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ABOVE: Hundreds of balloons were released Sunday afternoon in front of the Withrow Gospel Mission in honour of Catie, Jana and Dara Bott who passed a week ago in a farming accident.

Attendees of the balloon release prayed together before releasing their balloons to the sound of local musicians strumming ‘Amazing Grace’.

BELOW: The rumble of over 300 hundred motorcycles could be heard on 50th Ave. in Eckville on Saturday afternoon as a memorial ride in support of the Bott family who lost their three daughters last week. The motorcycles rode from Red Deer to Rocky Mountain House, passing by the Bott family farm in Withrow before their final stop at the Eckville Credit Union where they made a substantial donation to the trust the credit union has set up in support of the family.

OTTAWA — Canada’s extraordinarily long 78-day election campaign that culminates Monday was always going to be one for the record books.

Stephen Harper aspires to become the first prime minister since Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1908 to win four consecutive mandates.

Tom Mulcair still hopes to take the official Opposition NDP over the top to form the first federal New TRUDEAU UNDER FIRE A5 Democratic government in the country’s history.

And the Liberals are hoping to make an unprecedented leap from third-party status to government, while reinstalling a Trudeau at 24 Sussex Drive for the first time since Pierre Elliott Trudeau stepped down in 1984 after almost 16 years in office.

Add in the 11-week length of the battle — the longest since the election of 1872 — and a per-party spending limit of a staggering $54 million (far and away the highest ever) and all the ingredients were present for an epic confrontation. Still, what transpired over the campaign’s final weekend is eye-popping. There was tough-on-crime Harper with his drug-demonizing campaign strategy holding a Saturday night rally in Toronto with former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, the world’s most celebrated crack addict of 2014, just as new revelations were published detailing Ford’s bizarre and disturbing behaviour while in office. And there was Justin Trudeau, scion of the late Pierre and his hated national energy program, spending the final day of the race in Edmonton and Calgary while making an electoral pitch to Quebecers and all but trolling Harper’s old Alberta-based grassroots.

“It’s a message I’m proud to deliver here with a big smile as a Liberal, as a Trudeau and as a Quebecer,” Trudeau, 43, told a lively rally in Edmonton before moving on to an even bigger event in Harper’s adopted hometown of Calgary. “People in Quebec need to know that Alberta matters, that our country needs Alberta to succeed,” Trudeau said in English and French.

“But so too do Quebecers need to be reminded that our country needs them to engage, too.”

During a media availability in Calgary, Trudeau made his appeal for national unity in more tangible terms: “I will never use western resources to try to buy eastern votes.”

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Hargrove’s 49 day journey comes to a close HUGGINZ HIGHWAY

BY SUSAN ZIELISNKI ADVOCATE STAFF Curtis Hargrove expected to reach Ellen DeGeneres’ Hollywood studio on Sunday after a 49-day run from Port Alberni, B.C. The former Red Deer College student’s 2,400-km journey — Hugginz Highway — was all about delivering a letter and a handmade blanket from his friend Angel Magnussen to the TV host.

Magnussen, a 19-year-old with down syndrome and autism, is the creator of the non-profit Hugginz

By Angel.

She sews blankets, pillows and knits soft hats and donates them to sick children and children with special needs in hospital.

Magnussen also wants to invite DeGeneres to come to her sewing studio in Port Alberni to help make a blanket.

“It will be seven weeks as of Sunday on the road.

We haven’t had any drastic changes or anything major happen. Just a couple of injuries along the way,” said Hargrove on Saturday from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

He did not know if anyone would be at the studio on Sunday, but Los Angles police advised him it would be a good day to run since there would be less traffic on the roads.

“If no one is there and I can’t give her the blanket I will just go Monday and hope for the

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An episode of the show is scheduled to be taped Monday and he hoped that social media messages would alert studio staff of his arrival and they would welcome him.

“I just want to get the blanket in Ellen’s hands,” said Hargrove, 26, of Cold Lake.

“I want the world to know who Angel is, what she does for kids and fighting her own battles as well.

She deserves to get that five minutes to have Ellen sit there and make a blanket with her.”

Hargrove met Magnussen a few years ago as a result of their volunteer activities, and has been running about 50 km a day to reach Los Angeles.

Back in Central Alberta, Deb Hrywkiw, 53, of Red Deer, is also trying to help Magnussen. She is planning to visit Magnussen in November and spend an afternoon sewing, and by bringing a huge supply of fabric.

“I have been following (Magnussen) on Facebook. It just amazes me. I sew and I just can’t believe what she does. Even when she’s super sick, she’s in the hospital sewing,” Hrywkiw said.

Hrywkiw, who works at Costco, is collecting donations of cotton or flannel fabric, at least one metre is size.

Her goal is to collect 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of fabric.

Hyrwkiw can be contacted at debhry@gmail.com.

For more information on the run visit facebook. com/chargrove15 or www.hugginzhighway.com.

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Curtis Hargrove poses for a photo in Hollywood Sunday.

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Red Deer readers interested in Station Eleven

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The novel Station Eleven has left its mark on Red Deer.

The city’s first community-wide book club — Red Deer Reads — announced its literary choice in May and since then the book has been borrowed 640 times from Red Deer Public Library.

That doesn’t include 360 copies that were given away throughout the summer.

Candice Putnam, Timberlands branch manager and chair of the Red Deer Reads committee, said that level of interest tells her residents were well aware of the book club and eager to participate.

“It’s just so great to see so many people in our community come together through a shared reading experience. Like any good book club it doesn’t matter whether you love it, or hate it, or fall somewhere in between.

The point is that it gets people talking and gives Red Deerians a great opportunity to connect with others in the community,” Putnam said.

Many also want to meet Station Eleven author Emily St. John Mandel who will be in Red Deer for a reading and discussion about her book on Oct. 27 at Welikoklad Event Centre.

As of last week only about 20 out of 260 tickets remained available for the event. Tickets are free, but required, and can be picked up at Red Deer library branches, or by calling 403-3464576.

Station Eleven follows the adventures of a travelling theatre company in a post-apocalyptic North America after most of the human population is wiped out by a virus.

The novel was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction literature in Britain.

Red Deer College philosophy instructor Guillermo Barron, who led a Philosopher’s Cafe on the book as part of Red Deer Reads, said the fragility

of our technological society is clear in Station Eleven.

“I really got involved with the stories of people living in the present time. They use cellphones. They jet all over the place. They have problems in their relationships. They have problems with their professional careers.

Then you fast forward 20 years and people are really having a hard time surviving this post-apocalyptic nightmare scenario,” Barron said.

He said people often like to reminisce fondly about what they perceive to be ‘the good old days.’ In Station Eleven, the years before the virus were unquestionably better days. But how useful are historical relics that a society leaves behind when those who exist are just trying to survive.

“How much can the past teach us?”

Barron asked.

Christina Wilson, Red Deer Public Library CEO, said she doesn’t like science fiction, but Station Eleven is a real treat.

“I started reading it and I just ate it up. It’s not what I expected. It really opened up my mind,” Wilson said.

She said it gave her an appreciation of life as it exists. And from an environmental point of view, it was interesting to read a book where civilization basically disappears, but earth survives.

“There’s sadness. For sure, you experience it. But the world is still good place,” Wilson said.

A variety of Red Deer Reads events have been held since September to get people thinking about and discussing the book, as well as activities relating to the book, like scenes from King Lear performed by Prime Stock Theatre at the book club’s launch party. A performance of King Lear features prominently in the book.

A graphic novel plays an important role in the book so Station Eleven cartoon sessions were held for adults and children.

On Monday, a disaster preparedness clinic will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Timberlands library branch.

Book displays filled with free cop-

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ELECTION: Message Trudeau, who ended his day in the B.C. riding that was held by his maternal grandfather James Sinclair for 18 years in the 1940s and ’50s, was the only leader to take reporters’ questions Sunday.

If Trudeau’s message was an attempt to bring the country together under a Liberal banner, Harper was flying the flag of fiscal conservatism.

“Voting Conservative means this — no money, no money comes out of your pocket of middle-class Canadians, no money comes out to pay for the tax hikes and the deficits of the Liberal party,” an angry and energized Harper said in Newmarket, Ont. At a later whistle stop in Regina as Harper flew west to B.C., the prime minister warned that a Liberal victory would tear down everything his Conservatives have achieved.

“Today at the federal level, taxes are at their lowest level since John Diefenbaker was the prime minister, their lowest in over 50 years,” said Harper, before promising more tax cuts.

“The other guys want to take us back to the days where they could get their hands on as much money as possible and spend it on bureaucracy and special interests. We have been building a Canada over the past few years that they do not like.”

In downtown Toronto, Mulcair was left invoking the name of Jack Layton on the late NDP leader’s old turf in a last-chance bid to restore New Democrat hopes.

What began Aug. 2 as a tight, three-way race with the NDP in the lead and Liberals trailing appeared to flip on its axis in the final week, with Trudeau’s Liberals surfing into election day on a rising wave of public opinion and the New Democrats a distant

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Red Deer Public Library CEO Christina Wilson with a display in the library highlighting the Red Deer Reads community-wide book club now under way in Red Deer. A number of events have been planned to involve the public and get people reading the book Station Eleven by author Emily St. John Mandel. ies of Station Eleven were set up at the Red Deer Museum, Red Deer Airport, Collicutt Centre and Red Deer College to encourage people who might not visit the library to grab a copy and pass it on to others.

Putnam said people have overwhelmingly preferred the paper format at the library. Of the 640 people

third in every public opinion poll.

“We’re going to get it done,” Mulcair maintained at a rally in one of the hotly contested downtown Toronto ridings that remain two-way, NDP-Liberal battles.

Mulcair spent the final few days of the campaign furiously kicking up dust over Liberal transgressions.

The resignation of Liberal campaign co-chairman Dan Gagnier, forced to step down Wednesday after The Canadian Press revealed that he was providing strategic advice to TransCanada over the Energy East Pipeline, provided the NDP with a late chance to tarnish Trudeau’s halo.

But an even bigger cloud ballooned on Sunday, when Benjamin Perrin, a former lawyer in the Prime Minister’s Office who was called as a witness at the fraud, bribery and breach of trust trial of Sen. Mike Duffy, publicly stated: “The current government has lost its moral authority to govern.”

Perrin’s intervention on the final day of the campaign served to reprise its opening stanza in August, when the ongoing Duffy trial dogged Harper for two weeks.

Bookended between a corruption trial and the campaign’s wild finish were debates over Syrian refugees, niqabs, “barbaric cultural practices,” a massive new trade pact with Pacific rim countries, deficits versus surpluses, pensions, taxation, child care and public infrastructure.

When Parliament was dissolved for the election, the Conservatives had 159 seats in the 308-seat House of Commons, the NDP had 95 and the Liberals 36.

Thirty new seats have been added this election, including 15 in Ontario, bringing the total to 338 and upping the number of seats needed for a bare majority to 170.

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who borrowed the book, 594 read the paperback, 30 read the e-book version, 10 listened to the e-audio book, and six borrowed the audio book.

Copies of Station Eleven are still available at the library.

“It’s not too late. It’s a quick read.

You won’t be able to put it down,” Putnam said.

ELECTIONS CANADA PREPARES FOR HEAVY VOTER TURNOUT IN TODAY’S ELECTION OTTAWA — Elections Canada is making preparations to cope with what the agency expects will be a heavy voter turnout for Monday’s election.

The agency says returning officers in individual ridings can either add additional staff to count advance poll ballots or if extra workers aren’t available, the vote count can start before the polls actually close.

Elections Canada says in ridings where there is an early count, officials and witnesses present won’t be able to leave and others won’t be able to enter the room before the counting session ends.

The agency is preparing for contingencies because of the higher turnout for advance polls last weekend.

Some 3.6 million ballots were cast over a four day period — an increase of 71 per cent over advance ballots in the 2011 election, when only three days of advance polls were held.

Elections Canada says because of the higher number of advance ballots to be counted and the potential of a busy voter traffic on election day, it is authorizing the measures to ensure results are known in a timely manner.

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Cost of funding IVF in Quebec a cautionary tale

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Michelle Beagle of Rimbey, put on her brightest outfit and tried her hand at glow-in-the-dark juggling prior to the Run with Heart Glow Run Saturday evening in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The run, put on by the Running Room, saw about 150 people sport glowsticks and flashing lights as they ran either a 5k or 10k course that began at the corner of 19th Street and Gaetz Ave. and wound through the city’s trail systems.

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Woman in critical condition after car crash launches engine into house VANCOUVER — A woman is in hospital with significant injuries after the car she was driving crashed into a tree in East Vancouver Sunday morning.

Police say the 20-year-old driver was travelling north on Knight Street (at East 33 Ave.) when she lost control of the vehicle shortly after 5 a.m.

The force of the impact dislodged the vehicle’s engine and sent it careening into a nearby home.

No one in the residence was injured.

Vancouver fire and rescue service extracted the woman from the wreckage before paramedics took her away for treatment.

The cause of the crash has not been determined.

Manitoba RCMP in chase before head-on crash that killed university student WINNIPEG — A unit that investigates serious incidents involving police is looking for witnesses to a fatal crash that happened after Manitoba RCMP called off a chase of a suspected drunk driver.

Taylor Renwick, who was 20, died Oct. 9 near St. Claude when her vehicle was hit head-on by another vehicle travelling at a high speed.

Mounties say before the crash, they got a call about a suspected drunk driver in Notre Dame.

They spotted the suspect vehicle and tried to stop it, but it sped off.

Police pursued, but then stopped due to the high speeds and danger to the public.

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says a semi-truck may have been in the area when the crash occurred and is asking anyone with information to call police.

The suspect was originally listed in critical condition, but his injuries are now listed as non-life threatening.

According to the last update from the RCMP on Oct. 13, blood alcohol results are still pending, and no charges have been laid.

Winnipeg home care workers reject tentative contract those outside city vote yes WINNIPEG — More than 2,100 home-care workers employed by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority have rejected a tentative contract.

Another 2,500 home-care workers outside the city and about 100 other health authority employees in related jobs voted separately to accept the offer.

Michelle Gawronsky, president of the Manitoba Government and General Employees Union, said Winnipeg workers are upset over scheduling problems and feel their supervisors discount their observations and suggestions for improving client care.

She said Winnipeg staff also didn’t like the proposed wage increases — one per cent in each of the first two

years, two per cent for years three and four and 2.5 per cent for the fifth year of the deal.

The workers — who help seniors remain in their homes — have been without a contract since April 2013.

The proposed deal also didn’t address a controversial sick-day policy in which workers aren’t paid for the first two days they book off sick.

So the choice is staying home and losing pay or going to work sick and potentially passing on an illness to an elderly person with a weak immune system, Gawronsky said.

“They very much feel that they just don’t count in the workplace,” Gawronsky said.

Gawronsky said the union has informed the premier’s office and the government’s labour relations secretariat about the contract vote and the need to continue bargaining.

The Winnipeg employees have yet to take a strike vote, and the union is hoping to avoid job action, she said.

The Winnipeg health authority said it will be returning to the bargaining table with the union as soon as possible to resolve outstanding issues.

“It is important to the WRHA that all employees, including the direct service workers that provide home care services to the residents of Winnipeg, feel supported in and respected for the work they do,” spokeswoman Bronwyn Penner Holigroski said

Ticket sold in Ontario claims record $64 million Lotto 649 jackpot TORONTO — If you happened to buy your ticket for last night’s Lotto 649 draw at an outlet in Mississauga, Ont., you should really check your numbers — you could be very wealthy.

A single winning ticket for the 64$ million grand prize — the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian lottery history — was sold in the community just west of Toronto.

There’s no word yet wether it belongs to a single person or to a group of people. A guaranteed prize of $1 million was also offered in last night’s draw, and it went to a ticket holder in Quebec. The previous Canadian lottery record was $63.4-million for a 6-49 draw in April, 2013.

That pot was split among four ticketholders, who each banked nearly $16-million. As lottery fever gripped Canada ahead of last night’s draw convenience stores and lottery kiosks across the country were jammed with customers dreaming of striking it rich

Animal seizure leads to guilty pleas by B.C. mom and daughter in cruelty case VANCOUVER — Two women from Houston, B.C., have been sentenced after pleading guilty in an animal cruelty case involving more than 100 animals. Karin Adams and her daughter Catherine Adams were investigated after the SPCA seized the animals from their property in August 2014.

Constables seized 18 horses, 18 dogs, 15 birds, two cats and 104 fish, finding them malnourished and kept in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions.

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TORONTO — The cost to Quebec achieve egg retrieval and one-at-a-time taxpayers for a single baby born to a transfer of all viable embryos to allow woman aged 40 and older ranges from for the possibility of multiple chancalmost $45,000 to more than $100,000 es for pregnancy. Women age 42 and under the province’s publicly funded under are eligible for coverage, which IVF program, a study has found. begins in December.

And while no live births were reMeanwhile, the Quebec government corded for women age 44, the mean is poised to overhaul its program uncost of failed in-vitro fertilization der Bill 20, which would remove most among this age group hit almost IVF coverage from the provinces’s $600,000. health coverage.

Those findings, say researchers, Bill 20 would cap the eligibility for represent a cautionary tale for any oth- IVF at age 42. Women older than that er jurisdiction considering whether to would have to pay for the assisted refund a similar program. production procedure out of their own In 2010, Quebec became the first pockets. jurisdiction in North America to cover Under the proposed legislation, the costs of IVF for couples unable to women who qualify for IVF would be conceive on their own. The program offered tax credits based on family funds three cycles of the procedure income. Those with an annual family — stimulating ovulation, egg retrieval income of less than $50,000 would reand embryo transfer — that results in ceive an 80 per cent tax credit to cover a live birth. the cost of treatment, while those with The actual cost is higher: the pro- higher earnings could receive a credit gram does not reimburse patients for as low as 20 per cent. medications needed for IVF, which While clearly expensive for Quetypically run between $3,000 and $5,000 bec’s public purse — IVF coverage per cycle and are often paid for by pri- was initially budgeted at $30 million vate insurance. a year, but had hit $70 million by 2013 In all, 246 babies were born to wom- — it did manage to achieve one of its en 40-plus during the 2010-2012 study major goals. In part, the program was period, said lead researcher Dr. Neal aimed at reducing the number of mulMahutte, medical director of the Mon- tiple-fetus pregnancies from transfertreal Fertility Centre. ring more than one embryo at a time Researchers found that each live in the hope of producing a singleton birth achieved through IVF for wom- birth. That’s because twin, triplet and en aged 40, and using their own eggs, other multiple pregnancies often recost the government $43,153, a figure sult in premature and underdeveloped that increased exponentially with age, newborns whose fragile health can be reaching almost $104,000 for 43-year- costly for the already overburdened olds. In contrast, IVF treatment that health system — initially for neonatal resulted in a live newborn for women intensive care and sometimes due to under age 35 averaged $17,919, say the lifelong medical conditions. researchers, whose study will be preA second study to be presented sented Monday at the American Soci- Monday at the ASRM meeting found ety for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Quebec’s IVF program met its goal of annual meeting in Baltimore. reducing the multiple birth rate to less Because the Quebec government than 10 per cent of all IVF deliveries didn’t put an upper age limit on its — down from 25 per cent before the program, older women whose progno- program began. sis for conception even with IVF con“The first incomplete year of the tinues to diminish with each birthday program, it goes down to 13.1 per cent, are also eligible for funding. then it goes down to 9.5 per cent the “So you had an first full year of the awful lot of patients program,” said lead “YOU HAD PATIENTS WHO in Quebec who acresearcher Dr. MiWOULD REPETITIVELY tually underwent chael Dahan, a fertilimore than three ty specialist at McGill CYCLE BECAUSE THEY HAD egg retrievals, and University’s Reproparticularly in your BASICALLY EVERYTHING TO ductive Centre.

42-year-old and older Provincial health patients, where they GAIN AND NOTHING TO LOSE records show there have high cycle-canBY TRYING AGAIN.” were just over 1,000 cellation rates, they IVF babies born per can have high rates LEAD RESEARCHER DR. NEAL MAHUTTE, year before public of having a retrievfunding, a number al but no egg, or an that jumped by 64 egg that doesn’t fertilize or nothing to per cent to 1,723 in the first full year of transfer,” Mahutte said. the program, while births from sponta“You had patients who would re- neous conceptions continued to hover petitively cycle because they had basi- around 84,000 each year. cally everything to gain and nothing to Pre-program, there were 218 multilose by trying again.” ple births resulting from IVF treatment Mahutte said there’s a clear rela- in the year coverage was instituted that tionship between the live birth rate figure fell by 60 per cent to 165 in the per IVF cycle start and a woman’s age. first year after, said Dahan.

“And because the live birth rate “Even though more IVF is being doper cycle start goes down quite sub- ne and more babies are being born, stantially at age 40 and above, funding the number of multiple births is going those cycles comes at a very substan- down.” tial financial cost to the public,” he Yet despite that drop, the study told a media telebriefing. found the proportion of women admit“So our conclusion was that any gov- ted to hospital after becoming pregnant ernment that’s planning to introduce through IVF rose each year after the public funding should be aware of this program’s introduction. relationship and should at least con“We thought because the multiple sider age eligibility criteria in order to pregnancy rate dropped so substantialmaximize return on their investment.” ly that we would see a decreased rate Ontario recently announced it will in the antepartum (pre-delivery) admisbegin funding one cycle of IVF to sion. In fact, we did not,” said Dahan.

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Grits ran daring but effective campaign After weeks of stagnation, the final shore up the party’s base, it does little days of this marathon election cam- to attract new supporters. The most paign are telling the tale of three par- recent polls suggest it might even be ties — and it is a vastly different story repelling swing voters. for all three.

Harper has tried to stay The desperate Conservaabove the fray, assuming a tives, fading in the polls to “prime ministerial” posture the unlikely Liberals, have during debates. It now apgone for the political equivpears that the stand-backalent of football’s ‘Hail while-others-smear apMary’ pass. They’ve amped proach wasn’t fooling anyup the negative with new one. ads that accuse the Grits of The Liberals’ Trudeau wanting to legalize prostihas played his response tution, open brothels and well, staying positive as the make it easier to sell mariguy who wants to take the juana to children. high road. With a swelling Presenting distorted public appetite for change, DOUG half-truths as fact is a biTrudeau appears to have FIRBY zarre and foolish move for tapped into the zeitgeist the incumbent party, which of voters who were unhapOPINION has built its campaign py with the status quo and around the abstract (trade were open to an alternative agreements, the economy) and by bash- — orange or red. ing its opponents (Justin Trudeau: I will confess that I, like many, dis“just not ready”). missed Trudeau as a lightweight going It might have seemed like a smart into this campaign. Turns out we were strategy going into the campaign but all wrong; he may be inexperienced, it has not played as well as the Con- but he has grown in both substance servatives had hoped. It fact, it may be and confidence as the campaign probackfiring. gressed.

Stephen Harper, who many conTrudeau’s Liberals ran the most sider to be an introvert, struggles daring of the three campaigns, probato show empathy; the ads have rein- bly because they had so little to lose. forced the notion that his party is more Relegated to a third-party rump after mean-spirited than Canadians see the catastrophic 2011 election under themselves. While negative ads may leader Michael Ignatieff, the party was

given its last rites by many pundits.

And so, Trudeau and the Liberals gambled. The party positioned itself as the modern, progressive alternative — in favour of legalized pot, not afraid of running deficits and showing authentic empathy for the disadvantaged, including refugees. Although Trudeau was at times mocked by his opponents, recent polls suggest the differentiation gamble is paying off.

The loser in this last-minute voter shifts is the NDP. Thomas Mulcair moved the party so close to the centre, the faithful barely recognized it. That allowed the Liberals to grab swing voters on the left. Mulcair’s middle ground strategy might have also seemed sound at the beginning of the campaign, but it has failed the test of time.

The NDP leader also had some bad luck on his side. He faced the daunting challenge of trying to hold on to the remarkable gains his party had made in Quebec under its former leader, the late Jack Layton. The party’s principled pro-niqab stance put it at odds with the majority of voters, there; an opportunity the Conservatives exploited to their gain.

Election campaigns, like all blood sports, are no simple thing to orchestrate. The victorious party is the one that rises above the campaign noise and identifies what is truly resonating with the voters.

Part of the brilliance for the Liberals this time around been focusing on policy — which, in fairness, is what the Conservatives have done for 10 years.

Parties need to be certain their positions are consistent with the party’s brand, and don’t bend with the winds of the latest polling results. The Conservatives enjoyed nearly a decade of success by doing just that; this time around, the Liberals seem to have rediscovered an old lesson.

Principles may also be what has led to Mulcair’s undoing in this campaign.

If you are going to lose ground, however, you are much better to have done so by holding firm to a sense of who you are. A leader who does otherwise is little better than Netflix’s House of Cards’ slimy president, Frank Underwood.

The three federal parties all knew they had a chance of gaining, or holding on to power, going into this contest.

To their credit, they laid out three distinct visions of how the country would be governed, and that alone served voters well by giving them real alternatives to choose from.

The best strategy is to know what you stand for and then look for the people who get excited by your ideas.

Even those who take this course and fail can find solace in knowing the real winner is democracy itself.

Doug Firby is Editor-in-Chief of Troy Media and National Affairs columnist.

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We need to vote for values that make Canada great When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the shootings, rampant racism and politicians who reject early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is to- science and, apparently, rational thought. day. Women and minorities couldn’t vote, Canada isn’t perfect, but if we want nor could Indigenous people who had to continue down a progressive path we lived here from time immemorial. In 1942, must talk about the real challenges facing the government took away my Canadiour country, including maintaining and an-born family’s property and rights and strengthening our respect for diversity. sent us to an internment camp in the B.C. This election should also be about our Interior simply because of our ancestry. response to the greatest threat humanCanada has come a long way in my lifeity faces, climate change, and the many time. Women can vote, as can Asians, othways we can confront it by moving to a er minorities and Indigenous people. Hoclean-energy future that will benefit our mosexuality is no longer a crime punishhealth, well-being and economy. able by imprisonment, as it was until 1969.

We should be talking about the chalWe’ve learned to take better care of each lenges faced by First Nations, Inuit and other through rational social programs Metis people, many of whom don’t have DAVID like universal health care, welfare and access to clean drinking water and who SUZUKI unemployment insurance, and a culture are still overcoming the effects of the sysof tolerance for the many people from SCIENCE MATTERS temic racism perpetrated in residential diverse backgrounds who contribute so schools. We should be talking about ethmuch to our peace and prosperity — many ics, the Senate, corruption and the ways of whom came here as refugees or immigrants seek- in which our political leaders communicate — or ing better lives. not — to us. We should be talking about trade deals, Because of my family background and all I’ve wit- endangered species, protecting water resources, our nessed, I take democracy and voting seriously. That’s responsibilities to the rest of the world and so much why I’m dismayed to see the current federal election more. descend into a divisive discourse that reminds me of Instead, this election has bogged down into “dead all we’ve worked to overcome. cat” distractions like niqabs, an issue that affects alCanada is the envy of the world, thanks to our di- most no one! Many people see the niqab as a symbol verse population and the politicians from all parties of women’s oppression, but this isn’t about protectwho have steered us on a course of increasing toler- ing women’s rights. Whether or not we agree with the ance and acceptance. Despite our differences, we’ve custom of wearing niqabs — or burkas or turbans or built a country that has avoided much of the insanity beards, or the Christian fundamentalist belief that afflicting our neighbours to the south, such as mass women should submit to their husbands — our Con-

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A5 Trudeau under fire in final sprint

MONDAY, OCT. 19, 2015

FEDERAL ELECTION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair took aim at Justin Trudeau as federal election campaign entered its final sprint.

At a boisterous rally in Laval, Que., the Conservative leader said his Liberal rival was in charge of a party that has deficits in its DNA, and warned that change for the sake of change would hurt the economy.

Harper accused Trudeau’s Liberals of “running on a platform that would spend an additional $150 billion that would be financed by cutting benefits we actually have, raising taxes, and running deficits, which means more benefit cuts and more raising taxes later.”

Harper appeared to acknowledge polls that show Trudeau’s Liberals leading in the campaign.

“I have to confess that I know the temptation for change might be strong.

After all, we change cars, houses even jobs —and sometimes it’s the right decision. But to imperil your financial future and that of your family, that’s another matter,” he said.

Harper also told his Quebec audience that one of the “worst examples of the public mismanagement of funds” was the sponsorship scandal involving Liberal-linked advertising firms in the province.

In British Columbia, Mulcair linked the Liberal sponsorship scandal to the revelation this week that Dan Gagnier, Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS a member of Trudeau’s inner circle, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Olympia Theatre in Montreal on Sunday. offered lobbying advice on an energy project. voter — gets left behind.” friends and allies.

“The wolf is just waiting for the gate scandal Saturday in Sept-Iles, Quebec.

With polls suggesting the Liberals “We won’t always agree on He said the Gagnier controversy to swing open to the sheep fold,” he shows the Liberal party hasn’t “hasn’t have been leading, Trudeau found everything, obviously … but we do said. “So changed its himself being asked about what he need to be able to talk openly and we shall “I HAVE TO CONFESS THAT I KNOW THE s h e n a n i - would do in the initial days of his responsibly together, which Mr. fight until gans” since mandate should he become prime Harper has been unable to do for the Monday to TEMPTATION FOR CHANGE MIGHT BE last 10 years.” the sponsor- minister. ensure that He offered little new information, In a blog posting Saturday, Green STRONG. AFTER ALL, WE CHANGE CARS, ship scandal except the people when it came to which foreign Leader Elizabeth May made an appeal era. responsiHOUSES EVEN JOBS —AND SOMETIMES against strategic voting that would C a m - leaders he might reach out to first. ble for the “ O v e r 1 0 y e a r s , M r . H a r p e r push support towards Liberal or NDP p a i g n i n g IT’S THE RIGHT DECISION. BUT TO IMPERIL sponsorship in the Mar- has soured our most important candidates in certain ridings. scandal — YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE AND THAT “I can only assume our friends i t i m e s , international relationship with the Liberal the United States,” Trudeau said. do not understand that a Green MP Trudeau exOF YOUR FAMILY, THAT’S ANOTHER party — nev“I look forward to speaking with will vote with Liberals or NDPers on horted his er take powMATTER.” followers to President Obama if I earn Canadians’ confidence motions, making them an er by formget out the trust on Monday to talk about the equally effective anti-Harper MP,” she ing the first —STEPHEN HARPER vote on Mon- kinds of challenges we’re facing on our wrote.

NDP govern“In fact, Greens are more effective day to push continent.” ment in the Specifically, he mentioned the idea in this respect since we prize coHarper out history of Canada.” of efficient trade over a secure border operation above partisanship, so you Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Du- of 24 Sussex once and for all. He told and more generally, improving the can trust us to put Canada’s interests them to ensure that “no vote — and no ceppe also raised the sponsorship relationship between two important above political gains.”

Man arrested in Wilfrid Laurier online threat has been charged: police

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Uber offers a free ride to and from polling stations for first-time customers TORONTO — Uber is offering new users free rides to and from polling stations on Election Day in the cities where it operates.

A representative from Uber says the company will cover rides to the polling station and back again, for first-time customers only, up to $15 each way.

Uber says the offer will be available in Edmonton, Calgary, the Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa, London, Hamilton, the Waterloo Region, Quebec City and Montreal.

The ride-hailing app has been embroiled in controversy since it initially launched in Canada last year.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say three people are in custody after a police officer was shot Friday night in Brampton, Ont. Peel Region police are asking the public’s help in locating a fourth suspect in the shooting that landed a police officer and a civilian in hospital.

Police say the officer was responding to a 911 call when someone opened fire into the cruiser.

They say numerous shots were fired, and one hit the officer.

Family Services of Central Alberta They say the officer is in the hospital in stable condition.

A male civilian who was shot at the scene prior to the officer’s arrival was taken to hospital in critical condition.

The civilian’s condition has since stabilized, poLook at lice say. what we do: Police have searched the area on land and by helicopter, but say the Toy Drop In fourth and final suspect Triple P Lending Play has escaped.

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man, said Saturday. He said there were few people on campus at the time of the lockdown, which lasted nearly six hours.

A spokesperson for Waterloo police says that because the threat came from the U.K., London police have jurisdiction.

Waterloo police compared Friday’s threat to a warning posted before a shooting earlier this month at an Oregon college that left 10 people, includ-

ing the shooter, dead.

A photo shared on Twitter showed a post that featured an image of a frog holding a gun and read: “Don’t go to laurier science building hall tomorrow. happening thread will be posted in the morning.”

A post that preceded the Oregon shooting read: “Don’t go to school if you are in the northwest. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning.”

Taxi companies say it is an unfair competitor.

wastewater would be “acutely toxic.”

The three scientists have until Nov. 2 to complete their analysis, which will include assessing environmental risk and looking at alternative options.

The city had planned to close a major sewer to do maintenance work until Ottawa ordered a temporary halt to the project last week.

Montreal’s mayor has described the federal actions as unreasonable and inappropriate and has said delaying the project could cause bigger problems.

In a letter sent to Aglukkaq on Friday, he noted the federal Environment Department has been aware of the city’s plan since September, 2014.

Ottawa appoints trio of scientists to study Montreal sewage dump plan MONTREAL — A federally-appointed panel of scientists will study Montreal’s plan to dump eight billion litres of sewage into the St. Lawrence river.

Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq made the announcement on Sunday.

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Police in London, England have charged a man who allegedly posted an online threat against Wilfrid Laurier University.

The man was arrested in London on Friday, and the charge laid Saturday.

The 22-year-old man, identified by police as Daniel Ransem, will appear in court Monday.

He faces a charge of malicious communications.

The U.K.’s Malicious Communications Act makes it illegal for anyone to send a threat with the intent to cause distress or anxiety.

The man’s connection to Wilfrid Laurier, if one exists, is unknown.

“I think that knowing that there wasn’t a local threat will be a comfort to students and staff,” Kevin Crowley, a Wilfrid Laurier University spokes-

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Glut of awareness ribbons ‘problematic:’ expert

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Nearly 25 years since the red ribbon became the global symbol of AIDS awareness, countless other organizations have followed the rainbow in highlighting their causes through colour.

Pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness and white ribbons in support of anti-violence also emerged in the 1990s and became internationally recognized symbols.

But as the years have progressed, awareness ribbon campaigns have expanded into the dozens, with every shade in the colour wheel linked to multiple movements.

For instance, purple ribbons are affiliated with a number of different health conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, lupus and pancreatic and thyroid cancers.

While completing her book Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness, author Sarah Moore said she realized “the saturation point had been reached” for awareness ribbons.

“I started talking to younger people who had perhaps come to ribbons a little later and haven’t necessarily witnessed the rise of the red ribbon and pink ribbon in the early ’90s. And these things had become pretty fully fashion accessories,” said Moore, a sociology lecturer at the University of Bath.

“It was really striking the fact that a really significant number of people … couldn’t actually tell me the cause that their ribbon related to,” she added.

“They were more likely to be able to remember where they bought it than

the cause it represented — and that was extraordinary…. I think it’s problematic. It’s a crowded marketplace now if you’re launching a ribbon.”

White Ribbon communications manager Clay Jones said the namesake symbol is a vital, visible tool for the organization, which promotes gender equality and ending violence against women and girls.

Jones said individuals are encouraged to make and sell their own white ribbons to donate funds to a women’s shelter or a local anti-violence organization.

They can also be purchased from White Ribbon for 20 cents apiece as a way to help fund educational materials for the organization, he added.

“I think getting the message out that way, it’s a bit more passive, but it’s definitely worth it,” Jones said of the white ribbon.

Still, he acknowledged that the organization is aware the market is “saturated with ribbon campaigns.”

“We’re keeping the name because of the equity and stock in it but just passing out ribbons is just one small piece of what we actually do.”

MJ DeCoteau is founder and executive director at Rethink Breast Cancer, which targets a younger audience in an effort to raise awareness about the disease.

DeCoteau said both the pink hue and the ribbon have been helpful as an “instant way to communicate” the cause, but noted that additional efforts — such as the use of social media and videos on YouTube — are critical in helping to effect change.

“It’s not just all been solved by putting on a pink ribbon and feeling like: ‘I’m raising awareness, I’m engaged in

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A woman puts on a white ribbon during an anti-violence against women to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in Montreal. Nearly 25 years since the red ribbon became the global symbol of AIDS awareness, countless other organizations have followed the rainbow in highlighting their causes through colour. the cause.’ It’s a passive way of being engaged,” she said.

“It’s a helpful signifier, but it’s really important that we don’t allow our so-

ciety to get complacent and think that raising awareness is enough. We need to take action. We need to educate and empower people.”

New veterans policies broke federal rules: advocate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — In their rush to placate disgruntled veterans in the runup to Monday’s election, the Conservative government broke federal Treasury Board rules that require public consultation on new measures, says an advocate for ex-soldiers.

Regulations putting in motion new benefits for the most critically-injured soldiers were posted in the Canada Gazette on July 16, just a few weeks before the federal call.

According to treasury board guidelines, the regulations should have been put out for public comment before being finalized, says Sean Bruyea, who fought a high-profile court battle with the government after his private medical reports were spread around the veterans department.

He says the government likely skipped the step because it appears the new measures are restrictive and probably won’t help as many people as expected.

The rules flesh out details of legislation passed as part of the government’s last federal budget omnibus budget bill, which cleared the House of Commons in June.

A spokeswoman for Veterans Affairs says cabinet has the power to exempt some proposals from consultation, but Janice Summerby did not confirm whether that happened in the case of the new benefits. She did say there was outreach to advocacy groups at a regularly scheduled meeting at the end of May on one important aspect the legislation, namely a $70,000 critical injury benefit.

“Feedback received was generally positive,” she said in an email re-

sponse. The veterans department “has further committed to providing additional information and to answering questions on these regulatory changes at regular meetings with stakeholder groups.”

In general Summerby says the government’s overhaul was based on suggestions from difference sources, including the veteran’s ombudsman.

Whether that meets the standard for public consultation under federal rules is unclear. Based upon his review of the regulation and a crunching of publicly available veterans affairs data, Bruyea estimates the government’s changes will affect as few as 1,238 veterans and family members over 10 years.

Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole introduced a series of measures last spring to address frustration and unrest among former soldiers, a

crucial Conservative voting block. The changes included a new retirement security income benefit, a family caregiver benefit, improvements to support for reservist and the critical injury program.

Bruyea says no one in the veterans community asked for the $70,000 Critical Injury Benefit, a tax-free lump sum award for soldiers injured in the line of duty, and contends it is not based on any “scientific research, best practices, stakeholder input or even common sense.”

Bruyea also says the rules for the benefit are so restrictive that only an estimated 112 soldiers will qualify retroactively and the program is only for physical injuries, not post-traumatic stress. They were “politically-designed programs to meant provide minimal care at minimal cost with maximum PR impact,” he said.

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Rebels end road trip with a win

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 6 Giants 4 VANCOUVER — The big guns started firing Saturday and the Red Deer Rebels concluded their four-game WHL road trip with a break-even 6-4 win over the Vancouver Giants.

“You kind of figured it was just going to be a matter of time,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, in reference to the impressive offensive production from key veteran forwards Conner Bleackley and Wyatt Johnson, who combined to collect six points.

In fact, the line of Bleackley, Johnson and Lane Pederson erupted for nine points. And Brandon Hagel, who rotated in and out of the forward unit, contributed another three points with a goal and two helpers.

“Between Bleacks, Johny, Pedey and Brandon … they all had big nights,” said Sutter. “But we need that. We need scoring from different guys and last night their line, with Brandon included from time to time, was hot.”

Indeed, Pederson tallied twice and assisted on Johnson’s lone marker, and Bleackley — selected as the game’s first star — helped set up three goals.

The Rebels roared out to a 2-0 first-period lead while outshooting their hosts 19-3 before a crowd of 4,311 at Pacific Coliseum.

Johnson and Colton Bobyk supplied the opening-period goals and Hagel upped the count to 3-0 at 7:11 of the second period.

The Giants replied 45 seconds later when Jakob Stukel beat Rebels goalie Trevor Martin, pulled to within one when Jackson Houck connected during a power play at 12:27 of the final frame and drew even on a goal from Carter Popoff at 15:12.

That set up a wild finish, as Pederson restored the Rebels’ lead at 15:34, Ty Ronning responded for the Giants at 15:49 and Red Deer got the winner from Haydn Fleury at 17:37 and sealed the deal with Pederson’s second of the evening — an empty-netter — at 19:47.

“When you’re playing your fourth game in five nights you always worry about the third period of your last game,” said Sutter. “It wasn’t an easy day for the guys. We packed up and got away from the rink (in Victoria, where the Rebels beat the Royals 3-1 Friday night) and got on the ferry at 1 p.m. to go across to Vancouver.

“The players had only 45 minutes on the bus to get some rest between the ferry and (Pacific Coliseum).

But they handled it well.

“The first period was the best first period we’ve played all year, it evened out in the second and I thought we looked somewhat tired in the third. I knew Vancouver would make a push then and they tied it up twice in the last seven to eight minutes.

But our guys stayed with it and we got a couple of big goals after that. They didn’t get in a panic mode and that’s a credit to the kids.”

The Friday/Saturday triumphs were huge considering the Rebels opened the jaunt with losses at Kamloops and Kelowna, where they fell 5-4 despite outshooting the host Rockets 34-27.

“We got behind the eight-ball with those two losses,” said Sutter. “We got what we deserved in Kamloops but we deserved better in Kelowna.

“We had a mindset heading into the last two games that we would treat them like playoff games and try and tie the series and get back to .500 for the trip.”

Martin finished with 19 saves while recording his first win of the season. The Rebels fired 32 shots at Giants stopper Payton Lee. The Rebels were slated to engage in a brief skate today at the Centrium and will get back to their regular practice schedule Tuesday to prepare for a home-ice date with the Saskatoon Blades Wednesday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Edmonton Oilers Taylor Hall (4) skates with the puck against the Vancouver Canucks during the first period of an NHL game in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday. The oilers beat the Canucks 2-1 in overtime.

Oilers take down rivals with pair of weekend wins

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 2 Canucks 1 OT VANCOUVER — The Edmonton Oilers are starting to feel good about themselves.

Lauri Korpikoski scored on a breakaway at 1:46 of 3-on-3 overtime Sunday as the Oilers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 2-1.

After dropping the season’s first four games, Edmonton has now won two straight on the road following a 5-2 victory against the Calgary Flames on Saturday.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do,” said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan. “But we have guys believing now in each other and perhaps in the system.”

Nail Yakupov scored in regulation for Edmonton (2-4-0), while backup goalie Anders Nilsson was stellar in making 33 saves in his second start.

“It’s really nice. It feels great,” said Oilers forward Connor McDavid, who assisted on Yakupov’s opener. “These are big points, divisional game. These are the ones that add up later on.”

Korpikoski’s winner was his second of the season and beat Canucks goalie Ryan Miller through the pads on a shot that just dribbled over the goal line after to some end-to-end action in the extra period.

“It’s really easy to lose a guy and it’s a breakaway or some missed coverage and they get a chance,” Korpikoski said of the

new OT rules. “It’s fun when you have the puck, but not so much when you don’t.”

Matt Bartkowski scored in regulation for Vancouver (3-1-2), which got 22 saves from Miller and fell to 0-1-2 at home.

“We probably deserved more” said Miller. “We had some good looks. We just couldn’t find the back of the net.”

Tied 1-1 through 40 minutes, Canucks forward Daniel Sedin was left shaking his head early in the third period after somehow chipping a puck that was lying in the crease over the Oilers’ goal with Nilsson down and out following a great stop on a Henrik Sedin breakaway seconds earlier.

“It happened so quick. I tried to tap it in and it bounced over,” said Daniel Sedin. “It’s tough. It’s one of those games. We played well enough to win.”

The Oilers were equally stunned at the miss, which will likely find its way onto some top10 blooper lists in years to come.

“It’s a break we needed,” said McLellan. “You don’t get those often. That could be the only true break we get in a long, long time … but at least we took advantage of it.”

Edmonton opened the scoring at 3:23 of the first period on the power play after some excellent work from McDavid. The No. 1 pick at June’s draft, who had two goals and an assist in Calgary, picked up the puck in the neutral zone and stepped around a check

before feeding Yakupov for his second of the season.

Vancouver tied it at 15:43 when Bartkowski scored his first regular-season goal in the NHL. Playing in his 138th game, the defenceman fired a shot from the point that nicked an Edmonton player on the way through and found its way past Nilsson.

The Canucks entered Sunday 8-2-0 against the Oilers over the clubs’ last 10 meetings, including a perfect 5-0-0 record last season, and had plenty of chances to grab the lead in the second period.

Daniel Sedin had two opportunities, Brandon Sutter sent a backhand wide, and Sven Baertschi saw his breakaway stopped by Nilsson.

Miller had to be sharp at the other end with about eight minutes to go in the period, stopping Korpikoski on back-to-back opportunities from in close, but he wouldn’t be denied in overtime.

“We won games different ways,” said McLellan. “(Saturday) night I thought we were the better team. I’m not sure we were the better team (Sunday), but we found a way.”

Notes: Edmonton opens a threegame homestand Wednesday against the Detroit Red Wings. …

Vancouver continues its five-game homestand Thursday against the Washington Capitals. … Bartkowski’s only other goal came in Game 7 of the Boston Bruins’ memorable first-round series with the Toronto Maple Leafs back in 2013.

Jays look to erase another 2-0 deficit going home in ALCS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays aren’t letting themselves get fazed by a 2-0 deficit in a post-season series.

They dealt with one just last week.

Down 2-0 to Texas in the American League Division Series, the Blue Jays rallied to win the next three games of the best-of-five set and advance to the AL Championship Series. Now, after dropping the first two games of the best-of-seven ALCS in Kansas City this weekend, they’re back in that familiar hole.

Any comeback this time will have to come against a tough Royals team that finished the regular season with an American League-best 95-67 record.

But the Blue Jays are up for that challenge.

“We’ve played from behind before,” second baseman Ryan Goins said at a workout day at Rogers Centre on Sunday. “Playing from behind in a fivegame series is different than playing from behind in a seven-game series.

We have more life than we had last time. It’ll be fun and I think we’ll get back in this series.”

“We seem to play a lot better when we’re down 2-0, I think,” added first baseman Chris Colabello. “You just go out and play the game. Whether or not we won or lost (Game 2 on Saturday), we’re still going to go out and figure out a way to win the game.”

Game 3, scheduled for Monday night at Rogers Centre, is the first of potentially three consecutive games at the Toronto stadium where the Blue Jays enjoyed a 53-28 record during the regular season.

The familiar artificial turf, the retractable roof, and of course, the loud Toronto fan base all help give the Blue Jays a true sense of home-field advantage.

“Any time we can play at home we’re comfortable here,” said centre-fielder Kevin Pillar.

“We love the support we get, we love the enthusiasm, we love how loud it is. … We’re excited. It’s always nice to be home for a couple days, sleep in your own bed, have our families in town, get back into our routine of doing things we like to do when we’re home.”

None of that will matter if the Blue Jays’ bats fail to get anything going against Kansas City ace and Game 3 starter Johnny Cueto.

Cueto, who was acquired by the Royals in a deadline trade with Cincinnati, went 4-7 with a 4.76 earnedrun average through 13 regular-season starts for Kansas City. But he was dialed in for the Royals’ Game 5, ALDS-clinching win over Houston last week, giving up just two runs on two hits and striking out eight over eight solid innings.

“He’s one of the best in baseball,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said.

“They focused on him in the trade deadline as one of their prime targets and they went out and got him for these type of games. … He’s another one of those guys that can overpower you. When he’s on, he’s awful tough.”

Toronto will counter with its own hard-throwing right-hander — 24-yearold Marcus Stroman.

Stroman, pitching in just his seventh game of the year after tearing his ACL during spring training, has come

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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin misses the throw to home plate as Kansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer, right, comes in to score during the seventh inning in Game 2 of baseball’s American League Championship Series, Saturday, in Kansas City, Mo. The Blue Jays lost the game 6-3 and now the series shifts to Toronto with the Blue Jays down 2-0. up huge for the Blue Jays already this post-season.

While he doesn’t have a victory to show for either of his two starts — including an impressive performance in the decisive Game 5 of the ALDS — Stroman held the Rangers to six runs (five earned) and struck out nine Texas batters over 13 innings.

He also seems to thrive in high-pressure situations like the one he’ll head into on Monday.

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“This is fun,” Stroman said, flashing a bright smile. “This is what you dream about when you’re a young kid growing up. I’m happy to be in this position. I want to be the one to have the ball in these games.

“That’s what all the preparation and all the hard work is to be able to take the ball and go out in pressure situations. And I feed off the energy of the crowd and my teammates and I’m looking forward to being out there.”

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B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Oct. 19, 2015

Chiefs get off to a good start

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Chiefs 3 Oil Kings 2 The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs haven’t necessarily bolted out of the starting gate, but they’re clearly on a successful path a mere six games into the season.

“We’re happy with our start, for sure,” Chiefs head coach Brandin Cote said Sunday, following a 3-2 win over the visiting Leduc Oil Kings that improved the Red Deer squad to 4-1-1 on the season, good for first place in the South Division of the Alberta Midget Hockey League.

“That was one of our goals, to get off to a good start to the season. Like I’ve said all along, we’re not a fancy team but we don’t have to be to be successful in this league. It’s just a matter of committing to doing the right things all the time.”

Josh Tarzwell netted the winner Sunday, catching the far top corner of the net from the left faceoff circle with 2:33 remaining in the third period.

Parker Smyth and Matt Froehlick also scored for the Chiefs, who outshot their guests 36-29 while getting a 27-save outing from Justin Travis.

The Chiefs gave up a late goal and settled for a 2-2 draw with visiting Edmonton Gregg Distributors Saturday. Smyth and Josh McNeil tallied for the hosts and Dawson Weatherill stopped 29 shots.

“This weekend, to be honest, we probably didn’t have our A game either game,” said Cote. “I thought we played a lot better as a collective group last weekend. But at the end of the day we found a way to get the job done and yesterday we were 28 seconds away from getting two points.”

Cote expects more closely-contested outings as the season progresses.

“We’ve had a lot of close, one-goal games that we’re going to get used to and that’s OK with me because that’s the way it’s going to be down the stretch,” said the coach. “So the more we can do that now and get that under our belts, the better it’s going to be.

“But at the same time we’d like to create a bit more offensively and finish off some of our opportunities and make it a little easier on ourselves.

Overall, for the most part, I’m happy with the efforts we’re getting so far.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tyrees Goodrunning of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs fends off Anthony Cuglietta of the Edmonton Canadians during Saturday afternoon Midget AAA action at the Red Deer Arena. The teams ended the game tied 2-2.

Murphy leads Mets past Arrieta and Cubs to take 2-0 series lead NLCS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mets 4 Cubs 1 NEW YORK — Say this for Daniel Murphy and the New York Mets: They have their October formula down and are sticking with it.

Murphy homered off yet another ace to provide an early cushion for Noah Syndergaard, and the Mets breezed past Jake Arrieta the Chicago Cubs 4-1 Sunday night for a 2-0 lead in a surprisingly one-sided NL Championship Series.

Power, pitching, plus some dazzling defence — just like the Amazin’ Mets of 1969.

“We’ve beaten some of the best the game has to offer,” Mets captain David Wright said.

Baseball’s most dominant pitcher since the All-Star break, Arrieta had not even settled in when Murphy homered for the fourth straight game, a two-run drive just inside the right-field pole in a three-run first inning.

“We’re having a whole bunch of fun right now,” said Murphy, who homered in the first inning for the second straight game and seems to have a reserved star-of-thegame seat in the interview room.

Given the quick lead on a chilly night, Syndergaard kept the bats of Chicago’s young sluggers on ice with shutout ball into the sixth.

Curtis Granderson robbed Chris Coghlan of a likely home run with a leaping grab at the centre-field wall, swiped a pair of bases and scored two runs for the Mets.

After beating Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Jon Lester and Arrieta, the Mets are two wins from reaching their first World Series since 2000.

New York starts NL Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. Rookie left-hander Steven Matz is set for Game 4, followed by Game 1 winner Matt Harvey on Thursday, if needed.

“They don’t have the credentials that Kershaw and Greinke and Lester and Arrieta have, but they’re going to be good pitchers,” Mets manager Terry Collins said.

“We think we can stack up with anybody.”

Chicago goes with Kyle Hendricks in Game 3. If the long-downtrodden Cubs are to reach the World Series for the first time since 1945, they must

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Chicago Cubs’ Chris Coghlan makes a leaping catch of a ball hit by New York Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes during the sixth inning of Game 2 of the National League baseball championship series Sunday, in New York. first force the best-of-seven NLCS back to Citi Field next weekend.

“We’re all about one-game winning streaks,” Chicago manager Joe Maddon said. “I know it’s psychobabble 101, but it actually works.”

After homering off Kershaw, Greinke and Lester, Murphy added his fifth home run of the post-season, giving him eight RBIs in seven games. He’s one from matching Carlos Beltran’s record of homering in five straight post-season games.

“He’s about as locked in as I’ve seen a hitter,” Wright said.

Long, blond locks flowing out the back of his cap, Syndergaard seems to be taking on a bit of Harvey’s cockiness.

He gained the nickname Thor — the Norse god known for fierce storms — after he tweeted a photo of himself in costume doing squats on Halloween two years ago.

Ahead of his start against the Cubs, Syndergaard changed the photo atop his Twitter page to a shot featuring lightning striking Chicago’s famous Willis Tower.

Having made the first relief appearance of his big league career in Game 5 against the Dodgers,

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE The Bentley Generals opened their Chinook Hockey League regular season Sunday night with a balanced 10-2 thumping of the host Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs.

The Gens got a goal from each of 10 players — Alex Macleod, Chance Lund, Dan Gendur, Jordan Ped-

OLDS GRIZZLYS OLDS — Wyatt Noskey’s power-play goal at 9:29 of the third period secured a 4-2 Alberta Junior Hockey League win for the Olds Grizzlys over the Fort Mc-

Syndergaard came out throwing darts at up to 99 mph until the sixth, when Dexter Fowler singled and scored on Kris Byrant’s twoout double off the left-field wall.

“It makes pitching a lot more easy when you go out there and offence puts a three-spot on one of the best pitchers in the game right now,” Syndergaard said.

Jon Niese came in and struck out Anthony Rizzo. Chicago didn’t advance another runner past first.

Syndergaard allowed three hits, struck out nine and walked one. Jeurys Familia’s fourth post-season save finished a five-pitcher five-hitter and sent the Cubs to consecutive losses for the first time since they dropped three in a row from Sept. 23-26.

Arrieta had not lost since July 25.

It was 45 degrees at game time with an 18 mph northwest wind.

Some players wore balaclavas that covered their faces, including Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who played on his 30th birthday.

Arrieta, who wore short sleeves, had not given up a first-inning run in 25 consecutive starts since May 29. With his velocity down slightly, he found himself trailing after nine pitches and down 3-0 after 13.

dle, Scott Doucet, Kyle Bailey, Colton Hayes, Teegan Moore, Kyle Sheen and Jesse Todd.

On Saturday, the Innisfail Eagles travelled north and dropped a 6-3 decision to the Stony Plain Eagles.

Pete Vandermeer scored twice for the visitors, who got an additional goal from Andrew Bergmann, who also picked up a pair of assists.

Innisfail netminder Alex Sirard made 24 saves.

Travis Yonkman stopped 33 shots at the other end.

Murray Oil Barons Saturday.

Goals from Ryley Smith and Jack Goranson gave the Grizzlys a 2-0 lead after one period and Tristan Thompson tallied in the middle frame. Logan Franz and Landon Welykholowa scored second- and third-period goals for the Barons in front of 501 fans at the Sportsplex.

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP Minor midget AAA The Red Deer North Star Chiefs rolled to a pair of weekend wins, downing the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes 4-2 and defeating the host Calgary Gold 3-1.

Zachary Zaparniuk, Hayden Clayton, Loclyn Kabatoff and Kody Wold tallied in the win over Lethbridge, which held a 35-32 advantage in shots. North Star netminder Justin Verveda made 33 saves.

In the win over the Gold, Brayden Laturnus turned aside 26 shots and Zaparniuk, Landon Leipnitz and Keaton Sawicki supplied the goals.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs dropped their lone weekend contest, 3-1 to the visiting Calgary Stampeders.

Elijah Johanson netted Strata’s lone goal and Duncan Hughes made 27 saves.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels, with Griffen Ryden and Deegan Moffard each scoring twice and adding an assist, downed host Spruce Grove 5-1.

Brendan McBride also scored for the winners, while Bretton Park made 34 saves. Red Deer held a 38-35 edge in shots.

The Rebels also managed a 2-2 tie with the visiting Airdrie Xtreme, their goals coming off the sticks of Payton Wright and Josh Zinger. Park made 31 saves for Red Deer and each team had 33 shots on net.

Major midget girls Kirsten Baumgardt potted the lone goal for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs in a 4-1 loss to the visiting Spruce Grove Saints.

Mackenzie Fairbrother-Skinner and Bailey Knapp combined to make 21 saves for the Chiefs.

Major bantam girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs garnered a pair of weekend wins over the Southeast Tigers at Vauxhall.

Paige Dodd, Avery Lajeunesse, Brooke Litwinski and Dylan Norrie scored in a 4-1 win. Chantelle Sandquist made 15 saves as the Chiefs outshot their hosts 20-16.

Scoring for Sutter Fund in a 6-3 victory were Norrie, Lajeunesse. Emma Hoppins, Madison Rutz, Emma Dixon and Kelli-Rai Sieben.

Madison McLaren made 14 saves for Red Deer, which held a 30-17 advantage in shots.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Red Deer Vipers, with Drew Joslin and Colton Weseen each sniping a pair of goals, recorded a 5-3 Heritage Junior Hockey League win over the host Medicine Hat Cubs Saturday night.

Nick Glackin accounted for the other Red Deer goal, while winning netminder Rylan Bardick made 28 saves. The Vipers, who led 1-0 and 3-1 by periods, directed 56 shots at Cubs goalie Cole Schafer.

In a Sunday contest, the visiting Coaldale Copperheads edged the Blackfalds Wranglers 7-6. Details were unavailable.

In other Heritage weekend games: • The Stettler Lightning dropped a pair of onegoal home-ice decisions, falling 5-4 to the Strathmore Wheatland Kings and 2-1 to the Banff Academy Bears.

Matt Johannson, Derek Muhlbach, Chandler Knibb and Dylan Houston scored against the Kings, while losing netminder Taylor McLaughlin made 21 saves. The Lightning outshot their guests 33-26.

McLaughlin turned aside 37 shots in a losing effort versus the Bears. Muhlbach’s second-period goal was the only one surrendered by Banff goaltender Jacob Anthony, who made 31 saves.

• The Three Hills Thrashers split a pair of road contests, dowing the High River Flyers 2-1 and losing 4-3 in overtime to Coaldale.

Cody Phillips and Rylan Plante-Crough tallied for the Thrashers at High River, where made Greg Pols made 32 saves for the win. Three Hills was zero-for-10 on the power play while holding a 39-33 edge in shots.

The Thrashers blew a 3-0 lead at Coaldale, giving up the final four goals of the game including an overtime marker. Donavon Teichroeb, with two goals, and Tom Vanderlinde scored for the visitors, who got a 41-save performance from Pols while being outshot 44-23.

Winning netminder Kurtis Chapman made 23 saves and Ravi Dattani blocked 26 shots for the visitors. Olds was three-for-five on the power play while the Oil Barons were one-for-five.

The Grizzlys host the Camrose Kodiaks Tuesday at 7 p.m,

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RDC powers past Medicine Hat College RDC VOLLEYBALL

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 3 Rattlers 1 When Nic Dubinsky arrived at RDC last season he automatically gave the volleyball Kings depth and experience.

The only negative was that the former all-star with Lethbridge arrived at Christmas along with Regan Fathers and it was tough for them to feel completely comfortable while on the court.

This year is a different situation with Dubinsky and Fathers with the Kings from the start of the season.

“It’s great to get the preseason work in, to work on the little things we didn’t get an opportunity to do last year,” said Dubinsky, who was outstanding as the Kings downed the Medicine Hat Rattlers 25-17, 25-20, 16-25, 25-20 in Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball league action at RDC Saturday afternoon.

“I know I get to work with Luke (setter Brisbane) more and feel comfortable with the speed of the sets and get a chance to get the systems down pat.”

Dubinsky was the player of the match Saturday with 19 kills and four stuff blocks. He not only is a power on the right side but one of the team leaders.

“A little bit and that comes with age and experience,” he said. “I’m in my fifth-year, like Tim (Finnigan) was last year. He was a vocal leader and I hope to be that. But overall we have a good core of leaders … guys who are very solid and good to have out there.”

The only real change from last season is in the middle with newcomers Ty Moorman and Tom Lyon, although both have CIS experience.

“It’s nice to have that experience and strength in the middle, it makes my job easier,” said Dubinsky. “If the middle is successful and a threat then their middle has to stay with him and it means there will be only one blocker and it opens things up on the outside for me. That’s an advantage.”

The Kings weren’t perfect as they

took both ends of a weekend doubleheader from the Rattlers, but there were a lot of positives.

“There were some hiccups, which we expect to see this early in the season, but there was some brilliance as well,” said Dubinsky. “We just need to play at a consistent level and we’ll be good to go.”

Fathjers added 10 kills, Brisbane had 40 assists, two blocks, an ace and a kill, Kashtin De Souza seven kills and three blocks, Lyon seven kills, an ace and a block and Moorman three kills and three blocks. Isak Helland-Hansen finished with eight aces to go with seven kills.

Queens 3 Rattlers 1 Queens head coach Talbot Walton went with practically a whole new lineup from the one that won 3-1 on Friday over the Rattlers. Only middle blocker Taylor Wickson and libero Olivier Barnes started both matches.

“We have so much balance in practice so we feel good no matter who starts. It was a matter of them settling in and finding something that was comfortable for one another. Most of that group played together in the Wild Rose and were familiar with each other.”

The Queens opened with a solid 2516 victory before slipping and losing 21-25. They recorded an impressive 25-7 win before finishing it off with a 32-30 victory. Twice in the extra time the Queens fell behind by a point, but showed their strenght by fighting back.

“After 24 we didn’t flinch,” said Walton. “We executed, which was good for our experience.”

Walton did insert veteran Kelsey Tymkow in late in the fourth set and she was outstanding on defence, as was rookie Jessica Jones from Australia.

Jones made pass after pass in key situations and also chipped in with a couple of kills. She was the player of the match with seven kills, a block, four aces and 18 digs.

Walton feels he has the depth this season to use a number of lineups and knows that allowing everyone to play,

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Ty Moorman of the RDC Kings blocks a hit made by Medicine Hat College Rattler Alfred Dalevik during ACAC volleyball action Saturday afternoon. The Kings defeated Medicine Hat 3-1. and contribute, will only benefit the team.

“We have so many new faces and others from other programs it’s a process in changing the way they think.

They need the time on the court to get used to the Queens culture and these close games will only help us and help them learn along the way. I know just in the last week I see a huge improvement.”

Wickson finished with 11 kills and

two blocks while setter Maegan Kuzyk had 31 assists. Middle Whitney Zylstra had four kills and four blocks, McKenna Barthel six kills and two aces and Lauren Marshall six kills.

The RDC teams are off next weekend and return home Nov. 7 against SAIT. Danny Rose is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

Kings inch towards playoffs with win over Lakeland RDC SOCCER

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 2 Rustlers 1 LLOYDMINSTER – The RDC Kings took a major step toward grabbing a playoff berth in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Soccer League South Division with a 2-1 win over the Lakeland Rustlers Saturday afternoon.

The win moved the Kings into a tie with the Rustlers for third place in the division with a 4-4 record with two games remaining. The Kings defeated Lakeland twice to have an advantage in case of a tie.

The Kings need to win at least one of their final two matches at home — Saturday against Medicine Hat and Sunday against Lethbridge — to make

the post season.

The Kings never trailed Saturday with Alex Brezovan giving them a 1-0 lead midway through the first half as he split the defence and picked the top corner.

A defensive miscue allowed the Rustlers to tie the game in the second half, but six minutes later Julius Abegar notched the winner.

“We had a game plan that the players executed very well, especially in the first half,” said Kings head coach Steve Fullarton.

“They have the biggest field in the league and we knew we would see plenty of the ball so we had to use the field wisely to prevent them counter attacking.

‘It was important for us to transition very quickly with the field being so wide.”

The Kings actually replicated the wider field at practice on Thursday.

“We looked at our options and fortu-

nately we got it right. The players were fantastic. It was a great effort considering we were missing Andre Jevne and Yenner Teah with suspensions.

“We have it all to play for next weekend.”

Queens 2 Rustlers 1 Meanwhile the Queens also pulled off a 2-1 victory on goals by Sydney Daines, her eighth of the season, and Nicole Friedl, who was the RDC player of the match.

“On a field that was as wide as it was long we had our fitness and fortitude put to the test,” said Queens head coach Dave Colley. “We proved ourselves worthy of our first-place standings by passing both tests with flying colours.”

After creating four or five chances early in the first half the Queens were awarded a free kick at the top of the box. Kaitlin D’Arcy lofted a curling cross to the back post which Daines

headed in.

The Queens continued to dominate play but the half ended 1-0.

The Rustlers changed strategies in the second half, pushing three players forward to match the RDC defence.

The Queens bolstered their defence by bringing a midfielder back.

However a mix up in the centre gave Lakeland the tying goal. But instead of feeling sorry for themselves the Queens picked up the pace which resulted in a number of excellent scoring opportunities, before Friedl finally converted when she took a perfect feed from Daines in the box, moved around the goaltender and picked the corner.

“A win next weekend and we will be confirmed as South Division champions, so there is a lot to play for,” said Colley.

The Queens sit six points up on Medicine Hat, who have a game in hand.

Nesbitt snags second place for RDC at cross-country meet in Camrose RDC ROUNDUP CAMROSE — RDC cross-country running coach Jodi Nesbitt settled for second place in an Alberta Colleges meet during the weekend, posting a time of 18 minutes, 55 seconds in the women’s five-kilometre race.

Nesbitt crossed the finish line eight seconds after winner Vanessa Tofimenkoff of Grant MacEwan University.

“The level of competition for this meet was unusually high,” said RDC head coach Brian Stackhouse, in reference to the inclusion of two university teams — Alberta and Grant MacEwan — plus competitors from the Running Room Athletic Club in Edmonton. “It’s valuable experience for ACAC’s top runners.”

The RDC women’s contingent placed third in the ACAC team standings, while the men’s team finished fourth.

RINGETTE The Central Alberta U19AA Sting battled back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat the Edmonton Elite U19AA squad 5-4 in weekend ringette play.

Gillian Dreger netted a pair of goals

SWIMMING CALGARY — Red Deer Catalina Swim Club members posted six topthree placings in the University of Calgary Fall Start Up meet Saturday.

Elle Couture led the way with a runner-up finish in each of the 50-metre

MEN’S BASKETBALL Gerald Lamigo netted 14 points Sunday to lead the Alkin Basin Drillers to a 63-59 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Rusty Chuckers.

Riley McLean and Wyatt Saari each scored 11 for the winners, while Neff

Top 60 RDC individual results: Women: 24. Jordanna Cota (fourth among ACAC runners, 20:58); 36. Amy Severtson (seventh among ACAC runners, 21:51; 50. Samanta Debree (19 among ACAC runners, 22:54); 60. Jalene Dease (27th among ACAC runners, 22:54).

Men (eight km): 31. Andrew Jacobs (ninth among ACAC runners, 30:16); 55.

Nolan Dyck (19th among ACAC runners, 33:37).

• FORT MCMURRAY — The RDC hockey Kings completed a weekend sweep of the host Keyano Huskies with a 1-0 win Saturday.

Defenceman Tanner Butler’s power-play goal midway through the second period stood up as the winner.

Kraymer Barnstable made 26 saves for the shutout as the Kings were outshot 26-23.

The clubs split 14 minor penaties and the Huskies were assessed the lone misconduct.

On Friday, the Kings did all their for the winners and Ashlynn Morrison, Brenna Parent and Keara Thomas each pitched in with one.

Meanwhile, the Central Alberta U14 AA Sting were dumped 9-4 by the St. Alberta Mission, getting two goals from Sydney Schnoor and singles from Julia Dawes and Carly Cherniak. freestyle and 50m breaststroke events, while Lauren Bettenson placed second in the 100m backstroke and third in the 100m breast, Jaden DeBruijn was third in the 50m back and Laina Powell finished third in the 50m breast.

In addition, Hayden Bettenson qualified for the Age Group Trials in her 100m individual medley events.

Nazavea had 15 for the Chuckers.

Meanwhile, Andre Touchette dropped in 11 points to help the Triple A Batteries down the Silver Spurs 4643. Josh Matthews scored 10 in a losing cause.

In another contest, Jon and Dave McComish scored 17 and 15 points respectively as Wells Furniture defeated Bulldog Scrap Metal 62-52. Byron Morin netted 15 for Bulldog.

damage in the second period while recording a 5-1 victory.

Scoring for the winners were Tyler Berkholtz, Mike Statchuk, Regan Wilton, Riley Simpson, who along with Berkholtz and David Heath also added two assists, and Pat Martens.

The Kings were one-for-four on the power play while getting a 37-save ef-

fort from Mike Salmon. Keyano outshot RDC 38-24.

• EDMONTON — Jace Petrie notched the lone goal for the RDC hockey Queens in a 3-1 loss to Grant MacEwan Saturday.

Jen West stopped 27 shots for the Queens, who host the SAIT Trojans Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Oct. 19, 2015

Grillo makes big putt to win opener PGA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPA, Calif. — Given another chance, Emiliano Grillo was determined not to let this one get away.

Seven months after he missed a 3-foot putt that cost him a victory in the Puerto Rico Open and a PGA Tour card, Grillo stood over a 3-foot putt to win the Frys.com Open in a playoff Sunday and was shocked to see it spin out of the left side of the cup.

“It was a very tough time coming back to the tee,” Grillo said.

Moment later, he threw his arms in the air after making a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to beat Kevin Na and win in his rookie debut on the PGA Tour. What really made the 23-year-old Argentine light up was one thought. He’s going to the Masters.

“It means everything,” Grillo said.

“They’ve said the word ‘Masters’ twice today. You see this?”

He pointed to a smile that was brighter than the silver trophy sitting next to him on the table.

Grillo made a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th in regulation for a 3-under 69 to post at 15-under 273. Na got up-and-down from right of the 18th green and made birdie from 6 feet for a 70 to force a playoff.

The Argentine looked like a sure winner until missing the 3-footer, which brought back such dark memories of Puerto Rico that he said he had nightmares for a week.

The next mistake belonged to Na. From the 18th fairway on the second extra hole, he tried to hit driver off the deck and hooked it behind a tree, which made it difficult for him to keep his third shot on the green. Na made bogey, and Grillo only had to two-putt for the victory.

Na said he has been hitting driver off the tight fairway grass all week without any trouble. He told Golf Channel right after it was over that maybe the darkening sky or the ball slightly above his feet caused him to hook it. Na, who earned $648,000, declined to come to the media room to speak to reporters.

Grillo sure had a debut to remember.

On Saturday, he didn’t realize the group was still on the green at the

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Emiliano Grillo, of Argentina, reacts on the 18th green of the Silverado Resort North Course after winning the Frys.com golf tournament Sunday, in Napa, Calif. Grillo won the tournament on the second playoff hole. reachable 17th hole and his tee shot narrowly hit Rory McIlroy on the fly.

“I didn’t want to be the guy who almost hit Rory McIlroy this week,” Grillo said. “Kind of wanted to have this trophy and everybody know me because I have the trophy, and not because I almost hit him.”

Along with the trophy, he added to what is already known as the “Class of 2011” — a high school graduating class that includes Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Patrick Rodgers, Ollie Schniederjans and Daniel Berger, who was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year.

Spieth tweeted out his name and added “first of many wins! Cool seeing the 11s always playing great.”

One of those ’11s nearly joined Grillo in the playoff.

Thomas closed with a 69 and narrowly missed a 30-foot birdie on the

final hole to finish one shot out of the playoff. So did Jason Bohn (70) and Tyrone Van Aswegen of South Africa, who birdied who of his last three holes for a 68.

Bohn missed a 15-foot birdie on the last hole, but it was a mistake earlier that really cost him.

He was leading at 15 under and was just inside 50 yards from the hole on the par-5 16th hole when he chunked a wedge. His next wedge slid 8 feet by the hole and he missed the par putt to drop a shot on the second-easiest hole at Silverado on Sunday.

“I was fairly focused on 16 where I just kind of laid the sod over it and chunked it,” Bohn said. “There’s times when you think that — trust me — when you’re out there, ‘Oh, don’t chunk this one.’ But this wasn’t one of those times. Kind of rattled me a little bit.

To make a bogey from 40 yards short of the green is pretty unacceptable when you’re trying to win a golf tournament.”

But then, just about everyone could look back at lost chances.

Nine players had at least a share of the lead at some point during a final round at Silverado that was up for grabs until the very end. It started with Brendan Steele, who was trying to go wire-to-wire and was still in position until he hit a poor fairway bunker shot on No. 12. Steele made five bogeys over the next six holes and closed with a 76.

Justin Rose was tied for the lead at the turn and was poised to rely on his experience until he missed a 3-foot par putt at No. 12 and dropped two more shots coming for a 72. He wound up three shots out of the playoff.

Patriots down Colts to stay undefeated NFL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PATRIOTS 34 COLTS 27 INDIANAPOLIS — Tom Brady threw for 312 yards and three touchdowns and New England took advantage of a botched fake punt in the Patriots’ 34-27 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night.

The Patriots improved to 5-0 for the first time since 2007. It was the first meeting between the rivals since the “Deflategate” storm erupted after the AFC title game in January.

For a half, the teams traded jabs.

But New England seized control in the second half.

Brady’s 25-yard touchdown pass to Rob Gronkowksi gave New England a 27-21 lead. And when the Patriots stopped the Colts (3-3) on an odd-looking and ill-advised fake punt, the scrambling Brady eventually found LeGarrette Blount for an 11-yard scoring pass that made it 34-21.

Andrew Luck was 30 of 50 for 312 yards and three touchdowns in his first game back from an injured right shoulder.

BENGALS 34, BILLS 21 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Andy Dalton threw three touchdown passes and Cincinnati beat Buffalo to improve to 6-0 and match the best start in franchise history.

With star receiver A.J. Green covered much of the game, Dalton completed touchdown passes to Marvin Jones, Tyler Eifert and Jeremy Hill. Dalton finished 22 of 33 for 243 yards for Cincinnati, which was also 6-0 to start the 1975 and ‘88 seasons.

The Bengals broke the game open by scoring 17 points on their first three second-half possessions to build a 34-14 lead.

The Bills (3-3) were undone by injuries and several penalties that allowed the Bengals to enjoy an average drive start of midfield in the first half.

BRONCOS 26, BROWNS 23, OT CLEVELAND (AP) — Peyton Manning shook off three interceptions and drove Denver in range for Brandon McManus’ 34-yard field goal with 4:56 left in overtime.

Manning took the Broncos from their own 12 to Cleveland’s 16 before McManus kicked his game-winner to make Denver 6-0 for the seventh time in franchise history. The Broncos only rallied thanks to their top-ranked defence, which came up big in overtime.

After Manning’s third pick, Denver recorded two sacks to push the Browns (2-4) out of field-goal range.

PACKERS 27, CHARGERS 20 GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay stopped San Diego on fourth-and-goal from the 3 with 15 seconds left and overcame a career day by Philip Rivers to hold off the Chargers.

Rivers set career highs with 43 completions, 65 attempts and 503 yards passing. He threw for two touchdowns for the Chargers (2-4). But he needed one more completion.

Rookie cornerback Damarious Randall lunged to poke away Rivers’ short pass to Danny Woodhead near the front right pylon in the final seconds.

The fans inside Lambeau Field erupted with a collective sigh of relief. Green Bay (6-0) survived its biggest scare of the year to stay unbeaten.

The Packers started strong and finished barely in front. Running back James Starks had touchdowns on a 65-yard run and a 5-yard pass in the first quarter.

LIONS 37, BEARS 34, OT DETROIT (AP) — A win, finally. Matt Prater kicked a 27-yard field goal with 2:29 left in overtime, and Detroit won for the first time this season.

Matthew Stafford heaved a 57-yard pass to Calvin Johnson to set up the kick for the Lions (1-5). Johnson finished with six receptions for 166 yards.

The Bears (2-4) had chances for a third straight

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski (87) pushes away from Indianapolis Colts free safety Dwight Lowery (33) on his way to a touchdown in the second half of an NFL football game in Indianapolis, Sunday. comeback win.

Chicago’s Robbie Gould kicked a 29-yard field goal as time expired in regulation. The tying score was set up by Darius Slay getting called for interference after Jay Cutler’s 25- and 24-yard passes to Alshon Jeffery.

PANTHERS 27, SEAHAWKS 23 SEATTLE (AP) — Cam Newton threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Greg Olsen with 32 seconds left and Carolina remained unbeaten, rallying for a stunning win over Seattle.

Newton led the Panthers (5-0) to touchdowns on their final two possessions after trailing 23-14, the second straight week the Seahawks collapsed in the fourth quarter. Newton found Olsen wide open down the seam as All-Pros Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman looked at each other in confusion.

Newton was 12 of 15 for 162 yards in the fourth quarter and threw for 269 yards overall. He led the Panthers on a pair of 80-yard touchdown drives in the final period as the Panthers improved to 5-0 for the second time in franchise history.

It was the second straight week the Seahawks (2-4) suffered a late defensive meltdown.

STEELERS 25, CARDINALS 13 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Landry Jones threw two touchdown passes to Martavis Bryant in relief of Michael Vick and Pittsburgh rallied for the win.

Vick left in the third quarter with a hamstring injury and Pittsburgh’s offence took off when Jones took over. Jones hit Bryant for an 8-yard score to give the Steelers (4-2) the lead. The two hooked up later for an 88-yard strike.

Jones completed 8 of 12 passes for 168 yards and the two scores. Bryant caught six passes for 137 yards in his first action of the season.

Carson Palmer threw for 421 yards with a TD and two interceptions. John Brown caught 10 balls for 196 yards for the Cardinals (4-2).

VIKINGS 16, CHIEFS 10 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Despite an erratic performance by Terry Bridgewater, Minnesota’s tough defence and rookie wide receiver Stefon Diggs came

through over mistake-prone Kansas City.

Alex Smith’s 42-yard touchdown pass to Albert Wilson midway through the fourth quarter pulled the Chiefs within three points, but the Vikings (3-2) played well enough early to survive their ragged finish.

The Chiefs (1-5) had eight penalties for 95 yards.

Diggs had 129 yards on seven catches. Bridgewater threw two interceptions. Adrian Peterson, who was on the sideline late in the game with the Vikings trying to put it away, finished with 60 yards on 26 carries.

49ERS 25, RAVENS 20 SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Colin Kaepernick completed a 76-yard touchdown pass to ex-Ravens star Torrey Smith, Joe Flacco threw two interceptions and San Francisco beat Baltimore to snap a four-game losing streak.

Phil Dawson kicked four field goals in the first win since Week 1 for San Francisco (2-4), while Anquan Boldin — a Super Bowl star for the Ravens against the Niners — made a 51-yard reception late that set up Quinton Patton’s 21-yard TD catch.

The rematch of the Super Bowl three seasons ago featured a pair of last-place teams trying to turn around their seasons, and it had some sloppy play.

Steve Smith caught a 34-yard TD pass from Flacco in the third, but the Ravens (1-5) are reeling through the worst start in franchise history. Tough weekend for the Harbaugh brothers after Baltimore coach John Harbaugh’s brother Jim’s Michigan team lost Saturday to Michigan State on a botched punt.

DOLPHINS 38, TITANS 10 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cameron Wake got his first four sacks this season and also forced two fumbles — all in the first half — and Miami won in Dan Campbell’s debut as interim coach.

The Dolphins (2-3) came in having lost three straight, costing coach Joe Philbin his job Oct. 5.

Miami finished with six sacks and two interceptions against Marcus Mariota. The rookie quarterback needed a knee brace and was replaced by Zach Mettenberger after the 2-minute warning.

SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 38 18 24 37 32 32

Pt 17 14 14 10 9 9

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Red Deer 11 7 4 0 0 41 Calgary 10 6 3 0 1 29 Lethbridge 8 6 2 0 0 39 Medicine Hat 9 4 4 1 0 32 Edmonton 10 3 6 1 0 26 Kootenay 11 2 9 0 0 21

GA 34 33 22 37 36 48

Pt 14 13 12 9 7 4

Third Period 5. Vancouver, Houck 4 (Menell, Ronning) 12:27 (pp).

6. Vancouver, Popoff 5 (Barberis, Thrower) 15:12.

7. Red Deer, Pederson 2 (Hagel, Fleury) 15:34.

8. Vancouver, Ronning 7 (Odgers, Houck) 15:49.

9. Red Deer, Fleury 3 (Bleackley, Hagel) 17:37.

10. Red Deer, Pederson 3 (Musil) 19:47 (-EN).

Penalties — Van Bench (served by Baer, too many men) 1:05, Fleury RD (hooking) 10:43, Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 13:11.

Shots on goal Red Deer 19 7 7 — 33 Vancouver 3 8 12 — 23 Goal — Red Deer: Martin (W, 1-1-0) Vancouver: Lee (L, 3-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-2 Vancouver: 1-4.

WHL Scoring Leaders

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Victoria 10 7 3 0 0 33 Kelowna 11 7 4 0 0 45 Vancouver 10 4 4 1 1 37 Prince George 7 3 4 0 0 17 Kamloops 9 2 7 0 0 23 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 7 5 1 1 0 28 9 4 4 1 0 31 6 4 2 0 0 17 9 3 5 1 0 25 8 2 6 0 0 21

GA 21 41 46 19 36

Pt 14 14 10 6 4

GA Pt 18 11 33 9 17 8 39 7 25 4

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

Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Brayden Point, MJ Brayden Burke, Let Jayce Hawryluk Bra Ivan Nikolishin, RD Michael Spacek, RD Tyler Wong, Let Dryden Hunt, MJ Simon Stransky, P.A. Jonathon Martin, SC Travis Sanheim, CAL Reid Duke, Bra Jake Bean, CAL Nikita Popugaev, MJ

Tuesday’s games Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Rebels 6, Giants 4 First Period 1. Red Deer, Johnson 1 (Bleackley, Pederson) 9:04.

2. Red Deer, Bobyk 4 (Johnson, Nogier) 18:30.

Penalties — Polei RD (fighting) 1:08, Bleackley RD (tripping) 1:08, Crunk Van (fighting) 1:08, Kirichenko Van (tripping) 6:08.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Hagel 2 (Bleackley, Johnson) 7:11.

4. Vancouver, Stukel 2 (unassisted) 7:56.

Penalties — Doetzel RD (delay of game) 19:28.

A 10 10 9 15 9 10 11 4 11 12 7 12 5 7 8

Pts 19 19 18 18 17 17 17 16 16 16 15 15 14 14 14

GF GA 20 7 19 15 19 17 16 9 15 13 18 21 12 17 9 14

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 5 3 1 1 7 6 3 2 1 7 4 3 1 0 6 4 2 1 1 5 5 2 3 0 4 5 1 3 1 3 5 1 4 0 2 6 0 6 0 0

GF GA 17 15 14 15 13 10 7 10 7 9 8 14 11 17 13 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts St. Louis 6 5 1 0 10 Dallas 5 4 1 0 8 Nashville 5 4 1 0 8 Winnipeg 6 4 2 0 8 Minnesota 5 3 1 1 7 Chicago 6 3 3 0 6 Colorado 4 2 2 0 4

GF GA 21 14 19 13 14 9 20 13 14 15 14 14 15 14

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts 5 4 1 0 8 6 3 1 2 8 5 3 2 0 6

GF GA 17 8 16 11 16 11

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

Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Brandon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

G 9 9 9 3 8 7 6 12 5 4 8 3 9 7 6

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 6 6 0 0 12 Tampa Bay 6 4 2 0 8 Ottawa 6 3 2 1 7 Florida 5 3 2 0 6 Detroit 5 3 2 0 6 Boston 5 2 3 0 4 Toronto 5 1 3 1 3 Buffalo 5 1 4 0 2

Sunday’s results Calgary 5 Regina 1

San Jose Vancouver Arizona

Edmonton 6 2 4 0 4 12 16 Anaheim 5 1 3 1 3 5 12 Los Angeles 4 1 3 0 2 4 13 Calgary 5 1 4 0 2 10 19 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Nashville 4, Ottawa 3, SO Montreal 4, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 2, Buffalo 1 Dallas 4, Florida 2 Pittsburgh 2, Toronto 1 Washington 4, Carolina 1 N.Y. Islanders 6, San Jose 3 Chicago 4, Columbus 1 Edmonton 5, Calgary 2 Boston 5, Arizona 3

Wednesday Thursday • High school football: Rocky Mountain House at Ponoka, 4 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m., MTGlobal Athletic Park.

• Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Sunday’s Games New Jersey 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, OT St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 2 Anaheim 4, Minnesota 1 Edmonton 2, Vancouver 1, OT Colorado at Los Angeles, late Monday’s Games San Jose at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

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

Florida at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

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

Dallas at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Washington at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Friday

Sunday’s summary Oilers 2, Canucks 1 (OT) First Period 1. Edmonton, Yakupov 2 (McDavid, Letestu) 3:23 (pp).

2. Vancouver, Bartkowski 1 (Baertschi, Hamhuis) 15:43.

Penalties — Dorsett Vcr (tripping) 2:12.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Nugent-Hopkins Edm (tripping) 16:15.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Edler Vcr (tripping) 2:50, Yakupov Edm (interference) 3:38.

Overtime 3. Edmonton, Korpikoski 2 (Sekera) 1:46.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Edmonton 5 8 9 2 — 24 Vancouver 13 10 10 1 — 34 Goal — Edmonton: Nilsson (W, 1-1-0) Vancouver: Miller (LO, 3-1-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 1-2 Vancouver: 0-2.

NHL Scoring Leaders David Krejci, Bos Henrik Zetterberg, Det Jamie Benn, Dal Kyle Turris, Ott John Tavares, NYI Tyler Seguin, Dal Mark Stone, Ott Erik Karlsson, Ott Zach Parise, Minn Jaromir Jagr, Fla Jason Spezza, Dal

x-Hamilton x-Toronto x-Ottawa Montreal

GP 15 15 15 15

West Division GP W L T x-Edmonton 16 12 4 0 x-Calgary 16 12 4 0 B.C. 15 5 10 0 Winnipeg 16 5 11 0 Saskatchewan 15 2 13 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

Tuesday • AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

• WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

G 4 2 5 4 3 3 2 0 5 4 4

A 5 7 3 4 5 5 6 8 2 3 3

Pts 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7

Football CFL East Division W L T 10 5 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 5 10 0

MONDAY, OCT. 19, 2015

Local Sports

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Prince Albert 11 8 2 0 1 44 Brandon 9 6 1 0 2 46 Moose Jaw 9 6 1 1 1 39 Regina 10 5 5 0 0 30 Saskatoon 8 3 2 3 0 32 Swift Current 10 4 5 1 0 30

Seattle Tri-City Everett Spokane Portland

B5

• World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• High school football: Stettler at Drayton Valley, Wetaskiwin at Sylvan Lake, 4 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer TBS, 6 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday • World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Peewee AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Kinex; West Central at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.

Edmonton 3 10 3 4 6 Attendance — 28,517 at Edmonton.

PA 295 427 400 330

Pt 20 18 18 10

PF 391 408 363 322 357

PA 295 320 420 454 462

Pt 24 24 10 10 4

WEEK 17 Bye: Saskatchewan Sunday’s result Hamilton 23 Montreal 11 Saturday’s results Calgary 27 Toronto 15 Edmonton 26 B.C. 23 (OT) Friday’s result Ottawa 27 Winnipeg 24 WEEK 18 Bye: Calgary Friday, Oct. 23 Montreal vs. Toronto (at Hamilton), 5 p.m.

Hamilton at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24 Ottawa at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s summaries Eskimos 26, Lions 23 (OT) First Quarter Edm — FG Whyte 40 3:38 B.C. — TD Yell 13 interception return (Leone convert) 5:32 Second Quarter Edm — TD Bowman 69 pass from Reilly (Whyte convert) 0:18 B.C. — FG Leone 14 5:44 Edm — FG Whyte 22 10:20 B.C. — FG Leone 27 12:47 Third Quarter Edm — FG Whyte 34 2:57 B.C. — TD Arceneaux 3 pass from Jennings (convert failed) 11:45 Fourth Quarter Edm — Single Shaw 61 10:20 B.C. — Single Leone 50 8:49 Edm — FG Whyte 16 14:57 Overtime Edm — FG Whyte 10 B.C. — FG Leone 37 Edm — FG Whyte 30 B.C. 7 6 6 1 3 — 23

— 26

Stampeders 27, Argonauts 15 First Quarter Cgy — Single Maver 75 2:01 Cgy — TD McDaniel 5 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert failed) 3:06 Cgy — TD Moniz 1 run (Paredes convert) 9:17 Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 38 4:48 Third Quarter Tor — TD Gurley 7 pass from Harris (J.Palardy convert) 3:07 Cgy — FG Paredes 23 11:52 Fourth Quarter Tor — FG J.Palardy 27 0:09 Cgy — TD Harrison 14 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 5:38 Tor — FG J.Palardy 32 10:42 Tor — Safety West concedes 14:54 Calgary 14 3 3 7 — 27 Toronto 0 0 7 8 — 15 Attendance — 3,401 at Hamilton, Ont. Sunday’s summary Tiger-Cats 23, Alouettes 11 First Quarter Ham- FG Medlock 15 6:36 Second Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 30 3:28 Ham — TD Sinkfield 3 pass from Mathews (Medlock convert) 5:47 Mtl — Safety Medlock concedes 14:33 Third Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 18 4:04 Ham — FG Medlock 32 9:28 Mtl — FG Bede 26 14:50 Fourth Quarter Ham — Single Medlock 44 11:36 Ham — FG Medlock 33. 13:16 Mtl — TD Stamps 16 pass from Glenn (two-point convert failed) 14:59 Hamilton 3 10 6 4 — 23 Montreal 0 2 3 6 — 11 Attendance — 23,058 at Montreal.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L New England 5 0 N.Y. Jets 4 1 Buffalo 3 3 Miami 2 3 South W L Indianapolis 3 3 Houston 2 4 Tennessee 1 4

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .800 0 .500 0 .400

PF 183 129 145 103

PA 103 75 139 111

T 0 0 0

PF 126 128 112

PA 147 155 129

Pct .500 .333 .200

Jacksonville Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

1

5 North L 0 2 4 5 West W L 6 0 2 3 2 4 1 5

W 6 4 2 1

.167

113

176

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .167

0

PF 182 145 141 143

PA 122 108 158 162

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .400 0 .333 0 .167

PF 139 107 136 127

PA 102 124 161 159

PF 132 101 117 117

PA 109 131 103 138

PF 135 183 110 134

PA 94 143 148 164

PF 164 96 120 120

PA 101 83 179 172

PF 203 84 134 100

PA 115 113 125 160

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 Washington 2 4 0 .333 South W L T Pct Carolina 5 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 5 1 0 .833 Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 New Orleans 2 4 0 .333 North W L T Pct Green Bay 6 0 0 1.000 Minnesota 3 2 0 .600 Chicago 2 4 0 .333 Detroit 1 5 0 .167 West W L T Pct Arizona 4 2 0 .667 St. Louis 2 3 0 .400 Seattle 2 4 0 .333 San Francisco 2 4 0 .333

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 16, Kansas City 10 Miami 38, Tennessee 10 N.Y. Jets 34, Washington 20 Pittsburgh 25, Arizona 13 Cincinnati 34, Buffalo 21 Detroit 37, Chicago 34, OT Denver 26, Cleveland 23, OT Houston 31, Jacksonville 20 Carolina 27, Seattle 23 San Francisco 25, Baltimore 20 Green Bay 27, San Diego 20 New England 34, Indianapolis 27 Open: Dallas, Oakland, St. Louis, Tampa Bay Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 22 Seattle at San Francisco, 6:25 p.m.

Golf PGA-Frys.com Open Sunday At Silverado Resort and Spa, North Course Napa, Calif.

Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,203 Par: 72 (36-36) (x-won on second playoff hole) Final x-Emiliano Grillo, $1,080,000 68-71-65-69—273 Kevin Na, $648,000 68-71-64-70—273 Jason Bohn, $312,000 72-68-64-70—274 Justin Thomas, $312,000 66-70-69-69—274 Ty. Van Aswegen, $312,000 69-68-69-68—274 Kyle Reifers, $194,250 68-71-65-72—276 Patrick Rodgers, $194,250 68-69-69-70—276 Justin Rose, $194,250 67-69-68-72—276 Charl Schwartzel, $194,250 71-68-69-68—276 Luke Guthrie, $128,571 71-70-66-70—277 Smylie Kaufman, $128,571 68-72-69-68—277 Ryan Moore, $128,571 72-70-67-68—277 Chris Stroud, $128,571 69-69-71-68—277 Jhonattan Vegas, $128,571 64-71-69-73—277 Will Wilcox, $128,571 68-67-69-73—277 Andrew Loupe, $128,571 68-72-63-74—277 Fabian Gomez, $73,333 70-72-70-66—278 Chez Reavie, $73,333 70-71-71-66—278 Brandt Snedeker, $73,333 73-69-69-67—278 Daniel Berger, $73,333 70-69-70-69—278 Lucas Glover, $73,333 69-73-66-70—278 Charles Howell III, $73,333 69-69-68-72—278 Hideki Matsuyama, $73,333 70-70-69-69—278 Brendan Steele, $73,333 63-70-69-76—278 Hudson Swafford, $73,333 69-72-67-70—278 Erik Compton, $45,300 69-72-70-68—279 Rory McIlroy, $45,300 68-71-71-69—279 Sean O’Hair, $45,300 68-71-68-72—279 Brendon Todd, $45,300 69-73-68-69—279 Mark Hubbard, $39,900 68-72-70-70—280 William McGirt, $39,900 72-69-70-69—280 Carlos Ortiz, $31,133 71-71-69-70—281

D. Summerhays, $31,133 David Toms, $31,133 M. Angel Carballo, $31,133 Ben Crane, $31,133 Graham DeLaet, $31,133 Tony Finau, $31,133 Freddie Jacobson, $31,133 Hunter Mahan, $31,133 Adam Hadwin, $21,000 James Hahn, $21,000 Russell Henley, $21,000 Jerry Kelly, $21,000 Colt Knost, $21,000 Brooks Koepka, $21,000 Kevin Streelman, $21,000

67-74-70-70—281 71-71-69-70—281 72-69-67-73—281 69-71-68-73—281 67-68-69-77—281 70-69-70-72—281 69-73-67-72—281 69-73-67-72—281 72-67-71-72—282 74-66-68-74—282 67-69-72-74—282 72-69-71-70—282 71-66-72-73—282 69-72-66-75—282 69-73-69-71—282

Champions Tour-AT&T Championship Sunday At TPC San Antonio, AT&T Canyons Course San Antonio Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,923 Par 72 Final Bernhard Langer, $270,000 71-68-65—204 Scott Dunlap, $158,400 68-71-68—207 Michael Allen, $118,350 69-69-70—208 Scott McCarron, $118,350 69-69-70—208 Kenny Perry, $78,750 70-73-66—209 Wes Short, Jr., $78,750 67-72-70—209 Olin Browne, $57,600 70-71-69—210 Paul Goydos, $57,600 68-72-70—210 Scott Hoch, $57,600 70-71-69—210 Woody Austin, $45,000 69-71-71—211 Tom Pernice Jr., $45,000 72-68-71—211 Fred Funk, $36,600 73-72-67—212 Corey Pavin, $36,600 72-71-69—212 Loren Roberts, $36,600 72-70-70—212 Stephen Ames, $27,930 68-74-71—213 Tom Byrum, $27,930 69-73-71—213 Mark Calcavecchia, $27,930 73-72-68—213

Fred Couples, $27,930 70-69-74—213 Colin Montgomerie, $27,930 71-70-72—213 Jeff Sluman, $27,930 68-72-73—213 Tommy Armour III, $19,944 75-69-70—214 Jay Don Blake, $19,944 76-70-68—214 Russ Cochran, $19,944 70-75-69—214 Brandt Jobe, $19,944 73-72-69—214 Jesper Parnevik, $19,944 70-72-72—214 Lee Janzen, $16,020 71-72-72—215 Chien Soon Lu, $16,020 75-73-67—215 Joey Sindelar, $16,020 72-73-70—215 Duffy Waldorf, $16,020 68-76-71—215 Rod Spittle, $13,275 71-74-71—216 LPGA-KEB Hana Bank Championship Sunday At Sky 72 Golf Club, Ocean Course Incheon, South Korea Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,364 Par: 72 (a-amateur) Final Lexi Thompson, $300,000 68-67-69-69—273 Yani Tseng, $158,579 70-67-69-68—274 Sung Hyun Park, $158,579 62-74-67-71—274 Amy Yang, $84,703 71-72-70-62—275 Gerina Piller, $84,703 66-74-68-67—275 Lydia Ko, $84,703 69-65-69-72—275 Suzann Pettersen, $53,338 70-69-68-69—276 Shanshan Feng, $53,338 67-71-69-69—276 Mika Miyazato, $37,084 71-69-71-67—278 Brittany Lincicome, $37,084 71-70-69-68—278 Chella Choi, $37,084 67-72-71-68—278 Mi Hyang Lee, $37,084 71-67-71-69—278 Yoon-Ji Cho, $37,084 68-68-69-73—278 Mirim Lee, $37,084 68-69-67-74—278 Lee-Anne Pace, $25,830 70-68-75-67—280 Sei Young Kim, $25,830 70-70-72-68—280 Inbee Park, $25,830 69-72-70-69—280 Brittany Lang, $25,830 68-71-72-69—280

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Announced the resignation of vice-president of medical services and head athletic trainer Stan Conte.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ — Exercised the third-year team option for Gs Dante Exum and Rodney Hood and the fourth-year team option for G Trey Burke and C Rudy Gobert.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Terrence Magee from the practice squad. Waived CB Charles James II. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DL Bruce Gaston.

Placed DL Ego Ferguson on injured reserve.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed RB Kapri Bibbs from the practice squad. Released TE Richard Gordon.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed LB Amarlo Herrera from the practice squad. Released KR Marcus Thigpen.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed OL Cameron Fleming from the practice squad. Placed CB Tarell Brown on injured reserve.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed WR Walt Powell.

Signed DB Keenan Lambert to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed LB Justin Staples from the practice squad. Placed LB Deiontrez Mount on injured reserve.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Colorado D Tyson Barrie for three games without pay for charging and interference on Anaheim’s Simon Despres.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled D Shea Theodore and D Korbinian Holzer from San Diego (AHL).

Placed D Simon Despres and D Clayton Stoner on injured reserve.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed CB Brandon McGee from the practice squad. Waived TE Jerome Cunningham.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned D Brett Pesce to Charlotte (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned D Slater Koekkoek to Syracuse (AHL).

Sunday • World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• College soccer: Lethbridge at RDC, women at noon, men to follow.

• Midget AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena; Calgary Gold at West Central, 3:30 p.m., Caroline; Okotoks at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe.

• Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton Thunder at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Banff at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.; High River at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Airdrie at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

Baseball Major League Baseball Playoffs

PF 483 390 381 308

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• College soccer: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at noon, men to follow.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Strata Energy, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Fire at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

• WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 7 p.m.

• AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:30 p.m., Arena; Taber at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) American League Kansas City 2, Toronto 0 Friday, Oct. 16: Kansas City 5, Toronto 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: Kansas City 6, Toronto 3 Monday, Oct. 19: Kansas City (Cueto 11-13) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 6:07 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 20: Kansas City (Young 11-6) at Toronto (Dickey 11-11), 2:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 21: Kansas City at Toronto, 2:07 p.m. x-Friday, Oct. 23: Toronto at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Toronto at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 6: Houston 3, New York 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 x-if necessary) American League Kansas City 3, Houston 2 Thursday, Oct. 8: Houston 5, Kansas City 2 Friday, Oct. 9: Kansas City 5, Houston 4 Sunday, Oct. 11: Houston 4, Kansas City 2 Monday, Oct. 12: Kansas City 9, Houston 6 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Kansas City 7, Houston 2 Toronto 3, Texas 2 Thursday, Oct. 8: Texas 5, Toronto 3 Friday, Oct. 9: Texas 6, Toronto 4, 14 innings Sunday, Oct. 11: Toronto 5, Texas 1 Monday, Oct. 12: Toronto 8, Texas 4 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Toronto 6, Texas 3

National League New York 2, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: New York 4, Chicago 2 Sunday, Oct. 18: New York 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday, Oct. 20: New York (deGrom 14-8) at Chicago (Hendricks 8-7), 6:07 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21: New York (Matz 4-0) at Chicago (Hammel 10-7), 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 22: New York at Chicago, 6:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Chicago at New York, 2:07 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 25: Chicago at New York, 6:07 p.m.

National League Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 Friday, Oct. 9: St. Louis 4, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago 6, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 12: Chicago 8, St. Louis 6 Tuesday, Oct. 13: Chicago 6, St. Louis 4 New York 3, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 9: New York 3, Los Angeles 1 Saturday, Oct. 10: Los Angeles 5, New York 2 Monday, Oct. 12: New York 13, Los Angeles 7 Tuesday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles 3, New York 1 Thursday, Oct. 15: New York 3, Los Angeles 2

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) Tuesday, Oct. 27: at American Wednesday, Oct. 28: at AL Friday, Oct. 30: at National League Saturday, Oct. 31: at NL

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF d-New York 33 17 10 6 60 x-D.C. 33 15 12 6 43 x-Columbus 33 14 11 8 53 Toronto 33 15 14 4 57 Montreal 33 14 13 6 46 New England 33 13 12 8 45 Orlando 33 12 13 8 46 New York City 33 10 16 7 48 Philadelphia 33 9 17 7 41 Chicago 33 8 19 6 42

GA 42 40 53 56 43 46 55 55 55 56

Pt 57 51 50 49 48 47 44 37 34 30

Western Conference GP W L T GF 33 17 10 6 50 33 14 10 9 55 33 15 13 5 42 33 14 11 8 37 33 14 13 6 41 32 13 10 9 46 33 13 12 8 40 33 11 13 9 42 33 11 14 8 37 32 8 14 10 30

GA 38 44 36 38 35 42 37 46 45 39

Pt 57 51 50 50 48 48 47 42 41 34

d-Dallas Los Angeles Vancouver Portland Seattle Kansas City San Jose Houston Salt Lake Colorado

Sunday’s results D.C. 4 Chicago 0 New York 4 Philadelphia 1 Houston 1 Seattle 1 Los Angeles 2 Portland 5 Wednesday’s games Colorado at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Manchester City 9 7 0 2 24 8 21 Arsenal 9 6 1 2 16 7 19 Man. United 9 6 1 2 15 8 19 West Ham 9 5 2 2 20 12 17 Leicester City 9 4 4 1 19 17 16 Crystal Palace 9 5 0 4 12 10 15 Tottenham 9 3 5 1 11 7 14 Southampton 9 3 4 2 15 12 13 Everton 9 3 4 2 12 11 13 Liverpool 9 3 4 2 8 10 13 Chelsea 9 3 2 4 14 17 11 West Brom 9 3 2 4 7 11 11 Swansea 8 2 4 2 10 10 10 Watford 9 2 4 3 6 10 10 Stoke 8 2 3 3 8 10 9 Norwich 9 2 3 4 14 20 9 Bournemouth 9 2 2 5 11 17 8 Newcastle 9 1 3 5 12 19 6 Aston Villa 9 1 1 7 8 15 4 Sunderland 9 0 3 6 8 19 3 Saturday, Oct. 17 Tottenham 0, Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2, Aston Villa 0 Crystal Palace 1, West Ham 3 Everton 0, Manchester United 3 Manchester City 5, Bournemouth 1 Southampton 2, Leicester City 2 West Brom 1, Sunderland 0 Watford 0, Arsenal 3 Sunday, Oct. 18 Newcastle 6, Norwich 2

Sunday, October 25 New York at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 3 p.m.

D.C. at Columbus, 3 p.m.

New England at New York City, 3 p.m.

Orlando at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Portland, 5 p.m.

Salt Lake at Seattle, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Kansas City, 75p.m.

Houston at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 19 Swansea vs. Stoke, 1900 GMT Saturday, Oct. 24 Aston Villa vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Leicester City vs. Crystal Palace, 1400 GMT Norwich vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Watford, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Chelsea, 1400 GMT Arsenal vs. Everton, 1630 GMT

Basketball National Basketball Association Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 3 1 .750 — Toronto 4 2 .667 — Boston 1 1 .500 1 Brooklyn 2 2 .500 1 Philadelphia 2 4 .333 2

Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 5 0 1.000 4 1 .800 3 1 .750 3 2 .600 3 3 .500

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 2 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 4 1 .800 2 3 .400 2 4 .333 1 3 .250 0 6 .000

GB — 2 2 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 4 0 1.000 — New Orleans 2 2 .500 2 Houston 2 4 .333 3 San Antonio 1 3 .250 3 Dallas 0 4 .000 4 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 3 1 .750 Denver 4 2 .667 Portland 3 2 .600

GB — — 1/2

Utah Minnesota

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

2 1

3 4

.400 .200

Pacific Division W L Pct 5 1 .833 2 2 .500 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 0 4 .000

1 1/2 2 1/2 GB — 2 2 3 4

Saturday’s Games Charlotte 97, New York 93 Sacramento 107, New Orleans 98 Miami 105, Houston 100 Washington 105, Milwaukee 101 L.A. Lakers 85, Golden State 70 Sunday’s Games Brooklyn 92, Philadelphia 91 San Antonio 96, Detroit 92 Memphis 90, Minnesota 68 Toronto 87, Cleveland 81 Oklahoma City 111, Denver 98 Miami 101, Atlanta 92 Portland 116, Utah 111, OT Monday’s Games Chicago at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 6 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Milwaukee at Madison, WI, 6 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

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Sprint Cup Series driver Joey Logano (22) and Matt Kenseth (20) run side-by-side during a NASCAR auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday.

Logano spins out Kenseth, earns second straight Chase win at Kansas

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Joey Logano kept peeking around Matt Kenseth as the laps ticked away at Kansas Speedway, the two of them in entirely different situations in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Logano had nothing to lose. Kenseth had just about everything.

So when Logano got under Kenseth entering Turn 1 with about five laps remaining, and sent him spinning across the track, it left many eyebrows raised long after the Penske Racing driver pulled away on the final restart to win his second straight Chase race. “That’s good, hard racing,� Logano said. “We were racing each other really hard. I felt like I got fenced twice. He raced me hard so I raced him back.�

Logano was already guaranteed his spot in the next round of the Chase after his victory at Charlotte, though.

After a disastrous race a week ago, Kenseth’s team arrived at Kansas knowing a victory this weekend or next weekend at unpredictable Talladega might be the only way he could make it to the final eight in the “eliminator� round of the playoffs.

That’s why Kenseth was doing everything possible to block Logano. “I’m really disappointed,� Kenseth said. “I was running the lane he wanted to run in, but my goodness, isn’t this racing? Strategically, I think it wasn’t the smartest move on his part. He’ll probably sleep good tonight. I hope he enjoys that one. It’s not what I would have done.�

Kenseth wound up leading a racehigh 153 laps, but his wild ride with a handful to go dropped him to 14th in the race and, more importantly, last among the 12 drivers in the title race. “I’m sure we’ll talk about it,� Logano said after hopping out of his No. 22 Ford. “I just felt like I raced hard. I got fenced twice. I wasn’t going to put up with it.�

Uh, Joey, you sure about that chat? “I won’t talk to Joey. I don’t have

anything to talk to him about,�

Kenseth said. “I’m one of the only guys that I think hasn’t been into it yet with Joey, and I’ve always raced him with a ton of respect. I’ve actually been one of his biggest fans. I’m certainly not anymore.�

Already eliminated from contention, Jimmie Johnson had a strong car all day and wound up behind Hamlin in third. Kasey Kahne was fourth, followed by Chase drivers Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch. Ryan Blaney was seventh, followed by more title contenders in Carl Edwards, pole sitter Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman.

Hamlin’s second-place finish allowed him to climb to second in the standings, giving him the best chance of everybody outside of Logano of moving onto the next round. “It was a very good day,� he said. “I wanted to be seventh or better entering this weekend, and obviously second was a good run for us. Some of the guys in front of us had some troubles.�

Plenty of guys behind him, too.

When the field pitted under green with 53 laps remaining, Martin Truex Jr. had a tire roll away and served a pass-through penalty, while Kevin Harvick drove off with his fuel can and had to serve a stop-and-go penalty.

Both lost a lap and precious points in the title race.

Truex got his lap back and finished 15th. Harvick came across in 16th.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who already felt like he needed to win to advance, had a wheel go loose during a long run and pit under green. That dropped him off the lead lap, too, and Earnhardt wound up two laps down and in 21st place heading to Talladega. “There’s no place I would rather go next week,� said Earnhardt, one of the best restrictor-plate drivers in the series, and the winner at Talladega in the spring.

The wild finish at Kansas led to a massive shake-up in the Chase standings, with Logano the only driver who can head to Alabama next week without feeling any pressure.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tiger-Cats 23 Alouettes 11 MONTREAL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; It had been 18 games over 13 years since the Hamilton Tiger-Cats won a game in Montreal.

That dubious streak ended Sunday afternoon as the Tiger-Cats dominated in a 23-11 victory that spoiled veteran quarterback Kevin Glennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut with the Montreal Alouettes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to grow as a football team and part of that is to play well in places where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had tough games,â&#x20AC;? said Hamilton coach Kent Austin, whose 10-5 team clinched a playoff spot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another step for our team.â&#x20AC;?

The last time the Ticats won in the regular season in Montreal was a 29-26 decision on Oct. 20, 2002.

The misery ended as Jeff Mathews, in his third start in place of injured Zach Collaros, threw a touchdown pass to Terrell Sinkfield and Justin Medlock kicked five field goals to hand Montreal a fourth straight defeat.

The Ticats took over top spot in the CFL East Division and beat Montreal for the first time in three meetings this season.

Fred Stamps caught a TD pass with 1.3 seconds left in regulation time and Boris Bede had a field goal for Montreal (5-10), which fell to 2-5 since general manager Jim Popp took over as head

Southern hemisphere teams rule the Rugby World Cup semifinals More than two months later, London will host the fourth round of the Rugby Championship. Also known as the semifinals of the Rugby World Cup. Following victories by Argentina and Australia to conclude the quarterfinals on Sunday, the last northern hemisphere optimists were eliminated.

Six Nations champion Ireland, which had never reached the semifinals, and Scotland, which reached the last four way back in 1991, will have to wait four more years. For the first

coach.

While Montrealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defence held the Ticats mostly to field goals, the offence shot itself in the foot with turnovers, dropped passes and untimely penalties. The usually sure-handed S.J. Green had two go through his hands, including one in the end zone late in the third quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think everybody knows there were some plays left out on the field, myself included,â&#x20AC;? said the 15-year CFL veteran Glenn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to complete every pass or catch every ball, but when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got an opportunity to make a play, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to make it. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come back strong.â&#x20AC;?

With Winnipeg and B.C. also losing on the weekend, the Alouettes remain tied for the crossover spot in the West Division playoffs.

A crowd of 23,058 at Percival Molson Stadium saw Glenn, acquired this week from Saskatchewan after starter Rakeem Cato was injured, throw three interceptions while only generating one touchdown, when he hit Stamps with a 16-yard toss with the game all but over.

He completed 26 of 44 passes for 226 yards. Mathews was good on 21 of 25 tosses for 241 yards and was not intercepted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He saw the field well, we just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the plays,â&#x20AC;? Popp said of Glenn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our defence did a pretty nice job but then we started turning the ball over, or not capitalizing when we could.â&#x20AC;? time, all four semifinalists come from one hemisphere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it is south of the equator.

The Irish were smashed by Argentina 43-20 in Cardiff. Scotland, the team least expected to break the southâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hegemony, came the closest. The Scots led Australia into the last minute until conceding an unlucky penalty which Bernard Foley nailed in the rain at Twickenham for the Wallabies to prevail 35-34.

Back to Twickenham the Pumas and Wallabies will head next Sunday for the second semifinal. The first, also at English rugby headquarters, will pit defend champion New Zealand against South Africa on Saturday.

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Flags of Remembrance Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff A strong sense of patriotism and pride lingered in the air following a moving tribute to Canada’s veterans on Hwy 11 near Sylvan Lake on Saturday.

The proof — a total of 256 Canadian flags, 128 on either side - is still there, flying proudly on either side of the highway.

Flags of Remembrance, a now annual campaign to honour 128,000 Canadian soldiers killed and missing in action since the early 1900’s, officially returned this past weekend with the raising of the flags during an official ceremony.

Hundreds of people from across Central Alberta turned up for the event, taking the time to listen to several veterans, including MCpl. Paul Franklin - who lost both his legs while serving in Kandahar - thank the many current and past-serving military personnel on hand for their services.

The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band performed throughout the ceremony, which included a moment of silence, and a flyover by a vintage WWII Harvard Aircraft.

With the success of Flags of Remembrance last year, the project has been taken on by four other communities in Canada, including Ponoka, Vernon, B.C., Kingston, Ont., and Charlottetown P.E.I. Flags were raised simultaneously across the country.

The flags will continue to fly along the highway until Nov. 12.

Bikers pass by 128 Canadian flags raised on either side of Hwy 11 near Sylvan Lake on Saturday following the Flags of Remembrance Ceremony.

ABOVE; Past, present-serving military personnel and cadets gathered for a group photo following the ceremony and the raising of the flags.

RIGHT; MCpl. Paul Franklin shares a moment with his dog, Achilles, after speaking during the Flags of Remembrance Ceremony. Franklin lost both his legs during a suicide bombing while serving in Kandahar in 2006.

ABOVE; Debby Stevens carries one of the flags during the Flags of Remembrance ceremony Saturday just after noon.

RIGHT; Flags are raised as a pair of horses pass by during the second annual Flags of Remembrance ceremony on Saturday. A pair of horses with veteran riders performed the same routine on the opposite side of the highway.

LEFT; Allan Cameron, Executive Director of Veterans Voices of Canada and the man behind the Flags of Remembrance, speaks following the raising of the flags.

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Toronto transit may sue Bombardier TTC ACCUSES COMPANY OF INCOMPETENCE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Toronto Transit Commission, accusing Bombardier of “incompetence,” says it may sue the Quebec plane and train maker over the latest delays in delivery of streetcars.

Commission chairman Josh Colle says the board will consider at its Oct. 28 meeting possible legal and financial actions against the company, including a $50-million claim permitted under the contract for late delivery.

He said Bombardier Transportation advised the commission Thursday that it won’t meet a commitment made in July to deliver 23 new streetcars by year-end, including 20 available for service.

Given Bombardier’s failure to meet

“THE TTC BOARD HAS LOST ALL FAITH IN BOMBARDIER’S PUBLIC PROMISES AND ABILITY TO DELIVER THIS ORDER. WE WILL NOT LET BOMBARDIER’S INCOMPETENCE HOLD OUR PATIENT AND LOYAL CUSTOMERS HOSTAGE” — COMMISSION CHAIRMAN JOSH COLLE its past commitments, Colle said the TTC has no confidence in this latest schedule.

“I am incredibly disappointed to learn that Bombardier, yet again, will not be meeting their commitments to deliver new streetcars to Toronto,” Colle said in a news release.

“The TTC board has lost all faith in Bombardier’s public promises and ability to deliver this order. We will

not let Bombardier’s incompetence hold our patient and loyal customers hostage.”

The company now says it will deliver 19 cars by the end of 2015.

Sixteen of them will be in service, including the 10 currently in operation.

The original $993-million contract called for 67 of 204 new vehicles ordered by the TTC to be in operation at this time.

Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) blamed the delays on production issues in Mexico with the crimping of electrical connectors on six streetcars in production.

The problem was identified during quality assurance reviews in Thunder Bay, Ont. The 3,000 wire connections in each of the cars will need to be examined

and fixed.

“Bombardier obviously regrets that its performance on this particular project has been disappointing to the TTC, but we remain fully committed to continue to support our customer and deliver the streetcars as soon as possible,” said spokesman Marc-Andre Lefebvre.

The company said it plans to extend production hours in the manufacturing sites assigned to the project by adding a third shift per day. Work within the facilities will be reorganized but no workers will be recalled.

Lefebvre said the incident doesn’t signify a broader problem with its Mexican operations, noting it is involved in projects across North America. The previous production delays were caused by issues in Thunder Bay, Mexico and some external suppliers.

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BRIEF Former VW boss Winterkorn steps down as head of holding company controlling majority Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Under Chinook Arch weather conditions, an oilfield pumpjack works on an oil well, belonging to Cenovus Energy, near Brooks.

Canadian energy companies cut back on worker perks REBECCA PENTY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE CALGARY, Alberta - Canadian energy companies have cut thousands of jobs and scrapped projects in a drive to cut costs. Now they’re raiding workers’ perks.

Holiday parties, childcare benefits and Fridays off are being targeted as the rout in crude prices grinds into its 16th month, workers and company representatives say. The clampdown on perks comes as firms dig deeper for savings after eliminating about 36,000 oil and natural gas jobs in the crash, according to a tally by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

At Canadian Natural Resources’s office in Aberdeen, Scotland, the only microwave is in overdrive after the cafeteria stopped serving hot meals and raised the price of sandwiches.

The coffee cups are smaller, too. While the company has avoided job cuts, salary reductions of as much as 10 percent mean some workers are also earning less.

ConocoPhillips, which is cutting 500 workers in Canada this year, removed complimentary juice and soda from fridges in Calgary and canceled personal development benefits of as much as C$1,500 ($1,153) a year that some employees used for sports training.

Cenovus Energy Inc. is weighing whether to end the practice of employees getting two Fridays off a month.

The company already reduced its travel and training budgets and has eliminated 1,340 jobs.

“In times of fiscal prudence, it’s essential to see companies eliminating all unnecessary expenditures,” said Eric Nuttall, a portfolio manager at Sprott Asset Management in Toronto.

“This whole every second Friday off thing, that’s the most egregious example.”

The changes to incentives at Canadian Natural and ConocoPhillips are according to people familiar with the moves, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters. Kristen Ashcroft, a spokeswoman at ConocoPhillips, said the company won’t confirm specific cost-reduction actions. Julie Woo, a Canadian Natural spokeswoman, declined to comment.

At Cenovus, “no stone is being left unturned” in a broad review of workforce policies, said Brett Harris, a spokesman. Employees currently work longer hours on other days to earn the Fridays off, he said.

Tobias Read, chief executive officer of staffing consultant Swift Worldwide Resources, said retirement and childcare benefits are also being scaled back along with social events, as companies offer unpaid leave and workshare programs on top of salary reductions and job cuts.

“You are seeing a radical change in the incentives,” Read said. “It’s a grim reality that if they don’t reduce costs in every area, the situation will be dramatically worse.”

Companies are driven to get rid of perks to prove to shareholders they’re serious about lowering costs, said Chris Feltin, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Calgary.

“One of the only factors you can control is costs,” he said.

The Standard & Poor’s/TSX Energy Index has fallen 22 percent in the past year, compared with a 5.8 percent decline in the S&P/TSX Composite index. Prices for the U.S. crude benchmark are down 45 percent in the past 12 months. West Texas Intermediate futures rose 1.2 percent to $48.27 in New York at 10:48 a.m Tuesday.

Cenovus’s earlier cuts are already affecting its bottom line. The oil-sands producer’s general and administrative expenses fell 28 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier. Job cuts and reduced discretionary spending helped, along with lower compensation costs because of a drop in the company’s stock price.

Not all incentives are vanishing with the oil market crash.

Crescent Point Energy Corp. is keeping an in-house catering service, which it calls the bistro, to serve bagels, fruits and vegetables each day, Chief Operating Officer Neil Smith said by phone last month. The company canceled a summer golf outing and toned down plans for its upcoming Christmas party, however, as it avoids cutting jobs, he said.

“A happy crew will put out 20 to 40 percent more than a stressed, unhappy crew,” Smith said.

A surplus of qualified workers means the industry’s lost incentives probably won’t come back quickly, according to Swift’s Read.

“I don’t think there’s a worry that if the market returns, they’ll find a shortage of people,” Read said.

BERLIN — Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is stepping down as head of a holding company that technically controls a majority in the German automaker, weeks after his resignation in the wake of the emissions-rigging scandal.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, via which the Piech and Porsche families own more than 50 per cent of Volkswagen, said in a brief statement Saturday that it “reached an agreement with Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn that he ceases his function as member and chairman of the executive board of Porsche SE by the end of Oct. 31.”

Winterkorn will be replaced as the holding company’s CEO Nov. 1 by Volkswagen’s new supervisory board chairman, Hans Dieter Poetsch.

Winterkorn’s departure as head of the holding company was expected after he quit last month as CEO of the automaker, a few days after news broke of the scandal over software built into diesel engines that disabled emissions controls except when they were being tested.

Winterkorn resigned as VW CEO on Sept. 23, saying he was acting in the interests of the company “even though I am not aware of any wrongdoing on my part.” He was succeeded in that job by former Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller.

Takata air bag problem widens to over 400 General Motors cars and SUVs from 2015 model year DETROIT — Problems with exploding Takata air bag inflators continue to spread to more vehicles, this time hitting a small number of 2015 General Motors cars and SUVs. Documents posted Saturday by U.S. safety regulators say GM is recalling more than 400 vehicles because the side air bag inflators could rupture and send shrapnel into drivers and passengers. The recall means that the air bag problems are growing to more newer models and into side air bags.

Previously the problem was limited mainly to older vehicles and front air bags. Eight people have been killed worldwide because of the faulty inflators and more than 100 have been hurt.

The latest recall covers certain 2015 Chevrolet Equinox, Malibu and Camaro vehicles as well as the Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac XTS and GMC Terrain.

Young Canadians need more financial training Children and youth in Canada need more and better financial education and training to help them meet the economic challenges they almost certainly will face at some point in their lives.

A national survey conducted by the TALBOT BC Securities BOGGS Commission has found that MONEYWISE 40 per cent of students admit to having no idea how much they earned or spent in the last month and 71 per cent say they feel more time should have been spent in high school teaching them personal finance. Fifty-eight per cent do not know the interest rate on their bank account and only 26 per cent of high school students in Ontario indicated they were knowledgeable about money and made good spending decisions.

“There’s a very real concern about what kind of financial education students are getting in high school and their ability to manage their financial affairs,” says Blair Davidson, a bankruptcy trustee with BDO Canada. “If a financial catastrophe such as the loss of a job, a death or major health problem occurs, do they know how to create a budget, understand the cost of debt, know the difference between good and bad debt, and generally know how to manage the situation?”

Canadians currently are carrying a high amount of debt. The personal debt to income ratio in Canada today is 163 per cent and the majority of young people in their twenties are living pay cheque to pay cheque, Davidson says.

The Canadian government has made youth financial literacy a key part of its National Financial Literacy Strategy.

This initiative is designed to give Canadians the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to make day-today choices about how to spend their money and stay on top of their financial obligations, navigate the financial marketplace and buy the products

and services that make the most sense for their own needs, plan ahead about how to use their money for life goals such as buying a home or preparing for retirement, deal with local, provincial and national government programs which are often complicated and confusing, evaluate financial information and advice and make the best use of resources at their disposal including workplace benefits, private and public pensions, tax credits, public benefits, investments, home equity, access to credit and consumer spending power.

While federal initiatives may be good by raising public awareness of the problem, education is a provincial responsibility.

BDO advocates the re-introduction of home economics into the school system to teach students about taxes, basic house and vehicle maintenance, budget and saving techniques, how to shop for and prepare meals and how to sew and repair garments.

Basic skills learned in home economics classes can result in yearly savings of $3,406 — $2,386 by cooking your own meals instead of going out, $720 by making your own coffee instead of going to the coffee shop, $160 by doing

your own oil changes on the car, and $140 by hemming or fixing your own clothes.

The responsibility for financial education and stewardship is a joint responsibility between students, parents and the education system.

“Parents can show leadership by calling family meetings to discuss the issue and school boards have an obligation to add more courses and create curricula,” Davidson says.

“Data shows that most young people could only survive for a couple of weeks if a tragedy hit. As a society we need to teach our younger generations how to prepare for those situations so they can cope with them when they happen. Everyone has a vested interest in improving financial literacy and knowledge because people live with it all their lives. Handling finances well and responsibly can remove a lot of stress in life.”

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

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Interior dept. halting offshore lease sales

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Interior Department announced Friday it is cancelling future lease sales and will not extend current leases in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that significantly reduces the chances for future Arctic offshore drilling.

The news follows a Sept. 28 announcement by Royal Dutch Shell that it would cease exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas after spending upward of $7 billion on Arctic exploration. The company cited disappointing results from a well drilled in the Chukchi and the unpredictable federal regulatory environment.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said the federal government is cancelling federal petroleum lease sales in U.S. Arctic waters that were scheduled for 2016 and 2017.

“In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half,” she said.

Jewell said the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast and the Beaufort Sea off the state’s north coast will not be included in the agency’s current five-year lease sale plan.

In addition, current leases held by Shell and other companies in Arctic waters will not be extended.

Beaufort Sea leases are set to expire in 2017, and Chukchi Sea leases in 2020.

Current market conditions and low industry interest made the leasing decision easier, Jewell said in a release.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is the only company actively exploring off Alaska’s northern costs. It had applied to extend leases in both the Chukchi and the Beaufort. Statoil requested an extension for Chukchi leases.

Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said

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The Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle. Three weeks after Royal Dutch Shell announced it was walking away from exploratory drilling in U.S. Arctic waters, the Obama administration has taken steps to keep drill rigs out of Alaska’s northern ocean for a decade or more. the company disagrees with the agency’s decision not to extend current leases.

“When it comes to frontier exploration in Alaska, one size does not fit all,” Smith said by email. “We continue to believe the 10-year primary lease term needs to be extended.”

In denying the extension, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s regional supervisor for field operations, Kevin Pendergast, said Shell had not met the criteria to extend its leases, including providing the agency with a work schedule on

them. Shell could apply again, he said.

Independent Gov. Bill Walker met with Jewell in Washington, D.C., earlier this month about extending Shell’s leases and opening up a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

His goal is to get more oil in the trans-Alaska pipeline, which is running at about a quarter of its capacity.

Walker said Jewell’s decision left him with a “loss of hope, in some respects” about accomplishing that.

“That pretty much shut down off-

shore. The only thing left is onshore,” he said of the agency’s announcement.

“We know where the oil is. We just don’t have access to it.”

Environmental groups strongly oppose Arctic drilling. They say industrial activity will harm marine mammals already hurt by a loss of sea ice, and global warming would be accelerated by burning oil found in the Arctic Ocean.

Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity lauded the Interior Department’s announcement.

“This is great for the Arctic and its polar bears,” Sakashita said. “We need to keep all the Arctic oil in the ground.”

Mike LeVine of oceans advocate Oceana added: “Secretary Jewell’s decisions today are consistent with the law as well as economic and environmental realities.”

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said the Obama administration is correct in wanting to help Alaska Natives and all Alaskans battle the state’s high rates of suicide, domestic violence and addiction.

But he said the administration doesn’t see the link between economic opportunity and making people’s lives better.

“They just took real opportunity, significant opportunities that could benefit thousands if not tens of thousands of Alaskans off the table,” Sullivan said.

“That’s not going to help the social problems. That’s actually going to make them worse.”

Rep. Don Young, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. House, said this battle will likely end up in court.

“I think this administration is adamantly opposed against fossil fuels, period,” said Young, Alaska’s sole House member.

“They’ll do anything to stop it.

I don’t think they have a legal leg to stand on.”

Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Five things to watch in Canadian business this week: Corporate Canada bites nails: The country’s business community will be on the edge of its seat Monday as Canadians go to the polls in Canada’s 42nd general election. Will it be a return to power for the business friendly Conservatives? Will the electorate opt to give the Liberals or the New Democrats a try? At least a few executives in Canada’s hard-hit oilpatch are nervous about the outcome.

Earnings-o-rama: A slew of Canadian companies report third-quarter earnings this week, including pharmaceutical giant Valeant, Celestica and Canadian Pacific Railway on Tuesday.

On Thursday, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications report, as well as Corus, Husky Energy and Teck Resources. And on Friday, Thomson Reuters and Postmedia will have their Q3 results.

StatCan status report: The federal agency has a number of releases next week, including wholesale trade fig-

ures on Tuesday, retail sales on Thursday and the critical consumer price index on Friday that reveals the country’s inflation rate. All are considered key indicators of the health of the Canadian economy.

Interest rate outlook: On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada issues its latest interest rate announcement and monetary policy report. The central bank is expected to hold the overnight rate steady at 0.5 per cent after cutting it twice this year, but economists will scrutinize the central bank’s updated outlook on the economy for any hints about what it may do next year.

Green oilpatch?: The Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance provides an update on progress toward sharing green technologies among its members in Calgary on Wednesday. The oilpatch is facing pressure internationally to reduce its carbon footprint. And speaking of the oilpatch, the credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s has said the risk profile of six Canadian oil and gas producers is worsening because of the prolonged slump in crude oil prices.

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Devlin D’Zmura, a tending news manager at DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, works on his laptop at the company’s offices in Boston. Customers of the two biggest daily fantasy sports websites have filed at least four lawsuits against the sites in Oct. 2015, following cheating allegations and a probe into the largely-unregulated multi-billion dollar industry. In court papers, the customers accused the DraftKings and FanDuel sites of cheating, and argued they never would have played had they known employees with insider knowledge were playing on rival sites.

Q&A: A look at how daily fantasy sports sites including New CEO of United Airlines says DraftKings, FanDuel operate he suffered heart attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS United Airlines said Friday that its new CEO, Oscar Munoz, has been admitted to a hospital. The airline gave no explanation or details of his condition.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Munoz suffered a heart attack, citing people familiar with the matter.

United Continental Holdings Inc. said Friday that Munoz’s family informed the company that he was admitted to a hospital on Thursday. The company, based in Chicago, said in a short statement that it was continuing to operate normally. A spokeswoman said the company would not provide additional information.

Munoz, 56, was named CEO of United Continental on Sept. 8 after the company made a stunning announcement that CEO Jeff Smisek had stepped down. Smisek faced questions about whether United sought favours from the officials who operate the New York-area airports. Federal prosecutors are investigating United’s ties to David Samson, the former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a political ally of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Munoz was a railroad executive who had spent 11 years on the boards of Continental Airlines and United Continental, which was formed by the 2010 merger of United and Continental.

In a newspaper ad this month, Mu-

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noz apologized to customers for problems that have plagued United since the merger, including several technology outages that have caused largescale flight delays and cancellations.

United’s on-time performance has trailed its three biggest peers — American, Delta and Southwest — so far this year. In the ad, Munoz said United had failed to live up to its promises and vowed, “That’s going to change.”

He has offered few details, however. On an introductory conference call with Wall Street analysts last month, Munoz said United must convince customers that it will improve customer service but added, “That is going to take a lot of time and effort.”

Munoz has also been trying to mend management’s relationship with its mostly union workforce and has been meeting around the country with some of United’s 85,000 employees.

Munoz was scheduled to meet with the airline’s labour leaders Thursday, but the session was cancelled at the last minute because he was unable to attend, according to a United message to employees. The message did not explain the CEO’s absence.

While United was slower to return to profitability after the financial crisis that began in 2008, it has posted record profits recently, helped by cheaper jet fuel. The company earned $1.7 billion in the first six months of 2015, although revenue slipped 2.6 per cent.

United shares fell after news of Munoz’ hospitalization.

LAS VEGAS — Daily fantasy sports websites including DraftKings and FanDuel have been ordered to shut down in Nevada after regulators said they can’t operate without a gambling license.

The companies, which have flooded televisions and computers with advertisements promising big payouts to winners, have come under increased scrutiny by regulators after it was revealed employees often played on competing sites, raising questions about possible insider information being used to win.

Here’s a look at how these sites operate and their ties to sports leagues:

HOW DO DAILY FANTASY SPORTS WORK?

The sites take traditional season-long fantasy leagues — where points are earned each week based on a roster of players picked before the season’s start — and squeeze the stats down to a day or week. Customers playing for free or paying for an entry, as low as a couple quarters or as much as thousands of dollars, get a “bankroll” to spend on players to create a fantasy team for the day. Like most games, the competitor who earns the most points based on those players’ statistics wins.

Unlike traditional sports betting in Las Vegas, customers play against others, not the house, and winning isn’t determined by a single game’s outcome.

IT’S NOT GAMBLING? IT’S NOT ILLEGAL?

The sites say the games are based more on skill, not luck and point to a specific exemption carved out for fantasy sports in the federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.

It was enacted at a time when season-long fantasy sports matchups, not daily ones, were becoming popular.

New York-based FanDuel and Boston-based DraftKings say the law that addresses processing payments for online gambling applies to them.

That law doesn’t necessarily make the sites OK in states where the definition of gambling can vary wildly depending on if the contest is entirely skill-based or mostly skill-based.

That’s kept both out of at least five states.

On Thursday in Nevada, the sites were ordered to shut down and apply for gambling licenses if they want to do business.

HOW INVOLVED ARE THE MAJOR SPORTS LEAGUES?

The NBA has a stake in FanDuel.

MLB, the NHL and Major League Soccer are DraftKings investors. The NFL hasn’t made any direct investments or partnership deals, but its teams are allowed to accept advertising from the sites.

The league has said the contests aren’t gambling because players need skill to play and win.

ESPN said it was cutting sponsored DraftKings elements from within its news shows but not the frequent commercials.

WHAT ABOUT THE NCAA?

The governing body for college sports, which has strict rules for its players prohibiting sports betting, has expressed its discomfort with daily fantasy sports.

Seeing a parallel between it and gambling, the Southeastern Conference has asked sports network ESPN to remove the companies’ ads from the SEC’s network.

And commissioners for the Football Bowl Subdivision want DraftKings and FanDuel to stop offering college sports fantasy contests on their sites.

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Room has Oscar buzz BUT CANADIAN-IRISH FILM IS TRYING TO SHAKE ‘HARROWING’ LABEL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As the Canadian-Irish film Room gets set to hit theatres surrounded by critical acclaim and Oscar buzz, the distributors admit the subject matter “is a tricky one.”

Tricky because while the drama is based on the chilling premise of a mother and her young son held captive for years in a shed, it’s actually a life-affirming, inspiring film.

It’s not “harrowing,” as many articles and reviews have described it, says Elevation Pictures, the film’s Canadian distributor.

“I’m actually trying to get away from that word, because I don’t think it is,” says co-president Laurie May. “The story in Room is really about, to me, a mother’s love for her child and making the most of a bad circumstance and once they get out of that space, really seeing the world through young, fresh eyes and appreciating all of the beauty in the world.”

That’s the message Elevation has been trying to convey through Room‘s marketing campaign since it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and then went on to the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Grolsch People’s Choice Award.

It opens in Toronto on Friday, in Vancouver on Oct. 30 and across Canada on Nov. 6.

On the poster, stars Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are embracing and lovingly looking at each other as Ma and five-year-old son Jack in the great outdoors.

The only hint of their captivity is seen at the top, where the sky is framed to look like corners of a room.

Elevation recently released a new poster with the same image accompanied by laudatory quotes from critics, in an effort to “show people that this journey is something that they want to go on,” says Adrian Love, senior vice president of marketing and acquisitions at Elevation.

“The journey of this movie is these two characters supporting each other through these incredibly challenging situations and that’s where we, in the marketing of the movie, try and focus.”

Ireland’s Lenny Abrahamson directed the film, which is based on the bestselling novel by Canadian author Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay.

May says a few fans of the book told her they weren’t sure if they could handle seeing the story on the big screen.

It’s that fear that Elevation is trying to allay with a marketing campaign that assures “it’s not an hour and a half inside a room watching negative experiences,” says May. “Most of the movie is about their experience once they’re out,” she adds, noting: “It’s not a horror film, it’s an inspiring drama.”

While there may be a few scenes that are tough to watch, May says “the films that resonate with audiences are the films that go to some places and really make us explore who we are and what love can take people through.”

Those films include Oscar winners Precious and 12 Years a Slave.

“It drives me crazy, people will go watch a horror film that’s so, just nasty, and there’s no redemption or anything you get out of it, they just want to be grossed out,” says May. “But then, ‘Oh, no, I can’t see a movie about 12 Years a Slave. No, you should see that movie! …

These are important, powerful movies.”

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A poster for the film Room, is shown in a photo. As the Canadian-Irish film Room gets set to hit theatres surrounded by critical acclaim and Oscar buzz, the distributors admit the subject matter “is a tricky one.”

Elevation says word of mouth also has a “massive” impact, which is why the TIFF People’s Choice Award was so important for Room.

“We knew that the movie would appeal to so many people but we also knew that the synopsis was a hard thing to explain to people without people imag-

ining a much darker movie than it is,” says Love.

“So winning the People’s Choice Award really opens up the conversation where we can point to a very sophisticated film audience and say, ‘They watched this movie and it’s an enjoyable, uplifting, emotional ride.”’

T.I. talks about life as an independent artist ‘KING OF THE SOUTH’ LOOKS FOR MUSICAL REBIRTH

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ATLANTA — T.I. has always found a way to have success, even when it wasn’t about his own music.

He’s done a reality show with his wife and kids, appeared on blockbuster pop collaborations and endless rap features, and of course had huge success with controversial protege Iggy Azalea — all of which has kept him in the spotlight at times of transition in his own career.

Now, the self-proclaimed “King of the South” is back and looking for a musical rebirth.

He changed his stage name to his childhood name of Tip, and with his new EP Da’ Nic, he’s gone independent, breaking away from a label for the first time.

T.I. says his ability to boost others — like his cameo on the Robin Thicke 2013 smash Blurred Lines — and the success of his street anthem About the Money last year proves he is still highly capable of churning out hits.

“If you can put together the right music, create the right energy and story, you can still have exceptional success,” said T.I., who is set to release his 10th album, The Dime Trap, later this year.

positive reviews. Why did the partnership end?

T.I.: We had one, plus an (additional year) option.

We did the first project and we both made money.

We didn’t shock the world or blow the roof off of what we intended to do.

But I think that I walked away with a positive enough experience to say I’m good. I really don’t have a problem with them.

They were good partners. We shared that moment. … I don’t think it was impressive enough of a project or a rollout or relationship that either one of us needed to stay longer and invest more.

AP: Your 2014 album, Paperwork, which was released under Columbia, seemed to garner mostly

AP: What’s your reasoning behind releasing the EP? T.I.: The core of what I do is to be a voice for the people in the underserved areas of society that can’t speak for themselves. That’s what they want me to do.

AP: Could you ever see yourself back with a major label?

T.I.: If I found an appropriate partner through my campaign (to get back on a label) that could benefit me, I won’t ignore it.

But right now, we’re doing this how we did it since day one.

We’re doing it the same way when we left Arista, and started working “Trap Muzik” on our own before we left Atlantic (Records). It’s a perfect time to make a change.

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Associated Press: Outside of family and friends, the masses know you as T.I. Why make the change to Tip now?

T.I.: At this point, for me to be world famous and for being called a name that no one else really calls me just seemed kind of awkward to me.

I never thought enough to do so (change the name). It just seemed like more trouble than it’s worth. If I was still at the same label or situation, it would be a different story.

This sets the stage and opens the door for a new start.

AP: You released the Da’ Nic independently through your label Grand Hustle Records and Empire Distribution in September. How has independent life treated you?

T.I.: I don’t have to wait on anybody. I don’t have to wait on the opinions or the objective of anyone else other than me and my nucleus around me.

We have been producing great material for years.

We have a perfect idea of what we do and how we

should apply it to the market place. … We don’t need anybody in the midst of that slowing it down, because they don’t get it or haven’t caught up to us artistically.

They just aren’t on the same page. It’s refreshing to not be constricted.

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Goosebumps takes top spot at box office

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Scare-seeking audiences preferred the family-friendly Goosebumps over the gothic horror of Guillermo del Toro’s haunted house pic Crimson Peak two weekends out from Halloween.

Sony’s Goosebumps, based on the popular book series, earned $23.5 million out of the gates to take the first-place spot, while del Toro’s Crimson Peak languished at fourth with $12.8 million.

Goosebumps also managed to beat The Martian by a hair, pushing Ridley Scott’s space adventure to the second-place spot for the first time in its three-week run with $21.5 million.

Starring Jack Black as author R.L. Stine, Goosebumps cost a reported $58 million to produce. Audiences, 59 per cent of whom were under the age of 25, gave the film a promising “A” CinemaScore, and reviews have been mostly favourable for the PG-rated pic.

“It’s set up so well for not only this weekend, but for the rest of the fall,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution.

“The word of mouth is just terrific. I think we were able to convey how much fun the film is for the entire family, no matter what their age.”

The Halloween-timing didn’t necessarily help Crimson Peak, though. The Legendary film, distributed by Universal, failed to attract a significant audience in its debut. Those who did turn out gave the film a lousy B- CinemaScore.

It’s one of del Toro’s lowest wide openings 1997’s Mimic earned only $7.8 million in its first weekend in theatres.

One of the issues is that the movie, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston, is rated R, and therefore has a more limited audience. Also, despite promises of a haunted house, the film, which cost a reported $55 million to produce, is more of a gothic romance than a classic horror.

“It’s not a slasher movie, it’s not a PG-13 movie aimed at the date crowd. It’s more of a sophisticated movie,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst.

“Del Toro has passionate fans for films that give this sort of approach to topics,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. In an exit poll, 45 per cent of respondents said that they went because it was a del Toro movie. But that fandom, it seems, is limited in box-office impact.

Also on the lower end, Steven Spielberg’s well-received cold-war thriller Bridge of Spies, meanwhile, debuted in third-place with $15.4 million from 2,811 theatres.

Despite the PG-13 rating, audiences for the $40 million film starring Tom Hanks were overwhelmingly adult. An estimated 88 per cent were over the age of 25, according to a Rentrak survey.

“This is a movie that will have a very long life in theatres. Older audiences won’t rush out and may

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In this photo provided by Columbia Pictures, Jack Black who stars as R.L. Stine, Slappy, and Invisible Boy, appears in a scene in Columbia Pictures’ “Goosebumps.” even wait until mid-week to see the film in theatres,” Dergarabedian said.

“It’s a very solid start and is setting it up for a really great run overall,” said Dave Hollis, Disney’s executive vice-president of distribution.

Bridge of Spies, like other adult-themed films, will be playing the long game across the fall and the beginning of awards season.

“We have to look at the fall movie season as a marathon, not a sprint like summer,” Dergarabedian said.

Beasts of No Nation, meanwhile, failed to ignite a day and date revolution.

The film, produced by Netflix, debuted simultaneously on the streaming platform and in theatres Friday. Its earned only $50,699 from 31 theatres for a lacklustre $1,635 per theatre average.

Internationally, Ant-Man opened in China to $43.2 million, bringing its global take to $454.6 million.

Disney recently announced that a sequel is in the works for 2017.

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

Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.”Goosebumps,” $23.5 million.

2.”The Martian,” $21.5 million ($37 million international).

3.”Bridge of Spies,” $15.4 million.

4.”Crimson Peak,” $12.8 million ($13.4 million international).

5.”Hotel Transylvania 2,” $12.3 million ($30.6 million international).

6.”Pan,” $5.9 million ($14.4 million international).

7.”The Intern,” $5.4 million ($11.3 million international).

8.”Sicario,” $4.5 million ($3 million international).

9.”Woodlawn,” $4.1 million.

10.”Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” $2.8 million ($8.7 million international).

Album of ’70s soul recorded behind prison bars, resurfaces

BY MARCIS J. MOORE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE ROANOKE, Va. - Jamal Jahal Nubi and Cornelius Cade are sitting at a dining room table and remembering the old days. The soul music they used to create. The friends they once knew. The album they recorded as inmates in prison.

Some might ignore that history, but Nubi and Cade don’t mind walking back through it. They were in a 10-member group named the Edge of Daybreak, which composed an album while they were convicts at the Powhatan Correctional Center in State Farm, Virginia. The musicians were all serving sentences of six to 60 years on charges including armed robbery and assault.

Originally released in 1979, Eyes of Love achieved moderate success at the time: A few local media outlets covered it, and the now-defunct TV news series “PM Magazine” produced a segment about the band called Cellblock Rock. The band was a novelty: Sure, other musicians have recorded live albums from prison, but how many groups had recorded full studio albums from behind bars?

For more than 35 years, Eyes of Love toiled in relative obscurity. But now the Chicago-based Numero Group, which specializes in resurfacing notable and overlooked pieces of history, is reissuing Eyes of Love to a new generation of listeners, shedding a bright light on a group of guys who wanted to make the best of bad times.

Before his time at Powhatan, Nubi was convicted of armed robbery and served 18 months at the Southampton Correctional Center. There, he sang harmonies with a group he knew from Virginia Beach. Upon his release, he was a vocalist with the Love Men, which covered standards by the Manhattans, Temptations and Chi-Lites. Then in 1975, Nubi let a pair of acquaintances borrow his Buick Skylark to pick up some drinks from a nearby store. Hours passed, then days, and his car hadn’t been returned.

Nubi eventually called the police and reported his car stolen. But the police served him with an arrest warrant for armed robbery, saying that his car was connected to a recent convenience-store holdup.

“I got locked up right then and didn’t hit the street again until 1982,” said Nubi, who is now 64.

The singer entered the Powhatan prison in 1976 and faced a 35-year term. (He served 7 ½ years.) One day on the yard, Nubi kept hearing what sounded like live instruments coming from a nearby practice room. There, he bumped into musicians Edward Tucker and William Crawley, who, along with Cade, formed the group Cosmic Conception. They covered the Isley Brothers, Slave and Earth, Wind & Fire.

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BRIEF Tracy Morgan, bouncing back from serious accident, returns to host SNL NEW YORK — Tracy Morgan returned to a familiar stage, hosting Saturday Night Live in his first appearance on the show since a vehicle crash that left him in a coma.

“I was in a terrible car accident more than a year ago. It was awful, but it also showed me how much love and support I have in this world,” the comic said in his opening monologue.

“People are wondering, ‘Can he speak? Does he have 100 per cent mental capacity?”’ he asked.

“The truth is, I never did. I might even be a few points higher.”

In one sketch, he was joined by 30 Rock co-stars Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer.

Fey broke character to inject a serious note: “We’re so happy you’re OK. We’re even happier you’re ready to make people laugh again.”

Morgan also brought back a couple of his familiar

“Guys used to flock in there to hear us,” recalled Cade, a guitarist and songwriter. “Every time we cranked up, man. We just loved the stuff that we played, and we played it well.”

Cade entered Powhatan in 1976 for his role in a hotel robbery. A friend asked him for a ride north in exchange for gas money. The friend confessed when they got to Virginia that he didn’t have the cash. Instead, he had a bag of guns they could sell. As nighttime fell, the friend robbed a hotel at gunpoint with Cade as his getaway driver.

“Cops were right behind me just like that,” said Cade, now 69. “I had to go to jail because of him.”

Both men received six-year sentences. (Cade served his full term.) In remembering the incident, Cade seems contrite, especially because he ignored the advice of his then-girlfriend: “She said, ‘No, don’t go, ‘cause I don’t believe you’re coming back.’”

Once inside, Cade bought a guitar from the prison-approved Music Emporium in Bethesda, Maryland. James Carrington, convicted on assault charges, joined Cade, Nubi and the others, bringing a Fender Rhodes electric piano and a synthesizer to the setup. Carrington had a mail-order connection with Bohannon’s Records in Richmond and established a friendship with shop owner Milton Hogue.

The band, now known as the Edge of Daybreak, with bassist McEvoy Robinson, percussionist Willie Williams and vocalist Harry Coleman in the lineup, began writing original songs. Carrington contacted Hogue about the idea of financing an album. He characters — Astronaut Jones (stranded on Mars, a la Matt Damon in The Martian) and animal expert Brian Fellow (joined by a real camel, who mostly co-operated).

Morgan suffered severe head trauma in June 2014 when a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike slammed into the back of the limo van he was riding in. Comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, a mentor of Morgan’s, was killed in the crash.

Morgan suffered head trauma and was in a coma for two weeks. Three other passengers suffered serious injuries.

Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh battling bladder cancer, getting treatment SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh says he has been diagnosed with bladder cancer and is being treated in Arizona.

The 75-year-old bassist announced his illness Friday on the Facebook page of his San Rafael restaurant and concert hall, Terrapin Crossroads.

Lesh says he was diagnosed in early October and has been undergoing tests at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale and will eventually have surgery to remove the tumors.

He says he’s “very fortunate” to have the pathology reports show the tumors are all non-aggressive and that there is no indication that they have spread.

agreed to do so after seeing the band rehearse.

On a budget of $3,000, the Edge of Daybreak had limited time and resources to get an album recorded. Of course, the inmates couldn’t go to the studio like regular musicians; extra precautions had to be taken to make “Eyes of Love” a reality. Prison personnel inspected Alpha Audio in Richmond and deemed it too risky to secure. Eight prison guards would have had to travel with the band. On Sept. 14, 1979, Alpha Audio officials brought a mixing console and tape machine to the Powhatan prison. The Edge of Daybreak had five hours to record the album’s eight songs in a vacant recreation room. Without overdub equipment and no time to polish, the band had to get everything right the first time.

“It was a little hectic, but the guys had it together,” said Alpha Audio owner Eric Johnson. “They were highly motivated. They were locked up in prison, and this was their thing.”

Johnson said prison personnel weren’t helpful.

The album’s last song, the sensual “Our Love,” was recorded as prison guards hurried the band to finish. The musicians were rushed back to their respective cells as soon as the track concluded.

Eyes of Love was released to a public that had largely moved on from the music that Edge of Daybreak created. The album is full of sweet ballads and sauntering melodies. Two hours up I-95 in the D.C. area, musician Chuck Brown was pushing his own sound, called go-go, a continuous blend of funk and soul designed to keep hips moving long into the night.

Eyes of Love reached back to an earlier part of the decade, to Isaac Hayes and the like, just as hip-hop and other electronic-based genres were born.

By the fall of 1980, Virginia outlets began to run stories about the Edge of Daybreak and attention quickly turned to a possible sophomore album.

But Carrington was transferred to the nearby Deep Meadow Correctional Center, and Cade was moved to the Powhatan center’s North Housing Unit. With band members now in separate facilities, Edge of Daybreak disbanded.

Upon his release, Nubi returned home to Roanoke and formed a new collective - the Business of Sweet Success, or B.O.S.S. for short. Carrington and Cade also formed a group, called Rise, and released a funk single. Yet it wasn’t quite like the Edge of Daybreak, which, for a brief moment in time, rose above those prison walls and transcended its dark circumstances.

“I take it back to like Mama used to say, ‘Everything that’s done in the dark is gonna come to light eventually,’” said Nubi, with an original copy of the Eyes of Love vinyl in front of him at the table. “It’s shining like the light outside now.”

He cancelled Phil Lesh and Friends shows scheduled for Oct. 24 and 25 at the Terrapin Crossroads.

Lesh says he will be able to return to normal activities two weeks after surgery and will reschedule the cancelled dates.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet from London breaks a telecast record with 225,000 viewers NEW YORK — Benedict Cumberbatch, who recently begged fans not to film him playing the lead in Hamlet, has broken a record while being filmed playing the lead in Hamlet.

More than 225,000 viewers watched Cumberbatch tackle the melancholy prince of Denmark at movie theatres around the world on Thursday during a live — or in some cases delayed — telecast from London’s Barbican Theatre.

That’s the largest global audience for a live broadcast of any title in National Theatre Live history.

The broadcast played on over 1,400 screens and in 25 countries.

Since its launch in 2009, National Theatre broadcasts from England have included Frankenstein with Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Mendes’ King Lear, and A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson.

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Dear Annie: About four years ago, second part-time job might make him after 17 years of marriage (no chil- treat me with more respect. Then my dren), working full time, having a mother broke her arm, and my father part-time cleaning job, doing 90 per- needed treatment for prostate cancer. cent of the housework So I helped them, along with and doing 80 percent of working two part-time jobs and the yardwork, I asked doing the housework and yardmy husband whether I work. could quit my full-time It didn’t help. My husband job. hung out with that “amazing” I was 42 and in good girl. He also spent a lot of time shape but was having with a guy who convinced him painful back problems that I was a freeloader. from the type of work I After a horrible vacation did. where he bought earrings for My husband had Ms. Amazing and presents for a good job, and with a her sons, I found emails belittle bit of corner cuttween them.

MITCHELL ting, we didn’t need He admitted he was in love & SUGAR the money from my with her but said nothing had job. He agreed, but afhappened.

ANNIE ter a while, he began to He eventually moved out seem distant and started and filed for divorce, but talking constantly about a girl at work when he heard that I had moved to — how amazing she was because she Hawaii, he tried to woo me back. After worked full time and went to school six months of promises that he had while caring for her two children. changed, I returned home.

After months of this, I thought a I recently found a text from this

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same girl, asking when he’ll be working with her again so they can go to lunch. I left the house.

He says the girl has a boyfriend and I’m overreacting. Am I? — Hawaii-Bound Dear Hawaii: You never actually resolved the issue with Ms. Amazing, so any contact your husband has with her is going to set off all of your alarms.

The fact that he wooed you back doesn’t mean he is no longer vulnerable to her charms.

In order for your marriage to survive, he needs to stop all contact with this woman, not only for your sake but for his.

Get counseling, with or without him, so you can move forward one way or the other.

Dear Annie: This is about the letter from “Miffed,” whose 10-year-old grandson doesn’t like to be touched.

I was the same. From age 9 through my teenage years, I hated it when people touched me, even my parents. Hugs and kisses were hard to tolerate. I think some of it was from being bullied

so much at school, but mostly, it was just the way I was.

Touching is extremely personal, and I show my affection in other ways.

In my family, we compromised by my greeting close relatives with a short hug and a peck on the cheek, and then they would leave me alone for the rest of the day.

I wasn’t crazy about doing it, but my mother insisted. I managed to buy my peace with a kiss. — Didn’t Like It, Either Dear Didn’t: We’re glad that you and your mother reached a compromise that was OK with you.

But no parent should insist that a child hug or kiss anyone.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

your thoughts and ideas in simple language, so there is less room for misunderstandings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today’s stars encourage your tendency to obsess about Monday Oct. 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: minor matters, and take yourself way too seJohn Lithgow, 69; Michael Gambon, 74; Sin- riously. If you must worry, make sure it’s over something that’s actually important. itta, 51 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A domestic THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to baldrama or relationship problem takes up your ance being creative with being productive. time, as you do your best to smooth things HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You over. If anyone can calm troubled are accomplished in many waters and soothe furrowed brows, areas. If you are more open it’s a diplomatic Libran! emotionally — and less posSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): sessive — then your relationToday’s stars encourage your inships will blossom in 2016. tense side, but brooding and stewARIES (March 21-April ing over something won’t improve 19): Are you obsessed about the situation. So simmer down an issue at work or home?

Scorpio, and strive to be more Avoid being short-sighted and comfortable and relaxed. making impulsive moves. A SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. calm, considered approach — 21): Money matters look complicatwith a view to the long-term — ed today, and balancing the budget is the best way to go. should be your number one prioriJOANNE MADELINE TAURUS (April 20-May ty. A child, teenager or friend may MOORE 20): Research projects and surprise you by making an unexpaying close attention to deSUN SIGNS pected move. tails are favoured, as the stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. activate your study gene. But, 19): Are you being too private? when it comes to a close relationship, are you Just remember that what you hide from othpulling your weight? ers, you can also hide from yourself! So strive GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have a to be open and honest about your dreams natural Gemini gift of the gab but try to edit and aspirations for the future. what comes out of your mouth, otherwise AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may you may say something that you later regret. replay a scene or conversation over and over Not everyone wants to hear what you have in your head today Aquarius. But are you facto say. ing the facts — or putting a naive Neptunian CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you spin on what really happened? having romantic or platonic partnership probPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When it lems? The more emotionally stubborn you comes to plans for the future, your’e full of are, the more frustrating the day will be. Ve- innovative ideas and creative schemes. But nus encourages Crabs to be more coopera- can you tell the difference between a delitive. cious daydream and a dodgy delusion?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There may be Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationsome confusion between what you want and ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her what a loved one needs. Try to communicate column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dissolving heart stent passes first big test Now you see it, now you don’t. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said Monday.

Abbott Vascular’s dissolving Absorb stent performed as well as a conventional stent in the one-year study, but the fact it did not prove superior led some experts to be wary.

Still, the results on this and other novel stents currently in testing are fueling hope for a new generation of these devices, used on about 850,000 heart disease patients each year in the United States alone.

Stents are tiny mesh cages that keep blood vessels from reclogging after an artery-opening angioplasty procedure.

The ones available now in the U.S. are permanent implants made of metal, usually coated with a material that oozes medicine, but they sometimes cause inflammation and other problems years down the road.

The Absorb stent, already sold in Europe, is made of a degradable material that’s designed to stay intact and release medicine for a year, then break down over the next two years.

“It holds the artery open long enough for the artery to heal,” then completely goes away, said one study leader, Dr. Dean Kereiakes of Christ Heart and Vascular Center in Cincinnati. “It can return the artery to its normal, natural structure and function.”

The study involved about 2,000 patients with chest pain due to one or two clogged arteries, and was aimed at winning Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Absorb in the U.S. In the study, those treated with the dissolving stent fared as well as those given a conventional Abbott stent called Xience. After one year, 6 per cent to 7 per cent of both groups had died of a heart-related cause, had a heart attack due to a problem with the treated artery or needed a new artery-opening procedure.

The dissolving stent did not prove better, though, on several measures, and the trends were leaning in the opposite direction, noted Dr. Robert A. Byrne of the Technical University of Munich, who has been a paid speak-

er for some rival stent and heart device makers.

He wrote a commentary published online with the study by the New England Journal of Medicine. Results also were discussed Monday at a meeting of heart specialists, the TCT conference, in San Francisco. Abbott sponsored and helped designed the study, and several study leaders consult for the company.

The idea of a dissolving stent is attractive, but “promise alone is not enough to make us unconditionally embrace this technology,” Byrne wrote.

A longer study underway now of 5,000 patients “will go a long way toward determining whether this promPhoto by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ise will become a realThis undated image provided by Abbott shows their experimental heart stent “Absorb.” Doctors ity.” say the new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has Being as good as a stent currently sold done its job, passed its first major test in a large study. is all Absorb had to prove, said another ly dissolving stents catch on. Abbott ing coating dissolves over time, leaving study leader, Dr. Gregg Stone of Co- would not disclose Absorb’s price and behind just a metal scaffold. Extremelumbia University Medical Center. said it varies in dozens of countries. ly thin stents also are in testing, and “The question is what does it take Others said dissolving stents cost more results are due soon on a new stent to get it on the market?” he said. “No that has tiny pores to release medicine than conventional ones. one expected superiority in the first rather than a coating that remains or Earlier this month, the FDA apyear. We expect the real benefits of this technology to be when it dissolves, proved the first stent whose drug-ooz- goes away over time. over several years” in terms of lower complication rates, he said.

The study lasted only a year participants will be tracked longer to see how they fared when the stent dissolved.

Previous studies showed the stent does dissolve as intended.

Phyllis Camp, a retired social worker from Pine Valley, Mississippi, was the first person in the U.S. to get the dissolving stent through the study in December 2012.

“What appealed to me is the fact it would allow my body to heal itself and I wouldn’t have anything metal left behind. It seemed much more natural to support the artery till it could heal itself,” she said.

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D2 Assailant opens fire on bus station

MONDAY, OCT. 19, 2015

ISRAEL

KILLING A SOLDIER AND WOUNDING 10 OTHERS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a monthlong wave of violence.

The attack came as Israel further tightened security around the country, highlighted by the construction of a barrier separating Jewish and Arab neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem. In a bid to halt the fighting, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would meet the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the coming days.

Israel has deployed thousands of police, backed up by troops, to maintain order following a spate of attacks, mostly stabbings, by Palestinian assailants. Those measures have so far failed to stop the violence.

In Sunday night’s attack, police said the Arab assailant entered the central bus station in the southern city of Beersheba and began shooting and stabbing people. They said an Israeli soldier was killed, five police were lightly wounded and five civilians were wounded to varying degrees.

Yoram Halevy, a police commander in southern Israel, told reporters that in addition to the knife and gun he entered with, the attacker also snatched a weapon from the soldier he killed.

The attacker, whose identity was not immediately known, was shot and killed.

A foreigner was shot by police during the attack after they apparently mistook him for an assailant. Halevy said security forces responding to the attack entered the bus station from another area and saw a “foreign national,” shooting and wounding him.

Israeli media said the foreigner was an Eritrean national living in Israel.

Israeli media showed footage of a blood-streaked floor and rows of ambulances outside the bus station. Security camera footage from the bus station aired on Israeli TV showed what appeared to be a civilian shooting

Shark attacks seriously injure two men in Hawaii

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Two men were seriously injured Saturday in separate shark attacks off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, authorities said.

Shortly before noon, a 44-year-old man was injured after what appeared to be a shark attack in the waters off Lanikai beach in Oahu, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

The victim and another man, whose age is unknown, were swimming to shore from the Mokulua Islands when the shark attacked, the newspaper reported. The attack happened about 50 to 100 yards (45 to 90 metres) from shore, the Honolulu Fire Department said.

The victim was injured in his lower legs, but the other man did not sustain any injuries, the Star-Advertiser reported.

Two nearby kayakers paddled the men back to shore, where Hawaii Fire Department staff and paramedics treated the victim. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Authorities notified swimmers and cleared Kailua, Lanikai, and Mokulua beaches.

About 7:20 p.m., a shark bit a 32-year-old man’s left foot as he was in the water off Waikiki beach, the KITV station reported.

The man is in serious condition at a nearby trauma centre, the TV station reported.

Another man who surfs at the beach every day saw the rescue workers arrive.

“We were surfing out there. … and I hear all this commotion, but I had no idea it had to do with the shark. It’s pretty crazy,” Kyle Kaiser told the TV station. “We see sharks out here, you know, but mostly small sharks. I never hear about a hoard of big, tiger sharks or anything like that. So yeah, very rare. I couldn’t believe it.”

Kaiser remembers last year’s shark attacks happening in October, even referencing a 2003 incident when Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, lost her arm in a shark attack off Kauai. “It seems like October is the month where this kind of thing happens,” he said.

These are the sixth and seventh shark attacks in Hawaii this year and the second and third in as many weeks on Oahu. Earlier this month, a surfer lost most of his left leg after a shark attacked him off Oahu’s north shore.

One attack, which occurred in April on Maui, was fatal.

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Israeli police stand by the shrouded body of Palestinian attacker in Beersheba, Israel, Sunday. An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a month long wave of violence. the attacker as soldiers and civilians crouched for cover nearby.

The attack was one of the most serious incidents amid near-daily bouts of violence that has hit Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past month. After the attack, a crowd of Israelis gathered outside the bus station and chanted “death to Arabs.”

The unrest erupted in Jerusalem a month ago over tensions surrounding a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims. It soon spread to Arab neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem and then to the West Bank, Gaza and Israel.

Israel has struggled to contain near-daily attacks by Palestinian assailants. Authorities have blocked roads and placed checkpoints at the entrances of Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem. Other security measures include ID checks and requiring some Palestinian residents to lift their shirts and roll up pant legs as they exit their neighbourhoods to

prove they are not carrying knives. Soldiers have been deployed in Jerusalem and cities across Israel.

On Sunday, Israeli police erected a barrier to separate the Jewish neighbourhood of Armon Hanatziv from the adjacent Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber as part of the heightened security. A number of attackers have come from Jabal Mukaber.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the barrier, a row of six concrete slabs about five meters (16 feet) high, was meant to protect Armon Hanatziv from rocks and firebombs lobbed from Jabal Mukaber.

But erecting a barrier dividing areas of Jerusalem is a sensitive step, testing Israel’s repeated statements over the years that the city is its undivided, eternal capital.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally. The Pal-

estinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state.

“This has no political meaning, said Emmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry. “It’s one more aspect of our security measures.”

Samri, the police spokeswoman, said the barrier would remain “for as long as needed” and that it could be lengthened based on security needs.

On Sunday, the six slabs lined a sidewalk on a road between the Jewish and Arab neighbourhoods. Writing in Hebrew on the barrier said it was a “temporary, mobile police barrier.” It did not prevent pedestrians from leaving or entering.

Palestinians said the roadblocks are collective punishment and ineffective in deterring attackers.

Israeli leaders say the violence is due to Palestinian incitement. But Palestinians say it is the result of years of Israeli occupation, failed peace efforts and lack of hope among their youth.

Shooting sends zombie-dressed revelers into the streets at ZombieCon in Florida

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MYERS, Fla. — A shooting at the annual ZombiCon gathering in Florida has left one person dead and five more injured, causing a chaotic scene that sent throngs of zombie-dressed revelers running through the streets, police said Sunday.

The shooting happened around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, just 15 minutes before the event officially ended. Large crowds were still in the streets and authorities quickly cleared out nearby bars and set up crime scene tape, while others patrolled the area with rifles searching for a suspect.

Fort Myers Police Lt. Victor Medico said Expavious Tyrell Taylor, a 20-year-old who played football at a local junior college, died at the scene, but no other details about his death were released. Four others were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and one additional victim refused medical attention, authorities said.

Authorities said the suspect or suspects are still at large and did not re-

lease any information about a possible motive.

“There were a lot of witnesses down here, there were a lot of people taking pictures, videos with their cellphone,” Medico told the News-Press. “Anything that could help with this investigation would be greatly appreciated.”

Police did not immediately return email and phone call messages on Sunday seeking more details. Medico told reporters the agency had been inundated with national media requests and would not be making any comments “as we tirelessly investigate this incident and gather as many facts as possible.”

The annual festival had been expected to draw more than 20,000 fans dressed as zombies, the newspaper said. Medico said the scene was described as “shoulder to shoulder.”

Jill Stancel said she heard the shots and then saw people running from the downtown barbershop owned by her family. She and her family let several frightened witnesses inside the shop, where they quickly locked the door.

“I was right here,” she said. “A mass of people ran screaming and trying to

get in the shop.”

Stancel was raised in the area and said she doesn’t think the downtown area is dangerous, but said the shooting will be in the back of her mind at future events.

“There are people dressed up and some walking around with guns. How do you know they aren’t real? Any event I come to, this will be in the back of my mind.”

Authorities were reviewing surveillance videos from restaurants and shops to help them find the suspect or suspects.

A statement on the ZombiCon Facebook page said organizers were saddened by the news and the group takes the safety of its patrons very seriously.

ZombiCon has been a popular event for nearly a decade, but some local residents and business owners have not welcomed the crowd of costumed revelers in the street dressed as limping, bloated, degrading corpses. One restaurant posted signs warning visitors that ZombiCon participants were not welcome.

“Quarantined. No Zombies allowed,” the signs read.

GOING BACK IN TIME

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Union troops fire upon advancing Confederate troops during a reenactment of the Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek on Sunday Oct. 18, 2015, at the Cedar Creek battlefield just south of Middletown, Va. The 151st anniversary commemoration weekend was hosted by the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park.

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Intense airstrikes pound targets in Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded targets in central and northern Syria, killing at least four civilians Sunday as ground troops battled insurgents and seized new territory, activists and the government said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activist news platform Syrian Revolution Talbiseh said warplanes believed to be Russian targeted mourners at a funeral in Homs province’s al-Ghanto village, killing four civilians. Homs-based activist Bebars al-Telawy said the civilians were burying a man who died from wounds sustained a day earlier when the planes struck.

Al-Ghanto, the town of Talbiseh and other areas north of the city of Homs were pounded with more than a dozen airstrikes Sunday, including government helicopters dropping barrel bombs in the village of Ter Maela, the activists said.

The state-news agency SANA reported army troops began a ground offensive in the area.

Meanwhile, the Observatory and monitoring group Local Coordination Committees said intense clashes were reported on the edges of Wadihi, a village the government firmly controlled Sunday, a day after entering it during an offensive in southern Aleppo. The area is controlled by mainstream rebels, some Islamist groups and al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria.

Government ground forces, backed by allied militias, opened another front in eastern Aleppo, where the Islamic State group has a strong presence. Syria TV reported that government forces seized control of al-Jabriyeh village. Local Coordination Committees said government warplanes had bombed areas in eastern Aleppo near the Kweiras military air base, which the IS group has besieged for months.

Syrian troops had launched a separate offensive earlier this month in an attempt to break the siege.

Since Russian airstrikes began on Sept. 30, Syrian troops have been on the offensive on several fronts around the country, in an attempt to secure supply routes and regain control of strategic areas.

Also Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said aid was delivered to four areas that were part of a limited U.N.-brokered cease fire agreement reached last month.

It is the first aid delivered to the four besieged areas that include two Shiite villages in the province of Idlib and two rebel-held areas near the border with Lebanon.

File Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo released by the Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer search and rescue group, shows the aftermath of an airstrike in Talbiseh, Homs province, Syria. Russian warplanes have been hitting rebel-controlled areas including Homs. Opposition activists warn that the Russian intervention will only hurt the already beleaguered moderate forces in the rebellion and will in fact boost radicals like al-Qaida and the Islamic State, while fueling the refugee crisis and death toll.

The U.N.-backed truce was reached in September to end months of fighting between Sunni insurgents and pro-government forces, including fighters from Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.

The deal included the reciprocal transfer of thousands, allowing Sunni insurgents and their families safe passage out of the central town of Zabadani in return for safe passage for Shiite civilians in the northern villages of Foua and Kfarya, in Idlib province. Some 10,000 Shiite civilians and wounded pro-government fighters from the two villages in rebel-controlled Idlib will be allowed to leave.

So far no transfer has taken place. It was not yet clear when and how the transfer would be arranged.

Late Sunday, Pawel Krzyiesk, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said 33

trucks of aid and medical supplies were delivered, serving 40,000 people in all four areas. The ICRC was working in co-operation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

“This operation shows that political agreements can be reached to ease the suffering of civilians,” Krzyiesk told The Associated Press from Zabadani, where he was part of the team delivering the supplies.

He said an estimated 4 million Syrians are living in besieged areas or hard-to-reach locations, and are in need of aid.

“Where ever you look (in Syria), you will find hard-to-reach people,” he said, listing off areas that are besieged by government forces or controlled by militants.

Typhoon leaves two dead, NYC seeks the thousands displaced in Philippines upper hand in ‘rat race’ to control rodent population

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANILA, Philippines — Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, leaving at least two people dead, displacing 16,000 villagers and knocking out power in entire provinces, officials said.

Army troops and police were deployed to rescue residents trapped in flooded villages in the hard-hit provinces of Aurora, where the typhoon made landfall early Sunday, and Nueva Ecija, a nearby rice-growing province where floodwaters swamped rice farmlands at harvest time.

After slamming into Aurora’s Casiguran town after midnight Saturday, the typhoon weakened and slowed down, hemmed in by the Sierra Madre mountain range and a high pressure area in the country’s north and another typhoon far out in the Pacific in the east, government forecaster Gladys Saludes said.

Howling winds knocked down trees and electric posts, leaving nine entire provinces without power, while floods and small landslides made 25 roads and bridges impassable. Authorities suspended dozens of flights and sea voyages due to the stormy weather, and many cities cancelled classes on Monday.

By Sunday afternoon, the typhoon had veered toward the north from a westward course and was barrelling across mountainous Nueva Vizcaya province with sustained winds of 150 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 185 kph, according to the government’s weather agency.

Satellite images showed that the typhoon appeared to be losing its eye, a sign of its dissipating strength, acting weather bureau chief Esperanza Cayanan said, adding that Koppu was forecast to move at a slow pace of 5 kph across the mountainous north before exiting the main northern is-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Filipino man sits inside his makeshift home as strong winds and rains caused by Typhoon Koppu hits the coastal town of Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines on Sunday. Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu blew ashore with fierce wind in the northeastern Philippines early Sunday, toppling trees and knocking out power and communications. land of Luzon on Wednesday.

While weather conditions had begun to improve in some towns, and villagers had started to clear roads of fallen trees and debris, Koppu still packed a ferocity that could set off landslides and flash floods, officials said.

“We’re asking our countrymen not to become complacent,” said Alexander Pama, who heads the government’s disaster-response agency, citing how rainwater could cascade down mountainsides after Koppu passed and flood villages.

That happened in low-lying villages in six towns in Nueva Ecija, near Aurora, where some residents were trapped on rooftops by floodwaters, said Nigel Lontoc of the Office of Civil Defence.

A teenager was pinned to death on Sunday by a fallen tree, which also injured four people and damaged three houses in suburban Quezon city in the Manila metropolis.

In Subic town, northwest of

Manila, a concrete wall collapsed and killed a 62-year-old woman and injured her husband, Lontoc said.

Three fishermen who had gone missing at sea were rescued off northern Bataan province, and three other missing people were found in an evacuation camp in Aurora’s Baler town, he said.

President Benigno Aquino III and disaster-response agencies had warned that Koppu’s rain and winds may potentially bring more damage with its slow speed. But Saludes, the government forecaster, said that there was less heavy rain than expected initially in some areas, including in Manila, but that fierce winds lashed many regions.

Koppu, Japanese for “cup,” is the 12th storm to hit the Philippines this year. An average of 20 storms and typhoons each year batter the archipelago, one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

NEW YORK — To many in New York City, the rats are winning.

The city’s complaint hotline is on pace for a record year of rat calls, exceeding the more than 24,000 over each of the last two years. Blistering audits have faulted efforts to fight what one official called a “rat crisis.” And even jaded New Yorkers were both disgusted and a little impressed by “Pizza Rat,” the plucky rodent in a recent viral YouTube clip seen dragging a large cheese slice down a subway stairwell.

Nora Prentice, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has repeatedly complained to the city about a colony of about 200 rats in a neighbourhood park.

“It’s like the Burning Man of rats,” she said.

“They’re just sitting there in a lawn chair waiting for you. . I don’t know what the city can do about this rat condominium. It’s really gross.”

Prentice said that she avoids the area because of the rats and that complaints she filed with the city were closed after officials told her they were “working on the problem.”

“It means you can’t lay down and relax in that park,” she said. “What kind of an answer is this?”

Such gripes have found an advocate in Comptroller Scott Stringer, the city’s top financial officer, who has taken on the self-appointed role of rat czar. In separate audits over the past two years, he has criticized the city’s health department for not responding quickly enough to rat complaints, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, for not cleaning stations more regularly. Such breakdowns, he says, have allowed rats to thrive.

“I’ve seen rats walking upright, saying, ‘Good morning, Mr. Comptroller,” he said. “It’s unsightly to see rats running through neighbourhoods like they actually bought a co-op somewhere.”

New York officials who have been fighting the battle for decades say rising complaint numbers don’t mean there are more rats, and they argue the rat population has actually been holding steady the past few years.

A Columbia University doctoral student using statistical analysis last year estimated the number of rats in the city at 2 million, claiming to debunk a popular theory that there is one rat for each of the city’s 8.4 million people. But scientists and city officials say it’s impossible to accurately estimate the number.

Six-year-old boy fatally shoots younger brother in Chicago ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WHILE PLAYING ‘COPS AND ROBBERS,’ GUN OBTAINED ILLEGALLY AND RENEWS TALK ABOUT GUN LAWS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — A 6-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 3-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” with a gun their father told investigators he had obtained illegally from a gang member, Chicago police said Sunday.

Police said the two boys were playing Saturday evening when the older boy reached on top of the refrigerator and grabbed the loaded handgun and then accidentally shot 3-year-old Eian Santiago in the face. The boy was rushed to a hospital, where he died later that night.

Police subsequently arrested the boys’ father, 25-year-old Michael Santiago, on a felony child endangerment charge.

During a court hearing on Sunday, Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph DiBella said that Santiago bought the gun off the street, kept it “wrapped in pajama pants on top of the refrigerator” and even showed the boy where the gun was.

“He kept the gun for protection because he was a former gang member who snitched on a gang member in a murder trial,” the Chicago Tribune reported DiBella as saying in court. Santiago had told police about the gun in a videotaped confession, DiBella said.

Judge James Brown set Santiago’s bail at $75,000.

Santiago was represented by the county public defender’s office. The office was closed on Sunday and could not be reached for comment.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the case tragically illustrates a point he has been making for years about how a major cause of much of Chicago’s violent crime is the flood of illegal guns into the city.

“It’s real simple,” McCarthy said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Sunday.

“If that gun is not in the house that kid is alive today. We see this happen over and over and over again.”

McCarthy routinely points out that his officers seize many times more illegal guns than any city in

the nation, including the larger cities of New York and Los Angeles. The department has seized more than 5,500 illegal weapons thus far in 2015.

Chicago also has more homicides than any city in the nation, and the number this year has climbed, with department statistics showing there were 370 homicides as of Oct. 4, compared to 306 for the same period last year.

The number of shooting incidents also has climbed during the same period to 1,870 from 1,581 last year.

Some members of the city council recently called for McCarthy to resign because they said he had failed to stem the violence.

But McCarthy said that even when people are convicted in Chicago of gun possession the sentences in Illinois are not as long as they should be and dangerous criminals are back on the street within months or even weeks.

“Until something happens with these gun laws, it’s going to continue,” he said.

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Waiting for better options SAFETY ISSUES WITH FIRST FEMALE LIBIDO PILL MAY SPUR BETTER ALTERNATIVES FOR WOMEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Most women with low sexual desire won’t rush to get the first prescription drug to boost female libido when it becomes available on Saturday. But they may have more options down the road.

Addyi can’t be taken with alcohol or certain other medications, which will likely limit its use. But experts believe those restrictions could spur development of better treatments for women’s sexual problems after more than a decade of neglect by most of the world’s large drugmakers.

Kim Wallen, a psychology professor at Emory University, says Addyi represents a historic milestone that may open the door to more drugs targeting desire in men and women. Where Viagra and other men’s erectile dysfunction drugs work by increasing blood flow to the genitals, Addyi acts on brain chemicals associated with desire.

“This is the first time that a drug, for either men or women, has been approved strictly to increase sexual desire,” Wallen says. “That legitimizes many other drugs that are in development.”

Treatments for women’s libido issues are an untapped financial opportunity for drugmakers. Analysts estimate the market could be worth over $2 billion, based on academic estimates that between 5 million and 9 million U.S. women may suffer from desire disorders.

But the area hasn’t been a research priority for drugmakers in many years.

Beginning in the 1990s, Pfizer, Bayer and Procter & Gamble all studied — then discarded — drugs targeting female libido.

Addyi itself was developed by the German conglomerate, Boehringer Ingelheim, then sold to Sprout Pharmaceuticals after the Food and Drug Administration rejected the medication due to lacklustre effectiveness and issues like nausea, fatigue and dizziness.

It took Sprout four years to win FDA approval for Addyi, which acts on brain chemicals associated with mood

and appetite.

The drug will come with a bold warning label about the risks of fainting if combined with alcohol or certain medications. Additionally, doctors and pharmacists must complete an online certification process to show they understand the drug’s risks.

Dr. Lisa Dabney says several patients have asked her about Addyi, but they generally lose interest after she explains they cannot drink alcohol while taking the daily medication.

“It’s definitely an option that’s going to help patients,” says Dabney, of New York’s Mt. Sinai hospital. “But it’s going to have a limited patient audience because of the alcohol restrictions and the fact that you have to take it every day.”

Still, some women credit the drug with saving their relationships.

Amanda Parrish, 52, had been married for three years when she realized she was avoiding sex with her husband. Her doctor said it was natural to lose sexual interest with age and suggested she try a vibrator. But nothing worked until Parrish enrolled in a trial of Addyi, which was studied in women who report distress due to a lack of libido.

“It just brought me back to where I was as far as being flirty and playful,” says Parrish, who lives in Nashville. “I went back to the days of leaving notes on his window, in his car, on his mirror in the morning.”

Experts generally describe Addyi’s effect as “modest.” In company studies, women taking the drug that’s also called flibanserin reported a slight uptick in sexually satisfying events each month. Their answers to separate questionnaires indicated they experienced a slight increase in desire and a slight decrease in stress.

Analysts from Evercore ISI estimate Addyi could generate sales of $200 million annually. That’s far below the blockbuster numbers once discussed by experts and the $1 billion that Valeant Pharmaceuticals recently agreed to purchase Sprout.

But the buyout has revived interest in a handful of competitors developing alternate treatments. Those products include nasal sprays, injections and

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Sprout Pharmaceuticals CEO Cindy Whitehead holds a bottle for the female sexdrive drug Addyi at her Raleigh, N.C. Most women with low sexual desire won’t rush out to get the first prescription drug to boost female libido when it came on Saturday but they may have more options down the road. antidepressant pills.

It could be years before any of them reach patients. That’s because the field of women’s sexual medicine remains a small one, comprised of tiny companies with limited resources.

Leading the field is Cranbury, N.J.based Palatin Technologies Inc. which is studying an injectable drug that mimics a hormone linked to sexual arousal.

Unlike Addyi, women would only take the drug when they want to be sexually active. The company’s penlike injector contains a single dose of bremelanotide, which lasts about eight hours. Where Addyi is absorbed into the entire nervous system, Palatin drug’s targets a specific region of the brain.

Mid-stage trial results suggest the drug could be at least as effective as

Addyi without the dangerous interactions with alcohol. Palatin hopes to submit its drug to the FDA in 2017 with a decision in 2018.

Wall Street analysts estimate the drug, if approved, could reach sales around $500 million, according to Piper Jaffray.

In interviews, company executives highlight the differences between their drug and Addyi. But they also acknowledge the trailblazing path paved by their competitor. Palatin CEO Carl Spana says larger drugmakers are again interested in discussing partnerships with his company, after years of doubts about the future of female sex drugs.

“With the approval of Addyi that’s changed and we’ve seen a much larger uptick in the number of companies that want to talk to us,” Spana says.

Antioxidants may give a boost to cancer cells STUDY

BY ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Since the term “antioxidants” made the leap from the realm of biochemistry labs and into the public consciousness in the 1990s, Americans have come to believe that more is better when it comes to consuming the substance that comes in things like acai berries, green tea and leafy veggies.

A provocative new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature raises important questions about that assumption.

Antioxidants — which include vitamins C and E and beta-carotene, and are contained in thousands of foods — are thought to protect cells from damage by acting as defenders against something called “free radicals” which the body produces as a part of metabolism or that can enter through the environment.

That’s all great for normal cells. But what researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found is that antioxidants can work

their magic on cancerous cells, too - turbo-charging the process by which they grow and spread.

Researcher Sean Morrison and his colleagues conducted experiments on mice that had been transplanted with skin cancer cells (melanoma) from human patients. They gave nothing to one group. To the other they gave doses of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) which is a common antioxidant that’s used in nutritional and bodybuilding supplements and has been used as a treatment for patients with HIV/AIDS and in some children with certain genetic disorders.

The results were alarming: Those in the second group had markedly higher levels of cancer cells in their blood, grew more tumors and the tumors were larger and more widespread than in the second.

“What we’re starting to learn is that there can be bad cells from cancer that appear to benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells,” he said.

Morrison, director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, explained that it has to do with something called oxidative stress.

Scientists have known for a while now that cancer metastasis - especially when it involves spreading a great distance to another part of the body - is a very inefficient process and that many cells die along the way. This is likely due to oxidative stress, which is

an inability by the body to counteract the harmful effect of free radicals. When antioxidants supplements are given, the paper hypothesizes, they may give new life to those cancerous cells that are on the edge of dying.

Morrison said that previous studies have shown that the progression of metastasis of human melanoma cells in mice is predictive of their metastasis in humans, which raises concerns about the use of dietary antioxidants by patients with cancer.

Moreover, melanoma may not be the only type of cancer to be impacted this way. A similar study conducted at Vanderbilt University and published in PLoS One in 2012 involving mice with prostate cancer also showed that antioxidants appeared to increase the proliferation of cells in the pre-cancerous lesions. Morrison said that further study needs to be done to confirm the findings and that cancer patients should still consume antioxidants as part of a healthy diet. But, he added, “personally, from the results we’ve seen, I would avoid supplementing my diet with large amounts of antioxidants if I had cancer.”

Over the past 20 years, numerous studies were launched to ascertain the effect of antioxidants on other conditions ranging from heart disease to memory loss.

Supplements send 23,000 to hospitals each year in U.S. Many claim to be natural, which may sound safe, but dietary supplements send 23,000 Americans to hospital emergency rooms each year, a new federal study estimates.

The riskiest ones are weight-loss and energy-boosting products, says the report, published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. Here are some details: POPULAR PILLS — The market is flush with pills and powders. Supplement products have increased dramatically, from about 4,000 types in 1994 to more than 55,000 in 2012, the report says. Roughly half of all U.S. adults say they have used at least one in the past month, most commonly vitamins. Dietary supplements do not have to have federal Food and Drug Administration approval before they are sold, nor do they get the kind of testing prescription drugs do.

THE STUDY — Reliable information on serious side effects from supplements is hard to come by. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the FDA studied emergency room records from 2004 through 2013 at 63 hospitals considered to be nationally representative. Based on 3,667 cases they found, they estimated there are about 23,000 ER visits each year for health problems related to supplements, and that about 2,154 lead to hospitalization.

BIGGEST TROUBLEMAKERS — Products for weight loss or increased energy accounted for the most ER visits. These products caused 72 per cent of problems involving chest pain or irregular or toofast heartbeats, and they were the culprits in more than half of visits among patients ages 5 to 34. Bodybuilding and sexual-enhancement products also led to cardiac symptoms in many seeking ER help.

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In-app purchases in the crosshairs KANYE WESTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RANTING TWEETS ON IN-APP PURCHASES HIGHLIGHT PROBLEM IN KIDSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; GAMES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto single mom Robyn Holmes sympathizes with Kanye West.

Like the hip-hop star, who recently dropped an F-bomb on Twitter over in-app purchases for kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mobile video games, Holmes has been burned by her young child inadvertently racking up a bill on her tablet.

In Holmesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, her then-fouryear-old daughter was playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angry Birdsâ&#x20AC;? and clicked on over a dozen in-app purchase prompts to advance to new levels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I start receiving these emails on my device, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thanks for your purchase,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh my God, what purchase?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; recalls Holmes, an IT problem manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look and all of a sudden Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got this $80 bill for stuff that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bought.â&#x20AC;?

Holmes didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize that certain settings on the tablet allowed her daughter to make in-app purchases.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since learned her lesson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one that West clearly just did as well, based on his recent tweet that started with an expletive and then derided â&#x20AC;&#x153;any game company that puts in-app purchases on kids games!!!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;That makes no sense!!! We give the iPad to our child and every 5 minutes thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new purchase!!!â&#x20AC;? West continued in another tweet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a game is made for a 2 year old, just allow them to have fun and give the parents a break for Christ sake.â&#x20AC;?

Actor Jack Black has also been affected by costly in-app purchas-

es, lamenting on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonâ&#x20AC;? in May that his young son spent $3,000 on just one game.

In-app purchasing is typically available in games that are advertised as free to download. Sometimes just the first few minutes of play are free, or users may be tempted with the option to buy more lives, bonus features or premium content with real money.

Digital media expert Aimee Morrison, associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo, says the problem improved somewhat after developers of â&#x20AC;&#x153;freeâ&#x20AC;? games started indicating in app store descriptions when in-app purchases were available.

But the total cost of in-app purchases can vary wildly, she adds. Some games offer dozens of hours of fun for just a few bucks, while others require substantially more.

The biggest piece of advice from experts is for parents to change settings on their devices to prevent children from making such purchases.

Parents can also seek out kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; games that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have such traps.

Toronto-based studio Sago Sago, for instance, makes apps that are free of in-app purchases and third-party ads for children ages two to four. Instead, most of the apps cost $2.99 for the entire game upfront. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It creates challenges for us but the reality is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won the trust of a lot of parents,â&#x20AC;? says CEO Jason Krogh.

Morrison says she would like to see more transparency from developers, with kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; apps disclosing how much it

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Kanye West appears at the Brother Vellies Spring 2016 collection presentation during Fashion Week in New York in this Sept. 10, 2015 file photo. Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranting tweets on in-app purchases highlight the problem in kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; games. would cost to achieve full functionality in a game.

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, based at the University of Ottawa, has defended several clients dealing with this very issue.

Director David Fewer says one client had a child rack up over $800 in purchases on what was at the time a popular kid-focused gaming platform. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Usually the first response is to go back to whoever it is thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking your money and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree to this. You shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be charging me this. This is outrageous,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; says Fewer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And usually the companies are

good enough to reverse the charges.â&#x20AC;?

Fewer says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see more safeguards in place, such as a secondary confirmation prompt telling the card holder that their account is about to be used. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it is abusive of consumers,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most people will contest an $800 bill, but how many people will contest an $8 bill or even an $80 bill?â&#x20AC;?

Count Holmes among those who â&#x20AC;&#x153;ate the costâ&#x20AC;? of the bill and learned from it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I shouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been more aware,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went online and I told all my friends â&#x20AC;Ś and they were all like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh my God, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think of that.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Canadian telecoms clash over Videotronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wireless music streaming leges Videotron is essentially doing that with Unlimited Music and favouring certain music services while leaving others, like Apple Music, off the eligible list.

Videotron fired back at the criticism of Unlimited Music in its response to the regulator: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is astonishing at times to behold the range of ulterior motives that can be ascribed to a provider that is sim-

TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The way you listen to music on your smartphone is becoming a prickly issue with some of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wireless carriers.

A complaint filed by Rogers Communications to the CRTC this week says Videotronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Unlimited Music package clashes with rules laid out by the regulator to prevent favouritism among customers when it comes to using wireless data.

In the filing, Rogers takes issue with how its competitor is giving subscribers the ability to stream music on the go without eating into their mobile data plan, but only if they pay for an upgraded package.

Launched in August, Unlimited Music eliminates a common complaint from music fans who say that frequent audio streaming can drive up monthly bills if they happen to go over their data limits.

However, there are a few stipulations to Unlimited Music itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only included in Videotronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premium wireless plan and just a select list of streaming services like Stingray, Rdio, Google Play and Spotify are exempt from data caps. Both of those factors have raised concerns with Rogers.

The Toronto-based telecom company filed a complaint with the CRTC on Tuesday saying Unlimited Music contravenes a regulatory decision on how telecom companies market mobile exemptions to consumers.

David Watt, vice-president of Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; regulatory operations, said Videotron is â&#x20AC;&#x153;acting as the gatekeeperâ&#x20AC;? by selecting which streaming companies fall under its data exemption, a strategy that gives some â&#x20AC;&#x153;an undue and unreasonable preference,â&#x20AC;? according to the complaint documents.

Rogers also has a problem with Videotron making Unlimited Music available only to premium plan customers.

It said Videotronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favoured exemption of mobile data conflicts with a CRTC ruling earlier this year against Bell Mobility.

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ply seeking to make its services more attractive to consumers,â&#x20AC;? said Dennis Beland, vice-president of regulatory affairs at Quebecor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The truth is much less conspiratorial.â&#x20AC;?

Videotron said it created Unlimited Music as a way to broaden its wireless package appeal to the 14- to 34-yearold demographic.

Streaming music has become an increasingly popular way for listeners to

play their favourite tracks on demand.

Most streaming companies not only offer services through mobile phone apps, but some also connect through desktop computer programs, tablets and even gaming consoles.

Rogers has its own streaming music agreement through the Fido brand.

The company partnered with Spotify to bundle a commercial-free version of the service.

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