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Property crimes spike

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

ANNUAL POLICING REPORT

Police are cracking down on organized crime and making headway when it comes to safer youth and safe roads, according to the Red Deer RCMP’s annual policing report.

But the year-to-end results show a significant spike in total property crimes from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 over the last five years.

In 2015 there were 10,034 total property crimes compared to 9,506 in 2014 and 7,342 in 2011.

RCMP Insp. Gerald Grobmeier said this may be attributed to the growth in Red Deer’s population, the downturn in the economy or that people are reporting more crimes.

“It’s probably a combination of everything,” he said.

Criminal code offences, such as disturbing the peace and offensive weapons, have stayed relatively the same with 16,313 in 2015 compared to 16,241 in 2014 and 14,297 in 2011.

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Total persons crimes were down to 2,117 in 2015 compared to 2,336 in 2014 and 2,567 in 2011. This includes crimes such as robberies, sexual assault and utter threats.

Grobmeier said the downward trend is common throughout the country. He said it could be a combination of better education, better programs and more calls to the police.

The second quarter APP results, released last week, provided an update on the five policing objectives between July 1 and Sept. 30, 2015.

Please see REPORT on Page A2

ALAN BEACH HOMICIDE

Murder suspect had history of violence RCMP HUNTING FOR SECOND SUSPECT

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Seven-month-old Freyja Rolfson gets her fingers into Santa’s beard at Parkland Mall Monday during a visit to the shopping centre with her parents, Justin and June Rolfson, of Red Deer.

Santa will be sitting in his chair at the Parkland Mall daily until Dec 24 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Monday to Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Police are looking for a second suspect in a recent stabbing death, but the one facing a murder charge was the subject of a violent-offender warning.

Daniel Boyd Sawyer, 31, is listed as a high-risk offender, according to the Alberta Justice and Solicitor General.

He was released from custody in 2010 after serving a four-year sentence on convictions of manslaughter, assault with a weapon and trafficking a controlled substance.

The Edmonton Police Service issued the information and warning, calling Sawyer a violent offender and saying he “poses a risk of significant DANIEL SAWYER harm to the community.”

He was convicted of those charges in October 2005. He pleaded guilty at the time.

On Nov. 18, just after 9 p.m., police were called to a disturbance at the pub located in Village Mall in north Red Deer. Upon arrival, police and Red Deer Emergency Services found Alan Beach, 31, suffering from stab wounds. Beach was transported to hospital and later died from the injuries he sustained.

Sawyer turned himself into Red Deer RCMP on Nov. 27 and has been charged with second-degree murder.

Police are looking for a second suspect who was captured on video surveillance entering the Blarney Stone Pub at about 9 p.m.

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Mother of five one of three found dead in rural home of Edmonton looking for leads and clues, he said.

Police found the bodies after responding to a call from someone outside the home.

Glavin said police don’t believe anyone else is at risk, but urged people to be careful.

“We do urge the public to be cautious, to be aware

other than that they all lived in the house.

The investigation is not ruling out any suspects and officers would like to speak to anyone who may EDSON — Friends and family have identified a have information about what happened, he said. woman who recently started a new job at a fast-food Autopsies had yet to be performed. restaurant as one of three people killed in a rural A co-worker at an Edson McDonald’s who didn’t Alberta home. Mounties say the bodies of want to be named described Berube as a a man, a woman and a teenage girl — all good worker and a nice person.

‘ANY TIME YOU HAVE AN INCIDENT LIKE THIS, ESPECIALLY with “obvious trauma” — were found in a Berube’s Facebook page has photos house near Edson on Sunday.

WITH THREE PEOPLE, IT KIND OF SENDS CHILLS THROUGH THE of five children in a snow-filled field. A Sylvia Standing said Monday that her post on Oct. 23 said one of the photos was goddaughter Roxanne Ruth Berube was COMMUNITY. THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT IN ONE LOCATION. taken two years ago and “my family has 36, had five children and was a good mothIT’S NOT LIKE SOMEONE WAS GOING ON A RAMPAGE OR ANY- gotten bigger since this picture. My boyer. friend (I can’t wait for you guys to meet THING.’ There were also media reports identifyhim and his family) and I have 10 kids ing the male victim as Dan Miller. between us and 2 grand babies.”

— EDSON MAYOR GREG PASYCHNY Insp. Gibson Glavin said the deaths Edson Mayor Greg Pasychny said peowere not a murder-suicide. ple in the oil and gas town were heart“I will be clear that there was someone out there, of people or circumstances that cause them to be- ened by assurances from the RCMP that the public is or some people, who did this and we have not arrest- lieve that they have some knowledge or some con- not at risk. ed them yet,” he said. nection with this homicide investigation,” he said.

RCMP major crimes investigators and other Glavin would not say at a news conference in EdMounties were speaking with people in the area west monton what the relationship was between the dead Please see EDSON on Page A2

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Assante settlement greenlighted

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A $10-million settlement has been approved in the class-action lawsuit involving a former Red Deer investor incarcerated for first-degree murder.

Justice John Rooke, associate chief of the Alberta Court of Queen’s bench, approved the settlement between a class of 804 claimants against Assante Capital Management, Assante Wealth Management, and Brian and Christine Malley.

It was approved on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench.

The Malley’s ran the Assante Capital and Wealth Management office in Red Deer. Former clients launched the suit claiming invest mismanagement.

After fees are taken out of the settlement it is estimated that $6.5 million will be distributed among st the members of the class action suit.

The suit was first filed in October 2012 and originally sought $80 million in damages from all the defendants.

An expert review conducted after the suit was filed indicated that during the timeline of the class action the claimants lost roughly $12.3 million in capital. Estimations in how much was lost in market opportunities totalled $14 million to $17 million.

Rooke called the settlement fair and reasonable, noting counsel for the defendants first believed a settlement in the $4 million to $5 million range.

Rooke said the settlement was about 60 to 80 per cent of what the plaintiff’s sought while it was 200 per cent of what the defendant sought.

He also said that many of the class members were advanced in age and in need of some financial resources.

The funds will be distributed in the New Year among the claimants. The settlement is for investments with the Malleys and Assante from Jan. 1, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2013.

The statement of claim leveled allegations of improper investment management, non-disclosure of conflicts of interest and disregarding instructions provided by clients.

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing or guilty.

Brian Andrew Malley, 58, of Innisfail was convicted of first degree murder on Feb. 24 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench.

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Northern Ontario brothers free eagle from trap video of release goes viral SUDBURY, Ont. — The heroics of two northern Ontario brothers who freed a bald eagle from a leghold trap last week have gone viral.

Michael and Neil Fletcher came across the eagle last week at Windy Lake near Sudbury.

Michael Fletcher posted video of the rescue on Facebook, showing them placing a jacket over the bird to calm it while they spent several minutes freeing its talon from the trap.

They also kept their dog away from the bird as it pranced around the trap excitedly.

It took several minutes for the pair to release the eagle.

Before they let go of the bird to allow it to fly away, they posed for what could be the selfie of a lifetime with the bird, which looks either terrified or and promote a safer community.

City manager Craig Curtis said crime prevention and community safety will continue to be a priority for the city.

“We will continue to work with RCMP to set meaningful targets to identify areas in need of increased attention to ensure citizens continue to feel safe and have a good quality of life,” he said in a news release. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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REPORT: Reached target in four of five areas Grobmeier said the police have reached its targets in four of the five areas — reducing impact of organized crime, reducing crimes against persons, contributing to safer youth and safe roads. Police have had some early success with its Priority Crimes Task Force which focuses on specific targets and identifying those criminals who have the biggest impact on communities. The task force is made up of police officers from Red Deer RCMP General Investigative Section (GIS), Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Blackfalds RCMP detachments and is supported by Lacombe Police Service.

Police fell short in the area of property crimes in the second quarter.

The objective is to have the fraud unit provide information on how to project against fraud.

But Grobmeier said there was no one in the position to deliver the presentations until recently.

“We anticipate by the end of the fourth quarter, we will have met our objectives,” he said.

Supt. Scott Tod will report to city council sometime in the new year. The APP is part of council’s safety charter, a major workplan that aims to enable

LOTTERIES

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

For those who know how colourful the floral display in Red Deer’s City Hall Park can be in the summer time the winter colours can be just as vibrant, although its not until after dark that the display really shows its true colours.

HOMICIDE: Armed and dangerous The second suspect is described as a Caucasian male, about 30 years old with short dark hair and was clean shaven. He is about 1.77 metres (five-foot-10) tall and weighs about 200 pounds. At the time of the incident he wore a dark coloured jacket, dark pants and a dark coloured baseball cap with a white logo on the front. He may be travelling in a black pickup truck.

Police said the second suspect is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

Anyone who has information on the incident or the second suspect is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-406-2300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

The Serious Crimes Branch is assisting with the investigation.-

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angry in the shot.

“Quick selfie before it flew away,” Michael Fletcher wrote on Facebook.

EDSON: Residents, disturbed, worried But he said people are still disturbed and worried about the killings.

“Any time you have an incident like this, especially with three people, it kind of sends chills through the community,” he said.

“This is an isolated incident in one location. It’s not like someone was going on a rampage or anything.”

Yellowhead County Mayor Gerald Soroka said he does not know the identities of the dead.

“So I don’t know how long they’ve been in the community, I don’t know their ties to the area. You can be living in a community for a couple years, just like you are in the city, and not know your neighbours.”

Soroka said the home where the people were found is outside Edson in a rural location.

“Is everyone concerned to some degree? Absolutely. Any time something like this happens people obviously have concerns and want to know they’re safe in their own community,” Soroka said.

“The problem is though that usually in these situations the victims are known to the perpetrator, usually they don’t just go randomly and do something like this.”

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Opposition to farm safety bill grows

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Opposition to a proposed new farm safety bill is growing, with hundreds of farmers and ranchers protesting in front of the legislature while others took to the province’s highways with messages of discontent.

Bill 6 would make Workers’ Compensation Board coverage mandatory for farm workers and would cancel the agriculture sector’s exemption from occupational health and safety rules.

Farms would also be subject to employment standards covering areas such as hours, vacation pay and minimum wages.

Hundreds who oppose the legislation waved placards and chanted “Kill Bill 6” on Monday.

It was a bigger and more boisterous crowd than the one that gathered in the same spot last Friday.

In southern Alberta near Fort Macleod, farmers also parked large pieces of farm equipment on highways, bearing signs such as “Stop Bill 6.”

“What I don’t understand is why you want to take all those industrial rules and apply them to a family farm,” farmer Shawna Dennis said at the legislature.

“It’s just wrong.”

The government has been sticking to its guns.

“This is really about safety and we just want to work with the farming and ranching sector to make sure people are safe on farms,” said Jobs Minister Lori Sigurdson.

But many at the protest said they worry the new rules will mean their children will no longer be able to work on family farms.

“My kids are growing up with it — that’s everything to them,” said farmer Brad Robins.

The issue is one of the first in which Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government has been faced with

large public protest, and that left some opposition politicians barely able to contain their glee.

“I like seeing the NDP squirm,” Wildrose Leader Brian Jean told Monday’s crowd. “What goes around comes around, and it’s time they saw Albertans with a strong voice.”

Officials say 25 people died from farm-related accidents in 2014 — nine more than the previous year.

Earlier this month, a 10-year-old boy was killed at a Hutterite colony. Relatives said he had just finished cleaning up some hog barns and was driving a forklift on a gravel road when the machine toppled into the ditch.

Alberta is one of four provinces without mandatory workers’ compensation for farmers. The others are Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island.

Defence wants Kent faces cross-examination in judge to stay defamation lawsuit murder charges against Vader

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The defence lawyer for a man accused of killing two Alberta seniors whose bodies have never been found argued Monday that the charges against Travis Vader should be stayed.

Brian Beresh told a pre-trial hearing there has been an abuse of process by the Crown, which he says deliberately dragged out taking the case to trial.

Vader, 43, was first charged in 2012 with two counts of first-degree murder in the 2010 deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, but the charges were stayed in March 2014.

Nine months later, the charges were re-laid and a trial before a judge alone is TRAVIS VADER scheduled for March 2016.

On Monday, chief Crown prosecutor Michelle Doyle said she decided to stay the charges in 2014 because the potential evidence was nowhere near ready for trial, which she said wouldn’t have been fair to Vader.

When she started preparing the case against Vader, she learned that RCMP hadn’t handed over all the information and that missing notes, photos, surveillance and wiretape material “still had to be reviewed.”

She called the disclosure by RCMP “a fiasco” and admitted being angry about the missing information, adding that she was told more than 20 RCMP officers had been called in to deal with it.

A month before the trial, disclosure was still not complete and Doyle elected to stay the charges because she had “effectively lost confidence in the RCMP getting full disclosure to her in a timely manner.”

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BRIEF Review called into conflict investigation involving former Alberta premier EDMONTON — The Alberta government is launching an outside review of an investigation two years ago into conflict-of-interest allegations involving former premier Alison Redford.

The 2013 investigation looked into how a Calgary law firm with close ties to Redford was awarded the contract to represent Alberta in a lawsuit against tobacco companies.

One of the partners in the law firm was Redford’s former husband, who remained a strong Conservative supporter.

Neil Wilkinson, the ethics commissioner at the time, cleared Redford of any conflict in awarding the multibillion-dollar contract while she was justice minister.

The NDP government says concerns have emerged that Wilkinson may not have had all the relevant information needed for his investigation.

The review is expected to be completed by Feb 29.

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ASSANTE: Paid a global fine of $400,000 Victoria Shachtay, 23, of Innisfail was killed on Nov. 25, 2011. The quadriplegic single mother died when she opened a gift left on her doorstep. The gift disguised a pipe-bomb, which detonated.

Malley was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years. He is currently appealing the decision and sentence.

Shachtay had invested $575,000 with Malley from a 2007 court settlement. She received the money in a settlement from a 2004 car crash that left her paralyzed. By April 2011 Shachtay’s investment was gone.

From April to October 2011, Malley gave Shachtay nearly $30,000 of his own money.

The Malleys were also fined by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada on June 25, 2014. The IIROC fined Brian $335,000 and Christine $265,000. According to an Oct. 16, 2015 IIROC report they had not paid the fine.

Assante Capital Management settled with the IIROC paying a global fine of $400,000. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

CALGARY — A former television journalist suing for defamation over an article critical of his campaign for a seat in the Alberta legislature faced questions Monday about one of his key witnesses.

Arthur Kent represented himself when he settled a case out of court last year against campaign worker Kristine Robidoux. Robidoux, who leaked material to columnist Don Martin for his article, then filed a statutory declaration in court for Kent’s side revealing what happened.

A lawyer for the defendants — Postmedia and Martin — asked Monday if there was a deal made to have Robidoux file the declaration.

Kent invoked lawyer-client privilege on that line of questioning.

“As a self-represented litigant I was entitled to

the same zone of privacy in preparing witnesses for trial as are lawyers acting … for your clients,” Kent told Postmedia lawyer Brent Mescall.

“That was a matter covered by privilege.”

Kent became known as the “Scud Stud” for his live reports for NBC during the Gulf War in the 1990s. Martin’s column, labelled the Scud Stud A Dud, criticized Kent as an ego-driven, out-of-control star candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the 2008 Alberta election.

Robidoux has already testified that she shared private emails with Martin that included complaints about Kent between the Tory campaign chairman and party brass. But when she saw the article she immediately regretted her decision and became physically ill, she said.

Kent has called all of his witnesses at the trial.

Lawyers representing Postmedia and Martin expect their defence to take two weeks.

COMMENT

A4 Bill 6 latest hit to rural Alberta

I want to believe the NDP are not While there are great differences really this ignorant when it comes to between corporate farms and family rural Alberta, but the last few weeks farms, the bill seemingly lumps them they are proving to be quite tone deaf. together. That has many farmers quesThe sad thing is, Premier tioning their own viability Rachel Notley should know and their ability to continbetter, having grown up in ue as a family-run operathe small town of Fairview tion with kids getting their in Northern Alberta. start with chores and helpBetween the carbon ing during the major seedtax and the now infamous ing and harvest times.

Bill 6, the provincial govThese are legitimate conernment is hitting a lot of cerns, despite the governnon-urban people hard at ment saying the past coua time when they can least ple of days that they supafford it. port small family farms and Bill 6, at its heart, I want they will be able to operate to believe is a good bill. with the same sense of famJOSH It strives to improve farm ily and community. Though ALDRICH safety. Generally any law when they throw around that aims to keep people terms like “child labour” it OPINION alive or to provide security is easy to understand why to both employees and emfarmers are incensed. ployer should be a worthy goal.

It is worthwhile to note that AlberHowever, those responsible for the ta is the only province that currently bill, somehow managed not to commu- does not have legislation that protects nicate properly with those the bill may farm workers specifically. In this case, hit the hardest prior to first reading in however, the government’s execution the legislature. While it appears they of putting through proper protection did at least consult with the Workers feels forced and has been completely Compensation Board, which will ben- bungled. efit greatly from this bill, the small I do have to admit, I have a bit of a family farms were apparently left out dog in the fight. Though I never lived of the loop. on a farm, my first real job was at 13 as

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my dad farmed me out to members of his congregation to work on their hobby farms or to help others haul bales.

It helped instill values of hard work that laid the foundation for a healthy professional life. There was no sitting in front of the TV wasting summers away playing video games.

Making matters worse is this is on the heels of bringing in a carbon tax that will likely hammer those in rural communities and on farms much harder than those in cities. All of those tractors, combines, trucks and other equipment run off of diesel, when they run for as many hours a day as they do, there is not an electrical equivalent.

Off the top that will be an extra four cents a litre that farmers will have to equate into their expenses.

In the towns and small centres that are supported by the agriculture industry, there is generally no public transportation, you still have to drive everywhere. And it’s not even the small little towns and villages I’m talking about; centres like Lloydminster are still devoid of even a bus system.

This also comes in the beginning of a bust cycle in Alberta. There are thousands of oil workers sitting at home with record-setting demands being put on food banks and other chari-

table initiatives.

While the NDP cannot be blamed for the price of oil, when you compound all of these extra government costs onto an economy that is being crushed by the international scene, it’s about as tone deaf as one can get.

I do have a mostly sports background, but it always seemed to me the best coaches were the ones that could devise a system to work with the players they have to accomplish their goals.

Ideological initiatives are great to have. The environment and safety are absolutely things that we should be concerned with. But these goals should not be sought at all costs. Consideration needs to be given to our current set of circumstances, and then make the attempt to work with the parameters that exist.

Ramming through dramatic policy change and legislation that is going to hit in broad strokes as opposed to impacting intended targets only is a very clumsy and dangerous way to go about things, especially for a rookie government that is trying to build confidence with voters throughout the province as opposed to just its urban-centric base.

Good intentions are great, but they can pave some pretty ugly roads. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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RE: It’s high time for a venue change After reading last week’s letter to the editor from Ken Hoskin regarding the Remembrance Day ceremony and the need for a new venue, I could not help but write as well in support of this. I was also at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Arena along with six members of my family and have been a long time attendee as well. With this in mind, we have seen the continuous increase in attendance every year. To have any chance of sitting down at this ceremony we use to arrive at the rink towards 10:20 a.m. For the last several years we arrive at 9:30 and are more surprised each year by how increasingly full the seats are already.

This year shortly before 10 a.m., the seats were indeed full to capacity and people were filling the standing room only areas behind the upper seats. By 10:10 a.m., there was no standing (or walking room left) and people were filing into the stairwells as the only place left in the entire building to honour both our fallen and our current and active military. By 10:20 the stairwells were so ridiculously jammed full of seated and standing people that had there been a situation that necessitated evacuation, I fear the outcome would have made many more headlines and investigations than this letter will.

I realize that the Centrium is the only venue Red

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Deer has that offers enough room for this function, and never gave any thought to the conflict with the Agritrade as that is really a no-brainer — shift the date.

The reasoning I heard led more towards the fact that the Legion cannot afford to rent the Centrium.

I would really hope that that is not true and the Centrium would be offered up free of charge for one morning, yes, only one morning each year to show our support and offer our thanks, and perhaps instill some additional love-for-their-Country values into our children as well.

The Centrium exists for the people of Red Deer.

Our tax dollars funded this facility and probably still do to some extent. Would it be financially catastrophic for the Westerner Exposition Association to juggle another function’s date and donate our Centrium for four hours each year in Remembrance and thanks for our freedom?

Please, Red Deer and the Westerner Association, let’s show more respect for our military and what they have done and continue to do for this country.

The Remembrance Day ceremony is our chance to give a tiny bit of thanks to our soldiers both here and gone, their families, and the sacrifice they have given and continue to give. An adequate facility with the room to honour them in is not much to ask.

Eric Sanford Red Deer

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Carbon tax is ugly sign of new Alberta’s future With the announcement that Alberta’s NDP government is going to have a Carbon Tax levy, Alberta is going as fast as possible to advance to the front of Canada’s heavily taxed citizens.

Crude oil sliding to the $40US level shows that Alberta’s anticipated oil price for the coming year, much less current year, is grossly out of touch with reality.

The carbon tax will be paid by Albertans, not the oil companies as all taxes are paid by consumers.

According to Graves & Co., oil and gas companies have laid off more than 250,000 workers around the world, many of them your neighbours and citizens in Alberta.

Enbridge, a Canadian Company confirmed last week that it was laying off 500 workers.

Another Canadian Company says that it will be issuing pink slips as well. It declined to put an exact number on how many.

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Counties brace for pipeline tax review LINEAR TAXES SUPPLY $150 MILLION TO MUNICIPALITY COFFERS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta municipalities are wary that their budget bottom lines could be hit by pending changes to how pipelines are taxed.

Lacombe County council recently approved a motion to send a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee warning that any changes that would reduce the amount of taxes municipalities receive, from what are known as linear assessments, could

PROVINCE hamper their ability to deliver services or contribute to urban municipalities.

In Lacombe County, $4.8 million or 18 per cent of its property tax revenue came from linear assessments, which include oil and gas wells, pipelines, electric power systems and telecommunication systems.

Besides providing its own services, the county is involved in cost-sharing arrangements with urban municipalities in the region. For instance, council is mulling a recent request from the Town of Sylvan Lake to provide $2 million towards its new multiplex.

The Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties has raised

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A cross country skier makes her way along the path at Great Chief Park late Monday afternoon. Volunteers have worked to install ski trails along the paved multi-use trail from Great Chief Park to Heritage Ranch last week and many area cross country skiers have taken the opportunity to get in some skiing this week. Ski trails at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area are also said to be in good early season condition as well.

the issue at its annual conference and received assurances from the minister that municipalities will be consulted before any changes are made. But few other details have been released.

There have been rumblings from urban municipalities for years that they would like a cut of linear taxes.

Mountain View County Coun. and association president Al Kemmere said its position, which has been reiterated over the past few years, is that any reallocation of linear taxation will hurt rural municipalities.

The money is meant to compensate for the land challenges and infrastructure costs necessary to accommodate the tens of thousands of kilometres of pipelines, communication towers and other similar intrusions.

In Mountain View County, linear

and machinery and equipment taxes represent about 60 per cent of its tax revenue.

The association says those taxes need to be retained where the impact is felt the most, he said. Taking away that revenue source would not only hurt rural municipalities, but the urbans they help financially — to the tune of $150 million at last count.

Kemmere said a linear assessment was raised as part of the Municipal Government Act overhaul already underway, but was also part of the NDP’s platform.

It’s unclear where the issue is at currently.

“Where it goes is hard to say,” he said, adding rural municipalities want to ensure their message gets out early. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Ponoka couple named Canada’s top young farmers

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Rock Ridge Dairy owners Patrick and Cherylynn Bos don’t let the grass grow under their feet.

Since they purchased their first milking goats in 1999, the Ponoka couple have built a herd of 1,400 dairy goats and market their own lines of goat milk and cheese products and a line of organic cow milk.

When the Ponoka processing plant they supplied closed in 2004, they built their own milk and cheese processing facility. Most recently, they updated their operation with the most technologically advanced goat monitoring, feeding and milking rotary system anywhere.

Their innovative and ambitious approach to farming has not gone unnoticed in agriculture circles. The couple was chosen, along with an Ontario hog farm operation, as Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2015 in a special ceremony on Nov. 20 at the Mariott River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch, west of Edmonton.

Cherylynn said on Monday it was “really wonderful” to be chosen from a short list of six regional representatives.

“The group of farmers that they had representing all of the regions were really amazing,” she said.

Being chosen is no easy achievement. Farm families were graded on everything from how their operations have progressed, environmental stew-

ardship, safety, innovation, their leadership in the industry and involvement in their community.

“We do work incredibly hard and to be recognized for that on a national level was really rewarding.” Cherylynn and her husband have been married for 18 years and have four children aged four to 12.

It definitely won’t hurt the marketing end of their business, which sees their products sold in grocery stores, local food delivery services, markets, such as Red Deer’s Big Bend Market, under the Rock Ridge Dairy label.

They are just getting their latest project up and running — the world’s most technologically advanced goat rotary system.

Goats walk on to a circular platform where they are fed based on recognition systems that know how much milk they have produced so as to calibrate feed. A milker rises from the floor and when the goat is done it moves on.

A sorter then separates out goats that need to be checked more closely while the others walk off to their barn.

“It’s really interesting. It’s quite the technological little feat,” she said.

A group of Israeli engineers will be coming out to their farm soon to spend several weeks fine-tuning the system’s software to their needs.

For more information go to www. rockridgedairy.com pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Central AB Gives joins Holiday Train to make four Giving Tuesday movement stops in Central Alberta

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A new civic movement kicks off today that asks people to start giving instead of just spending.

Central AB Gives is joining up with the Giving Tuesday movement, a day for individuals, businesses and charities to support the causes that matter to them.

It takes place the first Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, big pre-Christmas shopping days.

CentralABGives already has 25 partners from public, private and charitable sectors.

A charity fair is being held today at the Collicutt Centre starting at noon when Mayor Tara Veer will proclaim the day as Giving Tuesday, and the Red Deer and District Community Foundation will announce the 2015 fall grant recipients.

More activities are planned during

the day from noon to 8 p.m. The charity fair will offer information booths from charities such as the Red Deer Hospice Society, Red Deer and District SPCA, Habitat for Humanity, Make A wish Foundation Northern Alberta and others.

Giving Tuesday is a relatively new global movement which now has more than 16,000 partners from 43 countries taking part.

It’s intended to get people involved and support causes that are meaningful to them. It’s considered the opening day of the giving season.

There will be a photo booth at the charity fair to take UNselfie photos, and people will be encouraged to post the photos on social media.

More information is available at the website givingtuesday.ca/partners/central-alberta-gives Also there’s a Facebook page called Central Ab Gives and the Twitter feed is @centralalbertagives

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make a first appearance in relation to the charges in Wetaskiwin Provincial Court on Dec.17.

An autopsy has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday at the Office of the Medical Examiner in Edmonton.

Man charged with murder in death of Cutknife

CARE hosting Human Rights Day event

A 19-year-man has been charged with second degree murder of a Samson Cree Nation woman.

Maskwacis RCMP found the body of Kirsten Cutknife on the Samson Cree town site residence on Saturday morning.

Joshua Crier, 19, was also charged with assault with a weapon involving another women. She did not receive life-threatening injuries.

All three people are known to one another.

Crier is in police custody and will

Hear the stories from refugees and join the discussion concerning human rights issues around the world at Red Deer College on Dec. 10.

The Central Alberta Refugee Effort will host the evening to commemorate International Human Rights Day in The Living Room, next to customer service, at the college.

The free event runs from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Free refreshments will be provided.

For more information, call Jan Underwood at 403-346-8818 ext. 238 or

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The annual Canadian Holiday Train will be tracking its way through Central Alberta for two days next week.

The train, operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., helps raise money and food for local food banks, as well as awareness for those in need.

At each stop, people can enjoy the brightly lit train, and also listen to some Canadian entertainment.

This year the train, and an American counterpart running through the United States at the same time, will stop in about 150 communities.

The Canadian version started out in Quebec last week and will end its travels in B.C. on Dec. 19.

People who come out to see the train are encouraged to bring “heart healthy” donations of non-perishable food or cash. All local donations — non perishables or cash — remain in each community. This year’s performers at

all the Central Alberta stops are Canadian artists Kelly Prescott and Devin Cuddy.

The train will make the following stops in Central Alberta: • Dec. 8 — Ponoka, at 50th Street and 47th Avenue; 5:30 p.m. arrival and the event will run from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.

• Dec. 8 — Lacombe, at the gravel parking lot adjacent to the CPR tracks, between 46th Avenue and Hwy 2A; 7:15 p.m. arrival and performance 7:30 to 8 p.m.

• Dec. 8 — Blackfalds, at Gregg Street between Broadway Avenue and East Avenue; 8:20 p.m. arrival and 8:30 to 9 p.m. performance • Dec. 9 — Innisfail, 50th Street and Hwy 54 crossing; 2:05 p.m. arrival and 2:25 to 2:45 p.m. performance • Dec. 9 — Didsbury, 19th Street and 18th Avenue; arrival at 3:50 p.m. and 4 to 4:30 p.m. performance

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alone. He also requested a preliminary inquiry, to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Bergdal told judge Gordon Yake that he will represent himself at trial.

Yake told him to file a form with the crown outlining what potential trial and witness issues he sees.

Bergdal’s matter was adjourned to Dec. 17 in Red Deer provincial court so he could file the form and set a trial date at the Case Management Office.

Ray elected to be tried in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

He waived his right to a preliminary inquiry and will proceed directly to trial.

He will next appear on Jan. 4, 2016 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Police said they seized cocaine, methamphetamine, GHB, morphine, prescription pills, firearms and stolen property from a residence in Penhold on that day.

Bergdal, Ray decide on mode of trial Two Penhold men have chosen how they wanted to be tried on drug and gun charges laid earlier this year.

They made the decision on Monday following several court appearances starting in August.

Derrek Bergdal, 30, and Darren Ray, 33, were arrested on Aug. 7 after an investigation involving several police departments executing a search warrant.

Innisfail RCMP along with the Calgary Emergency Response Team, Blackfalds RCMP and Red Deer RCMP General Investigation Section were involved.

In Red Deer provincial court on Thursday, Bergdal pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried by Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before a judge

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Deadly leftovers CFIA SAYS SMALL AMOUNT OF FEED LIKELY CAUSE OF ALBERTA MAD COW DISEASE CASE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Canada’s food safety watchdog says a small amount of leftover contaminated feed was the most plausible cause of a case of mad cow disease discovered last February on a farm near Edmonton.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency say no part of the Black Angus beef cow entered the human food or animal feed systems.

The agency says no significant events could be linked to this case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

The February case — the 19th in Canada — prompted a few countries to place temporary restrictions on Canadian beef imports.

A report on the investigation says the Angus cow was born at a nearby farm almost two years after

Canada brought in more strict controls on animal feed to prevent BSE. It says a previous case of B-S-E was diagnosed on the same birth farm from an animal born in 2004.

“No significant events could be linked with this case but the potential for the carry-over of a small amount of residual contaminated feed could not be discounted,” reads the CFIA report released Monday.

The report says the chances of finding other cattle infected with BSE that were born within one year as the February case “remain extremely low.”

It is “highly improbable” that the BSE was caused by contamination at either a slaughterhouse or a rendering facility, the report says.

An outbreak of BSE in 2003 cost Canada’s cattle industry billions of dollars when countries around the world shut the door to Canadian beef.

BSE is a fatal and untreatable wasting disease of

the brain and nervous systems. It is caused by rogue proteins called prions, which can be spread through contaminated feed.

Humans who eat infected beef can develop a fatal disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Fewer than 250 human cases have been reported worldwide.

The CFIA report said its investigation found 746 cattle that were either born within one year at the same farm as the BSE cow or had access to the same feed.

Any of these cattle that were found alive were placed under quarantine. Some have been destroyed or will be destroyed under the agency’s BSE rules.

Others have died, the report says.

More than 300 animals were traced to a slaughter plant or feedlots.

The report says 118 animals were exported for slaughter and the importing country was notified.

COS can stall Suncor takeover

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Purearth Organics owners Jeff and Rebekah McDonald and their daughter Nyah in their Cronquist Business Park store. Purearth Organics will be moving to a building nearby as they expand their business.

Purearth Organics on the move

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF It all started with a small organic food co-op operating out of Rebekah and Jeff McDonald’s basement.

About 10 years ago, the family began buying and sorting bulk food to fill orders once a week for eight families. Later came the raw chocolate and other hard to find items that were not available in Red Deer.

The family-owned business quickly took root forcing it to into the garage of the couple’s next home for about a year before they set up shop as Purearth Organics Inc. at #12 5579-47th St. in Cronquist Business Park.

“We’ve been steadily growing and adding things,” said Rebekah McDonald.

“We are ready for the next step. We are at the middle ground right now. If we are going to do this, we need walk in coolers. We need more equipment and other things to pull us out of the middle ground more.”

The next level is in Riverlands on the bottom north corner of the red 3,000 square-foot building (5589-47th St.).

The new store, at triple its existing space, will fea-

ture a daily organic produce market and a juice bar/ liquid nutrition centre on top of its inventory of eco friendly, cleansing, raw foods, essential oils, supplements and other products.

“When we started 10 years ago, the things I carried were not readily available,” said McDonald.

“But now they are more available and more accessible. But what I think is really lacking and what we do a really good job of is education with all the classes that we teach … I think people are really interested in looking for ways of improving their health.”

McDonald said the new facility will allow them to reach their goals in helping others.

Each month they currently offer three to four classes on various topics such as raw chocolate making, fermentation, superfood recipes and healing soups. In the future, they will offer more classes including mini-classes and guest speakers.

In the summer, they hope to have more direct distribution with direct pallet orders from farmers.

The opening date is tentatively slated for May 2016.

Find Purearth Organics at www.purearthorganics. com crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

CALGARY — The Alberta Securities Commission has ruled that Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. can stall a hostile takeover bid by oilsands behemoth Suncor Energy for a month.

COS put in place a new shareholder rights plan, also known as a poison pill defence, shortly after Suncor (TSX:SU) took its all-stock bid directly to investors on Oct. 5.

The plan would have given COS shareholders 120 days, or until early February, to decide on Suncor’s offer. Suncor proposed to keep its bid open until Friday, threatening to walk away from the deal if the deadline was extended.

But the regulator struck a compromise between the two positions, giving COS shareholders until Jan. 4 to accept or reject the takeover.

The COS shareholder rights plan is intended to buy the company time to find an alternative to the offer, which is worth about $4.5 billion based on Suncor’s closing share price Monday.

The tone of the debate between both companies has been outright nasty at times.

COS has said the Suncor offer is too low, opportunistic and exploitive and that the would-be buyer has resorted to “fear mongering” in its quest to snap up a bigger slice of the oilsands at a bargain price.

Suncor, meanwhile, has argued that given the likelihood of a prolonged downturn in oil prices, the status quo is risky for COS shareholders and that “hope is not a strategy.”

A COS financial adviser has said more time is needed because 25 other parties are kicking the tires. Of those, four had signed non-disclosure agreements.

At the centre of the Suncor-COS battle is the massive Syncrude oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta.

Both companies are partners in Syncrude — COS with 37 per cent and Suncor with 12 per cent. That means if Suncor is successful, it would own just under half of the mine.

Other than their interests in the project, the two companies have little else in common. The Syncrude interest is COS’ only asset and the company does not have a hand in the day-to-day operations of the mine.

At the end of last year, its workforce consisted of 23 full-time employees, four part-timers and three contractors. Suncor, on the other hand, is the dominant oilsands player, with production of 430,300 barrels a day in the third quarter outside of Syncrude.

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Saskatchewan projecting $262M deficit as lower oil prices hit revenue

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Tanking oil prices are forcing the Saskatchewan government to put the brakes on spending.

A budget update shows the province is projecting a deficit of $262 million, compared with a surplus of just over $100 million that was forecast in March.

Finance Minister Kevin Doherty says getting the books back in the black is going “to be a tough challenge.”

“I want to be definitive here, my goal is to try to get us to balance. I’m not sure I can get us there,” Doherty said at a news conference Monday.

“We are already continuing work on the expenditure side, which we manage. If oil continues to drop even further, if potash softens even further, I can’t control any of that. If there’s another natural disaster that occurs at some point in time, I can’t control that. Government needs to respond.”

Expenses are up $99 million from the budget, in large part because of the cost of fighting forest fires last summer.

While the province is spending more, it’s also bringing in less money because overall revenue is down $270 million from the original budget forecast.

The biggest drop in revenue is from non-renewable resources, such as oil and potash, which are down $388 million from budget. Oil was forecast to be about US$53 a barrel in the budget, but is now expected to average US$49.50 a barrel. Both figures are far below the US$93 a barrel that oil averaged last year.

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The province also says there are pressures because of a smaller harvest and a slowing growth in the economies of some of Saskatchewan’s major trading partners. Doherty says economic forecasters are predicting a rebound in 2016, but he doesn’t know when if and when that will take hold. The minister says stronger commodity prices will benefit Saskatchewan, but can’t be counted on, so government ministries and agencies that get money from the province should tighten their belts.

“I recall my days when I was a financial planner … I always said hope is not a plan. We need to be mindful of our spending,” he said.

The Opposition New Democrats are critical of both the deficit and the cuts the government plans to make to balance the books.

“I think it’s disappointing for Saskatchewan people to realize that through an unprecedented run of record revenues, we had a government that didn’t save a dime, that pile on new debt and that launched us into deficit in a very quick way,” said NDP finance critic Trent Wotherspoon.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is happy to see the province cut spending.

Todd MacKay, the federation’s Prairie director, says the Saskatchewan government should trim more money “to get back to living within its means.”

“We’ve got a combination of problems. Obviously we’ve got revenues down and that makes things more difficult. But look, with our family budgets, sometimes revenues go down, too, sometimes you hit a tough spot and things get a little big tight. At the end of day, we need to live within that reality,” said MacKay.

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Amazon says its Prime Air drone project is making progress NEW YORK — Amazon is giving new details on its Prime Air drone delivery program. But the timeline is still unclear.

The retailer says Prime Air will one day deliver packages up to 5 pounds in 30 minutes or less using small drones.

The drones will fly under 400 feet and weigh less than 55 pounds, according to details posted on its website Sunday. It says it will use technology and automation to operate safely.

Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. said Monday the program will start once government regulations are in place to support it. It has development centres in the U.S., the U.K. and Israel.

The FAA currently bans commercial drone flights except for a few dozen companies that have been granted waivers. It has granted Amazon approval to fly drones for research

Aurcana posts Q3 loss of $6.5M VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Aurcana Corp. (AUNFF) on Monday reported a loss of $6.5 million in its third quarter.

The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 8 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for asset impairment costs, were 6 cents per share.

The silver, copper and zinc mining company posted revenue of $6.8 million in the period.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 131.84 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.08 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.48 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.62 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.30 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.85 Cdn. National Railway . . 79.71 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 196.89 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 32.62 Capital Power Corp . . . . 16.85 Cervus Equipment Corp 14.33 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.13 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.43 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.62 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.88 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.20 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.20 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.06 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.42 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.59 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.44 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.37 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 42.14 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 125.12 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.68 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.85 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.42 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — An uptick in the price of gold helped boost the Toronto stock market to a higher close, while U.S. markets finished lower following indications of a relatively tepid start to the holiday shopping season.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index gained 101.59 points to 13,469.83, while the loonie was up 0.11 of a U.S. cent, rising to 74.89 cents U.S. The global gold sector led the way higher on the TSX, rising 2.66 per cent, while the materials sector climbed 2.35 per cent.

In New York, the Dow Jones average of 30 stocks slipped 78.57 points to 17,719.92, while the broader S&P 500 lost 9.70 points to 2,080.41 and the Nasdaq gave back 18.85 points to 5,108.67.

U.S. retail stocks fell after initial data from Black Friday and the first holiday shopping weekend showed consumers were not going to stores as much as last year.

Preliminary ShopperTrak data showed in-store sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday were $12.1 billion, down from $12.3 billion in 2014.

Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, said traders south of the border are likely to take a waitand-see approach ahead of the release of November’s jobs data, out on Friday. “This is the last reading on employment that we’re going to get before the Fed meeting in December,� said Fehr. “So to the extent that we get another strong month of job growth in the U.S., it probably

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.40 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.33 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.84 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.32 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.83 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.32 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.86 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 15.79 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.61 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.85 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 27.03 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.740 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.68 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.30 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.61 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 54.07 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.42 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.91 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.34 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.56 Canyon Services Group. . 4.39 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.76 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 11.12 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.500 puts another hash mark in the column of the Fed having the support to ultimately start to raise rates after all these years of zero interest rate policy.�

On commodity markets, the February contract for gold rose $9.10 to US$1,065.30 an ounce, while March copper fell one cent to US$2.05 a pound.

The January contract for benchmark crude fell six cents to US$41.65 a barrel, while January natural gas advanced 2.3 cents to US$2.235 per mmBtu. Fehr said the boost to Canadian gold and materials stocks likely stems from a number of economic indicators from China in recent weeks suggesting that the economy may be levelling out following a prolonged period of deceleration. “We’ve seen what a heavy influence China has played to the downside on commodity prices over the past year, year and a half,� said Fehr. “I think any even remote signs of positive trends in China are going to have a decent reaction in the commodities markets, and I think that’s what we’re seeing today in the TSX relative to other global indices.�

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,469.83, up 101.59 points Dow — 17,719.92, down 78.57 points S&P 500 — 2,080.41, down 9.70 points Nasdaq — 5,108.67, down 18.85 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.89 cents US, up 0.11 of a cent Pound — C$2.0112, down 0.02 of a cent

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.66 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.85 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 18.03 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.38 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.14 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.430 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.75 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.90 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.650 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.07 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.99 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.11 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.89 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.28 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.66 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.29 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.07 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.02 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.98 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.77 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.80 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.08 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.04 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.54 Euro — C$1.4107, down 0.59 of a cent Euro — US$1.0565, down 0.29 of a cent Oil futures: US$41.65 per barrel, down six cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,065.30 per oz., up $9.10 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.574 oz., down 5.1 cents $629.30 kg., down $1.64 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘16 $3.10 higher $466.20 March ‘16 $3.60 higher $474.00 May ‘16 $3.80 higher $479.80 July ‘16 $3.50 higher $484.50 Nov. ‘16 $2.10 higher $475.70 Jan. ‘17 $3.60 higher $478.90 March ‘17 $3.60 higher $478.90 May ‘17 $3.60 higher $478.90 July ‘17 $3.60 higher $478.90 Nov. ‘17 $3.60 higher $478.90 Jan. ‘18 $3.60 higher $478.90.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian Bankers Association warned the former Conservative government that a proposal to have banks shoulder more of the risk associated with home mortgage loans could hurt the country’s financial stability.

The group’s position is revealed in a letter it sent to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which was obtained by The Canadian Press through an access-to-information request. “As the CMHC explores options to reduce the federal government’s exposure to the housing market, we would like to ensure that any changes made to the housing finance system are done so with a complete understanding of their implications on the housing and mortgage markets,� reads the letter, dated Aug. 6, 2014.

Homebuyers with less than a 20 per cent down payment are required to get mortgage default insurance — either from CMHC or one of the private mortgage insurers — when borrowing from a bank.

The insurance covers the banks in cases where borrowers default on their loans.

Although both CMHC and private mortgage insurers are self sustainable, with claims covered by the premiums paid by policy holders, all mortgage default insurance is backed by Ottawa.

That means that in a dire crisis, such as a major housing market collapse, taxpayers could be left footing part of the bill.

The Conservative government had been looking at ways to reduce taxpayer exposure to the housing market, and the idea of forcing banks to pay a deductible on mortgage insurance claims was one of the ideas that it had floated.

It’s unclear whether the new Liberal government will pursue this path.

A spokesman for the Department of Finance noted that both the International Monetary Fund and the OECD have recommended the government consider requiring banks to bear a portion of the losses on insured mortgages that default in order to minimize the potential costs to taxpayers. “Following these recommendations, the Department of Finance has undertaken preliminary work to study the implications of lender risk sharing on Canada’s housing finance framework,�

David Barnabe said in an email.

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The Blackberry Priv is shown in Toronto. BlackBerry says it will leave Pakistan rather than open servers to authorities.

BlackBerry stands firm COMPANY SAYS IT WILL LEAVE PAKISTAN RATHER THAN OPEN SERVERS TO AUTHORITIES

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WATERLOO, Ont. — BlackBerry tion on security, buying up specialLtd. (TSX:BB) is standing firm on its ized software firms and marketing its promise to close its operations in Pakistan rather than accept that country’s phones, including the new Priv, on demands for “unfettered� access to its their privacy features.

Laura Tribe, a digital rights expert BES servers, even after a one-month with the OpenMedia advocacy group, delay in the government’s deadline.

The Waterloo, Ont.-smartphone said it was encouraging that BlackBercompany said in a blog post Monday ry and other companies are standing that it will continue to operate in Pa- up for users’ privacy in the face of dekistan until Dec. 30 as a result of a mands from governments. one-month extension to a compliance “They’re actually willing to draw a order issued by the Pakistan Telecom- line in the sand somewhere to not unmunications Audermine the techthority in July. nologies that we BlackBerry had need to keep our said previously information safe,� that it would pull she said. out of Pakistan This isn’t the rather than comfirst time Blackply with a demand for full access Berry has faced a to content on its potential ban.

BlackBerry EnterIndia and severprise Service by al other countries, Nov. 30. including Saudi The company Arabia and the says the Pakistani — LAURA TRIBE, DIGITAL RIGHTS EXPERT United Arab Emirgovernment wants ates, threatened to the ability to monban BlackBerry in itor all traffic in the country, including every BES email and BES BBM. BES 2010 because of the company’s refusal communications are routed through to hand over control of customer data.

Like Pakistan is doing now, India the company’s servers in Canada.

BlackBerry says it’s willing to work cited public safety and its efforts to with Pakistani authorities to protect combat militants in the wake of the public safety, but that the privacy of 2008 attacks in Mumbai, its financial its customers is paramount and some- capital, that killed 166 people. thing on which it won’t compromise.

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A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR ONE SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILY

By THE CANADIAN PRESS IRBID, Jordan — Mohammad Mnaahe, only a year old and not yet walking, crawls across the beige carpets in his family’s rented apartment about 30 kilometres from the Jordanian border with Syria.

As his brother Tamim sleeps on a yellow and red mattress on the floor and another brother, Saif, is tucked in next to his father, Mohammad plays with a laminated plastic certificate, oblivious to the value it holds for his family.

His parents, however, keep a close eye on it. To them, it represents their best hope of getting out of Jordan and to Canada — proof from the United Nations of their official status as refugees of the Syrian war.

Mohammad’s father, Mjdi, has been watching for months as thousands of his fellow former countrymen have fled Jordan and other countries in search of better lives.

“They are risking their lives through the sea to reach Europe,” he says. “But I get my chance from a phone call.”

The Mnaahe family have been in the UN database since the winter of 2013, when Mjdi, now 32, sent his wife and their two older sons away from their home village in the province of Daar’a because fighting between the Syrian regime and opposition forces was intensifying.

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Mjdi Mnaahe, his wife, Wessam, and their sons Tamim, 6, Saif, 4 and Mohammad, 1, (left to right) sit in their apartment Monday in Irbid, Jordan. The Syrian refugee family is waiting for approval to immigrate to Canada. as they were settled in Irbid, a town among those hosting some of the estimated 680,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan.

But a few weeks after they left, there was very heavy shelling and a building nearby was hit, covering him in shrapnel and soot.

He left the village the very next day, taking a car to the Jordanian border, where he was detained overnight — possibly for no other reason than the border guard didn’t like his beard, he

says.

He’s since shaved it off, one of many changes his family’s been through since they’ve become refugees — including the arrival of their third son.

But gone is his job as a private taxi driver because in Jordan he can’t get a driver’s license. Also gone are most of his family’s possessions as they left with little more than their clothes.

Their apartment is sparse carpets from the UN’s refugee agency comprise part of the furniture.

When they arrived, he says, they were given some advice from neighbours who’d been in Jordan as refugees for years: buy new things. He said no, there was no point. They were just going to be there a few months and had no money, so they bought a few used items.

Two years later and they still have very little money, and now-broken belongings they can’t afford to fix.

“We feel lost,” he says. “There is no future here.”

pledge his “true” loyalty only to Canada and its people.

Dror Bar-Natan, a math professor from Israel, says the monarchy is a symbol of inequality and calls the portion of the oath dealing with it “repulsive.” But he believes strongly in the rest of the pledge that deals with citizens’ responsibilities.

“I’m definitely proud to be a Canadian,” the 49-year-old said. “It’s a wonderful country, a truly wonderful country, with one small iota that I disagree with.”

Bar-Natan was one of three longtime permanent residents who challenged the constitutionality of making citizenship conditional on the pledge

to the Queen, her heirs and successors.

In upholding the requirement, Ontario’s top court said the Queen remains Canada’s head of state and the oath was a “symbolic commitment to be governed as a democratic constitutional monarchy unless and until democratically changed.”

The court also found, however, that all citizens have the right to espouse anti-monarchist views and new Canadians could publicly disavow what they consider to be the message conveyed by the oath.

Bar-Natan explained his actions

on Monday were fully in line with the court’s findings.

“For a long time I was held back from taking citizenship because of the allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors part of the oath. I never felt comfortable with that,” he said. “I hope this paves the way for others.”

At a citizenship ceremony in east Toronto, Bar-Natan first swore the oath and then, while being handed his citizenship certificate, informed the citizenship judge of his intent to disavow the portion of the oath pledging allegiance to the Queen.

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Letting go of the Force TO FEEL THE TRUE IMPACT OF ‘STAR WARS,’ GEORGE LUCAS HAD TO ALLOW HIS BABY LEAVE HOME

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George Lucas is shown on October 8, 2015.

EPISODE I room, watching him watch it. What then?

“Now I’m faced with this awkward reality, which is fine,” Lucas says. Extending the metaphor, he says it’s like when a grown child gets married. “I gotta go to the wedding. My ex will be there, my new wife will be there, but I’m going to have to take a very deep breath and be a good person and sit through it and just enjoy the moment, because it is what it is and it’s a conscious decision that I made.” ★★★ As a kid growing up in Modesto, California, George Walton Lucas Jr. was wild about cars and racing, indifferent to high school, except when taking apart European engines in shop class.

The movies he later wrote, directed and/or produced all celebrated and honored the idea of the skilled and sometimes recklessly daring driver: It’s there when young Robert Duvall, on a motorcycle, eludes android police officers in Lucas’s coolly dystopian first film, 1971’s THX 1138, or when teenagers drag-race in his 1973 sleeper hit American Graffiti, or as Han Solo weaves through an asteroid field in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, or when Anakin Skywalker comes from behind in a Tatooine podrace in 1999’s The Phantom Menace. (In a telling exchange from Empire, R2-D2 asks Luke Skywalker if he wants to put the X-wing on autopilot for the trip to Yoda’s planet of Dagobah: “That’s all right,” Luke says. “I’d like to keep it on manual control for a while.”)

After surviving a serious car crash at 18 (he was broadsided while driving a yellow Fiat Bianchina), Lucas snapped to: “I realized maybe I should get educated.” He went to community college and then to film school at the University of Southern California in the ’60s, where, like many, he became obsessed with experimental film.

It was next to impossible to get work in the industry, Lucas says, so he and his friend Francis Ford Coppola formed their own production company, Zoetrope Studios, in an era in which other young turks (Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, et al.) were poised to forever change the business.

With 40-plus years of hindsight and film history to consider, it can be difficult to imagine what Coppola and

Lucas had in common. “We shared many ideas about how the film industry could be different [and] work differently toward the goal of making ‘more personal’ films,” Coppola recalls.

“When I saw his student films, I was totally impressed with what this shy, understated young man could do.”

After Coppola made The Godfather and Lucas made THX 1138, both men were eager to collaborate on a film about Vietnam (which eventually became Coppola’s Apocalypse Now), but Coppola dared his friend to try making a comedy next.

Lucas took that bet and made American Graffiti, a heartfelt film loosely sketched from his own experiences, about a young man (Richard Dreyfuss) who tools around the streets of Modesto one last night before he’s supposed to leave for college.

In theaters, American Graffiti dialed back in time a mere decade, but to audiences who had seen and felt the tumult of the late ’60s, the vibe of American Graffiti felt like a century had passed. The soundtrack, a double-LP packed with early-’60s classics, sold millions of copies.

We now live in an era of constant throwbacks and reminiscences (everyone’s doing the ’80s now — even The Force Awakens plays on nostalgia, with its septuagenarian Han Solo and touch-of-gray Chewbacca). Nostalgia, though, was never really his intent, Lucas says. His favorite college subjects were psychology, anthropology, sociology — and still are. He thought of his movie almost as a documentary, an elegy for things such as radio DJs, teenage innocence, Friday nights and cruising around. “I said, ‘You know, this is all probably going to go away.’ “ In the long term he was right: Behold the self-driving Google car and young people with no apparent interest in getting their driver licenses. “I said, I want to document this idea, this unique American mating ritual … this whole fantasy world of being a teenager and being in love.” Such a film today, Lucas supposes, would have to take place online.

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Yes. Feel it flowing within you. The gate, the road, the hills, the trees, the vineyard. You, him, the house. Luminous beings are we. This was all built in the 1980s with piles of that initial Star Wars money, yet the main house was made to look several decades older, grander, Victorian — authentically ersatz, basking in the Marin County sun.

In a short hallway off the foyer are two discrete, glass-encased shelves containing what you thought you’d see, when and if you ever got past the guards at Skywalker Ranch: Darth Vader’s lightsaber hilt, Indiana Jones’s Holy Grail, that kind of stuff.

Visitors are sometimes disappointed the place isn’t packed with it.

Snooping around anyhow (admiring all the other original art, including Norman Rockwell’s 1920 painting Shadow Artist), which is when the 71-year-old filmmaker George Lucas silently pads up from behind in his white tennis shoes and faded blue jeans and that casually impressive pompadour of silver hair.

He’ll receive a Kennedy Center Honor this weekend for his blockbuster work in movies and film technology, but he’s quick to point out that he’s the only recipient this year who isn’t technically a performer.

“I perform in the shadows,” Lucas says, and these days he’s more familiar with the darkness of outer space.

“Once you get out of the hot part of the burner, everybody forgets about you — which is OK.” It’s strange to be the father of Star Wars at this particular moment. The Honors are being held a mere 12 days before the intensely anticipated release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the saga’s seventh episode — directed, amped up and recharged by J.J. Abrams. Look close at the credits on the movie poster and notice that Lucas’s name is nowhere on it, unless you count the word Lucasfilm.

Since selling Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney three years ago in a jaw-dropping $4 billion deal (which included handing over Star Wars, Indiana Jones, all of it), Lucas has had no connection to the new film, despite initial reports that he would play a consulting role.

He says that Disney “decided they didn’t like” the stories he’d outlined for the sequels. It became clear to him that his baby was going its own way, and at light speed. Disney is now building two huge Star Wars theme parks and has additional movie projects — besides Episodes VIII and IX — in the works.

“I call it like a divorce,” Lucas says candidly. He always knew that at some point he’d have to part with Star Wars in order for the franchise to go on living.

“There is no such thing as working over someone’s shoulder,” he says.

“You’re either the dictator or you’re not. And to do that would never work, so I said ‘I’m going to get divorced.’ … I knew that I couldn’t be involved.

All I’d do is make them miserable. I’d make myself miserable. It would probably ruin a vision — J.J. has a vision, and it’s his vision.”

As recently as a couple weeks ago, with fans going ape over tidbits and new trailers for The Force Awakens, Lucas had still not seen the film. Not a frame.

He expected that he would soon see it here at the ranch (“I’ve got the best theater in the world,” he notes), perhaps even with Abrams and Lucasfilm Ltd. President Kathleen Kennedy (a longtime Lucas collaborator) in the

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Oilers can’t solve Sparks ROOKIE NETMINDER LEADS LEAFS TO WIN IN DEBUT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Leafs 3 Oilers 0 TORONTO — Shutouts don’t come easy for the Maple Leafs. Rookie Garret Sparks made it happen Monday night.

The 22-year-old Sparks stopped 24 shots in his NHL debut to lead Toronto to a 3-0 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Monday.

It was the first time since Dec 23, 2014 that the Leafs shut out their opponent, with Jonathan Bernier blanking the Dallas Stars 4-0 that night.

Monday was also the first time any Leaf goaltender earned the shutout in his debut.

“They’ve been playing hockey here a long time so I think that’s pretty cool,” said Sparks, who was visibly emotional after being named the game’s first star with his parents watching from the crowd.

“Good for the kid,” said Leafs coach Mike Babcock.

“Life’s about opportunity and how you respond to that opportunity, obviously he must have some swagger about him, some confidence. He played well, we got a win.”

Sparks, who was summoned from the American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies earlier in the week to replace an injured James Reimer, was given the chance to start over a struggling Bernier, who is 0-8-1 this season.

With Reimer not expected to be ready to play before Toronto’s next game on Wednesday against Winnipeg, the Elmhurst, Ill., native will get a chance for his second straight start.

“I assume he’s starting in Winnipeg unless (Reimer) is ready to go,” said Babcock.

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Garret Sparks, right, makes a save on Edmonton Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl during first-period NHL hockey action in Toronto on Monday.

Kadri supplied the offence for the Maple Leafs (8-11-5), who snapped a threegame skid.

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Eskimos return home with Grey Cup ‘WE ALL DID IT TOGETHER. THEY STUCK WITH US THROUGH THE DARK TIMES AND THAT’S WHAT WE HAD TO GO THROUGH TO GET TO THE BRIGHT TIMES.’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos returned home with the Grey Cup Monday in what the team and fans agreed was as much a celebration of excellence as an exorcism of a decade of mediocre football.

“Having been here my entire career … those dark years were really personal for me, and we worked tirelessly at trying to make sure that we could deliver something that these fans deserve,” said Eskimo general manager Ed Hervey.

Eskimo quarterback Mike Reilly agreed, as behind him fans took pictures of the slightly pockmarked cup as it sat on a table in the airport reception lounge.

“It’s been 10 long years and we’re just excited about having the opportunity to go and take that cup to our fans,” said Reilly.

“We all did it together. They stuck with us through the dark times and that’s what we had to go through to get to the bright times.”

The Eskimos brought home their 14th Grey Cup, landing before noon at the Edmonton International Airport in a plane decorated in CFL team logos.

They were greeted by green and gold clad fans, cheering, blowing horns and singing the team’s fight song.

With players, their families and fans it was over 200 people in the waiting lounge.

The Eskimos defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg for their first Grey Cup win since 2005.

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Edmonton Eskimos’ head coach Chris Jones carries the Grey Cup through the airport after returning to Edmonton, on Monday. drought that followed that left a dry taste in fans’ mouths.

It was also the chronic mismanagement tinged by moments of melodrama for a team that was once the (green and gold) standard of the league.

Until 2006, the Eskimos had not missed the playoffs since 1972, a string

of 34 consecutive seasons.

The Eskimos had authored two dynasties, for three years in the mid1950s and then five in a row starting in 1978.

But since 2006 the Eskimos have not strung together more than two consecutive playoff seasons, missing

the post-season four times.

When head coach Chris Jones took over in 2014, he inherited a 4-14 ballclub.

Coaches came and went: Danny Maciocia, Richie Hall and Kavis Reed.

Eric Tillman came in as general manager in 2010, traded franchise quarterback Ricky Ray, frittered away the lifeblood Canadian content on the roster, and was gone by 2012.

Anger often boiled over, like in 2009, when defensive end Xzavie Jackson, after a fight with teammate Aaron Fiacconi in practice, left the field only to return moments later, marching toward Fiacconi with a shovel. Maciocia managed to intervene.

Even Hervey, the famous former Eskimos receiver who took over for Tillman in 2012, was not immune.

Frustration in 2013 over what he was seeing on the field led him to angrily announce roster and playcalling changes that led to questions over whether Reed had become a figurehead coach.

Lori and Seth Noble, season ticket holders since 2008, endured most of that, but said they always believed the team would come around.

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McDavid says rehab is ahead of schedule

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Connor McDavid will have to wait at least another 11 months to play his first NHL game at Air Canada Centre. He won’t have to wait as many months as feared to get back into game action.

Originally considered out “months” with a broken left clavicle, McDavid said Monday that his rehab is ahead of schedule. This year’s top draft pick who was injured Nov. 3 isn’t skating yet, but he says he’s pain free and hopes to be back sooner than expected.

“Obviously it’s healing well,” McDavid said. “It’s kind of the long run where it feels good and you want to start doing everything, but at the end of the day you’ve still got to let it heal.”

McDavid, considered a generational talent, had five goals and seven assists in his first 13 games with the

Oilers. That kind of start made him a front-runner for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year.

He was starting to feel comfortable at the pro level when he slammed into the boards in Edmonton against the Philadelphia Flyers and broke his collarbone.

Coach Todd McLellan called McDavid a “catalyst” who made teammates, namely Nail Yakupov, better.

“We think that Connor is one of our top players as an 18-year-old,” McLellan said before Edmonton’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. “He had proven he could be that when he was playing. You take anybody’s star player, or one of their star players, out of the lineup, it’s a big hole to fill.”

The Oilers were 5-8-0 with McDavid in the lineup and are 3-6-2 since. A victory in Pittsburgh on Saturday made for a better mood around the team, but it’s clear there’s a ways to go.

From afar, McDavid sees a team

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that is close to winning but not close enough.

“We just seem to find ways to lose games,” McDavid said. “I know that’s not an excuse or anything like that, it’s a mindset, and if we could find a way to switch some of those one-goal games around we’d be in a much different situation.”

McDavid said he’ll let doctors figure out when he’ll be able to return. In the meantime he’s warming up his shoulder before working out and trying to stay in shape.

Mentally it has been difficult on McDavid to miss so much time early in his professional career. Canadian world junior teammate Darnell Nurse said he and other Oilers players have been trying to keep McDavid’s spirits up.

McDavid’s agent and Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr was also at Air Canada Centre on Monday morning. The young player said the support he has received from the hockey community

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has been strong.

“The hockey world is great like that, they’re all great guys,” McDavid said. “It’s special to be a part of, and to have the support of those guys. Not only the hockey guys, but even the fans and family and friends obviously, I’m very lucky to be getting the support I’m getting.”

McDavid was back in the building he won a gold medal in with Canada last winter, the same place he grew up watching Maple Leafs games as a fan from nearby Newmarket. He was disappointed not to be able to take the ice in Toronto for the first time in the NHL. “Obviously this one hurts a lot,” McDavid said.

“You want to play here in your hometown. I was definitely looking forward to this one, for sure. It sucks, but it is what it is. Maybe for the World Cup. We’ll see.”

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Ravens shock Browns with late TD MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raves 33 Browns 27 CLEVELAND — This season of injury upon injury for the Ravens finally includes a break worth celebrating.

Brent Urban blocked Travis Coons’ field-goal attempt and Will Hill returned it 64 yards for a touchdown as time expired, giving Baltimore a stunning 33-27 win Monday night over the luckless Cleveland Browns, who lost their sixth straight game along with starting quarterback Josh McCown.

Coons lined up to kick a potential game-winning 51-yard field goal with 3 seconds to go for the Browns (2-9), but it was deflected by Urban, who was playing his first NFL game after missing the past two seasons with injuries to his knee and right arm.

“It’s surreal,” said a beaming Urban, a fourthround pick in 2014 who missed all last season and tore his biceps earlier this year. “After being out so long, it’s crazy. I’m almost speechless. It’s just a wonderful feeling.”

Quarterback Matt Schaub, making his first start since 2013, threw two touchdown passes for the Ravens (4-7), who seem to take every game to the wire.

All 11 of their games have been decided by less than eight points.

“One of the greatest football games you’re probably ever going to see in terms of excitement,” said Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

McCown injured his collarbone in the fourth quarter and was replaced by Austin Davis, whose 42-yard TD pass to Travis Benjamin tied it with 1:47 remaining. Benjamin got inside Hill, who spent the waning moments hoping for a chance at redemption.

“I was desperate and frustrated at the same time,” Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hill said. “I was praying that we could get a block and it bounced my way and I took it to the end zone.”

Baltimore Ravens running back Javorius Allen (37) runs the ball after a catch in the second half of an NFL The Browns appeared to be in position to pull out football game against the Cleveland Browns, Monday. a comeback win after cornerback Tramon Williams intercepted Schaub with 50 seconds left at BaltiCleveland linebacker Karlos Dansby picked off games with injured ribs, and was expecting to be a more’s 46.

Schaub and returned it 52 backup for the final six games before a video of ManBut as Cleveland atyards for a TD in the third ziel holding a champagne bottle and rapping vulgar tempted to get closer for “I WAS PRAYING THAT WE COULD GET A quarter to give the Browns lyrics surfaced while the team was off.

Coons, Davis wasted valua 20-17 lead, the first time With Manziel on the sideline and both teams able time because of a BLOCK AND IT BOUNCED MY WAY AND I they’ve been ahead in a struggling this season, the game was a tough sell to a communication issue with game since the first half TOOK IT TO THE END ZONE.” the sideline and the QB against Arizona on Nov. 1 national TV audience and thousands of Browns fans couldn’t get out of bounds — WILL HILL — a span of more than 173 stayed home as well. A group of disgusted Clevelanders arrived at FirstEnergy Stadium wearing brown after a scramble, forcing the minutes.

Browns to call a timeout.

But they weren’t up for paper bags over their heads as another season unCoons was 18 for 18 this season, but his kick was long as Schaub countered with his second scoring ravels on the shores of Lake Erie. low, allowing Urban to get a hand on it. As Hill pass, a 15-yarder to Kamar Aiken to put the Ravens For others, it’s time to shift attention to the Cavasprinted down the sideline, Browns fans, some of ahead 24-20 with 5:30 left in the third quarter. liers and NBA superstar LeBron James. A bed sheet whom came to the game with brown paper bags over McCown took several hard shots in the second hanging in one end zone read: “We Still Have LeBtheir heads, felt more disgust. half and went to the sideline in obvious pain. He re- ron.”

“It’s a tough one to wrap your brain around,” turned to the field, but dropped to the ground after NOTES: The Ravens have blocked a punt or kick Browns coach Mike Pettine said. “It’s frustrating we an incompletion, forcing the Browns to turn to Davis, in five straight games. … Javorius Allen, playing in didn’t finish it.” who made eight starts for St. Louis last season but place of injured RB Justin Forsett, had 55 yards on Schaub finished 20 of 34 for 232 yards and his first was getting his first action for Cleveland.

TDs since Dec. 23, 2013.

Manziel was benched by Browns coach Mike 12 carries and a TD reception. … RB Terrance West, McCown, who has played hurt most of this season Pettine after the second-year quarterback broke traded by the Browns earlier this season, had 37 and was only starting because Johnny Manziel got a promise by going out and partying during Cleve- yards on seven carries. … The Ravens are missing land’s bye week. McCown had missed the past two seven starters due to injuries, six on offence. benched, was 21 of 38 for 212 yards and a TD.

With perfect record no longer possible, Pats shift focus

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — At least New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick doesn’t have to answer — or, more precisely, not answer — questions about an undefeated season anymore.

The Patriots’ quest for a second perfect regular season came to an end Sunday night with a 30-24 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos. What’s worse, tight end Rob Gronkowski was injured late in the game, putting a scare into a team that had already lost many of Tom Brady’s offensive weapons.

“He is the best tight end in football,” Brady said. “It is so hard to see these guys get hurt this way. … It is hard to see your friends get taken down like that. It is part of this sport

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ESKIMOS: Fans on hand “We’ve been hanging in there through the rough years, but we’ve always seen really good potential,” said Lori, one of the fans on hand to greet the team.

Seth said they had come from a long night of celebrating the cup win in Drayton Valley.

“It was great,” said Seth. “It’s what we’ve been waiting for.”

Jones said the team appreciated the ad hoc party.

“It’s awesome. I mean this is why you do it,” said Jones.

Hervey agreed that the losing years had frayed the fabric between the Eskimos and it fans.

“I think I’m most proud of (the fact that) the culture of the Edmonton Eskimos is back,” said Hervey. “I couldn’t live with myself honestly if that part was lost between the community and the football team.”

The city will host a noontime downtown Cup celebration for the Eskimos on Tuesday. Next up for Hervey may be a situation with Jones. There are reports the Saskatchewan Roughriders are offering Jones more money and a chance to be coach and GM. Hervey declined to discuss it.

“Today’s all about the players and the championship,” he said. “When the time comes for all that other stuff, we’ll get to that.”

OILERS: Pressure “I didn’t think we stood over a lot of pucks, I didn’t think we won a lot of battles along the boards. I didn’t think we were competitive enough in a lot of areas to come up with the victory.”

and we understand that, but I also have a lot of respect for guys that take the field.”

Gronkowski joins a list of injured that already included running back Dion Lewis, receivers Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola, and a slew of offensive linemen.

So instead of thinking about 16-0, the Patriots can worry about playoff position.

The Patriots lead the AFC East by four games with five to play, and they could clinch their 12th division title in 13 seasons as early as Sunday.

They have a one-game lead over Cincinnati and Denver for home-field advantage through the playoffs, but the Broncos now hold the tiebreaker.

“They’re a great team. They (were) 10-0 for a reason,” Broncos receiver Andre Caldwell said.

“They’re a tough win, so we feel Both teams had only a shot apiece through the first 10 minutes of the game. Edmonton led 8-3 heading into first intermission, but Toronto put on pressure in the second to even the shots 16-16 after two periods.

Komarov opened the scoring on the power play with his team-leading — and career high — ninth goal of the season 6:45 into the first. After a defensive breakdown by the Edmonton penalty killers, van Riemsdyk found Komarov alone between the face-off circles.

He tipped the pass past Nilsson, who was frozen on the play by van Riemsdyk creeping in from the blue line. Komarov’s goal was Toronto’s seventh by way of the power play in the past six games.

“I think the more and more we play together the more chemistry we get,” said van Riemsdyk, who finished the game with three assists. “Now we’re starting to convert on the chances we’ve been getting.”

The Oilers had a strong first shift to open the second period and forced Sparks to make three quick saves, including one in close on Leon Draisaitl.

Justin Schultz managed to get the puck past Sparks but hit the post and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins rang the iron for the second time in the middle frame with just over five to play.

“In my experience with a guy, he’s either hitting a home run or maybe not doing very well at the plate, and the young fella had a great game tonight,” McLellan said about Sparks’ performance. Draisaitl burned Matt Hunwick one-on-one late in the second off the rush that led to a great scoring chance.

The Leafs defenceman was forced into taking a hooking penalty while the puck sat loose in the crease after Sparks made the initial save with his blocker to preserve a 1-0 lead after 40 minutes.

“Going into the third period (a shutout) is definitely on your mind,” said Sparks. “You just want to be on and make sure if they’re going to beat you they have to really beat you. The guys in front of me kept everything out side, kept it manageable and I have them to thank.”

like we’ll definitely see them down the road.”

Gronkowski has been one of the most productive tight ends in NFL history — when he’s on the field. He was knocked out with season-ending injuries in back-to-back seasons in 2012-13, and Sunday night’s hit appeared as if it could do so again.

Gronkowski remained on the turf, writhing in pain, after taking a hit on the right knee from Denver defensive back Darian Stewart with 2:49 left in regulation.

The big tight end needed help to get to a cart, which carried him off the field.

But after the game he was seen walking with only a slight limp. Asked Monday if the news was encouraging, Belichick declined to give details.

“We always hope for the best for all of our players,” he said. “That will nev-

Grey Cup MVP Reilly believes Eskimos built to contend for future titles WINNIPEG — Mike Reilly doesn’t see the Edmonton Eskimos being one-hit wonders. Edmonton captured its first Grey Cup title in 10 years Sunday with a 26-20 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks at Investors Group Field. Reilly, the game MVP, believes the Eskimos have the framework in place to win multiple championships.

“We’ll celebrate it, recoup for a couple of months but then the work gets that much harder because we’re not built to do this once,” Reilly said.

“With the GM we have, the coaching staff we have and the players they’ve brought in, we’ve been built to do this multiple times and it’s on us to make sure that happens.”

The road to the Grey Cup hasn’t always been a smooth one for Reilly and the Eskimos. In 2013, the club finished last in the West Division with a 4-14 record before hiring head coach Chris Jones. In 2013, Edmonton showed marked improvement, finishing second in the conference with a 12-6 record. But Calgary was a huge thorn in the Eskimos’ side, sweeping the season series 4-0, including a one-sided 43-18 victory in the West Division finale en route to capturing the Grey Cup. But Edmonton exorcised those demons this season, finishing tied with Calgary with a CFLbest 14-4 record but garnering first in the West by virtue of winning the season series 2-1. Then the Eskimos dispatched the defending champions 45-31 in the division final.

“It’s been a process,” Reilly said.

“I think through the 4-14 season we learned how not to win, we learned how to lose the close games.

“Last year we learned how to win those close games but we learned how to lose the big games. This year we fi-

er change.”

Backup tight end Scott Chandler had five catches for 58 yards and a touchdown for the Patriots against Denver, by far the best performance since he joined the Patriots this season.

“We will need to rely on him quite a bit,” Brady said. “He is going to be a major contributor for our team. It was good to see him do that and we will see how it will go going forward.”

Chandler said the team has no choice but to move on.

“I think if you sit there and dwell on it, it might be overwhelming,” he said.

“But we can’t do that.”

Also Monday, the Patriots released receiver Chris Harper, whose fumbled fourth-quarter punt return helped the Broncos rally from a 14-point deficit. nally learned how to win the big ones.

It’s been a three-year process in my mind and that’s why I say I think we’ve been built for the long haul to do this multiple times.”

But the 2015 campaign was a tale of two seasons for the Eskimos. Reilly missed most of the first half of the year with a knee injury suffered in the season-opening loss to Toronto.

Edmonton weathered the storm, a staunch defence anchoring the club’s 4-3 record until Reilly returned as the starter Sept. 12 against Calgary. Reilly threw for 352 yards and three TDs in a 27-16 victory and the Eskimos never looked back, winning its final 10 games culminating with the Grey Cup title. So instead of heading into the 2016 season with the hunger of chasing a championship, the Eskimos will have to adopt the mindset of defending champion.

“It (winning Grey Cup) definitely changes things but that’s a position that’s not bad to be in,” Reilly said.

“You can’t win the second and third until you win the first and now we’ve done that.

“We went through the progression and didn’t just get a bunch of quick fixes and bring in a bunch of high-paycheque free agents in order to just fix it right away. That’s why it’s taken a little bit of time … but this is a great league and there’s a lot of other very good football teams in it so certainly we’re going to have our work cut out for us to get ready for next season.”

Edmonton GM Ed Hervey had plenty of work to do this off-season, with kicker Sean Whyte, running back John White, receivers Adarius Bowman and Shamawd Chambers (Grey Cup’s top Canadian), defensive lineman Almondo Sewell, linebacker J.C. Sherritt and defensive back Aaron Grymes all projected to become free agents.

And then there’s Jones, who the Saskatchewan Roughriders are reportedly interested in speaking to regarding their vacant head coach/GM positions.

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Price to miss at least six weeks LOWER-BODY INJURY SIDELINES CANADIENS NETMINDER, WILL LIKELY MISS WINTER CLASSIC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens survived one nine-game stretch without star goaltender Carey Price, but now they’ll will be missing him a lot longer.

The Canadiens announced Monday that Price will be out at least six weeks with a lower body injury that he sustained during a 5-1 win over the Rangers in New York last week. He will not require surgery.

Last season’s Hart and Vezina trophy winner is expected to miss at least 16 games, with only a slim chance he could return for the Winter Classic outdoor game Jan. 1 in Boston, if he heals quickly.

“He’s a big part of our team,” said defenceman P.K. Subban. “But if we think we’re going to get any sympathy from the teams we’re going to play in the next six weeks, we’re not.

“The good thing is we’ve had to deal with not having Price in the lineup for a little while already and we know what that means. When a key part of your team goes down, everyone has to pull up their socks and be a little better.”

The injury returns first-year backup Mike Condon to the hot seat. The Boston-area native went 5-2-2 the last time Price was out from late October to mid-November, although he started to look shaky at the end of that run.

Price returned for two games, winning both, and played the first 40 minutes in New York when he was injured again.

Condon took over for the third period, then started a back-to-back series on the weekend against New Jersey, earning a shootout win and an overtime loss. This season, Condon is 8-2-3 with a solid 2.19 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage.

“I’m a lot more comfortable,” said

Condon, 25. “I’ve had 14 appearances so far, so every time you go out there it gets a little more familiar and easier.”

General manager Marc Bergevin said he will not go shopping for another goaltender just yet.

“I don’t discuss transactions but we’re really comfortable with Mike,” said Bergevin. “I don’t feel there’s a need.

“We have Mike and Ticker (Dustin Tokarski). I was at (an AHL game) and Zach Fucale played really well. That’s why you have many goalies in your system. Now, if we lose three goalies, that’s a different story.”

Fucale was recalled from St. John’s of the American Hockey League on Monday to back up Condon. Tokarski, who allowed two goals in one period of NHL action this season, was assigned to the IceCaps.

Bergevin said he was convinced by team doctors and trainers that Price did not return too early from his previous injury.

“It was not because he came back too quick that he got injured, but I understand the question,” said Bergevin.

“You always wonder if that was the case, but we looked into it really deeply and that was not the case.”

When Price returned from his last injury, his teammates spoke with pride of how they kept winning and proved they are not entirely dependant on their star goalie. A year ago, losing Price would have been devastating on a team that gave up too many shots and scoring chances.

This season’s squad plays a stronger all-around game, with much-improved special teams. The Canadiens also lead the league with 88 goals scored in 25 games.

“It’s a unique situation because Price is our leader,” said defenceman Nathan Beaulieu. “We almost owe it to him to continue playing and not moan about him not being there.”

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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price stops a shot during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders in New York. Price will be out of the lineup for at least six weeks because of a lower-body injury. The Canadiens confirmed the news on their official Twitter feed, adding he will not require surgery.

The Canadiens are also missing first-line right winger Brendan Galla-

gher and centre Torrey Mitchell with injuries.

GYMNASTICS

Locals named to Gymnastics Canada Team for World Age Group competition

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Newly crowned heavyweight world boxing champion Tyson Fury poses for photographs as he hosts a media day in Bolton, England, Monday. The 27-year-old Briton defeated 39-year-old Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany on Saturday to become the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion.

‘No change in the champ’ WINNING HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE WILL NOT CHANGE OUTSPOKEN TYSON FURY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOLTON, England — Being heavyweight champion of the world hasn’t changed Tyson Fury much, at least judging by the maverick boxer’s journey back to Britain after beating Wladimir Klitschko.

No private jets for British sport’s new big thing.

His near-12-hour journey from Germany involved being driven by his pregnant wife to the Netherlands, followed by a ferry over to England.

No champagne breakfasts, either.

He had a bowl of porridge and some fruit on Monday morning before driving in his sandals to a packed-out “Welcome Home” news conference near his home northern town.

“It’s not going to change me.

There’ll be no change in the champ,” Fury, who is of Gypsy heritage and says he’s the most charismatic boxer since Muhammad Ali, told The Associated Press in a suite at the stadium of Bolton soccer club as he tucked into some sandwiches.

“Anybody who can be changed by money, and by achievements, is not a realist,” he said.

“I don’t feel different today than I was the day before, the day before.”

Many say he needs to change. The 27-year-old Fury has blurted out, or tweeted, some controversial comments in recent times.

He said before the Klitschko fight that doping should be legalized in all sports to make it “fully fair.”

He was fined 3,000 pounds (around $4,500) in 2012 for a foul-mouthed rant that included branding two fellow English boxers “gay lovers.”

In a recent newspaper interview, the fiercely religious Fury was quoted as saying that among the “things that

‘ANYBODY WHO CAN BE CHANGED BY MONEY, AND BY ACHIEVEMENTS, IS NOT A REALIST. I DON’T FEEL DIFFERENT TODAY THAN I WAS THE DAY BEFORE, THE DAY BEFORE.’ —TYSON FURY need to be accomplished (changed) before the devil comes home … is homosexuality being legal in countries.”

All that was said when he was largely unknown outside boxing circles.

Before he stunned not just boxing but the sporting world by beating Klitschko. Does responsibility come with being in the lofty position of heavyweight champion of the world?

Not according to Fury.

“If people don’t like it, change the channel,” said Fury, still sporting a bruise above his right eye from Saturday’s fight.

“I won’t be dictated to by anyone.

Do I care? Not really.”

Asked if he thought he was a role model to kids, Fury replied: “I’m not bothered, it’s up to them.”

Fury polarizes opinion out of the ring, but there’s general agreement — especially after Saturday’s fight — that the guy can box.

Klitschko hadn’t been beaten in nearly 10 years before he was outsmarted by Fury and lost his WBA, IBF and WBO belts in a unanimous decision.

The fight wasn’t a classic, but Fury picked holes in Klitschko and made the long-reigning champion look his 39 years. Fury called it a “masterclass.”

“Put your hands together for the eighth wonder of the world,” barked Fury’s father, John, to reporters and photographers at the news conference.

“Get up. Get up and bow. Appreciate what you are seeing, because you haven’t seen anything like this before.”

Tyson Fury, sitting two places

away from his father on the top table, laughed out loud.

“I’m not surprised, I’m not overwhelmed, I’ve always said it would happen,” said Fury, who has won all of his 25 professional fights.

“I’ve been preaching this for I don’t know how long. For me to go there and bust him like I’ve done, it shows what type of talent I am. Anyone who wants to discredit my performance is pure jealousy.”

The heavyweight division, stagnant for a decade because of the dominance of Klitschko and his older brother Vitali, is suddenly in flux.

And the presence of the erratic Fury makes it lively and unmissable.

There is a rematch in the fight contract between Fury and Klitschko, and Peter Fury — the new champion’s trainer and uncle — says a decision will be made by the end of January on whether it goes ahead.

Klitschko has suggested he wants to trigger the clause.

Peter Fury said he wants Tyson to dispose of Klitschko again, maybe in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium — England’s national soccer stadium — in May, before turning his attention to a world title unification fight with Deontay Wilder, an American who holds the WBC belt.

“We’re on top of the hill now,” Peter Fury said.

“And we’ll get better and stronger all the time.”

Kalena Soehn and Zachary Blakely of the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club has been named to the Gymnastics Canada team that will compete in the 2015 Trampoline Gymnastics World Age Group competition at Odense, Denmark Dec. 3-5.

Soehn is one of 33 athletes making up the Canadian contingent and will compete in the women’s 15-16 trampoline and double mini-trampoline events. Blakely will compete in the men’s 15-16 trampoline and double mini-trampoline.

“This is perhaps the largest competition that a lot of these athletes will have the opportunity to compete at so it’s a fantastic opportunity to gain experience on the international stage for them and our coaches,” said Stephan Duchesne, High Performance director for trampoline gymnastics at Gymnastics Canada. “We have some good medal hopefuls in several events and with no restrictions on the number of athletes per country that advance to the finals, we could have as many as four athletes in some finals.”

Ken Soehn of the Thunder Country Club is one of the trampoline coaches.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Curler Courtney Smith and men’s hockey defenceman Tanner Butler are the RDC Boston Pizza female and male athletes of the week.

Smith, in her third year of Kinesiology and Sports Studies, provided the RDC women’s curling team with a veteran presence and made a number of clutch shots in the ACAC Fall Regional event at the Pidherney Centre.

The RDC team posted a 5-1 record and currently sits in second place with the top four teams qualifying for the finals.

Butler, from Souris, Man., and a second-year Open Studies student, was selected as the RDC Kings player of the game for three straight games as the Christmas break approached. He also picked up a pair of assists in the Kings’ 6-3 win Friday over host Concordia.

The RDC sports team are idle until January. ● Kings basketball head coach Clayton Pottinger has been named head coach for the Team Alberta U17 boys team that will compete in the summer of 2016.

RINGETTE The Central Alberta U14AA Sting suffered a pair of ringette losses to the Spruce Grove U16A team during the weekend.

Julia Dawes and Megan Grubb scored in a 3-2 loss and Gracie Settlers faced in excess of 40 shots, and Carly Cherniak, with two, Dawes, Kate Roscoe, Sydney Schnoor and Tory Towers provided the Sting goals in a 7-6 setback. ● The Central Alberta U19AA Sting, with Gillian Dreger netting three goals and Baylee Schulhauser providing flawless goaltending, blanked the Riviere Que Barre open A team 5-0. MacKenzie Lindholm and Bryn Lunn had the other Sting markers.

The Sting will be hosting their home AA tournament Dec. 11-13 at Lacombe.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today ● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame at Innisfail, Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, Ponoka at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Wednesday ● JV basketball: Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, Camrose at Hunting Hills, Ponoka at Sylvan Lake, Lindsay Thurber at Lacombe, Stettler at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Friday ● Peewee AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Big Valley. ● Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship, 7:30 p.m., Westerner Prairie Pavilion. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Saturday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/Cochrane at Red Deer Strata Energy, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at Red Deer Elks, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Warriors at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Olds at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive; Lethbridge Red at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge Red at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; ● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Ramada, 1 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer Strata Energy, noon, Arena; Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer North Star, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Centrium.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 1, 2015

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 26 16 7 2 1 87 80 35 Brandon 25 15 8 0 2 88 68 32 Moose Jaw 27 13 9 4 1 93 88 31 Regina 25 12 11 2 0 74 87 26 Saskatoon 25 10 12 3 0 79 101 23 Swift Current 26 8 15 3 0 64 81 19 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Red Deer 27 19 8 0 0 106 74 38 Lethbridge 26 17 9 0 0 105 78 34 Calgary 28 16 10 1 1 86 87 34 Edmonton 28 11 14 3 0 80 96 25 Medicine Hat 23 7 13 2 1 77 95 17 Kootenay 27 6 19 2 0 55 110 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 26 19 6 1 0 104 77 39 Victoria 27 17 8 1 1 93 62 36 Prince George 24 13 9 1 1 73 70 28 Kamloops 23 11 9 3 0 83 79 25 Vancouver 26 6 16 2 2 69 102 16 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Seattle 25 16 7 2 0 91 69 34 Spokane 27 14 10 2 1 89 92 31 Everett 23 14 7 0 2 62 44 30 Portland 23 12 11 0 0 79 70 24 Tri-City 27 10 16 1 0 81 108 21 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Sunday’s results Everett 5 Spokane 1 Saturday’s results Vancouver 2 Portland 0 Prince Albert 2 Swift Current 1 Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 1

Nikolishin 27 17 23 Spacek 27 10 19 Musil 27 9 10 W.Johnson 27 6 13 Fleury 21 7 11 Bleackley 25 5 13 Bobyk 27 8 9 Pawlenchuk 27 11 5 Polei 24 10 6 Hagel 27 4 12 Kopeck 26 3 11 Pederson 27 4 9 de Wit 27 4 7 Pratt 21 4 2 Nogier 25 0 6 Strand 27 0 5 Doetzel 19 0 4 Purtill 6 1 1 RJohnson 13 1 1 Pouliot 11 0 2 Mahura 2 0 1 Martin 13 0 0 Toth 21 0 0 Shmoorkoff 23 0 0

Red Deer 2 Regina 1 Lethbridge 3 Kootenay 2 Brandon 4 Medicine Hat 3 Prince George 7 Kamloops 3 Moose Jaw 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Victoria 5 Kelowna 1 Spokane 6 Tri-City 4 Tuesday’s games Kootenay at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Thursday, December 3 Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Friday, December 4 Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

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

Saturday, December 5 Regina at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday, December 6 Swift Current at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 5 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

GP

40 29 19 19 18 18 17 16 16 16 14 13 11 6 6 5 4 2 2 2 1 0 0 0

2 6 19 20 23 21 28 6 33 4 17 15 15 7 26 27 27 2 11 2 0 0 0 6

8 3 14 1 9 3 6 0 12 9 -2 9 8 3 7 5 9 0 1 5 1 — — 6

Goaltenders Toth Martin

MP GA SO GAA Sv% 1104 48 2 2.61 .911 512 24 0 2.81 .898

N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh New Jersey Philadelphia Carolina Columbus

25 23 23 24 24 25

13 8 13 8 12 9 9 10 8 12 10 15

4 2 2 5 4 0

30 72 28 52 26 56 23 45 20 50 20 60

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 24 19 5 0 38 St. Louis 24 15 6 3 33 Chicago 24 13 8 3 29 Nashville 23 12 7 4 28 Minnesota 22 11 7 4 26 Winnipeg 25 11 12 2 24 Colorado 24 9 14 1 19 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Los Angeles 23 14 8 1 29 San Jose 23 14 9 0 28 Arizona 23 13 9 1 27 Vancouver 25 9 9 7 25 Anaheim 25 9 11 5 23 Calgary 24 8 14 2 18 Edmonton 25 8 15 2 18 NOTE: Two points for a win, one overtime loss.

62 54 57 65 70 76

GF 85 65 67 59 63 67 71

GA 62 58 62 60 61 80 75

GF 58 66 65 69 51 56 62 point

GA 50 58 65 69 65 87 77 for

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 25 18 4 3 39 88 Ottawa 23 12 6 5 29 76 Detroit 24 12 8 4 28 56 Boston 22 13 8 1 27 73 Tamp Bay 25 11 11 3 25 59 Florida 23 10 9 4 24 60 Buffalo 24 10 12 2 22 54 Toronto 24 8 11 5 21 56

Red Deer Rebels Scoring G A Pts PIM

+/-

N.Y. Rangers Washington

GA 56 68 60 64 58 59 62 66

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 25 17 6 2 36 74 53 23 17 5 1 35 75 51

Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5 Colorado 3 N.Y. Rangers 4 Carolina 3 Toronto 3,Edmonton 0 Anaheim 4, Vancouver 0 Tuesday’s Games Colorado at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m Philadelphia at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Florida at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago ,6 p.m.

Dallas atCalgary, 7 p.m.

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

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

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 10 1 0 .909 347 N.Y. Jets 6 5 0 .545 272 Buffalo 5 6 0 .455 266 Miami 4 7 0 .364 225

Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

W 6 6 4 2

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

W 9 6 4 2

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 9 6 5 3

South L T 5 0 5 0 7 0 9 0

PA 212 228 257 287

Pct .545 .545 .364 .182

PF 249 232 236 203

PA 260 234 299 257

Pct .818 .545 .364 .182

PF 297 266 259 213

PA 193 230 276 310

Pct .818 .545 .455 .273

PF 252 287 264 244

PA 207 220 280 307

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 5 6 0 .455 241 N.Y. Giants 5 6 0 .455 287 Philadelphia 4 7 0 .364 243 Dallas 3 8 0 .273 204

PA 267 273 274 261

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 11 6 5 4

Minnesota Green Bay Chicago Detroit

W 8 7 5 4

North L T 2 0 5 0 7 0 9 0 West L T 2 0 5 0 6 0 8 0

South L T Pct 0 0 1.000 5 0 .545 6 0 .455 7 0 .364 North L T Pct 3 0 .727 4 0 .636 6 0 .455 7 0 .364 West

PF 332 260 248 261

PA 205 234 279 339

PF 231 262 231 230

PA 194 215 264 288

Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

W 9 6 4 3

L 2 5 7 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .818 .545 .364 .273

PF 355 267 186 152

PA 229 222 230 271

Thursday’s Games Detroit 45, Philadelphia 14 Carolina 33, Dallas 14 Chicago 17, Green Bay 13 Sunday’s Games Houston 24, New Orleans 6 Kansas City30, Buffalo 22 Oakland 24, Tennessee 21 Cincinnati 31,St. Louis 7 Minnesota20, Atlanta10 Washington 20, N.Y. Giants 14 Indianapolis 25, Tampa Bay 12 San Diego 31, Jacksonville 25 N.Y. Jets 38, Miami 20 Arizona 19, San Francisco 13 Seattle 39, Pittsburgh 30 Denver 30, New England 24, OT Monday’s Game Baltimore 33, Cleveland 27 Thursday, Dec. 3 Green Bay at Detroit, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6 Arizona at St. Louis,11 a.m.

Seattle at Minnesota,11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Chicago,11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Houston at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Denver at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh,6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7 Dallas at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Grey Cup Champion 2015 — Edmonton Eskimos 2014 — Calgary Stampeders 2013 — Saskatchewan Roughriders 2012 — Toronto Argonauts 2011 — British Columbia Lions

2010 — Montreal Alouettes 2009 — Montreal Alouettes 2008 — Calgary Stampeders 2007 — Saskatchewan Roughriders 2006 — British Columbia Lions 2005 — Edmonton Eskimos 2004 — Toronto Argonauts 2003 — Edmonton Eskimos 2002 — Montreal Alouettes 2001 — Calgary Stampeders 2000 — British Columbia Lions 1999 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1998 — Calgary Stampeders 1997 — Toronto Argonauts 1996 — Toronto Argonauts 1995 — Baltimore Stallions 1994 — British Columbia Lions 1993 — Edmonton Eskimos 1992 — Calgary Stampeders 1991 — Toronto Argonauts 1990 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1989 — Saskatchewan Roughriders 1988 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1987 — Edmonton Eskimos 1986 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1985 — British Columbia Lions 1984 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1983 — Toronto Argonauts 1982 — Edmonton Eskimos 1981 — Edmonton Eskimos 1980 — Edmonton Eskimos 1979 — Edmonton Eskimos 1978 — Edmonton Eskimos 1977 — Montreal Alouettes 1976 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1975 — Edmonton Eskimos 1974 — Montreal Alouettes 1973 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1972 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1971 — Calgary Stampeders 1970 — Montreal Alouettes 1969 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1968 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1967 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1966 — Saskatchewan Roughriders 1965 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1964 — British Columbia Lions 1963 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1962 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1961 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1960 — Ottawa Rough Riders

1959 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1958 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1957 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1956 — Edmonton Eskimos 1955 — Edmonton Eskimos 1954 — Edmonton Eskimos 1953 — Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1952 — Toronto Argonauts 1951 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1950 — Toronto Argonauts 1949 — Montreal Alouettes 1948 — Calgary Stampeders 1947 — Toronto Argonauts 1946 — Toronto Argonauts 1945 — Toronto Argonauts 1944 — Montreal HMCS St-Hyacinthe-Donnacona 1943 — Hamilton Wildcats 1942 — Toronto RCAF 1941 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1940 — Ottawa Rough Riders 1939 — Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1938 — Toronto Argonauts 1937 — Toronto Argonauts 1936 — Sarnia Imperials 1935 — Winnipeg ‘Pegs 1934 — Sarnia Imperials 1933 — Toronto Argonauts 1932 — Hamilton Tigers 1931 — Montreal AAA 1930 — Toronto Balmy Beach 1929 — Hamilton Tigers 1928 — Hamilton Tigers 1927 — Toronto Balmy Beach 1926 — Ottawa Senators 1925 — Ottawa Senators 1924 — Queen’s University 1923 — Queen’s University 1922 — Queen’s University 1921 — Toronto Argonauts 1920 — University of Toronto 1916-19 — Not played (First World War) 1915 — Hamilton Tigers 1914 — University of Toronto 1913 — Hamilton Tigers 1912 — Hamilton Alerts 1911 — University of Toronto 1910 — University of Toronto 1909 — University of Toronto

cago’s practice squad and CB Mike Lee and LB Brandon Hepburn to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed TE Jimmy Graham on injured reserve. Signed DT A.J. Francis from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived S Kimario McFadden. Signed LB Adarius Glanton from Carolina’s practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed WR Rico Richardson to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Jeremy Harris to the practice squad.

Noonan and G Brandon Whitney to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ONTARIO REIGN — Returned F Derek Arnold to Manchester (ECHL).

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned OF Michael Choice outright to Columbus (IL). Agreed to terms with C Anthony Recker on a minor league contract.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jordan Zimmermann on a five-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Tim Collins on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Assigned LHP Fernando Abad and OF Craig Gentry outright to Nashville (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Jim Johnson on a one-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed RHP Michael Mariot off waivers from Kansas City.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with C Brayan Pena on a two-year contract.

American Association ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed OF Willie Argo.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed OF Calvin Graves.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed C Ozzy Gonzalez and OF Collins Cuthrell to contract extensions.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Traded SS Juan Sanchez to Texas (AA) for a player to be named.

SENIOR MEN’S BASKETBALL Andre Touchette’s 21 points boosted the Triple A Batteries to a 64-56 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Silver Spurs Sunday.

Brent Higgins added 11 points for the winners, while the Spurs got 14 from Nick Pelerine and eight from Chris Lavery.

MMA

New UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm to be honoured with a parade in Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm is being honoured by her hometown of Albuquerque with a parade set for this Sunday.

Holm captured the belt from the previously undefeated Ronda Rousey on Nov. 14 in Australia.

She now has a 10-0 record after pulling off the stunning win over Rousey in UFC 193, knocking out the women’s bantamweight champ in the second round with a powerful kick to the head. Following the fight, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry said the city would plan a celebration to honour the 34-year-old Holm.

Albuquerque city councillors then declared November “Holly Holm Month.” On Monday, plans were announced for the parade and celebration to honour Holm.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed LHP Lucas Laster to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — G Kobe Bryant announced his retirement, effective at the end of the season.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Assigned F Cleananthony Early to Westchester (NBADL).

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived F Martell Webster. Signed C Ryan Hollins.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Placed DT Alex Carrington on injured reserve. Released LB A.J. Tarpley.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed C Cornelius Edison to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived LB Sean Porter from the PUP list. Released G Dan France from the practice squad. Signed CB Asa Jackson to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived RB Trey Williams.

DETROIT LIONS — Placed CB Alex Carter on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed RB Ahmad Bradshaw on injured reserve. Signed RB Zurlon Tipton.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Fired offensive co-ordinator Bill Lazor. Named Zac Taylor offensive co-ordinator.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Chris Harper.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released OL Julian Vandervelde. Signed OL Barrett Jones from Chi-

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Richard Nedomlel from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned D Victor Bartley to Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned G Juuse Saros to Milwaukee.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F Jayson Megna from Hartford (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Binghamton D Mark Fraser two games.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Assigned D Nick Pageau to Norfolk (ECHL).

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled D Derek Docken from Toledo (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Returned G Jeff Malcolm to Greenville (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Reassigned D Garrett

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Colorado LW Jesse Mychan six games, Florida D Rob Florentino five games, Adirondack D Luke Curadi and Elmira F Garrett Klotz one game and Florida LW Corey Cowick one game.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Signed Fs Kyle Jean and Jake Fallon.

READING ROYALS — Loaned F Joe Rehkamp to Lehigh Valley (AHL).

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed G Kelsey Wys to a one-year contract.

COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Minnesota hockey player Nick Seeler one game for receiving a major penalty for contact to the head and a game misconduct against St. Cloud State on Nov. 29.

FRESNO STATE — Fired offensive co-ordinator Dave Schramm.

HAWAII — Named Nick Rolovich football coach.

MINNESOTA — Announced offensive co-ordinator Matt Limegrover and quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski will not return next season. Named Dan O’Brien co-special teams co-ordinator and assistant defensive backs coach.

Hamburg voters reject bid for 2024 Olympics in referendum

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hamburg residents rejected the German port city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics in a public referendum on Sunday. Opponents to the bid won with 51.6 per cent of the vote, with 48.4 per cent in favour.

“That’s a decision that we didn’t want, but it’s clear,” said Hamburg mayor Olaf Scholz.

Defeat came despite 65.6 per cent of residents in the nearby city of Kiel voting in favour of the games. Sailing events had been planned for Kiel.

More than 40 per cent of those eligible to vote in the referendum did so through a postal ballot more than four weeks before Sunday’s vote. Around 650,000 — or half — of the eligible 1.3 million voters in Hamburg had their say.

“The result is a bitter pill for us to swallow, but a democratic decision must simply be accepted,” said Nikolas Hill, chief executive of the bid committee. “We have always said that the candidacy can only be successful if it is really desired and supported by the citizens.”

The result leaves Paris, Rome, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary as the sole bidders for the 2024 Games. The International Olympic Committee will select the host city in September 2017.

IOC president Thomas Bach had been happy to have five candidates

and Sunday’s result will be seen as a blow to the German.

Germany has not staged an Olympics since the 1972 Summer Games in Munich.

“I’m disappointed and sad. It would have been a big opportunity,” said Dietmar Beiersdorfer, chairman of football club Hamburger SV. “It would have been a wonderful story.”

Munich’s bid for the 2022 Winter Games was also rejected in a referendum.

“It looks like thoughts of Olympia and Germany don’t go together,” said Alfons Hoermann, president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).

Hamburg’s campaign to host the games was carried out “with lots of love and engagement,” Hoermann said, and “without mistakes.”

Leaders of the bid had been confident of public backing with a poll taken in March showing 64 per cent were in favour of hosting the games.

But public support appeared to be worn down by several high-profile issues, including the refugee crisis the Paris attacks a football friendly involving Germany cancelled due to a terror scare scandals at the German football federation and FIFA and the recent Russian doping scandal. Local activists also argued that the games would drive rents up, and the issue of funding was still not settled before the vote took place.

“We noticed a change of mood in the city,” Florian Kasiske of the opposing NOlympia group said. “People can see that there are things where the money is better spent.”

Organizers calculated the cost of hosting the games in Hamburg and Kiel at 11.2 billion euros ($11.9 billion).

The Hamburg senate wanted the government to contribute 6.2 billion euros ($6.6 billion) while the city contributed 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion). Revenues of 3.8 billion euros ($4 billion) were expected to make up the rest.

“The result was heavily influenced by the conditions,” Hoermann said.

The IOC said in an emailed statement that it wasn’t surprised by the decision, having followed discussions in Germany in recent weeks. It said that Hamburg, Germany and sport in the country had missed out on a “great opportunity,” including an IOC investment of $1.7 billion, “which compares to the 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) Hamburg wanted to invest.”

“It is understandable that the citizens of Hamburg are very sensitive with regard to the not yet finalized financing plan of the candidature. Even more so in a situation in which Germany has to manage a historic challenge with a high number of refugees coming into the country,” the IOC said. “Therefore the high number of yes votes … is very valuable and supports the position of (the) DOSB about the importance of Olympic Games.”

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New team event a medal opportunity for Canada ALPINE SKIING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada’s Erin Mielzynski speeds down the course during the women’s World Cup slalom ski race Sunday. erful, fast start out is the key. The start gate resembles ski cross in that the skiers launch from a metal chute after a barrier drops.

“The most important thing is not getting out of the start late,” Mielzynski said. “Phil and Trevor get out early.

They are amazing at starts.”

The IOC’s inclusion of the sport follows a trend of not just upping female participation in the Games, but incorporating mixed-gender medal events.

The luge relay featuring a male and a female slider and a men’s doubles team was introduced in 2014 when Canada finished fourth. Mixed doubles curling will also make its Olympic debut in 2018.

Adding the team event is a headache for coaches. They must find time

Happ hoping for repeat of last year’s Blue Jays success

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — J.A. Happ had to watch from afar last season as his former team came within two wins of reaching the World Series.

Now that he’s back with the Blue Jays — signing a three-year, $36-million dollar deal on Friday with the team that traded him to Seattle almost exactly one year ago — the 33-year-old left-hander is hoping Toronto can pick up where they left off last season.

“Seeing what this team did last year, it was fun to watch,” Happ said on a conference call Saturday afternoon. “It kind of (made me) want to come back and be a part of that.”

“I’m a baseball fan, too,” he added. “Watching the energy (in Toronto during the post-season) — the whole time I was there I was like, ‘if we could make it to the playoffs this city would be nuts’ — and watching that, it was awesome. … That’s what we’re hopefully trying to do these next few years is repeat that.”

Happ spent 2 ½ seasons with the Blue Jays from 2012-2014 before being traded for outfielder and Victoria native Michael Saunders on Dec. 3. He was 19-20 with a 4.39 earned-run average in 58 appearances (50 starts) with Toronto.

While his stats with the Mariners

were less than optimal — he was 4-6 with a 4.64 ERA through 20 starts — Happ improved drastically once he was traded to the Pirates at the deadline, lowering his ERA to 1.85 and striking out 69 batters over 63 1/3 innings.

Happ attributes that turnaround to a mechanical adjustment he made in Pittsburgh.

“My main goal going over there was to try to get back to throwing the way I was earlier in the year,” he said. “Over the course of the season things happen slowly that you may not notice mechanical-wise. So we just tried to correct my angle, use my momentum going towards home plate not third base.

“I felt I had a better angle on the ball and it was coming out more free.

That mixed with some success helped the confidence too so I think it was a combination of those things.”

Happ fills a rotation spot for the AL East champion Blue Jays, who figure to lose fellow left-handers David Price and Mark Buehrle in free agency. Price, the runner-up for this year’s AL Cy Young Award, is expected to command a huge deal. While the Blue Jays appear to be out on Price after signing Happ, GM Tony LaCava says he’s “not ruling anything out” — whether that means staying in on the Price sweepstakes or trying to lock up another front-of-the-line starter.

to train its specific skill set on top of the work that goes into preparing athletes for individual slalom, giant slalom, super-G and downhill races.

“This is a tough one,” said Martin Rufener, Alpine Canada’s athletic director. “You need someone who really has the ability of technical skier and a killer instinct in them. It’s a specific type of athlete you need in there because it’s a short sprint.

“It’s so hard to fit it in because you have the men’s circuit and the women’s circuit and it’s so hard to find a place where they are close together to train it.”

Now that there’s an Olympic medal at stake, powerhouse ski countries such as Austria and Switzerland are going to put resources and time into

winning a medal.

Canada is trying to stay ahead of the game. A start gate specific to the team event has been built at Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park for the alpine skiers.

Brown and Mielzynski love the novelty of competing as a team and the adrenaline rush they get trying to beat a skier beside them.

“It’s kind of a mental escape for me,” Mielzynski said. “I’ve never competed in a team sport, so when there’s a team medal up for grabs, it’s way more fun and a way for you to kind of release.”

Added Brown: “A lot of it comes down to competitive will to win. When you’re going head to head with somebody, you either find a way to win or you don’t.”

NHL

ment of Player Safety.

“Those are things that are very tough for coaches and management to comment on. Was it a late it? In our opinion, it definitely was. Should we help (Stepan) moving forward to better protect himself? We’re going to try to do that.” Vigneault before Saturday’s game against Philadelphia.

BRIEFS

Rangers centre Derek Stepan out 4 to 6 weeks Benn, Holtby and Galchenyuk with broken ribs named NHL’s three stars of NEW YORK — Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said centre Derek Stepan the week will miss four to six weeks because of broken ribs.

Vigneault made the announcement Monday morning following the New York Rangers’ morning skate.

Stepan injured the ribs in Friday’s loss to Boston.

He has six goals, six assists in 23 games this season.

The Rangers host the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.

The Rangers called up Jayson Megna from their American Hockey League affiliate.

Megna had 12 points and eight penalty minutes in 21 games with the Hartford Wolfpack.

Stepan had been examined by a doctor Saturday, a day after he was injured in New York’s 4-3 loss to the Boston Bruins.

The centre was checked by Bruins left wing Matt Beleskey after making a pass in the second period.

Beleskey was not penalized for the hit and he did not receive supplemental discipline from the NHL’s Depart-

NEW YORK — Dallas Stars leftwing Jamie Benn, Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby and Montreal Canadiens centre Alex Galchenyuk have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.

Benn shared the league lead with four goals and six points as the Stars won two of three games to continue their best start to a season in the franchise’s 48-year history (19-5-0, 38 points).

The reigning scoring champion leads the NHL with 18 goals and ranks second with 35 points in 24 games.

Holtby posted a 4-0-0 record with a 1.75 goals-against average, .945 save percentage and one shutout to lead the Capitals to the top of the Metropolitan Division standings.

Galchenyuk tied for first in the league with four goals and added one assist to help the Canadiens earn five of a possible six points and reclaim first place in the overall standings.

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CALGARY — Canadians often excel in a new event about to be added to an Olympic Games. The challenge for Canada’s skiers is to turn early success in the nations team competition into a medal.

Shortly after Canada won a world championship silver medal in the team event in February, the International Olympic Committee declared it will be added to the menu at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

“I think we all kind of know we have an opportunity to be competing for a medal and that doesn’t come around very often,” said Toronto slalom skier Philip Brown, who was in on that silver medal in Vail, Colorado.

Head-to-head slalom racing has been around since the World Pro Ski Tour in the 1970s. A team event debuted at the world alpine championship in 2005, but the format has been revised to make it compact and television-friendly.

Each country chooses two men and two women. Each skier goes head-tohead on a short slalom course against a skier of the same gender from another country.

The first skier over the finish line earns a point. The country with the most points after the four races advances to next round. The combined time of the fastest man and fastest woman is the tiebreaker if it’s 2-2.

Brown, Calgary’s Trevor Philp, Erin Mielzynski of Collinwood, Ont., and Toronto’s Candace Crawford defeated Germany, Italy and Sweden en route to the final in Vail, where they lost 3-1 to Austria. Highlights of Canada’s journey to the podium can be seen on YouTube.

The course is so short it takes between 20 and 25 seconds to cover and there are two jumps on it. A skier in the lead can fall or miss a gate and be disqualified, so the trailing skier can still pull off a victory.

“You have to stay so focused because if someone is ahead of you, you’re not out of the game,” Mielzynski said. “They could fall or mess up.”

Because the race is a sprint, a pow-

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announcements Obituaries HILL Helen 1926 - 2015 Mrs. Helen Ivy Hill of Red Deer, passed away peacefully at Sunset Manor at Innisfail, Alberta on Thursday, November 26, 2015 at the age 89 years.

Helen will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Lynn (Dave) Hollman; two grandsons; Jason (Iska) and Murray (Rachel), six great grandchildren; as well as nieces and nephews. Helen was predeceased by her last husband, Clifford Hill, a son, Mac, and a grandson, Mark.

The family would like to thank the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Dr. and Mrs. Rattan, Dr. Chauhan of Innisfail, Alberta, and the staff at Sunset Manor of Innisfail for all their compassion, caring and support for Helen and her family.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Obituaries WOIT Patricia Anne Marie (nee Thielen) It is with great sadness and heavy hearts the loving family of Patricia Anne Marie Woit announces her passing after a brief struggle with cancer on Friday, November 27th, 2015.

Patricia leaves to mourn her husband of 48 years, Ivan, son, Jeffrey (Charlene), daughter, Lisa (Dion) Zukiwsky, grand-children; Boston and Chloe Woit, and stepgrandchildren; Dyson and Spencer Zukiwsky. She also leaves to mourn brothers; Garry (Kathy) Thielen of Reno, Nev., and Roger Thielen of Milk River, her aunt, Ada Emard of Lethbridge, sisters-in-law; Cheryl Beitel of Regina and Bernadette Woit of North Vancouver, along with numerous cousins, aunts and uncles. Patricia was born in Lethbridge, AB, on June 13, 1944 and was raised on the family farm at Masinisin where she took her early schooling and then completed her high school in Milk River. Patricia began a career in hair dressing in Regina, SK, and later joined P. Lawson Travel and subsequently began working for Air Canada which is where she met her loving husband, Ivan.

They married in 1967 and one year later they moved to Red Deer with Burritt Travel and later she became a partner with her husband in Vista Travel. On first arrival in Red Deer, she became the second employee of Parkland Credit Union, she was extremely proud watching this organization grow knowing she played a part in its beginning. After raising her children, Patricia worked alongside her husband in the travel business and for many years they escorted many groups to destinations all over the world. Cruising was Pat’s passion and enjoyed more than 30 in her lifetime. Fulfilling her passion for travel, Patricia, along with her daughter Lisa, visited Kenya and Tanzania, Vietnam and Cambodia along with the last few winters spent in Cabo San Lucas and Palm Springs. Her biggest passion however was her grandchildren who she loved to take to Sunnybrook Farm, nature hikes in Kin Canyon and the various playgrounds throughout the city. Her leisure time was spent reading, doing crosswords, playing canasta on the computer with opponents from all over the world and golf with her two golf buddies; Val and Nassim, providing there wasn’t a cloud anywhere in the sky. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a contribution be made in Patricia’s honor to Sunnybrook Farms, 4701 30th Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H7 or the Canadian Cancer Society, 101 6751 52 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K8. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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NICOL RAYMOND The family of Raymond Alexander Nicol are saddened to announce his peaceful passing on Friday November 27, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 79 years. Ray was born June 2, 1936 in Virden MB to Alec and Mary Nicol. He is survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Marty (nee Fichter); his 6 children Alexis (Derek) Olinek, Jackie (Dave) Dicknoether, Sandra (Dave) Shankowski, Georgia (Bruce) Witwer, Paula (Brian) Kelly, James (Ping) Nicol; 18 grandchildren and 9 greatgrandchildren. He also leaves to mourn his loss, 2 sisters, Bessie Creller and Marg (Don) Gee, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Ray was predeceased by his parents and a brother-in-law, Reid Creller. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer AB at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015.

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Card Of Thanks DIETZ We wish to express our sincere thanks to the many people for their wonderful support during Ralph’s illness and passing. Thank you to our neighbors, friends and family for their prayers, visits, food, flowers, cards, calls and donations. They are greatly appreciated. Thank you to Respiratory Home Care Solutions and to Roselle and the CBI Home Care staff for being here for us. Roxanne, Ralph always looked forward to your challenging cribbage games, thank you. Our special thanks to the Paramedics, Dr. R. Mulder, Dr. Taiwo, Dr. Nogareda, Dr.’s and nurses in Emergency and on Units 22 & 23 at the RDRH for your care of Ralph. Many thanks Rev. Bert deBruijn for officiating at the memorial service. Your kind and efficient help, your scripture readings, prayers and comforting words are greatly appreciated. Also thank you to Rev. Wayne Reid for your prayers and kind words at the service.

Our deepest appreciation to organist Miriam Pratt. To Rev. Bert and Marilyn deBruijn for their duet and special music on the harp and to Jackson and Samuel Corry for their duets and special music on the violin and guitar. Thank to Remi’s Catering for the lovely luncheon and many thanks to Carley Brown and staff at the Red Deer Funeral Home for your support and understanding during this time.

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MCKEAN Carol Feb. 29, 1940 - Nov. 25, 2015 It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that the family announces the passing of Carol McKean, long time resident of Bentley, Alberta with her family at her side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at the age of 75 years. Carol is survived by her husband Reiny, daughters Jeanne Stotz (Larry Bergen), Roxanne McKean (Kate Hunt), son Grant (Crystal) McKean, sister Joyce Turnbull, sister-in-law Cathy Palmer, grandchildren Shauna McKean (Shaun Picket), Sheldon Stotz (Melissa Drummond), Amy (Dana) Womacks, Collin McKean (Hannah O’Meara) McKean, two great grandchildren Kaleigh and Jayden McKean, and one great greatgrandson Ethan. Carol was predeceased by her parents Ervin and Agnes Palmer, brothers Dennis and Derald Palmer, step-sisters Francis Stevenson, and Lucille Manley. Carol had a great love for her family, was a strong support to her many friends, had a great sense of humor, and was always a joy to be with. Carol always saw the good in people and never missed an opportunity to show that she cared. As a young mother she and her sister Joyce ran the Bentley Hotel coffee shop. Once her three children were grown she joined husband Reiny on his work crew and became the camp cook. She loved her trips to Vegas and her winters in Arizona with Reiny and friends. A celebration of Carol’s life will be held at the Bentley Community Church, 4633 53rd Avenue, on Friday, December 4, 2015 at 1:00 pm. Carol will be sadly missed by her family and friends. If friends so desire memorial contributions may be made to the Bentley School Breakfast/Lunch Program or to STARS Foundation.

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Red tide of change sweeps province CORNER BROOK, N.L. — The Liberals earned a hefty majority win in Monday’s provincial election in Newfoundland and Labrador, ending 12 years of Progressive Conservative rule with a low-key campaign that tapped into voters’ desire for change.

Buoyed by Liberal victories in every one of Atlantic Canada’s 32 federal ridings on Oct. 19, provincial Liberal Leader Dwight Ball repeatedly invoked Justin Trudeau’s winning strategy, saying, “People of our province want politics of hope, of change.”

Once Ball assumes power, every province east of Manitoba will be governed

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“That’s the kind of work ethic you can expect from me in the next four years.”

With virtually all the polls reporting, the Liberals were leading and elected in 31 ridings, the Tories in seven and the NDP in two.

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During the 25-day provincial election campaign, Ball never wavered from a safe, front-runner strategy that included a politically popular pledge to kill a Tory plan to increase government revenue by raising the harmonized sales tax from 13 to 15 per cent on Jan. 1.

Elected as Tory leader only 13 months ago, Premier Paul Davis told voters the election was about leadership and warned about what he called a Liberal hidden agenda that included massive cuts to government spending and public service jobs to deal with a projected $1-billion deficit.

Davis, a 54-year-old former police officer, won his riding of Topsail-Paradise.

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Quebec Superior Court Justice Andre Vincent told jurors before they were sequestered Monday there are four possible outcomes: not criminally responsible by way of mental disorder or guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter.

The jurors must first examine the not criminally responsible defence put forth by Turcotte and determine if he was aware that what he was doing when he stabbed, Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3, was wrong.

Acquittal is not an option as Turcotte, 43, has admitted to causing the deaths in 2009.

Turcotte’s first murder trial ended with a verdict of not criminally responsible — a decision that was overturned by the Quebec Court of Appeal.

Vincent told jurors that experts on both sides are in agreement that Turcotte was suffering from a mental disorder — an adjustment disorder with symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Defence experts testified that Turcotte was in an acute suicidal state and suffering from a major mental illness that prevented him from developing an intent to kill or to realize what he was doing was wrong.

One Crown psychiatrist countered, however, that the accused did not lose contact with reality the night he stabbed his kids and that his judgment was not altered.

Vincent reminded jurors that while the Crown must prove premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt, the mental disorder defence hinges on a balance of probabilities.

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No time to waste in climate fight BATTLE BEGINS AT HOME, SAYS PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU COP21

PARIS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Europe to tell the world that the fight against climate change starts at home.

Trudeau wrapped up a week-long run of European summitry — his second in less than 30 days since being sworn into office — with an address to the leaders’ plenary on the opening day of a UN-sponsored climate conference.

French President Francois Hollande, the host of the 21st climate conference, and other leaders painted the climate battle in existential terms for humankind, explicitly linking security issues and global warming in this terror-scarred city.

Trudeau focused on his own backyard.

“Indigenous peoples have known for thousands of years how to care for our planet,” he said. “The rest of us have a lot to learn. And no time to waste.”

Trudeau said national governments like his own also have a lot they can learn from cities, and from the provincial premiers who’ve accompanied Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS him to these talks.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with German Chancellor Angela More than 150 countries are represented at the conference, known as Merkel and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria at the start of a session on COP21, and more than 180 jurisdic- carbon pricing at the United Nations climate change summit, Monday in Le tions made emissions-cutting pledges Bourget, France. in advance of two weeks of final negotiations that formally began Monday.

“What greater rejection of those they’re doing fits into a bigger picHollande, whose national capital who would tear down our world than ture,” said Trudeau. “Because there was stricken earlier this month by its marshalling our best efforts to save it,” is no point in bending over backwards second deadly terror attack in 2015, he told the morning plenary. if your neighbour or your government portrayed the task of climate negotiaTrudeau had been asked last week is not also doing its part to ensure that tors in vividly dire terms. about the nexus of climate and terror we all have the maximum impact to“I’m not choosing between the fight after UN secretary general Ban Ki- gether.” against terror and the fight against Moon raised the link at a news conferTrudeau, who has acknowledged global climate change,” he said in his ence in Malta during a Commonwealth that past governments — including opening address after delegates ob- summit.

Liberals — have failed to meet emisserved a moment of silence for terrorTrudeau said security and climate sion-cutting targets, said there “can be ism victims in France, Lebanon, Iraq, change have figured in every conver- no laggards.”

Tunisia and Mali. sation he’s had with other world lead“Every single one of us can and “Because we must leave our should be much more conchildren more than a planet scious of the ways we can act ‘INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE KNOWN FOR free of terrorism…. We must to reduce our carbon footleave them a viable planet.”

THOUSANDS OF YEARS HOW TO CARE FOR print.”

Hollande said climate disBefore returning to OttaOUR PLANET. THE REST OF US HAVE A LOT TO ruption spawns conflict as wa on Monday night, and this clouds bring storms.

LEARN. AND NO TIME TO WASTE.’ week’s return of a new Parlia“Essentially what is at stake ment, the prime minister met with this climate conference is — PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU with the premiers of B.C., Alpeace,” said the French presberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario ident. and Quebec in one last display The conference site, a sprawling ers, whether at the G20 in Turkey, the of the group effort Canada intends to airfield outside Paris, was a remark- Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Manila, make on climate change. able scene. More than one hundred or last week in Malta — but added, “I It was the last of Trudeau’s frenetcountry leaders and several thousand don’t see a direct link there.” ic networking, which included sitting official delegates and journalists conAt a news conference Monday on down with the presidents of the Euroverged in the City of Lights just three the conference site, Trudeau said the pean Union and European Commisweeks after terrorists killed 130 people three-month election campaign this sion, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjain seven co-ordinated attacks on Nov. fall that propelled his Liberals to pow- min Netanyahu — where he accepted 13. er showed him that Canadians are an invitation to visit Israel — and a U.S. President Barack Obama ready to pitch in on fighting climate brief address to an event hosted by the called the gathering “an act of defi- change.

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much more.

The U.S. and other nations have insisted that all countries chip in under the new agreement.

Aiming to put a finer point on that argument, Obama met Monday with President Xi Jinping of China, which has started taking aggressive action to curb emissions, and BARACK OBAMA with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has argued repeatedly that climate change isn’t India’s fault.

As he sat down with Modi, Obama said he agreed that India has the right

LE BOURGET, France — Pushing for a powerful climate deal, President Barack Obama called the global talks opening Monday outside Paris an “act of defiance” against terrorism that proves the world stands undeterred by Islamic State-linked attacks in Europe and beyond.

Obama used his speech to more than 150 world leaders to salute Paris and its people for “insisting this crucial conference go on” just two weeks after attacks that killed 130 in the French capital. He said leaders had converged to show resolve to fight terrorism and uphold their values at the same time.

“What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it,” Obama said.

Obama’s remarks came at the start of two weeks of make-orbreak negotiations to finalize a sweeping global agreement to cut carbon emissions and hopefully stave off the worst effects of climate change. Obama exhorted leaders here to fight the enemy of cynicism — “the notion we can’t do anything” about the warming of the planet.

After sketching dire threats of submerged nations, abandoned cities and ever-worsening flooding and natural disasters, Obama insisted that grim future “is one that we have the power to change.”

He urged leaders to “rise to this moment,” invoking the late Martin Luther King Jr.’s observation that there’s such a thing as being too late to a cause.

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Modi pledged that India will fulfil its climate responsibilities in full, declaring that “development and protection of the environment go hand in hand.”

In his meeting with Xi, Obama said nowhere had co-ordination with Beijing been more critical or fruitful than on climate change.

He credited U.S. and Chinese leadership with leading 180 nations to make their own pledges to curb emissions in the run-up to the Paris talks.

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PARIS — Call it harnessing star power.

The Liberal government plugged a couple of its election campaign promises on the environment into some high-wattage personalities Monday on the opening day of an international climate change conference.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates staged an event at the Paris COP21 venue for Mission Innovation, a group of 19 countries and 28 leading investors that are pledging billions to boost new developments in clean technology.

The event included many of the heaviest hitters at the summit, including French President Francois Hollande, U.S. President Barack Obama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Gates announced that private investors are committing $7 billion for research and development of clean energy, while the White House put out a release saying it would double its annual $5 billion-plus for clean tech innovation.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada will spend $300 million a year on clean technology innovation, combining two funds the Liberals had promised in their October platform.

“It lines up very well with what President Obama and others are calling for in Mission Innovation,” Trudeau said at a news conference just prior to the splashy Mission Innovation launch. “So we’re very pleased to be part of this international initiative.”

Governments from India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to Australia and Norway are involved in the movement, which hopes to harness public and private dollars to boost investment.

The money will support a wide range of technologies, Gates said Monday — “biofuels, carbon capture, high wind, fission, fusion — we’re unbiased, but it has to be clean and possible to scale up cheaply.”

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who is one of five Canadian premiers in Paris for the conference opening, arrived with the stated aim of promoting carbon capture and storage technology that is being pioneered in his province.

A new coal plant goes up every 13 days in China, Wall said Monday and India has 500 new, coal-fired generating stations in the works.

“If we’re serious about climate change, doing something about greenhouse gases, Canada can actually have a big vision of contributing technology that will help clean up the transition energies like coal,” said Wall.

Saskatchewan’s Boundary Dam power plant near Estevan opened a carbon- capture system last year amidst great fanfare, but the project has been beset with cost overruns and technical problems.

Wall said all new technologies come down in price and improve in performance over subsequent generations.

He hopes Canada can be an exporter of carbon capture to the world, calling it “one arrow in the quiver” for fighting climate change.

It would also be good for the Canadian economy to become a clean technology exporter.

That’s part of the green revolution equation that is frequently overlooked — the opportunity for visionary investors to get very wealthy by betting on the cutting edge.

Individual investors promoting the Mission Innovation project include Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billionaires George Soros and Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal, and Jack Ma of the Chinese online sales giant Alibaba.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May is a big promoter of clean tech but sounded less than sold Monday when asked about carbon capture and storage.

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Bullies around The highs and lows of every corner a babysitting grandma Some time ago, back when I had a toddler and an infant, a particular incident occurred that will forever imprint in my memory. The kids and I were at the park playing, when I witnessed something that I in no way was prepared to see.

I was pushing Sophie on the baby swings when I noticed Lars trying to play with a kid a little older than him.

Back then Lars wasn’t as reserved as he is now, so even though the older child clearly didn’t want anything to do with my four year old, Lars was persistent. The funny thing about kids that age is their inhibitions are zero to none — nothing scares ‘em.

I was about to tell my son to give it a rest and come over to the swings with me and Soph when the kid up and pushed Lars to the ground. He began yelling at him and pointing his finger. He was calling my son names like, “loser” and “dummy”. This of course invoked a white hot rage in me and for a split second I envisioned myself in a jail cell due to punting a seven year old over to next Thursday.

The kid’s mom had witnessed this too and went over to discipline her child. Thank God she had seen the spectacle because if I were to have to tell her that her youngster was the little weasel that pushed my son I probably wouldn’t have been tight-tongued about the issue. No amount of cen-

sorship could have stopped the atrocity of words that would have exited my mouth.

Admittedly (at times) I’ve been known to go sort of ballistic when somebody comes after my own.

After the LINDSAY park incident BROWN Lars was a lot ME PLUS THREE more cautious around strange children. He never again ran up to a group of children and tried worming his way into a game of tag. In a way it makes me sad, and I wonder if the bully at the park that day took away a little piece of Lars’ Larsness.

Nevertheless it is something that every child will probably endure at some point in their adolescent life. The hard truth is there are bullies around every corner.

My dad has taught me many things over the years but something that has always stayed true is that family must stick up for one another.

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I began my babysitting duties at 6:45 p.m. and I was totally happy.

The child, soft and warm from his bath, wrapped his little arms around my neck and snuggled his diaper clad self deeper into my arms.

It was so awesome!

I love this, I thought. I am totally at peace, one with the universe. As I held the sleeping toddler, I felt positively overwhelmed with feelings of joy, protectiveness and love.

I sank slowly, very slowly into the rocking chair beside his crib, rocking the child slowly while raining soft kisses on his sweet little head.

This truly was as good as it gets.

Finally, I gently laid him in his crib, and tiptoed out of the room, closing the door softly behind me.

I smiled to myself as I walked into the kitchen; a secret, self-satisfied little smile.

Here is was only 7 p.m. I could do the dishes, play quietly with the other two boys, and then tuck them gently into bed, as well and have the rest of the evening left to my well deserving self.

I’m not exactly sure when reality pierced my little bubble of perfection.

It could have been when the baby’s two older brothers decided to be super heroes and fly off their parents’ bed while they yelled and waved make believe laser type objects. Or maybe it was when they decided to race each other down the stairs head first while lying on their bellies.

As I watched their antics in horror, I experienced a feeling akin to when my own kids first got their driver’s license.

I think the feeling was terror.

Anyway, miTREENA raculously no MIELKE one got hurt exLIFE cept for me and that was only when I dropped a corner of the couch on my toe when I was looking for a bullet from a smurf gun.

And so the night wore on and the boys continued to behave in very boyish ways and I continued to be terrified.

“Are you guys tired?” I asked hopefully.

“Nope,” they said in unison.

“Anyway, after we are done playing, you have to do my home reading with me and then we each get a story read to us and we have snacks and then we brush out teeth and then we get into bed,” said the six-year-old. “And then we say our prayers and we have to have water. Not from the tap. We have water from the fridge.”

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Don’t blame circumstances on an unknown action “Welcome to the Karma Café. There are no menus. You get served what you deserve.”

– Author unknown “I must have been a real jerk in a past life,” he said, “for karma to hate me this much.”

I was having coffee with a friend who was lamenting about the state of his life – too many bills, too little income, too many obligations, too little time, too much fear, too little love.

“Do you believe in past lives?” I asked. “That this is atonement for bad choices?”

“That would explain a lot of things,” he replied. “Why nothing ever works out.”

A quick Google search and you’ll learn that karma refers to “a spiritual principle of cause and effect where good intent and good deeds create good karma and future happiness while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and future suffering.” Karma is closely linked with the idea of rebirth through multiple lives.

“I take it you don’t believe in karma,” he said. “Too impractical for you, I suppose?”

“The idea that there is a cosmic force at play that rewards the good and punishes the evil? No. I admit, it’s a pleasing notion but I believe that much of what happens to us is the result of choice and consequence and the rest is simply random – being in the right or the wrong place.”

I went on to explain that our good

intent and good deeds certainly make a positive impact and that the bad we do (consciously or unconsciously) definitely produces negative outcomes.

Call it what you like, but I think much of our “bad karMURRAY ma” is the reFUHRER sult of bad beEXTREME ESTEEM lief systems. As for my friend, much of his suffering was the result of poor self-esteem and a deeply rooted victim mentality – one in which we blame others for what happens or has happened in our lives. It is also when we think the future only holds bad things for us or that we are patently unlucky. We assume the victim role, believing that circumstances are beyond our control.

We all buy into this mindset occasionally, but to stay there is crushing to our self-esteem. Following a series of distressing events, or owing to poor early programming, we may assume that we are destined to struggle or that our best efforts will also be quashed by our bad karma. As with any self-limiting belief, the victim mentality filters our experience and only allows the apparently negative to touch our awareness, thus reinforcing the disem-

powering mindset.

The victim mentality does not develop overnight; it is nurtured and encouraged because it serves a purpose.

As odd as it might seem, there is a benefit to believing that we are weak and powerless: it keeps us from expecting too much from others or ourselves and it relinquishes any responsibility because – after all – we’re just a helpless victim of life and circumstance.

Imagine the child who is told that nothing he does is ever good enough.

Perhaps he is also told that bad karma runs in the family, none of his kin has ever caught a break or that life is unfair and he’d better get used to it.

He watches as his father and mother struggle with relationships, money and work. His parents have few close friends and are critical of those whom they deem as gifted with good fortune.

Over time, the child begins to take on the belief system.

We get stuck when we look outside of ourselves for solutions. When we blame external circumstances – our

parents, our employer, our bad karma – for our current situation, we’re less likely to take ownership of our life, change our circumstances or break free from disempowering ways of thinking and being. We become the victim and the perpetrator of our suffering.

Want to change your bad karma – if that’s what you prefer to call it? Then take responsibility for your life. Take an honest inventory of the situations and circumstances that you’ve blamed upon others. You are part of the problem and, therefore, part of the solution. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Certainly, allow for those times where you were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, but don’t dwell upon them. Most importantly, take ownership of those times when you made poor choices that resulted in undesirable consequences and learn from them.

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New fiancée overly adventurous in bedroom of an abusive marriage. I also have a young daughter at home. Am I being unreasonable about a threesome or should I rethink this situation?

— Confused Dear Confused: This guy KATHY MITCHELL is unreliable AND MARCY SUGAR financially and emotionally.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX He wants you to support him while he indulges himself. His sexual interests do not coincide with yours. He is manipulating and pushing you to do something you don’t want to do. Worse, when you express yourself, he becomes angry.

Based on your history, you might not

HOROSCOPES Tuesday, Dec. 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Woody Allen, 79; Bette Midler, 69; Dean O’Gorman, 38 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mental energy is high today so use it in appropriate ways.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: With Saturn now in Sagittarius, 2016 is the year to be more responsible, as you mature like a fine red wine. Next April and July are fabulous for romance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you’re trying to get a project off the ground make sure you are thorough and cover all bases — family and friends; professional contacts; neighbourhood networking plus social media.

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

FUHRER: Blaming karma By now, you know very well what didn’t work in the past so take new action today. If the old choices didn’t bring good karma, make better choices. This doesn’t happen overnight and will only improve with honest reflection and determined action. Choose to be a good and worthwhile person who treats others with kindness and respect. Take care of yourself and take care of others. In short, exercise the Golden Rule: treat others the way you would like to be treated.

Learn to forgive yourself and others.

Nothing frees you mentally, emotionally and spiritually like forgiveness.

To forgive is to detach from anger, bitterness and regret. Ever wonder why you can’t escape repetitive cycles of depression and disappointment? It’s because negative emotions (focusing on the bad karma) are clouding your mind. Forgiveness allows the clouds of confusion and fear to dissipate and a clearer, more purposeful path to be revealed to you.

One of the most powerful ways to shift your bad karma is through the expression of gratitude. Rather than focusing on what you don’t have or what has reinforced your victimization, look at everything that you do possess. Look at your knowledge, your friendships, your work, at the beautiful outcomes that have been created by your past experience, and say thank you.

British author Stephen Richards once declared, “Karma, simply put, is an action for an action, good or bad.”

I like that. An action for an action – a choice and a consequence.

Make the right choice. Decide to own your life. Decide right now whether you want to live your life fully and with courage or whether you will be forever plagued by bad karma.

BROWN: Feeling sorry for bullies Maybe that is where the deep seated anger came in when I saw my son being bullied. Maybe it was simply a primal motherhood instinct that I experienced. It wasn’t the first time I’d witnessed a family member of mine being tormented and it wouldn’t be the last. Sadly children aren’t the only people who get picked on by their peers. Each time I see someone I love being hurt by another I can feel that familiar anger begin to bubble.

A girl I know who is much wiser than her years once told me that she feels sorry for the people we as society deem as bullies. I disagreed with the statement as soon as it left her lips.

How could she feel sorry for the browbeaters of this world?

Just hear me out, she said. These people who try to damage others by physical hurt or name calling are so broken in their own lives that they must project that misery upon the other people, the happy people.

She was right. It is so obvious and I’m sure that deep down we all know why bullies walk among us and how they’ve been created. The truth is we don’t want to admit it because it is so much more satisfying to meet hatred with hatred. Understanding takes work. One day in the future I or another human I love may feel the oppressive hand of bullying once more. I will want to retaliate. I will want to meet hatred with hatred. I will want to stoop down to that level of name calling and crudeness.

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“Lonely for Life” should take slow steps and try to get outside her comfort zone a little each day. It doesn’t happen overnight, but if it can happen for me, then I think “Lonely” can do it, too. — No Longer a Wallflower Dear No Longer: Thank you for your words of encouragement. We cannot remake the world so it suits us. Each of us must make the incremental adjustments to ourselves that will make our lives better.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Shake off the mental cobwebs Lions. Utilize your brainpower as you embark on a big adventure or get passionate about a new project. Communicate your ideas as creatively as possible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pay close attention to your nightly dreams Virgo.

They are sending you creative ideas that will help you heal a relationship or solve a tricky problem. Study and research are also highlighted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Companionship and sharing are on your mind, as you get talking with your nearest and dearest. Attached Librans — cuddle up with your partner. Singles — now’s the time to look for love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Moon’s moving through your career/ reputation zone, so it’s time for Scorpios to stand out professionally and shine in the public spotlight. Don’t neglect loved ones in the process though.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Restless Sagittarius — you’re incredibly busy but are you actually achieving anything? If you rush around too much you’ll make mistakes and have to redo things later on. So pace yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Creativity is favoured, as your intuition kicks into gear and your imagination soars. So don’t waste the opportunity to connect with your inner muse and express yourself today Capricorn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A group project is taking up a lot of your time but it is well worth the effort and will pay off in the long run. The more you share activities with others, the more enjoyable the day will be.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re in the mood to daydream but don’t overdo it Pisces. Keep a firm grip on reality, otherwise you’ll delude yourself about a person or situation. Creative projects are favoured.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

al love we have for each other and the euphoric feeling of togetherness that we share. I will realize that it is those traits that I want instill to my children.

I want to raise them with joy.

In the end, once the initial anger has flit away, all there will be left to do is feel empathy for the unhappy people. And then maybe we can begin to demonstrate understanding to those who need it most.

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

bedroom door.

Now to the dishes.

I loaded the dishwasher and filled the sink with soapy water. I love this kitchen, I think. It is so nice. So modern. I begin to clean with gusto.

It was then the child, the cherub in the crib, shattered the quiet with a pathetic wail followed by another and another.

I rocked him. He cried. I rocked him some more. Finally, despite his best efforts not to, he fell asleep. Once again, I placed him carefully in his crib and tiptoed out of room.

This time I did not smile, only looked wearily at the clock. It was 10:30 p.m. I looked at the half cleaned kitchen and made a quick decision.

It could wait until tomorrow. I climbed into bed.

I babysat for three days and four nights. Was it perfect? No! Was it the best early Christmas gift I could have ever had?

Yes, it most certainly was. The best ever!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.ftreena

MIELKE: Best Christmas gift ever “Okay,” I said weakly. Suddenly I found myself remembering fondly Thursdays, when I have deadlines and stories and I am so busy I eat my lunch at my desk.

I had no idea how easy Thursdays were.

Well, we read and had snacks and the boys brushed their teeth and finally I tucked them in and listened to their prayers. With no thought at all to being neat and tidy, I kicked the jeans and T-shirts they had dropped on the floor out of the way and closed their

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Dear Annie: I am writing in response to “Lonely for Life,” the teenager who had few friends and was concerned about being “antisocial.”

I, too, had social anxiety for most of my life. In my 30s, I decided I just couldn’t continue that way. I started off simply by walking down the hall at work, looking people in the eyes and saying, “Good morning.” It was very difficult in the beginning, but became easier. Then I took further small steps in making social contact with others.

It took a number of years to reach an acceptable (to me) level of comfort in social situations. I am in my 60s now

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Dear Annie: I am a 51-year-old attractive professional, divorced twice and currently engaged to a 58-year-old man who also is twice divorced. We met online and hit it off pretty quickly.

He has a magnetic personality, and sex is great between us. He moved in, and I am supporting him financially until he gets his businesses in order. He has had four DUIs and recently spent some time in jail. I have stood by him through this.

He has always been upfront that he likes to view porn a lot and wants to experiment sexually. This doesn’t bother me. But he posted an ad online asking another woman to join us for sex. While we may fantasize about this in the bedroom, he wants to make it real and this makes me uncomfortable.

But he gets angry if I say so. (He also doesn’t like when I mention the money issues between us.)

I have been through a lot over the past few years, including getting out