash on the outskirts of Edmonton were from China.

RCMP say a 21-year-old woman was in hospital Tuesday in serious but stable condition, and two men, aged 20 and 24, and a 20-year-old woman, died at the scene.

They say no names will be released.

The SUV was heading south on Highway 2 on the south side of the city when it went out of control Monday morning.

Insp. Gibson Glavin said it’s believed the vehicle veered onto the shoulder of the road over some rumble strips, then it appeared as if the vehicle took a sudden jerk away, as if someone was trying to correct the vehicle’s direction, before it rolled several times.

University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera says two of the dead were students and the other was a former student.

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Chief Crown prosecutor Ramona Robins said the woman’s case workers agree with the judge that it would be helpful to keep the curfew in place for a while longer.

“She’s being moved to a more independent setting and he thought ... the curfew would assist ... to make sure that she was still complying and responsible.”

Progress reports suggest the woman is at the lowest possible risk to reoffend, Robins added.

The woman can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. She was convicted as a teen along with her then-23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of her family in their Medicine Hat home in 2006.

Court heard during the trials that the girl was angry with her parents because they were displeased with her relationship with Steinke, who they felt was too old for their daughter.

Steinke received a life sentence without the chance of parole for 25

years.

The girl was given a 10-year sentence under the Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision program — the maximum available for young offenders between 12 and 14.

The program is intended for young offenders who have committed violent crimes to get the treatment they need to effectively rehabilitate and gradually reintegrate into society.

A final court hearing for the woman is expected in April 2016, a month before her 10-year sentence expires.

Robins was asked whether she thought the woman would be ready then.

“I think it’s the great unknown,” Robins told reporters. “There is no precedent for it. She’s definitely followed all of the rules, she’s participated in therapy, but when there’s no further sentence and no further consequence, I’m not sure what will happen.”

“I hope this has been a successful rehabilitative process.”

the sadness enveloping our campus today,” she said in a statement posted Tuesday on the university’s website.

“Two of our students and a former student lost their lives in a tragic car accident yesterday and a fourth person is in serious condition in hospital. On behalf of our university community, I wish to send my heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the students who died. Our prayers are with the survivor.”

Samarasekera also urged students or staff who have been affected by the deaths to reach out to several supports offered on campus.

“This is a sad day for the University of Alberta, and most especially for the families and those closest to these young people. I know that our supportive community will come together and that our caring thoughts will, over time, bring some small measure of peace to those who have lost loved ones this weekend.”

RCMP also say its victim support services are in place to assist family and friends of the victims.

Police continue to investigate.

still very early into the investigation.

He says the discovery was reported to police on Monday afternoon by a citizen who discovered what was thought to be human remains in a heavily wooded area.

Bobrowich says they don’t have any details yet about the sex, age or alleged cause of death.

Human remains found in wooded area of Calgary provincial park Calgary police are investigating the discovery of human remains in Fish Creek Provincial Park.

Duty Insp. Jason Bobrowich says it’s

Deporting paralyzed worker would be inhumane: MLA EDMONTON — An Alberta Tory backbencher says more needs to be done to help a temporary foreign worker who has been ordered out of Canada after being paralyzed in a road accident.

Thomas Lukaszuk says forcing Maria Venancio to return to her native Philippines because she can’t work would be “inhumane” and “un-Canadian.”

In 2011, Venancio was struck by a car while biking to her job at an Edmonton McDonald’s.

Since then, Venancio has technically been in Canada illegally since the rules of the TFW program state that if she can’t work, she must return to the Philippines.

Venancio’s lawyer says her contract with McDonald’s entitled her to some medical benefits, but he says she did not receive them so they are looking for compensation from the fast-food franchise.

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MALLEY: Defence to open its case James Grant works with Somerville, a contractor used by ATCO to prep work for a gas line move. In May 2014, he was tasked with prepping the gas line move at Malley’s mother-in-law’s house.

When shown photos of the work done to the residence, Grant said it looked as though the concrete was deeper than seven inches. He uses a hilti-saw with a 14-inch diameter, meaning the maximum cut depth it has is seven inches. In this case, he would have had to use a sledgehammer and prybar to remove the concrete all the way to the dirt.

The trial resumes today in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench with the defence opening its case. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Within three weeks of his arrest, a Red Deer man with a lengthy criminal history has pleaded guilty to several stolen property offences.

Logan Taylor Marshall, 20, was sentenced to 18 months custody for a series of offences that ended with the assistance of a Calgary Police Services helicopter.

On Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court before Judge Gordon Deck, Marshall pleaded guilty to possession of GHB, flight from police, possession of stolen property over $5,000 and two counts of failing to comply with probation conditions.

Charges of possession of stolen property under $5,000 and five counts of failing to comply with conditions were withdrawn by the Crown.

Red Deer RCMP arrested Marshall after a lengthy chase. Members of the regional Priority Crimes Task Force spotted a man in a stolen truck leaving the Bower Place mall. During the pursuit, police activated their emergency lights, but the driver ran a red light and drove into oncoming traffic.

Police tracked the vehicle through south Red Deer and onto Hwy 2A through various reports. At 11 p.m., police located the suspect at the Super 8 Motel in Red Deer and arrested him without incident.

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Digital eavesdroppers THE THOUGHT POLICE ARE AMONG US AND STEPHEN HARPER IS LEADING THEIR CHARGE Our weekend news feeds were supposed to be distracted by other things: how to find love on Valentine’s Day; how people in eastern North America were supposed to find their neighbours buried under two metres of snow; how to spend quality time with family on the long GREG weekend, with NEIMAN our February snow melting all around us.

Instead, we were instructed to watch what we say in front of the television.

Who, in their right minds, would buy a TV set that can listen in to your private conversations and have them transcribed by software owned by an unknown third party?

Canadians, apparently.

So-called ‘smart televisions’ have a microphone either built into the screen itself or onto the remote control, theoretically so that couch-potato owners would not even need to exercise their thumbs to raise the volume, change the channel or find another reality show on cable. Just continue

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reclining and say: “More Honey Boo Boo!” What could be more convenient?

But it’s still early years for voicerecognition technology, so researchers need to listen in on what people actually say, so the algorithms can learn to deduce what you mean. Maybe you thought you said “Duck Dynasty” but what came out was “Overthrow the government!”

That, we are told, is why groups like Nuance Communications Inc. needs to hear what Canadians say when the wrong team scores a goal in a hockey game. Hint: if you wouldn’t say it in front of your mother, why say it in front of a digital eavesdropper?

The TV people say they just want to serve us better.

They will not be coaxed or coerced by any government’s secret police into passing these conversations along to their transcribers, to be filtered through their algorithms.

Nor can these devices be hacked.

Please, don’t worry your little head about that. Couldn’t happen. The technology may be in its infant days, but it’s rock solid, foolproof. Just the same, best never to say your credit card number out loud.

Samsung is one manufacturer of such technology, LG is another. Both companies were put on the media defensive over the weekend when people realized the Orwellian potential of such a device.

Myself, I wonder if Prime Minister Stephen Harper has. Giving CSIS access to remote-control of the microphone switch in such a TV would be right up the dark alley his Bill C-51 would create.

That was another thing we weren’t supposed to be concerned about over the weekend.

According to the news coverage, Bill C-51 effectively frees CSIS, the subterranean arm of the RCMP, from official government oversight.

They will be allowed to arrest you and hold you without having to charge you with anything. They will be able to secretly monitor not only your crazy blog, but they can listen in on your phone calls and read your emails.

In other words, Bill C-51 will create Canada’s version of the KGB. That’s all to protect us, says Harper.

If not communists, there are ISIL extremists hiding under our beds, and our national security agency needs the tools to find them.

The trouble, of course, is that these very tools undermine the same freedoms the terrorists would destroy in all the places they control (not that any of the countries ISIL wants to overthrow are all that free right now). But a few nut-case attacks here and there in truly free countries like ours can create conditions where people will give up their freedoms willingly.

Seems to already have happened.

With Bill C-51, we will have two enemies, not one. And both want the power to control what we think and what we say.

I neither tweet nor Facebook. A while back, I joined LinkedIn in order to contact someone to arrange an interview, and now I can’t get out of it.

People keep endorsing me, and I don’t know for what.

My aversion to social media really hurts my blog status, but there you are.

If you can’t even get your family to follow you online, what’s the use? I’m grateful if anyone pays attention to my screed, but maybe if the federal Tories and the RCMP signed up as followers, I could get some serious stats.

But I will throw my television onto the city’s electronic waste pile before I allow it to monitor my basement rants.

And I will put an election sign on my yard (if my wife agrees) for any candidate in the next election who promises to undo the effects of Bill C-51.

ISIL wants to control what you are allowed to say and even your very thoughts. Apparently, so does Harper.

The Thought Police are here and until they arrest me, I won’t even know if they’re listening. And while CSIS is (or isn’t) listening, I’m sure the prime minister isn’t, either.

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

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Stop downplaying impaired driving On Nov, 2, 2013, Jon Wood was in a cab, stopped at a red light in Red Deer, when a pickup truck bore down on it at a high rate of speed and rammed through the reinforced former police cruiser. All the other lanes were open, but the intoxicated driver was seemingly drawn to the brake lights of the taxi.

Where Jon sat, alive just seconds before, ceased to exist. Jon never knew it was coming. Lights out, Jon. Fast forward to Dec. 3rd, 2014. The driver appeared in court for a scheduled two-day hearing with his defence lawyer. Before the hearing started, the defence offered the Crown a deal in which Jon’s killer will plead guilty to the lesser charge of dangerous driving causing death, with alcohol as an aggravating factor, even though the former Crown prosecutor stated back in November 2013 that they had very strong evidence to prove impaired driving. The new Crown prosecutor stated he was inclined to accept this deal as it would warrant a similar jail term as the impaired driving causing death charge (that was his main goal) and although he asked for our input, he reiterated that it was entirely his decision.

Admittedly, we were emotionally exhausted and then ultimately resigned (we had no choice).

According to my research, the Crown is not doing what it should and it is letting down a larger collective who worked hard to gather and protect the evidence, as well as those who are fighting to have impaired driving causing death recognized for the serious and rampant crime it is.

Jonathon Wood will be an accident victim. Along with other plea deals, his death will not be attributed to an impaired driver, hence skewing the statistics. There are more and more drivers pleading down to this lesser charge and, simply put, they are not taking responsibility for their actions. How do you show remorse when you don’t even take responsibility for the crime? In Alberta within a 30-day period, there were three plea deals alone. Extrapolating, Alberta’s stats are quite likely 30 per cent higher than shown. So while politicians/lawmakers might congratulate themselves on whatever initiatives they feel contribute to this lower number, we must not fool ourselves.

Contrary to every other experience we have had with the justice system, the RCMP have respected Jon’s right for justice from the moment they were called to the crash site. The lead investigator even attended Jon’s viewing, paying his respects to Jon, to us. He was visibly shaken and I could feel his resolve. He was invested in the life of our good man Jon, even visiting his Facebook page. The entire Red Deer detachment showed respect, professionalism and, above all, humanity. I wake up at night knowing that our criminal justice system has let down the only people who truly acknowledged the value of my son’s life.

I am Jon Wood’s mother and I want Tyler Wilson to take responsibility for the crime of impaired driving causing death, for which he has been charged and for which we know he is guilty. The Crown’s acceptance of this plea deal is setting a dangerous precedent by allowing this to go forward in spite of having a very strong case. No punishment will ever fit this crime but we must hold offenders accountable otherwise, we are simply enabling them. Mothers of dead children are fighting for more meaningful penalties to wake up our communities and our justice system to the malaise towards these violent deaths, which are occurring at an alarming rate.

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Tory entitlement can be stopped Premier Jim Prentice’s seemingly bland statement of helplessness, “I don’t know if much can be done at this point. This arrangement was put in place by previous governments” is either a lie, or shows an appalling ignorance of the law.

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada authoritatively resolved the issue of whether there are constitutional limits on the ability of legislature (federal or provincial) to enact retroactive legislation.

The court, in British Columbia versus Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd (2005 SCC 49), held that (except in the area of criminal law) retroactive legislation can overturn settled expectations, even though sometimes perceived as unjust by those affected.

It ruled, clearly and unequivocally, that there is no constitutional impediment to retroactive legislation.

Therefore, there is nothing he can name preventing Prentice from eliminating the obscene windfalls, starting with the $873,00 no doubt eagerly anticipated

by Yvonne Fritz, the $627,000 earmarked for Heather Forsyth, of course the half-million headed our own Mary Anne Jablonski’s way, and so on down the line.

Prentice would have us believe these MLAs have “a legal entitlement” — but omits the truth that they will cease to have it the moment he chooses to give the word; to say “enough is enough.” He has at his fingertips the power to retroactively legislate away all these millions in undeserved giveaways.

If he doesn’t, it will be all we ever need to know about the real Jim Prentice, and his real views of the PC “culture of entitlement” he so loudly bewails.

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One that is particularly offensive is about the South African doctors in our midst.

My experience is that they are very professional, very caring, very well trained, very knowledgeable and very kind.

I trust that they know that not all Alberta residents feel the way of that author and that they will carry on doing a very fine job here in Alberta.

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Iraq mission costs millions GOVERNMENT PREVENTS BUDGET OFFICER FROM DETERMINING EXACT FIGURE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s parliamentary budget officer is calling for changes to the law that governs his agency after the government stonewalled his efforts to put a precise price tag on the country’s combat mission in Iraq.

Jean-Denis Frechette’s latest report, released Tuesday, says the cost of the current combat mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant likely falls somewhere between $128 million and $166 million.

Should the mission be extended to 12 months, as expected, the cost would balloon to anywhere from $242.71 million to $351.27 million, the report says.

The parliamentary mandate for the mission, which has so far included a bombing campaign, the training of Kurdish peshmerga fighters and a number of gun battles with militants, expires at the end of March.

The Conservative government has hinted broadly that the mission man-

date will be renewed.

In his report, Frechette was forced to produce a range of dollar figures because the Department of National Defence imposed cabinet secrecy on cost estimates and barred PBO staff from briefings given to defence academics and insiders.

Budget office analysts compiled their figures using the military’s own costing manual, open-source data from previous missions such as the Libya bombing campaign, and U.S. figures for the cost of ammunition.

Both the NDP and Liberals seized on the disagreement, characterizing the withholding of information by National Defence as “illegal.” They called it further evidence — alongside revelations of special forces being involved in airstrikes at the front — that the Harper government is misleading the public about the mission.

“Why does the prime minister keep hiding the truth from Canadians about his war in Iraq?” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair asked during question period.

Anti-terrorism bill too broad, Mulcair charges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Information-sharing measures in proposed anti-terrorism legislation are so broadly worded they would allow the government to spy on its political foes, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says.

Mulcair took exception Tuesday to the bill’s mention of interference with infrastructure or economic stability as activity that undermines the security of Canada.

The wording is sufficiently vague to permit a Canadian Security Intelligence Service investigation of anyone who challenges the Conservatives’ social, economic or environmental policies, the Opposition leader said during the daily question period.

“What’s to stop this bill from being used to spy on the government’s political enemies?”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed the suggestion, telling the House of Commons the NDP had entered the realm of conspiracy theory. “That’s what we’ve come to expect from the black helicopter fleet over there.”

The bill introduced late last month would give CSIS power to disrupt suspected terror plots, thwart financial transactions and covertly interfere with radical websites.

The legislation would also relax the sharing of information about activity that undermines the security of Canada — “a new and astonishingly broad concept,” law professors Craig Forcese and Kent Roach wrote in an analysis published Tuesday.

It comes close to authorizing a “total information awareness” approach to security and in that sense “we con-

sider it a radical departure from conventional understandings of privacy,” say the authors.

Even as it erodes privacy, the bill fails to learn from the lessons of two federal commissions of inquiry that documented the effects of uncontrolled information-sharing on ArabCanadians, including Ottawa’s Maher Arar, who were imprisoned and tortured in Syria, the national security experts say.

Government claims that existing watchdogs will provide a check against these powers are not convincing, Forcese and Roach conclude.

The bill says activity that undermines Canadian security does not include lawful advocacy, protest, dissent and artistic expression.

Still, some environmentalists wonder if the new legislation will authorize CSIS to step up surveillance of activists.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May noted some demonstrations are not lawful but also do not involve violence — for instance a rally to block an oil pipeline.

“Will non-violent, peaceful activities be exempted from this act?” she asked Tuesday in the House.

Harper said the bill was “designed to deal with the promotion and actual execution of terrorist activities, and not other lawful activities.”

Keith Stewart, an energy campaigner for environmental group Greenpeace Canada, has difficulty accepting government assurances — particularly given the recent leak of an RCMP intelligence assessment entitled Criminal Threats to the Canadian Petroleum Industry.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government has been up front and noted his defence minister had already laid out the price tag.

“I don’t know how much more clear we could be,” Harper said. “The reality is the NDP will hate even (one) cent spent on the Canadian military.”

The wide-ranging budget office estimate was compiled at the request of opposition MPs after the Harper government refused to release its own figures — something Defence Minister Jason Kenney finally did Monday, with the PBO report looming.

Kenney pegged the cost of Canada’s bombing campaign and special forces deployment at $122 million for the current budget year, which ends in March.

But since those numbers have yet to be tabled in Parliament, it’s unclear how they were arrived at, said Frechette.

Budget office officials accuse the government of practising “selective transparency,” citing Monday’s 11thhour release of the government’s own

estimate — a move that Frechette admitted left him taken aback.

“I think it was bizarre timing,” he said.

“In the morning, you know, the PBO very transparently announces we will publish our report today. All of a sudden, in the afternoon, the number was released by the department, by the minister. Good or bad timing, I don’t know.”

The budget office is normally entitled to see financial and economic data in order to compile its reports, but National Defence argued that the Iraq information, aside from being a cabinet secret, fell beyond the watchdog’s mandate.

“You know, you have to be really narrow-minded, really strict in terms of your interpretation, if you want to always, always say that the data we’re asking for is not economic or financial,” Frechette said.

“That is why Parliament will have to look at it, and look at the legislation.”

Wannabe terrorist pondered triggering volcano blast

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man accused of plotting to derail a Canadian passenger train also thought about triggering a catastrophic volcanic blast in the United States, his trial heard Tuesday.

Testifying for a third week, an undercover FBI agent said Chiheb Esseghaier pondered the possibility of getting the volcano in Yellowstone National Park to erupt.

Esseghaier, who is charged with various terror-related offences along with co-accused Raed Jaser, spoke of the “death and destruction” a blast could cause, court heard.

“Wouldn’t it be great if my enemies’ worst national disaster could happen?” the agent cited Esseghaier, 30, as saying.

The Montreal PhD student from Tunisia was “very passionate” about the volcano in the park, which straddles the borders of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, the agent said.

Ultimately, however, he decided the idea was not feasible.

“No. We cannot do anything to make the volcano erupt. It’s very deep. I don’t have any access,” Esseghaier apparently told the agent.

“It was his conclusion that we need

to focus on the project or projects,” the agent told Superior Court.

“The train plot was a better bet than the volcano,” defence lawyer John Norris, who represents Jaser, said by way of clarification.

The idea of a train attack, apparently, had come from “The Responsible One,” a man Esseghaier had met in Iran who supposedly had close ties to top al-Qaida leaders.

According to the testimony, the aim was to cut out about five or six metres of track — possibly using a military grade laser — to derail a Via Rail passenger train as it made its way from New York City to Toronto at about 7 p.m. The FBI agent offered up construction equipment and uniforms in support of the train plot.

Jurors heard the plotters scouted suitable sites to damage the rails, including a bridge in east Toronto. Norris, however, noted the New York train actually enters Toronto from the west.

Another plot the men kicked about — which Norris said had “some pretty obvious problems” — involved recruiting a Muslim cook to poison soldiers on a military base.

Esseghaier even talked to a cook he knew about the idea, but the man stopped taking his calls, court heard.

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New restaurant opening in Rocky DORA’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROADHOUSE WILL FEATURE THE CULINARY SKILLS OF FORMER MASTERCHEF CONTESTANT

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A journeyman plumber/gasfitter from Rocky Mountain House who showcased her culinary skills on national TV is preparing to open a restaurant.

Dora Cote, who cooked her way to an 11th-place finish on Season 1 of CTV’s MasterChef Canada, expects Dora’s Rocky Mountain Roadhouse to be serving local diners next month.

“We’re just waiting on our kitchen equipment and then we’ll be able to announce a grand opening.”

Cote credits her MasterChef experience — which involved competition against other contestants in front of three celebrity chefs — for enabling her to become a restaurateur.

“Without MasterChef I wouldn’t be here,” she said. “I’d still be plumbing.”

Not only is she much faster and more creative than she was previously,

the show validated her cooking skills and gave her the courage to try new and different things, said Cote.

“It opened my eyes a lot, actually.”

Her willingness to be adventurous around the stove is evident from Dora’s Rocky Mountain Roadhouse’s menu. Options will include “chicken pot fries,” which is Cote’s answer to poutine, with pot pie filling and freshly baked pie shell crumbled over the cheese curds and fries; and “mac and cheese Wellington,” which substitutes homemade mac and cheese for the traditional beef.

The breakfast menu, which will be offered on weekends to start with and expanded to weekdays if demand warrants, will include eggs Benedict served on Yorkshire pudding, garlic potato duchess, prime rib au jus and asparagus; and french toast with peanut butter sauce and banana foster.

There will also be more contemporary choices, such as oven-baked ribs

with homemade barbecue sauce and corn bread muffins, and fresh pies and cakes. And blackboard specials will be offered — although nothing like the tired steak sandwich pitched at many restaurants.

“You will never see that here.”

Dora’s Rocky Mountain Roadhouse will occupy the former premises of Black Stump Char-Grill at 4504 48th Ave., overlooking Hwy 11. With seating for 150 in its dining room and lounge, the restaurant has undergone major renovations since Cote took over.

“We added a privacy lounge off of the bar and totally converted the seating.”

Cote rolled up her sleeves and performed the plumbing work, and she’s received a helping hand in the venture from her fellow MasterChef contestant and now friend Carly Tennant.

Financial backing has come from local investors Jason and Chelsea Alderson, and Carol Buick.

“The problem being you can’t go to the bank after you’ve been a plumber for 15 years and say the words ‘startup’ and ‘restaurant’ in the same sentence,” pointed out Cote.

She expects to employ 16 to 20 people, and these might one day find themselves on TV as well.

“Proper Television, who produced and made (MasterChef), has approached us for a reality show regarding the restaurant,” said Cote. “It was actually Proper Television that gave us the name, Dora’s Rocky Mountain Roadhouse.”

The 38-year-old said her cooking skills are mostly self-taught, although an affinity for kitchens runs in her family.

“My father actually started off as a chef, and then became a plumber.

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Always something new to learn in agriculture It’s invigorating to learn new things and meet enthusiastic people, and I’ve had a good winter dose of that this year! Broadening horizons is good for the view.

I had the opportunity to do some video work for Farm Credit Canada at the Pacific Ag show in Abbotsford, B.C. It’s their version of our Agri-Trade, with all kinds of agriculture equipment and technology on display in the Tradex, which DIANNE is right next to FINSTAD the Abbotsford airport.

Farming looks much different out there. I learned Abbotsford is actually the agricultural capital of Canada! Farms in the region create more dollars per acre than in any other municipality, because of the high-value crops and livestock raised there, like berries, poultry and vegetables.

Sure, I’ve picked berries on the farm or in the wild, but always by hand. Out there, I got to sit high above the trade show floor on the Cadillac of berry harvesters, a large machine where up to six workers can be situated on the platform.

The pulsating fingers below gently remove the ripe berries from the bushes so they can be airlifted up top for packing. (The machinery rep knew I was from the Prairies when I compared it to a combine!)

I learned about Canadian cherries now being exported to China, and innovations in dairy manure management that can turn slurry into fertilizer without losing the nutrients by squeezing out the water.

I learned there are new greenhouse coverings that might make it possible to grow strawberries in the winter on the Prairies.

It was definitely a different take on agriculture for me. Reminds me of the old saying, “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” But the thread I did still recognize was innovative folks who are passionate about the business of producing food.

Speaking of passionate, enthusiastic people, checking in with the Outstanding Young Farmer Program will always give you those. This year’s Alberta/ NWT regional program was held in Banff.

Last year’s winners, Richard and Nicole Brousseau, were still overflowing with excitement about their trip to

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the National Program, which was held in November in Quebec City. They found being bilingual was a real asset for them there, but they both said it was so refreshing to see the other honorees from across the country working to speak French, while the Quebec couple practised their English.

They came home with new lifelong friends, and a greater awareness of the variety in farming across Canada, as well as the common challenges producers of all types face.

At Banff, the Brousseaus shared the presentation they’d given at the national event on their Moo-lait dairy farm at St. Paul, including the priority they put on school tours and interacting with non-farmers about their work.

“I think the biggest thing we like so much about this group is the people we’ve met,” commented Richard Brosseau. “But at the same time, we see winning it as a responsibility. We’re ag ambassadors. We use that now. It’s our responsibility to be out there and be a voice, and we really like that aspect.”

There were three nominees for this year’s regional competition, who took part in the Banff event. Randy and Tasha Alexander are grain farmers at Grimshaw, while Kurt and Becky Pederson raise crops and purebred Angus cattle at Edgerton. Patrick and Cherylynn Bos of Ponoka rounded out the trio, and after the interviews, discussions and judging, they were named the honorees for 2015.

This young couple has a very unique operation. T heir Rock Ridge Dairy has grown into a thriving goat dairy and processing plant, with the addition of cheesemaking now as well.

“Change is the only constant on our farm,” smiled Cherylynn.

“This spring, we’re going to be introducing our new rotary parlor, which will be the first of its kind in North America. We’ll see our operation changing from milking about 180 goats per hour to 900. So we have international interest in that venture.”

Patrick explained that while they’re milking 600 goats now, the new equipment should allow them to double that in the future, expanding their milk and cheese production.

Barns are being built, and readied for the spring arrival of the milking parlor. So with all that going on, why bother getting involved in the OYF? It’s a process that requires some considerable reflection and evaluation of their farm. Both Patrick and Cherilynn believe the effort is well worth it.

“It was just really great to meet a group of people so optimistic and upbeat about farming,” she said. “We hope to build some lifelong relationships and friendships.”

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A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in a beef cow from Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says no part of the animal’s carcass entered the human food or animal feed systems. Cattle pause as they graze winter pasture in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Longview, Alberta.

Latest BSE cow was born on Alberta farm: CCA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says a beef breeding cow found with mad cow disease on an Alberta farm was born in the province at a different farm.

Association spokesman John Masswohl says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency identified the birth farm.

“They’ve got the birth farm, which is important,” Masswohl said Tuesday.

“I understand that everything is in Alberta.”

The food agency has not told the beef industry when the cow was born or how many other animals from the same herd may have consumed the same feed in their first year of life, he said. In an email sent late Tuesday, officials at the federal food safety watchdog confirmed they had traced the car to a specific farm.

“We have placed it under quarantine,” said spokesman Denis Schryburt. “While the CFIA cannot disclose the exact locations of the farms for privacy reasons, both the index farm and birth farm are located in the Alberta North region near Edmonton.”

He said there is no evidence a second animal was affected and said the

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Masswohl said the CFIA gleaned the location information from a cattle identification tag that producers are required to attach to a cow’s ear, but Schryburt said the cow actually did not have that tag at the time of its death.

He said the CFIA used information from various sources, including an ear tattoo, to determine the cow’s birth farm.

There appeared to be some discrepancy between agencies Tuesday about the regulations surrounding cattle identification tags.

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However, the CFIA said cows are only required to be identified with an approved tag once they are transported off a farm, adding that under the national identification tag program, birthdate information on tags is voluntary. The federal government started bolstering the tag identification system after the 2003 outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy that devastated Canada’s beef industry. About 40 markets immediately closed their borders to Canadian cattle and beef products.

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Avoiding mistakes by first time investors Derek, what are some common mistakes that firsttime investors make?

I’d like to think that we can all be great investors from Day 1, but the reality is that all too often mistakes are made when we are first learning about anything, and investing is no different.

One difference with investing is that many of us choose to go at it alone, but sometimes the best way to learn is to have a teacher with you.

Let me elaborate.

The first time you tried to ride a bike you probably didn’t jump right on it and peddle off into the sunset. In fact, most of us started with DEREK a tricycle or some training FUCHS wheels that we depended on for direction and balance.

Once we learned the basics of balance, we were able to lose the additional wheels and have a loved one run behind us holding the seat while we glided forward. It wasn’t easy for sure. I definitely recall some scrapes and bruises, but the fact is that I was ultimately able to learn with help and support, keeping said injuries to a minimum.

When it comes to investing, I often see the opposite of this bike-riding analogy.

For example, I occasionally have investment accounts brought to me for a second opinion where they are only invested in penny stocks that have all failed miserably.

Or, in another case, I see portfolios where they’ve invested in seven different mutual funds for diversification, when in fact all the mutual funds are invested in the same underlying holdings. Or, I’ve seen

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portfolios where they are just held in one company stock, and it’s usually the same company they work for.

In short, these are all equivalent to riding a bike on your own for the first time — a crash is just around the next corner.

Now, it’s not to say that the above-mentioned portfolios couldn’t have generated a positive return, but the reality when it comes to investing is that we often have to consider the amount of risk we are taking in order to achieve the specified returns.

Taking a lot of risk for a small amount of return does not make financial sense. One mistake I often see first-time investors make is taking on too much risk.

The allure of penny stocks can be great. Many new investors see the stock market as a casino where money flows readily and easily; millionaires are made on a day-to-day basis, if only the right company is picked.Too often new investors will chase a popular penny stock that is discussed in the lunch room (and not often the board room). I can’t put a number on the number of times I’ve seen a penny stock become worthless, despite how “hot” everyone seemed to make it out to be.

Put another way, don’t consider the stock market as a casino. Instead, focus on choosing good companies that will be around in any type of economic scenario. There will be ups and downs, but patience pays off.

New investors also tend to focus on what they know. I often see investors with heavy positions built up in their own company stock. This stock may have been given to them through their employee benefits, or they actively buy the stock in the open market.

There is a sense of comfort with our employer, particularly since we are familiar and see what’s working (and occasionally what’s not). Either way, it can be a recipe for disaster.

I often ask investors whether it makes sense to

have their job, their net worth, and their retirement all riding on the profitability of the same company.

The answer here is obvious — enjoy the benefit provided by your company, but decide on what percentage of your net worth you want riding on this one name.

Rather than focusing on their one favourite company, I ask new investors to consider diversifying.

This can be easily accomplished with a proper selection of mutual funds, exchange traded funds, or a managed portfolio of stocks and bonds.

There are benefits to each of these options that need to be explored further. The benefit is that new investors can rest assured that their portfolio is focused on the long term and that they do not need to worry about losing everything on one poorly chosen name.

Finally, just like riding a bike for the first time, it’s not a bad idea to have someone helping who has done it before. The appeal of being a “trader” has been romanticized by Hollywood and often this leads new investors down a path where they pay for an expensive education by making poor investments.

Said another way, it may be helpful to discuss your goals with a professional and have your portfolio managed on your behalf. Consider having someone hold that seat while you gain your balance and focus, and in the end it should lead to fewer scrapes and bruises.

Ultimately, new investors should focus on the long-term, diversify, remove as much emotion from their decisions as possible and always discuss their goals with a professional.

In the meantime, keep both tires on the ground.

Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, a wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer. It is provided for informational purposes only. Readers are urged to consult a wealth advisor for help with their personal investment circumstances. Fuchs can be contacted at derek. fuchs@scotiamcleod.com.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF One of the world’s most recognized hotel brands is now on display in Red Deer.

The iHotel at 6500 67th St. was officially rebranded as Radisson Hotel Red Deer on Tuesday.

“We are pleased to be joining the Radisson brand,” said owner Karima Suleman.

“Radisson is known for providing an elevated level of service and we look forward to delivering this to our guests.”

Suleman said the recognition associated with the Radisson name will be a plus for her 25-year-old hotel, as will its access to Radisson’s reservation system.

Part of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Radisson hotels can also be found in Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray.

“We are excited to continue to expand our presence in North America with the opening of Radisson Hotel Red Deer, marking our fifth location in Alberta.” said Javier Rosenberg, chief operating officer with Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Americas.

Radisson Hotel Red Deer has 142 guest rooms, including 33 suites, as well as three ballrooms, three boardrooms, an indoor pool, a restaurant and lounge, and other amenities.

Planet Fitness operates on site, as does Solace Spa & Salon, which is currently being renovated.

Suleman said no physical changes are being made in connection with the rebranding.

The hotel, which had operated as iHotel since 2012 and as a Holiday Inn before that, will retain its 3 ½-star rating, she added.

Other Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group brands include Quorvus Collection, Radisson Blu, Radisson Red, Park Plaza, Park Inn by Radisson and Country Inns & Suites By Carlson.

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FIELD: Attitude rubs off “They can be refreshing. Their attitude rubs off and keeps you stimulated in what you’re doing,” added Patrick. “Sometimes when you work so hard you feel all alone in the world. Then when you meet other people who are just like you, it’s like, ‘Great, I have a group of peers that can mentor us or be friends with us.’

“We still have the same issues in agriculture, whether you’re dealing with the bank, or with government, or with crops, that all of us face.”

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BRIEF Loonie higher amid concerns over Greece’s future in the eurozone TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Tuesday amid a greater tolerance for risk on financial markets on hopes Greece can come to an agreement with its creditors and avoid a messy exit from the eurozone.

The loonie advanced 0.56 of a cent to 80.81 cents US as the Wall Street Journal reported that Greece

berta region at the 2015 National Outstanding Young Farmers event, which is coming this November to Edmonton. And, just in case you missed it, Feb. 6 was officially Food Freedom Day in Canada. That’s the day the Canadian Federation of Agriculture has calculated the average Canadian has earned enough to pay for their annual grocery bill. For 2015, it’s looking like Canadians will spend just 10.6 per cent of their disposable income on food.

“Farmers are very proud that we are productive enough to make an abundant supply of safe, nutritious food available for a small portion of the average Alberta family’s income. It wasn’t too long ago that Canadians were spending closer to 18 per cent of their disposable income on food,” said Grace MacGregor, a member of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture Board, who farms near Hughenden.

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will seek an extension to its bailout deal from the rest of the eurozone on Wednesday.

Worries about a possible Greek exit from the eurozone grew after talks between the country’s finance minister and his 18 eurozone counterparts broke down Monday.

Greece was told it had to ask for an extension to its bailout program before further negotiations on the country’s future financing and economic course could take place.

But Greece’s new Syriza government refused, saying it had a strong mandate to reject the austerity measures that have kept the country from financial collapse.

Without some sort of financing arrangements in place after the current bailout ends after Feb. 28, Greece would face real difficulties meeting its obligations, meaning bankruptcy and a potential exit from the euro would loom for Greece once again.

Food Freedom Day, and you can do so by enjoying a good meal, and being grateful for the farmers’ role in producing it!

Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.

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The S&P/TSX composite index moved up 19.8 points to 15,284.61 after the Wall Street Journal reported that Greece will seek an extension to its bailout deal from the rest of the eurozone on Wednesday.

The Canadian dollar rose 0.56 of a cent to 80.81 cents US. The Dow industrials gained 28.23 points to 18,047.58, the Nasdaq edged up 5.43 points to 4,899.27 and the S&P 500 index moved up 3.35 points to 2,100.34.

Worries about a possible Greek exit from the eurozone grew after talks between the country’s finance minister and his 18 eurozone counterparts broke down Monday.

Greece was told it had to ask for an extension to its bailout program. But Greece’s new Syriza government countered that it had a strong mandate to reject the austerity measures that have kept the country from financial collapse.

Without some sort of financing arrangements in place when the current bailout ends after Feb. 28, Greece could face difficulties meeting its obligations and a potential exit from the euro would loom once again.

However, the mood is much different from a few years ago when the Greek debt crisis first roiled markets as concerns about other vulnerable eurozone countries are well in check this time.

“One of the big question marks is, if indeed no compromise is reached and Greece was to exit or be kicked out of the eurozone, what does that look like?” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“But if we just use the debt markets as a reflection, it’s clear that the panic and the cri-

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Gold was also a good barometer of market concern over Greece: the April bullion contract dropped $20.60 to US$1,208.10, taking the gold sector down about 3.6 per cent.

The energy sector slipped 0.23 per cent even as oil prices moved higher for a third consecutive day. The March crude contract in New York closed up 75 cents at US$53.53 a barrel.

March copper was two cents lower at US$2.58 a pound but the base metals component moved up one per cent.

Meanwhile, Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX:QSR), the company behind Burger King and the recently acquired Tim Hortons, posted a quarterly loss of US$514.2 million or $2.52 per diluted share, compared with a profit of $66.8 million or 19 cents per diluted share a year earlier. But revenue totalled $416.3 million, up from $265.2 million and its shares gained $3.90 or 8.1 per cent to $52.15.

Home renovation retailer Rona Inc. (TSX:RON) beat expectations as its adjusted profits rose to $17.3 million in the fourth quarter from $4.6 million a year ago, helped by six per cent growth in same-store retail sales.

Its shares were ahead $1.01 or 7.8 per cent at $13.93.

Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) was also a major gainer, up $7.83 to $239.68 after the railway and the Teamsters union agreed Monday to binding arbitration just hours before striking employees were to be legislated back to work.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,284.61, up 19.80 points Dow — 18,047.58, up 28.23 points

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CIBC economists predicts mild and short-lived recession for Alberta

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.97 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 67.37 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.39 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.86 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.62 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.83 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.68 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.64 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.95 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.95 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.48 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.70 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.26 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.56 S&P 500 — 2,100.34, up 3.35 points (record high) Nasdaq — 4,899.27, up 5.43 points Currencies: Cdn — 80.81 cents US, up 0.56 of a cent Pound — C$1.9003, down 1.91 cents Euro — C$1.4130, down 0.74 of a cent Euro — US$1.1419, up 0.20 of a cent Oil futures: US$53.53 per barrel, up 75 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,208.60 per oz., down $18.50 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.061 oz., down $1.475 $677.11 kg., down $47.42 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $5.40 higher $472.80; May ’15 $2.90 higher $466.00; July ’15 $2.60 higher $461.40; Nov ’15 $2.00 higher $450.40; Jan. ’16 $1.00 higher $452.30; March ’16 $0.50 higher $455.80; May ’16 unchanged $458.60; July ’16 $0.40 lower $461.60; Nov. ’16 $0.40 lower $455.60; Jan. ’17 $0.40 lower $455.60; March ’17 $0.40 lower $455.60.

Barley (Western): March ’15 $10.00 lower $185.00; May ’15 $10.00 lower $187.00; July ’15 $10.00 lower $189.00; Oct. ’15 $10.00 lower $180.00; Dec. ’15 $10.00 lower $180.00; March ’16 $10.00 lower $180.00; May ’16 $10.00 lower $180.00; July ’16 $10.00 lower $180.00; Oct. ’16 $10.00 lower $180.00; Dec. ’ 16 $10.00 lower $180.00; March ’17 $10.00 lower $180.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 568,620 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 568,620.

Cenovus raising $1.5B to sell 67.5 million shares in bought deal financing

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a global glut of oil.

The current capital expenditure program of up to $2 billion had been cut by about $700 million in January as the company moved to trim expenses.

“I believe we are in for much greater volatility in oil prices for the foreseeable future and that’s why you’ve seen Cenovus preserve cash by moderating our growth and reducing our workforce,” CEO Brian Ferguson said in announcing the job cuts.

In New York, the March contract for benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude closed up 75 cents at US$53.53 a barrel on Tuesday, but that was still less than half the US$107 it traded for last June.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Cenovus shares closed down 89 cents or 3.68 per cent at $23.29.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) is raising $1.5 billion through the sale of 67.5 million common shares in a move aimed at shoring up its balance sheet in the face of oil prices that have fallen to half the level of June.

Proceeds from the sale — a boughtdeal financing at a price of $22.25 per share — will partially be used to fund the company’s $1.8-billion to $2-billion capital expenditure program for 2015.

The offering is being made through a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities Inc., the oilsands producer said in a statement Tuesday after markets closed.

Cenovus has granted the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 10.125 million common shares at the offering price for up to 30 days after closing.

If exercised in full, gross proceeds from the offering would be about $1.73 billion.

In addition to helping with its capital expenditures, the proceeds will also be used to repay commercial paper as it matures and for general corporate purposes, the company said.

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TORONTO — A report by CIBC predicts Alberta is headed for a mild and short-lived recession due to the sharp drop in oil prices.

The big Canadian bank predicts the cuts in capital spending by the big oil companies will mean at least two quarters of negative growth for the province.

CIBC forecasts Alberta’s real gross domestic product to shrink by 0.3 per cent this year before growing by 2.3 in 2016.

The unemployment rate in Alberta is expected to climb to 6.8 per cent from 4.8 per cent last year.

CIBC is also predicting the economy in Newfoundland and Labrador will shrink by 1.0 per cent this year and 0.5 per cent in 2016.

Central Canada and B.C. are expected to lead the growth with the economy as a whole expected to grow 1.9 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2016. Ontario is expected by 2.8 per cent in 2015 and 2016, while Quebec is predicted to grow by 2.4 per cent this year and 2.6 per cent next year.

B.C. is forecast to grow by 2.5 per cent in 2015 and 2.7 per cent in 2016.

Rona says it has turned around company with swing to profits in 2014 MONTREAL — Rona reversed last year’s big loss to post a profit in 2014 as the Quebec-based home renovation retailer enjoyed its first increase in full-year organic sales in eight years.

Rona (TSX:RON) capped the year by earning $5.4 million in net income attributable to shareholders in the fourth quarter as it handily beat expectations for both profit and revenue.

It was helped by six per cent growth in same-store retail sales from continuing operations and a 9.3 per cent increase in its distribution business.

Chief executive Robert Sawyer said the improvements came despite increased competition, reduced housing starts and a slow business environment in Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces.

“Could you imagine if we would have a wind in our back instead of our face,” he said Tuesday during a conference call.

Rona has closed 11 unprofitable stores in Ontario and Western Canada, deriving more than $110 million in annualized cost savings and eliminating 1,000 front-line and management positions. It plans to open five new RenoDepot big box stores in 2015, including the first outside Quebec in Aurora, Ont., and in Calgary North.

Shares in the company closed up nearly eight per cent Tuesday, gaining $1.01 to $13.93 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Rona said the profit amounted to three cents per diluted share for the three months ended Dec. 28, compared with a loss of $1.1 million or three cents per share a year ago.

Excluding one-time items such as $20.6 million in restructuring charges, Rona said its adjusted earnings from continuing operations were $17.3 million or 15 cents per share, up from $4.6 million or four cents per share a year ago.

Retailer Bikini Village files for creditor protection; stores to remain open MONTREAL — Quebec-based swimwear retailer Groupe Bikini Village Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in order to gain time to find a partner or buyer after posting a series of million-dollar quarterly losses.

The company said it needs cash in order to help it reach profitability after announcing it is seeking creditor protection under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Jocelyn Dumas, chairman of the

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Air Canada still interested in CSeries; not scared off by Bombardier turbulence MONTREAL — Program delays and cash concerns within Bombardier’s aerospace division won’t deter Air Canada from considering its new CSeries commercial aircraft, Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu said Tuesday.

The head of the country’s largest airline said the CSeries will definitely be in the running when Air Canada replaces its remaining 90-seat Embraer 190s single-aisle planes after 2020.

“When those Embraers come out, for sure the Bombardier CSeries will be an alternative, 100 per cent,” he told reporters after speaking to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations.

Air Canada (TSX:AC) announced about a year ago that will buy as many as 109 Boeing 737 MAX planes during the next decade but could select the more cost-efficient CSeries to replace the remaining 25 Embraer planes.

Rovinescu didn’t say when an order could be placed.

While he said Bombardier has to make its case for the 110- to 160-seat plane, Rovinescu said he doesn’t believe Bombardier’s recent struggles are an issue.

“I certainly would not be concerned if I was in the market for airplanes today and I don’t think that that will be an issue,” he added.

Last week, Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) hired former United Technologies executive Alain Bellemare to head the company, replacing Pierre Beaudoin who took the job of executive chairman.

It also announced that the CSeries program’s cost has soared to US$5.4 billion from US$4.23 billion a year ago following a four-month delay in flight tests because of an engine failure.

Summer job seekers may need to broaden search following retail closures TORONTO — Students and new graduates on the hunt for summer jobs may find the search even more daunting given the recent grim news on the homegrown retail front. With Target shuttering its 133 Canadian locations and Jacob, Mexx, Sony, Parasuco and Jones New York closing up shop, will short-term job opportunities be tougher to come by with so many workers getting pink-slipped? Hershi Rubinoff, president of career site CPG Connect, said she’s seen a huge influx of visits from Target employees since the Minneapolis-based retailer announced its exit from the Canadian marketplace.

“I think that’s the biggest problem that students and new grads are going to run into this summer because as they’re applying for those part-time retail positions, there’s going to be a plethora of candidates in the market from Target and ... other retailers,” Rubinoff said.

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“Everything will be considered,” he said. “(The capital) could come from an investment, a strategic partner or outright sale of the company.”

Dumas said a firm such as Bikini Village “has less chances of returning quickly to profitability on its own.”

The bathing suit retailer based just south of Montreal is $6 million in debt and posted a net loss of $6.4 million for fiscal 2014, compared with a $1.1-million loss the previous year.

While Dumas wouldn’t give details about his firm’s restructuring strategy, he said “everything is on the table,” including closing some of the company’s 52 stores in Eastern Canada.

Bikini Village says it will continue to operate its stores “in the ordinary course of business” and has not confirmed any job cuts.

The firm employs 400 people.

The company’s restructuring will be led by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has between 30 days and six months to come up with a plan for the firm to repay its creditors.

The retail industry is hurting with several well-known companies closing or filing for bankruptcy protection.

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B4 Rebels snap skid with road win

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 2 Raiders 1 (SO) PRINCE ALBERT — The Red Deer Rebels finally put the brakes on a difficult Western Hockey League stretch Tuesday, but it was anything but easy.

The Rebels got a shootout goal from Riley Sheen and defeated the Prince Albert Raiders 2-1 before 2,230 fans at the Art Hauser Centre, snapping a fourgame losing streak in the process.

“It was a hard-fought, close game,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “For the most part, I liked the way we played. But I liked the way we played against Prince George at home, too.”

With any kind of puck luck, the Rebels would have held their losing string to three games Saturday against visiting Prince George, but fell 3-2 in overtime despite holding a healthy advantage in shots on goal and time of puck possession.

The Rebels, in fact, could have won both of their weekend home dates, but instead were 2-1 losers to the Lethbridge Hurricanes 24 hours before falling to the Cougars.

On Tuesday, the team was finally rewarded.

“What I’ve liked about our last three games is we’ve tightened things up,” said Sutter. “We’ve been better defensively. We’re not giving up as many shots and as many quality scoring chances and we’re creating some ourselves, which is obviously what you want.

“Tonight was kind of a carryover from the game on Saturday.”

The Rebels never trailed in the contest as Scott Feser opened the scoring 3:23 into the second period, beating Raiders netminder Rylan Parenteau through the wickets for his 11th goal of the season.

The Raiders answered just over 13 minutes later when Matteo Gennaro potted his 10th of the season with Red Deer defenceman Brett Cote serving a tripping penalty. Neither team could connect through the remaining 23 minutes and change of regulation time and then through the five-minute extra session, setting the stage for the shootout.

The Raiders, who opened the skills competition with Simon Stransky, were foiled three times by Rebels netminder Rylan Toth, his save on third shooter Reid Gardner sealing the deal after the previous shooter, Sheen, had beaten Parenteau with a backhand.

“The important thing for us is just doing things the right way and playing the way we want to play,” said Sutter, who has always been a stickler for playing strong defensive hockey.

“We’ve had lots of scoring opportunities but we haven’t been capitalizing on those chances. But we’ve also limited the chances against, which is go-

Photo by Brett Smith/Prince Albert Daily Herald

Rebels defenceman Josh Mahura skates away from the forecheck of Raiders winger Luke Coleman during Tuesday night’s game at the Art Hauser Centre. The Rebels won the game 2-1 in a shootout. ing to be important going down the stretch and into the playoffs.”

Toth made 29 saves and was named first star of the game. Taz Burman didn’t dress for the game as Trevor Martin was summoned from the Melville Millionaires of the SJHL to serve as Toth’s back-up.

Martin, who was acquired from the Saskatoon Blades in early January, will get the start tonight against his former WHL team as the Rebels resume their four-game road trip at the Credit Union Centre

in Saskatoon. Toth will get the day off as Burman will dress as the back-up netminder.

The Rebels will conclude their trip with games Friday and Saturday against the Swift Current Broncos and Regina Pats. ● The Rebels, zero-for-two on the power play, fired 28 shots at Parenteau through 65 minutes . . .

The second and third stars were Feser and Raiders forward Craig Leverton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Wranlgers down Vipers in series opener

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

JUNIOR B PLAYOFFS

Wranglers 6 Vipers 4 BLACKFALDS — The Blackfalds Wranglers looked like a team that had not played a meaningful game in more than a month for the first 20 minutes of the Heritage Junior B Hockey League semifinal on Tuesday.

For the next 40 minutes, however, they more resembled the team that built a cavernous gap at the top of the North Division standings. The Wranglers rebounded from a two-goal deficit to beat the Red Deer Vipers 6-4 in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series in front of a sold out Blackfalds Multiplex crowd.

“It was big for us (to win Game 1) because we’ve been off for so long,” said Wranglers head coach Brian Lenz, who’s team had earned a first round bye and home ice advantage through the playoffs. “We’ve had a lot of meaningless games ... where we’ve had first place wrapped up and they were just playing, so this was good for us.”

Robin Carlson and Jordan Jakubow both scored twice for Blackfalds while Andrew McLennan and Trent Hermary also tallied. Kyle Baumgardner allowed three goals on nine shots before being lifted for Thomas Isaman at 18:23 of the first period who allowed one goal on 20 shots the rest of the way for the win.

Cole deGraaf replied with two goals for Red Deer while Nick Glackin and Justin Corbett also scored.

Klay Munro allowed five goals on 35 shots.

The Vipers built a 3-1 lead through 20 minutes on the back of three power-play markers from Glackin, deGraaf and Corbett. But after the goalie change, the Wranglers came back out in the second period and took over.

Carlson scored his first of the game at 5:21 of the middle frame, shovelling home a rebound past a diving Munro. Hermary then tied the game at 9:21 taking a cross-crease feed from Eric Moltzahn that the Red Deer goalie had no chance of stopping.

Blackfalds took the lead at 3:36 of the third stanza as Jakubow ripped a shot short-side off the post and in. The lead was stretched to two goals as Carlson broke in all alone on Munro, deking out the helpless goalie 2:21 later.

The Vipers did not slither away as Isaman’s lone mistake ended up in the back of the net. The Blackfalds goalie mishandled a Glackin shot with his glove, dropping the puck on deGraaf’s stick and he managed to get the puck to trickle over the goal line at 8:20.

But that’s as close as Red Deer came with Jakubow scoring into an empty net with seven seconds to go in the contest.

Still, there is much that Vipers head coach JD Morrical is happy about from Game 1, despite letting a two-goal lead slip away.

“We let off the gas a little bit, it’s kind of been our thing all year,” he said. “If we’re up 3-1 on any team in the league, they’re going to come back hard, we knew it was coming. We would have liked to weather the storm a little better but you can’t blame the kids.

It was a really good game, we played really hard. It’s a seven-game series, it’s not that big of a deal to lose Game 1 on the road.”

Munro, despite letting in five goals, was solid all night, giving his team a chance to win, but Isaman was even better after replacing Baumgardner. Isaman will get the start in Game 2 in Red Deer on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Wranglers will also have three big pieces back in the lineup, with the return of defencemen Jeremy McIntosh and Bryce Marshall and forward Wally Samson.

“Those are two pretty good defencemen and one of our top line forwards, so that will help us for sure,” said Lenz, noting all three were away on holidays.

There will not be any major changes for the Vipers, who have played the Wranglers close all season, including being one of two teams to beat the defending provincial champions in regulation. The biggest thing will be to tighten up their penalty kill over the next three days.

“It’s a long series, so the stuff we do in Games 1, 2 and 3 will pay off in the long run, I hope,” said Morrical. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Manitoba and Alberta stay undefeated at Scotties

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones is showing why many consider her the skip to beat at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

She’s winning close games when she needs to and is blowing out opponents too. Jones and her team remained unbeaten Tuesday with a comfortable 9-3 victory over Quebec’s Lauren Mann at Mosaic Place.

“We find that everyone always brings their best game against us,” said third Kaitlyn Lawes. “It’s exciting because it keeps us on our toes and we have to be ready for every single game that we play out here.”

The Winnipeg-based team has outscored the opposition 51-24 over their six victories. Ontario’s Julie Hastings gave Jones a test in their opener and an extra end was required for an 8-7 win over Canada’s Rachel Homan on Monday night.

Jones hit the clutch draw to the button for the victory over the two-time defending Scotties champion.

“I wouldn’t want anyone else throwing that last rock,” Lawes said. “She’s amazing in those pressure situations.

She’s just so talented and she has so much experience to draw on. She just loves to play and she loves playing for that butterfly feeling in those big moments.”

The loss ended Homan’s 22-game

winning streak at this event. Jones was the last skip to beat Homan at the Scotties, topping her at the 2013 event in Kingston, Ont. Homan got her revenge by beating Jones in the final that year.

They appear to be on a collision course again this year, although Alberta’s Val Sweeting has emerged as another top contender. Homan beat Sweeting in last year’s final in Montreal, while Jones was taking the Olympic title at the Sochi Games.

Jones is a four-time Scotties champion but hasn’t won a national title since taking her third straight gold medal in 2010. Her other win came in 2005.

“We seem to bring out the best in each other,” Jones said of teammates Lawes, Jill Officer and Dawn McEwen.

“We have a ton of fun. We always win or lose as a team and that’s really been the key to our success.”

Sweeting was also unbeaten through 10 draws after defeating British Columbia’s Patti Knezevic 10-5 in the evening draw.

Homan is 5-1 after toppling Heather Strong of Newfoundland and Labrador 11-5.

The battle heading into the second half of the round robin appears to be for fourth place and the final playoff spot.

After 10 draws, Saskatchewan’s Stefanie Lawton is alone in fourth at 4-2, but three teams are right behind her. Ontario, Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt and Northern Ontario’s

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Manitoba skip Jennifer Jones, centre, watches her shot as lead Dawn McEwen, right, and second Jill Officer sweep during a afternoon draw against Quebec at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Moose Jaw, Sask. Tuesday.

Tracy Horgan are all 3-3 while Newfoundland & Labrador is 3-4.

Nova Scotia’s Mary-Anne Arsenault is next at 2-5, followed New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud at 1-5. Quebec and B.C. sit last at 1-6.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Round-robin play continues through Friday and the medal games are scheduled for Sunday. The Scotties winner will represent Canada at the March 1422 world women’s curling championship in Sapporo, Japan.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Kelowna 57 44 9 3 1 251 Victoria 58 32 22 3 1 203 Vancouver 57 24 30 1 2 165 Kamloops 58 22 30 3 3 167 Prince George 60 23 33 2 2 175 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Everett 57 35 16 3 3 202 Portland 57 33 20 1 3 210 Seattle 57 29 21 3 4 162 Spokane 56 27 25 3 1 159 Tri-City 58 26 29 0 3 155

GA 179 181 185 212 205 238

Pt 92 67 59 50 49 37

GA 179 163 181 213 162 239

Pt 77 73 67 60 58 42

GA 141 179 197 211 252

Pt 92 68 51 50 50

GA 152 184 158 172 185

Pt 76 70 65 58 55

Monday’s results Medicine Hat 6 Swift Current 3 Brandon 5 Regina 3 Edmonton 5 Prince George 1

55 57 58 57 55 57 56

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16 16 17 23 27 26 29

5 9 10 10 3 9 7

73 73 72 58 53 53 47

174 162 171 153 147 126 127

136 144 146 167 172 155 154

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 57 39 12 6 84 175 132 St. Louis 57 37 16 4 78 179 141 Chicago 57 35 18 4 74 172 131 Winnipeg 59 30 19 10 70 165 157 Minnesota 56 28 21 7 63 155 152 Dallas 57 27 22 8 62 179 180 Colorado 57 24 22 11 59 149 161 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 57 35 15 7 77 169 160 Vancouver 56 32 21 3 67 158 147 Calgary 57 32 22 3 67 166 147 San Jose 59 29 22 8 66 165 170 Los Angeles 56 26 18 12 64 155 150 Arizona 58 20 31 7 47 131 194 Edmonton 58 16 32 10 42 135 196 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Winnipeg 5, Edmonton 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 6, N.Y. Islanders 5 Carolina 6, Ottawa 3 Montreal 2, Detroit 0 Colorado 5, Arizona 2 Calgary 4, Boston 3, OT Vancouver 3, Minnesota 2 Los Angeles 3, Tampa Bay 2 Tuesday’s Games New Jersey 2, Buffalo 1, SO Columbus 5, Philadelphia 2 Washington 3, Pittsburgh 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Carolina 1 Florida 3, Toronto 2 Dallas 4, St. Louis 1 Nashville 5, San Jose 1

Tuesday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Victoria 3 Red Deer 2 Prince Albert 1 (SO) Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 1 Kootenay 5 Lethbridge 2 Portland 5 Tri-City 1 Wednesday’s games Moose Jaw at Vancouver, 1 p.m.

Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Rebels 2, Raiders 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Musil RD (cross-checking) 7:45, Stransky P.A. (high-sticking) 7:45.

Second Period 1. Red Deer, Feser 11 (Nogier, Nell) 3:23.

2. Prince Albert, Gennaro 10 (Guhle, Tkatch) 16:42 (pp).

Penalties — Lees P.A. (high-sticking) 3:38, Lees P.A. (high-sticking) 3:38, Sheen RD (high-sticking) 14:11, Cote RD (tripping) 15:46, Nell RD (highsticking) 17:30.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Musil RD (roughing) 4:55, Yorke P.A. (roughing) 4:55.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout Red Deer : Maxwell miss, Sheen goal.

Prince Albert : Stransky miss, Lees miss, Gardiner miss.

Shots on goal Red Deer 8 9 9 1 2 — 27 Prince Albert 8 12 8 2 3 — 30 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 23-14-3); Prince Albert: Parenteau (LS, 16-16-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-2; Prince Albert: 1-3.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 56 37 15 4 78 Tampa Bay 59 35 18 6 76 Detroit 55 31 14 10 72 Boston 56 28 20 8 64 Florida 56 25 19 12 62 Ottawa 55 22 23 10 54 Toronto 58 23 30 5 51 Buffalo 57 16 37 4 36 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 58 38 19 1 77

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

GF 150 191 160 147 138 155 162 105

GA 123 159 141 145 155 158 178 195

GF 188

GA 163

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Boston at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Nashville at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

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

Buffalo at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Washington, 5 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s summaries Predators 5, Sharks 1 First Period 1. San Jose, Irwin 5 (Karlsson, Pavelski) 5:26.

2. Nashville, Weber 14 (Fisher) 13:42.

3. Nashville, Smith 16 (Ekholm, Ribeiro) 16:02.

Second Period 4. Nashville, Smith 17 (Wilson, Jones) :53 (pp).

5. Nashville, Gaustad 2 (Bourque, Weber) 1:43.

6. Nashville, Neal 20 (Ribeiro) 10:31.

Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal San Jose 17 15 11 — 43 Nashville 15 13 9 — 37 Goal — San Jose: Stalock (L, 5-7-1); Nashville: Rinne (W, 34-7-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — San Jose: 0-3; Nashville: 1-2.

Power plays (goal-chances) — Dallas: 1-4; St. Louis: 0-3.

Today

Devils 2, Sabres 1 (SO) First Period 1. New Jersey, Elias 9 (Zidlicky, Henrique) 6:18 (pp).

Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 2. Buffalo, Ennis 14 (Girgensons) :27.

Overtime No Scoring.

Shootout — New Jersey wins 2-0 Buffalo : Moulson miss, Ennis miss.

New Jersey : Gomez goal, Josefson goal.

Shots on goal Buffalo 5 12 6 2 — 25 New Jersey 9 9 13 4 — 35 Goal — Buffalo: Neuvirth (LO, 3-15-2); New Jersey: Schneider (W, 20-22-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 0-3; New Jersey: 1-4.

Panthers 3, Maple Leafs 2 First Period 1. Toronto, Bozak 16 (van Riemsdyk, Kadri) 4:03 (pp).

2. Florida, Jokinen 5 (Boyes, Campbell) 19:14 (pp).

Second Period 3. Florida, Bjugstad 21 (Fleischmann, Bolland) 4:42 (pp).

4. Florida, Hayes 17 (Campbell, Jokinen) 13:48.

Third Period 5. Toronto, Kessel 22 (Kadri, Rielly) 19:10 (pp).

Shots on goal Florida 7 9 1 — 17 Toronto 6 7 16 — 29 Goal — Florida: Luongo (W, 21-14-10); Toronto: Bernier (L, 16-18-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 2-5; Toronto: 2-2.

Islanders 4, Hurricanes 1 First Period 1. NY Islanders, Lee 19 (Nielsen, Tavares) 17:06 (pp).

Second Period 2. NY Islanders, Nelson 16 (Martin, McDonald) 6:58.

Third Period 3. NY Islanders, Grabner 6 (Hickey, Nielsen) 7:09.

4. Carolina, Tlusty 13 (E. Staal, Jo. Staal) 11:14.

5. NY Islanders, Tavares 28 (unassisted) 15:41 (en).

Shots on goal NY Islanders 14 8 8 — 30 Carolina 7 18 13 — 38 Goal — NY Islanders: Johnson (W, 7-7-0); Carolina: Khudobin (L, 6-10-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Islanders: 1-2; Carolina: 0-2.

Capitals 3, Penguins 1 First Period 1. Washington, Ovechkin 37 (Ward, Green) 18:36 (pp).

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Downie 10 (Adams, Letang) 3:35.

Third Period 3. Washington, Ward 13 (Backstrom, Ovechkin) 15:47 (pp).

4. Washington, Carlson 8 (unassisted) 19:48 (ensh).

Shots on goal Washington 11 10 12 — 33 Pittsburgh 7 15 11 — 33 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 27-12-9); Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 26-12-6).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Washington: 2-5; Pittsburgh: 0-3.

BRIEFS Red Deer teams finish well back at provincial senior curling championships Red Deer rinks skipped by Lyle Treiber and Rick Hjertaas posted respective 2-5 and and 0-7 records in the Alberta senior men’s curling championship at Medicine Hat. Treiber, who had Keith Glover at third, Randy Ponich at second and Wilf Edgar at lead, opened with a 6-2 win over Hjertaas, then fell 7-6 to Brad Hannah of Edmonton be-

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament, 8 a.m. start; girls final at 6:30 p.m., boys final at 8:15 p.m. ● JV basketball: Notre Dame boys tournament. ● Freestyle skiing: Canyon Freestyle Ski Club meet. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary

Sunday

● Freestyle skiing: Canyon Freestyle Ski Club meet. ● Bantam AA hockey playoffs: Wheatland at Red Deer Steel Kings, noon, Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, third game of best-of-seven Northern Division semifinal, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Carstar, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs.

Triple A Batteries, Rusty Chuckers vs.

Johns Manville, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. NWS, Wells Furniture vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Alken Basin vs. Silver Spurs, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Curling 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Standings and results Tuesday at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Glance, the Canadian women’s curling championship, from Feb. 14-22 at Mosaic Place (all times Eastern): ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) W L Manitoba (Jones) 6 0 Alberta (Sweeting) 6 0 Canada (Homan) 5 1 Saskatchewan (Lawton) 4 2 Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 3 3 Ontario (Hastings) 3 3 P.E.I. (Birt) 3 3 N.L. (Strong) 3 4 Nova Scotia (Arsenault) 2 5 N. Brunswick (S.Robichaud) 1 5 B.C. (Knezevic) 1 6 Quebec (Mann) 1 6

Stars 4, Blues 1 First Period 1. Dallas, Ja. Benn 20 (Klingberg, Spezza) 2:47.

2. Dallas, Ja. Benn 21 (Spezza, Cole) 8:18.

3. Dallas, Eakin 11 (Garbutt, Jokipakka) 8:38.

Second Period 4. Dallas, Ja. Benn 22 (Spezza, Demers) 3:39 (pp).

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Berglund 7 (Stastny) 12:30.

Shots on goal Dallas 9 5 8 — 22 St. Louis 7 13 8 — 28 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 25-12-8); St. Louis: Elliott (L, 18-8-2).

Blue Jackets 5, Flyers 2 First Period 1. Columbus, Wisniewski 7 (Wennberg, Hartnell) 4:51 (pp).

2. Columbus, Johansen 21 (Tropp, Savard) 6:39.

Second Period 3. Philadelphia, Simmonds 22 (Del Zotto, L. Schenn) 17:25.

4. Philadelphia, Del Zotto 6 (Umberger, White) 19:08.

Third Period 5. Columbus, Calvert 8 (Atkinson, Dubinsky) 9:54.

6. Columbus, Dubinsky 6 (Hartnell) 13:28.

7. Columbus, Calvert 9 (Wennberg, Johansen) 19:04 (en).

Shots on goal Columbus 7 6 12 — 25 Philadelphia 10 20 14 — 44 Goal — Columbus: McElhinney (W, 9-9-1); Philadelphia: Emery (L, 10-10-3).

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Re-signed QB Brian Brohm.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Reassigned F Justin Kea to Rochester (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Activated F Brian Gibbons from injured reserve and assigned him to Springfield (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled RW Teemu Pulkkinen from Grand Rapids (AHL). Assigned G Petr Mrazek to Grand Rapids.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Activated F Stephen Gionta off injured reserve.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled G Chris Driedger from Evansville (ECHL).

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled F Joe Pendenza from Cincinnati (ECHL).

ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Recalled F Allan McPherson from Elmira (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Wheeling’s Clark Seymour one game and fined him an undisclosed for his actions in a Feb. 14 game at Toledo and suspended Stockton’s Tyler Shattoc one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Feb. 15 game against Colorado.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived MF Ian Christianson. Signed F Mike Grella.

fore rebounding for a 4-3 win over Wade White of Edmonton.

From there, the Treiber foursome lost 6-5 to Mark Johnson of Grande Prairie, 6-5 to Glen Hansen of Hinton, 7-5 to Calgary’s Lloyd Hill and 7-2 to Colin Griffith of Grande Prairie.

The Hjertaas quartet, with Eldon Raab at third and Rick More and Randy Hjertaas manning the front end, lost 7-3 to Johnson, dropped a 6-4 decision to Griffith, fell 6-2 to Hannah, came out on the short end of a 7-4 score versus Hansen, lost 7-1 to Hill and were edged 8-7 by White.

Hansen defeated Johnson 7-6 in the provincial final.

Kelsey Lalor scored 16 points Tuesday to lead the host Lindsay Thurber Raiders to a 63-22 senior high girls basketball win over the Wetaskiwin Sabres.

Molly Rumohr added 10 points for the Raiders and Paige Williams scored a team high five for the visitors.

Lalor leads Raiders to win over Sabres

● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament, 3 p.m. ● JV basketball: Notre Dame boys tournament. ● Freestyle skiing: Canyon Freestyle Ski Club meet. ● College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

(The Drive). ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m.

Monday’s results Sixth Draw Manitoba 9 N.L. 3 Northern Ontario 8 Nova Scotia 4 B.C. 7 P.E.I. 4 Ontario 6 Quebec 5 Seventh Draw Saskatchewan 8 Quebec 3 Canada 8 B.C. 3 Alberta 7 N.L. 2

Nova Scotia 5 New Brunswick 4 Eighth Draw Northern Ontario 8 New Brunswick 4 Alberta 6 P.E.I. 5 Saskatchewan 4 Ontario 3 Manitoba 8 Canada 7 Tuesday’s results Ninth Draw Ontario 9 B.C. 4 Manitoba 9 Quebec 3 P.E.I. 6 Nova Scotia 5 N.L. 6 Northern Ontario 4 Draw 10 Canada 11 N.L. 5 Saskatchewan 6 Nova Scotia 5 New Brunswick 9 Quebec 8 (11) Alberta 10 B.C. 5 Wednesday, Feb. 18 Draw 11, 8 a.m.

Nova Scotia vs. Manitoba, Ontario vs. N.L., B.C. vs.

Northern Ontario, Quebec vs. P.E.I. Draw 12, 1 p.m.

Quebec vs. Alberta, New Brunswick vs. B.C., Canada vs. Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan vs. N.L. Draw 13, 6 p.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Northern Ontario, Canada vs. P.E.I., Ontario vs. Alberta, Manitoba vs. New Brunswick.

Basketball

Triple A edge Monstars in CASMBA action Zach Barry scored 22 points and Andre Touchette netted 14 as the Triple A Batteries edged the Monstars 69-67 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Tuesday.

Adam Glover led the Monstars with 18 points, while Ryan Wachter scored 12.

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Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Thursday’s Games Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Red Deer College Queens hockey player Jayna Kitchen and Kings volleyball player Tim Finnigan collected Boston Pizza RDC Athletes of the Week on Tuesday.

Kitchen led the Queens to a sweep of the SAIT Trojans, scoring twice in their 4-2 win on Thursday at the Red Deer Arena and then another goal in their 4-3 win in Calgary to clinch second place in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference. She is in her fourth year of the business administration program out of Drayton Valley, and has scored five goals in her last three games.

Finnigan has battled injuries for much of the season but was back to his all-Canadian form on the weekend in a two-match sweep of the Trojans. The fifth year power out of Red Deer had 17 kills, four aces and 11 digs in a 3-0 (34-32, 25-21, 25-20) win on Friday in Red Deer and then 20 kills, three aces, three blocks and seven digs in their 3-1 (23-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-17) win in Calgary on Saturday.

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Thursday

● College basketball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Vikings; 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released LB Keith Rivers.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released S Thomas DeCoud. Re-signed OL Chris Scott to a one-year contract.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed G Ronald Leary and OT Darrion Weems.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released TE Brandon Bostick and WR Kevin Dorsey.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released WR Donnie Avery. Waived WR A.J. Jenkins.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed WR Kevin Ogletree.

Canadian Football League

● JV basketball: Camrose at Lindsay Thurber, Stettler at Notre Dame, Rocky Mountain House at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. (The Drive).

Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Junior women’s hockey playoffs: Calgary Titans at Central Alberta Amazons, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive). ● Professional bull riding: Canada Touring Pro 2015, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● AJHL: Whitecourt at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, second game of best-of-seven Northern Division semifinal, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Okotoks, first game of best-of-seven Chinook/provincial semifinal, 8 p.m.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Brandon 58 43 9 4 2 267 Regina 56 30 19 4 3 205 Swift Current 57 27 25 1 4 173 Moose Jaw 57 23 30 3 1 164 Prince Albert 58 23 32 2 1 164 Saskatoon 56 17 36 2 1 161 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 59 37 19 1 2 230 Calgary 57 34 18 1 4 239 Red Deer 56 29 18 4 5 190 Kootenay 58 29 27 1 1 193 Edmonton 58 26 26 4 2 167 Lethbridge 57 18 33 3 3 166

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Draft lottery winning the battle against tanking vious, teams haven’t played the same number of games every season. This discrepancy is easily adjusted for by considering the number of points per game the last place team collects.

So, for example, based on the current 82-game season, the Florida Panthers’ 36 points in 48 games during the 2012-13 season would be equivalent to 61.5 points.

Related, but not so easy to account for, is the fact that the average number of points handed out in a game is no longer constant, thanks to the extra point handed out for overtime and shootout losses.

In order to deal with this, we considered the last place team’s points per game divided by the average number of points awarded per game that season. Prior to the so-called “Bettman point,” this was one (two points per game for two teams).

Since the Bettman point was introduced in 1999-2000, this has bounced around a bit but after the introduction of

NBA teams weighing aggression or caution as trade deadline nears

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The East was a twoteam race at last year’s trade deadline, and Larry Bird made the move he thought would win it.

When the Indiana Pacers acquired Evan Turner from rebuilding Philadelphia, they hoped it would provide the scoring punch to beat out Miami and reach the NBA Finals. It didn’t, and Turner is now in Boston.

Now the Pacers are trying to get in the post-season, two games out of eighth place and seeking a spark that could sling-shot them past others down the bottom of the playoff ladder. Bird promises to be as aggressive as when his team on top.

“We’re always looking to improve the team and obviously there’s a lot of improvement that needs to be done,” the Pacers’ president said recently.

“So we’ll look around the league and talk to a lot of different people and see what’s out there and hopefully we can do something that makes us better.”

If not, he said, he’ll wait until the summer.

That’s what every NBA team has to decide in the next couple of days.

The trade deadline is Thursday afternoon, and with many teams in contention, the question is whether that makes them more conservative or cautious.

Help could be found in the hours before the NBA returns from its AllStar break. But some will be hesitant to tinker with so little time left in the season. The Turner deal, in which Indiana traded popular veteran Danny Granger, certainly didn’t help its locker room chemistry.

Plus, teams can plug holes by simply opening their wallets, without costing any assets.

Houston signed Josh Smith after he was waived by Detroit, Amare Stoudemire is headed to the Mavericks once he clears waivers, and other veterans could be bought out and become free agents after the deadline.

One of the most intriguing moves could involve Ray Allen, who will have contending suitors if he opts to play after sitting out all season.

The teams most motivated to deal might be the disappointing ones.

Brooklyn probably can’t find a taker for Deron Williams with all his injuries and dollars left on the $98.5 million contract he signed in 2012, but was close to moving Brook Lopez earlier this season.

Denver’s rocky season should have contenders calling to inquire about Arron Afflalo, Ty Lawson or Wilson Chandler.

The right move can help someone surge through spring. The wrong one could mean an early start on summer.

Don’t count on top stars changing teams — none has at the deadline since Utah surprisingly sent Williams to the Nets on the eve of the 2011 one. Teams more likely trade at this point to clear cap space for the summer, which is why the New York Knicks could seek a deal for Jose Calderon after already shipping out guards J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert.

Cleveland acquired them and, along with getting Timofey Mozgov from Denver in a separate deal, perhaps proved the best moves for this season were already made.

Dallas acted quickly to acquire Rajon Rondo from Boston in December, not long before Memphis capitalized on the Celtics’ youth movement to deal for Jeff Green.

For Golden State and Atlanta, the current NBA leaders, their winning moves maybe came long ago.

The Warriors got Andrew Bogut from Milwaukee at the 2012 deadline to provide some muscle in the rugged West. Five months later, the Hawks acquired Kyle Korver from Chicago, and he could be headed for the best perimeter-shooting season in NBA history.

“When I got traded to Atlanta I was coming from Chicago and I wasn’t really all that excited about it, to be honest with you. But all the people that Danny Ferry kept on bringing in, they’ve been not just good basketball people, but good people,” Korver said.

“When I was a free agent two summers ago, I chose to come back. We had some opportunities to go to some teams that already were more established and could win, but I just really believed in what Atlanta was building and what they were doing. I could see my role in it and I just wanted to be a part of that. I never thought that it would come together this quickly.”

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the salary cap in 2005, it has generally been close to 1.1.

Finally, there are a couple of factors that can influence how good (or bad) the last place team is in a given season.

As we discussed a couple of months ago, the salary cap (and accompanying salary floor) has promoted parity, which means that we should expect last-place teams to be better (all else being equal) since the cap’s introduction.

Moreover, during the league’s gradual expansion to 30 teams, franchises in the early years of their existence didn’t have much time to accumulate talent and so should naturally be expected to be worse.

The salary cap has existed only after the lottery was put in place, and most expansion took place before the lottery was implemented, so these are both factors that could make the lottery look like it’s having a bigger effect than it actually is.

So after taking all these factors into consideration, what effect has the lottery system had?

What we found is that today’s teams are five to six points better over an 82-game season, on average, than they would have been without the lottery system in place. That is, if we were to consider a hypothetical world in which

the NHL operated as it currently does with a salary cap, the Bettman point, no recent expansion teams, but without a lottery system for the draft, we would generally expect the team that came in last place to average 55 to 56 points instead of the 61 points that they currently get.

Thus the lottery has increased the last place team’s points by about 10 per cent. As of writing, the Buffalo Sabres are on pace for just over 52 points.

Whether the Sabres are intentionally tanking or just especially bad is anyone’s guess.

But what can be said for sure is that even though much in the game of hockey is changing, tanking can still be done the old-fashioned way.

For more information on the methodology we used to obtain these results, go to depthockeyanalytics.com.

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

Wickenheiser to miss world championship with foot injury

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Hayley Wickenheiser will undergo season-ending foot surgery Wednesday and won’t play for Canada at the upcoming women’s world hockey championship.

The four-time Olympic gold medallist and Canada’s all-time leading scorer played in last year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, with a broken bone in her left foot.

Wickenheiser wore a walking cast for three months following the Games.

She had a screw surgically implanted last August but her foot has continued to give her problems this season.

“I’ve done everything I can to try and heal it and now I need to take a step back and take the time it needs and do this,” Wickenheiser told The Canadian Press. “It’s the major weightbearing bone in the foot, probably the most important bone in your foot.

“It’s frustrating to miss the worlds, but at the same time, I need to do this

right and come back strong for next season and that’s my goal.”

The 36-year-old from Shaunavon, Sask., will have the surgery in Toronto.

She says the procedure involves grafting bone from her hip to implant into her foot and new hardware may be inserted as well.

Canada’s roster for the 2015 world women’s hockey championship, which will be held March 28 to April 4 in Malmo, Sweden, will be announced in the next few weeks.

Wickenheiser leads the Canadian women’s team all-time in goals (146), assists (172) and games played (216).

She was captain of the women’s team that won gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics and an assistant captain in Sochi. She’s played in 12 world championships for Canada and won gold in seven. The five-foot-10, 170-pound forward participated in a national team camp the last week of January in Blainsville, Que. She has five goals and 14 assists in 15 games for the University of Calgary Dinos this season.

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For fans of those teams clearly out of the former, losses are cheered perhaps more than wins as tanking is seen as the best route for the future.

Tanking, or intentionally trying to lose games, is something the league is naturally very concerned about. As such, the NHL followed the NBA’s lead and implemented a draft lottery starting in 1995.

The idea behind a draft lottery is that teams will have less incentive to tank if they are not guaranteed the first overall pick by being the worst team in the league that year. The question is, has it worked?

Given that tanking entails trying to amass as few points as possible, there should be a relationship between the incentive to tank and how many points that last-place team accumulates in a given season.

Specifically, if the lottery has reduced the incentive to tank, last-place teams should be accumulating more points, on average, since the introduction of the lottery.

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AHMED NUR PROVIDED COCAINE TO RED DEER DRUG HOUSE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A man at the centre of a drug trafficking operation in Red Deer’s north end has been sentenced to four years in custody, four months after his conviction.

Ahmed Nur, 32, of Edmonton was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on Nov. 24, 2014, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

On Tuesday, he was convicted of a third charge — possession of the proceeds of crime over $5,000. At the time of his arrest in Edmonton, more than $55,000 in cash was found in the vehi-

cle he was in. However, Justice Charlene Anderson said he could only be convicted for being in possession of $18,100.

Red Deer RCMP followed the vehicle from Red Deer to a storage facility in south Edmonton. They found two suitcases containing large quantities of cash. A black one with pink stripes contained $14,500 and a green one contained $40,000. Nur told police the black one with pink stripes was his. He was arrested along with Raed Abdullah, 32, of Red Deer on July 12, 2011.

Charges against Abdullah were stayed by the Crown in September 2014.

In her decision, Anderson said she could only convict Nur for possessing

the money in the suitcase he claimed to own and the $3,600 that was found on him during a search.

Nur said the money was for a new truck and for his sister’s wedding. Anderson said that may be true, but it still doesn’t explain where the money came from.

From 2008 to 2011, Nur paid reported no income to Revene Canada.

Crown prosecutor Patricia Giroux and defence counsel Paul Moreau jointly submitted a recommended sentence of four years for all three charges. Taking into consideration Nur’s pre-trial custody credit of 15 months and three weeks, he still has three years and seven days left to serve on his sentence.

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Nur was involved in a drug trafficking operation where he would resupply a residence on Jordan Parkway regularly with controlled substances.

The people at the Jordan Parkway residence would then sell the drugs at the street level.

Anderson said Nur was selling cocaine wholesale and the criminal enterprise he was a part of showed a level of sophistication.

In addition to the jail term, Nur was ordered to provide a sample of his DNA and was given a 10-year prohibition from owning unrestricted weapons, plus a lifetime prohibition from owning restricted and prohibited weapons. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ponoka woman strangled on Lifeline cord: judge

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From the left, Lance Marquez, as Scoobie Doo, Hannah Hulyk as Anne of Green Gables, Lundy Breton, as Spiderman, Elora Wilson, dressed as Mary Ingles, Sydney jones as Mulan, teacher Shauna Hulyk dressed as Daphne from Scoobie Doo and in the front row William Jones dressed as Spiderman. All this week the students and staff at Joseph Welsh Elementary School are doing character studies and Tuesday staff and students had the chance to dress as their favorite characters.

Pine Lake-area land sought for road

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County may have to resort to expropriation to line up the land necessary to improve a road near Pine Lake.

The county wants to upgrade and straighten a six-km stretch of Range Road 245 that runs around the southern end of the lake and connects Hwy 590 and Township Road 362.

It was hoped that the road widening and curve work could happen last year, but agreements could not be

reached with two landowners. The county tried to reach a deal allowing them temporary access to the properties to do back-sloping work.

Not able to reach agreements, the county began the expropriation process. Both landowners appealed but inquiry officers sided with the county.

Mayor Jim Wood said expropriation is always a last resort for the county.

He is still hopeful that agreements can be reached with landowners without having to purchase the land.

About 2.4 acres will be purchased from one landowner and a little under one acre from the other. They will be

paid 10 per cent above market value.

The inquiry officer said one landowner is concerned that the amount of land taken is not equitable between the two properties and not enough consideration has been given to protecting a tree barrier.

The other landowner was concerned about the impact on wetlands and the county’s failure to do an environmental assessment. Neither appeared before council on Tuesday.

In both cases, the inquiry officers ruled the county’s land requirements were fair and reasonable. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

A provincial court judge is urging that all Lifeline chains have a breakaway cords after a Ponoka woman died when her Lifeline pendant became entangled in her walker and strangled her.

Provincial court judge B.D. Rosborough made the recommendation following the fatality inquiry into the death of Elizabeth Ann Bell, 73, who died on Feb. 19, 2013.

Rosborough urged “that Alberta Health Services and/or Health Canada, acting in conjunction Lifeline manufacturer Philips immediately and proactively take such steps as are necessary to replace all non-breakaway cords used in conjunction with the Lifeline with breakaway cords.”

The information was contained in a fatality inquiry report released today.

Rosborough acknowledged that there was conflicting medical testimony about the cause of death at the fatality inquiry, which was held on Nov. 15, 2014. However Rosborough was satisfied that the evidence presented was consistent with pendant strangulation.

“I have considered the evidence of both Dr. Ben Carruthers and Dr. Jeffrey Gofton in this matter and have concluded that the manner of death was asphyxia brought about when the Lifeline Bell was wearing became entangled in her walker and strangled her.”

Bell lived in a mobile home in Ponoka and was in failing health. She had used her Lifeline on several occasions to summon help when she had fallen or was ill. Lifelines have a button that when pressed summon responders through Lifeline’s Emergency Response Care Centre.

Fatality inquiries are meant to establish time, cause and manner of death.

They make recommendations to prevent similar deaths. They do not establish legal responsibility.

Buchanan joins race for PC nomination

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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It’s now a three-person race for the PC nomination in Red Deer North.

Red Deer city Coun. Buck Buchanan announced on Tuesday that he will stand for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the constituency.

He will face Christine Moore, a Red Deer County councillor, and Matt Chapin on the March 21 nomination ballot.

Surrounded by family, friends and council colleagues, Buchanan, 57, said there is no perfect time but he believes now is the time to take the leap.

All signs indicate there will be a provincial election in the spring.

“There’s many issues facing us today

but I believe by working together we can find solutions to these concerns,” said Buchanan, to the crowd about 40 supporters at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

“We can and will build a more prosperous Alberta. My decision to run provincially was not taken lightly.”

Buchanan said some of the issues facing the region include court backlogs in Red Deer, transportation from the south into the city, housing and the environment.

Buchanan said he offers a history of public service to the Red Deer North.

Buchanan served nearly 29 years a Mountie in places such as Inuvik, Hay

River, Toronto, Yellowknife, Burnaby, Innisfail and Red Deer.

“I’ve listened, learned and acted for the people of Red Deer as a city councillor,” said Buchanan.

Buchanan said he was counting on a 2016 provincial election, so he would have served three years out of his fouryear council term. “I am sorry that if in fact I am fortunate to get the nomination and I couldn’t fulfil my time on city council,” said Buchanan.

“But I think it’s another role that assists the City of Red Deer. There’s definitely those synergies that take place between our MLA and city council. It’s not so much leaving but being in a different role.”

He is the owner of the security firm X-Cops Inc. While on council, Buchanan has served on a variety of commit-

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tees such as Governance and Policy, the Library Board and Regional Waste Management Services Commission Board. He is also a board member representing Red Deer in Alberta Urban Municipalities Association.

Councillors are not required to step down from their council duties when seeking a nomination. A councillor would only be required to step down if elected.

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski is not seeking a sixth term.

Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas is also not seeking re-election. Darcy Mykytyshyn, a dean at Red Deer College, is the lone contender seeking the Red Deer-South PC nomination. Red Deer South Tories will also pick a candidate on March 21. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Sylvan snowmobiler found by search and rescue staff A 19-year-old Sylvan Lake man was found uninjured after he went missing while snowmobiling west Golden, B.C., on Saturday.

Golden RCMP said the man he fell into a creek in a snowmobiling area and was found by Golden Search and Rescue at about 1 a.m. on Sunday.

RCMP, who were alerted of the missing man at 7 p.m. on Saturday, said the man intentionally separated from the group he was snowmobiling with and failed to meet up with them at a cabin near Quartz Creek in the afternoon.

During an extensive search by snowmobile, four rescue volunteers located the man, who was stranded in steep terrain.

Rescue members were able to ski to the man, who was given snowshoes to follow them back to their snowmobiles.

RCMP Cpl. Dave Kronlund said the missing man was familiar with the area and had some back country survival training and some emergency gear. But he didn’t have a change of clothing.

After getting soaked to the skin, hypothermia was a bit concern, he said.

“Concern for his well-being motivated Golden Search and Rescue to head in despite the avalanche conditions and darkness. We’re appreciative of their efforts, putting their lives at risk.

It’s hard to say how long he would have survived,” Kronlund said.

RCMP want to remind those participating in back country activities to always have a plan and be prepared to spend the night outdoors should they become stranded or unable to call for help.

Man faces several charges, drugs found in traffic stop A 34-year-old Edmonton man faces six drug-related charges after Innisfail RCMP stopped his vehicle on Hwy 2 for a traffic violation on Feb. 12.

Police conducted a drug investigation due to observations made during the stop near Innisfail.

A search of the vehicle revealed more than a pound of marijuana, cannabis resin, morphine and cocaine.

The man is charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, resisting arrest, and five drug possession charges.

Alberta Party AGM on weekend in Red Deer A political strategist will be the keynote speaker at the Alberta Party’s annual general meeting events at the iHotel in Red Deer this weekend.

Stephen Carter will discuss How to Build an Effective Opposition from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Saturday.

The weekend kicks off with a meet and greet on Friday evening at the hotel.

A review of the constitution and a new board of directors will be elected on Saturday as part of the official AGM proceedings on Saturday.

The policy meeting will be on Sunday.

For more information, visit www. albertaparty.ca.

Some tickets will be available at the door. Reserve in advance at info@ albertaparty.ca.

Bowden outdoor rec area gets cash infusion Red Deer County has stepped up to help improve a popular outdoor recreational facility in Bowden.

County council approved a $20,000 grant to help the Bowden Community Action Park Committee on Tuesday.

It follows a previous $50,000 commitment.

The action park includes a skateboard facility, horseshoe pits and outdoor ice surface.

This year, the plan is to add a picnic shelter, tables and benches, and handicapped-accessible asphalt pathways.

The rink will also be paced so it can be used for basketball or other sports in the summer.

Finishing the park is expected to cost $62,000. The committee hopes to draw on a $17,000 provincial grant to go along with its own $25,000 to finish the project.

Mayor Jim Wood said the county’s contribution is a good investment.

“It’s a very well-used facility,” said Wood, who was there on Family Day to join in on the fun. “I was surprised by the numbers that were out.

“The community has rallied behind this. I think this is probably the best place we can spend our money — the youth.”

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River Bend vehicle break-ins draw warning from RCMP Red Deer RCMP are investigating three break-ins between 1 and 2:15 p.m. on Friday in the parking lot at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area.

While vehicle owners were walking the trails or cross-country skiing, someone smashed the windows of three vehicles, stealing purses and wallets containing cash and credit cards.

Similar incidents occurred in the same parking lot on Jan. 14 and 20.

“Criminals sometimes lurk in parking lots looking for victims, and they may well be watching while recreational enthusiasts stow their belongings away before setting out on the trails,” says Cpl. Leanne Molzahn of the Red Deer RCMP. Police recommend these safety tips: ● If you’re going out on the trails, leave your valuables at home. ● Consider buying a sports pouch so you can carry ID, cash or cellphones with you. ● Lock your vehicle and don’t leave valuables in plain sight. ● Don’t stash valuables in consoles, glove boxes and sun visors — these hiding spots are well known to thieves. ● Don’t keep spare car or house keys inside your vehicle. ● Lock toolboxes on vehicles. ● Lock tailgates of vehicles. ● Do not leave personal information in your vehicle, including banking and credit card information, or other items that could be used in identity theft. ● Valuables aren’t much more secure in your trunk than when they’re in plain view — if a criminal has been watching you stow your valuables, they know exactly where to go to retrieve them. And once they have access to your vehicle, they can open your trunk. ● Park in well-lit areas close to other vehicles. ● Pick up an All Valuables Removed placard from the Alberta Motor Association or the downtown Red Deer RCMP detachment, and use it.

Anyone with information that may assist the police with these investigations is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403.343.5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Debit machine thief being sought by RCMP RCMP are asking for public assistance to identify a man who stole a wireless debit machine from Ricky’s Bar and Grill at 71st Street and 50th Avenue in Red Deer on Friday. 13.

The suspect entered the restaurant at about 5:30 p.m., Debit machine theft ordered food suspect. and paid for it with a prepaid credit card.

On his way out the door at about 7:10 p.m., he took the wireless debit machine.

The machine was recovered by RCMP on Monday but police continue to look for the thief.

The suspect is described as in his mid to late 20s, 1.75 to 1.82 metres (five feet nine to six feet) tall, with a medium build.

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Alyssa Morris, five, patiently waits for a fish to take her bait while ice fishing for the first time at Sylvan Lake on Saturday. Dozens of people were on the lake to fish and take in the above-zero temperatures.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Society’s Poor Have 8 Less Teeth Than The Well Off Dear Dr. D: I grew up in Quebec, and when I went for a checkup locally I was surprised at how much work this dentist wanted to do. In my small home town many people have false teeth and nobody thinks too much of it. What's the big deal with a few extra teeth?

A: The difference may be more than you imagine. An extensive study was just completed in England regarding dental health and overall health. They found that the poorest 20% of the population in their 70's had 8 fewer teeth than the wealthiest 20% of the population. This is a full ¼ of a set of teeth! The people with the lowest income, lower education, and lower employment occupations had a much higher level of gum disease, gaps in teeth, and tooth decay on top of just having fewer teeth left in their head. This wasn't a matter of being aware – the majority of these people admitted their poor oral health caused them worry, and did in fact rate their oral health as bad. Most said it affected their day to day living in a detrimental sense. The Principal Investigator of this study – Dr. John Wildman (Professor of Health Economics at Newcastle University Business School) said “Inequalities in oral health have not received the attention that they deserve. Our study is an attempt to redress this balance. Oral health contributes hugely to everyday wellbeing and addressing these inequalities may result in considerable improvements in quality of life for large numbers of individuals.”

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Missing teeth is far beyond simply appearance. Many factors contribute to teeth failure. For instance, your home province (Quebec) has a slightly higher ratio of smokers per general population (21.4%) than Alberta (20.3%), but not by far. In northern Canada we see ratios of smokers as high as triple the number in western Canada. In B.C., only 16.2% of people smoke. In Nunavut, that number averages 59%!

Coincidentally, the number with oral health issues follows suit. If you cannot chew properly, your choices of food are more limited.

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I do tell my patients that you don't need teeth to live. They are a lifestyle choice. Everyone either had or knew friends with very elderly grandparents with no teeth at all. One gentleman I met claimed he could 'gum' a steak to death! We place an inordinate amount of importance on appearance. Look at the billion dollar cosmetics industry as proof of that. A common reaction my patients hear when they have extensive dental work completed revolves solely on appearance.

Nobody can tell your teeth are functioning any better! Friends and neighbours ask if they have 'lost weight', or had a face lift, for example.

It is all about self-confidence and self-esteem. I'm not making any kind of judgment call on that, but patients tell me they are happier in their work – look better (their opinion), and eat healthier as a result of better oral health. These might be some of the differences those additional teeth may influence!

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Trudeau calls government reasons for appeal of niqab ruling unjustified OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t buy Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s rationale for why the government is appealing a controversial decision about face coverings during citizenship ceremonies.

A Federal Court judge ruled last week that it’s unlawful to require would-be citizens to remove face coverings such as a niqab while taking the oath.

Stephen Harper denounced the decision, saying most Canadians consider it offensive that someone would conceal their identity while becoming a citizen.

Trudeau says anyone in authority must have a good reason for denying someone their rights.

He says Harper’s rationale doesn’t justify the decision to appeal.

The case had been brought to court by a Pakistani woman who claimed the government’s policy on veils violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Trudeau accuses Conservatives of cutting funding to vaccination program

Magnotta to withdraw appeal of murder conviction: reports MONTREAL — Published reports say Luka Rocco Magnotta will withdraw his appeal of a conviction in the first-degree murder of Jun Lin. Magnotta’s case is scheduled to return before the province’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday, less than a month after he announced he was appealing the conviction and wanted a new trial.

Radio-Canada reported Tuesday that Magnotta’s lawyer Luc Leclair has told them he will withdraw his client’s two appeals on Wednesday.

The Toronto-based Leclair did not immediately return calls from The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

A spokesman for Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions said he was unaware of such a development.

A clerk at the Quebec Court of Appeal said they had yet to receive any notice from Magnotta’s attor-

Frigate deputy commander charged with drunkenness, disobeying orders OTTAWA — The former second-in-command of a Canadian warship has been charged with disobeying orders and drunkenness.

Cmdr. Joshua Yanchus, who was the executive officer aboard HMCS Calgary, based in Esquimalt, B.C., was charged Monday by the military’s criminal investigation branch.

The offences are alleged to have taken place aboard the frigate on June 25, 2014, while the warship was taking part in a major U.S.-led exercise in the Pacific.

It is the second incident to come to light involving alleged bad behaviour by sailors involved in socalled Rimpac training, an annual international marine warfare exercise billed as the world’s largest.

Last summer, the coastal defence vessel HMCS Yukon was ordered home after three incidents of “personal misconduct” took place onshore in San Diego.

At least one of the incidents involved the arrest of a Canadian sailor by local police, and the other two incidents involved allegations of sexual misconduct and shoplifting.

Alcohol was thought to be a contributing factor in some of the cases.

The military did not release the circumstances of Yanchus, or when it will be dealt with by court martial.

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Trudeau’s charge comes a week after Health Minister Rona Ambrose chided Canadians who have failed to vaccinate their children, calling them irresponsible amid an outbreak of measles in a number of North American communities.

Government documents reveal the Conservatives have slashed funding to the federal immunization program by 23 per cent since 2006.

The program educates Canadians about the importance of vaccinations.

Since 2006, government-commissioned polling suggested Canadians were growing increasingly skeptical about vaccinations, especially during the 2009 H1N1 scare during which some respondents said they heard conflicting information about the safety of the swine flu vaccine.

A 2012 audit of the immunization program also found that it was shortstaffed, and questioned whether immunization education efforts were proving successful.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the government has always educated Canadians about the importance of vaccinations against measles and other illnesses, and will continue to do so.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is making it mandatory for all existing private seniors’ homes to be equipped with automatic sprinklers following a coroner’s report calling for action.

Labour Minister Sam Hamad said Tuesday that the province will grant operators a five-year grace period to retrofit their homes.

The move comes in the wake of a coroner’s report into a tragic blaze in L’Isle Verte, Que., that claimed the lives of 32 seniors a little over a year ago.

Hamad added that the government will also provide up to $260 million in financial aid to help offset the heavy costs, with the details to come in the upcoming provincial budget.

“For our government, seniors have a right to live in a place where they feel safe or where they are safe,” Hamad told a Quebec City news conference.

The government will look at all of the recommendations outlined in coroner Cyrille Delage’s report and tackle them one at a time, Hamad added.

Delage recommended the installation of sprinklers in all seniors’ homes, old and new, in a report released last week.

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BRIEF HBO agrees to two more new seasons for Oliver’s Last Week Tonight NEW YORK — HBO says it has picked up two more seasons of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, which puts to rest any thought that Oliver would return to Comedy Central to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

Oliver just began the second season at HBO of his critically acclaimed comedy show.

HBO said it has agreed to air 35 new episodes each in 2016 and 2017.

Michael Lombardo, president of HBO programming, said Tuesday that Oliver’s “unique ability to deliver socially significant commentary week after week, along with his innate comedic brilliance, puts John in a class by himself.”

Oliver came to HBO’s attention when he subbed for Stewart at The Daily Show during the summer of 2013.

Stewart announced last week he was leaving The Daily Show.

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Local artist Carol Lynn Gilchrist, left, shows off her exhibit, I am Here, to fellow Red Deer Art Club artists Joyce Handley and Sandra Turner at the Hub on Ross as part of the First Friday line up. I am Here will be on display at the Hub on Ross until Feb. 28, and features watercolour and acrylic paintings. terbody. This resembles both an estuary and an abstract pattern.

Gilchrist said she’s drawn to depicting water and its journey from the headwaters to the watersheds — and beyond.

Her work Japanese Tea Set suggests a domestic use of water. Gilchrist was going to call it A Conversation, but wasn’t sure viewers would immediately see the small reflection of three friends on the shiny surface of the teapot. The

painting was a winner in the 2012 Alberta Community Art Clubs Association show.

The artist was born in Estevan, Sask., but was raised in Red Deer.

Gilchrist recalled she always drew as a child but never painted. Although drawing was a required class for the architectural technology course she completed in Calgary, she considers herself a self-taught painter, starting her education from library books on

how to use watercolours.

The married mother of a grown daughter hopes viewers of her exhibit will sense her connection to her environment and her community.

“I hope they see my love of nature, and also that I paint a particular place and time. This is my community, Red Deer, and I love it. So much of what I paint is right here in our city.”

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the Hollywoood golden era,” said Minne, who is working on a book and documentary about Jourdan. “Louis was very proud of his career in America.”

Succeeding Charles Boyer as Hollywood’s favourite French lover, Jourdan romanced Joan Fontaine, Jennifer Jones, Grace Kelly and Shirley MacLaine in films during the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. He also showed that he could play a villain in Julie (1956), in which he was Doris Day’s husband, a psychopathic killer.

Through most of his 15-year career as a leading man, he was subject to the Hollywood habit of typecasting.

“Any actor who comes here with an accent is automatically put in roles as a lover,” he complained. “I didn’t want to be perpetually cooing in a lady’s ear.”

When Jourdan was brought to Hollywood by David O. Selznick in 1947, the producer instructed him to “learn good American English the way it is spoken by John Barrymore and Fredric March.” The actor studied hard, but he concluded: “If I had come here as a boy, I could speak unaccented English; at 24, it is impossible.”

Jourdan’s film career reached a peak in 1957 with the Alan Jay LernerFrederick Loewe musical, Gigi.

NEW YORK — Drake’s surprise album has set records on Spotify.

The music streaming service said Tuesday that the rapper’s new album, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, et the record for most streams from an album in its debut week in the U.S. The album, released Friday, was streamed more than 17.3 million times in three days.

Drake’s 2013 album, Nothing Was the Same, previously had the record for most streams in a debut week with 15.8 million.

The new album also set a record for most streams in a single day for an album in the U.S. with 6.8 million streams on Saturday.

Billboard reported that the album will sell about 500,000 units in its first week.

Louis Jourdan dies at 93 LOS ANGELES — Louis Jourdan, the dashingly handsome Frenchman who starred in Gigi, Can-Can, Three Coins in the Fountain and other American movies, has died. He was 93.

Jourdan’s biographer, Olivier Minne, said the actor died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, likely of natural causes.

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When the weather’s right, the light is interesting, and if there’s a spot of shade to stand under, an entire morning can slip away for Red Deer artist Carol Lynn Gilchrist.

“Time just stops for me,” said the plein air painter, whose acrylic and watercolour works can be seen in the I Am Here exhibit at The Hub on Ross.

Gilchrist’s topographical and landscape paintings provide some welcome springtime greenery this wintry month.

The artist often takes her easel and paints to quiet natural settings in the warmer seasons because she finds painting in the outdoors a meditative endeavour.

“I try to reflect on the fact that I’m here, in this moment, and I’m recording this time and place. ...”

Even when the day turns miserable and the wind is “whipping my face,” Gilchrist aims to capture the turbulence in her art.

“I try to paint the weather and give the sense that air can be felt — that it has movement and depth and moisture content.”

Many of her paintings mix created and natural worlds.

For instance, her A Path Through the Woods and Forest Path depict corridors through nature, as trees cast mysterious purple shadows across a hiking trail. Gilchrist believes this theme evolved because she often works at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary, which is encircled by a path. “It’s close to my house and very accessible.”

Man-made aspects also factor in the painting Old Buildings, Old Trees. It depicts the peaked roof of a Red Deer landmark, the former Michener Centre administrative building, standing against a cold sky.

Topographic images are important to Gilchrist, who was a planner for the cities of Red Deer and Lacombe before retiring in 2011 to focus on her art.

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Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years experience.

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our products within Alberta.

ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License; with previous off road forklift and shipping /receiving experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan.

Benefits include: * Company provided Canadian Benefits Package * Voluntary Dental Plan * Life Insurance Option Plan * Short-term/Long-term Disability Policy * Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) * Paid Vacation * Quarterly Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage Systems Of Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon @ads-pipe.com Position closing date: Feb. 23rd. 2015

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• Paid expenses • Retirement plan

Interested applicants please submit resumes to: Human Resources employee.management.hr@gmail.com Fax: 403-347-3406

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1699960AbLtd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors for days, evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and supervisory related. wage $13.75 w/at least 1 year exp. email: restuarantbusiness@ hotmail.ca

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Major Responsibilities: • We require a fleet manager to be at the helm of maintenance and repair, organize and delegate the repairs required.

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Have current Safety THE RUSTY PELICAN is certificates including H2S now accepting resumes for Truckers/ • Be prepared to work in 4 F/T Exp’d remote locations for LINE COOKS at Drivers Caregivers/ extended periods of time all stations. MUST HAVE: Aides • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits • 2 yrs. relevant exp., 59 YR Old lady with MS and RRSP offered completion of High seeking F/T live-in caregiver Please email resume with School, be reliable, in the country. Drivers current driver’s abstract to: self motivated, work licence would be an asset. jbecker@colterenergy.ca well under limited Bathing, changing ileostomy supervision in fast bag & light housekeeping.

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403-722-2182 or email: in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. wayneleorasmith@gmail.com VACUUM TRUCK Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 OPERATOR hr. wk. dependant on exp.

FT child caregiver in Red Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid Must have Class 3 licence CENTRAL AB based w/air & all oilfi eld tickets.

733644 Ab Ltd. & CPR. Supervise and trucking company requires Fax resume w/drivers O/A The Rusty Pelican care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, CONTRACT abstract to 403-886-4475 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional.

Location of employment: DRIVERS pret_lady@yahoo.ca 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. in AB. Home the odd night.

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MEERES Iris May 1922 - 2015 Iris May Meeres of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the age of 92 years. Iris was born on May 16, 1922 in Ferndale, South Wales. She was predeceased by her husband Alexander Jolly Meeres in 1950. Iris met her husband at Salsbury Plains, England and they married on September 14, 1944. Iris and Alexander came to Canada in 1945 and lived in Ontario. After the early loss of her husband, she moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1952 and then to Red Deer in 1978. Iris was a happy, fun loving and very caring woman who loved to play bingo. For many years she volunteered at Normandeau School where she was known by everyone as “Grandma Iris”.

Iris had a very strong and independent spirit which carried her through good and tough times. Her determination and will helped her to care for and raise her family on her own. Iris was a very loving and devoted mother, grandmother, great grandmother and a great great grandmother who will be very deeply missed. Iris will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Ann Hyndman of Cochrane, and son, Phillip (Donna) Meeres of Red Deer; her grandchildren, Diana (Blair) Heinzlmeir of Red Deer, Kim Stewart of Cochrane and Nadine LesStrange (Darren) of Red Deer; her great grandchildren, Alexander, Alexis, Mackenzie, Morgan, Paige and Nevaeh and one great great grandchild, Kale.

A Memorial Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Iris’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.alzheimer.ca/en/ab.

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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Hampton Inn & Suites 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer • GED Preparation AB, CA T4E 1B9 Housekeeping Supervisor Coming • Women in the Trades $20.00/hour Events Program Full Time: M-F 7am to 5pm * Supervise team of • Math and Science for cleaners and janitors the Trades Program * Inspect sites to ensure safety and cleanliness 9th Annual Speed Show Gov’t of Alberta Funding * Arrange for services & Collector Car Auction Dental may be available. required such as painting, March 13-15, 2015 renovations or replaceWesterner Park, Red Deer 403-340-1930 ment of furnishings REGISTERED Special Guests * Hire and train cleaning www.academicexpress.ca Dental Assistant Rick & Kelly Dale: American Restoration staff Dan & Laura Dotson: Storage Wars TOO MUCH STUFF? LEVEL II * Prepare work schedule , Consign Today Let Classifieds Riverside Dental Centre budget, estimate costs and 1-888-296-0528 Ext 102 req’s a RDA II to fill a help you sell it. keep financial records consign@egauctions.com position that is 4 days/per Apply in person 8am-4 pm EGauctions.com Alix Arena Association is week, no nights or Monday - Friday seeking qualified weekends. The ideal You can sell your guitar JJAM Management (1987) contractors to provide person is a team player, for a song...

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s quotes to the Board for wants a long term position or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Requires to work at these small renovation projects and interested in the best and we’ll sell it for you!

Red Deer, AB locations: at the rink. Interested for our patients. We are a 5111 22 St. parties will be shown the general Dental Practice in 37444 HWY 2 S scope of work in person at a new facility that is 37543 HWY 2N the arena. Please contact progressive and values our 700 3020 22 St. Leigh Peirens, patients. We offer a FOOD ATTENDANT 403-596-2285. competitive salary, Req’d permanent shift benefits and a great work Buying or Selling weekend day and evening environment. Please your home? both full and part time. submit a resume to All Visits are Free.

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Apply in person or fax Central Alberta’s Largest Janitorial Are you new to the resume to: 403-314-1303 Car Lot in Classifieds neighbourhood?

Full Time Cleaners Expecting a Baby? required for day’s at GOODMEN Planning a Nova Joffre Site.

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SLOPED ROOFERS 1-844-299-2466 Excellent spoken & written LABOURERS English communication welcomewagon.ca & FLAT ROOFERS required. Send resume to aramark6685@gmail.com LUCKY’S LOUNGE Valid Driver’s Licence or fax @ 403-314-7504 located in Jackpot Casino, preferred. Fax or email requires Waitress’s Lost info@goodmenroofi ng.ca Fri. - Sun. Please apply in or (403)341-6722 person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! REWARD Medical No phone calls please SNOWBOARD, Blue SUNTERRA MEATS Libteck with Union THE RUSTY PELICAN is in Trochu, AB is seeking a PART-TIME MEDICAL Bindings, youth board, now accepting resumes for OFFICE BILLING CLERK JOURNEYMAN lost Feb. 8 at WELL EXPERIENCED required immediately Canyon Ski Hill. Please ELECTRICIAN HOSTESS in Lacombe. call 403-307-5007 to work in their Mature professional Billing experience is a meat processing plant. familiar with maitre d’ Start your career! must, strong computer Successful candidate capabilities. Would be an See Help Wanted skills and Medical needs to be a team player, asset to have a current Terminology is required. willing to help in areas ProServe Certificate and fmala@shawbiz.ca outside of certification, familiar with wine service. reliable and dependable.

Professional Personals Starting wage of $34. per appearance is a definite hour, benefits at the time requirement.

Oilfield ALCOHOLICS of hire. For more Must have Ref’s & Exp. ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 information, contact Apply within: 2079-50 Dave at 403-442-4202 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. COCAINE ANONYMOUS or email resume to Fax 403-347-1161 Phone 403-396-8298 trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates WATER WELL DRILLING selected for an interview COMPANY IN BENTLEY will be contact.

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ING Donna Aug. 19, 1930 - Feb. 12, 2015 Donna Ing, beloved wife of Ken Ing, passed away on February 12, 2015 surrounded by family. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 60 years, Ken, children Janet (Kevin) Graham, Judy (Jim) Causgrove and Gord (Jeri-Lynn) Ing, her sister Eileen of Victoria B.C., as well as her cherished grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her family was her love. Donna was an incredible homemaker and a hostess with great wit. She will be missed by all who knew her. A celebration of Donna’s life will be held at Gaetz United Church 4758 Ross Street Red Deer, AB on Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to charity of ones choice or the Alberta Lung Association The Lung Association, Alberta & NWT. P.O. Box

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

FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male.

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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.

RANCH farm requires two people to work part-time processing and working with cattle plus other farm related work. Full days, wages neg.

Apply (403) 350-4089. No texts.

HELP WANTED SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help The Assistant Property Manager, Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. under the direction of the 11 pm -7 am. e-mail resume to: nwoods1976@ Property Manager, is hotmail.com, fax to: responsible for coordinating all aspects of 403-346-9099 or drop off at: 3301-Gaetz Avenue apartment community operations and to act as SPARTEK main point of contact in the SYSTEMS INC absence of the Property In Sylvan Lake, AB Manager. The right is seeking qualified candidate must be a team * ELECTRICAL player with a positive ENGINEERS can-do attitude. Send *ACCOUNTING Resume to: CLERK - AP/AR brandybhatt@outlook.com Please refer Post available for to our website at F/T and P/T www.sparteksystems.com Tel.: 647-609-1926 for company information.

ASSISTANT PROPERTY Applicants please forward MANAGER resume to: keri.lee@ sparteksystems.com Tired of Standing? or fax to 403-887-4050 Find something to sit on Please state which position in Classifieds you are applying for in your cover letter.

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JACKET, London Fog, Wool, sz. 10 regular, Cranberry color. $50.

403-227-2976 JEAN JACKET, Tommy Hilfiger, good cond. sz. medium, $20; 403-314-9603

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ATARI with games, $140.

403-782-3847 INTELLIVISION with games, $140.

403-782-3847 N-64 with games, $160.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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Household Appliances

DISHWASHER, Kenmore, good cond. $80. Ceiling fan, 52”, white $25; 403-358-5568 DRYER, Inglis HD, white ext. large capacity, $100.

403-309-4518 LG WHITE over the range microwave oven, 1000 watts, Model MV-1510M, exc. cond., $175 403-352-8811

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HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50.

403-340-1347 NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea.

403-352-8811 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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5 HP snowblower, $300.

403-782-4543 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

403-343-6044 HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets from SEARS, $35 for all 3; and David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $15/ea.

403-352-8811 HONDA 5 hp snowblower $350. ***SOLD*** Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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NOMA black Super GT snow racer sled, new cond., $40. 403-348-6449

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week)

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

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

INGLEWOOD / VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

For INGLEWOOD Area With 69 papers, approximately: $362.25/mo.

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

For VANIER Area with 54 papers, approximately: $283.50/mo.

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DEER PARK AREA Dixon Ave,Close & Dunlop St. ALSO Dumas Cr., Duffy Cl., 1 1/2 Blks. of Dempsey St. and Dolan Cl. $104.mo.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

37, 38 & 3900 Block of 45 St. (and 44 St. North side only) $68.48/mo.

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE Westpark Cres. & 35 St.

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

GLENDALE Good Cres. & 59 Ave.

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Between 35 St. and 39 St. and 43A Ave. and 41, Ave. area $189.00/mo.

43A Ave. West to 46 Ave. Between 35 & 37 St. $63.00/mo.

Hill Cres. & Hermary St.

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Mar. 1 References required.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR 1 & 2 bdrm. Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

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5 BDRM. 3 bath, Deer Park, $1750 403-392-6244

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Mar. 1. from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

Just completly reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1750. mo. incld’s utils. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or Mar. 1.

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Brand new park in Lacombe.

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

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

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63 Ave. For more information or to apply call

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

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Beauty/ Cosmetic

1040

NEW Elizabeth Arden red hot croc. make-up bag, with make-up, $195 value, asking $50. 403-227-2976

Contractors

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies Elite Retreat, Finest

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Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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ANDERS AREA Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Beatty Close Broughton / Brookes Boyce St. / Byer Close

MORRISROE AREA

1310

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Snow Removal

1380

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE SHOVELLING AND snow Save 50%. All yard & bob- blowing 403-318-7625 cat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 Celebrate your life with a Classified SNOW shoveling/dump runs/ ANNOUNCEMENT odd jobs 403-885-5333

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5030

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1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 154,000 km.403-352-6995 Looking for a new pet?

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5050

2003 DODGE Dakota crew cab. 403-318-3040

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Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

OIL change & tire rotation voucher in Lacombe, valued at $85. Asking $35.

403-314-9603

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW

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NOTICE OF SALE Goods shall be sold by public auction (sale conducted by Montgomery Auctions) on MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at StoreSmart Self-Storage, 29 McKenzie Crescent, Red Deer County, Alberta, to satisfy outstanding charges for self-storage rental incurred by the following: 1. ERIC MOLTZAHN 2. JAMES SHAW 3. SHERI-LYNN ROTH 4. JOSIE MOORE 5. CHANTAL THOMAS 6. TANIS PENNEY 7. JASON BUTLER 8. JOEL PETERSON 9. DYLAN LANE 10. NATASHA CATLING

6010 ONCE OF ECKVILLE, ALBERTA

TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiff, ALBERTA TREASURY BRANCHES, issued a Statement of Claim, Notice to Defendant and Order for Substitutional Service numbered 1510000014 in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, at the City of Red Deer, in the Province of Alberta, on January 5, 2015.

YOU are named as the Defendant in this action.

A copy of the Statement of Claim and Notice to Defendant may be obtained from the Plaintiff’s solicitors, Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP, Suite 3200, 10180 – 101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3W8 (Wesley M. Pedruski, Q.C.), Telephone No. (780) 497-3340.

Isbister Close Inglewood Dr. Isherwood Close Iverson Close

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4100

WANTED: 16 - 17 ft. wood, canvas canoe in reasonable condition, suitable for restoring.

403-343-1881

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FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

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Boats & Marine

NOTICE OF ACTION

CARRIERS NEEDED

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4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

2003 KUSTOM Koach, 278 BKS, Jack & Jill bunk, hard wall, fully loaded, clean shape. $13,500.

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2007 GMC Max, 1/2 ton sunroof, leather, tonneau NOW RENTING cover, loaded w/new Good 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. Year tires, 87,000 kms. like th 2936 50 AVE. Red Deer new $14,750. 403-782-7140 Newer bldg. secure entry 2006 GMS Sierra, SLE, w/onsite manager, 4x4, 4.9 L., exc. shape.

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Houses/ Duplexes ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

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3060

Sporting Goods

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

3030

3050

1 SIAMESE, 3 Balinese kittens, $50/ea.

403-887-3649 BEAUTIFUL tabby kittens, JEWELRY incld’s neckF, (2), spotted and striped laces, bracelets, earrings. free to good home All for $15. 403-314-9603 403-782-3130 SILVER pierced earrings, MOVING. made in Israel, never been Looking for home for 4 yr. worn, appraised $135, old neutered brown Tabby, asking $100. 403-227-2976 free to good home 403-342-1484 after 3 pm.

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MATCHING rocking chair and rocker recliner, dusty 4 Plexes/ rose fabric, exc. con., 6 Plexes $50/ea. 403-348-6449 TWO queen quilts, one ACROSS from park, green floral and one 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, burgundy floral, $20 each. 4 appls. Rent $1075/mo.

403-348-6449 d.d. $650. Avail. now or Mar 1st. 403-304-5337 VACUUM, wet/dry Stinger, new in box, 2.5 gal. $25; (2) new plastic saw horses, $20. pr.; 2 new swivel Suites padded, moving dollies, 30”x18”, $35; dble. stain2 BDRM. Apt., lower less steel sink, $15; pr. of level,free laundry, heat/ (NEW in box) Steel toed, water incl. 5910-55 Ave. lined work boots, sz.

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Metcalf Ave. Martin / Muldrew Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Long Close Lord Close Lougheed Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

IF you intend to appear in this action, you should immediately file a Statement of Defence or Demand of Notice in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Red Deer, at the Court House, 4909 48 Ave., Red Deer, AB T4N 3T5, or instruct your lawyers to do so on your behalf.

IF you fail to file a Statement of Defence or Demand of Notice within 20 days of this publication, the Plaintiff may proceed according to the practice of the Court to note you in default and apply for judgment. You will not be entitled to notice of any further proceedings, and the relief sought by the Plaintiff may be given in your absence.

515260B18

PUBLIC NOTICE DELTA LAND CO. INC. WATER ACT and ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT ACT NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS Notice is given that Delta Land Co. Inc. has filed applications under the provisions of the Water Act and the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (Sandy Point RV Resort) for: 1. a Licence under the Water Act to divert a maximum of 65,000 cubic metres of storm water generated on and off the property for golf course irrigation purposes at Section 01 & S½ 12-041-01-W5.

Please quote file number: 00354651 2. an Approval under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act for a wastewater treatment facility at Section 01 & S½ 12-041-01-W5. The facility will have an average design capacity of 138 cubic metres per day in the peak usage month. It will consist of a wastewater collection system and a fixed film package wastewater treatment plant (re-circulating textile filter). The treated wastewater from the package plant, in conjunction with storm water, will be used for golf course irrigation within the property.

Please quote Application number: 001-356207 Any person who is directly affected by the application may submit a statement of concern to Environment and Sustainable Resources Development Regulatory Approvals Centre Main Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 106 Street Edmonton AB T5K 2J6 Phone: 780-427-6311 Fax: 780-422-0154 within 30 days of the providing of this notice.

Further information regarding this project can be obtained from: Delta Land Co. Inc. Po Box 12082 Sylvan Lake AB T4S 1R1 Phone: 403-748-4041 Statements filed regarding this application are public records which are accessible by the public. Statements should explain why the filer is directly affected and provide the full printed name, phone number and/or email address, postal address and legal land location of the filer.

Failure to file statements of concerns may affect the right to file a notice of appeal with the Environmental Appeals Board.

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the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1985 HONDA 250 SX Trike $950.00 **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 DODGE Dakota Sport, crew cab.

403-318-3040

1989 1 TON WITH PLOW, 4x4, controls inside, & dump. $6350.

Good working order.

403-348-9746

2001 Ford 4x4 S/C F150 205,000 kms, very good cond., never abused $4100 403-887-8717

1998 CHEV 1/2 ton, ext. cab, 2 whl. dr., well maintained, no rust. $3500.

403-391-3677

1998 CHRYSLER AWD

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 RAV4 LIMITED Leather, sunroof, 8 way power driver’s seat, very clean, great cond. $19,500 obo.

403-341-0606

***SOLD***

2005 CHEV Avalanche, only 151,250 km., heated leather seats, sunroof, command start. Very good con. SOLD

2007 SATURN AURA. Loaded, 1 owner, exc. cond.

86,000 km.

Never winter driven. $10,500 403-391-3820

2010 16 XCALIBUR Legend, 18’ alum. welded hull, prem. pckg for leisure & fishing, deluxe console, conv. top, travel tarp, 75 hp Merc. $13,500 SOLD!!!

2002 CHRYSLER

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 VW Tourareg, fully loaded, AWD, new windshield, Nokian all season tires, in exceptionally good cond.. 180,000 kms. $14,750 obo 403-346-5440 or 403-391-0320

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 AVALANCHE, 4x4, nice shape.

587-679-1000

2005 MERCEDES C230

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 GMC Envoy XL, great running shape. $6000. obo 403-340-2042

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1999 GMC Sierra 1500 2WD, E/C, original owner, 252,000 km, Immaculate $3400. **SOLD**

2003 DAKOTA, 3.9, auto., 128,000., 60% tires, $4400. o.b.o. **SOLD**

2006 JEEP Commander

$6900.

403-598-0682

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2009 TOYOTA Camry LE 4 dr., silver, 45,000 kms ***SOLD***

***SOLD***

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $4500 obo.

403-343-2058

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 27000 mi., new tires/awning Onan gen, roof a/c, slideout, sleeps 4, 3 pc. bath, A1, $31,500. **SOLD**

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2006 VW Jetta TDI

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,000

$6500.

2009 TOYOTA Corolla, 124,000 km, 403-348-9778

1998 DURANGO, 119,700 kms. Must see!

Safetied.

SOLD

2009 HYUNDAI Accent, 64,000 kms.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

Town N Country, Limited, AWD, leather, very nice cond.

159,000 kms. All avail. options

IF YOUR VEHICLE DOESN’T SELL THE FIRST WEEK, THE 2ND WEEK IS HALF PRICE!

136,000 kms. exc. cond. loaded. $8900.

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2010 SANTA FE, V6, silver 87,000 kms., remote 4 summer, 4 winter tires & whls., A1 $16,750. 403-347-6889

2006 SILVERADO Z71 special edition, e/c, 4X4. New windshield, remote start, 5.3, 1 owner, 160,000 km very clean. $12,500 no GST **SOLD**

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

2001 JEEP Cherokee 4x4 4L auto, new winter tires, remote, no rust, always garaged, 2nd set wheels. $4500 o.b.o. SOLD

Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

$5800. o.b.o.

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 CYCLONE 300C Toy Hauler, $44,500.

2007 GMC dually 1 ton 182,000 kms.

Together $66,500.

403-507-0570

2012 DODGE AVENGER, $10,500. 403-896-9942

2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $15,000 obo must sell. **SOLD**

2010 DODGE Grand Caravan, stow n go seats, exc. con. 34,000 kms, $13,000. **SOLD**

2012 FORD Lariet 3/4 ton, 108,000 kms, set up for Ford 5th wheel, $35,000 403-362-1004

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4, S/B, 60,600 kms., $39,000. ***SOLD***

2013 CHEV LTZ full load, sunroof, leather, over $4000 in extras. $41,000.

Sliding box cover.

SOLD

2008 MONTANA, 2955RL, 2 slides, king bed, Mor-Ryde hitch, Arctic pckg. exc. cond., $27,500. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2014 SIERRA short box, 4x4.

587-679-1000

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1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust.

Glass exc. 144,000km $4900.

403-340-8950

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

2006 PONTIAC Montana, V6, one owner, 115,000 km.

403-347-5919

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 2015

Train still burning after W. Virginia derailment HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES EVACUATED AFTER 3 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL SPILLED AND BURNS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Oil from North Dakota’s shale fields was still burning in West Virginia a day after a train carrying more than 3 million gallons of crude derailed in a snowstorm, shooting fireballs into the sky.

Hundreds of families were evacuated and nearby water treatment plants were temporarily shut down after 19 tanker cars left the tracks and caught fire, leaking oil into a Kanawha River tributary and burning a nearby house down to its foundation.

“There’s nothing there,” said Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, who toured the scene. “All you can see is a couple of blocks sticking out of the ground. There’s some pickup trucks out front completely burned to the ground.”

One person — the homeowner — was treated for smoke inhalation, but no other injuries were reported, according to the train company, CSX. The two-person crew, an engineer and conductor, managed to decouple the train’s engines from the wreck behind it and walk away unharmed.

The train derailed near unincorporated Mount Carbon, two miles after passing through Montgomery, a town of 1,946, on a stretch where the rails wind along a narrow flood plain, past businesses and homes that crowd the bases of steep, tree-covered hills.

Fire crews had little choice Tuesday but to let the tanks burn themselves out. Each carries up to 30,000 gallons of crude.

Rail shipments of crude have increased from 9,500 carloads in 2008 to more than 435,000 in 2013, driven by a boom in the Bakken oil patch of North Dakota and Montana. Limited pipeline capacity there forces about 70 per cent of the crude to reach refineries by rail, according to American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers.

The downside: Trains hauling Bakken-region oil have been involved in major accidents in Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Alabama and LacMegantic, Quebec, where 47 people were killed by an explosive derailment in 2013. Reports of oil leaking from railroad tank cars also are increasing, from 12 in 2008 to 186 last year, according to Department of Transportation records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Just Saturday — two days before the West Virginia wreck — 29 cars of a 100-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Train cars remain on the scene following a train derailment near Mount Carbon, W.Va., Tuesday. A CSX train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed Monday in a snowstorm, sending a fireball into the sky and threatening the water supply of nearby residents, authorities and residents said Tuesday. car Canadian National Railway train carrying Bakken crude derailed in a remote, wooded area about 50 miles south of Timmins, Ontario, spilling oil and catching fire.

This train was bound for an oil shipping depot in Yorktown, Virginia, using model 1232 tank cars, which include safety upgrades voluntarily adopted by the industry four years ago.

An estimated $7 billion has been spent to put 57,000 of these cars into service, according to the Railway Supply Institute.

But a similar accident, also involving model 1232s, happened along the same route in Lynchburg, Virginia, last year. It was one of a series of ruptures and fires that prompted the Obama Administration to consider requiring upgrades such as thicker tanks, shields to prevent tankers from crumpling, rollover protections and electronic brakes that could make cars stop simultaneously, rather than slam into each other.

Some of these measures would cost

billions more and have been strongly opposed by the oil and rail industries.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that its investigators are looking at detailed damage reports and photographs of the derailed tank cars provided by CSX and the Federal Railroad Administration. Investigators will compare the data with tank car design specifications and similar derailments, including one near Casselton, N.D., when a train over 100 cars long created a huge fireball that forced the evacuation of the farming town, and the accident that sent three tank cars plunging into the James River, prompting an evacuation in downtown Lynchburg.

“This accident is another reminder of the need to improve the safety of transporting hazardous materials by rail,” said Christopher Hart, NTSB’s acting chairman.

Snow was falling heavily Monday — as much as 7 inches in some places — but it’s not clear if the weather contributed to the derailment, which happened about 30 miles southeast of Charleston. All but two of the 109 cars were tankers, and 26 of them left the tracks, the governor’s spokesman Chris Stadelman said. The two locomotives stayed on the track as the cars behind them began derailing, a CSX spokesman said.

No cause has been determined, said CSX regional vice-president Randy Cheetham. He said the tracks had been inspected just three days before the wreck.

“They will be looking at all factors,” Cheetham said. “They’ll look at train handling, look at the track, look at the cars. But until they get in there and do their investigation, it’s unwise to do any type of speculation.”

Ukraine says government troops taken prisoner

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ukraine has already killed more than 5,600 people and displaced more than a million, the United Nations said Monday. It has also left the country’s industrial heartland in ruins.

On Tuesday, a deadline passed for both sides to begin pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.

Rebel commander Vladimir Kononov said on Russian television that most of Debaltseve was under separatist control and urged the Ukrainian troops to surrender.

“Their only choice is to leave behind weaponry, lay down arms and surrender,” he said.

The announcement by the rebels came after fierce fighting that appeared to be focused on Debaltseve.

Both sides in the conflict claim the town is on their side of the cease-fire line.

LUHANSKE, Ukraine — Under a near-constant barrage of artillery fire, Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels fought fierce street battles Tuesday for control of the strategic railway hub of Debaltseve, a battle impeding implementation of a peace plan.

Ukraine denied rebel claims to have taken control of the town but acknowledged the separatists had seized parts of it. The battle came despite a weekend cease-fire that obliged both sides to start moving back their big guns on Tuesday.

A key railroad junction between the separatist east’s two main cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Debaltseve has been the focus of fighting over the past two weeks and capturing it would be a prize for the Russia-backed rebels.

The defence ministry said street battles continued there Tuesday and government soldiers had been ambushed and taken prisoner, but gave no details on how many were seized. Rebel spokesman Eduard Basurin said hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered in Debaltseve.

Journalists were turned back by Ukrainian forces at Luhanske, a village about 10 miles (15 kilometres) north of Debaltseve Weidner Motors Ltd. in Lacombe is currently accepting and were unable to assess applications for a full time the status of the fight.

The leader of the selfproclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, one of two separatist entities, FOR THEIR was wounded in the leg PARTS DEPARTMENT and hospitalized in the neighbouring Luhansk The successful candidate must be performance driven, region, Russia’s RIA-Nooutgoing and possess excellent service skills to efficiently vosti news agency quoted serve the public and our service facility. a Luhansk rebel official We offer an excellent family run work environment, modern as saying. Zakharchenko’s facilities along with offering a competitive salary and life was not in danger, the report said. benefits package.

The Ukrainian presiPrevious General Motors training or Parts experience is dential office called on preferred and may accept someone currently enrolled in the European Union and the apprenticeship program.

NATO to condemn the Russia-backed rebels for Please submit resume: violating the cease-fire Att: Bernie Parent brokered by the leaders of Parts Manager Ukraine, Russia, Germany Ph 403-782-3626 Fx 403-782-7040 and France last week.

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sovereignty and a scandalous violation of the U.N. charter and international law,” said al-Hassi, who accused the Egyptians of attacking Libya “without any solid proof” that they were actually striking the militants responsible for killing the Egyptian Christians.

El-Sissi spoke with France’s president and Italy’s prime minister about Libya on Monday, and sent his foreign minister, Sameh Shukri, to New York to consult at the United Nations ahead of a terrorism conference opening Wednesday in Washington.

At the United Nations in New York, the Security Council prepared to meet in emergency session Wednesday, as permanent council members expressed initial support for a resolution on a response to Libya’s crisis.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry laid out Egypt’s proposals for a resolution: Lift international restrictions on arms to Libya’s “legitimate government” so it can defend itself, tighten restrictions on the flow of weapons and money to terrorist groups in Libya, support a peaceful political process toward the country’s stability and end the occupation of Tripoli by militants. Militants should disband and disarm, he added.

France, a lead player in the campaign to oust Libya’s dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, has campaigned for months for some kind of international action in Libya, and announced a deal Monday to sell 24 advanced fighter jets to Egypt. French troops are already in place near Libya’s southern border in Niger as part of a counterterrorism force.

French President Francois Hollande’s office said he and el-Sissi both “stressed the importance of the Security Council meetings and that the international community takes new measures to confront this danger.”

Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti, meanwhile, said in an interview published Sunday in the Il Messaggero daily that her country is ready “for geographic, economic and historic reasons” to lead a coalition of European and North African countries to stop the militants’ advance in a country less than 500 miles (800 kilometres) from Italy’s southern tip.

A NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with NATO practice said, “there is no discussion within NATO on taking military action in Libya.”

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CAIRO — Egypt’s president said in a radio interview aired on Tuesday that creating a U.N.-backed coalition was the best course of action to rid Libya of Islamic extremists.

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, speaking to France’s Europe 1 Radio, said Egyptian airstrikes against Islamic State group positions in Libya on Monday were in self-defence.

The airstrikes were in retaliation for the mass beheading on a beach of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians.

A video of the killings was release late Sunday by a faction calling itself the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State group.

“We will not allow them to cut off the heads of our children,” he said.

Asked whether he wanted to see a U.N.-backed coalition for Libya, he said: “I think there is no choice.” He added that any intervention to restore security in Libya should be done with the consent of the country’s people and government.

“We have abandoned the Libyan people as prisoners of the militias ...

The militias have to give up their arms and must work in a civil context. We have to disarm and prevent arms from falling into the hands of extremists,” el-Sissi, a general-turned-politician, told the French station in his first public comments after his country’s U.S.made F-16s staged at least two rounds of airstrikes in Libya on Monday.

“What happened is a crime, a monstrous terrorist crime that our children have their throats cuts in Libya and not to react. It’s a kind of self-defence accepted by the international community. We will not allow them to cut off the heads of our children,” he said.

The Egyptian attacks drew harsh criticism from Omar al-Hassi, the militia-supported prime minister in the capital, Tripoli.

Libya’s elected and internationally recognized parliament and government were forced to convene outside Tripoli when the capital was overrun

by Islamic and tribal militias last year.

An older parliament, supported by the militias, declared itself legitimate and formed a rival government with al-Hassi at the head.

“This treacherous aggression and the terrorism carried out by the Egyptian air force is a violation of Libyan

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Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein was killed in a shootout with a SWAT team early Sunday after attacks on a free speech event and a synagogue that killed two people and wounded five.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, known by its Danish acronym PET, acknowledged that the 22-year-old gunman was flagged in September under a program meant to alert PET to “inmates who are at risk of radicalization.”

El-Hussein, a Denmark native with Palestinian parents, was in pre-trial detention at the time for seriously wounding a train passenger in a knife attack, court documents show.

What prompted prison authorities to sound the alarm is unclear, but PET said that the information gave the agency “no reason to believe that the now deceased 22-year-old alleged perpetrator was planning attacks.”

PET also said it didn’t have any intelligence before the gunman’s shooting sprees at a cultural centre and synagogue that an attack was imminent.

PET chief Jens Madsen declined to elaborate when reached by phone Tuesday.

“We are in the middle of an investigation with many aspects, many things to look into, there are lots of unanswered questions right now,” Madsen told The Associated Press.

A Danish documentary filmmaker and a Jewish security guard died and five police officers were wounded in the shootings before the gunman was killed.

Two sources close to the case identified the gunman as El-Hussein. They spoke on condition of anonymity because his identity hasn’t been released by police. One said El-Hussein was released from jail about two weeks before the attacks after serving time for the train stabbing.

Court documents from that case describe El-Hussein as a repeat offender with a record of violence and weapons violations. During previous stints in prison, El-Hussein was deemed at risk of falling ever deeper into a life crime. He was offered “support and guidance regarding personal and social circumstances,” but declined.

However, there was no mention of any radical views.

“Nothing like that came up during the trial,” his defence lawyer in the case, Rolf Lindegaard Gregersen, told AP.

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and shacking up. Nothing. If you want the best from a man, don’t settle for a low-class bum who won’t commit. — A Wiser Gramma Who Knows Men Dear Gramma: Your opinions have merit, but they are based on the ideas that all men lie to get women to sleep with them, and that women use sex as a lure for marriage. This isn’t necessarily true. Young women can enjoy sex as much as men do and don’t want to hold off until marriage, which nowadays may not happen until a woman is in her 30s, if it happens at all. But you are absolutely right that if a woman wants a legal commitment, she should not be shacking up with a married man. And vice versa.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Logansport,” who complained about rude people who talk during a recital.

Several years ago, I attended a high school choir concert in which my nephew was performing. Two teenage girls in front of me kept talking. I passed them a note, and they stopped. Afterward, my nephew said the entire choir wanted to know the contents of my note because they could all hear the girls while they were singing.

The note simply read: “How rude of the choir to interrupt your conversation.” — Galesburg, Ill. 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.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Feb. 18 on a higher level, know your truth and CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS share it with others. It is time to share DATE: Jillian Michaels, 41; Yoko Ono, your unique talents with others. Let go 82; Molly Ringwald, 47 of any fears that hold you back!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The New will mark the second New Moon in Aquarius will give Moon in Aquarius! This will you the final understanding mark the final understandof the direction you want to ing of the journey this new go. It is time to believe in awareness presents to us. your wishes and trust in the The Sun will move into Piknowledge you have that sces shortly after this New will help you expand your Moon, signalling a new dicareer and professional mension to our understandlife. It is time to believe in ing. It is a good time to let your public presence. go of sins and share forgiveCANCER (June 21-July ness with others. Don’t fall 22): The New Moon in your for negative thinking. Sim8th house will welcome in a ply get serious! true understanding of your LARISA MAIRA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If fears and a proper way to today is your birthday, this release them. You might OZOLINS year will herald in a time be a bit lonely when travelwhen you will be amazed by ling through the day, but at the truth others are reflectnight you will find comfort ing back to you. It’s time with others sharing a new to rid yourself of anything that does perspective with you. not reflect the true values you have.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There will Your confidence will grow as you gain be a new start with other individuals greater understanding of what you are within your life. This, of course, is betruly about. It’s a year to cherish your ing welcomed in by the New Moon in unique truth. Do not block your true Aquarius. They might want to be their aspirations now! best for you, so do take into account ARIES (March 21-April 19): The sec- that you will be their source of trust ond New Moon in Aquarius will help and kindness. Be patient and truthful! trigger greater awareness of your subVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today, you conscious mind. Perhaps your dream are quite keen to take on a more serilife will become more active or you ous approach with how you express simply allow any fears that you might yourself to all within your daily rouhave vanish from your consciousness. tine. Do not let negative thinking apStrive to find balance within yourself. peal to you now. Family members will TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The sec- need an extra boost in positive thinkond New Moon in Aquarius will help ing also. So share your joys with everyyou understand how you are coming one! across to others in your life. Perhaps, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will

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want to socialize more with others after this New Moon in Aquarius. It will be a real eye opener and please don’t fall for negative thinking now. It is time to pave the way forward. Discipline your mind to think happy thoughts and allow others to catch up!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After today’s New Moon in Aquarius, there is no doubt that you will be more able to express yourself in the exact way you want. What your true nature wants, it will get now. Let go of any thoughts that inhibit you from experiencing your truth of the moment. Release doubt!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are finally feeling up for the challenge and ready to express yourself clearly with others, especially family members. It is time to believe in the magic of the moment and release any doubts that are holding you back. Don’t hesitate to speak your mind.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today is an excellent day to let go of any part of your personality that you feel needs

to go. Apologize to others and allow greater awareness of your personal truth to move your forward. It might be an effort to express what you want to with family, but it will be necessary.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It is an excellent day to shed more light onto what you truly want to do within this world. Only by truly understanding your gifts can you excel in areas of confidence and finance. Take the time to properly sort through what you want to accomplish today. Let go of fears!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are definitely taking a very serious approach to your aspirations now. Do not let doubt keep you from fully accessing what you want to achieve. You are brighter than what you give yourself credit for generally and you might not see it fully today. Speak kindly to yourself!

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In recent years, MITCHELL Dear Annie: When a great deal has I was growing up, & SUGAR changed with transwomen’s magazines plants for both the used to give advice recipient and living on how to avoid being donors; i.e. kidney harmed by predatory transplants are now being done men. Now they give advice on laparoscopically, and recupera- ways to please a man. There’s an tion for the donor now averages old saying, “Why buy the cow if only two weeks. you can get the milk for free?” If Potential recipients use ev- women want to marry a good man ery resource available, but don’t and raise a family, they shouldn’t always find a match. Please ask have sex until after marriage. your readers to help those in When my daughter was 16, she need. Sadly, our family knows asked whether it was OK to sleep the importance of this from per- with a man if he says he loves sonal experience. — Lawrence, you. I said no, he would lose reKan. spect for her. She didn’t listen.

Dear Lawrence: So many peo- Now she is living with a man who ple are on waiting lists for or- says she is his “partner.” They gans, we hope our readers will just had a child. It turns out he is consider living organ donation. married to another woman, and People may not realize that they they have a toddler. My daughter can donate one of their two kid- has fallen for the old line that neys, or even one of two lobes of he’ll marry her once his wife ditheir liver. They also can donate vorces him. part of a lung, the pancreas or Women should ask themselves the intestines because the re- what they get out of hooking up

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