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Case headed to the jury CROWN, DEFENCE MAKE CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN MURDER TRIAL

BY PAUL COWLEY AND SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A microscopic fragment of DNA found at the scene and gunpowder and lightbulbs that could be used to create the pipe bomb that killed Victoria Shachtay point to Brian Malley as her murderer, a Crown prosecutor told a jury on Monday.

“Malley’s DNA was on the piece of tape, paper and cardboard,” said Quist, referring to the remnants of the note that had been placed on a supposed Christmas package left on Shachtay’s Innisfail doorstep on Nov. 25, 2011.

When she opened the package the bomb exploded, killing the wheelchair-bound single mother of a seven-year-old girl instantly.

“Mr. Malley’s DNA was on the bomb package be-

cause he put the bomb package together,” said Quist in his closing submission in the more than five-week-old trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Malley, 57, is charged with first-degree murder and a pair of explosives-related charges.

A particular brand of lightbulb that Malley was known to have purchased was the same as the one used in the bomb, said Quist. Malley was known Brian Malley to have purchased two containers of gun powder but police only turned up one in a search of his home.

The other “all went into the bomb, in my submis-

sion.”

There was also evidence that Malley had bought a steel pipe, the same size and type as the pipe bomb.

The defence had argued during trial the pipe was used as a sleeve around a gas line at Malley’s mother-in-law’s house.

Quist said that was a “complete sham” and an attempt to provide an innocent explanation for his purchase of the pipe.

When all evidence is taken into account there is no reasonable doubt of Malley’s guilt, he said in closing.

“I urge you to find him guilty as charged.”

Defence lawyer Bob Aloneissi said convicting his client would be like trying to fit “a square peg into a round hole.”

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Fear, irrational decisions the big threat: Hirsch

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR In his 1933 inauguration speech, then United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested that “the only thing we have to fear is . . . fear itself.”

This phrase might have been better suited for Todd Hirsch’s presentation to the Rotary Club of Red Deer.

ATB Financial’s chief economist downplayed the adverse impact of sub-$50 oil, warning instead that Albertans’ reaction to the low price is a greater danger.

“I’m not saying we should ignore what’s happening,” said Hirsch. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t be prudent and make wise decisions, because Todd Hirsch it is going to be a challenging year, there’s no way around that. But we should not worry too much, because once we do, irrational decisions start to happen.

“The biggest threat is not $50 oil, the biggest threat is fear and irrational decision-making.”

2015 will get off to a difficult start, acknowledged Hirsch, with lots of layoffs and few job opportunities for university and college grads in the energy sector.

ATB Financial is forecasting provincial GDP growth of between one and two per cent this year.

But other big industries like forestry, agriculture and tourism are poised to thrive. They’ll benefit from cheap fuel prices, the low Canadian dollar and improved access to labour, said Hirsch.

An 80-cent loonie is painful for import companies and consumers, and might wound our national pride, but the U.S. dollar is out-performing most currencies in the world, pointed out Hirsch. He expects the loonie to drop another nickel, and then rebound to 80 cents by year-end.

The high household debts of Canadians is troubling to many people, including officials with the Bank of Canada, acknowledged Hirsch.

“Anytime you’ve got the words ‘debt’ and ‘record high’ in the same sentence, there is a concern there, absolutely.”

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Red Deer and District SPCA volunteer co-ordinator Kim Barlow holds up a tray of cupcakes at the SPCA on Monday afternoon as staff members Jaleen Shier, left, and Shelli Rasmussen fill a box with cupcakes. Shier made 500 cupcakes while Barlow decorated just as many for the SPCA National Cupcake Day event. The national event has participants who would like some cupcakes making a donation to the SPCA. Several businesses in Red Deer also participated in the event giving out cupcakes when a donation was made. Some of the businesses involved in this years event were the Lomsness Veterinary Clinic, the Dog and Cat Hospital, The City of Red Deer and The Mane Attraction Hair Studio.

Jackpot Casino wants parking lot in Parkvale

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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A paved parking lot may soon be going up in Parkvale.

Red Deer city council gave first reading to a land use bylaw amendment that would pave the way for a parking lot at 4643 50th Street and 4637 50th Street.

A public hearing has been set for March 30st.

Jackpot Casino unsuccessfully submitted an application for a permanent parking lot in September 2013.

Its new application proposes a 10-year temporary parking lot with some minor changes to landscaping.

It would boast 41 regular parking spots and two accessible stalls.

Citing concerns that the parking lot does not meet the intent of the low impact commercial district in the land use bylaw and other plans, administration did not recommend approval.

But council reasoned it was important to hear more from the public on both sides of the fence on the issue. The first application did not trigger a public hearing because it was defeated at first reading.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Fire Station 3 will soon have a new home in southeast Red Deer.

Council approved the relocation of the Fire Station 3 to a site just west of Notre Dame High School from its existing location on 32nd Street with the approval of an area structure plan amendment and resolution on Monday.

The move is part of the city’s plans to accommodate growth and to optimize emergency service delivery in Red Deer.

But the approval came amid concerns from Bower residents about the impact that moving Station 3 would have on response times to parts of their neighbourhood.

Only two residents spoke at the public hearing but some councillors shared the concerns and misconceptions that they have heard from residents about the changing fire service landscape.

Director of Corporate Services Elaine Vincent assured council that residents in Bower are covered under today’s legislation standards.

“Today they are compliant,” said Vincent. “When we build Station 3 and 4 in those alternate locations based upon today’s transportation methods and today’s 911 dispatching, they would not be compliant.”

The total time from the 911 call to when fire crews are on scene putting out the fire must not exceed 10 minutes, 90 per cent of the time, according to the provincial high intensity residential fire standards.

As part of the 2015 budget, council gave the green light on a long-term Emergency Services Master Plan. It is expected to be finished by next spring.

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April Redekopp, left, and Faith Behrman pile on the groceries high as Kash Kalenchuk tries his best to hold on. The three grade one students and their classmates at Mattie McCullough Elementary School have been busy collecting food for the Red Deer Food Bank and finished up their 100 Day Challenge this week after collecting thousands of food items. As a reward for their efforts selected students got a chance to play a game of floor hockey with members of the Red Deer Rebels Monday and share a lunch with the players.

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$575,000 from a 2007 injury settlement.

When her money was gone, Malley paid Shachtay $44,000 out of his own pocket and credit.

Justice Kirk Sisson is due to present his charge to the jury this morning and then the jury will begin deliberating. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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MALLEY: Deliberations expected to start today “We have a huge gap, a gap the size of the Grand Canyon. Where is the real, hard evidence?” Aloneissi asked the jury.

He said they can’t presume Malley bought the parts to build the bomb, or that he built the bomb, or that he delivered it to Shachtay’s doorstep.

“Don’t convict Brian Malley on suspicion,” the defence lawyer said.

Evidence showed Malley purchased a pipe sixinch-long with a two-inch-wide galvanized steel nipple (pipe with threading at both ends) and one end cap in July 2011.

Defence argued the pipe Malley bought was the one recovered from the yard of Malley’s mother-inlaw’s Edmonton home.

Aloneissi said there is no evidence Malley purchased another pipe and end caps.

He said there is also no evidence that his client knew how to make a bomb so dangerous that loose gun powder in the threads of the pipe could ignite from friction by screwing on an end cap.

Aloneissi said materials found at his client’s home were for use in construction or hunting — not bomb making — as Malley was a home builder and hunter.

He said the bottle of gunpowder found in his basement was sealed. The light switch used in the bomb was not the same type his client possessed, and there was no evidence he bought the battery cap used in the bomb.

He said experts could not say exactly whose DNA profile was found at the scene on a piece of paper the size of confetti, and if the DNA was a match it could have been inadvertently transferred.

To say that Malley killed Shachtay to cut his financial loses was a red herring, Aloneissi said.

He said his client earned $600,000 a year and had a reputation of giving to others. “(Malley) was free to pay or not to pay. He was under no obligation to pay her money and he could stop any time.”

Malley was Shachtay’s financial advisor. She, who was paralyzed in a 2004 car crash, had given him

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“When we start to worry as a province, or when individuals start to worry, bad things tend to happen.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

PARKING: Council voted ECONOMY: Oil will recover 7-2 in support But with interest rates at their current low levels and unlikely to increase for some time, debt servicing costs are very low and forestall the need for panic, he suggested.

As for the low oil prices, Hirsch expects the numbers to stabilize by late spring or summer and then start to climb.

He explained that Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries have been trying to squeeze low-cost producers by keeping output high. But some OPEC members, including Venezuela, Nigeria and Libya, have relatively high production costs themselves and will likely push for a relaxation of this strategy.

“So we see it probably climbing back up a year from now closer to that US$65 or $70 a barrel for WTI.” Anyone with a propensity for worrying would do better to look beyond Alberta and Canada, said Hirsch.

Russia, for example, is in a “very troubling situation,” he said. Pushed into recession by low oil prices and international sanctions, it could impact global financial markets, said Hirsch.

“I do think that Russia will be a source of concern in 2015.”

Europe had stabilized from the crisis situation it was in a few years ago, but the recent election of an anti-austerity government in Greece is cause for worry, he said. There’s a possibility the embattled Mediterranean country could leave the European Union, or at least abandon the Euro, with uncertain consequences.

“We will probably see some economic instability coming from Europe in 2015.”

The moderation of growth in China might also be a worry, said Hirsch, although the Asian country’s leaders still have a variety of fiscal and monetary tools at their disposal.

Ultimately, Hirsch urged his Rotary audience to look beyond the doom and gloom often emphasized

Council voted 7-2 in support.

Councillors Paul Harris and Tanya Handley were opposed.

Council heard that the casino held an open house on Oct. 29, 2014 with the majority of the patrons in support of the parking lot. The Parkvale Community Association does not support the application.

Handley said it is obvious that patrons who frequent a casino several times a week would be in favour of more parking. She said council should honor the planning documents in place and listen to the residents who live in Parkvale.

Both Councillors Ken Johnston and Lynne Mulder said they would like to hear from those who may be impacted by the parking lot and the applicant in a public setting.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she has seen the applicant has worked with the city to address and measure the parking in the area. She said the community is changing and this is an opportunity to say the city supports downtown businesses.

“It’s a temporary opportunity to use some space,” she said. “(We will hear from) the public. We saw the letters. There are certainly people such as Parkvale Association that has a strong voice who treasures their community. I understand that. I look forward to hearing their remarks.”

The properties are owned by Jackpot Casino Ltd. and the parking lot would be for employees, and casino patrons.

Jackpot Casino had a previous agreement with the Coronation Inn to share its 72-space parking lot. The agreement was terminated when the building was converted to housing for seniors. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Baby’s death linked to insecticide FORT MCMURRAY — Investigators say the death of a baby and the hospitalization of four other children are linked to high levels of an insecticide found in the family’s northern Alberta apartment.

Brad Grainger, deputy chief of operations for the Fort McMurray fire department, said the family brought the insecticide, which is similar to aluminum phosphide pellets used in North America, home from Pakistan, where they were on vacation about 10 days ago.

The pellets, when put into fumiga-

tor, emit a phosphine gas, which can be toxic.

“We’re not sure how long the family was exposed,” Grainger said. “The younger that you are, the more susceptible you can be.”

One of the children, an eight-monthold baby, died in hospital and four others were in critical condition Monday.

Ages and names were not released.

Grainger didn’t say what type of insect the family was trying to kill, but the Edmonton Journal quoted a relative who said it was bed bugs.

Grainger said that type of insecticide is a controlled substance in Canada.

He said an acceptable level of exposure is one part per million over 15

minutes or 0.3 parts per million over eight hours. One room in the apartment had concentrated levels of the insecticide at four parts per million. “(That’s) about four times the average short duration exposure (that’s safe),” he said.

The property manager of the apartment block said the children’s mother grew concerned when they started vomiting.

Sandy Mijajlovic, who runs the fourstorey building, said she spoke to the mother Monday morning.

“She doesn’t know yet why it’s happened, what’s happened. It’s a difficult situation,” said Mijajlovic. “I know the kids ... I see them. It’s not easy to see someone pass away. It’s such a small

Somali community fears backlash over West Edmonton Mall video

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A leader in Edmonton’s Somali community says al-Shabab is despised among ex-pats for its barbarity and his biggest fear is a misplaced backlash over threats the group has made to West Edmonton Mall.

Jibril Ibrahim, president of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton, says he spoke with police about a purported al-Shabab video released on the weekend calling for attacks on various malls.

He says community members are on the lookout for anything suspicious.

But Ibrahim said he doesn’t think anyone would carry out threats in the group’s name.

“We don’t anticipate anybody acting on any of those threats at all,” he said Monday. “Those kind of groups, to come out and use our name, was kind of insulting to us and that’s how we feel.”

The video from the Somalian Islamic extremist group calls for attacks on malls in Canada, the United States and Britain A brief reference to West Edmonton Mall is near the end of a 76-minute documentary-style video about the 2013 attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed. Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for that attack.

“If just a handful of mujahedeen fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, then imagine what a dedicated mujahedeen in the West could do to the American or Jewish-owned shopping centres across the world,” the masked man

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The West Edmonton Mall is seen on Sunday. Police are investigating a reported video from the Al-Shabab group that allegedly threatens malls worldwide — including the West Edmonton Mall. reads.

“What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London’s Oxford Street?”

West Edmonton Mall and Mall of America were developed by the Ghermezians, Jewish immigrants to Canada from Iran.

RCMP are investigating the “exact contents and authenticity” of the alleged al-Shabab video. They say “there is no evidence at this time of any specific or imminent threat to Canadians.”

Ibrahim said al-Shabab had support in Somalia during the middle of the last decade when Ethiopian troops Moore said that a tie vote means the bill has failed.

“It’s disappointing to get this far and to have it end in a tie and probably not for the right reasons,” he said

CALGARY — A bill to abolish Montana’s death penalty was scuttled by a tie vote Monday in the lower house of the state legislature.

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He said backlash against Somalis in Edmonton has already started. On Monday, a woman reported to the society that she had her hijab pulled from her head at a gas station.

Ibrahim said he wants people to know it’s not the Somali community that is a threat.

“Our community left Somalia because of issues of war and fighting,” he said.

“Criminals are criminals — we disown them.”

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RCMP said the baby was taken for treatment Sunday afternoon after the entire first floor of the building was evacuated following word of a substance spill.

Cpl. George Cameron said a two- and a six-year-old were in Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, while a four- and a seven-year-old were in hospital in Fort McMurray.

The children’s mother was also in hospital under observation, he said.

The father was with the two children in Edmonton.

Tenants who were forced from the building on Sunday returned home later that evening after air-quality tests indicated there was no danger.

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FIRE STATION: Master plan Vincent said the long-term plan will be build on new assumptions that include an improved southeast transportation network, new dispatching technology and mobile data terminals located at each site.

The city anticipates the new service delivery will meet legislation standards with the new assumptions.

At the end of the master plan, if the city is not meeting standards, Vincent said it will take steps to address it.

Vincent said one option could be an agreement with Red Deer County for sharing a fire hall or storing equipment in another location.

“All of those operational options could be explored if the master plan indicates we are not in compliance,” she said. “We will explore all of those and determines what the system produces for us and other options available.”

The new fire station will be built at the northeast corner of 30th Avenue and Lees Street. That property currently has a dry storm pond and a ball diamond. The ball diamond will be rebuilt in a still undecided location.

Fire chief Brian Makey told council that the existing station on 32 Street will be used as a dispatch centre, fire prevention and administrative offices.

Most councillors said they have confidence in the plan and trust the work put into it.

Mayor Tara Veer said council has the responsibility for the health and safety of all citizens. She said the community has grown rapidly particularly to the east and northeast. She noted the increased in density in existing subdivisions and changing demographics in subdivisions. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Stripping youth rights Is it time for a second look at laws that empower Canada’s school authorities the right to break the rules guaranteed under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

The recent strip search of a 15-year-old female student in Quebec City who was suspected of selling or carrying pot has raised the question.

Canada’s school staff are responsible for protecting stuRICK dents within ZEMANEK the walls of learning institutions. And unlike police, they can skirt what’s legally required under the charter while conducting a criminal investigation. Such power opens the door to abuse, as witnessed by the search of the teen search at Neufchatel High School.

If it were police conducting the investigation, and they behaved in the same manner, the officers would have broken every rule in the charter under various sections that address illegal search and seizure, the right to a law-

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yer, and protection against unlawful detention — to name just a few.

According to a Canadian Press report, the girl was detained by the female school principal and a female staff member after being suspected of selling marijuana. She was taken to a room and asked to strip naked. No pot was found.

Twice the girl asked to phone her mother, but was refused. That would pretty much rule out her request for a lawyer if she asked. A call to a lawyer is one of the closely guarded rights under the charter.

Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc initially defended the search, saying school authorities followed proper procedure as outlined in a 2010 government policy document. But after being greeted by a firestorm of criticism in the legislature, Bolduc now says the search policy will be reviewed.

As well, an online petition with more than 2,000 signatures is calling for his resignation.

The girl’s mother is considering suing the school board. “This can’t be legal, it simply can’t be right,” the mother told CTV news. “She (her daughter) asked them twice to call me. They refused. Even criminals get that opportunity. My child is not a criminal.”

Lorraine Normand-Charbonneau, president of Quebec’s largest group of

school directors, defends the search, arguing that guidelines were followed according to the 2010 government policy.

That policy was drafted in conjunction with Quebec provincial police, and based on a 1998 Supreme Court of Canada decision that grants school staff more powers than police in conducting searches — providing they are “reasonable.”

The search of this girl, who was subsequently expelled from the school although no pot was found, would seem to go beyond the definition of “reasonable.” However, Canada’s top court in its 1998 ruling offered no guidelines as to what is “reasonable.”

That case addressed the issue of illegal searches and seizures by teachers and principals in Canadian schools — not colleges or universities. A viceprincipal had been informed by some students that another student planned to sell drugs at an upcoming school dance. Marijuana was found in the student’s sock during a search by the viceprincipal, in the presence of an RCMP officer.

The student’s lawyer argued the detention of the student was in contravention of the charter and he was not allowed to consult a lawyer until after the search and seizure, which under most circumstances would have constituted an illegal search.

But the top court basically ruled the rights afforded under the charter do not apply to a learning institution.

“Students know that their teachers and other school authorities are responsible for providing a safe environment and maintaining order and discipline in the school,” the court ruled. It further added: “They must know that this may sometimes require searches of students and their personal effects and the seizure of prohibited items.

It would not be reasonable for a student to expect to be free from such searches.”

This seems questionable. To suggest students are surrendering their fundamental rights the moment they step foot into a school flies in the face of the basic philosophy of equal treatment under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Civil rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis told CBC radio that while school authorities do have powers that don’t follow the rules of the charter, “I think there are real concerns here” in the strip search of the student.

This could end up limping its way through the courts, if the family sues.

Ultimately, however, the better answer is that legislators, at the provincial and federal levels, clarify this law once and for all.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Clock is ticking on law on assisted suicide Two weeks after the Supreme Court unanimously lifted the ban on physician-assisted suicide, a cone of silence has fallen on Parliament.

The Liberals and the New Democrats seem as incurious as to the government’s intentions as the Conservatives are cagey about the way forward.

The House came back for the first time since the ruling on Feb. 16, but it was not until Wednesday that the issue was raised by one of the main parties in question period, and then only in a cursory way.

CHANTAL To a generic question HÉBERT from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a 33-word answer that was as cryptic as it was brief.

“This is obviously a sensitive topic for many Canadians, and there are strong opinions on both sides.

We will examine this decision and hold broad consultations on all aspects of this difficult issue,” Harper answered.

Note the absence of any reference to a time frame.

And yet there are two clocks ticking on this file.

The first is the one-year reprieve the Supreme Court gave Parliament to rewrite the Criminal Code before the prohibition on physician-assisted suicide simply becomes moot. As of that point, each province would determine how best to apply the ruling.

The other is that of an upcoming election. Once the House rises in June, it won’t reopen until late fall at the earliest.

Note also that the prime minister did not repeat his minister of justice’s assertion that the government is “unlikely” to use the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution to maintain the prohibition on assisted suicide.

In his first comments on the Supreme Court ruling, Peter MacKay called the clause “the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb.” He added that the government was not likely to use it. “I would not count on it,” he answered even more definitively when he was asked again a few days later.

From so few dots, here is a tentative picture of the state of play in the Commons.

Until further notice, the option to punt the debate until after the October election remains a live one for the government.

Then-prime minister Brian Mulroney took that route after the Supreme Court struck down the Criminal Code restrictions on abortion shortly before the 1988 election. He needed to paper over deep Tory divisions until the campaign was over.

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Harper’s options may be equally limited.

Notwithstanding MacKay’s tentative assurance on the non-use of the notwithstanding clause, that debate is not necessarily closed for a significant contingent within the Conservative party.

Beyond the party’s social conservative wing there are also those who feel that the courts have crossed the line on judicial activism and that it is time for the government to push back.

There are only 12 sitting weeks left in this Parliament.

In a free vote on assisted suicide, Harper cannot assume that a majority of his members would support the government.

Indeed if the vote broke down along the same lines as on abortion-related motions, the prime minister could expect a majority of his MPs to vote against any proposal that leaves the door open to assisted suicide.

So far neither the Liberals nor the NDP has shown much inclination to jump in front of this parade for they too are struggling to arrive at a consensus position. But on Friday Trudeau put a motion on the or-

der paper calling for a parliamentary committee to be struck to discuss the way forward. It could be put to a vote as early as next week.

For Trudeau, there is an additional issue of consistency to be resolved at some point in this process.

If he expects Liberal MPs to uphold the Supreme Court position on abortion, would it not follow that the same caucus policy should apply to the right to assisted suicide?

Finally all parties still have to square the circle of how comprehensively Parliament can use its jurisdiction on the Criminal Code to frame access to medically assisted suicide in Canada.

By virtue of the constitutional division of powers, the provinces have the exclusive responsibility for health-related policies.

Quebec used that prerogative to include assisted suicide in a right-to-die law that will come into force at the end of the year and the national assembly can be expected to fight any federal attempt to limit its scope every inch of the way.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

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Civil liberties at risk BILL’S TERRORIST PROPAGANDA PROVISIONS OVERLY BROAD: LAW PROFESSORS expand the powers of Canada’s spy agency — following the daylight murders of two Canadian soldiers last October.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service would become an agency that actively tries to derail terror plots, not just one that collects and analyzes information.

The bill would also create a new criminal offence of encouraging someone to carry out a terror attack.

The New Democrats oppose the legislation, calling it a serious infringement of civil liberties that will not be effective in reducing terrorism. The Liberals have agreed to support the bill with the caveat that they will bring in stronger oversight of the intelligence agencies should they form the next government.

In their paper, Forcese and Roach support a provision in the bill for deleting Internet material “that counsels the commission of a terrorist offence,”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A federal proposal to scrub terrorist propaganda from the Internet risks sweeping in too much speech that has no ties to violent threats, says a new analysis.

The definition of propaganda in the government anti-terrorism bill is dangerously broad, law professors Craig Forcese and Kent Roach say in their paper.

The bill, introduced late last month, proposes giving the RCMP power to seek a judge’s order to remove terrorist propaganda from websites.

Forcese, of the University of Ottawa, and Roach, who teaches at the University of Toronto, say while they support the idea in principle, it should be rooted in actual or threatened violence.

The Conservatives brought in the bill — which would also significantly

New voter ID rules face charter challenge through the House of Commons and the Senate.

However the new rules still forbid voters from using the Elections Canada voter identification card mailed to their home as proof of residency — although some 400,000 voters used the cards for this purpose in the 2011 federal election.

The law also now sets up a more restrictive process for attesting to the identity of voters who don’t have proper identification — a process known as vouching, which allowed 120,000 additional voters to cast a ballot in 2011.

“The most fundamental right in a democratic society is the right to vote in elections that are free and fair,” said Gary Neal of the left-leading Council of Canadians.

Jessica McCormick of the student federation said thousands of post-secondary students looking to vote for the first time this year will be shut out by the new rules requiring ID with a local address.

With a fixed federal election date set for mid-October, time is quickly running out for the legal challenge. A court date has yet to be set to hear the case, said Shrybman.

The groups will seek a court injunction setting aside the new election rules if the case can’t be heard before Canadians go to the polls.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Two advocacy groups are asking the courts to set aside new Conservative election rules that they say will make it more difficult for thousands of Canadians to vote in this year’s federal election.

The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Federation of Students have filed evidence to support a constitutional challenge of last year’s legislation, dubbed the Fair Elections Act by the Harper government.

“The very legitimacy of the government is at issue if these rules stand, in our submission,” lawyer Steven Shrybman told a news conference Monday.

The groups say new voter identification rules contravene Section 3 of the charter, which states everyone has the right to vote, as well as the equality provisions in the Constitution.

The office of Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre did not respond to a request for comment on the court challenge.

The Fair Elections Act was introduced last February to near-universal condemnation from electoral experts from across Canada and abroad, and the Conservatives eventually removed a number of the most contentious aspects of the bill before rushing it

saying it deals with well-understood legal concepts.

“A video that tried to solicit people to bomb is already criminal,” they write. “So too is a video that seeks to recruit persons to a terrorist activity or group.”

However, the law professors express concern that written material and audio or visual recordings may be deleted simply on the basis that they “promote” or “advocate” the commission of any “terrorism offences in general.”

Such wording could capture the use of political violence for any number of causes, including ones that many would regard as “mainstream” — for instance, contesting the Assad regime in Syria, they say.

Forcese and Roach also take issue with a little-noticed amendment that would add the category of “terrorist propaganda” to a customs tariff that currently allows the warrantless sei-

zure and detention of obscenity and hate propaganda at the border.

Initiatives that reduce interest in material which promotes or attempts to glorify terrorism are critical, the authors say. But there are no such programs in the legislative package.

They call for “holistic, multi-disciplinary approaches toward counterradicalization” — such as Britain’s recently enacted Counter-Terrorism and Security Act that requires this sort of program at schools, health authorities and prisons.

Daniel Hiebert, a co-director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society, told a Senate committee on Monday it’s important to emphasize such “soft security” approaches in dealing with radicalization, as “hard security” tactics like stiffer criminal penalties are not effective at deterring young people.

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The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the new policy, along with a memo explaining the changes, under the Access to Information Act. In addition, the Privy Council Office approved a complementary plan to digitize its archive of cabinet documents to allow for storage of the paper originals off-site in a secure, climatecontrolled facility — a bid to avoid the sort of damage caused by a flood in 2001.

The confidentiality of cabinet proceedings — the political forum in which ministers make government decisions — is a long-standing constitutional convention and the cornerstone of the Westminster style of government, notes the new security policy, adopted last July. It replaced one in effect since 2007.

The government’s original aim was to update the policy in 2012 to address events that are blacked out of the heavily censored explanatory memo of April 2014 to Wayne Wouters, then the Privy Council clerk.

Raymond Rivet, a Privy Council Office spokesman, would not elaborate, saying only that “PCO regularly reviews its security policies and strives to update them every five years.”

BRIEF Lid on cabinet secrets quietly tightened OTTAWA — The Conservative government has quietly tightened the lid on federal cabinet secrets in an effort to prevent compromising leaks.

A revised policy on the security of so-called cabinet confidences requires all possible breaches — “however slight” — to be reported to the Prime Minister’s Office or officials in the Privy Council Office, the government’s bureaucratic nerve centre.

“This includes unauthorized disclosure, loss, theft, transmission and discussion over non-secure channels, unaccounted documents or other actual or suspected compromises.”

In order to avoid such incidents, documents known to contain cabinet secrets must now be stamped “Confidences of the Queen’s Privy Council.”

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The jailed blogger, whose wife and children live in Sherbrooke, Que., was sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabia clerics on his website.

Badawi is not a Canadian citizen and Harper said earlier this month that fact limits Canada’s influence in his case.

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Rebels add another Johnson RECALL WYATT JOHNSON’S BROTHER REESE TO ADD DEPTH

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Reese Johnson was hoping, in vain, that his team would be competing in the upcoming Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League playoffs.

However, being summoned to the Red Deer Rebels for the remainder of the season is a nifty consolation prize.

“It’s nice to be able to come up and try and contribute the best that I can until the end of the season,” the Saskatoon Blazers assistant captain and top scorer in 2014-15 said Monday, following a Rebels practice session at the Kinex.

The Blazers failed to qualify for post-season play, finishing in 10th place in the 12-team league with a 14-29-0-1 record. Johnson, a Saskatoon native and the younger brother of Rebels forward Wyatt Johnson, did his part in trying to keep the team competitive, notching 23 goals and collecting 38 points in 43 games.

“It was a pretty good season for me. Our team had a tougher year, but there were some good points,” he said.

“We did a lot of good things, unfortunately it ended sooner that we wanted it to.”

With Conner Bleackley and Evan Polei still out

with injuries and Brooks Maxwell listed as day-today with a lower-body ailment, the Rebels’ declining depth at forward is at the point that Johnson, 16, might be in the lineup as early as Wednesday when the club takes on the Oil Kings in Edmonton.

“You never know, we’ll just see how it goes,” said GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “If certain individuals aren’t playing to their potential, we have a guy who can go in.

“Reese had a really good year, we’re really happy with his development and how he played.

He didn’t look out of place at all during practice today.”

Johnson insisted he felt right at home skating with his new teammates.

“I felt really good. The boys were moving the puck well and it was a high-paced practice,” he said.

Johnson, who was listed by Reese Johnson the Rebels last year and attended training camp in August before suiting up for two WHL exhibition games, racked up 68 minutes in penalties this season. In other words, he doesn’t shy away from the tough areas or play a soft game.

“I like to get a little greasy when I can . . . get the tempo going, pick up the pace and get the boys going,” said the five-foot-11, 165-pound winger who will celebrate his 17th birthday on July 10. “I like to lay out a few hits and I try and put the puck in the net when I can.”

His brother plays nearly an identical style.

“I like to think that we play a similar hard-working game,” said the younger Johnson. “He (Wyatt) is having a really good year and hopefully he keeps it up.”

Sutter said the brothers are very much alike in relation to their work habits and on-ice disposition.

“Reese plays a heart and soul type of game. With both brothers, their character shows through,” said the Rebels boss.

Johnson admitted that he hasn’t talked to Sutter at length about the possibility of getting into the Rebels lineup sooner than later.

“He hasn’t said much about playing, he just told me to practise how I play and try and get better every day that I’m here,” said the newest Rebel.

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Raptors can’t hold off Pelicans

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pelicans 100 Raptors 97 NEW ORLEANS — Pelicans coach Monty Williams now has a better idea of how badly his undermanned squad wants to stay in the Western Conference playoff race.

Alexis Ajinca capped a 16-point performance with a go-ahead layup in the final minute, and New Orleans erased an 18-point deficit en route to a 100-97 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night.

“A lot of character being displayed on the floor,” said Williams, whose squad pulled out its largest comeback this season without All-Star Anthony Davis and two other top players in uniform. “It was a total team effort. You don’t get to say that a lot when you’re coaching sports, but tonight was for sure.”

Luke Babbitt scored a season-high 18 for New Orleans, including a 3-pointer that gave the Pelicans their first lead of the game with 1:55 left.

The clutch outings by the two reserves helped New Orleans overcome the absence of Davis (sprained right shoulder) and fellow forward Ryan Anderson (sprained right knee), who were both injured Saturday night in Miami — not to mention point guard Jrue Holiday (lower right leg injury), who hasn’t played since Jan. 12.

“We never gave up. We stick to the plan, stay together and keep fighting,” Ajinca said.

Newly acquired Norris Cole scored 15 for New Orleans. Omer Asik added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Tyreke Evans had 13 points and 12 assists.

Kyle Lowry scored 22 for Toronto, but missed a driving layup for the lead with 6 seconds left when he was blocked by Asik, who also snared the rebound. Jimmer Fredette then hit a pair of free throws for New Orleans, and Lowry’s 27-foot attempt for a tie missed.

“We should have had that one,” said Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan, who had 14 points. “It’s frustrating ...

We settled for too many jump shots and didn’t press the issue.”

Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points and 14 rebounds for Toronto, which lost its second straight.

James Johnson scored 15 points, but the Raptors hurt themselves by missing nine of 31 free throws and missing 18 of 23 3-point attempts.

“We got 3-point happy a little bit,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.

“We were in transition. We have to take it to the basket. ... Some nights, 3s aren’t falling. That’s when you drive it.”

The result gave New Orleans a 2-0 sweep of the season series, with the Pelicans overcoming doubledigit, fourth-quarter deficits — and the absence of Davis — in both games.

While Toronto leads the Atlantic Division, the Pelicans desperately need to string a few wins together, now two games behind Oklahoma City for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Down 62-49 in the third quarter, New Orleans began to claw back when Eric Gordon hit a 3, marking the start of a 17-8 run over the next six minutes.

The Raptors briefly regained a 10-point lead on

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New Orleans Pelicans guard Tyreke Evans (1) goes to the basket against Toronto Raptors forward James Johnson (3) in the first half of an NBA game in New Orleans, Monday.

Terrence Ross’ 3 in the fourth quarter, but the Pelicans stormed back with a 10-2 run during which Cole scored seven points, including a 3.

New Orleans finally took its first lead of the game, at 94-93, on Babbitt’s fourth 3, then briefly went ahead 96-93 on Evans’ driving layup.

Toronto scored the next four points to retake the lead before Ajinca’s go-ahead basket with 50 seconds left.

TIP-INS Raptors: Guard Lou Williams returned from a sprained ankle that sidelined him one game. He played nearly 25 minutes and finished with nine points. ... Forward Patrick Patterson sat out with a sprained left knee after trying to play with the injury two nights earlier in Houston.

Pelicans: New Orleans won for the first time in five home games. ... Ajinca has averaged 13.5 points in the nine games in which he’s played 20 or more minutes this season.

FAST START Toronto scored first 16 seconds into the game and opened on a 10-2 run, then built its largest lead when James Johnson’s layup made it 51-33.

The Pelicans might have fallen farther behind if not for Ajinca, who scored 10 points in his first 12 minutes on the court. Babbitt added eight of his points in the second quarter, helping New Orleans trim its deficit to 56-44 at halftime.

UP NEXT Raptors: Visit Dallas on Tuesday.

Pelicans: Host Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Gaudreau ready for extra attention on Flames’ road trip

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Flames’ swing through northeastern United States is a homecoming of sorts for Johnny Gaudreau. He left a Hobey Baker winner and returns a Calder Trophy candidate.

The 21-year-old’s hometown of Carney’s Point, N.J., is just 40 minutes southeast of Philadelphia.

Gaudreau concluded his college career at Boston College just over a year ago by winning the Hobey Baker Award that goes to the top player in NCAA Division 1 men’s hockey.

The winger signed with the Flames the same day he was handed that trophy.

Philadelphia and Boston are the fourth and fifth stops on Calgary’s seven-game road trip opening tonight in New York against the Rangers.

Gaudreau ranks second in NHL rookie scoring behind Nashville’s Filip Forsberg with 15 goals and 29 assists in 58 games. He has “a ton” of friends and family along the Eastern Seaboard who want to see the freshman sensation they call their own.

“It’s going to be an expensive trip,” Gaudreau said before departing Calgary. “In Boston, I’ve got about 15, 20 people I think I’ve got to get tickets for.

“Most of the guys who ask for tickets are pretty good buddies. I spent the past three years with them at Boston College. I’m excited to see them and have them come to one of my games.

“Philly, I have a ton of people come to that game.

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Johnny Gaudreau stretches during warm ups before the NHL All-Star game in Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2015. Gaudreau will see some extra attention as he heads home during the Calgary Flames’ road trip which starts tonight in New York.

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coming to my games. Philly will be pretty special.”

With his speed, quick hands and deft touch on the puck, Gaudreau has quickly become an NHL player who puts bottoms in seats. Just five-foot-nine and 150 pounds, he’s yet to show signs of wearing down while his minutes have increased since December.

Gaudreau has four assists in his last five games.

A natural hat trick late in a Dec. 22 game against the Los Angeles Kings both carried the Flames to an OT win and had hockey fans sitting up and taking notice.

After Gaudreau’s first visit to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, the Flames face the Devils on Wednesday and the Islanders on Friday before moving onto Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit and Ottawa next week.

While the Flames (32-23-4) scramble to stay in playoff contention on this tour, it’s also the first opportunity this season for the New York, Philadelphia and Boston hockey media to put their cameras and microphones in front of their local hero.

“We’re going to help him, but at the same time, Johnny knows what he’s doing,” Flames head coach Bob Hartley said. “He’s had attention before. Obviously this is a different level, but it’s all part of the process. We’re not going to hide him. We don’t hide anybody.”

Gaudreau is prepared for the extra attention.

“Definitely going to be a little bit busier off the ice,” he acknowledged. “I’ve been to Toronto, which is pretty big media. This is home. I’m just going to try to take it all in.”

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Navarro wants to fly the coop BLUE JAYS CATCHER WANTS TRADE FOR OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY EVERY DAY SPRING TRAINING

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, facing an uncertain future with the arrival of Russell Martin, confirmed Monday that he wants out.

The 31-year-old from Venezuela said he had asked the American League team for a trade back in November when Martin was signed to an US$82million, five-year contract.

Navarro says nothing has changed.

He wants to go to a team where he can play every day.

He says he holds no grudges and will work hard the whole spring, hoping an opportunity comes his way. But he acknowledged he was frustrated and a little disappointed that nothing has happened yet in terms of a new home.

“I don’t know when did it go wrong, if anything did go wrong,” Navarro said of his time with Toronto. “I’m just going to be ready and do my job.”

Navarro, who hit 274 with 12 home runs and 59 runs batted in last season, faces being a designated hitter and backup catcher with the Jays. He is on the final year of a two-year deal that will pay him $5 million this season.

While Navarro was professional and polite in speaking to the media, his public desire to leave the club was hardly the opening spring training message the Jays wanted.

Still manager John Gibbons, who spoke to the media before Navarro, said he understood his catcher’s frustration.

“I can’t blame him for not being happy. He’s a competitor, he’s a bigleague player, a good one,” Gibbons said, insisting there was a place for Navarro on the team.

Martin said he had a good relationship with Navarro, dating back to their time with the Dodgers.

“We’re going to both try and help the team as best we can,” Martin said. “I’m sure that if he could be in a gig where he could catch every day, I’m sure he would prefer that but that something that’s out of his control for now.

“The only thing he can control is his attitude and so far it’s been fantastic.

And (it) hasn’t made me feel weird at

all. He’s been a good teammate so far.

It’s only Day 1 but the attitude is the right one and hopefully we can keep that going.”

Navarro called Martin a great ballplayer who will make the team better.

But he also said he has shown what he can do.

“I think I did a pretty good job (in 2014),” he said. “I signed a two-year deal here to catch every day and unfortunately they felt that they needed to make a move. I would just like to play every day somewhere.”

Martin is no stranger to moving on, having played for the Yankees, Dodgers (twice), Rays, Reds and Cubs.

While Toronto shivered up north, the Jays held their first spring workout on a cloudy but warm 21-degree Celsius day in the Sunshine state.

Martin drew a lot of attention during his opening bullpen session with Daniel Norris. Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey used personal catcher Josh Thole for his throwing time.

Gibbons said that was just for the first day of camp. Martin will be given plenty of time to learn how to handle Dickey.

Russell Martin says he’s game to catch Dickey’s knuckleball DUNEDIN, Fla. — When Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey took to the mound for his bullpen session on the first day of camp Monday, personal catcher Josh Thole was waiting to receive the floater.

Big-ticket free agent Russell Martin was further down the line, handling Daniel Norris. But Toronto manager John Gibbons was quick to note that Martin will get his time with the knuckleball.

“Day 1, it was my decision,” Gibbons said of Thole catching Dickey. “(Martin) will get plenty of it, trust me,” he added.

Who will catch Dickey has been a tasty Toronto subplot since the Cy Young Award-winner arrived — along with Thole — in a December 2012

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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin, (centre left), finishes up a bullpen session with other catchers including Dioner Navarro (centre right) during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Monday. trade with the New York Mets.

Dickey maintains he is Switzerland in the catcher debate. But his loyalty clearly lies with the light-hitting Thole, whom Dickey estimates has been involved in 75 or 80 per cent of his starts since 2010.

The Jays would like Martin, who takes over from Dioner Navarro as the team’s everyday catcher, to handle Dickey so they don’t have to use a roster spot on a specialty catcher. With Navarro having requested a trade so he can play every day, it has made for several question-marks behind the plate.

Martin has limited experience with the knuckleball, catching 13 2/3 innings of Charlie Haeger while with the Dodgers in 2009 and 2010. But he says he’s game.

“It’s a challenge. And I’m always up for new challenges,” he told reporters. “I’m excited to see how I can handle it. I have no idea really how I’m going to do.”

MLB commissioner says new rules a ‘measured’ effort to speed up the game

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BASEBALL

PHOENIX — Commissioner Rob Manfred says new rules intended to speed up the pace of games are aimed at luring younger fans to baseball.

Manfred, speaking publicly on the changes for the first time since they were announced last Friday, said the rules are a “measured” approach worked out with the players’ association.

This season, batters will be required to have one foot in the batter’s box and pitchers and batters will be required to be ready to go at the conclusion of television commercials.

“The issue of attracting a younger audience and a pace of game is related,” he said.

Manfred said he has four children in their 20s.

“I have a passing familiarity with that generation,” he said, “and one thing I can say for sure is their attention span seems to be shorter than the rest of ours.”

Last season, the average length of a major league game was a record 3 hours, 2 minutes.

“I certainly want to reverse the trend of increasing the length of the game,” Manfred said, “and I’m really intent on the idea that we’re going to have an average game time that’s going to start with a ’two’ next year as opposed to a ’three.”’

The commissioner spoke at a news conference on spring train-

ing media day, an event that draws the managers and general managers from the 15 clubs that train in Arizona.

Any rules changes have to be done with the co-operation of the players’ association, Manfred said.

“I talked with (players union executive director) Tony Clark on Thursday, the night before the changes were announced,” Manfred said. “I had a very positive conversation with Tony. We began these discussions with a conceptual understanding between Tony and me that we were going to proceed with caution on pace of the game.”

He said they wanted to make sure nothing was done to “change the way the game is played.”

Manfred declined to speculate on what might be done if the rule changes don’t have the desired result.

“I have said repeatedly that I think pace of play is going to be an ongoing, multi-year evolutions,” Manfred said, “a series of changes over a period of time. We were pleased with the experiment with a pitch clock in the Arizona Fall League. We were pleased enough with the experiment that it was expanded it to Double-A and Triple-A. “I have no set position with respect to whether we’re going to go beyond that at this point,” he said.

He said, “The reason we’re doing experimentation is to make sure we understand it really well before we make a decision on what we’re going to do at the big league level. And obviously that’s a (collective) bargaining topic as well.”

A sampling of managers showed they are in favour of the new rules.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a major adjustment,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “Except for a few guys.”

“There’s guys you sit there in the dugout and then they take 45 seconds in between pitchers,” he said. “I’m like, ’Get your tail in there and let’s go.’ That (the rules) hopefully will eliminate that.”

With stricter rules in the minors, the next generation will be accustomed to a faster pace, Arizona manager Chip Hale said.

“It’s going to take some time,” he said.

“Once you get this generation of minor league kids that are even under harder rules to the big leagues, you’ll see them play the game quicker. And you might not even have to have rules.”

Players are subject to a possible $500 fine for violating the batter’s box rule. Manfred said the names of those fined will not be made public.

As for the drop in offence in the majors, Manfred said he’s waiting to see if it really is a problem before considering any changes to help.

“There’s a lot of guys here who can help me,” he added.

Martin doesn’t have far to look.

Dickey’s locker is right next to his.

Gibbons, a former catcher himself, seemed to be trying to convince himself that Martin could handle the unpredictable pitch.

“From here on out he’s going to be catching him because we want to see if he can do it,” said Gibbons, before adding: “There’s no doubt that he can do it but it’s not going to be easy.”

The team may have to carry Martin, Navarro and Thole if Martin cannot catch Dickey, the manager conceded.

“I can’t say it would be ideal but if that’s the way you’ve got to go, you’ve got to do it,” he said.

The Jays carried Navarro, Thole and veteran Erik Kratz for part of last season before dealing Kratz to Kansas City in July.

The Jays have other questions in camp, with second base, centre field and the bullpen topping the list.

NHL SUSPENSION Jared Cowen says he has no intention of changing his game despite being handed a three-game ban for his hit on Florida’s Jussi Jokinen.

The suspension doled out by the NHL on Monday comes at a most unfortunate time for the Ottawa Senators as they head out on a five-game western road trip. They will be without the defenceman as they face Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose.

Cowen said he was surprised at the length of the suspension.

“I’m disappointed.

Three games is a bit much,” he said. “I’m trying to be a physical player out there and do my job. If I don’t do that I’m not in the lineup. To do that, you’ve got to play on the edge.

“That’s what I was doing. I didn’t hurt anyone and I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. It’s a bit over the top but there’s nothing I can do about it.”

The hit in question occurred at 4:38 of the second period of Ottawa’s 4-1 home win over the Panthers on Saturday.

Jokinen had skated into the Senators zone and completed a pass to a teammate when he was hit

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CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Calgary 59 36 18 1 4 250 168 Medicine Hat 60 37 20 1 2 231 184 Red Deer 59 30 20 4 5 197 192 Kootenay 60 31 27 1 1 202 214 Edmonton 60 27 27 4 2 173 167 Lethbridge 60 18 35 4 3 175 253

Pt 77 77 69 64 60 43

Tampa Bay Detroit Boston Florida Ottawa Toronto Buffalo

62 37 19 6 80 58 33 14 11 77 59 29 21 9 67 59 26 21 12 64 57 24 23 10 58 60 24 31 5 53 60 17 38 5 39 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 61 39 20 2 80 N.Y. Rangers 58 36 16 6 78 Pittsburgh 60 34 17 9 77 Washington 61 33 18 10 76 Philadelphia 60 26 23 11 63 New Jersey 60 25 26 9 59 Columbus 58 26 28 4 56 Carolina 58 21 30 7 49

203 173 157 143 163 167 110

167 153 156 166 161 183 202

GF 195 185 172 181 161 136 153 130

GA 172 145 149 152 174 158 180 158

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 60 40 13 7 87 181 141 St. Louis 59 38 17 4 80 186 146 Chicago 60 35 20 5 75 177 144 Winnipeg 61 30 20 11 71 169 166 Minnesota 59 31 21 7 69 168 156 Dallas 60 27 24 9 63 189 198 Colorado 60 26 23 11 63 159 170 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 61 38 16 7 83 182 171 Vancouver 59 34 22 3 71 169 155 Los Angeles 58 28 18 12 68 161 152 Calgary 59 32 23 4 68 171 156 San Jose 61 30 23 8 68 171 174 Arizona 60 20 33 7 47 133 201 Edmonton 61 17 34 10 44 140 205 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Pt 96 70 55 52 50

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Everett 60 36 17 3 4 208 165 79 Portland 59 35 20 1 3 220 188 74 Seattle 59 31 21 3 4 173 161 69 Spokane 58 27 27 3 1 162 181 58 Tri-City 60 27 30 0 3 159 193 57 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth.

Sunday’s results Edmonton 5 Medicine Hat 1 Everett 5 Lethbridge 4

Sunday’s Games Nashville 2, Buffalo 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Columbus 3, SO Philadelphia 3, Washington 2 Boston 6, Chicago 2 Vancouver 4, N.Y. Islanders 0 Pittsburgh 5, Florida 1 Colorado 5, Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 6, Dallas 2

Monday’s results Regina 5 Saskatoon 4 (SO) Tuesday’s games Kootenay at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

Monday’s Games Anaheim 4, Detroit 3, SO New Jersey 3, Arizona 0

Wednesday’s games Medicine Hat at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Regina, 6 p.m.

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

Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA x-Brandon 60 44 10 4 2 278 188 Regina 59 33 19 4 3 218 187 Swift Current 59 29 25 1 4 182 189 Moose Jaw 60 24 31 4 1 172 222 Prince Albert 60 24 33 2 1 172 214 Saskatoon 60 17 39 2 2 172 258

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA y-Kelowna 60 46 10 3 1 267 152 Victoria 60 33 23 3 1 210 184 Vancouver 60 26 31 1 2 171 204 Prince George 61 24 33 2 2 179 254 Kamloops 61 22 33 3 3 174 227

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National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 59 38 16 5 81 157 131

Tuesday’s Games Vancouver at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

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

Philadelphia at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Montreal at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Florida at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Devils 3, Coyotes 0 First Period 1. New Jersey, Gomez 5 (unassisted) 12:33.

Penalties — Elias NJ (hooking) 6:55, Elias NJ (hooking) 6:55.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Gormley Ari (interference) 2:41, Gelinas NJ (hooking) 8:05, Doan Ari (hooking) 16:59, Zidlicky NJ (holding) 17:16.

Third Period 2. New Jersey, Cammalleri 21 (Tootoo, Merrill) 1:41.

3. New Jersey, Cammalleri 22 (Gionta, Larsson) 18:12 (en).

Penalties — Ruutu NJ (high-sticking) 5:37.

Shots on goal Arizona 14 14 10 — 38 New Jersey 12 7 9 — 28 Goal — Arizona: Smith (L, 10-27-5); New Jersey: Schneider (W, 22-22-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Arizona: 0-4; New Jersey: 0-2.

Ducks 4, Red Wings 3 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Lindholm Ana (hooking) 2:58, DeKeyser Det (tripping) 5:55, Manson Ana (high-sticking) 10:42, Kronwall Det (tripping) 15:52.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Datsyuk 20 (unassisted) 3:54.

2. Detroit, Datsyuk 21 (Abdelkader, Kronwall) 6:50 (pp).

Penalties — Smith Det (hooking) 1:14, Maroon Ana (holding) 6:33, Silfverberg Ana (high-sticking) 8:53.

Third Period 3. Anaheim, Cogliano 10 (Lindholm, Silfverberg) 9:17.

4. Anaheim, Cogliano 10 (Lindholm, Silfverberg) 9:17.

5. Anaheim, Etem 3 (Stoner) 11:27.

6. Anaheim, Beauchemin 7 (Getzlaf, Palmieri) 12:57.

7. Anaheim, Beauchemin 7 (Getzlaf, Palmieri) 12:57.

8. Detroit, Sheahan 10 (Nyquist, Kronwall) 16:09.

Penalties — Smith Det (high-sticking) 3:35.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Getzlaf Ana (delay of game) 4:51.

Shootout — Anaheim wins 2-1 Detroit : Datsyuk miss, Nyquist goal, Nyquist goal, Tatar miss.

Anaheim : Perry goal, Silfverberg goal.

Shots on goal Detroit 11 11 11 5 — 38 Anaheim 7 3 14 1 — 25 Goal —Detroit: Howard (LO, 17-8-9); Anaheim: Gibson (W, 6-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Detroit: 1-5; Anaheim: 0-4.

Wednesday’s Games

Transactions

Today

● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, Stettler at Notre Dame, Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, Camrose at Rocky Mountain House, Wetaskiwin at Ponoka; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Peewee AA hockey playoffs: Bow Valley Red at Olds, if necessary, 6:15 p.m.; Bow Valley Black at Red Deer Parkland, if necessary, 6:30 p.m., TBA. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Wells Furniture; 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Bantam AA hockey playoffs: Airdrie at Lacombe, if necessary, 7:45 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-seven Northern Division semifinal, 8:30 p.m., Arena.

Wednesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Bantam AA hockey playoffs: Olds at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m., if necessary.

Thursday

● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship tournament at Olds College. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, first game of best-of-three ACAC semifinal, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs.

Carstar, Grandview vs. Monstars; 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship tournament at Olds College. ● JV basketball: Zone championships at Notre Dame and Hunting Hills. ● College basketball: Briercrest at RDC; women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7

p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Portage at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, fifth game of best-of-seven Northern Division semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, third game of best-of-seven Chinook/provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship tournament at Olds College. ● JV basketball: Zone championships at Notre Dame and Hunting Hills. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● College basketball: Briercrest at RDC; women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Drayton Valley at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, sixth game of best-of-seven Northern Division semifinal, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Fort Saskatchewan, fourth game of best-ofseven Chinook/provincial semifinal, 8 p.m.; Okotoks at Innisfail, third game of best-of-seven Chinook/provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, seventh game of bestof-seven Northern Division semifinal, if necessary, 3:30 p.m. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, third game of best-of-three ACAC semifinal, if necessary, 3:15 p.m., Arena, ● Senior AAA hockey: Okotoks at Innisfail, fourth game of best-of-seven Chinook/provincial semifinal, 5 p.m.

Basketball

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Arizona OF Matt Railey 50 games for a violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Announced the resignation of senior vice-president international operations Paul Archey, effective Feb. 27.

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Ian Krol, INF Nick Castellanos and RHPs Buck Farmer, Shane Greene, Bruce Rondon, Chad Smith, Alex Wilson and Josh Zeid on one-year contracts.

TEXAS RANGERS — Amended the contract of 3B Adrian Beltre, eliminating the team’s conditional right to void 2016 salary. Agreed to terms with INFOF Elliot Johnson on a minor league contract.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Dustin McGowan on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SACRAMENTO KINGS — Named Vance Walberg assistant coach.

Women’s National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Signed C Jennifer Hamson.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with general manager Steve Keim and coach Bruce Arians on contracts extensions through 2018. Released WR Ted Ginn Jr. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released DT Ricky Jean Francois.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed LB Brian Peters.

Canadian Football League CFL — Named Jamie Dykstra director, broadcast and video.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Tyrone Goard and LBs Rodney Lamar and Khalil Bass.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Ottawa D Jared Cowen three games for interference against Florida F Jussi Jokinen during a Feb. 21 game.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled D Dylan Reese from Portland (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled F Garrett Wilson.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled G Scott Clemmensen from Albany (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Released LW Tom Sestito. Recalled G Jacob Markstrom from Utica (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled F Eric O’Dell from St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Ben Chiarot on injured reserve.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Bridgeport D Scott Mayfield six games and Hershey LW Liam O’Brien three games.

BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Reassigned F Brandon Wong from Evansville (ECHL) to South Carolina (ECHL).

HERSHEY BEARS — Recalled F Braden Pimm from South Carolina (ECHL) and reassigned him to Evansville (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Reassigned D Jaynen Rissling to Cincinnati (ECHL). Released D Jared Nightingale from his professional tryout contract.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled F Steven Hodges from Cincinnati (ECHL).

Nash: it’s a golden era for basketball in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Steve Nash is grappling with his frustrating final days in the NBA, but he says he’s thrilled with the promising careers of his fellow Canadians.

The 41-year-old former NBA MVP has been sidelined for the season — and very likely the rest of his career — with a debilitating back injury, and he said the adjustment hasn’t been easy.

“I’m basically just trying to get a little space and see where my head’s at, while still focusing on some things and also trying to get a new perspective, because it’s been a pretty tough fight over the last 18 months or so,” Nash said. “So just getting a little space and seeing how my mind and body responds.”

The Los Angeles Lakers guard was in Toronto for a sponsorship announcement Monday, and while he spoke to reporters at length about Canada’s young stars such as Andrew Wiggins, questions about his own NBA future and his health were off-limits.

Nash wished Wiggins a happy birthday — the Minnesota Timberwolves rookie turned 20 on Monday.

“Andrew’s been phenomenal,” Nash said.

“He’s very young, he has a bright future, and his rookie season has been incredible. I don’t think people understand what a jump it is from college to the pros and sometimes how difficult it can be to be in a position he’s in where he’s asked to do a lot and play a lot, and kind of grow on the fly like that.

“It can show a lot of blemishes, and to be honest, I would thought it would have been very fair for him to make a ton of mistakes this year, and for it to be really awkward, and he’s just been incredible. Definitely a testament to his ability.”

Nash is the general manager of Canada’s men’s team, and said with the emergence Wiggins and others, this is a golden age for the sport in this country.

“This age is beyond a golden age,” Nash said. “Let’s hope though that it’s not just a moment in time, and that we’ve turned a corner as far as how the game as grown.”

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 37 19 .661 — Brooklyn 23 31 .426 13 Boston 21 33 .389 15 Philadelphia 12 44 .214 25 New York 10 45 .182 26 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 44 12 .786 — Washington 33 23 .589 11 Miami 24 31 .436 19 Charlotte 22 32 .407 21 Orlando 19 39 .328 26 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 36 21 .632 — Cleveland 35 22 .614 1 Milwaukee 31 25 .554 4 Detroit 23 33 .411 12 Indiana 23 33 .411 12

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Sunday’s Games Cleveland 101, New York 83 Atlanta 97, Milwaukee 86 Detroit 106, Washington 89 Orlando 103, Philadelphia 98 Indiana 104, Golden State 98 Oklahoma City 119, Denver 94 Dallas 92, Charlotte 81 Memphis 98, Portland 92 L.A. Lakers 118, Boston 111, OT

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 40 14 .741 — Houston 38 18 .679 3 Dallas 38 20 .655 4 San Antonio 34 22 .607 7 New Orleans 29 27 .518 12 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 36 19 .655 — Oklahoma City 31 25 .554 5 1/2 Utah 21 34 .382 15 Denver 20 36 .357 16 1/2 Minnesota 12 43 .218 24 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 43 10 .811 — L.A. Clippers 37 19 .661 7 1/2 Phoenix 29 28 .509 16

Monday’s Games Miami 119, Philadelphia 108 New Orleans 100, Toronto 97 Chicago 87, Milwaukee 71 Houston 113, Minnesota 102 Boston 115, Phoenix 110 Brooklyn 110, Denver 82 Utah 90, San Antonio 81 Memphis at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Golden State at Washington, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

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

Brooklyn at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Utah, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

MYSTERY TUNNEL TORONTO — Police say a tunnel was found near a Pan Am Games venue at Toronto’s York University but it poses no known security threat “at this point.”

Const. Victor Kwong said Monday that the tunnel was found by a Toronto and Region Conservation Authority employee, who then reported it to police. Toronto police have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning. A Toronto police source said a thorough investigation followed the discovery of the tunnel “about a month ago.” The CBC reported the tunnel was about 2.5 metres deep and about seven metres long before it was filled in by authorities. The broadcaster said the tunnel had lights inside and was powered by a generator.

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Slumping Blackhawks searching for answers in end stretch

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville took a long look at his power play, then moved one goal to the corner of the ice and put his players through battle drills for a loose puck along the boards.

No one is pressing the panic button in Chicago, which won the Stanley Cup in 2013 and made it all the way to the conference finals a year ago. But the Blackhawks know they have to step up their play right now. “The ’get attention’ button is where I’m at. ... I got it pushed,� Quenneville said after Monday’s practice.

Chicago is just 10-10-3 in 2015 after losing three in a row for the first time since last March. It looked ready to pick up some momentum when it posted a couple of impressive wins at Winnipeg and St. Louis heading into an eight-game homestand, but it has been a rough couple of weeks for Quenneville’s team.

Johnny Oduya left Sunday’s ugly 6-2 loss to Boston with an upper-body injury that will keep him out for a couple weeks, hurting an already shaky group of defencemen beyond the top three, and the Jets and Minnesota Wild are turning up the pressure on Chicago in the crowded Central Division. “We can be better in a lot of areas,� veteran winger Patrick Sharp said. “Whether you want to say effort, desperation, you name it. I know everybody in this locker room cares. Everyone is carrying it with us. We want to break out of this funk that we’re in.�

Sharp had a team-high 34 goals and 78 points last season. But he has struggled this year, with 10 goals, 21 assists and minus-13 rating in 46 games.

Sharp was sidelined for a month with a right knee injury and has bounced around Chicago’s lines for much of the season. But he skated with Patrick Kane and Brad Richards on the second line in practice on Monday, a combination that could help Sharp get untracked if Quenneville decides to stay with it for an extended period. “I’m not too concerned right now with who I’m playing with when I go out there, what power play I’m on, you name it,� said Sharp, who carries a 12-game scoring drought into Tuesday night’s game against Florida. “I’m just concerned with myself getting back to playing as well as I can.�

Chicago (35-20-5) made a couple of minor moves after the loss to Boston, promoting goaltender Scott Darling and forward Joakim Nordstrom from the minors and sending goalie Antti Raanta and forward Ryan Hartman back down to Rockford of the American Hockey League.

The Blackhawks also announced a two-year extension for Darling, who gets the start against the Panthers. Darling, who is from the Chicago suburb of Lemont, made his NHL debut on Oct. 26 against Ottawa and is 5-2 with a 1.97 goals-against average in seven games with the Blackhawks. “I’m just super excited to be here,� said Darling, a sixth-round selection by the Coyotes in the 2007 draft. “It’s a huge honour to get a contract with a team like the Chicago Blackhawks. I couldn’t be happier.�

Corey Crawford allowed four goals on 14 shots before he was pulled in the second period of Sunday’s loss. But Quenneville said he still has confidence in Crawford and made it sound as if he just wanted to give him a day off.

Quenneville also downplayed any role that Oduya’s situation could play in Chicago’s decisionmaking ahead of next Monday’s trade deadline, saying he doesn’t know if the injury is “part of the equation at all.� “We really don’t have much confidence right now, the way we’re playing,� forward Bryan Bickell said.

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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price makes a save on Columbus Blue Jackets’ Cam Atkinson during NHL action in Montreal, Saturday. With Price in net and the team in first place, no one on the Canadiens seems overly concerned that they are not scoring many goals. it’s hard to score.�

Secondary scoring in particular seems to be lacking. Pacioretty’s line with David Desharnais and Brendan Gallagher has been the only consistent producer of late.

It should help that Alex Galchenyuk, with 16 goals this season, will return after missing two games due to illness. Therrien has moved the slick 21-year-old over to right wing with Plekanec and digger Lars Eller. “Most of the goals he scores come when he’s on the right side,� said Therrien. “We’re confident that a talented offensive player can be a threat on the right side.

“It’s something we’ll try. I’m not saying he’s going to stay there. But this is the time of the year to make experiments.�

They may also have winger P.A. Parenteau back soon, although not likely for Tuesday night. Parenteau has missed the last 16 games and 19 of the last 21 with a concussion. He skated on his own Monday but is to make the road trip.

Also joining the team will be defenceman Sergei Gonchar, who suffered an upper body injury when checked into the boards by Toronto’s David Clarkson last week. He wore a no-contact jersey at practice.

Rearguard Alexei Emelin, injured last week against Ottawa, will stay behind.

RDC swept by Broncos in basketball

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Broncos 108 Kings 80 OLDS — Two days after beating the Olds College Broncos (14-8) by 53 points, the Red Deer College Kings (17-5) found themselves on the other side of the ledger, losing 108-80 in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s basketball action on Saturday.

Kaleel Faiz had a game-high 34 points for Olds while Philip Jalalpoor had 31 points and 14 assists.

J.P. Leblanc led RDC with 20 points while Brian Prenoslo had 12. � The RDC Queens women’s basketball team (220) managed to hang tight with an experienced Olds College Broncos (17-5) squad before falling 79-66 on Saturday.

Danesia Williams scored a game-high 31 points for Olds and added nine assists while Renetha Burton had 22 points and 11 rebounds.

Morgan Dool had a team high 23 points while De-

dra Janvier had 20 points and Desirae Paterson nine points and 14 rebounds. “We played a great, inspired game,� said Queens head coach Ken King in an email. “Olds is a very experienced team and our players competed extremely hard and deserve all the credit for continuing to show how bright our program’s future is as we move forward.� � Volleyball players Luke Brisbane and Bronwyn Hawkes are the Boston Pizza RDC athletes of the week. Brisbane was the Kings’ player of the match in Friday’s win over visiting Briercrest with 32 assists, two kills, one ace and 16 digs. During Saturday’s win, again over Briercrest, he contributed 39 assists, two kills, three aces, one block and 11 digs.

Hawkes, meanwhile, was instrumental in the Queens sweep of Briercrest, running the offence with precision and execution while racking up impressive weekend stats that included three kills, 61 assists, five service aces, 19 digs and four blocks. She also picked up a player-of-the-match award.

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The Canadiens (38-16-5) lead the Eastern Conference despite ranking 23rd in the NHL with 2.56 goals per game. That they are allowing the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fewest goals-against per game (2.19) has been enough, for now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You always wish to score more goals but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most important thing is the goals-against,â&#x20AC;? coach Michel Therrien said Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty solid with that and we want to make sure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to win games by 2-1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to do that, we have to make sure we play a good checking game, that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dependable with the puck, not forcing plays. Our players are focusing on that.â&#x20AC;?

This may be another way of saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you have Price in the net, who needs goals?â&#x20AC;?

The 26-year-old who backstopped Canada to gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics leads the NHL with a 1.91 goals-against average and a .935 save percentage.

His numbers are a tad better than Pekka Rinne (2.01 and .927) of the Nashville Predators (40-13-7).

The Predators are second in goals conceded per game at 2.27 and sit first overall with 87 points.

Price is slated to be in the net when the Canadiens begin a two-game road trip Tuesday night in St. Louis. They play Thursday in Columbus and return home to face Toronto on Saturday.

Therrien has said repeatedly that it normally takes three goals to win games. His own team is putting that theory to the test.

In their last 20 games, the Canadiens have scored two or fewer goals 13 times but are 12-5-3 in that span. They are 5-1-2 on only 19 goals scored in their last eight contests. Six of those came from Max Pacioretty, the team leader with 29 goals.

Centre Tomas Plekanec, whose empty-net goal clinched a 3-1 win Saturday night over the Blue Jackets, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem concerned about the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offensive output. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone wants to score lots of goals, but if you look at the playoffs, not many goals are scored there,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tight checking games and

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Obama intends to kill Keystone bill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is about to make good on his oft-stated threat to veto legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a spokesman announced Monday.

“I would anticipate that, as we’ve been saying for years, the president would veto that legislation,” Obama spokesman Josh Earnest told a press briefing.

“And he will.”

The Republican-controlled Congress passed the legislation earlier this month, and plans to send it to the president Tuesday. The president then has 10 days to send it back to Congress unsigned — which constitutes a veto.

Earnest said that’s exactly what the president will do. And he’ll do it quietly, without a public event.

“I would not anticipate a lot of drama or fanfare.”

The announcement is a blow to the pipeline’s prospects, but not quite a fatal one. The big Keystone XL decision could come soon, in a separate regulatory process controlled by the president.

Obama has repeatedly said it’s not Congress’s role to approve or reject cross-border infrastructure. The White House says courts have consistently declared that the constitutional responsibility for that belongs to the president, and that the process was most recently spelled out in a 2004 executive order signed

by George W. Bush.

The years-long, oft-delayed process is expected to wrap up soon, though the White House has not set a deadline date. Members of Congress have also mused that if the president both vetoes the pipeline bill and rejects the project through the regulatory process, they’ll come back with another Keystone XL bill that attaches the pipeline to omnibus legislation that the president will be tempted to sign.

Polls show a plurality of Americans support the

project.

The sponsor of the Keystone bill announced it would be sent to Obama on Tuesday. Republicans could have sent it a week earlier, before lawmakers left Washington for a one-week recess. But they decided to hold off until this week, forcing Obama to make his decision with his opponents back in town.

“The administration has delayed this important infrastructure project for over six years, despite a series of environmental reviews, all of which conclude that the project will have no significant environmental impact,” said a statement from North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven.

“It has been more than enough time to make a fair decision on the merits of the project... The will of the American people and Congress is clear. I encourage the president to sign this legislation.”

Hoeven issued that statement Monday morning.

The White House responded with its veto announcement just after noon.

Parkland Fuel buys 11 Chevron service stations

KIPP SCOTT RENOVATIONS

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Renovations to Kipp Scott GMC Buick Cadillac at 6841 Gaetz Ave. and the adjacent Scott Subaru continue. Changes will include the addition of drive-up express service, a covered drive-through and improved parking. The two dealerships, and Gord Scott Nissan, are part of the Scottsville Group.

Parkland Fuel Corp. (TSX: PKI) is strengthening its presence in British Columbia.

The Red Deer-based company, which is Canada’s largest independent marketer of fuel and petroleum products, announced on Monday that it has struck a deal with Chevron Canada Ltd. to acquire 11 Chevron-branded service stations in B.C. It said the agreement is an extension of its acquisition last year of 12 Chevron service stations in northern B.C. “We are pleased to add an additional 11 Chevronbranded service stations to our British Columbia operations,” said Bob Espey, president and CEO of Parkland. “Chevron is a premium fuel brand in British Columbia and we are excited to continue to grow together.”

Parkland said it will pay $17.1 million for the stations through “existing financial capacity,” and that the new stations are expected to add approximately $3 million to its annualized EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).

The sale is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015, and once complete will boost Parkland’s network of Chevron-branded stations to 33.

The company said the purchase will strengthen its brand and give it opportunities for growth through the Chevron brand. It added that Parkland’s Western Canadian supply portfolio and the density of its operations in B.C. will both increase.

Parkland supplies gasoline, diesel, propane, lubricants, heating oil and other petroleum products in Canada and the United States.

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Bell calls on courts to overturn CRTC decision on pricing

Lonestar West completes acquisition of Firehawk assets

PRICING MODEL WAS CALLED ‘UNLAWFUL’

Sylvan Lake-based Lonestar West Inc. (TSXV: LSI) continues its rapid growth.

The company reported on Monday that it’s completed the acquisition of assets belonging to Firehawk Services Ltd., a Fort McMurray hydrovac operator. Firehawk was a lease operator for Lonestar and had five hydrovac units.

A release issued by Lonestar said that it paid $2.73 million for Firehawk’s assets.

Last year, Firehawk had gross sales of nearly $6 million.

“The acquisition of Firehawk’s assets brings the Lonestar lease operator program to an end, reflecting Lonestar’s maturation as a corporation,” said company CEO James Horvath. “We believe that Lonestar is well positioned to deploy these assets into the corporate fleet.

“As of today’s date, Lonestar is operating a fleet of 142 corporately owned units.”

Lonestar operates vacuum, water and ancillary trucks throughout Western Canada and the United States.

CFIA says more countries restrict Canadian beef imports due to BSE EDMONTON — More countries are restricting Canadian beef over concerns about mad cow disease.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency website says Peru, Belarus and Taiwan have imposed temporary restrictions on beef imports.

Earlier this month, South Korea temporarily suspended imports after a beef breeding cow was discovered near Edmonton with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Indonesia has imposed temporary import restrictions on some non-edible meat products. The food safety agency says it is investigating the BSE cow’s feed source and whether any other cattle have the disease.

Shell Canada pulls regulatory application for Pierre River project CALGARY — Shell Canada Ltd. says it’s pulling its regulatory application for the proposed Pierre River oilsands project north of Fort McMurray, Alta., in order to focus on existing operations.

The move is the latest blow to the oilsands as companies look to cut costs and capital spending plans following the drop in oil prices.

Shell says that given the preliminary nature of the Pierre River project it expected the impact on jobs would be limited.

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Internet access advocacy group OpenMedia dismissed that argument Monday, saying it’s OTTAWA — One of the country’s biggest mobile clear consumers either pay more for competing companies is hoping the courts will overturn a programming because it costs more to access it, or decision by the telecom regulator that was aimed they lose the ability to choose alternative content at creating greater price fairness for mobile TV because it’s too expensive.

The broadcasting and telecom giant wants to services.

Bell Mobility Inc. has asked the Federal Court of artificially inflate the price of independent services Appeal to hear an appeal of a Jan. 29 ruling, which like Netflix instead of providing consumers choice called the service provider’s pricing model for its on a level playing field, said OpenMedia campaigns manager Josh Tabish. mobile TV app “unlawful.”

“Bell is doing everything in its power to make the Bell Mobility charges $5 a month for its Bell MoInternet more like bile TV service and cable TV,” he said. allows customers to “They want the ‘BELL IS DOING EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER stream up to 10 hours power to pick and of programming on TO MAKE THE INTERNET MORE LIKE CABLE choose what we see their mobile devices TV. THEY WANT THE POWER TO PICK AND by forcing competing without counting the usage against their CHOOSE WHAT SE BY FORCING COMPETING services into a more expensive toll lane monthly wireless daSERVICES INTO A MORE EXPENSIVE TOLL online,” he added. ta caps.

In its court It costs $3 for each LANE ONLINE’ filing, Bell said additional hour.

But if similar —JOSH TABISH its mobile TV app content is streamed OPENMEDIA CAMPAIGNS MANAGER is a broadcasting service and when from another source, its customers access the data used is counted, forcing customers who want the alternate other Internet-based video services, they are gaining that access through a separate and distinct Internet programming to pay for additional bandwidth.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecom- service.

The big telecommunications companies have munications Commission ruled the pricing model unlawful because it effectively made mobile TV ser- recently come under increasing pressure from vices from other providers artificially more expen- consumer advocacy groups over their pricing of mobile and Internet-based TV streaming services. sive and thereby uncompetitive.

Earlier this month, Bell Media and Telus Corp.

The CRTC gave Bell until April 29 to eliminate the asked the CRTC to dismiss what they termed a pricing practice.

However, Bell also asked a Federal Court judge “frivolous” complaint about Bell’s CraveTV video on Monday to issue an injunction to prevent the service.

The Consumers’ Association of Canada and the regulator from forcing the change until an appeal Public Interest Advocacy Centre have express can be heard.

CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said last month concerns over how the service delivers content to that all mobile service providers should treat content consumers.

Similar concerns have been expressed over flowing through their networks equally, without the Shomi video service offered jointly by Rogers offering special perks to their customers.

While innovation in its purest form should be Communications and Shaw Inc. The advocacy groups argue the companies applauded, the CRTC will intervene when it takes away from the principle of “fair and open access to offering those services “unduly prefer” their own customers and run counter to CRTC rules designed content,” Blais said.

Bell Mobility argues that Bell Mobile TV is a to promote consumer choice, partly because they broadcasting service and doesn’t fall under the require subscribers to purchase cable TV or Internet services from the telecom providers to access the Telecommunications Act. Bell also argues there is no evidence that the streaming video content.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 138.02 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.75 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.86 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.70 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.35 Cdn. National Railway . . 86.72 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 237.01 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.63 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.06 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.85 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.49 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.21 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.42 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.69 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.61 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.24 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.17 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.49 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.57 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.17 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.12 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 120.90 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.04 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.59 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.21 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Monday thanks to gains in tech stocks and the pharmaceutical sector.

The S&P/TSX composite index rose 28.02 points to 15,200.26, held back by falling oil prices and bank stocks that continued to lose ground ahead of the release of earnings news this week from a challenging quarter.

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (TSX:VRX) jumped $32.72 or 15 per cent to $250.13 after it offered US$10 billion in cash for Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a U.S.-based developer of gastrointestinal drugs. Valeant expects to achieve more than $500 million in annual cost savings for the combined company.

The Canadian dollar declined 0.19 of a U.S. cent to 79.52 cents.

New York markets were mainly lower with Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen set to deliver her semi-annual testimony on the economy to Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday. Traders will look for indications on when the Fed might start raising interest rates.

Many analysts think the Fed could move as early as June.

The Dow Jones industrials dropped 23.6 points to 18,116.84 and the S&P 500 index was down 0.64 of a point at 2,109.66, while the Nasdaq gained five points to 4,960.97.

On the TSX, the tech sector gained 1.65 per cent, with CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) ahead $3.22 or 6.15 per cent at $55.46.

The gold sector also buoyed the TSX, up 0.9 cent even as April gold lost $4.10 to US$1,200.80 an ounce.

Crude prices fell for a fourth straight session after data last week showed continued sharp increases in U.S. inventory lev-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.44 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.60 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.60 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.85 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.99 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.62 First Quantum Minerals . 14.12 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.09 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.43 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.35 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 46.24 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.39 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.68 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 24.04 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.76 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 62.92 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 42.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.40 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.10 Canyon Services Group. . 7.71 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.05 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4300 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.33 els. Prices have fallen about 40 per cent since the end of November amid a huge oversupply of crude on world markets.

The energy sector shed 0.63 per cent as the April crude contract in New York dropped $1.36 to US$49.45 a barrel.

Financials were down one per cent as five of the six big Canadian banks report quarterly earnings this week with Royal Bank (TSX:RY) down 88 cents to $75.13. The market hears from Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) next week.

The financial sector has been steadily losing ground over the last few sessions as banks face a number of problems “the most recent of which would be compression of net interest rate margins following the Bank of Canada’s rate cut,” said Mark Allen, vice-president, Canadian equities, RBC Wealth Management.

“But prior to that, there were concerns about Alberta, a slowing economy there or possibly a recession, which brings about the risk of higher loan losses in Western Canada, risk of higher credit card and personal loan losses in Western Canada (and) slower capital markets business because so much of it is related to resource stocks. And then all of this slowing mortgage growth trends.”

The base metals sector shed 1.6 per cent with March copper unchanged at US$2.59 a pound.

MARKETS CLOSE Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,200.26, up 28.02 points Dow — 18,116.90, down 23.60 points S&P 500 — 2,109.66, down 0.64 of a point Nasdaq — 4,960.97, up five points

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Agrium sees Q4 net profit fall 48% to US$51M Agrium Inc. (TSX:AGU) has reported a 48 per cent year-over-year decline in fourth-quarter profits as overall sales fell six per cent, mainly as a result of downtime at its Vanscoy potash facility and Redwater nitrogen plant. The Calgary-based fertilizer producer and marketer says fourth-quarter net earnings were US$51 million or 33 cents per share, down from US$99 million or 66 cents in the same 2013 period.

PrairieSky posts Q4 net earnings of $50.7M CALGARY — PrairieSky Royalty

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.01 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.22 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.60 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.58 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.13 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.08 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.63 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.005 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.54 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 38.67 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.82 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.27 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.51 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.15 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.38 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.92 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.83 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.95 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.88 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.70 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.54 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.88 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.73 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.05 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.43 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.13 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.46 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.54 Currencies: Cdn — 79.52 cents US, down 0.19 of a cent Pound — C$1.9441, up 1.36 of a cent Euro — C$1.4250, down 0.24 of a cent Euro — US$1.1331, down 0.46 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.45 per barrel, down one dollar, 36 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,200.80 per oz., down four dollars, 10 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.447 oz., up 7.1 cents $689.52 kg., up $2.28 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $0.40 lower $469.70; May ’15 $1.40 higher $467.50; July ’15 $2.20 higher $462.10; Nov ’15 $2.30 higher $450.90; Jan. ’16 $2.30 higher $452.50; March ’16 $2.30 higher $455.50; May ’16 $2.30 higher $457.80; July ’16 $2.30 higher $460.50; Nov. ’16 $2.30 higher $454.50; Jan. ’17 $2.30 higher $454.50; March ’17 $2.30 higher $454.50.

Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $184.00; May ’15 unchanged $186.00; July ’15 unchanged $188.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $179.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $179.00; March ’16 unchanged $179.00; May ’16 unchanged $179.00; July ’16 unchanged $179.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $179.00; Dec. ’ 16 unchanged $179.00; March ’17 unchanged $179.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 603,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 603,720.

Ltd. (TSX:PSK) has reported net earnings of $50.7 million or 38 cents per share in the final quarter of 2014. Revenue was $69.6 million in the three months ended Dec. 31.

Funds from operations were $59 million or 44 cents per share.

Production in the quarter averaged 17,280 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with an average realized price of $39.24 per barrel, versus $62.35 in the second quarter and $59.60 in the third.

For the 219 days since it began operations in late May, the company reported net earnings of $136.3 million or $1.75 per share on revenue of $198.7 million. Average production was 16,249 bbd, with an average realized price of $50.62 per barrel.

PrairieSky was spun off by Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) as part of a strategy to separate a big chunk of its royalty lands into a new publicly traded company.

Encana retains a majority stake in the company, which makes it money by allowing other energy companies to develop oil and gas on its land, which spans 5.2 million acres in southern and central Alberta.

Greece readies new list of bailout reforms

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Caught between its own defiant campaign pledges and pressure from creditors, Greece’s left-wing government will deliver a list of reforms Tuesday to debt inspectors for final approval of extended rescue loans, officials said. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was already facing dissent within his left-wing Syriza party over claims it is backtracking on its recent electionwinning promises to ease budget cuts for the recession-battered Greeks. Two officials linked to the government said the list will be sent to Brussels early Tuesday and be reviewed at a teleconference of the 19 eurozone finance ministers later in the day. They spoke on condition of anonymity either because he wasn’t authorized to make comments or because of the sensitivity of the negotiations. Greece and bailout creditors have been in a standoff since Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftwing Syriza party won general elections last month on a pledge to tear up bailout agreements and seek a massive write off of bailout debts, totalling 240 billion euros ($271 billion).

But they reached a tentative agreement Friday to extend the country’s rescue loan program by four months,

avoiding the risk of a Greek default and exit from the euro currency.

The government official said reforms would focus on curbing tax evasion, corruption, smuggling and excessive bureaucracy while also addressing poverty caused by a six-year recession.

A Syriza official in Brussels said that “immediate priority” would be given to the settling of overdue debts, the protection of people with mortgage arrears as well as the ending of foreclosures of first residencies.

“Creditors will be skeptical. These are notoriously difficult reforms and, in the case of the latter, usually cost money,” said Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife Asset Management.

“It will be difficult for the Greek government to provide concrete measures for achieving these goals, and they will almost certainly be unable to achieve much before the next round of negotiations in June.”

Tsipras is also facing pressure within his party. Several prominent Syriza members have publicly said the party should honour its campaign promises.

Environment Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, a bailout critic, lashed lead bailout lender Germany for insisting that Athens stick with austerity measures — an effort he said would fail.

Latest train derailment in Ontario shows new safety standards inadequate: TSB

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ally get a handle and understand how they performed under those circumstances,” he said.

“There’s more that needs to be done,” he said. “Ideally, you want to see a more robust tank car to transport this product.

The agency is urging Transport Canada to quickly introduce enhanced protection standards to reduce the risk of spills when these tanks are involved in accidents. A spokesman for Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Transport Canada, in collaboration with the U.S., is developing a next generation standard of tank car for the transport of flammable liquids that would be more robust than the one currently used.

An investigation into the recent derailment in Ontario of a freight train carrying crude oil suggests new safety standards introduced after the Lac-Megantic, Que., tragedy are inadequate, Canada’s transport investigator said Monday.

The tank cars involved in the Feb. 14 CN train derailment about 80 kilometres south of Timmins met the recently upgraded standards for new tank cars carrying crude and other flammable liquids, the Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary findings.

But the cars — called Class 111 — still “performed similarly” to those involved in the devastating derailment and exploRed Deer, Alberta sion in Lac-Megantic two years ago, which predated the changes, the board said.

In both cases, the board said, the tank cars ruptured and released crude oil, which fed the flames.

The agency said this month’s incident, which affected passenger rail service between Toronto and Winnipeg, “demonstrates the inadequacy” of Dawn Stacey the new standards.

Ken Mandrusiak, President, is pleased to announce the appointment of “We’ve pointed for Dawn Stacey as General Manager of the Black Knight Inn. years at the vulnerability Dawn will be responsible for the management of the hotel which of the Class 111 tank car includes 98 recently renovated guest rooms and suites, 10,000 square and the board has called feet of conference facilities, JB’s cocktail lounge and Remington’s Grill. for tougher standards Prior to Dawn’s appointment at the Black Knight Inn, she acquired for some time,” said Rob extensive management experience working in the hospitality industry in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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RED DEER CITY COUNCILLOR SAYS PARKVALE STREET COULD GET NEW STATUS

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF There might be a solution to the windrows that angered a group of Red Deer seniors recently, city Coun. Ken Johnston said on Monday.

The seniors, who live in the Parkvale neighbourhood on 42nd Street Crescent, complained that heavy, icy windrows left by city snow-clearing crews blocked their driveways and, for some, it was a hardship to remove them.

In previous years, the windrows were removed by the city. But a new policy initiated this year is aimed at clearing less snow off roads, but more often and in less time. One of the re-

sults is lower windrows but clearing them from driveways is now the responsibility of home owners.

Johnston, who went to speak to some of the seniors after being contacted by them the day the plows had gone through (Feb. 13), said the challenge is the particular demographic of that area of Parkvale. The residents who live on 42nd Street Crescent are seniors.

The city has promoted “snow buddies” under the new policy, which encourages more able neighbours to help those who need it with snow shovelling.

“The unique problem with Parkvale is your snow buddy is as old or infirm, or both, as you might be. If you’re 85-years-old and your neighbour is

85-years-old, there’s a challenge there.

“My own view is we can create a green route in Parkvale, which puts it on the same footing as a bus route, which means the snow is removed. But I’m just one councillor.”

Residential areas are grey zones.

Bus routes are green zones.

The seniors street sees a lot of handibus, ambulance and meals-on-wheels traffic. Parkvale residents do understand costs and safety issues, Johnston said.

“The immediate thing is maybe we can create a green route or some sort of hybrid group to be able to get these old folks properly serviced.

“This policy’s not etched in stone.

Nobody’s chained to this policy. It has

to be effective across the city and when we get neighbourhoods like this, we just have to be sensitive and ... do we need to tweak it because of the particular demographics of a particular area?”

Johnston said he does not know how many neighbourhoods are similar to Parkvale and the city does need to act equitably.

He and other councillors will discuss the concerns with city administration.

“I can say with all confidence this kind of feedback is very valued. It’s very seriously considered and our policy is very fluid. There’s no question about it.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

CHIRPING CHICKADEE

PONOKA INQUIRY

Lifeline pendants recalled

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Chirping from its perch along the perimetre trail at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area this Chickadee makes its presence known. With its distinctive chicka-dee-dee-dee call this little bird that overwinters in Canada is a common sight in the colder months. Along the trails in Red Deer they are very approachable and have been know to land in the hand if offered a place to perch.

CRIME IN BRIEF

Five face charges in connection with grow-op Three men and two women from Calgary have been charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar grow operation discovered in Olds on Feb. 12.

Police seized $40,000 in cash deemed proceeds of crime; and 2,137 marijuana plans with a street value of $2.5 million.

Xiang Wu, 45, Huy Kham Lanh, 29, Kham Tu Lanh, 58, Juan Yant, 42, and Xiurong Ye, 43, have been released from custody to appear in Didsbury provincial court on March 23. Yant and Ye are the two women.

All stand charged with possession of marijuana in an amount greater than three kg for the purpose of trafficking under the controlled substances act; unlawful production of a controlled substance; and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.

RCMP Olds and Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) say they uncovered the massive grow operation in Olds after suspicious activity was reported to police.

The home was an authorized medicinal grow-op site, but police say the terms and conditions of the licence were violated as the number of plants grossly exceeded the number permitted.

Alberta Health inspectors have deemed the home uninhabitable.

To report suspicious activity or a suspected marijuana grow operation in your community, police ask that you

contact police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. For more information about how to spot a marijuana grow operation check www.alert-ab.ca/growops.

Men facing multiple charges after alleged breakin-in Two Red Deer men face multiple charges after an attempted break-in at a residence north of Red Deer on Saturday.

Police responded to a complaint of a break and enter in progress at a home on C&E Trail at 7:30 a.m.

The suspect vehicle left the scene at high speed and the driver refused to stop for police. Police laid several tire deflation devices. The suspect vehicle struck one of the devices at high speed and then struck a stand of trees in the area of Range Road 391 and C&E Trail.

The passenger was arrested in the vehicle while the driver attempted to flee on foot. The driver was arrested a short distance away.

The vehicle was reported stolen in Bentley on Feb. 18 as part of a residential break-in. Police discovered stolen items in the vehicle taken that morning from break-ins at Onside Restoration and Shaw Cable, and several other locations.

Police also located a second stolen vehicle that had been taken from Norseman Oilfield Mechanical Services. Red Deer RCMP worked with Sylvan Lake and Blackfalds RCMP to lay charges in their policing areas.

A 20-year-old man was to appear in court today charged with dangerous driving; failing to stop for police; fail to top at the scene of an accident; two

counts of residential break-ins; two counts of commercial break-ins; mischief under $5,000; theft under $5,000; theft over $5,000; and two counts of break of an undertaking.

A 26-year-old man is charged with a residential break in; a commercial break-in; mischief under $5,000; theft under $5,000; and theft over $5,000.

Both men were to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Monday.

Olds hit and run, theft attempt probed Olds RCMP are seeking public assistance with regard to a hit and run in Olds on Sunday.

At about 8:50 p.m. on Sunday, police responded to a report of a hit-and-run collision at the intersection of 50th Street and 57th Avenue.

Three men and two women were seen fleeing from the Dodge Caravan they were travelling in. Police confirmed the vehicle was stolen from Calgary and the licence plate was stolen from Olds.

A short time later, RCMP responded to a report of an attempted vehicle theft in the Walmart parking lot. A woman said she found one male and one female at her vehicle. The female suspect told the owner to turn over her keys because she had a knife.

The woman refused to give her keys.

No weapon was produced.

The suspects were believed to be connected to the earlier collision. No charges have been laid and the investigation is ongoing.

RCMP ask that anyone who has any information about the investigation to call Olds RCMP at 403-556-3324.

A Lifeline pendant linked to the death of a Ponoka woman has been recalled by its manufacturer.

Philips Lifeline has recalled the non-breakaway neck cord version of its Lifeline Personal Health Button pendants. Similar pendants with breakaway cords are not affected by the recall.

Cords without the breakaway design could pose a strangulation risk if the cord gets caught on a wheelchair, walker or other protruding objects, Health Canada states in the recall notice issued Friday.

This recall involves the nonbreakaway neck cord versions of the Lifeline AutoAlert Personal Help Button, Classic Personal Help Button, and the Slimline Personal Help Button.

More than 100,000 of the units with non-breakaway cords were distributed in Canada prior to 2011, but some of the units remained in the market after that date.

A fatality inquiry report issued last week by Alberta provincial court Judge B.D. Rosborough implicated the pendant in the death of a Ponoka woman in 2013.

“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 asphyxiation brought about when the Lifeline Bell she was wearing became entangled in her walker and strangled her,” Rosborough stated in his report.

To prevent other deaths, Rosborough recommended all Lifeline pendants have breakaway cords.

Rosborough urged that Alberta Health and/or Health Canada immediately take steps to replace all non-breakaway cords used with Lifeline products.

Rosborough made his recommendation after a fatality inquiry into the death of Elizabeth Ann Bell, 73. She died on Feb. 19, 2013.

Bell lived in a mobile home in Ponoka and was in failing health.

She had used her Lifeline unit on several occasions when she had fallen or was ill. Lifelines have a button that when pressed summon responders through Lifeline’s Emergency Response Care Centre.

The Health Canada notice said that since 2009, Health Canada and Philips Lifeline have received reports of two deaths possibly related to the affected non-breakaway cord pendants. The release did not say where the reported deaths occurred.

Consumers who don’t have a breakaway neck cord should contact Philips Lifeline Canada at 1-800-387-1215 (24 hours/seven days per week) or via the Philips Lifeline website to order a replacement neck cord with a breakaway feature or an alert button worn on the wrist.

Dawson seeks Progressive Conservative nod

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER NORTH

A former Red Deer city councillor and one-time mayoral candidate has decided to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination for the Red Deer North constituency.

Jeffrey Dawson, 47, announced on Monday that he wants to represent the party in the next election.

Dawson said he decided to run after he learned that Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski was not going to seek re-election in the next provincial election.

Dawson said that other commitments, one which took him out of the country until Monday, caused him to hold off on making the announcement.

He joins three other people seeking the PC nomination — restaurant worker Matt Chapin, city Coun. Buck Buchanan and Red Deer County Coun.

Christine Moore.

“I’ve go the burning desire. When the timing is right, you know it’s right.”

Dawson was a city councillor from 1995 to 2007. In 2007, he decided to run for mayor against incumbent Mor-

ris Flewwelling. Chapin also ran for mayor in that race. Dawson garnered 5,704 votes to Flewwelling’s 7,019 votes.

Chapin got 559.

Dawson has not run again for city council since he lost his bid for mayor.

He said that if he doesn’t win the nomination, it’s “not on my radar” to try another run at city council.

While he lives in the Red Deer South constituency, he has worked and volunteered mostly in Red Deer North and this is where he feels most comfortable running, he said. He has lived in the city for 24 years.

Dawson is a registered casino advisor, and works on behalf of charities

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involved in casinos. He is also a Municipal Government Board member appointed by the province to adjudicate non-legal issues with municipalities.

He said he won’t be allowed to do board work if he wins the nomination.

The official nomination period for both Red Deer North and South constituencies starts today at 9 a.m. and closes on March 9 at noon. The voting takes place with advance polls on March 19 from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Red Deer Museum, and then on nomination meeting day, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Festival Hall, at 4214 58th St. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ontario revises sex ed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario kids as young as six will learn about consent while eight-year-olds will be taught about same-sex relationships under a revamped sex-education curriculum the province released Monday.

The document — last updated in 1998 before smartphones were invented — brings Ontario in line with other provinces, Education Minister Liz Sandals said in a news conference. Some of the changes, she suggested, may even place Ontario ahead of the pack.

“I think that on having a very explicit conversation about consent — what does consent mean and what do healthy relationships look like — I think in that piece we may become the leader,” she said.

Grade 1 students will learn how to understand non-verbal signals like facial expressions and tone of voice, as well as the proper names for body parts, which was already in the old curriculum.

Sandals said she knows some parents think that’s too early for such discussions, but she doesn’t think very many will pull their kids out of class.

“Given that we haven’t had hoards of people withdrawing from the public education system given what’s already in the curriculum, to be perfectly honest, I don’t anticipate that affect now,” she said.

Other changes include students in Grade 2 learning about the stages of development and related bodily changes along with the concept that “no means no.”

By Grade 3, students will learn about same-sex relationships, which Kathleen Wynne, the first openly gay premier, said would help kids with two moms or two dads feel their families are just like everyone else’s.

“It’s not about explicit information except that it needs to be about kids feeling safe, feeling protected, feeling like they belong,” Wynne said.

Children in Grades 4 and up will learn more about the dangers of online bullying and of posting or sharing sexual images, while specific lessons on the dangers of sexting will come in Grade 7.

One change in the new curriculum will be lessons about puberty will move from Grade 5 to Grade 4.

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Psychiatrist says man who beheaded bus passenger should go to group home WINNIPEG — Experts are recommending a man who beheaded a fellow passenger aboard a Greyhound bus should be transferred from a mental facility to a Winnipeg hospital with

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Medical marijuana plants are shown at a medical marijuana facility in Richmond, B.C., on Friday, March 21, 2014. A lawyer representing four patients has told a Federal Court judge that Canada’s new rules governing medical marijuana are forcing them to choose between their health and their liberty.

B.C. patients ask court to overturn new medical marijuana regime

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The federal government’s decision to prevent Canadians from growing their own medical marijuana and instead forcing them to buy it from commercial producers has robbed them of affordable access to medicine, says a lawyer for a group of patients.

John Conroy, who is representing four people challenging last year’s changes to the medical marijuana system, told Federal Court that some patients have been left with little choice but to run afoul of the law, either by continuing to grow their own pot or purchasing it on the black market.

“The patients continue to be placed in a situation where they have to choose between their liberty and their health,” Conroy said Monday.

He argued that such a choice violates the charter, and he asked a judge to order the government to allow patients to continue growing their own an eye to moving him to a community group home.

It’s also being suggested that Vince Li be granted unescorted outings.

Li’s psychiatrist, Dr. Steven Kremer, told a criminal code board review hearing Monday that Li has shown “profound improvement” and is at low risk to reoffend. Risk assessments done by several other doctors came to the same conclusion, the board heard.

Li, 46, has not had any hallucinations in over a year and understands the need to take his medication, Kremer said. Should Li be transferred to a group home, staff there would ensure he continued the medication necessary to manage his schizophrenia, the doctor said.

medical marijuana.

Patients whose doctors prescribe marijuana have had legal access to the drug in Canada since 2001, when the government introduced regulations in response to a court decision. Under that regime, patients could either grow their own marijuana, designate someone to grow it for them, or buy it directly from Health Canada.

The Conservative government overhauled the system last year, shifting production from patients’ basements to large-scale commercial operations.

Patients immediately launched a constitutional challenge of the updated regulations, and many have been able to continue growing under the terms of a temporary court injunction.

Conroy said marijuana sold by commercial producers is too expensive for some patients, who can’t always find the specific strains that work for them.

Shawn Davey, one of the plaintiffs in the case and the trial’s first witness, told the court he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident almost 15 years ago, leaving him with constant

pain, memory loss and poor balance.

He said he’s been using marijuana to treat his symptoms since about 2002, though he obtained it on the black market until he was approved under the federal rules in 2010.

Under the federal system, Davey went through two designated growers until he and a friend built a grow-op in a barn, which required more than $27,000 worth of equipment. He estimates it costs about $330 a month to grow his marijuana, plus about $500 for electricity.

He said his monthly expenses are still lower than they would be if he bought marijuana from a licensed producer. While prices range from below $5 a gram to $15, Davey suggested he would probably end up paying about $8 to $10 per gram for about 750 grams each month.

“I can’t do it bro, there’s no way,” he said, referring to the cost.

“And I trust what I grow. ... This is my body and I don’t want anyone else dealing with it.”

“His likelihood to re-engage in violence is low.”

Lawrence, 62, was found in a burned out bus shelter on Oct. 23, 2013, in Berwick, a small town about 120 kilometres northwest of Halifax.

Six months later, Surette, 27, and Fredericks, 25, were charged with firstdegree murder.

A preliminary hearing for Surette and Fredericks began earlier this month but their defence lawyers agreed Monday to proceed with a trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Kentville, where they pleaded guilty to the reduced murder charge with the Crown’s consent.

“I hope the family can fine some closure,” Surette said as he was whisked out of the courtroom in handcuffs and remanded into custody.

Men who set homeless man on fire guilty of murder KENTVILLE, N.S. — Two Nova Scotia men who doused a homeless man with gas and set him on fire with a cigarette lighter while he was sleeping in a bus shelter pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder.

The Crown read a summation of an agreed statement of facts in Harley Lawrence’s death after Daniel Wayne Surette and Kyle David James Fredericks entered their pleas.

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Or perhaps in my tech-No-logy condition I picked up on the information through sheer telepathic awareness.

The point is I was completely alone now. And I used that solitude as best I knew how. There I was flailing my arms asking the high heavens why horrible things always seemed to happen to me. Tears of frustration welled in my bloodshot eyes as I scanned the computer’s desktop for any clue as to why my efforts had been for naught.

At one point, in an act of pure vexation, I swept my arm across the desk knocking all of its contents (books, papers, pens, external hard drives — yes I have a very messy work space) onto the floor and surrounding area. At that point, I admitted myself to the floor and cried.

I cried for my failure as a printer installer. I cried for the pages that seemed would never be. And I cried for my inability to learn anything new at this stubborn age of mine.

As I lay crumpled and dejected on blue carpet, I pondered the meaning of existence.

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Wife’s behaviour forces man to rethink having kids Q: Should we have kids if my wife o u t n o t j u s t is emotionally unstable and has been what it takes to physically abusive with me? We’ve entice children been married for 10 years and this has to play, but to been going on the entire time. I very keep them commuch want kids and don’t know what i n g b a c k f o r to do. more.

Jim: I’m saddened for you and unA good rule derstand the painful prospect of life of thumb for without children. Still, under the cir- curbing the tencumstances, I think it’s fortunate that dency to overyou haven’t had kids yet. Physical vio- indulge is to lence and abuse are serious problems r e q u i r e y o u r in a marriage. It’s impossible to say kids to read 30 JIM for sure without more details, but our m i n u t e s o f a DALY counselors suggest that the kind of be- great book in havior you’re describing may indicate e x c h a n g e f o r the presence of a personality or mood the privilege of disorder. That’s not a good situation playing a video for a child. game for the I’d encourage you to make a de- same amount of termined effort to deal with these is- time. Or you could require an hour of sues decisively before giving another reading for 30 minutes of electronic thought to having kids. You can’t pos- screen time (TV, computer, video gamsibly move forward until you’ve ad- ing, etc.). I’d suggest developing and dressed this pressing need at the heart instituting some type of coupon system of your relationship. as currency. However you choose to Ultimately, your wife must acknowl- enforce this, your children will come edge that she has a problem and do out winners. whatever it takes to get in touch with They’ll expand their world — inthe sources of her anger and frustration. That may mean digging up past Please see DALY on Page C4 hurts, facing fears about the future or exploring the possibility of chemical imbalances. In the meantime, parenthood will need to wait until these hurdles have been overcome.

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As with a lot of people, I’ve taken to watching TED Talks. If you’re not familiar with TED Talks, I encourage you to search for the talks on the Internet and watch the ones that intrigue you. In official terms, TED is “a global set of conferences run by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation under the motto, ideas worth spreading.” In general terms, TED Talks are insightful, inspiring speeches — typically no longer than 18 minutes — on every imaginable subject.

Recently, I watched a TED Talk entitled The Happy Secret to Better Work

by Shawn Achor — American educator, author and advocate of positive psychology. As it turns out, Achor’s “Happy Secret” is among the 20 most viewed talks of all time. To give you a little background, Achor spent 12 years at Harvard University studying what makes people happy. Later, he wrote the best-seller The Happiness Advantage and founded the Institute of Positive Research.

I was intrigued when Achor spoke about one of the most common myths of our modern culture: “If I work harder, I’ll be more successful. And if I’m more successful, then I’ll be happier.”

According to Achor, the belief statement simply doesn’t work or, as he puts it, it’s “scientifically broken and backwards.” Apparently, there are two main reasons why this is the case.

“First, every time your brain has a success, you change the goalpost of what success looks like. You got good grades, now you have to get better grades. You got into a good school, now you have to get into a better school.

You got a good job, now you have to get a better job. You hit your sales target, we’re going to change your sales target.”

Achor claims that “happiness is on the opposite side of success” so our brain never quite finds its way there.

“We’ve pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society.”

In essence, if we put off being happy until we are successful (whatever that might look like) it’s not going to

happen. It appears (according to Achor) that our brains just don’t work that way. Achor claims that if we allow ourselves to experience happiness in the present, we’re going to enjoy MURRAY a lot more FUHRER success. By raising our “level of positivity in the present” we can actually raise our intelligence, creativity and energy levels.

That’s a bold statement but Achor says his exhaustive research conducted over 12 years at Harvard University supports his assertion.

“Your brain at positive is 31 per cent more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed,” declares Achor. “You’re 37 per cent better at sales. Doctors are 19 per cent faster and more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis when positive instead of negative, neutral or stressed. If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully, as we’re able to work harder, faster and more intelligently.”

“And,” says Achor, “every single business outcome improves.”

Achor’s research is by no means the only source for such assertions.

Countless studies have demonstrated that positive changes in physiology and psychology can be derived from a more positive outlook. Studies in neuroplasticity show that changes in neural pathways and synapses occur when changes are made in behaviour, environment, thinking, emotions and beliefs.

Often, in my self-esteem work, I talk about happiness being a choice.

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Please see FUHRER on Page C4

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Introducing Dr. K! At Alpen Dental, one great pleasure I have had is introducing enthusiastic new young doctors to central Alberta!

Dr. Annum Khosla has been with us since the late fall, and is quickly making new friends in Blackfalds and Red Deer. She grew up in India where her uncle was a heart surgeon and aunt was an Ear/Nose/Throat specialist. Health care was certainly in her family, and in that educational system one has to choose your path in Grade 11.

She was inclined towards medicine, but has a creative and artsy streak that further steered her towards dentistry and smile construction.

Her first dental degree was in India, where she practiced for a year. Moving to Canada was exciting, and she enrolled and graduated from UBC Dental School with her DMD degree. She initially heard of Alpen Dental from an instructor at UBC, and after careful selection central Alberta, and specifically Blackfalds, became her residence and career choice.

We did tell her about snow which was entirely new to her, and that has been a learning curve! Central Albertan hospitality has been overwhelming, and she has found people completely open and welcoming of new neighbours and friends. Prior to university Dr. K. was a tennis and table tennis aficionado, and as a graduated dental professional she enjoys those pursuits along with all the typical home family activities.

Every profession has it's high and low moments, and for Dr. K the 'high' is relieving a patient of pain and providing a pleasing smile that brings comfort and pleasure to a patient. Some surgery she welcomes is the removal of wisdom teeth because she knows what trouble they will create for her patients if left untouched. A 'low' moment is removal of teeth without a replacement option for patients whose appearance and function is going to be compromised by disease, accident, or anything else. Fortunately, our area is quite progressive with patients taking responsibility for their oral health – and much of the smile reconstruction work being completed at Alpen is with newer technology that Dr. K. found absent in other practices she considered. As she puts it – “the dental science is unchanged”, but with the latest scanning equipment available in-house, she is able to offer her patients instantly available information that enables them to make their best dental decision now - rather than later. To some, that makes a significant difference.

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First off, if you are looking for the other three in this tale you may be disappointed — today it’s more of a “me” piece.

A few days ago, I found myself with a hankering to work on one of my dusty fiction yarns. I decided that printing off a first draft sci-fi piece I’d been toiling with for the last few years would be a great start. I could touch up on some revision and editing skills.

My problem, though, was getting my printer hooked up. You see, we haven’t had a working printer in over a year.

Why need one in this day and age when you’ve got The Cloud! Well to answer my own rhetorical question, for times exactly like this, I suppose.

So I got to work. I had to find the disk that would install the printer onto our computer — I knew that much. Actually I’m lying already, my 60-year-old mother knew that much and earnestly tried to explain it to me while I had an outwards hissy fit in front of her and my six-year-old son.

“Sweetheart, I’m pretty sure you need to install it to the computer,” she said. Lars added in a, “Yeah I think Granny is right Mom.” “But it has the Bluetooth — it should already be linked up,” I cried to them both.

Eventually I was convinced by the two of them that installing the printer software (or is it hardware?) with the disk would be our best bet.

It pleased me to discover that after doing so, the printer icon showed up on my computer under the devices section. The printing machine itself had power coursing through it, to which I was able to successfully print the alignment page after a few tries. Hawzaa for Lindsay!

Yet when I attempted to print something off of my word processor, nothing happened. Quite literally, nothing happened. Not so much as a click of a copier reel or a bing of an error message. Nothing.

By this time, I was sure that the entrails of my brains had begun spilling out of my ears due to the infuriating sound of oblivion.

At some point throughout the or-

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Panel suggests making people pay Florist who refused to sell flowers more for sugary drinks and snacks for gay wedding SENATE REPUBLICAN CRITICIZES THE REPORT

WASHINGTON — A tax on sugary drinks and snacks is one way a government panel of nutrition experts thinks Americans can be coaxed into eating better. Some members of Congress are already pushing back on the idea, saying the panel has overstepped its bounds.

The panel’s recommendations will help determine what gets into the new version of dietary guidelines being prepared by the Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments. The advice includes eating more fruits and vegetables and whole grains and limiting added sugars and fat.

However, the panel goes beyond previous versions of the dietary guidelines by suggesting a broad list of possible policy changes — a tax is just one — that could make it easier for people to follow that diet advice.

“Taxation on higher sugar- and sodium-containing foods may encourage consumers to reduce consumption and revenues generated could support health promotion efforts,” the committee wrote as part of the recommendations released this week.

Such taxes have mostly failed to gain traction around the country, though voters in Berkeley, California, approved a special, per-ounce tax on sugary drinks in November. In New York City, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to cap the size of sugary drinks sold in restaurants and other venues at 16 ounces, but legal challenges spearheaded by the beverage industry brought down the effort in the courts.

Other ideas put forth by the committee were placing nutrition labels on the front of food packages and requiring public buildings to serve healthier foods.

The committee also suggested incentives for eating fruits and vegetables, though it didn’t detail how that could work. Panel members said incentives might be vouchers for farmers markets or subsidies for growers or grocery stores.

The panel endorsed adding a line on the nutrition facts label for added sugars, which the Obama administration has already proposed. It also backed the administration’s standards for healthier school lunches.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Rob-

erts, R-Kan., criticized the report shortly after it came out Thursday, saying the committee strayed from its science-based nutrition recommendations.

“This is economic, not nutrition, policy,” he said.

Congress weighed in on a draft of the report last December, noting that the dietary guidelines panel was poised to suggest a more environmentally friendly diet of plant-based foods. In a massive spending bill, lawmakers instructed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack “to only include nutrition and dietary information, not extraneous factors” in the final guidelines.

After the report was issued, Vilsack said the guidelines are supposed to be informed by the “latest and best science and medical knowledge.”

He wouldn’t address the content of the report specifically, but said he doesn’t want the final report to have “anything outside of the lines in the guidelines that would potentially undercut the legitimacy, credibility and acceptance of the guidelines. ... The law is fairly clear to me, it’s about nutrition and it’s about diet.”

Committee members say their panel was charged with looking at implications of its findings, and the policy changes were just suggestions.

“The idea is to stimulate thinking on how to get there,” Barbara Millen, the chairwoman of the committee, said Friday.

Alice Lichtenstein, a member of the panel and a professor at Tufts University, said there is some data that similar policy initiatives have worked, like efforts to ban trans fat from the food supply. She said the policy suggestions are to raise the issue for the future.

“To bring it up as something for future consideration, I think that’s appropriate,” she said.

One former member of a dietary guidelines advisory panel disagreed.

Joanne Lupton of Texas A&M University, who served on the 2005 dietary guidelines advisory panel, said her committee was told just to stick to the science.

“They should show us studies that taxes have a beneficial effect,” she said of this year’s panel.

The beverage industry argued the same point.

“The committee does not have the authority to make such recommendations, nor the scientific evidence or expertise to back up its recommendations,” the American Beverage Association said in a statement.

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FUHRER: Keep a journal and note the positive Some clients are quick to embrace the concept while others struggle with a victim mentality. I have kept a gratitude journal for many years and can attest to the power of positive expressions of gratitude. I recommend that everyone keep a journal and get into the habit of noting the positive. This needn’t be an onerous task. Here’s all you do to get started. Once a day, for 21 days, write down three new things in your life that you’re grateful for. If Achor’s claims are correct then your brain will begin scanning your environment not for the negative, but for the positive. As someone once told me, “We become (or experience) what we think about most of the time.”

If this seems burdensome, you can add some fun to the equation by making a pact with a friend. Once a day, email a buddy describing something good that you experienced over the past 24 hours. Ask them to do the same.

It’s a fun way to retrain your brain.

All it takes is an act of will. Sure, it’ll seem a little odd at first but will soon become fun and inspirational. Involve a few people and take turns. Start your own gratitude group and see where it goes.

A few years ago, I tried an interesting experiment. I sent an email to a different person each day for a week telling them what I liked best about them, how they inspired me and the valuable life-lessons I had learned from them.

Some people were confused by my emails while others wondered about my motivation. Most people, however, were grateful and gracious.

“Success is not the key to happiness,” wrote Albert Schweitzer, theologian, philosopher and physician.

“Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Perhaps Schweitzer intuitively knew what Achor would assert many years later.

Even if Achor’s assertions are overly optimistic, there’s still great value in choosing to live a life of passion and purpose: a happy and grateful existence that’s anchored in the present.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE, Wash. — A florist who refused to provide flowers for a gay wedding has rejected an offer from the Washington state attorney general to settle a discrimination case by paying a $2,000 fine and agreeing to sell bouquets for same-sex ceremonies in the future.

“Our state would be a better place if we respected each other’s differences, and our leaders protected the freedom to have those differences,” Barronelle Stutzman wrote in a letter Friday to Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

She wrote that gay couples are allowed to act on their views, but “because I follow the Bible’s teaching that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, I am no longer free to act on my beliefs.”

Stutzman, 70, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, Washington, had earlier said she plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that she broke a state antidiscrimination law. Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom on Wednesday rejected arguments that Stutzman’s actions were protected by her freedoms of speech and religion.

The First Amendment protects religious beliefs but not necessarily actions based on those beliefs, Ekstrom ruled. The state has the authority to prohibit discrimination, and Stutzman can be held personally liable for damages if she breaks bias laws, the judge said.

Stutzman’s lawyer contended that the attorney general’s offer was aimed at avoiding bad publicity.

“He’s had nearly two years to end the threat to Barronelle’s freedom and livelihood,” Kristen Waggoner said.

A gay couple and the state sued the florist, who could be required to pay damages and legal fees that far exceed the attorney general’s offer.

Ferguson said Thursday that his goal wasn’t Stutzman’s financial ruin. He offered to settle the case for $2,000 — the fine for violations of the law — and a $1 payment for legal fees if she would agree not to discriminate against same-sex couples.

“My primary goal has always been to bring about an end to the defendants’ unlawful conduct and to make clear that I will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” Ferguson said.

gaming to 30 minutes per day (an hour on weekends). These days, there are timers on the market that go one better: They actually shut off a device at a predetermined time so you don’t have to be the bad guy. What better way to limit gaming to what you and your spouse determine is best for your children!

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

BROWN: Wireless not always the answer Then it struck me — I had a cord connecting from the back of the print-

er into the wall, but did I have one that connected from the printer to the computer?

In my defence, in this age of Bluetooth and wireless everything, I honestly didn’t think there would be a need for such a cord. But lo and behold, as I plugged that baby in I was able to print thereafter until my heart was content.

As I headed off to snuggle in my bed with a first draft manuscript and a very, very, very large glass of wine, I had a newfound confidence that floated alongside me. Maybe there were a few pit stops, and sure several manic meltdowns, but it does go to show that you can most definitely teach an old dog new tricks.

That was until the next day when we managed to wipe the computer clean of all of its documents and programs … for the second time in one year.

Maybe it’s not an age thing, perhaps I’m just not cut out for this tech crap after all.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

DALY: Use timer to regulate video game play They’ll expand their world — increasing their reading skills and knowledge — while keeping gaming activity under control.

A related challenge you might encounter is that your child’s mental clock may tend to “run slow” when it comes to his 30 minutes of gaming privileges. The remedy is to employ a reliable timekeeping device. In our home, we used an egg timer to help enforce a family rule that limited video

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Jessica Williams has appeared in 97 episodes of ‘The Daily Show’ since her debut in 2012. At 25, preserving some flexibility to pursue multiple potential career paths might make more sense for Williams than locking herself into the fake news business.

COMMENT Sandberg and Nell Scovell’s manifesto encouraging young women to embrace their professional ambitions, they might also have considered the perils of the glass cliff. That’s a management idea that suggests women have better chances of snagging top jobs in organizations at times when those organizations are in trouble, but then get weighted down by problems not of their own making.

Williams wouldn’t exactly be in the position that General Motors chief executive Mary Barra found herself in last year when her company had to start recalling cars. Stewart is going out at a high point in his career, and Comedy Central has broken out other shows like Key & Peele and Broad City that are highly influential, if not mass

hits. There might even be a chance for Williams to bolster the show’s female viewership, and thus the franchise as a whole. But whoever follows Stewart to the anchor’s desk has a tremendous legacy to maintain and to innovate beyond. That’s a heavy burden to take up if you’re still developing your own political and comedic sensibility.

As L.V. Anderson put it, no matter the magnitude of the task, “It’s perfectly OK for young people to feel like they need more time to learn how to do something.”

Bim Adewunmi, BuzzFeed UK’s culture editor, suggested that the eagerness of some people to have Williams take the top job at The Daily Show has an element in common with the impulse to nominate Idris Elba for every role under the sun, no matter whether or not he wants it. The anxiety that Williams might take herself out of the

Patton Oswalt plays Rob Fordinspired character in new series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The ignoble exploits of a certain former Toronto mayor often seemed like a made-up Hollywood story.

Now they appear to have inspired an episode of the new CBS/Global series Battle Creek, which features a Rob Ford-like character whose penchant for parties and drugs gets him into a mess of trouble.

Josh Duhamel (Transformers, Las Vegas) and Dean Winters (30 Rock, Oz) star as two mismatched law enforcement officers who butt heads over just about everything.

Comedian Patton Oswalt makes a guest appearance in episode six as a drug-addled mayor with an overbearing brother who micromanages his career.

Duhamel traces the dig to series cocreator David Shore, who is Canadian.

“Well, he’s from Toronto, I think that it was sort of an homage to Rob Ford,” Duhamel said Monday during a stop in Toronto to promote the series Photo by ADVOCATE news services with Winters.

“Which I thought was great and I Dean Winters, left, and Josh Duhamel star as two mismatched law enforcement thought Patton Oswalt was fantastic. officers who butt heads over just about everything in ‘Battle Creek.’

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As the search for a new host of The Daily Show gears up, it’s worth remembering Jessica Williams doesn’t need to leap for the anchor’s job: she already has other options, and she’ll build more. And in a truly healthy, diverse media environment, The Daily Show would have plenty of other women and people of colour in the pipeline, ready to slide comfortably behind Jon Stewart’s desk.

Alyssa Rosenberg writes The Post’s Act Four blog, at http://www.washingtonpost. com/news/act-four/.

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President Bronislaw Komorowski said the award is a “source of satisfaction for all Poles” and proof that democratic Poland is becoming an increasingly attractive country, with “valuable things to offer to the world.”

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One suggestion that generated a lot of potential excitement was current Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams. 14,000 people signed a petition calling on Comedy Central to pick her, and the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2 imagined a future in which she occupied the anchor’s chair. But when Williams demurred, suggesting that she was “under-qualified” for the job, some observers urged her to lean in rather than mark down her own abilities, and Williams responded with understandable frustration that someone else would claim to know her better than she knows herself.

It’s an awkward turn all around, and an illustration of an important idea.

As fun as it can be to fantasy-cast our favorite actors in the roles we imagine for them, especially when we think we’re advocating for diversity, our wishes aren’t necessarily what’s best for the actor in question.

There are any number of reasons Williams might not want to take the anchor’s chair at The Daily Show. It is, as the title implies, a punishing gig, and accepting it would mean forfeiting other opportunities, at least for the time being. Stewart was able to leverage a 2013 break from his hosting duties to direct the movie Rosewater, but he had built up quite a bit of leverage with his bosses before his time off.

Williams has appeared in 97 episodes of The Daily Show since her debut in 2012. That’s certainly a regular commitment, but it’s not close to the anchor’s pace. And it’s left her with time to do a stint on Girls as one of Hannah Horvath’s (Lena Dunham) coworkers at a sponsored content project at GQ and to appear in movies like Tap Shoes & Violins and People, Places, Things. At 25, preserving some flexibility to pursue multiple potential career paths might make more sense for Williams than locking herself into the fake news business.

And while Williams’s advocates have urged her to lean in, citing Sheryl

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FRAYN Arthur “Art” Melvin Frayn of Rimbey, Alberta passed away peacefully with his family by his side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at the age of 83 years.

Art will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his beloved wife, Judy; two sons, Tom (Elaine) Frayn of Rimbey; and Murray Frayn of Gull Lake; and two daughters, Sharron (Leroy) Juuti of Bentley; and Lana Curle (Bryan Wiese) of Rimbey; as well as fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. He will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his sister, Elvey Brown of Calgary; in addition to numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives, and many cherished friends. Art was predeceased by his parents; his son, Randy in 2008; and two brothers, Len in 2014; and Ken in 2012. A Public Memorial Service in Celebration of Art’s Life will be held at the Peter Lougheed Community Centre, Rimbey on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. with the Reverend Deborah Laing officiating.

Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer. Interment will be held at a later date in the West Haven Cemetery, Rimbey. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Art’s Memory may be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association, #6, 5015 - 48 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1S9; or to the Kitchener #95 Masonic Lodge, c/o Box 1999, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0.

Condolences to the Frayn Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Funeral and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Arthur “Art” Melvin Frayn entrusted to the care of OBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD.

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BUCHHOLZ In Loving Memory of Allan Carl Frederick Buchholz, who after a full and wonderful life, passed away peacefully on February 18, 2015 at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre, Rimbey, Alberta. Al is survived by Annette, his life partner and true love of 33 years; and lovingly remembered by his children: Michelle, Cindy, and Craig; as well as his five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Abiding by Al’s wishes, no formal Funeral Service will be held.

Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer. Condolences to the Buchholz Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Cremation Arrangements for the Late Allan Carl Frederick Buchholz entrusted to the care of

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SHAW Joyce 1932 - 2015 Mrs. Joyce Shaw, beloved wife of Mr. Morley Shaw of Bowden, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Red Deer on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at the age of 82 years. Joyce will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Morley; son, Brian (Patti); daughter, Heather (Robin) and granddaughters, Megan (Jesse) and Lynn. She will also be sadly missed by her sister, Millie; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and dear friends. Honoring Joyce’s wishes, no formal funeral service will be held.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Joyce’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at www.rdrhfoundation.com/donate-now.

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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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015

U.S. and Iran appear to be edging toward historic pact nium enrichment. If Iran complied, the restrictions would be gradually lifted over the final five years.

One issue critics are certain to focus on: Once the deal expired, Iran could theoretically ramp up enrichment to whatever level it wanted.

Experts say Iran already could produce the equivalent of one weapon’s worth of enriched uranium with its present operating 10,000 centrifuges. Several officials spoke of 6,500 centrifuges as a potential point of compromise, with the U.S. trying to restrict them to Iran’s mainstay IR-1 model instead of more advanced machines.

However, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said last year that his country needed to increase its output equivalent to at least 190,000 of its present-day centrifuges.

Under a possible agreement, Iran also would be forced to ship out most of the enriched uranium it produced or change it to a form that would be difficult to convert for weapons use. It takes about one ton of low-enriched uranium to process into a nuclear weapon, and officials said that Tehran could be restricted to an enriched stockpile of no more than about 700 pounds.

The officials represent different countries among the six world powers negotiating with Iran — the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.

Formal relations between the U.S. and Iran, severed during the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis in 1979, have progressively improved since moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013. Further reconciliation would help the West in a region where Iran holds considerable sway and the U.S. is increasingly involved in the struggle against Islamic extremists. But even if the two sides agree to a preliminary deal in March and a follow-up pact in June, such a two-phase arrangement will face fierce criticism from Congress and Israel, both of which will argue it fails to significantly curb Tehran’s nuclear weapons potential.

Israel was already weighing in.

Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that such a deal would represent “a great danger” to the Western world and said it “will allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state.”

In Washington, President Barack Obama has been trying to keep Congress from passing new sanctions against Iran that he says could scuttle further diplomacy and rekindle the threat of a new Mideast war.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran’s nuclear activities for at least 10 years but then slowly ease restrictions on programs that could be used to make atomic arms.

Officials said there were still obstacles to overcome before a March 31 deadline, and any deal will face harsh opposition in both countries. It also would be sure to further strain already-tense U.S. relations with Israel, whose leaders oppose any agreement that doesn’t end Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to strongly criticize the deal in an address before Congress next week.

Still, a comprehensive pact could ease 35 years of U.S-Iranian enmity — and seems within reach for the first time in more than a decade of negotiations.

“We made progress,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said as he bade farewell to members of the American delegation at the table with Iran. More discussions between Iran and the six nations engaging it were set for next Monday, a senior U.S. official said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the sides found “a better understanding” at the negotiating table.

Western officials familiar with the talks cited movement but also described the discussions as a moving target, meaning changes in any one area would have repercussions for other parts of the negotiation.

The core idea would be to reward Iran for good behaviour over the last years of any agreement, gradually lifting constraints on its uranium enrichment and slowly easing economic sanctions.

Iran says it does not want nuclear arms and needs enrichment only for energy, medical and scientific purposes, but the U.S. fears Tehran could re-engineer the program to produce the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.

The U.S. initially sought restrictions lasting up to 20 years; Iran has pushed for less than a decade. The prospective deal appears to be somewhere in the middle.

One variation being discussed would place at least a 10-year regime of strict controls on Iran’s ura-

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WASHINGTON — The White House is calling on lawmakers to work out their divisions over an authorization to use military force against Islamic State militants and says President Barack Obama is open to changes to his initial proposal to achieve a compromise.

Obama wants authorization to pursue the violent extremist group across international boundaries, but would be willing to accept amendments to much of the rest of his draft, the White House says. That includes his proposed three-year time limit on U.S. military action and the most contentious language over the use of American troops.

After a weeklong holiday break, Congress returned to Washington on Monday and the White House is arguing it’s up to lawmakers to work out their disputes now that the president has made his offer. “It’s their turn to take the lead and to walk it through the legislative process,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

Some Republicans say Obama’s proposal is too restrictive for the mission to succeed. On the other side, some Democrats want more limitations on Obama’s authority so the United States doesn’t sign on for another open-ended war.

Republican Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker plans to hold hearings on the legislation over the next couple of weeks and said he’s keeping options open on the best way to proceed. He said options include amending Obama’s proposal or to “start whole cloth from a clean fresh beginning.”

Obama argues he doesn’t need a new authorization to pursue Islamic State terrorists legally — and he’s been launching strikes against them for months based on authorizations given to President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But critics say Obama’s use of those authorizations is a stretch at best, and the White House has taken a new position that makes it clear it doesn’t see reliance on that authority as ideal, either. White House officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations on the record.

The White House now says if a new authorization is signed into law, Obama will no longer rely on the authority approved in 2001 to pursue the Islamic State group and instead solely rely on the new powers.

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Cuddle time borders on inappropriate Dear Annie: I am concerned about my ourselves making excuses to stay out of grandson’s well-being. My daughter has her way. always had “cuddle time” with “Joey.”

How can we let her know that her atIt was OK when he was little, but now titude is obnoxious? We don’t want to that he is turning seven, it seems worse. offend her. She has many good qualiNow she is talking about getties, but needs to tone it down ting him a new bedroom set a whole lot to make herself that will be big enough for the more pleasant to be around. both of them.

— Southern Sally She says she sleeps better Dear Sally: Some of Dowhen she sleeps with Joey. I ris’s aggressive attitude may can only assume that means diminish over time, simply she doesn’t sleep much with by being around others who her husband. I think this is are less so. But it’s certainly getting a little bit out of hand.

OK to say gently, “Doris, your Joey is old enough to sleep by enthusiasm is wonderful, but himself. could you tone it down just a What do you think of this? wee bit?” Say it with a genuAnd what should we do, if anyine smile, and perhaps ask thing? — Concerned Grandparfor her opinion on a different MITCHELL ents matter. She cannot modify her & SUGAR Dear Grandparents: It worbehaviour if she is unaware ries us when parents put their that it needs work. Surely she own needs above those of would want the opportunity to their child and selfishly conbe less annoying rather than vince themselves there’s nothing wrong be isolated and rejected. with it. But there is.

Dear Annie: I would like to reach out Cuddle time with Joey is fine. He’s to “Distraught,” who recently found out only seven. But your daughter should not that his eldest son molested his siblings. be sleeping with the boy or, worse, giv- He wondered whether the eldest son had ing him the impression that they share been abused by a parish priest. a bedroom. This is not only terrible for I am greatly saddened by his loss and Joey, but for her marriage. Most young the pain endured by his family. I would boys adore their mothers, so the mes- like him to know that there is great hope sage she is sending Joey is confusing and for healing and that he and his family damaging and sets up a rivalry with his don’t have to struggle with this alone. father. Unless she wants Joey to spend Every Roman Catholic diocese in the his adulthood in therapy, tell her to stop United States has at least one individual this immediately. We hope she loves Joey who serves as a victim assistance coordienough to do what’s right. nator.

Dear Annie: I live in a southern city, These co-ordinators are caring and and many northerners have moved here compassionate people whose calling is to and attend our church. Most are delight- help individuals and families find hope ful, and we love having them. But we are and healing after abuse. Please encourhaving a problem with one of the women. age “Distraught” to contact a victim as“Doris” is an eager volunteer and a sistance coordinator through the U.S. competent, efficient worker who is anx- Conference of Catholic Bishops at www. ious to take on more responsibilities. usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-andUnfortunately, she also can be rude, ag- youth-protection/victim-assistance-coorgressive, condescending and almost com- dinators.cfm. — Grand Island, Neb. bative.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy We suspect she doesn’t intend to be Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors so difficult, but her demeanour unfortu- of the Ann Landers column. Please email nately follows the old-fashioned stereo- your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast. typical “New York pushy” attitude. net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o CreWe want Doris to feel welcome and ators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa included in more activities, but we find Beach, CA 90254.

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ANNIE ANNIE

Tuesday, Feb. 24 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kristin Davis, 50; Billy Zane, 49; Abe Vigoda, 94 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will herald in stability within your relationships. Share wise counsel with others. Allow for greater possibilities to emerge within this world, let others blow your mind by their truly inspiring imagination. Find it in your heart to forgive anyone or anything for past mistakes and step forward with a much more positive mind set.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will offer you greater abundance in terms of holistic remedies. You are starting to see what love truly is now. So, do expect solid advancements within those areas as you progress forward. It is the year to heal all past issues that have troubled you.

Take the time to look after your health and step up your holistic understanding with the public now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Share your sage wisdom and love with others today. It will not only help you feel like a heavy load has been lifted off your back, but also it will be cathartic to let go of the unnecessary burdens. More fun and socializing is promised now.

Allow for greater truth to emerge.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will see your life flash before your eyes today. So, please be careful to not jump when you should be standing still. Take the opportunity to create some much needed space between you and others.

It is not the time to endure painstaking service. Relax now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Marriage proposals for either you or for one of

your friends will be highlighted now.

Maybe a wish comes true for you also.

Others in your life will offer you solid advice about whom you should be with or not. Take the time to create the life you want to lead.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your finances will increase when you start taking action towards your professional life. This can also indicate that you will be a mother as well. Whoever appears in your life now will shower you with solid love and truth. Wisdom is being shared today, listen to others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Share your knowledge with friends; they are open to hear all about what your truth is.

It is really easy for you to pick up on others’ feelings now. Take the time to properly sort through who you should be with or not. Face any fears you have as opening a door to the truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take the time to socialize with family now. Get all that you need from them, in terms of wisdom and strength. Accept that you are now able to create a new life within your family heritage and slowly move in that direction. You will easily pick up on others’ feelings today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Solid communications will now receive praise from those close to you. You are now able to create the perspective you want within your life. Allow for others to reach higher than you at this stage and soon the balance will be restored. You are wise, share your knowledge now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you are looking to increase your finances, then now is the time to do so. You will have the stability and perseverance to do so now. Do share your knowledge about

holistic health choices. Accept the truth and push through any barriers that you believe you have.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are waiting for love, then the time is right for you to LARISA MAIRA accept the truth OZOLINS of the matter and receive that love with deep humility and wisdom. We all have a common ancestry that far exceeds anyone’s understanding about the true perspective of the world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will be feeling excellent as you clear away past issues that have troubled

SUN SIGNS

you with siblings. Take the time to encourage others through any issues that they might be having at this stage in the game. Understand that you are now speaking the truth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Share your love and good tidings with friends today. It is one of those times when solid advancements can be made within your life, especially when it comes to your wishes. Take the time to create a healthy rapport with others now. Be grateful for your truth today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today will welcome in some stable money or perhaps others will simply value you on a professional level more. Look deep inside the realm of all possibilities when dealing with what you ingest spiritually. Step away from those who don’t see life at the same level now.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist.

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LUANN Feb. 24 1993 — Brian Mulroney announces he is stepping down as prime minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; says his biggest disappointment was the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. Justice Minister Kim Campbell will win the June party leadership.

1982 — Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 77th goal of the season to break Phil Esposito’s single-season NHL scoring record and

adds goals 78 and 79 that night. In all, he had to an awe-inspiring 92-goal season.

1982 — Dome Petroleum and Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas withdraw from the $13.5-billion Alsands project.

1965 — Queen Elizabeth authorizes the coats-of-arms of the Yukon and North West Territories.

1905 — Members of the Ottawa Silver Seven, winners of the Stanley Cup, celebrate their victory by booting the cup onto the frozen Rideau Canal. Captain Harry Smith retrieves it unharmed the following day.

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Making good biscuits has nothing do with the recipe or ingredients, but everything do with technique. Once the technique is mastered, they will no longer be only for the dinner table, but instead they will be sought out for a snack or slightly warmed and slathered with jam for breakfast!

Biscuits are happy food!

MAKING GOOD ONES HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TECHNIQUE Whether it is loaf of bread or pressed into a rectangle again. dinner buns, I love having a basket Repeating the pressing and the wafting with sweet aromas enticing, folding multiple times flattens the almost teasing everyone at the din- butter into thin sheets between ner table. equally thin layers of You just can’t beat the flour. When baking, this feeling or the taste of bittechnique ensures that ing into a warm bun. the butter melts and This doesn’t occur dursteam fills the thin spacing the hectic weekday es, creating flaky, buttery suppers — in fact, it rarelayers. ly happens.

Before baking, cool However, more often things off again by allowthan not when slow cooking the rolled-out dough er stews and soups are to relax in the refrigerabeing served, I replace tor for about 10 minutes. the bread with quick butWhile forming the termilk biscuit. dough, it is best to keep MADHU I will admit, my family everything cold. But BADONI isn’t cheering or jumping when it comes to baking, up and down when they biscuits like it very, very uncover the basket to dishot. Like pies, breads, cover they are biscuits. and most yeast-risen pasThey prefer the hot dinner rolls be- tries, biscuits benefit from a high cause embarrassingly, in the past, oven temperature. It gives an immost of the biscuits my family has mediate burst of heat, creating the endured have been the dense hock- best oven-spring from your leaveney puck variety — until recently. ing agent. For most, this magic temAlways trying to improve my culi- perature is 450F. nary techniques, I went in search of After improving my biscuit techdeveloping a foolproof biscuit reci- nique, the biscuits are no longer pe. What I discovered was that mak- just eaten during dinner; instead ing a good biscuit had little to do the leftovers are sought out for a with the recipe or ingredients and snack or slightly warmed and slatheverything do with technique. ered with jam for breakfast!

Because there is no rising time, biscuits are classified as a quick bread. But if you look at the steps to making good biscuits, you may see they have more similarities to a pastry pie crusts than to bread. ● Control gluten formation: GluA moist loaf of bread depends on ten makes things chewy, rather than working and kneading the dough to tender.

So in the world of biscuits, build up the gluten, while biscuits get their appealing sought-out flaki- we want to avoid it. To control gluness and lightness by preventing the ten, stir minimally after the liquids same gluten from developing. Like are added. Using a fork rather than any good pie crust, talked-about bis- a spoon can help minimize mixing. cuits are produced when dough is The dough will look slightly shaggy and unfinished but don’t worry— handled minimally and gently.

There are three critical steps: lamination will create a more coincorporating cold butter into the hesive, finished dough. Also, allow flour mixture, handling the dough time for water absorption by chilling the biscuit dough before rolling and baking at high temperature.

Similar to making pie crusts, cold it out. ● Keep your butter and liquids butter is cubed and then tossed into the flour mixture until each piece of cold. ● Use your hands to work in the fat is fully coated. Using hands, the butter; this helps control the size fat is incorporated by rubbing the butter between the fingers, main- of the butter pieces and reduces taining large enough butter pieces the risk of over-mixing. Be gentle! so that they are clearly visible. Many Don’t overwork or manhandle the cooks suggest pulsing it in a food dough. Stay relaxed. Biscuits are processer, but in my personal com- happy food! ● Only re-roll biscuit scraps once. parison, hand mixed were flakier.

Each subsequent re-rolling and cutNext, the buttermilk is added by gently mixing with a fork until the ting of the dough yields tougher and flour is just combined so the dough tougher biscuits. Get as many bishas somewhat of a dry look. To con- cuits out of the first cutting as you trol the gluten formation and to cre- can.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based ate a cohesive dough, fingers are used to gather the flour together. freelance food writer. She can be Through the pressing and folding reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com process, a flat rectangle is created. or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch Then the dough is folded over and for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www. reddeeradvocate.com.

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Cheat notes for flaky biscuits

Buttermilk Biscuits 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into thin slices 3/4 cup cold buttermilk 2 tablespoons buttermilk for brushing Preheat oven to 450F (220C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda

together in a large bowl. Using fingers, break up the fat into small globules.

Pour in buttermilk; stir until just combined. Turn dough onto a floured work surface, pat together into a rectangle.

Fold flatten back into a rectangle. Repeat twice more, folding and pressing dough a total of three times. Roll dough on a floured surface to about half an inch thick. Cut out 12 biscuits. Transfer biscuits to the prepared baking sheet.

Brush the tops of biscuits with two tablespoons buttermilk. Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 12 to 15 minutes.

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Weapons pullback delayed UKRAINE SAYS REBEL ATTACKS ARE CONTINUING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A Ukrainian sniper guards a road near Artemivsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday. Ukraine delayed a promised pullback of heavy weapons from the front line Monday in eastern Ukraine, blaming continuing attacks from separatist rebels. pullback is to commence when shooting ends and be completed within two weeks.

An Associated Press reporter on Monday saw Ukrainian forces moving back from around the town of Debaltseve, which was captured last week by rebel forces after a fierce weekslong siege.

Both Stelmakh and Fedichev said rebels are still trying to overrun a Ukrainian government position in the village of Shyrokyne, on the outskirts of the strategic port city of Mariupol.

Rebels began moving toward Mariupol last August, raising concerns they were seeking to seize the city in order

Suicide blast kills four at market

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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POTISKUM, Nigeria — A girl as young as 10 blew herself up in a busy market in northeastern Nigeria, killing herself and four others, and fueling fears Islamic extremists are using kidnapped girls as suicide bombers.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Sunday, which also seriously wounded 46 people, but it bore the hallmarks of Nigeria’s homegrown extremist group, Boko Haram.

The girl, who appeared to be no more than 10 years old, got out of a tricycle taxi in front of the busy cellphone market in Potiskum then detonated her explosives, according to Anazumi Saleh, a survivor of the attack who suffered head injuries.

Authorities were not immediately able to confirm the girl’s identity or her precise age from her remains.

In recent months, Boko Haram has begun using teenage girls and young women for suicide bombings in marketplaces, bus stations and other busy areas, but the girl in Sunday’s attack appeared far younger. It is not clear whether the girls and women have set off the explosions themselves, or whether the detonations were controlled remotely.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful” in the local Hausa language, attracted international condemnation when its fighters kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a boarding school in the northeastern town of Chibok in April. Dozens escaped but 219 remain missing. Boko Haram has said the girls have converted to Islam and been married off to extremist fighters.

Boko Haram’s violent campaign in Nigeria killed at least 10,000 people last year, according to the Council on Foreign Affairs. At least 1.6 million people have been driven from their homes in the group’s brutal five-year uprising to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation of 160 million people divided between mainly Muslims in the north and Christians in the south.

Potiskum, the capital of Yobe state, has been the target of repeated attacks. In November, a

suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform set off explosives hidden in a backpack during an assembly at a high school, killing at least 48 students and wounding 79 others.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram denied a Ministry of Defence statement that Nigeria’s military had retaken the border garrison town of Baga.

It has been reported that troops from Nigeria and neighbouring Chad were retaking towns and villages held for months by Boko Haram even as the extremists attack other northeastern communities. Scores of civilians have been killed in such attacks.

“Baga still is under the control of the mujahedeen and any claim by the regime that they took the city is their usual lie,” said a brief message posted on the Twitter account of Al-Urwa AlWuthqa, a group that releases propaganda for Boko Haram, according to the SITE intelligence monitoring service.

The Associated Press was trying to verify the situation in Baga, a town on Lake Chad near the border with Cameroon where the extremists are accused of killing hundreds of people in a January attack after Nigerian troops fled.

The government hopes the military will be able to reclaim enough territory to allow presidential elections March 28, which Boko Haram is threatening to disrupt.

to establish a land corridor between mainland Russia and the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula.

In Mariupol, police clashed with three suspected militants after stopping their car; one policeman and one suspect were killed in the shootout, regional police official Vyacheslav Abroskin said on his Facebook page. He said a bag containing explosives was found after the Monday evening clash.

Russia has denied arming the rebels, a denial scoffed at by Western nations and NATO, who point to satellite pictures of Russian weapons in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s economy has been badly

hit by more than a year of crisis that began with the protests that eventually drove out Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.

On Monday, its hryvnia currency took a sharp fall of about 9 per cent; it’s now about 70 per cent lower than a year ago.

Ukraine’s national bank on Monday announced that payments in foreign currencies would be capped at $500,000 without letters of credit from foreign banks, a move to stem capital outflows that would weaken the currency further.

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that could reach into the billions of dollars.

The Palestinian Authority, which had argued that the attackers acted on their own, said it would appeal.

“The charges that were made against us are baseless,” Deputy Minister of Information Dr. Mahmoud Khalifa said in a statement.

None of the victims was in the courtroom Monday for the verdict, but their lawyers called it a victory in the fight against terrorism.

“It’s about accountability. It’s about justice,” attorney Kent Yalowitz said.

He and an attorney with the Israel Law Center, which helped with the case, vowed to collect the damages by pursuing Palestinian Authority and PLO bank accounts, securities accounts, real estate and other property that may be in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere.

“Now, the PLO and the Palestinian Authority know there is a price” for supporting terrorism, Israel Law Center attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said.

BRIEF Palestinian authorities liable for Israeli terror attacks: jury NEW YORK — The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority were the catalysts for a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded several Americans, a U.S. jury found Monday at a high-stakes civil trial.

In finding the Palestinian authorities liable in the attacks, jurors awarded the victims $218.5 million in damages for the bloodshed. The U.S. AntiTerrorism Act could allow for that to be tripled.

The case in Manhattan and another in Brooklyn have been viewed as the most notable attempts by American victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to use U.S. courts to seek damages

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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine delayed a promised pullback of heavy weapons from the front line Monday, blaming continuing attacks from separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Under a peace agreement reached Feb. 12, both sides are to withdraw their heavy weapons 25 to 70 kilometres (16 to 44 miles) back to create a buffer zone. Ukrainian officials said Sunday they were planning to start.

However, military spokesman Lt. Col. Anatoliy Stelmakh told reporters on Monday the pullback will not begin until rebel attacks stop entirely, in line with a cease-fire that was supposed to begin Feb. 15.

Stelmakh said there were two rebel artillery attacks overnight and although this is significantly fewer than in previous days, “as long as firing on Ukrainian military positions continues, it’s not possible to talk about a pullback.”

Col. Valentyn Fedichev, deputy commander of the military operation against the rebels, said there had been 27 attacks against Ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours, which he said was lower than in recent days. He also indicated that no pullback was imminent.

“If the enemies continue to use their own heavy weapons, it is clear that Ukraine will continue to counteract these operations,” he said.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s observer mission in Ukraine is supposed to be monitoring the weapons withdrawal. Its spokesman, Michael Bocuirkiw, told the AP on Monday the monitors had seen heavy weapons movements by both sides but could not tell whether weapons were being pulled back or just being redeployed.

Under the peace agreement that was worked out after all-night talks between Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France on Feb. 12, the weapons

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