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BRIAN MALLEY’S DEFENCE LAWYER REJECTS CLIENT’S CONVICTION

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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The lawyer for Brian Malley says his client’s conviction for first-degree murder ranks among Canada most notorious miscarriages of justice.

“The Canadian Justice System’s Hall of Shame for Wrongful Convictions has a new candidate for induction: Brian Malley,” Edmonton lawyer Bob Aloneissi wrote in an email when asked for comment on

Wednesday on client Brian Malley’s conviction.

A jury found Malley guilty of murder and two explosives-related charges late Tuesday after deliberating for about six hours following a five-week trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

The eight-woman and four-man jury was convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Innisfail financial advisor Malley built the pipe bomb disguised as a Christmas present and sent it to former

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client Victoria Shachtay.

It exploded when she opened it, killing the quadriplegic single mother instantly as she sat in her wheelchair inside her Innisfail home.

In his email, Aloneissi compares his client with other widely publicized examples of wrongful convictions, including (David) Milgaard, (Guy Paul) Morin and Marshall, which is either a reference to either Donald Marshall Jr. or Simon Marshall.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer’s Hugh McPherson has been recognized on many occasions for his extensive work and involvement in the community.

He’s taking special pride in his latest honour — induction into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame as a multisport builder.

“This is recognition of the work I’ve done provincially . . . that the effect has been just beyond Red Deer, I guess,” McPherson said Wednesday.

The former school teacher and administrator has served in leadership positions on many boards and committees and is a 35-year member of Hugh McPherson the Red Deer Games Foundation, serving 14 years as the chair.

He was involved with the Red Deer Games Society, the Alberta Games in 1988, 1998 and 2006, the Alberta Special Olympics in 1993 and the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay.

McPherson has also served on the City of Red Deer recreation board, the Red Deer College athletic advisory board, the Alberta Sport Council, the Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Foundation, and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Society. He was also the recipient of the City of Red Deer Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and a Province of Alberta Centennial Medal.

McPherson, as he stated after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award five years ago, has never served as a community leader/volunteer with the notion of seeking admiration and accolades.

“The motivation has never been about recognition. That’s not why you get involved in any of these things,” he said. “But sometimes someone decides to do it for you, which makes me a little embarrassed.

“Really, the motivation is to see what difference you can make. That’s something I learned from my parents, who were both very community involved.”

McPherson is currently a member of the Red Deer 2019 Canada Winter Games committee and last week attended the Winter Games in Prince George on a fact-finding mission and came away impressed.

“The Canada Winter Games are going to be a really great event, a fun event for Red Deer,” he said.

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Survey depicts grim realities for Alberta’s teachers, staff, students

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ALARM BELLS RINGING

A Red Deer teacher spends thousands of dollars out of her own pocket to buy books for her classroom.

Another teacher in Central Alberta is frustrated that her students are “suffering in silence” because they are not getting the attention they need.

The comments are part of Alarm Bells Ringing: Voices from Schools, a report on an online survey conducted by Public Interest Alberta in November and December.

Public Interest executive director Bill Moore-Kilgannon said the survey depicts the grim realities for teachers, staff and students in Alberta classrooms.

“Clearly for far too many children, they are in classrooms where they are not getting the supports that are necessary to show their full potential,” said Moore-Kilgannon.

There were 434 responses from teachers, parents and educational staff across the province, including those in Red Deer, Ponoka, Blackfalds and other Central Alberta communities.

“It’s shocking to know in this wealthy province we have so many of those classroom scenarios that are just not conductive for good education,” said MooreKilgannon.

“Was it surprising? No, because we have been hearing it time and time again over the years.”

Moore-Kilgannon said the problems are being driven by a growing population and the fact that the province has not retained the teaching staff to keep up with the increased numbers in classrooms.

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From the left, Mia Bare, Advika Pillai, Morgan Broomfield and Brodyn Moberg take part in the G.H. Dawe Community School Pink Shirt Day at the school on Wednesday. Staff and students at the school as well as other schools around Red Deer showed their support to end bullying by donning pink and telling those around them that bullying is not cool.

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MALLEY: Appeal expected Milgaard served more than 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicting of killing a Saskatoon nursing aide. In his second trial, after being acquitted the first time, Morin was convicted in 1995 of killing a nine-year-old girl. DNA evidence later exonerated him.

Donald Marshall Jr. spent 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing his friend in 1971, and Simon Marshall spent more than six years in prison after being convicted of sexual assaults. A DNA test cleared him.

Like others wrongfully convicted, “Malley’s credentials are that he was accused of a horrific murder, and he suffered the injustice of a tunnel vision investigation which skewed the facts to fit their suspect,” Aloneissi wrote.

The veteran criminal lawyer provides a link to a CBC online story on Canada’s wrongful convictions.

Malley, who was a longtime financial advisor to Shachtay and a family friend, was arrested in May 2012, six months after she died in the explosion.

More than 100 police officers had been involved in the investigation, which involved meticulously tracking purchases from hardware stores to try to match them with components of the bomb.

Officers also followed his movements and wiretap surveillance was used.

The case against Malley was based on circumstantial evidence. No witness testified to say they saw him building a bomb or placing it. In the end, a microscopic fragment of DNA that was consistent with Malley’s that was found on a note attached to the bomb, and various components traced to him that were consistent with those used in the bomb, such as gunpowder, light bulbs and a piece of steel pipe, represented the cornerstones of the case against him.

Aloneissi stressed that as a hunter and home builder Malley had a logical explanation for all of the purchases that were used to link him to the bomb.

In his closing submission to the jury, the lawyer said convicting his client would be like trying to “fit a square peg into a round hole.”

There was no evidence his client had the knowledge or motive to build a bomb. The tiny amount of DNA found was not a conclusive match to his client, and even if it was, could have been inadvertently transferred to the scene.

An appeal is expected.

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faces an $80-million class action lawsuit by other former clients.

A statement of claim filed in October 2012 by Calgary law firm Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP alleges that Malley disregarded the investment goals of his clients, engaged in an investment strategy that was unsuitable for them and acted in his own best interests.

Also named as defendants in the class action are his wife, Christine Malley, as well as Assante Wealth Management (Canada) Ltd. and Assante Capital Management Ltd., whom the Malleys represented.

Last April, a hearing panel with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) ruled that Brian Malley failed to know essential facts related to his clients, made unsuitable recommendations and engaged in unauthorized discretionary trading. It banned him permanently from registering with IIROC, levied a fine of $300,000 and ordered him to pay costs of $35,000.

Christine Malley was also found to have breached IIROC rules. She was issued a permanent ban, fined $250,000 and ordered to pay costs of $15,000. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

MCPHERSON: Builder Joining McPherson in the 2015 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame induction class are former world champion curler Kevin Martin, Carla MacLeod, a Canadian women’s national hockey team defenceman for six seasons, and former NHL/WHL player and Edmonton Oilers assistant general manager Bruce MacGregor, all in the athletes category.

Bill Warren of Calgary, a champion for Canadian and Olympic sports since the 1970s, will join McPherson in the multisport builder class, while long-time Calgary Flames trainer James ‘Bearcat’ Murray will be inducted as a hockey builder.

Chris Koch of Calgary, who has devoted his life to people with and without disabilities, and Joey Moss of Edmonton, who has worked with the Eskimos and Oilers training staffs on a daily basis for more than 30 years, will go into the Hall in the achievement award category.

Badminton builders David and Jean Folinsbee will be inducted as winners of the Pioneer Award, long-time Calgary Flames broadcaster Peter Maher will go in as the recipient of the Bell Memorial Award, and the Lethbridge Pronghorns women’s rugby squad that won three consecutive CIS championships — from 2007 to 2009 — will be inducted in the team category. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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The following is a timeline of the events around the bombing death of Victoria Shachtay, the charging of Brian Malley with first-degree murder, and the subsequent trial and conviction.

2004 — Shachtay is involved in a single-vehicle crash. Pregnant at the time, she is severely injured and paralyzed from the neck down. She gives birth to her daughter Destiny a month later.

2007 — Shachtay receives a settlement that after lawyer fees and other expenses is worth $575,000. She invests that money with Malley.

An additional $265,000 is borrowed to increase the size of the investment.

2008 — The investment earns money. It peaks at $839,000.

October and November 2008 — The investment loses $390,000 due to economic pressures.

Close to 92 per cent of the investment is in one stock, Enervest Diversified Income Trust.

Shares were purchased at $6.31 but were sold at a loss of $3.18 per share.

April 2011 — The investment account is closed as the money is gone.

July 2011 — Malley purchases a six-inchlong, two-inch-wide galvanized steel-nipple pipe with threading at both ends and one end cap.

July or August 2011 — Shachtay calls Malley at his Assante Wealth Management office to ask for money to be transferred into her account.

Malley is on a fishing trip and his assistant Barbara Tblus answers the phone. Tblus tells Shachtay the account is closed and Shachtay is shocked.

Oct. 15, 2011 — Malley makes his last payment to Shachtay. From 2007 to 2011, Malley had transferred more than $44,000 from his own accounts to Shachtay.

Nov. 25, 2011 — Shachtay opens a Christmas gift left on her doorstep. The gift disguises a pipe bomb that detonates when she opens it, killing her instantly.

Nov. 28, 2011 — Malley is first interviewed by police. He says Shachtay was not financially responsible and that’s why the account was drained. He also says police should look at Shachtay’s brother Derek, who fought over money; or a possible drug connection.

January to May 2012 — Police conduct 10 non-consecutive days of surveillance on Malley. DNA evidence is obtained by police from a napkin used by Malley at Wendy’s restaurant.

May 25, 2012 — Malley is arrested and police search his residence. DNA evidence found at the blast scene is matched to the evidence from the Wendy’s. Malley is charged with firstdegree murder.

June 2012 — Malley’s friend and business partner Bob Yanew visits him in the Red Deer Remand Centre. Malley asks Yanew to buy a canister of gunpowder from a store they both went to a year prior.

June 29, 2012 — Malley is released on $20,000 bail. He goes to live with his mother-in-law in Edmonton.

September 2013 — Defence offers to provide investigators with what they say is the pipe Malley purchased in 2011.

October 2013 — While doing home renovation work at his mother-in-law’s residence, Malley said he protected the house’s natural gas line with the steel pipe and two end caps he purchased in July 2011.

May 2014 — ATCO comes to move the gas meter at the Edmonton residence. A day before, Malley with defence counsel Bob Aloneissi and Don Christal, a hired private investigator, video tape the cutting of concrete and the extraction of a steel pipe with two end caps.

September 2014 — Christal turns the pipe and end caps over to RCMP investigators.

Jan. 15, 2015 — The trial starts in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench with jury selection.

Feb. 24, 2015 — After six hours of deliberation, a jury of eight women and four men finds Malley guilty of first-degree murder, causing an explosion and sending an explosion. The murder conviction carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Mr. Justice Kirk Sisson also sentences Malley to two years each, to be served concurrently, on the other two charges.

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SURVEY: Class size an issue A few years ago, special needs funding was changed and a more inclusive delivery approach to education was introduced in Alberta.

“Now we’re seeing that global funding is resulting in special needs assistants running from class to class as if the children they just left are now all of a sudden going to behave perfectly while they are out of the room,” said Moore-Kilgannon. “Clearly we need to be looking at these classroom conditions and trying to improve the situation. I am strong supporter of inclusion for children with special needs but not to the detriment of other children.”

Most of the concerns expressed in the survey were about “growing class size, increasingly diverse and complex

to win the next provincial election are slim.

“Bluntly I don’t think it’s one that we can win at this stage. It is a rebuilding one,” Jean said.

“We need a solid opposition that can keep this government to account — and that’s what we’re going to do,” he said.

“We’re going to make sure we reach all parts of Alberta, bring together good candidates and we will build a strong opposition.”

Derek Fildebrandt, a former spokesman for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, is supporting Jean. Fildebrandt has been acclaimed as the Wildrose candidate in the StrathmoreBrooks constituency, but had indicated he might run for the leadership.

Prentice says they will reduce their total annual salaries of $2 million by five per cent to show leadership in difficult financial times.

He says the wage rollback will save about $104,000.

Wildrose Opposition Leader Heather Forsyth says the salary cuts are long past due as the premier’s staff are among the highest paid in Canada.

All 87 members of the legislature are also taking a five per cent pay cut.

The Liberals and the NDP have called the cuts token gestures, and have predicted that ordinary Alber-

tans will be on the hook to make up for billions expected to be drained from the treasury by low oil prices.

classroom composition, and a lack of resources to address the varied needs of children in those classes.”

Eighty per cent of the respondents said there is not enough support staff in the classrooms.

A Grade 10/11 teacher in Red Deer commented on the challenges with booking support staff for the day.

“They are likely already booked and we have to wait another day,” said the teacher. “I have never gotten help from education assistants for students who have behavioral IPPs as they are often assigned elsewhere. We actually had a decrease in education assistants last year when our student body increased by almost 200 students.”

A Chinook’s Edge Grade 3 teacher wrote about the challenges in dealing with the impact of children with behavioural needs.

“The three very loud, disruptive, frustrated kids reading, writing, spelling at an early Grade 1 level tend to monopolize my attention,” said the teacher. “The five quieter kids reading, writing and spelling at a Grade 1 level tend to ‘suffer’ in silence and I

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get to them when I can. The other 18 kids don’t get enough of my attention.

It’s not fair.”

In another case, a Grade 3 teacher in Red Deer wrote that no one person can do it and people should stop blaming teachers.

“I have spent thousands of dollars of my own money trying to make my classroom experiences a rich learning environment. So the challenges are time, money and having to do so much of it on my own in isolation.”

Moore-Kilgannon said his organization is deeply concerned that there may be thousands of teacher jobs on the line next year, in light of the dropping oil prices and an anticipated five per cent cut to education funding in the provincial budget.

“If they follow through on these massive cuts, these type of classroom conditions are going to multiply dramatically,” he said.

Parents also wrote about the lack of support for teachers.

In response to a question on the issue of impact of large classes, combined with complexity and high needs, one Blackfalds parent said the “teacher has too many children that have unique needs beyond the special needs children.

“Supports for these children are not funded the same way as children with special needs, requiring schools to pull resources for that pool to deal with it when the funds are for the special needs child,” the parent said. “Everyone suffers.”

A Lacombe parent whose son is non verbal and has severe global developmental delay said the teacher has so little help that some days she cannot eat lunch.

Go to www.pialberta.org view the survey results.

Public Interest Alberta is a nonprofit, non-partisan, provincewide organization focused on education and advocacy on public interest issues. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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OTTAWA — An Alberta man dying of lung and rectal cancer has been seeking Canada Pension Plan disability benefits for 18 months after being told by officials that he doesn’t qualify because his condition isn’t serious enough.

Peter McClure, 62, is now caught up in the massive backlog plaguing the federal government’s social security tribunal, and says he received no response to his request for an expedited appeal hearing.

“You do not have a disability that is both severe and prolonged as defined under the CPP legislation,” McClure was told in a letter from Service Canada in August 2013 after he applied for CPP disability.

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Brian Jean represented Fort McMurray-Athabasca in the House of Commons between 2006 and 2014 and the Athabasca riding from 2004 to 2006.

He describes Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, his former caucus colleague, as a “nice guy,” but says the two men have different values.

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Greece loses, EU wins FORGIVING ITS DEBT WAS NEVER A GOOD IDEA AND WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN The first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won.

The whole European Union won, really, but the Germans set the strategy.

Technically, everybody just kicked the can down the road four months by extending the existing bailout arrangements for Greece, but what was really revealed in the past week is that the Greeks can’t win.

GWYNNE Not now, not DYER later.

The left-wing Syriza Party stormed to power in Greece last month promising to ditch the austerity that has plunge a third of the population below the poverty line and to renegotiate the country’s massive $270 billion bailout with the EU and the International Monetary Fund. Exhausted Greek voters just wanted an end to six years of pain and privation, and Syriza offered them hope. But it has been in retreat ever since.

In the election campaign, Syriza promised 300,000 new jobs and a big boost in the monthly minimum wage (from $658 to $853). After last week’s talks with the EU and the IMF, all

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that’s left is a promise to expand an existing program that provides temporary work for the unemployed, and an “ambition” to raise the minimum wage “over time.”

Its promise to provide free electricity and subsidized food for families without incomes remains in place, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government has promised the EU and the IMF that its “fight against the humanitarian crisis (will have) no negative fiscal effect.” In other words, it won’t spend extra money on these projects unless it makes equal cuts somewhere else.

Above all, its promise not to extend the bailout program had to be dropped.

Instead, it got a four-month “bridging loan” that came with effectively the same harsh restrictions on Greek government spending (although Syriza was allowed to rewrite them in its own words). And that loan will expire at the end of June, just before Greece has to redeem $7 billion in bonds.

So there will be four months of attritional warfare and then another crisis — which Greece will once again lose.

It will lose partly because it hasn’t actually got a very good case for special treatment, and partly because the European Union doesn’t really believe it will pull out of the euro common currency.

Greece’s debt burden is staggering — about $30,000 per capita. It can never be repaid, and some of it will

eventually have to be cancelled or “rescheduled” into the indefinite future.

But not now, when other euro members like Spain, Portugal and Ireland are struggling with some success to pay down their heavy but smaller debts.

If Greece got such a sweet deal, everybody else would demand debt relief, too.

The cause of the debt was the same in every case: the euro was a stable, low-interest currency that banks were happy to lend in, even to relatively low-income European countries that were in the midst of clearly unsustainable, debt-fuelled booms. So all the southern European EU members (and Ireland) piled in — but nobody else did it on the same scale as the Greeks.

The boom lasted for the best part of a decade after the euro currency launched in 1999.

Ordinary Greeks happily bought imported German cars, French wines, Italian luxury goods and much else, while the rich and politically well connected raked off far larger sums and paid as little tax as possible. Greek governments ended up lying about the size of the country’s debts.

No less an authority than Syriza’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, described the atmosphere of the time like this: “The average Greek had convinced herself that Greece was superb. A cut above the rest. ... Due to our exceptional ‘cunning,’ Greece was managing to combine fun, sun, xenychti (late nights) and the highest GDP

growth in Europe.”

Then the roof fell in after the 2008 crash, and “self-immolation followed self-congratulation, but left self-importance in the driving seat,” as Varoufakis put it.

That is why the sympathy for Greece’s plight in other EU members is limited. Moreover, the EU, and especially the Germans, have managed to convince themselves that “grexit” (Greek exit from the euro) would not be a limitless disaster.

The other PIGS (Portugal, Ireland and Spain) are in much better shape financially, and Brussels no longer fears that the Greek “contagion” will spread irresistibly to them as well. Neither does it think that a Greek departure from the euro would bring the whole edifice of the single currency tumbling down. And it knows that the vast majority of Greeks don’t want to leave either the euro or the EU — so it’s playing hardball.

When the interim deal was made public on Tuesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras put the best possible face on it, saying that Greece had “won a battle, but not the war.”

In fact he lost the first battle, as he was bound to. It will take him longer to lose the whole war but that will probably happen, too.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London. His latest book, Crawling from the Wreckage, was published recently in Canada by Random House.

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Hazlett Lake’s potential can’t be ignored by city The next time you drive north on Hwy 2, as you pass the Hwy 11A turnoff, look out the passenger window and check out our very own Hazlett Lake.

That lake is part of the City of Red Deer, and is a portion of a Major Area Structure Plan north of Hwy 11A being created by city planners as we speak. They will be holding their third and final open house sometime this spring, possibly in June. So as you drive by, think of what you would like to see done with your lake.

One scenario that could compliment the lake and address the desire for a regional aquatic centre and a 50-metre pool is turning the proposed community centre on the northeast corner of the lake into Collicutt Centre type of complex.

What is more natural than having an aquatic centre on the lake? You could have your 50-metre pool inside, a lake for scuba diving, kayaking, canoeing, paddle boating, swimming, under-water photography, fishing, sun tanning, races, to name but a few.

The winter could see skating, hockey, to complement the indoor ice rink, as well as ice-fishing and ice sculptures and sleigh rides, again, to name but a few.

This Major Area Structure Plan takes in much more than a lake. It takes in about 3,000 acres of land for residential, commercial and industrial development. The potential for residential growth if maintained at 17.7 units per hectare and 2.33 residents per unit could see 20,000 new residents if the area split equally between residential, commercial and industrial users.

Collicutt Centre is the top used community venue in Red Deer. It is used by almost 60 per cent of the population. It is in the southeast corner of Red Deer and was a major impetus in the development of the southeast corner of Red Deer. Blackfalds used their new Abbey Centre as an impetus for very strong residential developments that have recently outshone Red Deer’s residential developments.

Would a regional aquatic centre built on Hazlett Lake kick-start development in Red Deer’s north at a time of a slowdown in the energy sector? Would a Hazlett Lake regional aquatic centre, visible from Hwy 2, create a tourism trade that would bolster Red Deer’s hospitality industry? Would a Hazlett Lake regional aquatic centre enhance our position as a sports destination? Would a Hazlett Lake regional aquatic centre ensure that everyone would have an opportunity to enjoy the lake? I hope so.

Then another option would be to close it off to the public, develop around it, build a private boathouse for the home owners holding passes, and build expensive homes to hide the lake from the citizens and allow developers to make huge profits.

We could always use the lake as a water source for fracking oil wells — I hope this never happens.

It is up to the citizens to let the city know what they would like to see, but time is running out.

For more information, you can log onto reddeer. ca or you can contact: Angus Schaffenburg Major Projects Planner The City of Red Deer angus.schaffenburg@reddeer.ca Schaffenburg is more than willing to take your

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I think the Hazlett Lake is worth preserving, and I hope that when my grandchildren drive north on Hwy 2 just past the Hwy 11A turnoff, that they will be able to look out the passenger side window and see Hazlett Lake.

Perhaps they will be able to tan on a beach, watch a naturescape in action, paddle a canoe, swim, skate, maybe have a bonfire on a beach and roast a marshmallow. We do need to act now, before the plans get too entrenched in the least desired direction.

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Four children die in blaze MOTHER SAVES THREE OTHERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KANE, Man. — A mother was able to save three of her children as flames consumed a rural Manitoba farmhouse early Wednesday morning, but four of her sons died in the blaze.

The fire broke out near the tiny community of Kane, about 95 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.

“The adults escaped. The three youngest children were saved by the mother. The four older children who were in the second level of a two-storey home perished in the blaze,” said Ralph Groening, reeve for the RM of Morris.

Groening said volunteer fire crews unsuccessfully tried to put up a ladder to the second-floor window as the home burned.

“The fire was too far advanced. They were unable to go into the building. It simply wasn’t safe.”

Little remained of the 90-year-old farmhouse after the fire was out, although a storage shed 20 metres away and pine trees surrounding the blackened foundation appeared untouched by the flames.

Friends have identified the parents as Jake Froese and Doralee Eberhardt. Several local media outlets identified the four dead boys as Henry, Danny,

Timmy, and Bobby. They ranged in age from nine to 15. People grieved their loss on Facebook.

Froese and an older son Steven both work at Tri Koating Inc., an industrial painting business in Winkler, Man., and were there when the fire started.

The municipality’s volunteer fire chief, Bernard Schellenberg, said the father made the emergency call about 12:15 a.m. when he saw smoke as he and his son returned home.

About 20 volunteer firefighters from nearby communities responded in four trucks, said Schellenberg. The house was engulfed in flames and an addition that had recently been built had already collapsed when crews arrived.

Temperatures in the area were as low as -27 C with the wind chill over night.

“They went into a defensive strategy and they could not make entrance into the house due to heavy smoke and fire conditions,” Schellenberg said.

The fire is under investigation by the Manitoba Fire Office and the RCMP, Schellenberg said.

The parents were receiving medical care and the surviving children were staying with friends, Groening said.

Tri Koating president Frank Krahn described Froese as a family man and said everyone’s thoughts

MANITOBA are with him and his family.

Pauline Lafond Bouchard, superintendent of the Red River Valley School Division, said the four boys who died attended two different rural schools in the area, Lowe Farm and Rosenort.

She said crisis counsellors were called in Wednesday to help staff and students get “through the day.”

A “critical incident stress debrief” was also being set up to help the volunteer crews who responded, “so they can go through some of the emotions that come with a call like this,” Schellenberg said.

“Our crews did the best they could with the conditions they had.”

Groening said the children’s deaths have hit the community hard. Help for the family was pouring in, including the offer of a house.

“I can only imagine what the parents are going through, what the three children who are saved are going through, how they are responding to the loss of four siblings,” Groening said.

“It is a tragedy that will take a long time for them and for us to recover from.”

Tories busy putting out political fires in dispute with veterans

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole is urging the Senate to pass a government bill fast-tracking wounded ex-soldiers into federal jobs, saying an ongoing reorganization will address the concerns of military watchdogs.

The minister’s comments came as the Harper government signals it is looking to see what can be done for reservists who are finding not all of their military pension will count towards their eventual civil service retirement.

O’Toole, who replaced Julian Fantino at the helm of the embattled department in early January, has been busy putting out political fires.

They’ve ranged from the question of converting pension time — which the minister describes as “a specific and small situation” for part-time members — to the pointed concerns of Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne, who says Veterans Affairs should not be passing judgment on whether a soldier’s discharge was medically justified.

Walbourne — with the qualified support of the veterans ombudsman — said that determination should be made by National Defence, which is the agency that decides a soldier is no longer fit to serve.

To that end, Bill C-27, which put qualified wound-

ed veterans at the head of the line for federal jobs, should be amended, Walbourne said.

But O’Toole told a Senate committee Wednesday that the ombudsman’s concerns would be better addressed through the reorganization, which will see Veterans Affairs staff getting involved in cases of wounded members before their release.

“I sincerely hope the National Defence ombudsman’s suggestion, the need for it, will be eliminated on making better use of collaboration in that threeto-five year span for medically releasing veterans,” O’Toole said, referring to the length of time it takes some soldiers to move through the system.

From the moment a soldier is wounded and posted to a so-called joint personnel support unit, they have three years under the military’s universality of service rule to recover and return to their unit. If they are deemed medically unfit after that, the release process can take more than 18 months.

“I see why he made that suggestion, because he’s saying, ’You’re injured in uniform, let’s let DND care of that,”’ O’Toole said.

“The issue is we at Veterans Affairs have that expertise, and now that we’re going to be collaborating far earlier in the Canadian Forces life of that future veteran, we will eliminate the delay and frustration that the ombudsman highlighted.”

The legislation to give veterans top access to fed-

eral jobs was crafted last year after soldiers complained that they were being hustled out of the military before the 10-year mark, when they qualify for an indexed federal pension.

At the time, the government’s answer to the pension concern was that members could take a return of contribution, or buy back their pension for conversion, if they landed in the federal civil service, the approach the Conservatives were championing.

Yet, earlier this week Beth Lepage, a former air force captain, revealed that a portion of her Canadian Forces pension — accumulated as a part-time member — can’t be converted because of a difference in the way government and military retirement benefits are calculated.

The jobs legislation, currently in the final stages of Senate approval, doesn’t touch on the pension issue.

Nonetheless, Lepage and Walbourne say that inability to fully convert a mixed-service pension will be a significant “disincentive” to ex-soldiers applying for federal jobs.

In order to fix the problem, the federal Treasury Board would have to rewrite the regulations — something it has so far refused to do.

There are some 30 cases in the system similar to that of Lepage, but O’Toole denies the pension would be a “disincentive” for reservists to apply.

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John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody were charged in July 2013 after an RCMP investigation, in which they were captured on video discussing their plans with an officer posing as an Arab businessman.

Nuttall told the officer numerous times that he wanted to embark on jihad to avenge what he believed was the Canadian military’s mistreatment of Muslims abroad. Nuttall and Korody were recent converts to Islam, the trial has heard.

In a video played for the jury Wednesday, Nuttall tells the officer that he isn’t interested in a suicide mission and wants to ensure he and Korody return alive. The video was recorded June 28, 2013. “I’m not going to blow myself to kill a few taxpayers,� says Nuttall, who is sitting in the passenger seat of the officer’s truck, with Korody in the back. “Sure, it will send a message, but I can send other messages.�

Nuttall expresses concern that the planned attack will end with him and Korody either being captured or killed.

PM funds inoculation abroad, chides Canadians who balk at vaccines OTTAWA — Stephen Harper castigated Canadians who refuse to vaccinate their kids as he announced $22.5 million in additional funding for inoculation programs in some of the world’s poorest countries.

The prime minister announced the new funding — $20 million to strengthen immunity to polio and up to $2.5 million over two years to help eradicate maternal and neonatal tetanus — during an event Wednesday with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

The irony of Canada investing millions to prevent death and disease in poor countries while some of its own citizens balk at vaccinations was just too stark for him to ignore. “My wife would kill me if I didn’t say this because she is really, really exercised about this,� Harper told foreign aid groups during a moderated discussion with Gates. “We in the educated, advanced, medically advanced, sophisticated part of the world, we have a responsibility when it comes to this, not just a responsibility to vaccinate our children which I think every parent has a responsibility to do, and not just a responsibility to encourage that widespread vaccination so we’re not putting other kids at risk. “But we have a responsibility to set an example, for God’s sake.

We know these medical interventions work and as an advanced, educated society it is completely irresponsible of people in this society to communicate anything other than that anywhere else in the world.�

For parents who may still worry about the purported health risks of vaccinations, Harper had blunt advice: “Get the facts from the medical and scientific community and if you’re not a doctor or a scientist yourself, listen to the people who are. It’s that simple.�

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Montreal’s council adopted the bylaw in the spring of 2012, at the height of the Quebec student protest movement dubbed the “Maple Spring.�

Municipal court Judge Randall Richmond acquitted three demonstrators earlier this month, rejecting the itinerary infraction because none of the accused were organizers of the demonstrations.

Ontario Tories distance themselves from MPP who doesn’t believe in evolution TORONTO — An Ontario Tory’s statement that he doesn’t believe in evolution has puzzled and frustrated his fellow Conservatives who admitted Wednesday that stance doesn’t help a party trying to rebuild after four consecutive election defeats.

Progressive Conservative Rick Nicholls surprised the legislature Tuesday when he responded to a Liberal taunt by saying opting out of teaching students evolution “was not a bad idea.�

Nicholls’s heckle during debate on an updated sex-education curriculum was greeted with howls from the Liberal and NDP benches and even raised eyebrows among the Conservatives, but he wasn’t backing down Wednesday. “For myself, I don’t believe in evolution,� Nicholls told reporters. “But that doesn’t mean I speak for everyone else in my caucus. That’s a personal stance.�

Interim PC leader Jim Wilson insisted Nicholls’s views on evolution were not representative of Ontario Tories, and admitted the outburst “obviously didn’t help� a party in the midst of a leadership race. “He’s entitled to his opinion, but it’s not shared by the majority of caucus members that I know of,� said Wilson. “It’s the first I’ve ever heard of it actually.�

Canada considers joining U.S.-led military training mission in Ukraine OTTAWA — The Harper cabinet is actively and seriously considering whether Canada should join the U.S. and Britain in a military training mission to shore up embattled Ukrainian troops, Defence Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday.

The notion drew a lukewarm response from opposition parties, who seem reluctant to see Canada

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Britain said Wednesday that it would send 75 military trainers to Ukraine next month to provide instruction and training in military intelligence, logistics and battlefield medical procedures.

Kenney, who had already dropped broad hints of further Canadian involvement in concert with allies, said Canada is considering a similar commitment, with an emphasis on combat medical evacuation and trauma care. “That’s the kind of technical training that we can offer,� he said Wednesday. “We are in discussions and looking at options, and we’re open to — as I’ve been saying for two weeks now — open to participating in training missions.�

Kenney would not, however, rule out combat training, saying he “cannot be more specific at this point.�

The U.S. has committed 800 troops to train three battalions in western Ukraine.

Work on better spy monitoring still underway: feds OTTAWA — The Conservative government says it is working on more comprehensive monitoring of Canadian intelligence agencies — over four years after committing to do so.

In December 2010, the government promised to allow the review of national security activities involving multiple departments and agencies. The goal was to eliminate barriers that prevent spy watchdogs from talking to each other.

It also pledged to create an internal mechanism to ensure accountability and compliance with the laws and policies governing national security information-sharing.

The commitments were included in the Harper government’s response to a federal commission of inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.

Josee Sirois, a Public Safety Department spokeswoman, says the government is still developing options for inter-agency security review, adding she has no details on when it might be done. “The government of Canada recognizes the importance of independent review in maintaining Canadians’ trust in our national security activities,� Sirois said.

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Mayor Denis Coderre said Wednesday the city will not appeal the acquittals and will withdraw the roughly 2,000 pending charges against protesters. “For us, it’s a question of interpretation, regarding the bylaw and the evidence,� Coderre said. “The logical step was to say we’re going to drop the other pending cases.�

Some protesters were facing multiple charges and therefore Wednesday’s decision affects roughly 1,200 people, according to the city’s lawyers.

The controversial municipal bylaw in question — known as P-6 — bans wearing masks at protests and requires organizers to submit an itinerary of the demonstration to police before

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Rebels hold off Oil Kings

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 2 Oil Kings 1 EDMONTON — The Red Deer Rebels hung on down the stretch to post a 2-1 Western Hockey League win over the Edmonton Oil Kings Wednesday, but Brent Sutter suggested the thirdperiod numbers — in particular, the shots on goal that favoured the hosts by a 16-7 count — were somewhat amplified.

“They had a lot of shots in the third period but it got exaggerated a bit,” said the Rebels GM/head coach, who nevertheless gave full marks to netminder Rylan Toth, who turned aside 40 of a recorded 41 Oil Kings shots over the course of the contest.

Flames’ rally burns Devils

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flames 3 Devils 1 NEWARK, N.J. — The Calgary Flames used another comeback to get back into a playoff spot and make the New Jersey Devils’ post-season chances that much bleaker.

Sean Monahan scored a power-play goal 35 seconds into the third period and the Flames beat the Devils 3-1 on Wednesday night to move into a Western Conference wild-card spot.

“These were points that we desperately needed,” Flames goalie Karri Ramo said after making 26 saves to help the Flames snap a three-game losing streak.

“You could see that we were desperate enough to earn a win.”

Calgary, which lost 1-0 at the New York Rangers on Tuesday, moved one point ahead of idle Minnesota in the playoff race.

Curtis Glencross scored late in the second period to tie it 1-1, and T.J. Brodie added a short-handed, empty-net goal in the final minute for the Flames, who have 19 wins in games in which they have trailed (10 wins) or were tied (nine wins) after two periods.

“Any time you get a goal in the last minute of a period, it gives you a huge momentum swing,” Glencross said.

“We got that goal and got the momentum.”

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“I wouldn’t say they terribly outplayed us, I just thought it was a game where they had a lot of shots but we did a lot of good things too.

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We got a couple of bounces in the third (period) and capitalized on them.”

Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury notched the winning goal at 6:41 of the third period with Oil Kings rearguard Marshall Donald serving a hooking penalty.

Lane Bauer opened the scoring for the hosts on the power play at 9:09 of the first period and Adam Musil, with his 12th of the season, pulled the Rebels even with a man-advantage marker at 5:19 of the final frame.

The win snapped a two-game Red Deer losing string.

“We need to start playing the type of game we want to play, it doesn’t matter who is in our lineup,” said Sutter, who was minus the services of injured veteran forwards Conner Bleackley, Evan Polei and Brooks Maxwell, as well as defenceman Colton Bobyk .

“Some of the guys are not available to us because of the type of players they are, but the other guys have to step up to the plate and play hard,” said Sutter.

“We need to get more from some guys and tonight we got more.”

Sutter was particularly impressed with 16-year-old forward Reese Johnson, who made his Rebels regular-season debut Wednesday.

“He played really well, probably better than I expected,” said the Rebels boss.

“He’s got grease and he can skate . . . . he’s a good player.” ● Fleury, Bauer and Toth were selected as the game’s first, second and third stars . . . The Rebels were onefor-three on the power play; the Oil Kings one-for-four . . . Sutter admitted that Bleackley, out with a lower-body injury, could be sidelined another two to three weeks. Maxwell and Bobyk are listed as day-to-day and Polei could be back in two weeks . . . The Rebels host the Prince Albert Raiders and Lethbridge Hurricanes tonight and Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

The Devils received a power play with 47 seconds left when Mikael Backlund was called for delay of game, but Brodie scored seven seconds later to ice the game.

Ramo protected the lead the rest of the way, making power-play saves on Cammalleri and Eric Gelinas, and stopping Tuomo Ruutu on a 3-on-2 rush with less than nine minutes to go.

The Flames, playing the second contest of a seven-game trip, got even 1-1 on Glencross’ ninth goal.

Joe Colborne carried the puck into the Devils zone and sent a backhanded pass through the crease to a wide-open Glencross, who redirected the puck under the crossbar.

“We have to keep winning games,” Glencross said. “The spot we’re in, we can’t afford to lose two games in a row.”

Cammalleri had given the Devils a 1-0 lead with 2:57 left in the opening period. The former Flames forward picked up a loose puck at centre ice,

after a turnover by Brodie, and slid a pass to Jordin Tootoo.

Tootoo carried the puck into the Flames end and dropped a pass back to Cammalleri, who beat a screened Ramo with a backhander between the pads.

Cammalleri almost extended the lead late in the second period, hitting the post.

Schneider, who shut out Arizona on Monday, and Ramo, who played his second game in two nights, were outstanding in the first 40 minutes.

Ramo had excellent saves on Steve Bernier and Tootoo in close on an early power play, and he made a stop on Scott Gomez’s drive from low in the right circle midway through the second period.

Schneider stopped Jiri Hudler on a breakaway with 4:11 left in the first period, and he made a snapping glove save on Giordano’s slap shot on a power play.

Calgary Flames right wing David Jones left, skates against New Jersey Devils defenseman Andy Greene during the first period of an NHL game Wednesday, in Newark, N.J. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wideman, skated to the dot in the right circle, and sent a cross-ice pass that Monahan redirected past Schneider for his 21st goal.

“They’re not a team you can sleep on,” said Cory Schneider, who made 23 saves but gave up two Calgary goals in a 49-second span bridging the second and third periods. “I think they lead the league in comebacks and they showed again tonight they’re opportunistic.

“We gave them an inch on both plays and they took advantage of it.”

Mike Cammalleri scored his fifth goal in four games for the Devils, who had a season-high, four-game winning streak snapped. They remain eight points behind Boston in the race for the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference. The Bruins play at New Jersey on Friday to close out the Devils’ sixgame homestand.

“Every game is more important than the next,” Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello said.

RDC teams heading into playoffs with high hopes The Red Deer College Queens hockThe Trojans head into the post sea- finally looked the part of a team that Regardless, they know there is no ey team is the poster child for believ- son on a down slide, losing six of their has gone pole-to-pole with the No. 1 room for error at this tournament. ing in the process. last seven contests, allowing the MacE- CCAA ranking.

“You’ve got to win Thursday to get Now each coaching staff has their wan University Griffins (8-12-4) to catch They open up their provincial and to Friday, you’ve got to win Friday to own ideals of what the process is, but them in points. national title defence today get to the gold medal game,” said Walit’s not difficult to see the evolution of However, SAIT still earned in Olds at the ACAC Champi- ton. “You’ve got to win three in a row if the Queens this season. the third and final playoff spot onships today, but they are you want to be a champion, there’s no They started out with difficulties on the basis of having more looking forward, not at what second chances.” against high school academy teams wins. they accomplished last year. ● The RDC Kings volleyball team —getting dominated by teams from But Rutz is not about to “We talked about how that (21-3; 66-20) has been a bit of a tease Warner and EDGE — struggling to take the Trojans lightly. He was last year’s result and this second semester. score more than a goal a game and has seen what happens when what we do for this year is for Though they have looked as impresfloundering in last place in the Alberta his team is not completely fothis year’s team, and we can’t sive as any team in the country — their Colleges Athletic Confercused on the task at build our goals on what we No. 2 CCAA ranking backs that up — ence. hand. did last year,” said Queens they have managed to make things Over Christmas, some“All that stuff durhead coach Talbot Walton. harder on themselves than necessary. thing finally clicked with ing the regular sea“I’m sure in the back of everyIt all comes down to raw talent, a Bob Rutz these women. They started son is thrown out the body’s head (it’s there), but blade that cuts both ways. finding the back of the net window,” he said. “I I hope we’ve drilled it home The potential is evident with their and their confidence has like how we match up, but at that we are a new group.” three Aussie recruits — Luke Brisgrown with each succesthe same time we’re going to For much of the season — especial- bane, Adam Turlejski and Regan Fasive weekend. They finhave to earn it ... we can’t just ly the second semester — the Queens thers — but they are also prone to misished the second semester walk in and expect to roll didn’t know exactly where their of- takes and mental errors. as the hottest team in the over these guys.” fence was going to come from. With The key will remain their experiprovince, compiling a 10Game 1 goes tonight at the second year power Leah Koot ence as they head into the 2-2 record over those 14 Red Deer Arena at 7 p.m., sidelined with an injury, they ACAC Championships at the games. with Game 2 in Calgary on relied more on their defence University of Alberta-AuJOSH Tonight they open the Saturday at SAIT Arena at 7 and emerging middle Alex gustana.

ALDRICH best-of-three ACAC semip.m. If Game 3 is needed, it Donaghy, while power MiranThey open up today at 3 p.m. against The King’s Unifinals on home ice against will go Sunday at 3:15 p.m. at da Dawe showed flashes of versity College Eagles (13-11; the SAIT Trojans (9-13-2), the Red Deer Arena. elite offence but was not con47-44) who finished fourth in a team they held a 6-2-0 re● The RDC Queens volley- sistent. the North Division. cord against during the regular season. ball team ran away from their ACAC When Koot returned to the This will be the final run “I was fortunate enough to win an competition this year as defending Ca- lineup for the last two weeks, for fifth year all-Canadian Allan Cup and work with some great nadian Colleges Atheltic Association everything fell into place and power Tim Finnigan and his teams, but this has been the most champions. they dominated both the SAIT rewarding (coaching) experience Though they compiled an impres- Trojans (14-10; 46-42) and the Talbot Walton brother Anthony.

But also playing a critical to date,” said head coach Bob Rutz. sive 22-2 record, there was something second place Briercrest Cliprole will be Nic Dubinsky “We’ve taken a bunch of individuals lacking in terms of true dominance. pers (18-6; 61-29). at the start of the year and they’ve all On many nights they did look beatable, The Queens open up provincials to- who joined the team at Christmas after bought in ... We just stuck with the pro- but relied on veteran savvy to eke out night at 8 p.m. against the NAIT Ooks a scandal at Lethbridge College cost cess, we stuck with the fact we thought crucial set victories.

(15-9; 51-41), the fourth place team out the conference all-star a full season of we could take the next step to be a But the last couple of weeks, they of the North Division. They beat NAIT play. great team. We persevered. I’m so finally got healthy. They finally had all 2-1 in a pre-season tournament in their proud of this team.” of their weapons to play with. And they only head-to-head meeting.

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Ribeiro flourishing with Predators NASHVILLE — Whether Mike Ribeiro is having a rebound season or it’s simply great timing by Nashville, the veteran centre is making the Predators’ gamble to sign him pay off in a big way.

Ribeiro anchors the top line for a team currently sitting atop the NHL’s standings with 89 points. He also ranks second on the Predators with 51 points, his most since 2011-12 in his last season in Dallas. He’s already topped the 47 points he had with the Coyotes last season before being bought out of a $22 million contract.

The centre who turned 35 on Feb. 10 said Nashville a great fit for him right now.

“There’s no doubt in my mind this year I was going to have a good season,” Ribeiro said recently. “A lot of people doubted and questioned, but I knew soon as I signed here that I was going to have a good season and prepared myself for it physically and mentally and show up to work. I’m really focused on the game, and ...., playing with great players helps any player in this league.”

Ribeiro’s situation couldn’t be much different from this time a year ago.

He played 80 games in his lone year in Phoenix but scored only 16 goals and 31 assists in 80 games. It was a big drop-off for a forward who had 202 goals and 454 assists in 865 career regular-season games.

When Arizona bought out the final three years of his $22 million contract, Coyotes general manager said Ribeiro had “real behavioural issues” they couldn’t tolerate.

Ribeiro went to work on his personal life after that season. He and his wife came to Nashville together, even paying for their own airfare, before signing with the Predators. Nashville

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BRIEFS Maple Leafs trade Winnik to Penguins for Sill, two draft picks When the Pittsburgh Penguins’ offer proved worth taking, the Toronto Maple Leafs decided it wasn’t worth waiting until deadline day to trade Daniel Winnik.

The Leafs got a 2015 fourth-round pick, a 2016 second-round pick and centre Zach Sill in exchange for Winnik, a versatile 29-year-old forward who is set to be an unrestricted free agent this summer. The Penguins had expressed strong for more than a week, and Toronto general manager Dave Nonis said their offer got better in the past 48 hours.

“If we felt that the offer wasn’t fair and that there was going to be more coming, then we would’ve waited,” Nonis said Wednesday. “But we’re happy with the return, and I think Pittsburgh’s got a good player for their playoff push.”

Winnik was the Leafs’ best trade chip left after sending defenceman Cody Franson and forward Mike Santorelli to the Nashville Predators on Feb. 15. The Toronto native who was on a US$1.3-million, one-year deal had seven goals and 18 assists this season and was excellent, particularly in the past couple of months.

“He fit in well with every line he played on, was a very good penalty killer for us, and teams recognize that,” Nonis said. “His play put him in a position where he was wanted and it put us in a position to get some quality assets back.”

Other teams were interested in acquiring Winnik, seemingly the ideal rental player at the deadline, but Nonis said some were looking for a “bargain.” With the Leafs able to cash in on the pending free agent and given his play of late, Winnik was not going to be a bargain.

officials did their homework, including talking to Ribeiro’s wife, before signing him to a one-year, $1.05 million deal.

Coach Peter Laviolette said Ribeiro has done a nice job for the Predators who really had no expectations at the start of the season.

“We needed him to come in and be part of a team,” Laviolette said Wednesday. “I think everybody knew what type of player he was. Always been an offensively gifted player. The ability to create and make plays and make other players better, so that was always there. We just wanted him to come in and contribute that way.”

In Nashville, he was reunited with James Neal, a teammate for two seasons in Dallas. He also has played on a line most of the season with rookie Filip Forsberg, a top candidate for the Calder Trophy, who is tied with Neal for most goals (21).

“Ribs being a passer, you’ve always got to be ready to shoot the puck, and I think we’ve done a good job of that,” Neal said. “The more you play together, the more chemistry you build, and we feel comfortable with each other.”

Ribeiro also credits having the confidence and support of everyone from general manager David Poile to Laviolette and the rest of the team helping him feel comfortable and relaxed at work. After an assist in Tuesday night’s 5-2 win over Colorado, he now has 39.

With 21 games remaining, he could threaten the single-season mark of 54 set by Paul Kariya in 2005-06.

But he’s focused on improving his defence and the rest of his game as Nashville targets a long post-season run after missing the playoffs the past two years.

“The most important thing is to win games and be able to help the team win,” Ribeiro said. “It feels easier to come to work when you win games and you’re playing well. That makes a big difference.”

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In this Feb. 7, 2015 photo, Nashville Predators center Mike Ribeiro celebrates after scoring a goal against the New York Rangers in an NHL game in Nashville, Tenn. Ribeiro deflects attention for his rebound season, saying it helps being surrounded by great players. The chance the Predators took in signing him to a one-year deal after Arizona cut the center is paying off very well for everyone.

Sill is in the last year of his contract, as well. And while the Leafs will give the 26-year-old a chance to see if he’s a “long-term fit,” the key to this deal was stockpiling draft picks.

head coach Paul Maurice said after practice he might play Sunday against the Los Angeles Kings.

Defenceman Ben Chiarot is out about six weeks after having surgery last Sunday for a broken hand, while second-line winger Mathieu Perreault was placed on IR last week with a lower-body injury that could keep him out for the remainder of the regular season. Forward Matt Halischuk (lower body) was put on the IR Jan. 30 and could return in early March.

Tlusty has played 396 career games with Carolina and the Toronto Maple Leafs, who drafted him 13th overall in 2006. Maurice coached the six-foot, 209-pound Tlusty with both those clubs.

Tlusty’s trade follows on the heels of Winnipeg’s Feb. 11 blockbuster deal that sent injured forward Evander Kane, defenceman Zach Bogosian and prospect goalie Jason Kasdorf to the Buffalo Sabres for defenceman Tyler Myers and forward Drew Stafford.

The Jets also got prospects Joel Armia and Brendan Lemieux and one of the Sabres’ later first-round picks in this year’s draft.

Cheveldayoff tries to prep Jets for playoffs by acquiring Tlusty from Hurricanes Kevin Cheveldayoff thought the injury-stricken Winnipeg Jets could use a boost in their playoff drive so he pulled off his second trade this month.

The general manager swung a deal to acquire eight-year forward Jiri Tlusty from the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday for two draft picks.

Carolina gets a conditional sixthround pick in this year’s NHL draft, but it’ll become a fifth-round pick if the Jets make the playoffs. The Hurricanes also get a third-rounder in the 2016 draft.

“The third-round pick is a high price to pay at this time of the year,” said Cheveldayoff. “It’s certainly something that we don’t take lightly, but as a group here we’re trying to push.

We’re trying to push this group to give it an opportunity to make the playoffs and help in the development of this franchise.”

Winnipeg (31-20-11) holds the first of two wild-card spots in the Western Conference with 73 points, four ahead of the Minnesota Wild. The Jets are also four points behind third-place Chicago in the Central Division.

The Jets haven’t made the playoffs since the former Atlanta Thrashers franchise relocated to Winnipeg in 2011 and were renamed.

Winnipeg hosts St. Louis on Thursday and is trying to get Tlusty to the city in time for the game.

Tlusty, 26, was third in Carolina’s scoring this season with 13 goals and 10 assists in 52 games and is a pending unrestricted free agent.

The Czech Republic native can play right or left wing and should help bolster a squad that’s placed three players on injured reserve in the past week.

Winnipeg put top-line winger Blake Wheeler on the IR Wednesday, but

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RDC: A little more experienced and had been there done that OLDS GRIZZLYS Olds Grizzlys forward Jade McMullen will pursue his education and further his hockey career at Western Michigan University.

McMullen, who has recorded 53 points — including 33 goals — in 55 Alberta Junior Hockey League games this season, has committed to the NCAA school and the hockey Broncos for the 2015-16 season. The Edmonton native was acquired by the Grizzlys from the Grande Prairie Storm in early December.

“Jade is a player who, in my opinion, is the most college-ready player in the league,” said Grizzlys GM/head coach Brett Hopfe in a press release. “He brings great speed, strength and a hard shot every time he steps onto the ice.

“Since being acquired he has been a leader on and off the ice for our program. He has earned everything that has come his way and we are very excited for him.” ● The Grizzlys will close out their regular-season schedule with a meeting with the host Canmore Eagles Friday and a home date with the Drayton Valley Thunder 24 hours later.

Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane has surgery for broken left collarbone Blackhawks star Patrick Kane had surgery Wednesday to repair a broken left collarbone, likely sidelining the dynamic forward for the rest of the season unless Chicago makes another deep run in the playoffs.

Team physician Dr. Michael Terry and Dr. Bradley Merk performed the surgery, and Terry said a full recovery will take “approximately 12 weeks.”

Kane, who leads Chicago with 27 goals and 37 assists, lost his balance and crashed into the boards after he was cross-checked by Florida defenceman Alex Petrovic with 12:11 left in the first period of Tuesday night’s 3-2 shootout victory over the Panthers.

He stayed down on the ice for a short time and was hunched over as he skated to the bench and went straight

This is clearly not the same team that won a national championship last year, but the potential is there to repeat and then make a run at a third straight title next year.

“We were a little more experienced and had been there and done that and had gone all of the way to the national final the year previous with a very similar group ... but with guys like Tim leading the ship I think we’re going to be just fine,” said head coach Aaron Schulha. ● Not every RDC team is in the post-season this weekend. The basketball program wraps up their regular season against the Briercrest Clippers this

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to the locker room.

The three-month timeline means Kane would be out until the Western Conference finals. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2013 and lost to eventual champion Los Angeles in the conference finals a year ago, but it will be quite difficult to make a similar run without Kane, who was working on one of his best seasons.

“You miss a valuable guy, a buddy,” coach Joel Quenneville said Tuesday night. “He’s having one of those years that are very noticeable. But the guys still got to stick with it. Playing the right way will be emphasized as we go along.”

The 26-year-old Kane led Chicago with 20 points in last year’s post-season. He had the winning goal against Philadelphia when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, and won the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP when they won the title again two years ago.

Kings acquired D Andrej Sekera from Carolina for 1st-round pick, prospect McKeown The Los Angeles Kings have acquired defenceman Andrej Sekera from the Carolina Hurricanes in a trade for prospect Ronald McKeown and a first-round draft pick.

The defending Stanley Cup champions announced the deal Wednesday.

The 28-year-old Sekera has two goals and 17 assists in 57 games with the Hurricanes this season after recording a career-high 44 points last season. The dependable two-way veteran will be an unrestricted free agent this summer.

The Slovak defenceman was traded to Carolina in 2013 after playing his first seven NHL seasons in Buffalo, where he sometimes teamed with current Kings defenceman Robyn Regehr on the Sabres’ blue line.

The Kings drafted McKeown in the second round last year. The 19-yearold defenceman is with Kingston in the Ontario Hockey League.

weekend, hosting on Friday at 6 and 8 p.m. and then on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m. — the women tipping off in the early games.

Also the Kings hockey team (12-13-0-3) has three games on the schedule against the Portage College Voyageurs (1-26-0-2) this weekend — at Penhold Regional Multiplex on Friday at 7 p.m, and then in Lac La Biche on Saturday and Sunday.

They wrap up their regular season on Tuesday in Edmonton with a makeup game against the MacEwan Griffins (20-5-1-3). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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McMorris has unfinished business SNOWBOARDING STAR LOOKING FORWARD TO 2018 OLYMPICS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An Olympic medal, 10 Winter X Games medals, a TV show and a documentary, a restaurant in Toronto’s trendy entertainment district, a cool clothing company and a gorgeous surfer girlfriend. What more could a 21-year-old want?

Mark McMorris has already accomplished more than many athletes achieve over the course of a career.

The star snowboarder has his hands in more creative endeavours than some entrepreneurs could hope for in a lifetime.

The way McMorris tells it, it’s just a matter of grabbing the world by the tail while it’s in reach.

“I think it’s just because I have such a good thing at my fingertips right now with everything that’s going for me, it’s sort of taught me to grow up fast, because our lifestyle, doing this doesn’t last as long as say somebody that’s going to go and work a job after college,” McMorris said.

“I’ve been grinding as hard as I can since I was 15 so that I can chill when I’m all done,” he added with a laugh.

McMorris won’t be done any time soon. The Regina native was in Toronto on Tuesday to attend the Canadian Screen Awards. He and brother Craig were up for three awards for their MTV series “McMorris & McMorris.”

They were also presenting a couple of awards — Mark was excited about the “pretty flashy” outfit his stylist had picked out for him.

Life has picked up since the athlete with the shaggy hair and goofy grin captured Canada’s first medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a bronze in slopestyle. If he was famous before with extreme sports fans, he’s big time now in Canada’s public consciousness. Just days after his gutsy performance in Sochi — he made the podium despite

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Canadian Mark McMorris receives his bronze medal for snowboard slopestyle at the medal ceremonies during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on February 8, 2014. McMorris has already accomplished more than many athletes achieve over the course of a career. He has his hands in more creative endeavours than some entrepreneurs could hope for in a lifetime. having a broken rib — he sat courtside at a Toronto Raptors game, and was warmly received with a standing ovation that he called “pretty special.” “(Life) has definitely changed, in the positive sense that now most (Canadians) know me, it’s not just people who are into sports or action sports, everybody watched the Olympics and a lot of people know what I do,” he said.

“And it was such a positive experience, winning Canada’s first medal,

my brother calling it (for the television broadcast), and the success we’ve had around it, with the TV show and my documentary, and the X Games. . . I’m just happy we’re having positive things happening and kids are stoked, and people are being motivated by it.”

McMorris picked up two more gold medals at the X Games last month. Always one to push the snowboarding envelope, he unleashed a frontside triple cork 1440 and backside triple cork 1620

to claim the big air title.

He has more tricks up his sleeve, but it’s “sort of on the down low,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “Hopefully you don’t tell all my competitors.”

Perhaps he’ll save them for the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where he has “unfinished business” and will be gunning for gold.

When he’s not on the slopes, he’s a part owner of AWSM, a company that designs sports clothing and accessories. He and his brother are part owners of the Queen Street Warehouse, a downtown Toronto restaurant. He’s working on a 30-40 minute documentary that will premier in the fall. “(It’s) based on just one season, in the life, with friends, and different destinations and trying to cover all different aspects of snowboarding, not just the competition, not just the back country, but trying to get a bit of everything in, and even everything in between, the media tours, the CSAs tonight, everything,” McMorris said.

He’s also one-half of one of sport’s cutest supercouples. His Hawaiian girlfriend Coco Ho is one of the world’s top surfers. Combined, the two have almost a quarter of a million Twitter followers — he has 166,000, she has 72,200.

McMorris has one more competition this season, the U.S. Open in Vail, Colo., and then it will be time to “defrost and decompress.”

“I’m always sort of travelling, but I like to spend my time out of the snow when I get the chance to. . . and get remotivated to go do it all again, every single year,” he said. “There’s always new opportunities every year, new things. But I love to spend my time skateboarding or surfing or just hanging out with friends. Once you travel as much as I do, you become somewhat addicted to travelling as well. I’m always travelling, going somewhere with somebody, or doing this. Very blessed.”

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Miguel Castro runs towards a ball in a drill during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Wednesday. wants to do with it. And when he did make a mistake with it, you could see him making the adjustment on the next pitch. And that shows a lot about a pitcher, about who he is.”

Castro throws a fastball, slider and change-up.

“You have a three-pitch pitcher like that, who throws that hard and knows what he’s doing, those guys are special,” Thole said.

Baseball America lists Castro ninth among Jays’ prospects.

“Right now if the season was to start today, he’d be down here in the Florida State League but that’s not to say that he can’t come (up) quick,” said Anthopoulos.

“A longshot to make the team but we wouldn’t close the door on anything,” he added.

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DUNEDIN, Fla. — Catcher Russell Martin got positive reviews Wednesday for his first attempt at corralling R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball.

It was only a bullpen session but represented a step in the right direction for the Blue Jays, who want Russell’s bat and stewardship behind the plate available no matter who’s pitching.

“I thought he was really good,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons, a former catcher himself. “He’s got the hands to do it. And the fact he wants to is big.”

Martin acknowledged that it was not easy, “but doable.”

“I guess I’ll just get more comfortable the more I catch,” he said. “But so far, so good.”

Josh Thole has been Dickey’s personal catcher since 2010 with the Mets and Jays. But Thole, while appreciated in the clubhouse, has hit .175 and .248 in the last two seasons (102 games) in Toronto.

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DUNEDIN, Fla. — At six foot five, Miguel Castro is hard to miss at the Toronto Blue Jays’ spring training camp.

The spindly Dominican right-hander uncoils like a praying mantis on the mound. And he throws smoke.

The first time Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos saw him pitch, for Class-A Vancouver, he thought the speed gun was broken because it kept showing 98 miles per hour.

“I literally said ’Hey, is something wrong with the gun? Is it frozen?”’ Anthopoulos said.

Having just turned 20 in December, Castro is very much a work in progress.

But the fact he has control to go with that speed has Anthopoulos enthusing.

The GM says the young pitcher may not have great command in terms of where he hits the glove. But he finds the strike zone.

“Any young player, there’s risk,” Anthopoulos said. “But young players that control the strike zone have a much better chance, and young starters and relievers that throw strikes have a pretty good chance to survive up here. I’d say nine times out of 10, the reason guys get sent down is because they can’t throw strikes.”

Castro is listed at 190 pounds but looks 20 pounds lighter. While there isn’t much meat on the bone, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. His fast ball has been clocked at 102 m.p.h., according to Anthopoulos.

Josh Thole, who caught Castro’s bullpen session Tuesday, was impressed by what he saw.

“The way that he commanded his pitches, that’s what impressed me more than anything,” said Thole. “Not that he throws 100 (m.p.h.) or what not, but throwing a breaking ball and not just throwing it but knowing what he

million, five-year deal with the Blue Jays last November. Toronto has gone through this before. Two seasons ago, J.P. Arencibia declared he was ready to handle Dickey’s dancing pitch after spring training but three passed balls on Opening Day told a different story.

Martin could be heard ooohing at Dickey’s knuckleball as cameras clicked behind him Wednesday. Midway through the session, Martin told the 40-year-old right-hander to stop announcing what he was about to throw.

“Don’t even tell me,” he said. “I just want to see how I react.”

Martin did not hang on to every ball.

Still he fared pretty well for his first attempt.

Dickey praised Martin for his athleticism as well as his curiosity about the pitch, saying he believes the 32-yearold Canadian will be up to the task.

But he also said he has a “very deep relationship” with Thole.

“He’s caught over 75 or 80 per cent of my starts since 2010 and I have never seen a guy as good as him,” said Dickey. “It’s hard to contemplate him not catching me. But at the same time that doesn’t mean that he’s the only guy in the world that can catch me.”

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Brandon 61 45 10 4 2 283 Regina 60 33 19 4 4 222 Swift Current 61 30 26 1 4 191 Moose Jaw 60 24 31 4 1 172 Prince Albert 60 24 33 2 1 172 Saskatoon 61 18 39 2 2 178

GA 188 192 201 222 214 260

Pt 96 74 65 53 51 40

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL x-Calgary 60 37 18 1 4 Medicine Hat 61 37 21 1 2 Red Deer 60 31 20 4 5 Kootenay 62 32 27 1 2 Edmonton 61 27 28 4 2 Lethbridge 60 18 35 4 3

GA 170 189 193 225 169 253

Pt 79 77 71 67 60 43

GF 253 231 199 213 174 175

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

GA 152 184 204 254 227

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA x-Everett 60 36 17 3 4 208 165 x-Portland 60 36 20 1 3 226 192 Seattle 60 31 22 3 4 175 164 Spokane 58 27 27 3 1 162 181 Tri-City 61 27 31 0 3 163 199 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth.

Pt 96 70 55 52 50 Pt 79 76 69 58 57

Tuesday’s results Swift Current 7 Kootenay 6 (SO) Calgary 3 Seattle 2 Portland 6 Tri-City 4 Wednesday’s results Brandon 5 Medicine Hat 0 Kootenay 5 Regina 4 (SO) Saskatoon 6 Swift Current 2 Red Deer 2 Edmonton 1 Calgary at Portland, late Victoria at Kelowna, late Everett at Spokane, late Thursday’s games Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Medicine Hat at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Prince George at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Penalties — Gay RD (boarding) 2:21, Fleury RD (high-sticking) 8:29, Fleury RD (high-sticking) 8:29.

Third Period 2. Red Deer, Musil 12 (Fleury, Kopeck) 5:19 (pp).

3. Red Deer, Fleury 5 (Grman) 6:41.

Penalties — Donald Edm (hooking) 5:03, RD Bench (served by Grman, too many men) 12:41, Baddock Edm (inter. on goaltender) 17:01, Fleury RD (slashing) 20:00.

Shots on goal Red Deer 7 9 7 — 23 Edmonton 9 16 16 — 41 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 23-15-3); Edmonton: Jarry (L, 20-23-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 1-3; Edmonton: 1-4.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Montreal 60 39 16 5 83 N.Y. Islanders 62 40 20 2 82 N.Y. Rangers 59 37 16 6 80 Tampa Bay 62 37 19 6 80 Pittsburgh 61 35 17 9 79 Detroit 59 33 15 11 77 Washington 62 33 19 10 76 Boston 60 29 22 9 67 Florida 60 26 21 13 65 Philadelphia 61 26 24 11 63 New Jersey 61 25 27 9 59 Ottawa 57 24 23 10 58 Columbus 59 26 29 4 56 Toronto 60 24 31 5 53 Carolina 59 22 30 7 51 Buffalo 61 18 38 5 41

No Scoring.

Penalties — Donald Edm (tripping) 14:32.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Bauer 20 (Pollock, Sautner) 9:09 (pp).

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

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

Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m.

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

Colorado at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries

GF 162 200 186 203 176 173 184 158 145 162 137 163 155 167 134 114

GA 133 173 145 167 152 154 156 158 169 178 161 161 184 183 159 204

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 61 41 13 7 89 186 143 Anaheim 61 38 16 7 83 182 171 St. Louis 60 38 18 4 80 188 151 Vancouver 60 35 22 3 73 171 156 Chicago 61 36 20 5 77 180 146 Los Angeles 59 29 18 12 70 162 152 Winnipeg 62 31 20 11 73 173 168 Calgary 61 33 24 4 70 174 158 Minnesota 60 31 22 7 69 169 158 San Jose 61 30 23 8 68 171 174 Dallas 61 27 25 9 63 191 202 Colorado 61 26 24 11 63 161 175 Arizona 61 20 34 7 47 134 206 Edmonton 62 18 34 10 46 142 206 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago 3, Florida 2, SO Vancouver 2, Boston 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Arizona 1 N.Y. Rangers 1, Calgary 0 Carolina 4, Philadelphia 1 Buffalo 4, Columbus 2 Montreal 5, St. Louis 2 Nashville 5, Colorado 2 Edmonton 2, Minnesota 1 Winnipeg 4, Dallas 2 Los Angeles 1, Detroit 0

Wednesday’s summary Rebels 2, Oil Kings 1 First Period

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

Montreal at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Wednesday’s Games Calgary 3, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3 Ottawa at Anaheim, late

Flames 3, Devils 1 First Period 1. New Jersey, Cammalleri 23 (Tootoo) 17:03.

Penalties — Glencross Cgy (fighting) 4:44, Zajac NJ (fighting) 4:44, Diaz Cgy (high-sticking) 5:25, Larsson NJ (tripping) 18:31.

Second Period 2. Calgary, Glencross 9 (Colborne, Jooris) 19:46.

Penalties — Merrill NJ (slashing) 20:00.

Third Period 3. Calgary, Monahan 21 (Giordano, Wideman) :35 (pp).

4. Calgary, Brodie 10 (Monahan) 19:20 (en-sh).

Penalties — Gaudreau Cgy (holding) 7:12, Backlund Cgy (delay of game) 19:13.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 9 8 — 26 New Jersey 10 9 8 — 27 Goal — Calgary: Ramo (W, 10-6-1); New Jersey: Schneider (L, 22-23-5).

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

Penguins 4, Capitals 3 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 19 (Malkin, Perron) 7:04.

2. Pittsburgh, Sutter 13 (unassisted) 18:33 (sh).

3. Washington, Carlson 10 (Chimera, Fehr) 19:51.

Penalties — Latta Wash (roughing) 8:13, Wilson Wash (roughing) 8:13, Downie Pgh (roughing) 8:13, Comeau Pgh (roughing) 8:13, Kunitz Pgh (hooking) 11:47, Letang Pgh (hooking) 14:02, Crosby Pgh (holding) 16:52.

Second Period 4. Pittsburgh, Crosby 20 (Malkin, Kunitz) 3:16 (pp).

Penalties — Ward Wash (slashing) 0:34, Laich Wash (tripping) 2:44, Schilling Wash (interference) 3:25, Chimera Wash (holding) 7:12, Martin Pgh (cross-checking) 9:29, Wilson Wash (cross-checking) 12:42, Scuderi Pgh (roughing) 12:42, Wilson Wash (roughing) 12:42, Schilling Wash (hooking) 15:55, Comeau Pgh (slashing) 19:02.

Third Period 5. Washington, Brouwer 18 (Chimera, Alzner) 4:09.

6. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 16 (Comeau, Malkin) 7:12.

7. Washington, Ovechkin 39 (Carlson, Brouwer) 16:26 (pp).

Penalties — Fleury Pgh (roughing) 16:22.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 8 12 6 — 26 Washington 6 5 13 — 24 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 28-13-6); Washington: Holtby (L, 29-14-9).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-6; Washington: 1-6.

Thursday’s Games Vancouver at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Free Agents Signings NEW YORK — The 113 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (1) — Re-signed Delmon Young, of, to a $2.25 million, one-year contract.

BOSTON (7) — Re-signed Koji Uehara, rhp, to an $18 million, two-year contract; signed Pablo Sandoval, 3b, San Francisco, to a $95 million, five-year contract; signed Hanley Ramirez, lf, Los Angeles Dodgers, to an $88 million, four-year contract; signed Justin Masterson, rhp, St. Louis, to a $9.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Craig Breslow, lhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Felipe Paulino, rhp, Chicago White Sox, to a minor league contract ($925,000); signed Humberto Quintero, c, Seattle, to a minor league contract ($750,000).

CHICAGO (9) — Signed Zach Duke, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $15 million, three-year contract; signed Adam LaRoche, 1b, Washington, to a $25 million, two-year contract; signed David Robertson, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $46 million, four-year contract; signed Melky Cabrera, of, Toronto, to a $42 million, three-year contract; signed Emilio Bonifacio, 2b, Atlanta, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Jesse Crain, rhp, Houston, to a minor league contract ($2 million); signed Geovany Soto, c, Oakland, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million); signed Brad Penny, rhp, Miami, to a minor league contract; signed Matt Albers, rhp, Houston, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million).

CLEVELAND (2) — Signed Gavin Floyd, rhp, Atlanta, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Downs, lhp, Kansas City, to a minor league contract ($800,000).

DETROIT (4) — Re-signed Victor Martinez, dh, to a $64 million, four-year contract; signed Tom Gorzelanny, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $1 million, one-year contract; re-signed Joel Hanrahan, rhp, to a minor league contract ($1 million); re-signed Joba Chamberlain, rhp, to a $1 million, one-year contract.

HOUSTON (5) — Signed Luke Gregerson, rhp, Oakland, to an $18.5 million, four-year contract; signed Pat Neshek, rhp, St. Louis, to a $12.5 million, two-year contract; signed Jed Lowrie, ss, Oakland, to a $23 million, three-year contract; signed Colby Ramus, of, Toronto, to an $8 million, one-year contract; signed Joe Thatcher, lhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a minor league contract ($1 million).

KANSAS CITY (6) — Re-signed Jason Frasor, rhp, to a $1.8 million, one-year contract; re-signed Luke Hochevar, rhp, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Kendrys Morales, dh, Seattle, to a $17 million, two-year contract; signed Alex Rios, of, Toronto, to an $11 million, one-year contract; signed Edinson Volquez, rhp, Pittsburgh, to a $20 million, two-year contract; signed Franklin Morales, lhp, Colorado, to a minor league contract ($1.85 million).

LOS ANGELES (1) — Signed Matt Lindstom, rhp, Chicago White Sox, to a minor league contract ($1 million).

MINNESOTA (3) — Signed Torii Hunter, of, Detroit, to a $10.5 million, one-year contract; signed Ervin Santana, rhp, Atlanta, to a $55 million, four-year contract; signed Tim Stauffer, rhp, San Diego, to a $2.2 million, one-year contract.

NEW YORK (7) — Re-signed Chris Young, of, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Andrew Miller, lhp, Baltimore, to a $36 million, four-year contract; re-signed Chase Headley, 3b, to a $52 million, four-year contract; re-signed Chris Capuano, lhp, to a $5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Stephen Drew, ss, to a $5 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Baker, rhp, Texas, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million); signed Jared Burton, rhp, Minnesota, to a minor league contract ($2 million).

OAKLAND (1) — Signed Billy Butler, 1b, Kansas

City, to a $30 million, three-year contract.

SEATTLE (5) — Signed Nelson Cruz, dh, Baltimore, to a $57 million, four-year contract; re-signed Endy Chavez, of, to a minor league contract ($750,000); re-signed Franklin Gutierrez, of, to a minor league contract; agreed to terms with Rickie Weeks, infof, Milwaukee, on a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Joe Saunders, lhp, Baltimore, to a minor league contract.

TAMPA BAY (2) — Signed Asdrubal Cabrera, ss, Washington, to a $7.5 million, one-year contract; signed Alexi Casilla, inf, Baltimore, to a minor league contract ($900,000).

TEXAS (5) — Re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Kyuji Fujikawa, rhp, Chicago Cubs, to a $1.1 million, one-year contract; signed Ryan Ludwick, of, Cincinnati, to a minor league contract ($1.75 million); signed Nate Schierholtz, of, Washington, to a minor league contract ($1.75 million); signed Jamey Wright, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a minor league contract ($1 million).

TORONTO (3) — Signed Russell Martin, c, Pittsburgh, to an $82 million, five-year contract; resigned Munenori Kawasaki, inf, to a minor league contract ($825,000); signed Ramon Santiago, ss, Cincinnati, to a minor league contract ($1.1 million).

NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (1) — Signed Gerald Laird, c, Atlanta, to a minor league contract.

ATLANTA (8) — Signed Jim Johnson, rhp, Detroit, to a $1.6 million, one-year contract; signed Nick Markakis, of, Baltimore, to a $44 million, four-year contract; signed Alberto Callaspo, 3b, Oakland, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Jason Grilli, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed A.J. Pierzynski, c, St. Louis, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Kelly Johnson, inf, Baltimore, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million); signed Jonny Gomes, of, Oakland, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Jose Veras, rhp, Houston, to a minor league contract ($1.6 million).

CHICAGO (5) — Signed Jason Hammel, rhp, Oakland, to a $20 million, two-year contract; signed Jon Lester, lhp, Oakland, to a $155 million, six-year contract; signed Jason Motte, rhp, St. Louis, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; signed David Ross, c, Boston, to a $5 million, two-year contract; signed Chris Denorfia, of, Seattle, to a $2.6 million, oneyear contract.

CINCINNATI (3) — Signed Paul Maholm, lhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a minor league contract; signed Burke Badenhop, rhp, Boston, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Kevin Gregg, rhp, Miami, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million).

COLORADO (2) — Signed Nick Hundley, c, Baltimore, to a $6.25 million, two-year contract; signed Kyle Kendrick, rhp, Philadelphia, to a $5.5 million, one-year contract.

HOUSTON (1) — Signed Roberto Hernandez, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a minor league contract ($1.25 million).

LOS ANGELES (3) — Signed Brandon McCarthy, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $48 million, four-year contract; signed Brett Anderson, lhp, Colorado, to a $10 million, one-year contract; signed Dustin McGowan, rhp, Toronto, to a $507,500, one-year contract.

MIAMI (4) — Signed Michael Morse, of, San Francisco, to a $16 million, two-year contract; signed Nick Masset, rhp, Colorado, to a minor league contract ($1 million); signed Ichiro Suzuki, of, New York Yankees, to a $2 million, one-year contract; resigned Reed Johnson, of, to a minor league contract ($1.25 million).

MILWAUKEE (1) — Signed Neal Cotts, lhp, Texas, to a $3 million, one-year contract; agreed to terms

with RHP Chris Perez on a minor league contract ($1.5 million).

NEW YORK (1) — Signed Michael Cuddyer, of, Colorado, to a $21 million, two-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA (2) — Signed Aaron Harang, rhp, Atlanta, to a $5 million, one-year contract; signed Chad Billingsley, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH (2) — Signed A.J. Burnett, rhp, Philadelphia, to an $8.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Francisco Liriano, lhp, to a $39 million, three-year contract.

ST. LOUIS (3) — Signed Matt Belisle, rhp, Colorado, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract; signed Mark Reynolds, 1b, Milwaukee, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Carlos Villanueva, rhp, Chicago Cubs, to a minor league contract ($2 million).

SAN DIEGO (5) — Signed Clint Barmes, ss, Pittsburgh, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract; signed Brandon Morrow, rhp, Toronto, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Josh Johnson, rhp, to a $1 million, one-year contract; signed Wil Nieves, c, Philadelphia, to a minor league contract ($850,000); signed James Shields, rhp, Kansas City, to a $75 million, four-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO (4) — Re-signed Sergio Romo, rhp, to a $15 million, two-year contract; re-signed Jake Peavy, rhp, to a $24 million, two-year contract; signed Nori Aoki, of, Kansas City, to a $4.7 million, one-year contract; re-signed Ryan Vogelsong, rhp, to a $4 million, one-year contract.

WASHINGTON (2) — Signed Max Scherzer, rhp, Detroit, to a $210 million, seven-year contract; signed Casey Janssen, rhp, Toronto, to a $5 million, one-year contract.

JAPAN CENTRAL LEAGUE HIROSHIMA (1) — Signed Hiroki Kuroda, rhp, New York Yankees, to a 330 million yen ($2,737,00), one-year contract.

JAPAN PACIFIC LEAGUE FUKUOKA (1) — Signed Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp, New York Mets, to a 460 million yen, one-year contract ($3,844,000), one-year contract.

ORIX (1) — Signed Hiroyuki Nakajima, ss, Oakland, to a three-year contract (2015 salary 405 million yen ($3.384,000)).

SOUTH KOREAN LEAGUE LG TWINS (1) — Signed Jack Hannahan, 3b, Cincinnati, to a $1 million, one-year contract.

Remaining Free Agents AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (1) — Johan Santana, lhp.

BOSTON (1) — Ryan Dempster, rhp.

CHICAGO (1) — Paul Konerko, 1b.

CLEVELAND (1) — Jason Giambi, 1b.

DETROIT (1) — Phil Coke, lhp.

KANSAS CITY (2) — Raul Ibanez, of; Josh Willingham, of.

LOS ANGELES (2) — Sean Burnett, lhp; John McDonald, ss.

NEW YORK (2) — Rich Hill, lhp; Derek Jeter, ss.

SEATTLE (2) — Joe Beimel, lhp; Chris Young, rhp.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA (1) — Ryan Doumit, c.

LOS ANGELES (2) — Josh Beckett, rhp; Kevin Correia, rhp.

MIAMI (1) — Rafael Furcal, ss.

MILWAUKEE (2) — Lyle Overbay, 1b; Francisco Rodriguez, rhp.

NEW YORK (1) — Bobby Abreu, of.

PHILADELPHIA (1) — Mike Adams, rhp.

ST. LOUIS (1) — Mark Ellis, 2b.

WASHINGTON (2) — Scott Hairston, of; Rafael Soriano, rhp.

semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday ● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship tournament at Olds College, Olds plays at 6 p.m., RDC plays at 8 p.m.; ACAC men’s championship Thursday at Camrose Augustana, RDC plays at 3 p.m. ● 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. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, third game of best-of-seven Chinook/provincial

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 37 20 .649 — Brooklyn 23 32 .418 13 Boston 22 33 .400 14 Philadelphia 12 45 .211 25 New York 10 46 .179 26 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 45 12 .789 — Washington 33 25 .569 12 Miami 25 31 .446 19 Charlotte 23 32 .418 21 Orlando 19 40 .322 27 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 36 22 .621 — Chicago 36 22 .621 — Milwaukee 32 25 .561 3 Detroit 23 34 .404 12 Indiana 23 34 .404 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 41 14 .745 — Houston 39 18 .684 3 Dallas 39 21 .650 4 San Antonio 34 22 .607 7 New Orleans 30 27 .526 12 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 36 19 .655 — Oklahoma City 32 25 .561 5 Utah 21 35 .375 15 Denver 20 37 .351 17 Minnesota 13 43 .232 23 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 44 10 .815 — L.A. Clippers 37 21 .638 9

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MONTREAL — The Ultimate Fighting Championship is confident that UFC186 at the Bell Centre will be a success despite local star Georges St-Pierre being on sabbatical and with the sport in the midst of a doping controversy.

Tom Wright, the UFC’s general manager for Canada, said Wednesday that reduced ticket prices and having two championship bouts will help sell the April 25 fight card.

The feature attractions are bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw (12-2) in a rematch with top contender Renan Barao (35-2) and Demetrious Johnson (21-2-1) defending his flyweight title against Kyoji Horiguchi (15-1).

It will be the seventh UFC card in Montreal, which is the most ever held in a city other than Las Vegas and Atlantic City. But it is the first since St-Pierre withdrew from the sport more than a year ago.

The former champion has not retired, and may yet make a comeback, especially with UFC boss Dana White’s announcement last week that a program of enhanced out of competition dope testing will begin July 1 in response to star fighter Anderson Silva’s positive tests for steroids and other substances.

“It’ll be the first time we tried to sell UFC

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Tuesday’s Games Golden State 114, Washington 107 Cleveland 102, Detroit 93 Oklahoma City 105, Indiana 92 Dallas 99, Toronto 92 Wednesday’s Games Miami 93, Orlando 90, OT Atlanta 104, Dallas 87 Boston 115, New York 94 New Orleans 102, Brooklyn 96 Charlotte 98, Chicago 86 Milwaukee 104, Philadelphia 88 Minnesota 97, Washington 77 Houston 110, L.A. Clippers 105 Phoenix 110, Denver 96 L.A. Lakers 100, Utah 97 Memphis at Sacramento, late San Antonio at Portland, late Thursday’s Games Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

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

Cleveland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

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

Charlotte at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Houston, 6 p.m.

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

Utah at Denver, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Canada Winter Games 2015 Canada Winter Games Medal Standings PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Medal standings from the 2015 Canada Winter Games: Province/Territory Quebec Ontario B.C. Alberta

G 46 28 16 9

S 30 27 21 19

B 33 17 19 25

Total 109 72 56 53

Saskatchewan Manitoba New Brunswick Yukon N.L. Nova Scotia N.W.T. Nunavut P.E.I.

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Curling 2015 Tim Hortons Brier KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Schedule for the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier, the Canadian men’s curling championship, from Feb. 26-March 8 at the Scotiabank Saddledome: QUALIFYING ROUND Thursday’s game P.E.I. vs. Yukon, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Yukon vs. Nova Scotia, 8 a.m.

Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I., 3:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game (winner earns final berth in round-robin) Best vs. Second-best record, 1:30 p.m.

ROUND ROBIN Saturday, Feb. 28 First Draw, 1:30 p.m.

Northern Ontario vs. Quebec; Saskatchewan vs.

N.L.; Canada vs. Manitoba.

Second Draw, 6:30 p.m.

Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan; B.C. vs. Alberta; Qualifier vs. Ontario; N.W.T. vs. New Brunswick.

Sunday, March 1 Third Draw, 8:30 a.m.

Ontario vs. Quebec; Northern Ontario vs. Alberta; N.L. vs. Canada.

Fourth Draw, 1:30 p.m.

N.L. vs. N.W.T.; Qualifier vs. Canada; New Brunswick vs. Quebec; Northern Ontario vs. B.C. Fifth Draw, 6:30 p.m.

Qualifier vs. B.C.; New Brunswick vs. Manitoba; N.W.T. vs. Saskatchewan; Ontario vs. Alberta.

Monday, March 2 Sixth Draw, 1:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. Canada; N.W.T. vs. Northern Ontario; B.C. vs. N.L.; Quebec vs. Qualifier.

Seventh Draw, 6:30 p.m.

Quebec vs. Alberta; Canada vs. Saskatchewan; Ontario vs. Northern Ontario; Manitoba vs. N.L.

UFC confident card will succeed despite doping controversy and no St-Pierre Transactions in Montreal without Georges, but while he may not be fighting, Georges is still very much a part of UFC,” said Wright. “It’s the first time ever that we’ve brought two championships, which is the really important reason for fans to want to come out.”

He said that when St-Pierre was on the card, top tickets cost $600. The most expensive will cost $375 this time. But he said events have succeeded at the Bell Centre before without St-Pierre.

Local attractions include veteran Patrick Cote (21-9), now fighting down one division at welterweight, against Joe Riggs (40-15) and lightweight Olivier Aubin-Mercier (6-1) facing David Michaud (8-1).

There is also former light heavyweight champion Quinton (Rampage) Jackson’s return after a two-year absence.

But of late, attention has focused on Silva, who failed a Jan. 9 out of competition test and had banned drugs turn up on a post-fight test after his Jan. 31 bout with Nick Diaz. Silva, who has denied being a drug cheat, is to appear at a disciplinary hearing in March.

One of Cote’s losses was to Silva, but he harbours no ill-will toward the former champion.

“I have huge respect for him,” said Cote. “In my mind, he’s still the best fighter in the history of mixed martial arts.

Sunday

● 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.

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2015 Tim Hortons Brier Rosters Alberta (Glencoe Club, Calgary) Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert, Jamie King and John Dunn.

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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. ● 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.

Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with SS Everth Cabrera on a one-year contract. Designated OF Alex Hassan for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with C Erik Kratz, INFs Cheslor Cuthbert and Ryan Jackson, OFs Lane Adams and Jorge Bonifacio, RHPs Aaron Brooks and Michael Mariot and LHPs Brandon Finnegan, Brian Flynn and John Lamb on one-year contracts.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chad Gaudin on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKS — Suspended G Rajon Rondo one game for conduct detrimental to the team.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed PK Matt Bryant to a contract extension.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Terminated the contract of WR/KR Jacoby Jones.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed CB Demontre Hurst to a two-year contract extension.

DETROIT LIONS — Released RB Reggie Bush.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released LB A.J. Hawk.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Named Fitz Ollison senior director of football communications.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Released RB Peyton Hillis.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Nick Williams.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Signed QB Dan LeFevour to a one-year contract.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed LB TraShaun Nixon and OL Tommy Griffiths.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

Clubs) Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky, Grant Olsen andPat Ryan.

Canada (Glencoe Club, Calgary) John Morris, Pat Simmons, Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen, Tom Sallows and Earle Morris.

Manitoba (West St. Paul Curling Club) Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson, Steve Gould and Norm Gould.

New Brunswick (Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club, Saint John) Jeremy Mallais, Zach Eldridge, Chris Jeffrey, Jared Bezanson, Jason Vaughan and Mark Ward.

Newfoundland & Labrador (Bally Haly Country Club, St. John’s) Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker and Ken Bagnell (coach).

Northern Ontario (Soo Curlers Association, Sault Ste. Marie) Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden, Eric Harnden and Tom Coulterman.

Northwest Territories (Yellowknife Curling Centre) Jamie Koe, Mark Whitehead, Brad Chorostkowski, Robert Borden, Bill Merklinger and Terry Shea.

Nova Scotia (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax) Glen MacLeod (throws third), Peter Burgess (throws skip stones), Colten Steele, Rob McLean, Paul Flemming and Stuart MacLean.

Ontario (Fenelon Falls Curling Club) Mark Kean, Mat Camm, David Mathers, Scott Howard and Bryan Cochrane (alternate & coach).

Prince Edward Island (Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside & Charlottetown Curling Club) Adam Casey, Josh Barry, Anson Carmody, Robbie Doherty, Robert Campbell and Lincoln Peters.

Quebec (Club de curling Etchemin, St-Romuald) Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard, Pierre Charette and Robert Menard.

Saskatchewan (Nutana Curling Club, Saskatoon) Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Dallan Muyres, Gerry Adam and Lyle Muyres.

Yukon (Whitehorse Curling Club) Bob Smallwood, Wade Scoffin, Steve Fecteau, Clint Ireland, Scott Odian and Bill Tschirhart.

NHL — Fined Buffalo G Michal Neuvirth $2,000 for diving/embellishment.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Henrik Samuelsson from Portland (AHL). Assigned F Jordan Martinook to Portland.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Traded F Jiri Tlusty to Winnipeg for a conditional 2015 sixth-round draft pick and a 2016 third-round draft pick.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled F Teuvo Teravainen from Rockford (AHL). Assigned D Trevor van Riemsdyk to Rockford. Placed F Patrick Kane on injured reserve.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled G Oscar Dansk from Springfield (AHL). Assigned G Anton Forsberg to Springfield.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Assigned F Steven Hodges from San Antonio (AHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed F Kyle Clifford to a five-year contract extension. Traded D Ronald McKeown and a first-round draft pick to Carolina for D Andrej Sekera.

MINNESOTA WILD — Named Matthew Hulsizer vice chairman of the board of directors. Announced Philip Falcone is vacating his minority ownership stake.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned D Dalton Thrower from Brampton (ECHL) to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned F Oscar Lindberg to Hartford (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned F Niklas Lundstrom from Chicago (AHL) to Alaska (ECHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned D Artem Sergeev from Syracuse (AHL) to Florida (ECHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Traded F Daniel Winnick to Pittsburgh for F Zach Sill, a 2015 fourthround draft pick and a 2016 second-round pick.

WINNIPEG JETS — Placed F Blake Wheeler on injured reserve.

American Hockey League BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Assigned F Brandon Wong to South Carolina (ECHL).

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Traded C C.J. Stretch to Oklahoma City for future considerations.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 B5

McIlroy looks to stay on a roll

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Fans stood three-deep and formed a corridor from the 18th green at PGA National as they tried to get an autograph, a picture or even a close look at Rory McIlroy. Moments later, another group of fans pressed against him with souvenir flags to sign as McIlroy left a conference room.

The attention comes with being the No. 1 player in golf, the apparent heir to Tiger Woods. McIlroy is used to this by now. He has been the best player in the world since August, filling the void of a sport looking for a dominant figure.

“This is the position I want to be in,” McIlroy said Wednesday. “And I want to be in it as long as I can.”

It’s only going to get more chaotic.

McIlroy competes on American soil for the first time in five months when the Honda Classic begins on Thursday.

The palm trees and tropical warmth of south Florida are the sure signs that the Masters is around the corner. McIlroy, who blew a four-shot lead in the final round at Augusta National in 2011, goes there with a chance to become only the sixth player to capture the career Grand Slam.

Like other players, the 25-year-old will venture up to Augusta to practice in the coming month. The real preparation is to play good golf, and to allow that confidence to become momentum that he can carry to the first major of the year.

“People talk about momentum and talk about sort of riding it, but I think momentum and confidence are two very similar things in golf,” McIlroy said. “If you’re confident and you’ve had good performances, that confidence seems to carry on. And if you’re happy with how practice goes, then

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Rory McIlroy tees off on the 15th hole during the Honda Classic Gold Pro-Am in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Wednesday. you’re obviously going to be confident going into tournaments. So that’s sort of how I’m feeling right now. And try to keep that feeling for as long as I can.”

It seems like it’s been a long time already.

McIlroy still isn’t anywhere near the roll Woods enjoyed during his peak years. Going into the 2000 Masters, for example, Woods won 11 times in 19 starts and only twice finished out of the top 10. No one was close to him.

In his last 12 starts worldwide dating to the British Open, McIlroy has four victories (including back-to-back majors and a World Golf Champion-

ship), four runner-up finishes and has finished out of the top 10 two times.

In his last six tournaments, he has finished no worse than second place in all but one tournament, the Australian Open. So yes, he’s going along quite nicely.

The obstacle at the Honda Classic might be rust.

McIlroy hasn’t played since winning the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 1. He got past one potential distraction when he settled a court case involving his former management company. He has been home in south Florida the last three weeks, practicing and playing

and trying to stay on this roll during an important part of the season.

McIlroy won the Honda Classic in 2012, the first time he rose to No. 1 in the world. A year ago, he was poised to win again until he stumbled on the back nine at PGA National, only to hit 5-wood into 10 feet on the final hole for a two-putt birdie to get into a four-man playoff. Russell Henley won on the first extra hole. McIlroy didn’t really get going until a few months later, but he’s been tough to beat ever since.

“He’s the best player in the world,” Rickie Fowler said. “And when he’s driving the ball well, that’s when he’s deadliest. So he did a good job of putting himself in play last year and obviously hits longer than a lot of guys, too.”

Woods isn’t around. He said two weeks ago he wouldn’t return to competition until his game was in tournament shape. So far, that’s just one tournament — the Honda Classic — though the attention on the absence of Woods is sure to ratchet up if he misses Bay Hill.

McIlroy is mixing up his schedule slightly this year. He’ll be at the WGC event next week at Doral and then play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for the first time, making it likely he will have two weeks off for Augusta.

The Masters, at the moment, is not on his mind.

“I feel like I’ve got a nice schedule going into Augusta,” McIlroy said. “I’m not playing too much, but I’m playing just enough that I should be as sharp as possible going in there. I haven’t thought about it. What I really thought about over the past couple of weeks is getting ready for these events coming up, and trying to play as well as I possibly can in those. So that gives me a little confidence going into a little break to prepare as well as I can for Augusta.”

Weir undeterred Davis Love III gets another shot by his slow start at Ryder Cup with a new process to the 2015 PGA Tour schedule

already has selected Tom Lehman, the 2006 captain, to help him at Hazeltine. Lehman is from Minnesota.

Mickelson said the task force realized it had its captain after the first meeting, but it met again in early February and reached the same conclusion.

The vote was unanimous the first time around.

More than a captain they wanted, Mickelson said the players felt they had partial ownership in the future.

“We went from having zero input and zero continuity, and both of those things the Ryder Cup Task Force has solved,” Mickelson said.

Love is the first U.S. captain to get another chance in the same decade since Jack Nicklaus in 1987, and the first since Jack Burke Jr. in 1973 to get a second chance after losing. And he can expect to be involved in more Ryder Cups after Hazeltine.

Mickelson said he wouldn’t rule out Love returning as captain in 2018, but “for sure a vice captain.”

“It’s not just a two-year commitment,” Mickelson said. “Really it’s a four- or six-year commitment to get the thing started.”

Europe last week selected Darren Clarke to be captain for Hazeltine.

Tiger Woods, who was part of the task force, congratulated Love in a statement and said he respected him as a person, player and captain. Woods, Mickelson and Love will be part of the “Ryder Cup Committee,” along with three PGA officers, to resume the work of the task force.

Love said he “didn’t go in asking” to be captain again.

“I could not be more excited to captain the 2016 team,” he said. “But I agreed to do it for one reason.

The members of the task force, to a man, have said they will do whatever it takes for this team to be successful. They are all in. Our team will trust each other and we will have a shared vision.”

Love said if he had been in the room, instead of on a conference call, when the names of potential captains were being written on a board, “I probably would have walked out” when his name appeared.

More than the task force choosing him, he was excited that the task force was involved in the first place.

“It was more the process,” he said. “In a text during a break to Steve or Jim (Furyk), we were like, ’They’re actually going to let us pick the captain.’ I don’t know what I expected when I walked in there. I thought that I’d be giving advice.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Mike Weir has no problem admitting it — his start to the 2015 PGA season has been horrible.

The native of Bright’s Grove, Ont., has missed the cut in six of eight events and withdrew from another, leaving him with just one finish so far this season — 21st in CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur. He has slipped to No. 176 in the FedEx Cup standings with 48 points, 1,065 behind overall leader Jimmy Walker of the U.S. It’s a bitter pill to swallow for the five-foot-nine, 155-pound left-hander, an eight-time PGA Tour champion — including the 2003 Masters — who has won nearly $28 million over his career.

“My game has not been good at all,” Weir said Tuesday during a conference call to announce the rosters for the RBC Canada Cup. “I’ve been working extremely hard and not seeing really much come out of it.

“But it’s still not deterring me, I’m going to keep working here and try to get this rectified and get back to where I feel like I should be.”

Weir, 44, has been bothered recently by inflammation in his right elbow, the same one he had surgery on in 2011 to repair a damaged tendon.

“It’s not pain it’s just really tightness and a lack of mobility from that tightness that’s bothering me and causing me some problems,” he said. “The doctor has assured me it’s not re-injured . . . I just have to get it to calm down a little bit.”

Weir had planned to hit some practice balls Tuesday in Palm Beach Fla. — the site of the US$6.1-million Honda Classic starting Thursday — then maybe play nine holes to see how the elbow reacted to the increased workload.

“I played four, five weeks in a row and (practised) hard,” Weir said. “I haven’t touched a club here in the last three days and had therapy on it. It does feel better so I’m going to kind of pace myself.”

He’s hoping he’ll be in better form by the summer when he’ll square off against a familiar foe in the Canada Cup. Veteran Fred Couples will lead Team World against Canada on July 6 at Ashburn Golf Club in Halifax. The world squad won last year’s inaugural event, earning 5.5 of a possible six points against a Canadian contingent that included Weir, Graham DeLaet of Weyburn Sask., and David Hearn of Brantford, Ont. Weir, DeLaet and Hearn will all return in July, eager to make up for last year’s showing.

“We got beat up pretty good,” Weir said. “I think Graham, David and I really want to perform than we did last year.”

The remainder of the world team, along with the addition of a Web.com Tour player for each side, will be announced at a later time.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Davis Love III was on his porch in Sea Island taking part in a conference call for the first Ryder Cup Task Force meeting, and he was shocked by what he heard.

First, the PGA of America really was going to let the players have a voice.

And then it quickly became clear the choice was going to be him.

Love was introduced Tuesday afternoon as U.S. captain for the 2016 matches at Hazeltine.

And while it appeared as though the Americans were looking in their past, he was presented as the start of a new model they hope can end two decades of European dominance.

He also was captain in 2012 at Medinah when Europe staged the biggest rally by a visiting team.

“I’m here with the same goal I had in 2012, but not as the same captain,” Love said.

Love was part of an 11-member task force — eight of them former Ryder Cup players — that met twice since December.

The agenda for the first meeting was to define the role of the captains and assistant captains, and then to throw out names. Among those mentioned were Fred Couples, Steve Stricker and Love.

Phil Mickelson, whose biting comments at Gleneagles regarding Tom Watson’s style was the impetus for the task force, said the qualities of a captain included someone who was respected, didn’t let his ego keep him from listening, some who could take the blame and share the credit, and who had the experience to build a blueprint for the next 20 years.

“There’s only one guy who fits that bill,” Mickelson said.

The PGA of America also announced changes to the U.S. team to boost its chances.

Qualifying for the top eight players will end after the first FedEx Cup playoff event (The Barclays) instead of the PGA Championship. Three of the four captain’s picks will be selected after the third playoff event (BMW Championship), while the final pick will be selected after the Tour Championship.

With a crowded schedule in 2016 because of the Olympics, that means the 12th player will be chosen five days before the matches begin. Also, two of the vice captains will be former captains, and the other two will be players with Ryder Cup experience. Love

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Liske scores 17 as Triple A down Henry’s Eavestroughing Jesse Liske drained 17 points and Andre Touchette scored 11 to pace the Triple A Batteries to a 61-53 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win Tuesday over Henry’s Eavestroughing.

Darren Andrews hooped 10 points in a losing cause.

In another game, Wells Furniture got past the Bulldogs 69-57. Details were unavailable.

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RED DEER SPORTSMAN AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SHOW

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The 49th annual Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show takes centre stage at Westerner Park this weekend. From Friday to Sunday, the pavilions at Westerner Park will come alive with outdoor-oriented activities and vendors. The Red Deer Fish and Game Association (a non-profit conservation organization) has brought the Sportsman Show to Central Albertans for 45 years. The public can browse and buy products; from hunting and fishing lodge vacations, houseboat rentals, camping to white water rafting, RVs, boats, ATVs, scuba diving, hunting and fishing accessories, taxidermy, outdoor art, and golfing.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● To Light a Candle will be screening at Red Deer College on Feb. 27, 7 p.m. at Margaret Parsons Theatre. Discussion to follow.

Sponsored by Red Deer Baha’i’s and RDC. Contact Robert at 403-304-9843 or see educationisnotacrime.me ● Heart and Stroke Foundation volunteers will be canvassing neighbourhoods in February for Heart Month. Phone 403-3424435. ● St. Francis of Assisi Middle School presents Disney’s Mulan, Feb. 27 and 28 at Red Deer Memorial Centre. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the show starts at 7:15 p.m.

Tickets are $7 per person or $20 for a family of four, from the school, or at the door. ● Cornerstone Youth Theatre presents Suessical coming up at New Life Fellowship with performances at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27 and 28, March 6 and 7, and at 3 p.m. on Feb. 28, and March 7. Ticket are available at www. cornerstoneyouththeatre.org, or by phone 403-986-2981 with costs from $10 to $12 in advance, and by purchase at the door for $14. ● Meet and Greet for Larry Reese will be featured at The Gallery on Main in Lacombe on Feb. 27 from 5 to 9 p.m. in celebration of his show and sale running until March 20. See www.thegalleryonmain.com.

Saturday ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Feb. 28 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Wise Choice. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Jim at 403638-6563, or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Feb. 28 session is called Paint and Patterns. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-3098405. Free with admission. ● Norwegian Laft Hus is hosting coffee with Hugh and a presentation about the people and times of the Viking Age including Vikings in modern media, and Viking costume on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. The cost is $5. Contact 403-347-2055 or norwegianlafthus@gmail. com. ● Annual Snow Ball Dinner and Dance will be held on Feb. 28 at Festival Hall. Music provided by the jazz bands of Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, Hunting Hills High School, and Notre Dame High School starting at 7 p.m. Semi-formal dress encouraged. Dance only tickets available for $15 from high schools. ● Guess Who? family mystery storytelling guest will take participants on a journey to the world of games, crafts, puppet shows, character appearances, and scavenger hunts on Feb. 28, and March 28 at the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 1 to 2 p.m. ● Freedom to Read Week Poster Contest Award Ceremony on Feb. 28 will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. See www.rdpl.org,

or ask for information at any branch. ● Grief Seminar will be offered on Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Living Stones Church. Free will offering for lunch will be accepted. Pre-register at 403-347-7311.

Sunday ● The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society meeting will be held on March 1, 1 p.m. at Eastview Estates Community Centre. A presentation on fertilizing dahlias and glads will be presented. All interested public welcome. Contact Larry at 403-346-8401, or larryquintilio@gmail.com. ● Celebrating 100 years of Canadian Girls in Training will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, March 1, 10:30 a.m.

Potluck lunch to follow. Phone 403-347-2244.

Monday ● Chess Club at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch welcomes all levels of players from beginner to intermediate to learn chess rules and strategies on Mondays with child players from 5 to 6 p.m. and adult players from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Alberta Chess Association. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on March 2. Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● Red Deer Public Schools offers English Grammar for New Canadians starting March 2, English Writing for New Canadians starting March 4, Meditation Workshop starting March 4, and Home Buyer/Seller Workshop starting March 4. All take place at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.

Phone 403-342-1059 to find out more and to register.

Tuesday ● Let’s Talk About the Arts with Dr. Laura Davis, Red Deer College expert on Canadian Literature, will be held on March 3, 6:45 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Friends of the Red Deer Public Library will host this fundraiser as a prelude to Margaret Atwood speaking event at Red Deer College on April 6. Tickets cost $10 from any RDPL branch. ● Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held March 3 and 17. Phone 403-7424273. ● Lacombe Seventh Day Adventist Food Bank and Thrift Store welcomes gently used items at 5025 53 St. in Lacombe.

Hours of operation are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m.

Contact Millie at 403-782-6777.

Wednesday ● Ponoka Thespians present Radio

Active — A Musical Radio Comedy — at Asker Lutheran Church, 20 minutes east of Ponoka on Hwy. 53, north on Asker Road.

The production is directed by Debbie and Dean Zepick, based on the book by Mary McMahon, with music and lyrics by Donald Woodward. See the musical March 4 and 7 at 7 p.m., March 5 at 7 p.m. for a dessert night, March 6, 1:30 p.m. for seniors matinee. Admission by free will offering. To find out more, contact debzepick@gmail.com. ● NERDcraft 101: Teen Bead-a-thon goes March 4, 4 to 5 p.m. in the mezz on the third floor at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Youth ages 12 to 18 years are invited. All materials and snacks provided. ● Sylvan Lake Legion potluck and jam session is held the first Wednesday of each month from noon to 4 p.m., next March 4.

Come to play, sing, dance or listen. Admission is $2, including coffee and lunch at 2:30 p.m. Potluck begins at noon followed by the jam session at 1 p.m. Contact Margie at 403746-3153. ● Stettler Art Group — Church Mice — meet every Wednesday at Stettler United Church Christian Education Wing at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Artists are asked to bring their own art supplies and lunch. Coffee supplied. The cost is $2 per session. Contact Donna Lea at 403-742-5690. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Silver and Gold is on March 4 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held March 4 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. Listen to tales of travel in Bolivia, share your own travel adventures, and enjoy

a coffee or tea. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100.

Thursday ● School’s Out Hangout for youth in Grades 4 and 5 will be offered at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Thursdays until 4 p.m. Hang out with friends and enjoy a variety of activities. ● Makers’ Club meets on March 5 and 19 at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library to join in Lego free play and building from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. For those ages seven years and up. Lego donations welcomed at Dawe and Downtown Library branches. ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The March 5 event features soprano Joyce Emms and pianist Vernon Murgatroyd as musical guests.

Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Stettler Genealogy Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month — next March 5 — at Paragon Place, Stettler.

All are welcome to learn about where various ancestors came from. Contact Chris at 403740-3636. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, March 5, 7 to 10 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of RR4 Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-3476165, 403-342-2875, or 403-346-3896.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Red Deer Players are holding auditions for the award wining courtroom classic play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose. Twelve men ages 18 plus, representing a cross section of society are sought for auditions March 1, 1 to 4 p.m., and March 2, 7 to 9 p.m. at Centennial Stage at the rear of Scott Block Theatre. No need for prepared audition material. Call 403-347-9203. ● One-on-One Computer Instruction for Seniors is available through the Red Deer Public Library. Learn to use a laptop, eBook reader, or other devices. Contact Tatiana at 403-318-9312 to arrange an appointment. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) will hold their Ambassador Breakfast on March 13, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Best Western Chateau Inn in Sylvan Lake. Cost is $15. There will be a brief talk by Graeme Strathdee, President of Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society on nitrogen and phosphorous and their affects on the lake. RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on March 11. ● Soroptimist International of Central Alberta celebrates International Women’s Day Luncheon, March 8, 12:30 to 4 p.m. at Black Knight Inn. Sean Liv, author of Ticket to Change will be the keynote speaker. Presentations include Women’s Opportunity Award, Violet Richardson Award, and Ruby Award: Women helping Women. Tickets cost $45 each and are available from Sherri at 403391-7912 (cellular), or 403-343-6099, ext.

7014 (work). ● Red Deer Carnaval de Red Deer takes place March 7 and 8. On March 7 take in the Sugar Shack Supper at 6 p.m. at Ecole La Prairie. On the menu will be tourtiere, sausages, ham, pea soup, brown beans, potatoes and maple syrup and traditional music.

On March 8 there will be various events from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Heritage Ranch including maple taffy on snow, sleigh rides, music and games. See Facebook.com/ACFARed Deer, or phone 403-986-4350 for more details. Purchase tickets at eventbrite.ca ● Gramma-Link Africa celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, 2 p.m. in the Snell Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. The film Seeking Justice at the Front Lines of the AIDS Crisis

by Stephen Lewis Foundation will be shown.

Free admission. Donations welcome. Ethnic refreshments served, door prizes, silent auction of handmade quilt, and more. Contact Shirley at 403-347-5958. ● Canada REconneXion comes to Living Stones Church on March 11 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a seminar from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada to help church leaders connect with their communities and grow their churches. To find out more and to register, visit www.BillyGraham.ca/ REconnecXion. Free, but a donation of $40 encouraged. Lunch and materials included.

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FROM PAGE B6 � Central Alberta Quilters’ Guild Annual Quilt Show happens on April 3 and 4 at Parkland Pavilion Westerner Park. Show hours are Friday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Featured quilters are Toni Wilton and Diane Chadwick, and guest guild Chinook Country Quilters and Friends of Okotoks. There will be Stitches in Time antique sewing machine display, merchant mall, major door prize courtesy of Red Deer Sewing Centre, demonstrations, and much more. Admission is $8, and $2 for children ages six years and under, and $5 for parking. For more information, contact Anita at 403-343-2357, or see www.centralalbertaquilters.org for information and entry forms. � Leaders of Tomorrow Awards are being accepted for outstanding Lacombe youth volunteers. Nomination deadline is March 9 at 4 p.m. Forms are available at Lacombe Family and Community Support Services and local schools and churches. Contact 403-7826637, jpocock@lacombefcss.net. � Alzheimer Society East Coast Kitchen Party fundraiser will take place on March 6 at Pidherney Centre. Sometimes known as a “scuff and scoff,� or night of dancing and

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Actors, Zachary Barton, left, and Jordan Black during the taping of AdvoCat!, a hybrid web series, public service announcement (PSA) to promote adoptable pets and responsible pet care, in Los Angeles. Animal films don’t need to be so serious to get their messages across, according to filmmakers who spoke out in record numbers while submitting entries for the second animal film festival produced by California’s Center for Animal Protection & Education. movies, they worry they might be sad or difficult to watch,� Frost said. “Let’s face it, animals go through horrible things, whether they are in a factory farm or laboratory, and that’s why we offered the funny short category this year.�

Frost said she and J.P. Novic started the event after their own movie was rejected by several film festivals. The pair had launched the Center for Animal Protection & Education 23 years ago, establishing adoption programs and a sanctuary in Grass Valley, a city in the Sierra Nevada foothills an hour northeast of Sacramento.

But the festival isn’t all about laughs. Two feature-length films are finalists and delve into serious issues: Cowspiracy, which claims environmental groups look the other way as the livestock industry damages the Earth; and Sea the Truth, about depletion of the world’s oceans. There are also two contenders for the student film prize and 14 for the short feature.

Winners get framed certificates, gift bags and vegan food. Though funny shorts aren’t up for awards, which are chosen by a panel of filmmakers, television producers, teachers and community members, they could win the

popular vote from attendees.

For many makers of funny films, the festival helps with exposure and money for their next movies. But mostly, it’s about helping animals, said Oosterom, who’s a Disney puppeteer by day. “This is our way of handling some of our frustrations and turning them into something funny that we can share with as many people as possible,� said Oosterom, whose shorts appear on YouTube and Funny or Die. ——— Online: — www.animalfilmfestival.org

eating, this event features live music of Nova Scotiables, delicious food and silent auction. Tickets are $100 each with $50 eligible for a tax receipt, phone 403-342-0448. See alzheimer.ab.ca. This event is sponsored in part by Christenson Developments Ltd. � Cosmos Bottle Depot are collecting bottle donations for Forever and a Day Small Dog Rescue Society during the month of February. See faadrescue.com � International Women’s Day Benefit Concert goes March 6 at The Hub on Ross at 7 p.m. Concert proceeds will benefit Walking With Our Sisters, and concession sales will go to Global Enrichment Foundation. The concert will feature performances by Donna Bishop, Randi Boulton, Kristy Lawrence, Teresa Neuman, and Donna Durand. Suggested donation $20 or $30 per family. Phone 403-340-4869. � Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country Gold North Band.

Next dance is March 6. For more information, call 403-748-3378. â—? Sundre Snake Hill Slam 5km Obstacle Race takes place on Sept. 19 and is a

fundraiser for Greenwood Neighbourhood Place and Sundre Call to Action. Runners, volunteers and sponsors are sought to participate in team challenges, family participation, don costumes, and more. Sign up as an individual or in a team of four. Cost is $30 for adults or $20 for youth ages 18 years and under, and includes event T-shirt, water bottle and finishing prize. Snake Hill Mini Slam Obstacle Race for kids will be offered free of charge. Battle of the Bands is a new event on the main stage. See www.snakehillslam, contact 403-638-1011, kim@mygnp.org. â—? Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast will

be celebrated on March 24 in the Parkland Pavilion at Westerner Park. Breakfast begins at 7 am. sharp and the concludes at 8:45 a.m.

Doors open at 6:30 a.m. Tickets cost $30 per person, or $225 per table of eight. To order tickets, call 403-396-5206 or email to mayorprayer@gmail.com. Success Builders present this opportunity to support and honour our community, along with Mayor Tara Veer, and Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood. Special guest speaker will be Dr. Sean Campbell, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for Samaritan’s Purse Canada.

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LOS ANGELES — When abused, homeless animals appear on TV and the melancholy melody starts playing, many of us reach for the remote.

Those upsetting commercials inspired Michael Oosterom and his wife, Zachary Barton, to make short, funny films featuring a cat-costumed crusader who battles evil against animals.

The Los Angeles couple were tired of calls to action that make viewers feel even worse about the plight of some pets. “Most people turn away because it’s too distressing,� Oosterom said. “If you care about animals, that’s the last thing you need to see. We figured we could achieve the same thing with humour.�

Enter AdvoCat! — two-minute movies about a middle-aged cat lady who can’t find the courage to help pets in peril until she dons a risque cat costume, complete with a tail.

Oosterom and Barton know that movies don’t have to be serious to help animals, and they are among the filmmakers taking that message to the second animal film festival produced by California’s Center for Animal Protection & Education. The event highlights the growing role of pets not only in animal lovers’ everyday lives but also in their entertainment choices.

Some call it the animal version of the Sundance Film Festival — sans the star power — where the bulk of its entries came in the experimental category that doesn’t garner awards. Short, funny films dominated, making up 277 of the 324 submissions. The competitive movies and six funny shorts — including AdvoCat! — will be screened Saturday.

In a trio of episodes, Barton plays the black-clad hero who saves a dog running off a leash near busy streets, a pooch burning the pads of its feet on sunbaked pavement, and a cat losing its home because a woman’s new boyfriend is allergic.

She puts the offenders in their place, even stuffing people-sized cone collars on the couple trying to dump their feline, before hanging up her cat suit for another day.

Festival director Shelley Frost championed lighter fare such as AdvoCat! “When people think about animal

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During Alison’s marriage, she became a confidante to “Will.” They have remained friends, and she insists nothing of a sexual nature ever happened.

When we first got together, Will was in a new relationship and had limited contact with Alison.

However, eight months ago, that relationship ended.

Now he and Alison text each other multiple times a day, all day long. He lives with his parents, and Alison stops by a couple of times a month to visit with his family.

Will has made it very clear that he doesn’t want to be around me at all. Every time he gets into trouble, Alison is right there to help. At least once every few weeks, he drives 20 km to eat at the restaurant where she works.

I am not sure how to handle this friendship. I trust Alison, or I would have left already. Any advice, or am I foolish? — N. Dear N.: There is nothing wrong with having friendships, even those that include confidences.

The problem is when one person’s significant other is unwelcome and entirely excluded from these relationships and the confidences shared are intimate and interfere with the primary relationship.

We think Will is a bit possessive of Alison, but that shouldn’t alarm you. Does Alison show you his texts? She should (but you do not need to comment on them).

If you trust her and she is not hiding anything from you, we’d let this run its course. It is important, however, that Alison understands the boundaries of this friendship so she isn’t leading Will on or damaging her relationship with you.

Dear Annie: I take both Pilates and yoga classes.

One student loves to chew gum during class. It was ingrained in me by my father that loudly chewing gum is considered bad manners. It drives me crazy.

I find it hard to concentrate when she is popping and chomping away on her gum, and I know I’m not the only one in class who feels this way. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop? — Cringing in Exercise Class Dear Cringing: People do a lot of boorish things during exercise classes. Perhaps the gum helps her concentrate or keeps her from having a dry mouth.

She probably isn’t aware of how loud and annoying it is. Unfortunately, you cannot eliminate all behaviours that drive you crazy. You can, however, register a complaint with the instructor, move into a different class or ask the woman nicely whether she can make the gum chewing less noisy.

Dear Annie: I’m responding to “Outvoted,” who is caring for her abusive mother and arguing with her siblings about replacing the batteries in Mom’s pacemaker.

I, too, have been a caregiver for a person with dementia who became verbally abusive. Another option is to seek the assistance of a geriatric psychiatric professional. He or she can prescribe medication that will calm the abusive tendencies and allow the siblings to care for their mother in her home with much less stress. — Been There Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will feel like you want to be You might not want to express your emotions, but just listen with your loved one now. The opportunity to create a lasting carefully to what others are saying to you. You have strong impression will help you create a profound change within your emotional ties now. life. Friends will help you see through the changes so that you HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year are able to create a new position within your career now. will create a lovely pace for you. You will have SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your mother will LARISA MAIRA issues again with expressing your emotional help you create a loving expression within your needs. So, you will have to create a loving public life now. Take the time to create a lasting OZOLINS environment and allow for the greater good to impression. You will need her advice shortly. Do take place as you progress throughout the year. allow your current situation to open your eyes to Your ability to profit from innovative ideas will greater possibilities. There will be support for you now create a lasting impression for your future. at work now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Surprising instincts will now SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will have strong lead to you to accept the truth of your current situation. Trust emotional ties to others now, especially mentors and teachers that you are able to see the truth above all else. Expect the from the past. Do create the reality that you want. Trust that unexpected when dealing with friends, so please accept their you have help, no matter what. Create the path that you want apologies and shine as bright as you can now. to follow. More forward in a loving direction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your friends will find it difficult CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are now ready to to express their emotional needs today. Try to see life through create a lasting impression on others. Truth of your heart’s dethe eyes of your parents today. Trust that you will complete a sire will help you sort out your daily routine and diet. A lifestyle long range circle that you now are able to accept as the truth. change is coming up for you to accept the fun in your life. Go Being with everyone will be healing for you. for a more holistic approach for yourself.

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Seeking a parking spot CITY OF RED DEER PLANS TO STUDY DOWNTOWN PARKING AVAILABILITY

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Is there a parking shortage in downtown Red Deer?

The City of Red Deer hopes to find the answer through a parking sustainability study that will begin later this year.

Acting Planning Director Tara Lodewyk said the study will basically look at the supply and demand in the

downtown and paint a picture for the future.

There are 560 daily use parking stalls downtown, plus 100 spots at the Sorensen Station Parkade.

There is a 40 per cent utilization rate of the downtown parking stalls, according to city statistics compiled in 2013.

Lodewyk said the information was gathered as part of the Ross Street Patio analysis.

The city loses 17 parking stalls when

the patio is installed every summer.

“Parking is always changing on the new businesses that are locating to downtown,” said Lodewyk.

“We’ve had a lot of good things happen in the downtown, such as Executive Place and the Donald School of Business. This is really one piece of the picture.

“We need to look at our current situation with parking.”

She said the city’s parking information is outdated. Lodewyk said the

study will have a broad focus, covering the entire downtown core.

She said parking is a city asset and this is another way for the city to do its due diligence.

The study is expected to be completed by fall.

This week, council discussed Jackpot Casino’s application to build a parking lot in Parkvale for its patrons and staff. The bid will ultimately go to a public hearing. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Every other Wednesday the students at West Park Middle School get to flex their schedules and take part in a variety of different activities. From Crossfit, to math bootcamp, a pastry lab and tea tasting, extra science class and study hall the staff and students take part in many different academic and activity based options.

Here Shaaf Khan and Tanner Chapman play a little poker as their classmates learn the rules to cribbage, solitare and other card games.

Hwy 2A roundabout examined Information about a planned roundabout at the intersection of Hwys 2A and 597 will be part of the draft Transportation Master Plan presentation tonight by the Town of Blackfalds.

Mayor Melodie Stol said on Wednesday that the plan looks at both local roads within the community as well as how Blackfalds residents interact with Hwy 2A, which runs through Blackfalds.

Alberta Transportation plans to install the roundabout to replace the busy signalized intersection at Hwys 2A and 597.

It has been planned for a number of years but has not yet received funding from the provincial government.

It’s back on Alberta Transportation’s table to go out for tender.

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BRIEF Lacombe gets new van for special needs passengers A new vehicle for those who have special transportation needs was approved by Lacombe city council this week.

Council awarded a $70,000 contract to Malley Industries Inc. for the purchase of a Nissan NV 3500 high roof van. It will be converted to be fully accessible, to replace the current aging community van operated by Lacombe Connex Transportation Service.

Community Services director Brenda Vaughan said the vehicle design provides increased flexibility in transportation options for those living with barriers to mobility, providing them with easier access to community resources.

The city partners with Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services to provide the service.

FCSS executive director Susan MacDonald said that once it is operational, the van will be able to transport seven people, and accommodate two wheelchairs, more economically than the previous van.

FCSS is expecting to take delivery of the new van in June. Connex vehicles are owned by City of Lacombe, and the garaging, insurance, fuel and maintenance is provided by the mu-

BLACKFALDS lot of people travel to and from Red Deer — and there is significant traffic at that intersection that goes to Joffre, the mayor said.

The town’s 2014 census recorded a population of 7,858. The young community, 14 km north of Red Deer, grew by eight per cent over the previous year.

Peak traffic times in the morning and evening cause significant delays at the intersection, and while changes to traffic light configurations and pavement markings have been done, ultimately these haven’t solved the problem at Hwys 2A and 597, Stol said.

From the town’s perspective, counnicipality.

Individual donors and service clubs also contributed towards the purchase of the new van.

Kerry Wood Centre upgrade planned, feedback sought The public is invited to provide feedback next month to the transformation planned for Kerry Wood Nature Centre in Red Deer.

Refreshed and updated exhibits for the centre are part of the new Waskasoo Park Interpretive Master Plan.

The exhibits will use a “living story” concept that integrates Red Deer’s long-standing tradition of respect for the natural world and writer Kerry Wood, after whom the centre is named.

In the updated design, visitors will be welcomed in a central gathering space, then invited to explore the renewed Marjorie Wood Gallery, a Living Story gallery and an Outdoor Gallery.

A storybook theme will be used throughout but these storybooks will be far from static. Visitors will experience tactile materials, layered illustrations, pop-ups, peek-a-boo windows, crawl-through spaces and other interactive elements.

A design team led by The Taylor Group and Aldrich Pears Associates has been working with the Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, City of Red Deer, and groups that use the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, to plan new exhibits.

Opened in 1985, the centre is the interpretive hub of Red Deer’s Waskasoo Park. Public consultations were con-

cil just wants the safest and most efficient solution to keep traffic flowing nicely and safely there, she said.

The roundabout is expected to ease the traffic congestion.

Regarding roads within Blackfalds, the master plan looks at some upgrades, particularly to Gregg Street, as well as how new subdivisions will link in with the rest of the community.

The town wants community feedback.

The informal open house is a dropin from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Servus Program Room at the Abby Centre located at 4500 Womacks Road.

Town council members, administration, Stantec Engineering and Alberta Transportation will be on hand.

There will be visual displays and discussion but no formal presentation.

This weekend, the Canadian army is going to rescue Red Deer from flooding after a massive snowfall.

But before you get out your snowblowers and waders, relax — it’s just pretend.

Reservists of the 41 Canadian Brigade Group, which covers all of Alberta, will be in Red Deer city and county training in the event a true natural disaster befalls the area.

Capt. Derrick Forsythe, public affairs officer for the brigade, said on Wednesday that there will be dozens of military in the area from Friday to Sunday to test the brigade’s domestic operations. They will focus largely on the decision-making aspect and “execute operation and battle procedure, establish and maintain command and control, and execute liaison with local emergency responders.”

It’s kind of based on what the army did in Calgary to help when the massive flooding occurred in 2013, said Forsythe.

The event is not tied to the provincial government’s disaster training exercise coming up next week, when response to a simulated ice storm will be tested.

The brigade will be setting up and tearing down their command post and confirming their capability to communicate out to 100 km, he said.

Included in the exercise will be local emergency management representatives who will have made a request for assistance due to the “natural disaster.”

City and county residents will see soldiers and vehicles positioned at key facilities and points in the region, including places such as Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Extendicare Michener Hill, Dickson Dam and the James River Bridge.

Most of the activity will occur on Saturday and the army will try to minimize any disturbance to residents during the exercise.

Soldiers will come to Central Alberta from Edmonton and Calgary.

“The intent is to exercise not the troops so much but to exercise command and control, the folks who are going to be sitting in the headquarters, taking in information, and then issuing orders,” he said.

The number of participants will depend on which reservists are able to attend on the weekend. They will be camped at the Armouries.

But maybe the brigade should be practising in Eastern Canada.

“My folks live in Moncton (N.B.). I’ve been talking to them. They’ve gotten from Jan. 27 to early February, 250 cm of snow,” Forsythe said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

ducted to develop the Waskasoo Park Interpretive Master Plan, approved by city council in October 2012.

An open house preview of the new exhibits is set for Monday, March 9, from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300 45 Ave, Red Deer.

People can provide feedback at the open house, or online starting March 9 at www.reddeer.ca/whats-happening/ open-houses.

Bowl for Kids supports Big Brothers and Sisters Big Brothers and Big Sisters will benefit from the annual Bowl for Kids campaign.

The fundraising started in January but winds down at Heritage Lanes bowling alley on March 8.

Groups of four to five friends, coworkers and family are invited to raise funds for the cause in Bowl for Kids.

For details, go to www.bbbsreddeer. ca and follow the links for Bowl for Kids.

Funds raised go to support matching caring adult mentors with children in the community.

Parkinson’s fundraiser selling tulips for Easter People who want to order tulips in time for Easter can support a fundraiser for Parkinson disease.

Small foil pots with red tulips are being sold for $8 each. Those ordered

by March 9 will arrive for Easter.

For details or to order call 403-346-

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Gallery Concept mural moved to museum Celebrate the re-installation of the Gallery Concept mural at its new home at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on March 5.

The event will take place between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. at the north exterior wall of the gallery.

Light refreshments will follow the ceremony.

The mural was moved from its former location at 4720 Gaetz Ave. after suffering storm damage. It was repaired and moved to the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

Gallery Concept was created by artist Michael Downs in 2005 and features a series of windows and frames that transforms an ordinary wall into a vivid world-class art gallery and dress shop.

It is painted in the trompe l’oeil style, a French term meaning “deceive the eye,” an art technique that creates the illusion that the objects exist in three dimensions.

It is part of the City of Red Deer’s Percent For Art program.

This program focused on the development of 48th Street between 52nd and 47th Avenues, also known as Alexander Way. For more information on the city’s public art program, visit www.reddeer. ca/culture.

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The theme for the 86th annual conference of the Alberta Fish and Game Association held in Lethbridge from Feb. 19 to 21 was Youth — The Link to the Future. Appropriately there was a sense of energy and renewal in what most delegates were calling the best-run conference in several years.

In fact, 163 registered delegates of 92 affiliated AFGA BOB clubs attended SCAMMELL this year, compared to only 109 at last year’s conference in Fort McMurray, which also lost $24,000.

This was a major election year in the association’s two-year cycle.

For 12 years the rallying cry has been “the south will rise again” after a string of six presidents, all from Northern Alberta, and this year the south has risen in spades.

First vice-president, Wayne Lowry of Stirling, becomes president for two years and former second VP, Doug Butler of Lamont, moves up to first VP, both by acclamation.

The new “kid” on the top executive block elected as first VP is also

from the south, Brian Dingreville from Coalhurst, a realtor, past-president and Life Member of the Lethbridge club, past chairman of the AFGA’s Zone 1, and a “throwback hunter” from a camp with horses.

Just prior to the Friday luncheon he hosts, it took Environment-Sustainable Resources Minister Lyle Fawcett just 10 minutes to read the traditional ministerial address to delegates, during which he did not once deviate from the ghost-written boilerplate script of the past decade to announce any plans, other than policy tweaking, he had for his department.

Last year in Fort Mac, then-minister, Robin Campbell, had plans.

He did end Alberta’s unsustainable commercial fishery as he promised, and we await the 2015 Alberta Guide to Sportfishing Regulations to see what else he might have accomplished in his too-brief tenure in the ESRD portfolio.

Fawcett did take a few questions after his speech, provided they were submitted an hour in advance and judged “askable” or not by a staff member.

The minister answered one question by saying that he’d already had one conversation with the premier about moving fish and wildlife officers from Justice back to ESRD, and would mention it again.

New president Wayne Lowry, spouse Leslie, and their son and two daughters are all active outdoors people who also work hard and long for the resource.

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Wayne is a chartered accountant with Farm Credit Corporation in Lethbridge and a longtime detail person for the AFGA who recognizes and specializes in the big issues.

Big things are expected from Lowry, as can be seen from what he told me right from the start of his presidency: “… the AFGA senior executive met with AESRD Minister Kyle Fawcett, for about 45 minutes after his minister’s luncheon address.

“We talked at length about issues relating to cumulative effects, status of policy development, wildlife management plans, and public lands.

“The topics on public land were access to them by the public at large, and with regards to the lease payments.

We made it very clear that we want to bring an end to the misguided practice of allowing the lease revenues, arising mainly from oil and gas activities, accruing to the benefit of private interests through the Agricultural Disposition programs.

“We emphatically stressed to him that these are public lands and that any revenues accruing to the lands also become the property of the public. We suggested that these funds be set aside for projects relating to the benefit of other public lands that need habitat reclamation or improvement.

He indicated that he has only been in the position for about four months and it was not the first that he had heard of this issue.

“The big question is whether or not

he will be there long enough to do anything about it.”

The new president has that right, and AFGA executive vice-president Martin Sherran alludes, in his Conference Report, to the political problems in getting anything done in today’s Alberta: “… since 2001, ESRD, or whatever its name of the day was, has had no fewer than eight ministers, five premiers, three leadership contests and one big reorganization. In 2014 alone, we’ve had three premiers!

“As far as the ministers are concerned, average time in the portfolio is approximately 21 months each.”

In many other ways, 2014 was a great year for the AFGA. The record total of $397,825 in the Parade of Donations set at last year’s conference is reflected in a record of 12 new properties, totaling 2,135.25 acres, being added to the Wildlife Trust Fund lands, bringing their total to slightly more than 41,000 acres of prime property open to lawful recreational on-foot use by all Albertans.

Delegates at this year’s conference defeated a motion to allow ATV use on WTF properties, even for retrieving big game.

This year’s Parade of Donations was back to merely normal: $53,898 donated in 10 minutes by members and their clubs.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

New growth: sure sign of spring Spring will soon be here. the new pot and add as much soil as One sure sign are the indoor plants needed. reacting to Water and add more soil until it is longer days by about an inch (two cm) below the rim putting out new of the pot. growth.

Having space at the top of the pot During the makes watering plants easier. time between Potting mixtures contain little if any dormancy and soil. active growth, Expect to find finely chopped peat care must be moss with a little vermiculite or perlite taken with mixed in. water and Peat moss does not contain nutrients. nutrients, which mean that to have When plants lush plants it is essential to fertilize are actively regularly unless slow release fertilizer growing, they has been added to the mixture. will use more Houseplant fertilizer comes in a LINDA water than they number of forms: powder, granules, TOMLINSON did during the tablet/spike or in a liquid. winter months Add the powder to the watering but not as much can and stir until it the fertilizer is as during the summer. completely dissolved.

Always check to make sure the Using warmer water will help the soil is dry below the surface before fertilizer to dissolve faster. watering.

Follow the instructions on the The best method is to pour water into the container until it runs out of package as it is easy to put too much powder fertilizer into the watering the bottom of the pot.

When the pot is finished draining, can.

Granules, spikes and tablets are empty the saucer of excess water.

Providing enough moisture for placed in the soil and release a small the water to flow through the soil amount of fertilizer each time they distributes the moisture evenly in the come in contact with moisture, which soil, encouraging more roots to form causes them to dissolve.

If the soil is not moist enough to throughout the pot.

The flow of water will also flush out dissolve the fertilizer, the plant will be excess amounts of salts and fertilizers without nutrients.

Liquid fertilizer can be that can built up in the soil.

Plants that need to be watered more concentrated or premixed.

Never apply concentrated fertilizer. than once a week often need to be Always dilute it following the repotted.

To be on the safe side, remove the manufacturer’s instructions.

Premixed liquid fertilizer is bulky pot and look at the rootball. but easy to use as it doesn’t need to be Plants need to be repotted when their rootball is a mass of roots that wind around the inside of the pot and are often poking through the drainage holes.

When repotting, choose a pot one size larger than the one the plant is already in.

Place some soil on the bottom of the new pot before removing the old pot.

Break apart the root mass to encourage the roots to spread out into the larger pot.

When there are too many roots, remove some of the thicker mature ones that are circling the pot.

Take care to leave as many of the fine roots in place as possible as these GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN ones absorb most of the moisture and nutrients.

Place the rootball in

mixed before it is applied.

Plants that are given too much fertilizer will be damaged, which can range from burned edges of leaves to dead plants.

A little time spent caring for the

houseplants will help produce a better plant.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@ hotmail.com.

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HEALTH The other day, a friend gave me a small bottle of an infused oil made with flowers from Labrador tea.

Early last summer, walking in the forests west of Rocky, she picked the sweetly scented flowers, put them in a jar and covered them with oil. Then she gently heated the oil to infuse it with the flower’s perfume.

Last weekend, I poured some of the oil in a bath and indulged in deep relaxation for both my mind and body! If I had a cup of tea made from the leaves of this hardy shrub, I might have melted.

Labrador tea, a shrub that thrives in bogs all over North America from Oregon to the Subarctic, is used by herbalist to calm minds. As its name imABRAH plies is most frequently used ARNESON as a tea.

My sister-in-law who lives HERBS FOR LIFE in Quebec buys her Labrador tea from an old Quebecois woman who hand picks it and sells it for insomnia.

My sister-in-law raves about how deep her sleep is after one cup of the woman’s tea.

It is such a pleasant tea that Americans drank it after they poured their black tea (camilla sensis) in the Boston harbour to protest British taxation during the American Revolution.

Campers who know something about wild foraging often enjoy the tea around a campfire.

Although this tea has been safely used by First Nations people and Inuits from time before memory, there are now safety concerns about drinking Labrador tea.

One of its plant constituents, a volatile oil called lido, can induce altered states of mind.

Those who make beer from wild plants know this about the delicate white clusters of flowers.

Labrador tea’s flowers were at one time an ingredient of homemade beers.

The beer makers chose the plant’s flowers over the leaves as the flowers are more intoxicating.

For those curious campers who want to try Labrador tea on a warm July evening but are nervous about the possible altered state it may evoke, don’t worry.

The plant constituent responsible for the altered states is not strongly water-soluble.

It highly unlikely a cup of tea around a campfire is going to have much of an effect other than to provide peaceful relaxation.

One would need to drink many cups of very strong tea to achieve a narcotic effect.

Nature provides mechanisms to limits a plant’s ability to take control of the mind. As with most plants, Labrador tea’s chemistry varies throughout the season. It is important to harvest medicine plants when they contain the best medicine.

In the case of Labrador tea, the leaves are picked when the red powdery substance appears on the back of the leaves during mid to late summer. At this point in the year, the toxic oils in the plant are weaker and their narcotic effect significantly decreased.

Tea made with leaves gathered in the spring, before the red powder appears, is bitter on the tongue.

Those who taste plants for a living, like herbalists, know generally plants containing toxins taste bitter.

As toxins disperse throughout the growing season, the plants taste better.

I consider the bitter taste nature’s safe guard against humans too many eating toxic plants.

Labrador tea is also strongly diuretic.

The toxic oils are flushed from the body by the kidneys.

Drinking many, strong teas made with this shrub will send one to the outhouse or the bushes several times in the evening.

This is another impediment to over consumption of Labrador tea.

Now that being said, there are many other reasons to drink Labrador tea. The leaves are very high in vitamin C. People who drink the tea daily swear it keeps them healthy all winter long. Herbalists also make a syrup of its leaves to ease sore throats, coughs and bronchitis.

In clinical studies in Russia, Labrador tea thrives in the circumpolar boreal forest, has shown that Labrador tea protects the stomach during radiation therapy.

In the U.S., veterinarians use it to ease the pain associate with Lyme’s disease in horses, cats and dogs. Some herbalists are now using it with humans for the same purpose. There are anecdotal reports of success.

When out in the West Country this summer, take along a plant guide book to help find the Labrador tea plant.

Explore making a tea with the leaves, and have a relaxing evening by the campfire.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. com.

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How to snack for breakfast, lunch or dinner and stay healthy North America is under a snack attack — and the seconds to take on your commute — combine fresh or snacks are winning! frozen fruit, yogurt, kale, unsweetened almond or soy Seems more and more of you are substituting milk and a little flax seed. Toss together a half-ounce grab-and-go foods for real meals. of nuts and a half-ounce of dried fruit in a baggie; eat In fact, snacking is up 15 per cent as quick munch- it with a piece of fresh fruit. Or spread almond buting replaces breakfast, lunch or dinner for almost ter on a whole-grain tortilla, top with banana slices, half of you. But finding healthy snack foods can be sprinkle with raisins and cinnamon, then roll and go! tough — one reason Americans ended up spend● Lunch snacking. Put an easy-open pouch of ing $48 billion a year on tuna in water, pre-washed salty or sugary munchgreens, avocado chunks ables, three times more and a drizzle of dressing than they spent on fruit made from olive oil and and vegetables. That’s a lemon juice into a tightly lot of buck for very little sealed container. nutritional bang!

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Hoop-la: embroidery returns to favour BUT CRAFTERS ARE DOING IT THEIR WAY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hand embroidery is the latest comeback kid among traditional handiwork, but what crafters are doing with needle and thread transcends the alphabet and “Home Sweet Home” samplers of yesteryear.

They’re using innovative designs and materials to take embroidery to artistic realms.

Scroll through websites like Pinterest or Etsy and you’ll find human portraits drawn in thread, colorfully embroidered crazy quilts, and new uses for simple stitches like the running stitch or French knot.

“Yes, we’re seeing an embroidery resurgence,” says Linda Augsburg, executive editor at American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. She contrasts today’s innovations with the counted cross-stitch patterns popular in the 1980s, which “were precise and required following a chart.”

Today’s embroidery can be edgier or sillier — more individualistic. Some of it is “tattoo-ish,” incorporating flames and skulls, because embroidery has become deeply personal, Augsburg says, citing Jenny Hart as a leader in avant-garde embroidery.

There’s a larger trend in home decor and clothing toward greater personalization, Augsburg notes. A handmade pillow today is more likely to have a sarcastic comment embroidered on it than “Home Sweet Home” and, in a wink to the past, aprons may be embroidered with flowers, but they have faces.

It’s “whimsical and fun and silly, and I think we all want a little fun in our lives,” says Augsburg, from her Des Moines, Iowa, office.

This rule-bending pleases Rebecca Ringquist, author of the forthcoming Rebecca Ringquist’s Embroidery Workshops (STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book). She encourages experimentation in the classes she teaches online at Creativebug and at workshops throughout the country.

“While an embroidery instructor in the 1950s might have insisted that your cloth be knot-free, I encourage you to do what it takes to get going, and to think of knots as an opportunity to add texture to even the front side of your fabric,” Ringquist says in her book.

She sees embroidery as akin to painting; stitches add layers of colour and texture.

“Embroidery is very forgiving. If you don’t like it, you can pull stitches out or embroider over it,” says Ringquist, of Brooklyn, New York. “It’ll probably become thicker and more beautiful as you add more and more things.”

Embroidery is an accessible and affordable hobby, Augsburg says: Find needles, embroidery floss and hoops — a helpful (though not necessary) accessory that help keep fabric taut while you work on it — at any large crafts or small specialty store, and pay only a few dollars for initial supplies.

Ringquist recommends starting with the ubiquitous DMC 6-strand cotton floss, which comes in hundreds of colorfast colours and doesn’t tangle as easily as some threads.

Learn a few, simple stitches from a book, class or YouTube tutorial and get stitching on whatever you have — a pillowcase, a shirt, a skirt.

The March 2015 issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine shows how to make five classic embroidery stitches, and recommends a fast and easy project: Embroider onto pretty, printed fabric.

“A few lines . completely transform the fabric, adding texture and dimension,” the story reads, and suggests turning the handiwork into pillows, sachets and hand towels.

“Everyone has fabric in their house. Everyone. Because everyone has clothing,” says Ringquist, who learned to embroider on her jeans, bathrobe, bed sheets and more. “It’s pretty low-risk. You haven’t spent any money and you’ve probably done some good for your nervous system in the process.”

Natalie Chanin, founder of Alabama Chanin, a clothing and accessories company, adds embroidery to the garments in her hand-made collection — as embellishments and in reverse applique.

“It is not new but I definitely see some very contemporary uses (of embroidery) happening on the runway now,” says Chanin. “As fashion becomes faster and faster, this kind of handiwork can really set something apart and give it a different life.”

To start, Chanin suggest, “you might want to work around the neckline of a top.

It’s one of the first parts you see.”

Chanin, who has authored three books in her “Alabama Studio” series, teaches hand-

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A pre-printed embroidery sampler the author included in the back of her forthcoming book, Rebecca Ringquist’s Embroidery Workshops.

Hand embroidery has seen a resurgence in recent years, but it’s different from the crossstitch patterns and samplers of yesteryear: Embroidery is more personal, edgier and sillier. Ringquist, of Brooklyn, New York, is part of this rulesbending renaissance.

stitching techniques online at Craftsy and Creativebug and at her Florence, Alabama, studio.

The February 2015 issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine shows a few of her embroidery gift ideas, from embellished cards to tea towels.

The magazine has a book, “Better Homes and Gardens Embroidery” (Meredith Corp.), available in April.

Besides being attractive, embroidery’s personal touch can imbue handiwork with deeper meaning.

“If I’m making (a garment) for my daughter or my son or a friend, it’s also about this act

of love that I want to give to them,” says Chanin.

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An arena for the ages PATRICK LAFORGE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ROGERS PLACE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The Edmonton Oilers haven’t had much to brag about in recent years.

But that should change next year, when the NHL team moves from tired Rexall Place to shimmering Rogers Place Arena.

“The facilities are going to be phenomenal; it’ll be world class in every way,” said Patrick LaForge, president and chief operating officer of the Oilers Entertainment Group.

“The arena Patrick LaForge will be the most iconic of its kind in North America for many years.”

LaForge described Edmonton’s arena project during a presentation at a Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday.

Clad in stainless steel, Rogers Place Arena will have seating for 18,600 and standing room for another 1,500. That compares with Rexall Place’s 16,700 seats, but more impressive is the fact the arena’s size will be about 850,000 square feet, up from the current 421,000 square feet.

LaForge explained that Rogers Place will have a much more open layout, as well as clear sight lines from every seat. There will be private viewing suites, including “opera style” boxes, “loge tables” that overlook the ice surface from the upper levels, and an after-hours nightclub.

The new arena is just one component of the Edmonton Arena District project, he pointed out. Also planned is an adjacent community arena where members of the public will have access to free skating, equipment and even lessons.

Nearby will be a public gathering area, the 63-storey Stantec building, a Delta hotel, and retail and residential areas. There will be some 8,000 parking stalls, including many under-

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An artist’s rendering of Rogers Place Arena in downtown Edmonton. It will have seating for 18,600 and standing room for another 1,500. ground — about double the number serving Rexall Place.

In addition to movie theatres, a massive video screen, a permanent sound stage and scheduled activities, the district will boast a casino and other amenities, said LaForge. The arena itself is expected to draw two million people a year downtown, with these supporting the hotels, restaurants and retailers there.

Many Albertans will see the district as an alternative to Las Vegas when it comes to recreational getaways, he said.

The Delta hotel is expected to open in the spring of 2017 and the Stantec building in the fall of 2018. The entire

build-out should be completed by 2019, said LaForge.

Edmonton Arena District will cover about 25 acres, with about eight additional acres nearby earmarked for future development.

“The city is now looking at a projection of about 30,000 people to live in the city centre by 2030, where we had 5,000 in 2009,” said LaForge.

He said the development was made possible by Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz, who was willing to use his NHL team to leverage the downtown project. Katz has about $1.6 billion of his own money committed, pointed out LaForge.

“The risk involved in it is signifi-

Outdoor show more than just fishing and hunting

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR After 49 years, you’d think the Red Deer Sportsman & Outdoor Adventure Show would have built up a substantial following.

But Jeff Chocholacek, who’s managed the Red Deer Fish & Game Association-organized show for the past decade, thinks the event isn’t drawing the people that it should.

“We have fantastic exhibitors and guest speakers,” said Chocholacek, noting that the three-day show — which this year runs Friday to Sunday — typically brings in 10,000 to 12,000 attendees.

With approximately 130 exhibits, and a broad range of information and entertainment offered, the Sportsman & Outdoor Adventure Show should attract many more people, he said. This

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Saskatchewan first in Canada, second in world for mining REGINA — The Fraser Institute says its annual global survey of mining executives has determined Saskatchewan is the most attractive jurisdiction for mining investment in Canada, and number two in the world.

The survey rates 122 jurisdictions around the world based on their geologic attractiveness and the extent to which government policies encourage exploration and investment.

Finland placed first overall in the world, with Nevada coming in third and Manitoba fourth.

In Canada, Manitoba was second, Quebec third and Newfoundland and Labrador rated fourth, following by Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

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is particularly true given that its theme covers more than just fishing and hunting.

“There’s lots of different stuff to see,” said Chocholacek. “There’s taxidermy, there’s scuba diving, there’s horseback riding.”

This year, attendees will be able to hear presentations by Jason Acorn and Calvin Buckler, whose hunting program The Bone Yard is broadcast on the Wild Television Network. Also speaking will be well-known guide Bentley Coben.

Other attractions will include Canadian Reptile Encounters and Medicine River Wildlife Centre, with survival demonstrations by Three Ravens Bushcraft and trials by Hot Diggity Dogs Agility Club also scheduled.

Revenues raised at the show support the Red Deer Fish & Game Association, said Chocholacek.

“That money all goes into the sur-

rounding communities, whether it’s youth programs, whether it’s scholarships, whether it’s books donated to the library, whether it’s in our habitat land out by Pine Lake.”

Show hours at Westerner Park are 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children seven to 12, with Westerner parking fees in effect.

Chocholacek is already thinking ahead to 2016, when the Red Deer Sportsman & Outdoor Adventure Show will mark its 50th year.

“It is the longest-running outdoor show in Alberta,” he pointed out.

“It’s been going longer than Calgary’s and Edmonton’s sportsman and boat shows.”

Additional information about this year’s event can be found online at www.reddeersportsmanshow.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Two of Canada’s other geographically large jurisdictions — Ontario and British Columbia — didn’t fare as well.

Internationally, Ontario placed 23rd and B.C. ranked 28th.

“In addition to being blessed with an abundance of mineral potential, Saskatchewan gets credit for having a government with a transparent and productive approach to mining policy,” said Kenneth Green, Fraser Institute senior director of energy and natural resources and director of the Survey of Mining Companies.

“The province offers a competitive taxation regime, good scientific support, efficient permitting procedures and clarity around land claims. That’s what miners look for.”

Green said there’s a reason Ontario dropped nine places in the rankings compared to the previous year.

“In Ontario, the New Mining Act amendments regarding First Nations consultation have resulted in complete incomprehensibility of rights on all sides,” Green said.

“Similarly in British Columbia, uncertainty concerning disputed land claims and ambiguity about what regions will be protected are deterrents

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Greek PM briefs party lawmakers on bailout pledges ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister held a marathon meeting with his party’s lawmakers Wednesday, briefing them on pledges made to European creditors to win a four-month extension of the country’s bailout amid simmering party discontent over what some see as a capitulation.

The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted more than 11 hours.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, elected last month on the promise to repeal bailout austerity measures, including spending cuts and tax hikes, has been at pains to persuade hardliners in his radical left Syriza party that Greece succeeded in its European negotiations.

Greece won its extension Tuesday by pledging a series of policy measures, including adherence to certain reforms.

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cant,” he said of Katz’s exposure. “The faith in the idea is unbelievable.”

LaForge, who has been with the Oilers organization since 2000, is an alternate NHL governor and a WHL governor.

A former chairman of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, he praised the chamber movement generally and urged local members to speak out on issues like the need for poil and gas pipelines to export markets.

“I have two prayers: one to take care of my kids and the other one is, give us a pipeline. All chambers should be involved in that discussion. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

KEYSTONE XL

‘Roller-coaster’ ride ahead: Ambassador

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. predicts a wild ride ahead in the Keystone XL debate, with this week’s presidential veto of a propipeline bill just one more twist in the journey.

“We expect a roller-coaster here and we expect setbacks,” Gary Doer said in an interview.

He said lawmakers will probably move on to other issues for a while, then return to Keystone. Congress is in a dispute over immigration rules — which has gotten so bitter that it’s prompted a standoff that could throttle funding after this week to the Department of Homeland Security.

Soon, Doer said, there will be more occasions to discuss the long-delayed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline. He said there’s already talk in Washington of attaching a pipeline provision to a big infrastructure or budget bill. It could be a lot more difficult for the president to veto that kind of legislation.

“We believe people are going to work towards getting broader proposals,” Doer said, adding that he didn’t want to wade into a domestic political debate.

A first bill to build the pipeline landed on President Barack Obama’s desk this week and he immediately vetoed it. He said it’s up to him, not Congress, to make decisions on crossborder pipelines.

Doer also addressed a suggestion laid out in a public letter Wednesday by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Now a United Nations special envoy on climate change, Bloomberg suggested that Canada and the U.S. strike a bilateral climate deal in conjunction with Keystone XL. Bloomberg floated the idea in a piece titled, Keystone Solution Runs Through Canada. He said that pipeline gives the U.S. great leverage to extract climate commitments from Canada and could help the economy while lowering emissions.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 143.73 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.60 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.93 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 13.07 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.60 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.60 Cdn. National Railway . . 86.54 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 236.36 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.36 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.63 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.33 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.85 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 59.16 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.25 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.55 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.86 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.53 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.19 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.72 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.10 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.30 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.07 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.49 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 122.59 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.02 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.93 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.35 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Strong corporate earnings and a major real estate deal for retailer Hudson’s Bay (TSX:HBC) sent the Toronto stock market higher on Wednesday.

The S&P/TSX composite index rose 63.6 points to 15,228.57.

Shares in Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) soared $4.38 or 19.75 per cent to $26.57 after the company announced it was joining with two major real estate trusts — Toronto-based RioCan (TSX:REI.UN) and Indianapolisbased Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) — to create two real estate joint ventures.

HBC estimates it will get $1.1 billion in cash from the transactions over time.

“We’re talking about some very prime locations, major metropolitan areas in North America,” said Chhad Aul, portfolio manager at Sun Life Global Investment.

“This is really just the latest in a trend that we saw with Loblaws (TSX:L) and Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A) — they’re trying to spin out and unlock the value of those real estate portfolios.”

The financials sector led TSX advancers, up 1.25 per cent as Royal Bank (TSX:RY) posted a quarterly profit of $2.456 billion, up 17 per cent from a year ago and raised its quarterly dividend by two cents to 77 cents per share. Its shares advanced $2.75 to $77.80.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.47 of a U.S. cent to 80.5 cents.

New York indexes were little changed as traders failed to get further clues on the pace of interest rate hikes from a second day of congressional testimony

by Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen.

The Dow Jones industrials gained 15.38 points to 18,224.57, the Nasdaq slipped 0.98 of a point to 4,967.14 and the S&P 500 index was off 1.62 points at 2,113.86.

The TSX consumer discretionary sector was also a leading TSX advancer, up almost two per cent as auto parts giant Magna

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.68 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.90 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.57 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.21 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.88 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.44 First Quantum Minerals . 15.12 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.80 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.59 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.43 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.96 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 45.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.54 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 19.31 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 24.36 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.69 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.68 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.21 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 43.74 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.62 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.68 Canyon Services Group. . 7.45 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.19 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.50 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.31 International (TSX:MG) earned $509 million or $2.44 a share, up 11 per cent from a year ago.

Sales rose about two per cent to $9.39 billion. Analysts had expected a profit of $2.24 per share and revenue of $9.08 billion. Magna also cut its revenue forecast for 2015, hurt by weak demand from Europe.

Along with the financial results, Magna announced a twofor-one stock split and hiked its quarterly dividend by 16 per cent to 44 cents per share from 38 cents. Its shares jumped $8.99 or seven per cent to $136.67.

The gold sector was ahead one per cent as the April bullion contract advanced $4.20 to US$1,201.50.

The energy sector turned positive, up 0.75 per cent, while oil prices ticked $1.71 higher to US$50.99 a barrel after five days of losses even as the U.S. Department of Energy said American inventories rose 8.4 million barrels last week, about double the amount expected.

Encana (TSX:ECA) is cutting its 2015 capital budget to between $2 billion and $2.2 billion, down about $700 million. Encana joins a host of other energy companies that have been forced to chop spending in response to a 40 per cent slide in oil prices since the end of November.

Encana’s operating profit, which excludes extraordinary items, came in at $35 million, or five cents per share for the quarter. Encana shares were 22 cents higher at $16.50.

The March copper contract edged two cents higher to US$2.66 a pound and the base metals group also moved into the positive column, ahead 0.23 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,228.57, up 63.60 points Dow — 18,224.57, up 15.38points S&P 500 — 2,113.86, down 1.62 points

BRIEFS

Sears Canada revenue, same-store sales drop

Nasdaq — 4,967.14, down 0.98 of a point Currencies: Cdn — 80.50 cents US, up 0.47 of a cent Pound — C$1.9298, down 0.20 of a cent Euro — C$1.4118, down 0.57 of a cent Euro — US$1.1364, up 0.20 of a cent Oil futures: US$50.99 per barrel, up one dollar, 71 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,201.50 per oz., up four dollars, 20 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.29 oz., up 12 cents $684.47 kg., up $3.85 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $14.30 lower $458.50; May ’15 $6.90 lower $462.80; July ’15 $6.00 lower $458.20; Nov ’15 $5.20 lower $446.60; Jan. ’16 $5.20 lower $448.20; March ’16 $5.20 lower $450.70; May ’16 $5.20 lower $452.20; July ’16 $5.20 lower $454.90; Nov. ’16 $5.20 lower $448.90; Jan. ’17 $5.20 lower $448.90; March ’17 $5.20 lower $448.90.

Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $180.00; May ’15 unchanged $182.00; July ’15 unchanged $184.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $175.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $175.00; March ’16 unchanged $175.00; May ’16 unchanged $175.00; July ’16 unchanged $175.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $175.00; Dec. ’ 16 unchanged $175.00; March ’17 unchanged $175.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 882,040 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 882,040.

MOSCOW — The chairman of the Russian Security Council says Western sanctions are threatening the country’s oil and gas industry.

The United States, the European Union and other countries last year imposed sanctions against Russia for its role in the Ukrainian conflict. Some of them made it virtually impossible for energy companies to develop hardto-tap oil fields such as those in the Arctic.

Nikolai Patrushev, who is believed to be one of President Vladimir Putin’s most influential allies, said in comments carried by Russian news agencies Wednesday that Western sanctions do not aim to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine but rather harm “the development and renewal” of the Russian mineral wealth.

Patrushev warned that Russia’s dependence on global oil prices could pose a threat to the national security.

TORONTO — Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) says its fourth-quarter revenue was down 17.7 per cent from a year earlier to $972.5 million.

The national retailer said the decline was primarily due to store closures and a 9.1 per cent decline in same-store sales.

It also had a net loss of $123.6 million or $1.21 per share, which included a writedown on the value of improvements made at its stores.

After adjustments in both years, Sears lost $28.8 million in the three months ended Jan. 31 compared with a year-earlier profit of $18 million.

For the full year, Sears Canada had a $338.8 million net loss, or $3.22 per share in 2014.

That compared with a 2013 net profit of $446.5 million, or $4.38 per share, which included gains from the early termination of leases on some of its major Sears stores, real estate sales and other usual items.

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Russian Security Council chairman: West wants to destroy Russia’s oil industry with sanctions

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RBC boosts Q1 profit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Royal Bank (TSX:RY) increased its first-quarter profit as Canadian banking and trading operations showed growth, but the bank cautioned that tough economic conditions pose challenges for the industry.

“While we are pleased with our first-quarter results, recent changes in the macro environment created some headwinds,” chief executive Dave McKay said after the company reported its results.

RBC raised its dividend Wednesday as it said its first-quarter profit grew 17 per cent from a year ago to $2.456 billion or $1.65 per share.

Despite posting what analysts described as solid results, the bank said it is stress testing its loans to see how they will perform if oil stays at $45 a barrel, the unemployment rate climbs by almost three percentage points and home prices drop by as much as 25 per cent.

“As expected, we are seeing some clients drawing on their (credit) lines given the environment,” said the bank’s chief risk officer, Mark Hughes.

“We have identified names that could be under pressure if oil prices remain at current levels for a further sustained period and we’re closely monitoring those companies for early warning signs.”

All of the country’s top lenders are keeping an eye on the price of oil,

which is hovering at around half of its highs of last summer.

Analysts had been expecting investment banking revenues to fall during the quarter as business from the oilpatch dried up, but RBC managed to buck the trend. Its capital markets business, which includes investment banking and trading, posted a profit of $594 million — up $89 million or 18 per cent compared with the same quarter last year.

The Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO), which reported its earnings Tuesday, saw its capital markets revenues drop by 20 per cent from a year ago, but analysts said the decline was not as dramatic as they had predicted.

RBC is also bracing for the possibility that the Bank of Canada may cut its key interest rate next week, putting pressure on commercial banks’ lending margins. The central bank reduced its overnight rate by a quarter of a point in January to ease economic pressures stemming from the oil price decline.

“Within a low rate environment we will have to be even more diligent about managing costs and driving efficiencies,” McKay said.

Meanwhile, RBC is waiting for a judge to decide whether charges should be brought against its Bahamas unit in a money laundering and tax fraud probe. The bank says it “strongly contests” a French prosecutor’s recommendation that the bank be charged in France in relation to a trust for which RBC Bahamas serves as a trustee.

Encana cuts capital spending plan by US$700M

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from $226 million or 31 cents per share a year ago. The earnings came in below analyst expectations of 24 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Revenue net of royalties totalled $2.25 billion, up from $1.42 billion.

Encana will continue focus 80 per cent of its capital investment this year on four main assets: Permian Basin and Eagle Ford in Texas, Montney in B.C. and Duvernay in Alta.

Suttles said the company doesn’t have any plans to sell more assets but is open to the idea.

“The low points in the commodity cycle are easily the most exciting times,” he said. “I can tell you we’re prepared to respond if the right opportunities come along.”

Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) is slashing $700 million from its capital budget this year as it continues to adjust to an environment of low crude prices.

The Calgary oil and gas company, which reports in U.S. dollars, says the cut will bring its capital budget down to between $2 billion and $2.2 billion.

“In recognition of current prices, we are acting decisively and prudently,” Encana CEO Doug Suttles told analysts during a conference call Wednesday.

Encana is basing its new guidance on estimates of US$50 a barrel for the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude, about the level where prices have held after dropping from above US$100 a barrel last summer. Its previous guidance in December had been based on a US$70 Red Deer, Alberta oil price.

Suttles said the revision should not come as a surprise as the oil and gas company prepares for a lower priced environment.

“We said if market conditions change, which they were doing quite rapidly at that point, we would make appropriate adjustments,” he said. “(But) if anyone can Dawn Stacey prosper through this part Ken Mandrusiak, President, is pleased to announce the appointment of of the commodity cycle, Dawn Stacey as General Manager of the Black Knight Inn. I’m convinced it will be Dawn will be responsible for the management of the hotel which Encana.” includes 98 recently renovated guest rooms and suites, 10,000 square The revised spending feet of conference facilities, JB’s cocktail lounge and Remington’s Grill. plan was announced as Prior to Dawn’s appointment at the Black Knight Inn, she acquired the company reported extensive management experience working in the hospitality industry that it earned $198 milin Saskatchewan and Alberta. lion or 27 cents per share Dawn’s experience and knowledge will greatly enhance “the memorable for the fourth quarter experience” we endeavor to provide at the Black Knight Inn. ended Dec. 31, compared “Our Mission Statement” with a loss of $251 milThe Black Knight Inn aspires to create memorable experiences through lion or 34 cents per share genuine hospitality in a warm and comfortable atmosphere. Our success a year ago. is based on creating a home-away-from-home experience for all that walk However, Encana said through our doors. www.blackknighinn.ca its operating earnings, which excludes certain one-time items, amounted to $35 million or five cents per share, down

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HOLDEN Philip Grant 1965 - 2015 Phil passed away on Friday, February 20, 2015 at the age of 49 years after a long battle with cancer. He will be lovingly remembered by his partner, Lauri; children, Shaila, Shayanna (Clayton), and Kenneth; granddaughter, Skyler, who he was so proud to welcome to this world; mother, Marie (Jim); father Grant (Shelley); siblings Donna-Lee (John), and Chris (Sandy); nieces, Amanda, and Katie (Timo); nephews, Cody (Christina), and Aron; great-niece, Addison; as well as numerous extended friends and family.

Phil will be reunited with his grandma, Ruth; and stepdad, Harvey. Family was always very important to Phil and he will be remembered for his sense of humor and ability to make people laugh.

The family would like to thank the staff at the Life Agency and Michener Extendicare for their compassionate care.

A Celebration of Phil’s life will be held at the Word of Life Church in Red Deer on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in Phil’s memory may be made to Michener Extendicare, 12 Michener Blvd., Red Deer, AB, T4P 0M1.

Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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WECKER Kathleen Elizabeth May 22, 1945 - Feb. 23, 2015 On Monday, February 23, 2015, Kathy Wecker, beloved wife, sister, auntie, great auntie,step-grandmother and dear friend to many, passed away suddenly at the age of 69 years, after fighting a courageous battle with MSA. Kathy will be dearly and fondly missed by her husband and best friend Robbie Robinson of Red Deer; three sisters, Carol (Bernie) MacLellan of Edmonton, Linda Nixon of Edmonton, and Lorna (Rod) Boden of Red Deer; sister-inlaw Jessie Wecker of Red Deer; step-children, Kim (Ken) Robinson, Bob (Gail) Robinson, Bill (Lana) Robinson, and Kelly (Vicky) Robinson, all of Red Deer; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, step-grandchildren, and many, many close friends. She was predeceased by her father John; mother Margaret; and brother Ron. Kathy enjoyed participating in and watching all sports. She was an avid and accomplished curler and golfer. She enjoyed spending winters in Arizona. Kathy was close to her family and enjoyed spending time with them. She will be remembered for her wonderful smile, her cute laugh, her practical jokes and her sweet, generous, nature.

Kathy’s caring strength and courage was an inspiration to all who knew her. The family would like to thank all the staff at Symphony Aspen Ridge for her care. A Memorial Service for Kathy will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Memorial donations in Kathy’s honor may be made directly to Parkinson’s Society of Alberta, for MSA Research, 5406D - 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta ,T4P 1C9.

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

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

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DAVIS Theresa “Terry” Marie (nee Mooney)1945 - 2015 Theresa “Terry” Marie Davis passed away peacefully and surrounded by her husband and family at her second home of Bethany Collegeside, in Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, February 22, 2015 at the age of 66 years. It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved wife, daughter, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister and friend. Terry was born on March 17, 1945 in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan to Andrew and Elizabeth Mooney. She met and married Randy Davis on August 3, 1968 in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.

They lived in Portreeve, Saskatchewan, Veteran and Coronation, Red Deer and Alix, Alberta. Terry’s profession as a Hair Dresser continued through her years and towns and eventually led her to teach her profession in Red Deer.

Terry was well known as a “mom” to all and truly devoted her time, attention, love and kindness to her children and everyone in the community. She volunteered with all four of her children through the Dawe Community School, their K-9 years. Terry spent a lot of her time on the road, travelling with her four kids in hockey, ringette, baseball and school events. She was funny, caring and would strike up a conversation with anyone standing around. Her life was her children, all children and anyone in need. In later years, Terry developed Dementia and was lovingly cared for at home by her husband, until she was moved to Ponoka long term care. Terry was very well taken care of there for three years until her move to Red Deer. Terry will be sadly missed by her husband of 47 years, Randy, four children; Keith (Angella) of Okotoks, Michele of Lacombe, Kent of Blackfalds, Marty (Rayna) of Alix, eight grandchildren; Tessa, Brody Riley, Ella, Pyper, Myah, Deegan and Van. She is also survived by her siblings; Margaret, Maureen (John), Helen, Mike (Shirley), Dan (Claire) Pat, Kevin (Nancy), as well as many nieces and nephews. Terry was predeceased by her parents; Andrew and Elizabeth Mooney, her parents-in-law; Elmo and Marjorie Davis and brother-in-law, Ross Davis.

She also leaves to mourn her special friends; Elizabeth Vila and Rowena Sanjose. The family would like to express their gratitude to the multiple doctors, nurses, aids and caregivers along the way. A special thanks to Dr. Viljoen and staff, the staff at Ponoka Hospital, and Bethany Collegeside. Terry’s greatest hobby in life was her children, her grandchildren and her husband. They were well supported in their activities and lives and she will be sadly missed but is at peace. A celebration of Terry’s life will be held at the Sacred Heart Church, 5508 48A Avenue, Red Deer on Saturday, February 28th, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Boys and Girls Club of Red Deer.

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

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

Phone (403) 347-2222

TOM AND SHIRLEY HYCHA 26 February 1955 Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary, Mom and Dad Lots of Love and Best Wishes from your Family

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Class Registrations

51

KARATE KIDS

Births

ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

Welcome Wagon

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

52

60

Personals

Legal

780

Desks, leather desk chairs, shredders, privacy screens, water cooler, lateral files, monitors, art, silk plants, chairs, s/s fridge, table and chairs, leather tub chairs and sofa, lots of little items. 5016 - 51 Ave (in front of Superstore) Unit ‘C’ Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10-3.

Previews by appointment My cell is a Victoria number: 250-886-7809 but I’m in Red Deer.

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jobs

JOHNSTON MING MANNING LLP has a full time career advancing position available as a

CLASSIFICATIONS

General Legal Assistant.

700-920

710

54

52

60

720

720

ACCOUNTING POSITION

¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants.

Janitorial

516636B25-C10

Competitive wages and bene¿ts plan.

Hours Àexible.

Please submit cover letter, resume and references to: Peacock Inn/KFC #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Email mail@peacockgroup.ca

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

770

Full Time Cleaners required for day’s at Nova Joffre Site.

ST $15.00 Per Hr. Must be able to pass drug & alcohol testing & fit test.

Excellent spoken & written English communication required. Send resume to aramark6685@gmail.com or fax @ 403-314-7504

Oilfield

800

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

Professionals

810

HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

Office Closing End of Lease

The successful applicant will have completed the Legal Assistant Program. The Caregivers/ ideal candidate will have Aides prior experience working in a law firm as a legal LOOKING for live out assistant. This position nanny for Mon, Tues. Fri. Lost requires someone who days for 4 children. displays a team player Spruceview area. outlook, who REWARD OFFERED Transportation required. demonstrates effective Missing, GREYHOUND 403-728-8240 communication skills, who HUSKY mix, called has the ability to multi-task, Armstrong. Mostly black, Coming P/T F. caregiver wanted and work in a fast paced with white paws, belly & for F. quad. Must be reliable Events environment, and who is chest, wearing a red collar. and have own vehicle. successful dealing with 403-347-1703 403-505-7846 NOW PLAYING highly confidential material VLT’S AT in a professional and time sensitive manner. We EAST 40TH PUB offer benefits, and the Personals Clerical opportunity for personal You can sell your guitar and professional growth. for a song...

ALCOHOLICS NexSource Power Inc., Please respond in or put it in CLASSIFIEDS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 based out of Sylvan Lake confidence with a cover and we’ll sell it for you!

AB., has an immediate letter and resume to: opening for an experienced Human Resources Accountant/Bookkeeper for Johnston Ming Manning LLP our Sales & Rentals 3rd Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Clerical Division. This position, Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1 reporting to the CFO, will Fax: (403) 342-9173 be responsible for Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca preparing,reconciling and We thank all applicants for maintaining a variety of their interest, however, accounting and financial only those selected for an Red Deer company requires three quarter data and information. A interview will be contacted. to full time experienced accounting person Diploma in Accounting preferred as well as 3-5 yrs Buying or Selling that will learn company structure and exp. Please include wage your home? daily duties including payroll, payables, expectations with your Check out Homes for Sale cover letter and resume bank reconciliations, lease managements in Classifieds and send to jobs@ and be able to complete monthly nexsourcepower.com Give your child the gift of confidence. Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting March.

Enrollment is limited.

(403) 347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

CYR DANIEL ALEXANDER (DAN) 1967 - 2004 Taken from us too soon by an impaired driver.

Our lives were enriched by your compassion, sense of fun and the love you shared.

Those who have lived in our hearts are never really gone. ~Always remembered, forever in our hearts.

Your loving family

Announcements

KENNEDY Muriel Georgia Kennedy was born March 5, 1920 and passed away on February 20, 2015. Memorial service to be scheduled at a later date.

Coming Events

Funeral Directors & Services

In Memoriam

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TRY Central Alberta LIFE NSC Manager

SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300

POSITION SUMMARY: The position of NSC Manager is responsible for overseeing the management of all mobile assets Restaurant/ (fleet equipment/vehicles).

Hotel Focusing on initiatives to ensure compliance with EAST 40TH PUB transportation safety legislation and the REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK National Safety Code Apply in person with resume (NSC), the NSC Manager 3811 40th Ave. promotes company-wide Hampton Inn & Suites consistency of practices 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer and provides expertise AB, CA T4E 1B9 while promoting excellence.

Housekeeping Supervisor $20.00/hour SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, Full Time: M-F 7am to 5pm SKILLS AND ABILITIES: * Supervise team of *5+ years’ experience in cleaners and janitors the transportation industry * Inspect sites to ensure *Preference towards oil/gas safety and cleanliness industry experience * Arrange for services *Thorough knowledge of required such as painting, industry regulations/ renovations or replacecompany policies and ment of furnishings procedures or ability to * Hire and train cleaning efficiently find required staff information * Prepare work schedule , *Demonstrated leadership/ budget, estimate costs and managerial skills keep financial records *Ability to interpret and Apply in person 8am-4 pm understand legislation POSITION FILLED * Demonstrated ability to problem solve JJAM Management (1987) Only qualified applicants Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s will be contacted. Email resume to: eaglerigjobs@ Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: eaglerigs.com or fax to 5111 22 St. 403-346-9770. Deadline 37444 HWY 2 S for applications: 37543 HWY 2N February 23, 2015.

700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Central Alberta Req’d permanent shift LIFE weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + & benefits. Start ASAP. Job description Red Deer www.timhortons.com ADVOCATE Education and experience not req’d.

CLASSIFIEDS Apply in person or fax 403-309-3300 resume to: 403-314-1303

820

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015

Auto Mechanic Wanted.

Information at www. municipalexcellence.ca/ Employment.html reply with resume to info@ municipalexcellence.ca

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

•

2 yrs. relevant exp., completion of High School, be reliable, self motivated, work well under limited supervision in fast paced environment.

Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 hr. wk. dependant on exp.

733644 Ab Ltd. O/A The Rusty Pelican Location of employment: 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 email: bennett2014.bkkp@ gmail.com or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

850

Trades

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

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START • GED Preparation •

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE: Lafarge Lacombe Pit Requires

Rock Truck Drivers, Loader Operators, Crushing & Wash Plant Personnel.

Must be able to pass a drug test and a physical.

Please send your resume with references Attn: annie.pitcher@ lafarge.com or fax 403 347 8060.

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

860

Truckers/ Drivers

ACADEMIC Express

880

Misc.

Help

Women in the Trades Program

880

Misc.

Help

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 HOUSE CLEANER WANTED For Move In/Move Out Cleaning.

Email Resume margaretcomeau@ remax.net Or Call 403.391.3399

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

Housekeeping positions available. Must be able to work in a team environment. Mandatory criminal record check required. Salary according to union scale. Please apply in writing to Kim Aucoin at 301, 4719-48 Ave. or by fax to: 403-343-2332 CRYSTAL GLASS needs a GLASS INSTALLER. Some exp. preferred, but training is provided. Benefits and company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE 403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(acrossfrom from Totem) (across Rona North)

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Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED

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

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

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ATARI w/games $150.

403-782-3847 DREAMCAST w/4 games. $120.

GAME CUBE w/3 games, $80. 403-782-3847

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1660

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Health & Beauty

1700

STAIR Chair, electric Model Bruno Elan 3000, alternate power, 16.2 ft of track, used 15 mos., paid $2800.

Asking $1000.

Complete. 403-252-2054

Household Appliances

1710

LG WHITE over the range microwave oven, 1000 watts, Model MV-1510M, exc. cond., $135 403-352-8811

Household Furnishings

1720

LOVE SEAT, good cond., $50, delivery avail.

403-346-0674 or 403-392-5657 NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea.

403-352-8811

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

150 MOVIE POSTERS, $1 each. 403-885-5020 B & D skill saw $25; black golf travelling bag $45; 403-885-5020

Advocate Opportunities

As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

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

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

1605

AFFORDABLE

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week)

DRIVERS

March 13-15, 2015 Westerner Park, Red Deer Special Guests Rick & Kelly Dale: American Restoration Dan & Laura Dotson: Storage Wars Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext 102 consign@egauctions.com EGauctions.com

Firewood

• GED Preparation CENTRAL AB based Women in the Trades trucking company requires Program CONTRACT

1530

9th Annual Speed Show & Collector Car Auction

“Low Cost” Quality Training

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

LOGS

1500-1990

EquipmentHeavy

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

SPRING START

•

CLASSIFICATIONS

Electronics

1660

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

360 XBOX w/10 games, $140. 403-782-3847

Advocate Opportunities

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

stuff

EG Auctions

P/T multi skilled building maintenance personnel wanted for interior building repairs etc. Flooring & painting exp. an asset.

Call 403-358-8222

Employment Casual Dietary Aid/ Training

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Auctions

RECYCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in • Math and Science for Red Deer. Email resume the Trades Program with a min. of 2 references. to: canpak@xplornet.ca Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Firewood

502793B25

850

Trades

278950A5

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Good Cres. & 59 Ave. ALSO Gunn St. & Goodacre Cl. ALSO Gillespie Cres.

KENTWOOD

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 CARRIERS NEEDED 3 days per week, no weekends

Dixon Ave,Close & Dunlop St. ALSO Dumas Cr., Duffy Cl., 1 1/2 Blks. of Dempsey St. and Dolan Cl. $104.mo.

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

EASTVIEW AREA

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

37, 38 & 3900 Block of 45 St. (and 44 St. North side only) $68.48/mo.

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ANDERS AREA Ahlstrom Close, Andrew Close, Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

Anderson Close, Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Boyce St. / Byer Close

INGLEWOOD / VANIER AREAS

MOUNTVIEW AREA

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

Between 35 St. and 39 St. and 43A Ave. and 41, Ave. area $189.00/mo.

Isherwood Close Iverson Close

For INGLEWOOD Area With 69 papers, approximately: $362.25/mo.

43A Ave. West to 46 Ave. Between 35 & 37 St. $63.00/mo.

For VANIER Area with 54 papers, approximately: $283.50/mo.

MICHENER AREA

INGLEWOOD AREA

MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave. SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close

For both of these routes: at least $645.75/mo.

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

LANCASTER AREA Langford Cres.

Long Close Lord Close

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

SOUTHBROOK AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Massage Therapy

1280

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies

Misc.

Services

1290 1310

in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Snow Removal

1830

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry 2 BALINESE kittens, w/onsite manager, $50/ea; also kittens to give 5 appls., incl. heat & hot away . 403-887-3649 water, washer/dryer EXOTIC shiny black F. kit- hookup, infloor heating, a/c., ten with large gold eyes, car plug ins & balconies. very tame and cuddly, litter Call 403-343-7955 box trained free to good home 403-782-3130

Cats

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

1380

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL NEW Thrift Shop Now Open! 186 Northey Ave. SHOVELLING AND snow WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Red Deer Open 10-8. Wed-Sun. blowing 403-318-7625

3080

Roommates Wanted

1 ROOM, $400./mo. home share deal, utilities., washer & dryer incld’d.

1-403-346-6214 NICE quiet apt. to share with F, 50+ yrs., working, responsible, pleasant, n/s, teacher or office worker preferred 403-307-6293

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Rooms WANTED • 3250-3390 For Rent

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Mar. 1. from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d.

Avail. now or Mar. 1.

403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3090

AVAIL. Immed. Fully Furnished Bdms. for rent.

Working or Student only Call 403-396-2468.

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-466-7979

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

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

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

3200

Misc.

For Rent

AVAIL. Apr. 1, 3 bdrm. townhouse close to schools and all amenities, 4 appls, rent $1100 + utils. + DD 403-506-0054

SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

MOBILE office trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Mar. 1 References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3050

2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Mar. 1 403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

May. 1st. 403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. Mar 1st.

403-304-5337

Suites

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

3060

2 bdrm on lower level, free laundry, heat and water.

Signing tenant over 40 and working. No pets, no partiers, respectful people.

5910-55 Ave. $1100 Sec./Rent. 403-341-4627.

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Income Property

4100

TURN KEY Business for sale in Ponoka. 15 unit low income complex. 100% occupancy. Earns $10,000/mo. Asking $577,000. 403-963-0204 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

LRG. 1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, separate entrance, 4 piece Cars bath, oak kitchen, lino flooring, washer & dryer, $950/mo., incld. utils., 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded mature location., no pets, 154,000 km.403-352-6995 no kids, N/S, avail. Apr. 1, 587-437-7970

GUARANTEED DELIVERY If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

314-4300

4010

3040

2 BDRM in Alix.

4 appls, $900/mo. inclds. water, Feb. 1 no pets 403-348-6594

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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Trucks

SNOW shoveling/dump runs/ odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators Elite Retreat, Finest

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Accounting

Sorrensen/Sisson Ave. Shaw Close/ Sutherland Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm. Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444 Newer 2 bdrm. bsmt suite.

Mature responsible, clean, working only. All utils incl.

Separate entrance & offRHINSTONE necklace and earrings, exc. cond, from street parking 403-348-1304 the 1950’s, $85; approx. 50 peacock feathers $1/ea.

403-346-2231

GLENDALE

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

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HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets from SEARS, $35 for all 3; and David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $15/ea.

403-352-8811

3060

Suites

~ Westpark Kilburn & Krause Cr. ALSO Kidd & Kirkland Cl ALSO Kidd & Keith Cl.

ROUTES IN:

CARRIERS REQUIRED

1760

WEST PARK

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

DEER PARK AREA

Misc. for Sale

5050

2003 DODGE Dakota crew cab. 403-318-3040

Heavy Trucks

5060

1999 IHS single axle truck, cab & chassis. DT460 engine. Runs great. new hood, scissors hoist, good tires, great for parts. $3000 403-701-2054 voice only.

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

WORLD

D3

THURSDAY, FEB. 26, 2015

Tensions ramp up in Venezuela ROCKS AND TEAR GAS IN THE STREETS AFTER POLICE KILL 14 YEAR-OLD BOY AT PROTEST

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BRIEF Two appear in NY court on charges they plotted to go to Syria to join Islamic State NEW YORK — Three men were arrested Wednesday on charges of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and wage war against the U.S., and federal officials said one of them spoke of shooting President Barack Obama or planting a bomb on Coney Island.

Akhror Saidakhmetov was arrested at Kennedy Airport, where he was attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, authorities said. Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev had a ticket to travel to Istanbul next month and was arrested in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said. The two were held without bail after a brief court appearance in New York.

A third defendant, Abror Habibov is accused of helping fund Saidakhmetov’s efforts and was ordered held without bail in Florida.

The three are charged with attempt and conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization. If convicted, each faces a maximum of 15 years in prison.

The Justice Department has charged roughly 20 people in the past year with planning to travel to the Middle East to fight alongside militants like the Islamic State group.

Federal officials have been concerned about Americans going overseas to train with these groups and returning with plots to carry out attacks at home.

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“How many more Venezuelans have to be murdered before there is a reaction?”

Maduro said in a nationally televised address that masked protesters had used rocks to attack police who sought to quell the demonstration. He called on young people to resist instigating such confrontations, but also condemned the killing.

Venezuelan ombudsman Tarek William Saab, a federal official charged with defending human rights, said on

Twitter that he deplored the “vile assassination” of the teen, who he named as Kluiverth Roa, though other officials spelled his first name differently.

Last month, the government issued a policy change to allow law enforcement officials to open fire and use deadly force to control protests. At the time, human rights groups said the new regulation was dangerously vague, but Saab defended it. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said the state would investigate whether the new policy had played a part in the boy’s death.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of

State John Kerry described the killing as “horrendous,” and of a piece with the wrongheaded direction in which he said the Venezuelan government is moving.

Tensions were already running high following of a slew of bad economic news and the arrest last week of the opposition mayor of Caracas. February marks the one year anniversary of massive street protests that choked neighbourhoods around Venezuela and left more than 40 people dead. That wave of protests also started in San Cristobal.

Three citations for public pot consumption on first day of legalization

guesthouses that sleep 39 people, four streets, a bus stop, a barn, a chicken yard, six horses, two cows, three sheep and four hectares (10 acres) of farmland — along with the possibility of temporarily being named deputy mayor.

The deal aims to revitalize the hamlet, which dates back to at least the 11th century and is 190 kilometres (120 miles) southwest of Budapest.

Mayor Kristof Pajer said Wednesday that the silence of the remote countryside was its main attraction.

“We offer all sorts of programs to our guests, but most are simply captivated by the surroundings and the quiet,” said Pajer, a 42-year-old engineer. “Once they sit out in the meadow with a bottle of rose wine, nothing else matters.”

Still, Pajer says he also tries to get companies using Megyer for team building, for example, to include some village improvements in their activities, like helping to paint the playground swings.

Among the privileges of deputy mayors, Pajer said, interim officials can rename the village streets to their liking for the duration of their stay.

After a two-week trial in which jurors heard testimony about defendant Eddie Ray Routh’s erratic behaviour, including statements about anarchy, the apocalypse and pig-human hybrids, they convicted Routh Tuesday night in the deaths of Kyle and Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range two years ago.

Routh’s trial drew intense interest, in part because of the blockbuster film based on former Navy SEAL Kyle’s memoir about his four tours in Iraq.

The verdict in Texas came at a time when a Colorado court is preparing to hear similar arguments in the trial of James Holmes over a 2012 movie theatre shooting in which 12 people were killed.

Texas juror Christina Yeager told ABC’s Good Morning America that Routh displayed a similar pattern in prior run-ins with police — he would become intoxicated and then tell responding officers he was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Every time something bad happened he pulled that card,” Yeager said.

Barrett Hutchinson said jurors were not convinced by the claim that Routh was having a psychotic episode when he shot the men.

“He knew the consequences of pulling the trigger,” Hutchinson said.

Routh showed no reaction as a judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole, an automatic sentence since prosecutors didn’t seek the death penalty in the capital murder case. As one of his victim’s siblings called him an “American disgrace” shortly after, Routh looked back at the man intensely but didn’t react otherwise.

JUNEAU, Alaska — The legalization of marijuana in Alaska didn’t go as flawlessly as first thought.

Anchorage police said in a release that officers issued two citations Tuesday night, but later updated that figure to three.

Those came on the first day a new law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect. Smoking pot in public remains illegal.

Police say one $100 citation was issued to a man near the downtown bus station. Another was issued to an 18-year-old male in downtown Anchorage.

He also got a misdemeanour citation for consuming the drug as a minor. A third citation was issued to a 22-year-old woman.

An Anchorage police spokeswoman on Wednesday initially said no citations had been issued.

Police in Fairbanks, Kenai and other communities did not report any violations Wednesday morning.

Hungarian village available for rent; comes with sheep, cows, temporary deputy mayor post BUDAPEST, Hungary — If “king for a day” sounds too majestic, a small Hungarian village will let you become deputy mayor for a few days.

The village of Megyer, population 18, has put itself up for rent to companies and tourists.

For 210,000 forints ($750; 690 euros) a day, a prospective renter gets seven

Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

Ex-Marine guilty of murder in American Sniper trial faces life in prison without parole STEPHENVILLE, Texas — A jury’s rejection of the insanity defence of a former Marine in the deaths of famed “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and another man illustrates the difficulty of succeeding with such a defence.

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Bolivarian National Guard soldiers advances on demonstrators attacking a police station during an anti-government protest in San Cristobal, Venezuela, Tuesday. Demonstrators protest after a 14-year-old boy died Tuesday after being shot in the head during an anti-government protest in Venezuela’s restive western region. Preliminary investigations suggest the student was injured during a confrontation between police and protesters in the city, and died on the way to the hospital, according to San Cristobal Human Rights Commission President Jose Vicente Garcia.

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SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — The killing of a 14-year-old boy by a policeman during an anti-government protest is raising already high tensions in Venezuela amid a crackdown on the opposition and crippling economic problems.

Protesters hurling rocks clashed with police backed by armoured vehicles late into the night, and the country was braced for further demonstrations Wednesday after the student, identified as Kluiverth Roa, was shot in the head and killed during a confrontation in San Cristobal, the capital of a restive western state.

Police officer Javier Mora Ortiz, 23, confessed to firing on the boy with plastic ammunition, officials said.

A photo and video of the student lying in a pool of blood, his backpack hanging over his shoulder, as a man frantically tries to staunch the bleeding and others scream and clutch their heads in horror rocketed around social media. Mourners were gathering in San Cristobal for the funeral, expected Wednesday afternoon.

Ruling party officials, including President Nicolas Maduro, condemned the killing with rare speed and forcefulness.

But as Maduro spoke, many residents of the university town near the Colombian border leaned out their windows to bang pots and pans in a cacophonous protest that lasted two hours. Shops closed their doors and public transportation halted as protesters set up flaming barricades on main thoroughfares.

Buses began running again Wednesday morning, but schools remained closed.

In Caracas, small groups gathered Wednesday to protest the killings.

Teacher Carolina Castro was among dozens of government critics who held signs outside the diplomatic mission of the Vatican beseeching Pope Francis intervene.

“It hurts me that they’re killing our students,” said Castro, who wore a

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Laverne Cox is a transgender actress on ‘Orange is the New Black.’ For a certain segment of the transgender population, life has become much, much better — but for a large, large, large percentage of trans people, it’s still quite difficult for them to go forward with their lives.

Zone, profiles 11 Canadian transgender people (those who were born one sex

but identify as another).

They range in age from 11 to 90 and

variety, children’s and performing arts categories.

The Canadian Screen Awards celebrate the best in homegrown film, television and digital media. Andrea Martin will host a televised ceremony Sunday night when winners in the marquee categories will be announced. It airs on CBC-TV.

ence went far beyond that of a children’s book author.

Sendak died in May 2012 at the age of 83. He spent the last four decades of his life in Ridgefield.

Hometown of late author Sendak pursues museum honouring his work

TORONTO — So far, The Amazing Race Canada is having an amazing run at the Canadian Screen Awards.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Three years The second season of the popuafter Maurice Sendak’s death, his westlar CTV reality series claimed three ern Connecticut hometown of Ridgetrophies at an early awards show field is pursuing a museum honouring Tuesday, which recognized the best in the author of Where the Wild Things Are. documentary, reality, lifestyle, news, The town has its sights on a vasports and digital media categories. cant modernist building in walking It included wins for best direction, distance from the village centre. The picture editing and writing. The best glass structure was designed by acreality show trophy will be handed out claimed architect Philip Johnson as Sunday. corporate offices for an oil exploration The documentary prizes were split company that left in 2006. between TMN/Movie Central’s Our A panel of local arts figures reMan in Tehran, which took five awards cently received endorsement from the including best doc and direction, and town and Sendak’s foundation to exHistory Channel’s Tales from the Organ plore the proposal. Members say they Trade, which claimed four, including have found overwhelming support for best writing and the Donald Britton the idea to honour a man whose influAward for best social/political doc.

Winners in the news categories included Global National for best national newscast, CBC’s The Fifth Estate for best news or information program, CTV’s W5 journalist Tom Kennedy for best host or interviewer in a news or information program or series, and CTV News journalist Janis Mackey Frayer for best national reportage.

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singer starred in the 2013 film Machete Kills. She earned rave reviews for her performance honouring The Sound of Music at Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Polanski appears in Polish Lady Gaga joining cast of court in extradition hearing series American Horror Story NEW YORK — TV is Lady Gaga’s new platform: after an impressive performance at the Oscars, the singer announced she will join the cast of American Horror Story.

FX confirmed Wednesday that the pop star will join the fifth season of the hit series, which returns in October.

No details were provided.

Gaga tweeted a horror flick-inspired video of herself in a mask. She said the name of the show’s new season is American Horror Story Hotel.

The 28-year-old Grammy-winning

KRAKOW, Poland — Filmmaker Roman Polanski has appeared in a court in southern Poland for a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor.

The single judge in a court in Krakow was not expected to make a ruling on Wednesday and scheduled another hearing for April.

Polanski, wearing a dark suit, entered the court with one of his lawyers, Jan Olszewski.

On the attorneys’ request, the court banned media from the hearing.

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have vastly different stories of how they came to identify as trans — for some it was as early as age two or three and for others it wasn’t until well into adulthood.

Directed by Marc de Guerre, the doc follows their triumphs and struggles, from fighting for their civil rights to fear about being fired from their jobs and being denied medical treatment.

Massarella said she identified as trans almost all of her life growing up in Sudbury, Ont. She had an epiphany as a kid while watching a TV program on Renee Richards, an American ophthalmologist and professional tennis player who had a gender change in the 1970s.

Massarella made the decision to transition from male to female about seven years ago.

Now, she’s a physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton and at Quest Community Health Centre in St. Catharines, Ont., where she administers transgender care.

“Certainly within the last five to 10 years there has been a revolution in transgender care,” she said.

“Before 10 years ago, most people would have been identified as having a mental illness, and the first thought was to send people to a psychiatrist, in a sense to be cured of their transgenderism.”

Now, the medical community uses the term “gender dysphoria” over “gender identity disorder” to diagnose someone who feels uncomfortable in the gender that they’re assigned.

And many health-care workers realize “that the most humane way to treat transgender people is to provide them with supportive transition care rather than some sort of a psychiatric pathologization and mental health cure,” added Massarella.

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TORONTO — Transgenderism has been prevalent in the headlines lately, with transgender characters on TV shows including Orange is the New Black and Transparent, and speculation over Olympic legend Bruce Jenner’s gender identity.

Dr. Carys Massarella, a transgender Canadian physician who appears in the new CBC-TV documentary Transforming Gender, says having a celebrity face linked to the subject is a doubleedged sword.

“Yes, it raises the issue publicly, so that probably allows more people to become aware of transgender issues and who transgender people are,” Massarella said.

“But at the same time I think ... it sensationalizes the whole concept of being trans, which I don’t think is helpful.

“Secondly, it makes people think, ‘Well that problem is solved. Everybody is OK with people being trans, transgender people are successful — look at Laverne Cox, look at Janet Mock.”’

Cox is a transgender actress on Orange is the New Black, while Mock is a high-profile writer who has come out publicly as a trans woman.

“That’s what I call the transgender one per cent,” said Massarella. “Those are the people who do have successful lives, who do live easily in society, but for many, many, many people, that’s not their experience.

“I think we need to be aware that, yes, for a certain segment of the transgender population, life has become much, much better — but for a large, large, large percentage of trans people, it’s still quite difficult for them to go forward with their lives and it’s a daily struggle.”

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