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Refugees on the way TWO, POSSIBLY THREE, SYRIAN FAMILIES EXPECTED IN RED DEER BY THE END OF THE WEEK

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Any day now at least two government-sponsored Syrian refugee families will arrive in Red Deer for a fresh start.

Frank Bauer, Central Alberta Refugee Effort executive director, said the agency has received confirmation that two families, possibly three, will arrive before Friday.

The agency is co-ordinating volunteers to help with the Catholic Social

Services — Immigration and Settlement refugee program for Red Deer.

One couple has three school-aged children and the other couple has one child, said Bauer.

The families will arrive at the Red Deer Airport from Calgary and stay

at a local hotel before they are moved into housing.

An estimated 200 to 210 Syrian refugees are expected to settle in Red Deer.

Please see REFUGEES on Page A2

A WOMAN’S INTUITION FOR SURVIVAL

When a deadly earthquake hit Nepal in April, there were two Central Albertans on location, one attempting to climb Mount Everest, the other in a nearby village, they both had very different perspectives of this disaster.

This is the second part of a two-part series on their experiences.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A sore leg diverted Beverly Williams from what likely would have been a deadly trek in Nepal a few days before the 7.8- magnitude earthquake struck that country on April 25.

Reflecting on her trip and the earthquake that killed more than 9,000 people and injured 23,000, the Red Deer business woman believed there was something else that stopped her in her tracks and kept both her and her guide safe.

“You know that kind of intuition thing that happens, it kind of says you can’t go any further. It was really, really, really weird,” said Williams who blinked back tears.

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TOP: Before the earthquake struck, Beverly Williams was making her way to Langtang National Park.

ABOVE: On her way back to Kathmadu, Williams saw homes that were leveled by the earthquake.

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The most popular comment ever made on the New York Times website was penned by a Calgary man.

Bob from Calgary, as he is identified on the site, received some 7,040 recommendations for his comment on a 2010 column about wealth and privilege written by Paul Krugman.

The newspaper, which fields some 9,000 comments each day, says Bob’s is the top post “of all time.”

The runner-up, posted on a story about the mass shooting in Charleston, S.C., drew roughly 5,489 recommendations.

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“We end up with few criminals, because students learn how to be productive good citizens in schools.”

THORSBY — Mounties say a controlled burn in a field likely contributed to an 11-vehicle crash southwest of Edmonton.

RCMP say the pileup near Thorsby on Highway 39 began Tuesday morning when one semi rear-ended another semi.

Then another semi and other vehicles crashed into the semis and each other.

One person was in critical condition, another in serious and four others were in stable condition.

The highway was still closed as of 5:30 p.m. local time.

Photos show a long line of damaged vehicles on the highway.

“A heavy fog and smoke mixture in the air at this location this morning did result in limited visibility as there was an earlier, much less serious motor vehicle collision involving two cars about 90 minutes prior to this event,” RCMP said in a news release.

“A local resident in the area had been managing a controlled burn of a field at the time that may have

Police charge man suspected of stealing car left running with baby girl inside Edmonton police have arrested a man accused of stealing a car with a baby girl inside.

Police say the child’s parents left her inside the running vehicle on Monday night to go shopping.

Officers quickly found the car with the eightmonth-old girl unharmed in the back seat.

James Bachnick, who is 23, faces charges of theft under $5,000, criminal flight, possession of stolen property and breach of conditions.

Critically ill Alberta baby dies before expected life-support ruling LETHBRIDGE — Relatives have confirmed that an eight-month-old girl who was at the centre of a battle to keep her on life support has died.

Hermella Mammo died Dec. 20 at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary.

The Lethbridge infant was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at two months of age, but after surgery to remove it she contracted a virus.

Hermella was declared brain-dead in August, but her parents believed she was improving and won a temporary court injunction earlier this month to prevent Alberta Health Services from taking their daughter off life support.

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REFUGEES: CARE accepting donations The agencies are not giving away too many specifics about the arrivals in order to protect the privacy of the families.

Syrian refugees that will eventually call Red Deer home are part of the government’s efforts to settle 25,000 refugees including privately sponsored by the end of February.

Meanwhile C.A.R.E. is accepting donations for the families.

On top of the list are gently used and new household items, winter clothing, new toiletries, new sheets, diapers and jackets.

Red Deer currently receives about 60 refugees per year from around the world. About 25 have come from Syria in the last year and a half.

Catholic Social Services in Red Deer delivers the refugee resettlement program under contract with the federal government.

For more information, call 403-346-8818 or visit www.immigrant-centre.ca or visit www.reddeer.ca and search refugee effort for other ways to help. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

WILLIAMS: Glad she listened to her intuition

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Williams and Har, the guide she hired, were early into a hike at Langtang National Park when a pulled leg muscle and apprehension eventually put an end to her trek.

“I sat on the rock and looked at Har and said I can’t go any further. It’s just not possible. He said, ‘Are you sure. Once you get up here it’s straight and it’s really good.’ But it was that intuition. Here I’m crying again. I haven’t cried for months,” said Williams as memories flooded back.

They turned back for a slow walk to a nearby town where they stayed a couple nights. When the earthquake struck, they were on the bus returning to Kathmadu.

She said if they had continued on their hike, the pair would have reached their destination, the town of Langtang which was devastated by the earthquake.

“The whole mountain came down, came on top of Langtang. I’d be under 350 feet of rubble.”

Williams was glad she listened to her intuition.

“You know how you don’t lots of times. But I ended up listening that time, and that’s what happened.”

Her luck continued on the bus when the earthquake hit. The bus rocked violently from side to side and dust filled the air, but everyone with her was safe amid the landslides, she said.

“There was a bunch of yelling. Then everyone got off the bus and there was kind of calm because we were fine there.”

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Rosemary Congdon and other volunteers sort through dishes, bedding, clothes and other items donated for the Syrian refugees arriving in Red Deer this week at the Central Alberta Refugee Effort building Tuesday morning.

Passengers on a bus a few kilometres ahead of hers was split in half by a boulder, killing three people.

After walking about six hours to a small village, Williams and Har spent the night in a local family’s cafe, periodically running outside when they felt aftershocks. Eventually they stayed outdoors.

She said she can’t forget hearing a man in the village wail upon finding his wife who died beneath rubble from the quake.

“I still can sort of hear that horrible scream.”

Amid the sadness, Williams said she also experienced how tragedy brings people closer together. “(The cafe owner) said to me ‘You know what, now we have seven people in our family.’ He said ‘Me, my wife, my son, my two girls and you and your guide.’

He said we were ‘part of his family.’”

So Williams came back to Red Deer with both happy and sad stories.

When she got back to Kathmadu, she stayed in a Red Cross tent in a school yard for two nights. When it was too windy, she slept in the school. But aftershocks continued.

“There were quite a few tremors. Even with this hurt leg, I could get up pretty fast, and get out the door.”

Williams was a seasoned traveller, but it was her

first visit to Nepal where she was going to buy stock for her business Woollen Wonders.

She arrived April 17 for three weeks and decided to stay until she was scheduled to leave.

Without knowing the language, she couldn’t be much help during recovery efforts, she said.

“I did offer to stay and help and do something, but it didn’t work out.”

Williams decided to go on a trip she prebooked to Chitwan National Park, away from mountains. She went on to the city of Pokhara before returning to Kathmandu and back to Canada.

Shortly after Williams got back to Red Deer, her daughter told her about a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on May 12.

“Later on that day, a truck went by my house and shook my house. I just started balling. It didn’t affect when she was telling me, but the house shook. Didn’t need that,” Williams said.

During the summer, Williams collected money to help Har and was selling items at her booth at Parkland Mall over Christmas to continue to fundraise for her friend.

“He was so good and kind. Always making sure I was okay. He was just fabulous to me.”

Williams plans to return to Nepal in the spring.

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A4 Change has to be more than words I’m not the most superstitious per- off the face of the Earth. son in the world, but last year I was The point is we can promise to talked into wearing red underwear on make as many changes as we want, but New Year’s Eve. we have to do the leg work to get there.

It is an Italian tradition meant to It’s kind of the spot Alberta finds bring about good luck, itself in as a province right while in certain South now, heading into 2016.

American locations it is 2015 was absolutely a meant to improve your love year of change in the provlife. Two things I was in ince, but the heavy lifting desperate need of 52 weeks remains to accomplish what ago. needs to be done.

I sat around a table with The biggest change was other Advocate reporters political, but even much of and after a couple of celethat was a face value shift. bratory brews we all made If anyone thinks the Toa list of resolutions — anries of the last few terms acother practice I have mostly tually ran a right wing govavoided. I view them like ernment — outside of giving JOSH campaign promises, someaway our resources to inALDRICH thing someone swears they ternational conglomerates will do but almost never folfor relatively little return OPINION low through on.

— they were not really payThe funny thing is, I actuing attention. The province ally hit on a few of my resolutions this had long been running deficit budgets year, including meeting the woman I instead of living within our means and will be marrying this New Year’s Day investing or saving for the future. two weeks later.

Combined with their blatant arroHowever, it was not a clean victory, gance, it is a big reason Alberta was I also missed on some big goals like overtaken by an orange wave. improving my fitness, which fell mostly Now with an NDP government in

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charge, the real change will be interesting to see, especially if they can do it without sinking the province into a generation of debt recovery as they have done in other provinces like Ontario.

It’s a similar story federally with the Conservative Party of Canada being bumped from power for a rookie government.

People wanted change.

And it’s easy to understand why.

The current governments cannot be blamed for the state of the economy, though it is difficult to see how they have helped improve matters, especially in Alberta, since they came into power.

While our two conservative governments helped sustain the country through the global recession, they did so with little thought for what the world will look like on the other side.

They banked hard on an oil-driven financial plan only to have OPEC tank the price of oil.

In the meantime, we as a people have paid for it with the loss of tens of thousands of jobs this year alone with the bleeding expected to carry over into the new year. The cuts extend be-

yond the oil field and into most every business in the province.

This was, to an extent, preventable and predictable. Had we spent the good years diversifying instead of doubling down on an economy that has always been boom or bust, we may have been able to change course before running straight into the iceberg.

There are some big positives to pull out of this year, however, as we stumble into 2016.

Despite the hard times, Central Albertans showed an overwhelming amount of compassion. With record demand placed on charities and food banks, we rallied and met almost everyone of them.

While there were certainly dissenters among us over welcoming in Syrian refugees, both C.A.R.E. and Catholic Social Services were blown away by the number of volunteers stepping forward and offering their services.

And as a region we continued to be a leader in the areas of sports and entertainment and innovation.

But we didn’t get to that point by just changing our underwear. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Winners and losers in Canadian politics in 2015

BY WARREN KINSELLA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Creating lists of the year’s political winners and losers is usually pretty obvious: the winners of elections are geniuses and the losers are dummies. But there was far more to Canadian politics in 2015 than the obvious.

The obvious? According to plenty of pundits, it’s simply that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are heroes, and Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair and their respective political parties are zeroes. And yes, Trudeau and Team Grit fashioned a stunning federal election victory in October. And Harper and Mulcair lost what they each had - a strong majority Conservative government and the NDP’s status as Official Opposition, respectively.

But there were also plenty of less obvious political winners and losers: Gutsiest political move: Tom Mulcair. The NDP leader did something rare, taking a very risky stand during campaigning. Mulcair’s repudiation of the Conservatives’ niqab-bashing was brave - particularly since most of his party’s seats were in Quebec, where aversion to the niqab (and the hijab) has always been high. Mulcair’s refusal to join in Islamaphobia precipitated a dramatic drop in the polls, leaving Trudeau as the only viable alternative to Harper in the province. It may be small comfort but

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history should record Mulcair’s stance as gutsy.

Dumbest political moves: the Conservative campaign. When political strategists know they are losing, they typically look for greener pastures or douse themselves with gasoline and light a match, seeking to go out in a blaze of glory. The Conservative Party - led by Jenni Byrne, Guy Giorno and others - opted for the latter. In early October, when they still had a chance at re-election, the Conservative braintrust bizarrely stopped talking about the economy and instead announced the creation of the “barbaric practices hotline,” which everyone knew was aimed at Muslims. It was “standing up for our values,” said Immigration Minister Chris Alexander. It was “disgusting,” said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, and most of the country agreed. A few days later, the Conservative braintrust made a bad situation worse.

They created a photo op with Harper and former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. It is never a good idea to espouse law-and-order themes while campaigning with a crack-using, drunk-driving xenophobe.

Craftiest political move: the Liberal pledge to never “go neg.” Long before he won the Liberal leadership in April 2013, Trudeau pledged to never resort to attack ads and nasty invective against opponents — or “go neg.” Trudeau mainly kept his vow until his party slipped from first place to third in the polls in the summer of 2015. At that point, he pummelled his opponents in advertising and debates, during which he gave far better than he got. He

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left Harper and Mulcair wondering what had gone wrong. Trudeau isn’t the first politician to promise to never go neg while going neg and he won’t be the last. Because it worked.

Most disappointing political moves: recruiting crummy candidates, by every party. Don’t blame social media — it simply provides a platform for people to say crazy things, and for campaign war rooms and media to expose the craziness. However, the sheer volume of insanity and inanity during the campaign of 2015 dwarfed everything that went before it. The list of misdeeds and suspects is impressive: conspiracy theorists, Hitler comparisons, racists, threats, stalkers, and even a guy who peed in a cup when he thought no one was looking. It was appalling, disgusting and it reflected badly on the leaders of every party - because the leaders signed the nomination papers for these kooky candidates. No wonder people don’t vote as much as they used to.

All that notwithstanding, 2016 begins with the country in a better mood. Canadians generally seem to like Trudeau — or at least they are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for a while.

Will they turn against him? Of course — they always do, in time. And then, before you know it, we’ll be back in another election campaign — and we’ll have plenty of new examples of political moves that were gutsy, dumb, crafty and disappointing.

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Time to address Canada’s ‘dark secret’ ASSISTED SUICIDE DEBATE SHOULD FUEL CHANGES TO END-OF-LIFE CARE, SAY ADVOCATES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PALLIATIVE CARE

OTTAWA — The escalating debate over doctor-assisted death could be the perfect chance for Canada to fix its broken system of palliative care — a “dark secret” that health advocates say has been quietly deteriorating in the shadows for decades.

Terminally ill patients and their family members are forced to take up the slack as a result, said Gabriel Miller, the public issues director of the Canadian Cancer Society, which is scheduled to issue a report next month on the state of palliative care across the country.

“There are thousands of terminally ill Canadians who are not getting the right kind of care,” Miller said. “That’s causing patients and families unnecessary suffering and it is costing the health-care system precious resources.”

Miller is urging the federal Liberal government, along with its provincial and territorial counterparts, to capitalize on the chance to ensure Canadians have universal access to better, affordable endof-life care.

“We finally have a moment to pull this problem out of the shadows and solve it,” he said.

“That’s the importance of the broader debate that’s unfolding right now. It is a chance to confront a broken system for end-of-life care and make a lasting reform.”

With Canada forced to confront the challenges

‘THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF TERMINALLY ILL CANADIANS WHO ARE NOT GETTING THE RIGHT KIND OF CARE. THAT’S CAUSING PATIENTS AND FAMILIES UNNECESSARY SUFFERING AND IT IS COSTING THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM PRECIOUS RESOURCES.’ — GABRIEL MILLER, PUBLIC ISSUES DIRECTOR, CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY of an aging population and the Supreme Court establishing a deadline, the Canadian Medical Association is also pushing to make sure palliative care reform becomes a political priority.

“Certainly in any conversations we are having now on physician-assisted dying, it is absolutely essential that quality palliative care be available to patients and be seen as one of the options available to them,” said CMA president Dr. Cindy Forbes.

The struggle to access appropriate end-of-life care often has a ripple effect on the families of patients, Forbes said.

Helene Hardy of Gatineau, Que., knows the emotional and financial struggle first-hand. She spent

eight years helping tend to her husband as he battled cancer.

Families invariably end up having to carry the bulk of the burden, Hardy said.

“We are the invisible backbone of the health-care system,” she said. “If every caregiver in Canada right now, today, said, ‘Enough,’ and brought … patients to the hospital, I don’t know what would happen. Something would collapse.”

In an interview, Health Minister Jane Philpott acknowledged the need for meaningful change.

“There is some evidence that only 15 per cent of Canadians have access to high-quality palliative care when they need it,” said Philpott, who spent 30 years working as a doctor in Canada and abroad before entering politics.

“That’s unacceptable and we are committed to doing better.”

The issue of palliative care was also flagged earlier this month in a 134-page report provided to Philpott and her justice counterpart, Jody Wilson-Raybould, by a panel commissioned following last winter’s high court ruling.

Canada’s health-care structure was founded half a century ago to address the needs of hospital care and physician services, Philpott said. In the 21st century, she said, it must reflect Canadian demand for care — palliative and otherwise — as close to home as possible.

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Quebec hit by major snowfall after system moves through Ontario

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A powerful storm system which dealt southern Ontario its first real blast of winter this season moved into Quebec on Tuesday, with meteorologists expecting it to hit Atlantic Canada later in the day.

The system moved into Canada from the United States, where it had spawned deadly tornadoes in Texas over the weekend, and brought heavy snow, ice and blustery winds Monday to several other states, causing the cancellation of more than 2,800 flights nationwide.

“This particular messy mix of precipitation, the snow, ice pellets, freezing rain, rain, really is the first taste of winter for a lot of southern Ontario,” said Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada. “This is a large-scale system.”

Snow gave way to rain in many areas, including the Toronto region, by Tuesday morning.

The conditions made for a slow commute as motorists dealt with slick roads and slushy sidewalks. Ontario Provincial Police said they had responded to more than 300 collisions since the storm began.

While southwestern Ontario was expected to see periods of rain for the rest of the day, a freezing rain warning remained in effect for areas north and

northeast of Toronto.

Meanwhile, in eastern and central Ontario, including the Ottawa valley, North Bay and the Sudbury areas, colder temperatures meant heavy snow was in the forecast, said Coulson.

The storm system also made its way into southern Quebec, with the Greater Montreal area, the Laurentians and the Eastern Townships expected to get 30 to 40 centimetres of snow by Tuesday evening.

“They anticipate this to be mostly a snowfall event, where some areas of southern Quebec could see between 30 to 40 centimetres before the system finally weakens off and pulls out overnight,” said Coulson. “A similar situation in the Maritimes, this system will also affect them during the course of the day.”

Snowfall warnings were in effect for southern parts of Nova Scotia and southern parts of New Brunswick, some of which had already been hit by up to 18 centimetres of snow on Sunday.

A snowfall warning was in effect for Halifax, while a winter storm watch was in place for Fredericton.

The inclement weather led to numerous flight cancellations and delays at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport as well as at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Quebec provincial police reported many numerous collisions on the province’s roads but no injuries or deaths.

Winter storm dumps snow in Maritimes for second time in three days

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Parts of the Maritimes are digging out for the second time in three days as a winter storm sweeps through parts of the region.

Environment Canada meteorologist Barrie MacKinnon says a weather system near Cape Cod is responsible for the storm which was expected to bring up to 25 centimetres of snow to much of mainland Nova Scotia and southeastern New Brunswick by the end of the day Tuesday.

MacKinnon says up to 15 centimetres of snow was expected for northern New Brunswick, while lighter amounts of up to 10 centimetres were forecast

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RCMP in the Interior city of Trail say the constables visited a local home on Thursday to check on the well-being of five- and nine-year-old girls.

The visit resulted in a social worker with the Ministry of Children and Family Development apprehending the children and taking them to a foster home at 10 p.m.

for Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton.

The snowfall led to several flight delays at Halifax Stanfield International Airport and to event cancellations in some parts of the region.

RCMP in Nova Scotia say the conditions also caused more than a dozen traffic accidents across the province.

The most serious was a head-on collision around 2 p.m. on Highway 104 near French River, N.S., that sent a man and a woman to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

The latest snowfall follows a storm on Sunday that dumped up to 18 centimetres across areas of the Maritime provinces.

Mounties say the constables realized the girls wouldn’t have any presents for the morning and tried to find a store that was still open but were unsuccessful, so they contacted the owner of the local Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC).

The owner, Craig Lattanville, opened his store for the Mounties who picked up some gifts and took them to the foster home where they were wrapped for the morning.

Mounties say when the officers later returned to the store to pay for the gifts, Lattanville refused to take their money.

“On behalf of the community of Trail, we would like to give a big thank you to our two officers and Canadian Tire store owner Craig Lattanville who all went above and beyond to ensure that Santa came for two small children this Christmas,” says RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke in a news release.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If a trip to the grocery store seems expensive now, just wait till 2016.

Executives from grocery chains have warned there’s no immediate relief in sight from increased food costs and a sinking loonie that have led to higher prices, and researchers suggest consumers will have to deal with more sticker shock in the year ahead.

The University of Guelph’s Food Institute estimates the average Canadian household spent an additional $325 on food this year. On top of that, consumers should expect an additional annual increase of about $345 in 2016.

Since 81 per cent of all vegetables and fruit consumed in Canada are imported, they are highly vulnerable to currency fluctuations. They are pegged to increase in price by four to 4.5 per cent in the new year.

“It means that essentially families will have to spend more on these two items without many options, unfortunately,” says Sylvain Charlebois, lead author of the university’s sixth annual Food Price Report.

The study does note that meteorologists are calling for El Nino to be a “significant factor” in 2016, causing more rain in produce-producing parts of the U.S. “We are expecting El Nino to have a positive impact on water scarcity in many areas in North America and in particular California, so agricultural output could increase,” said Charlebois.

“But it won’t offset the inflationary effects of the dollar.”

Meat prices, which rose five per cent last year, are expected to increase up to another 4.5 per cent in 2016 fish and seafood could rise by up to three per cent and dairy, eggs and grains could see a two per cent increase.

Last month, Loblaw Companies Ltd., president Galen Weston warned in a conference call with investors that food inflation is difficult to predict.

“We continue to have strong inflation in fresh (foods), although it has been moderating over the course of the year. It’s really the second year of strong fresh-food inflation,” said Weston while recapping the company’s third quarter results.

“It’s really, really hard to predict inflation, so we try and be conservative in our own planning…. We didn’t expect quite the level of inflation that we have right now to sustain all the way through the year, so it’s hard to say for sure what’s going to happen in 2016.”

In summarizing his company’s fourth quarter earnings, Metro Inc., president Eric La Fleche signalled to investors that higher food costs will inevitably be passed onto consumers, as much as competition allows.

“While remaining very competitive in a competitive environment, we’re successful in passing some inflation. I think we did a good job overall to do that, and judging by the margins we’re delivering, I think it’s something that’s a fact. So hopefully, we can con-

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To save money on your grocery bill, choose ingredients that are seasonal. This Orange, Fennel and Celery Salad created by professional home economist Getty Stewart of Winnipeg is easy to make and tasty. tinue to do that.”

Given that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2016 the International Year of the Pulses — which is important to Canada as one of the world’s largest growers of pulses (lentils, chickpeas, beans, dry peas) — Charlebois expects there to be more emphasis on cheaper protein alternatives.

Getty Stewart, a home economist in Winnipeg, suggests that consumers feeling pinched by increased prices explore more recipes with affordable pulses.

“There’s all kinds of reasons why we should be using and enjoying our pulses more. They’re affordable, they’re nutritious, they have a great source of protein, they have a low environmental footprint,” Stewart said.

Consumers can also make an effort to reduce food waste, which is estimated to be far more costly than food inflation.

A report last year by Provision Coalition, an advocacy group for the food and beverage industry, used Statistics Canada data and other research to estimate that the average household wastes about $1,500 worth of food a year.

“We waste … food because we don’t use it and it gets funky in the fridge, or we forget that we have something in the fridge, or we don’t use our leftovers, or we throw something out because it reaches the best-before date,” said Stewart.

“I think becoming more savvy about our food and not wasting it is important as well, so … we make good use of those grocery dollars.”

Some other tips from Stewart for dealing with increased food costs: — Rather than buying strawberries in winter when the price is higher and quality is lower, stick to seasonal pears, oranges, grapefruits and pomegranates.

— Frozen and canned produce can be great alternatives when a particular fruit or vegetable spikes in price.

— Experiment with new recipes using root vegetables like squash, parsnips, carrots, beets and sweet potatoes.

— Choose less expensive cuts of meat that can be stewed, marinated, braised or prepared in the slow cooker.

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Grain cars on a Canadian Pacific (formerly Canadian Pacific Railway or CPR) freight train travelling eastbound along the Bow River near Lake Louise in Banff National Park in May.

CN, CP exceed Western grain revenue entitlements, ordered to pay back $9M

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian Transportation Agency says the country’s two main railways have exceeded their Western grain revenue entitlements for the 2014-2015 crop year and must repay those sums along with penalties.

According to the transportation agency, Canadian National Railway’s grain revenue of $745,068,906 was $6,866,595 above its entitlement, while Canadian Pacific Railway received $2,137,168 above its revenue entitlement of $724,045,774.

The agency says CN and CP have 30 days to repay the amounts by which they exceeded their entitlements, in addition to a five per cent penalty of $343,330 for CN (TSX:CN) and $106,858 for CP (TSX:CP).

Regulations stipulate that such payments must be made to the Western Grains Research Foundation, a farmer financed and directed organization set up to fund research to benefit Prairie farmers.

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Officials with the railways were not immediately available for comment.

In the 2014-2015 crop year, 41,306,191 tonnes of Western grain were shipped — 7.4 per cent more than in the previous crop year.

The Canada Transportation Act requires the agency to determine each railway company’s annual maximum revenue entitlement and whether such entitlement has been exceeded.

The maximum revenue entitlement is a form of economic regulation that enables CN and CP to set their own rates for services, provided the total amount of revenue collected from their shipments of Western grain remains below the ceiling set by the agency.

Entitlements are calculated using a formula containing numerous elements under the act, including forecast changes to the cost of labour, fuel, material and capital purchases, as well as tonnage carried and distance moved.

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CALGARY — Canadian Oil Sands is again urging its shareholders to reject a takeover bid by Suncor Energy, which has set Jan. 8 as the deadline for investors.

The company (TSX:COS) sent a letter to its shareholders Tuesday in the latest back-and-forth between the two Calgary-based firms, saying it can weather prolonged low oil prices on its own and thrive once crude recovers.

The missive, a response to Suncor’s renewed appeal earlier this month to accept the deal, says it’s not the right time to sell Canadian Oil Sands given the low price of crude and oil stocks.

Suncor has argued that with oil prices expected to remain low for some time, the status quo is risky for COS shareholders.

Based on Suncor’s most recent closing stock price Thursday, the all-stock bid is worth about $4.5 billion.

Suncor (TSX:SU) took its offer directly to COS shareholders on Oct. 5 after attempts to ink a friendly deal — at a higher price — were rebuffed by Canadian Oil Sands in the spring.

Both companies are partners in the massive Syncrude oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta. — Suncor with 12 per cent and COS with 37 per cent.

Suncor is one of Canada’s biggest energy companies, with vast holdings in the oilsands and thousands of employees. COS, on the other hand, has a staff of about 30 and relies on its Syncrude stake as its sole asset.

DraftKings, Illinois attorney general set schedule in case on daily fantasy sports betting CHICAGO — Boston-based DraftKings and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan have agreed to an expedited schedule and a bench trial in a lawsuit that could determine the fate of daily fantasy sports betting in the state.

An order filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court shows Madigan agreeing to respond to DraftKings’ complaint by Jan. 22. A trial, if necessary, would begin June 27 or as soon after that as the court could hear the case.

DraftKings’ attorney, Randy Mastro, says in a statement that the company and its legal team “are confident” they will win their case.

DraftKings filed the lawsuit Thursday, a day after Madigan declared daily fantasy sports betting illegal in Illinois. Another industry leader — New Yorkbased FanDuel — filed a separate, similar lawsuit in Sangamon County.

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Valeant sees stock fall on TSX AFTER NEWS OF CEO’S MEDICAL LEAVE PHARMACEUTICALS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAVAL, Que. — Valeant Pharmaceuticals stock fell about 11 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday, the first day of trading on the Canadian market since the embattled drug company announced that CEO Michael Pearson has taken a medical leave of absence.

Shares of Canada’s largest drugmaker (TSX:VRX, NYSE:VRX) fell about 10 per cent Monday in New York to close at US$102.14 following its announcement that Pearson was being treated in hospital for pneumonia.

The stock regained some ground overnight but fell even further when regular trade resumed Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the stock closed down 74 cents U.S. or 0.72 per cent at $101.40 on the New York Stock Exchange and lost C$17.49 or 11.09 per cent to settle at $140.19 on the TSX. Canada’s main market had been closed Monday in lieu of Boxing Day. Valeant announced Monday that Pearson’s duties will be shared on an interim basis between Robert Chai-Onn, Valeant’s general counsel, as well as board chairman Ari Kellen and chief financial officer Robert Rosiello.

The company, headquartered in Laval, Que., has been facing a series of scandals that have slashed its stock price by more than half since record highs posted in August.

Pearson himself had been facing criticism and recently struck a defiant tone after calls for his dismissal surfaced.

“If the board wants to fire me they are welcome to fire me, but until they do we’re going to get through this thing,” Pearson told investors during a Dec. 16 webcast.

The company is facing a congressional investigation in the U.S. over its pricing practices and has been forced to revise its 2016 outlook after ending a drug distribution agreement with Philidor, a U.S. mail-order pharmacy.

Valeant said on Dec. 16 that the October split from Philidor caused a big short-term disruption to its business that would reduce its expectations for the fourth quarter and 2015 as a whole.

But Pearson indicated that a new distribution agreement with major U.S. drug store chain Walgreens had set the company back on the road to recovery.

Pearson, 56, joined Valeant in 2008 after a 23-year career with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., for which he served as head of its global pharmaceutical practice.

He used a string of acquisitions to turn a relatively small business that made generic drugs and chronic illness treatments into a major pharmaceutical company.

Valeant, formerly based in California, combined with Canadian drugmaker Biovail in 2010 and moved the head office to Mississauga, Ont., and later to Laval near Montreal.

During those years, it made numerous acquisitions and diversified into new product groups, including the Bausch & Lomb contact lens business.

Its sales climbed from US$2.46 billion in 2011 to an expected US$10.4 billion to US$10.5 billion for this year.

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Anoop Prakash heads up a Harley-Davidson subsidiary that’s more closely integrated into the company’s global operations. and them having more disposable income,” Ramsay says.

“Now that the baby boomers are almost halfway through their retirement phases, that market is still strong but we need to expand and grow the market across all segments of the population.”

He says women, traditionally a very small segment of the motorcycle community, now account for 12 to 15 per cent of all new buyers for motorcycles, mopeds and the like.

Similarly, so-called millennials now in their 20s and 30s and “diverse” ethnic groups have been growing segments of the motorcycle industry’s customer

base, he says.

“We’re trying to reach out and find ways to encourage them to get on a motorcycle or a scooter, rather than an automobile,” Ramsay says.

Prakash says motorcycles provide a “great avenue for self expression” and for meeting like-minded people.

“And if you look at urban young adults, including women, it’s a little bit about mobility and being able to explore things on your own terms,” Prakash says.

The Motorcycle & Moped Industry Council has seven shows scheduled across Canada in January and February.

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anti-corruption campaign that has netted both senior and junior cadres. Wei’s case highlighted the ability of even middling officials to leverage their position to accumulate enormous wealth.

The value of Wei’s ill-gotten gains dwarfed that of his indirect superior Liu Tienan, the former head of the National Energy Administration, a powerful economic planner who ranked far higher than the coal official. Liu was convicted last December of accepting $6 million in bribes and received a life sentence.

Wei’s case created a sensation in late 2014 after reports said investigators wore out four of the 16 cash-counting machines they used to tabulate his trove, China’s largest-ever cash seizure. All told, Wei kept his wealth in four currencies, several kilograms of gold, three automobiles and in calligraphy and art, the court said Tuesday. Wei’s prosecution comes amid heightened scrutiny of China’s influential coal industry and its regulators. A documentary that blamed China’s air pollution crisis on lax coal industry oversight was widely viewed online earlier this year and stoked public outrage before it was removed by government censors.

Chinese coal official accused of hiding $30 million at home admits to corruption charges BEIJING — A low-ranking Chinese energy official accused of hiding more than $30 million in cash at home in one of the country’s most sensational corruption cases admitted his guilt during a court appearance Tuesday in northern China.

The Baoding City Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement that Wei Pengyuan, a former deputy chief of the coal bureau under the National Energy Administration, admitted to taking 211 million yuan ($32.5 million) in bribes and failed to account for another 131 million yuan ($20.2 million) in assets.

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TORONTO — Canada’s motorcycle industry is facing headwinds from the low loonie as the sector gears up for an annual round of trade shows early in the new year.

“If it’s at par, it’s good for the Canadian importer.

But where it is now, you need to try to find every advantage you can,” says Bob Ramsay, president of the Toronto-based Motorcycle & Moped Industry Council.

Canada’s dollar has fallen to 11-year lows this month, largely because of persistently weak oil prices, slow global economic growth and the comparative strength of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.

Ramsay says the six big names of the motorcycle industry — the iconic American brand Harley-Davidson, Japan’s Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Germany’s BMW — compete globally and have strategies to cope with currency fluctuations.

“You’re going to see a very interesting market in the new year because all companies are going to be trying to ensure that they can compete on price, but also on the quality of products.”

Harley-Davidson, for instance, recently replaced a longtime distributor with a new Canadian subsidiary more closely integrated into the company’s global operations.

Anoop Prakash, who heads the new subsidiary, says Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson can use its global reach and currency hedging to offset the loonie’s increasingly weak buying power — something its former distributor couldn’t do.

“The last couple of years, the pricing has really been driven by the currency,” Prakash says. “With the start of the 2016 model year, when we took over in August, we did adjust pricing to be more competitive.”

He says new riders generally begin with smaller, less expensive models that they can handle physically and financially and then move up over time - a key to Harley-Davidson’s strategy.

“With the new pricing and the new model year, we’ve really pivoted towards attainability,” Prakash says.

“So we have seven motorcycle models today under $13,000 and we’re starting at $8,000. I think that demonstrates a great amount of accessibility to new riders and young riders wanting to grow the sport.”

Ramsay says the Canadian industry has been successfully adapting to the 2008-09 recession, the more recent downturn in Western Canada and changing demographics.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Sinking metals prices overshadowed a bump in crude oil on Tuesday — dragging the Toronto stock market to a lower finish.

The S&P/TSX composite index ended the session down 64.05 points at 13,245.75 as trading resumed after the Boxing Day holiday.

But it was a different story south of the border where markets had resumed trading on Monday.

Improvements in the value of U.S. technology and health-care companies helped boost Wall Street prices, along with an improvement in the Conference Board’s consumer confidence index.

The Dow Jones soared 192.71 points to 17,720.98, while the S&P 500 advanced 21.86 points to 2,078.36 and the Nasdaq shot up 66.95 points to 5,107.94.

The Canadian dollar made a slight gain, up 0.11 of a cent at 72.34 cents U.S. Traders are putting the final touches on the books for the last trading week of the year, which in Canada will only be three days. Stock markets on both side of the border are closed Friday for New Year’s Day. Canada’s main index had finished in the black in the previous five trading days leading into the Christmas holiday period, adding about 300 points, but looks to be on track to wind up the year about 10 per cent lower.

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Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.53 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.61 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.32 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 10.49 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.13 First Quantum Minerals . . 5.52 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 16.23 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.47 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.57 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.12 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.50 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.77 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.41

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.51 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.17 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.02 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.97 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.02 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.67 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.27 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.33 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.12 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.36 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.87 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.49 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.33

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 16.93 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.38 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.49 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.96 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 17.75 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.14 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.47 Canyon Services Group. . 4.04 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.74 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.115 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.590 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 79.16 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.50

66.95 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.34 cents US, up 0.11 of a cent Pound — C$2.0492, down 1.95 cents Euro — C$1.5115, down 0.50 of a cent Euro — US$1.0935, down 0.18 of a cent Oil futures: US$37.87 per barrel, up $1.06 (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,068 per oz., down 30 cents (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: Closed for holidays Dec. 17: $19.728 oz., down 60.1 cents $634.26 kg., down $19.32

precious metals,� said Matt Barasch, head of Canadian Equities in the portfolio advisory group at RBC Wealth Management. “As we get to the waning days of (the year) I’m not sure that anybody really wants to show much in terms of ownership of these names.�

Elsewhere in commodities, the February contract for benchmark crude oil rose $1.06 to US$37.87 a barrel, while February natural gas added 11 cents to US$2.37 per mmBtu. However, the energy sector on the TSX was also lower, down 0.70 per cent.

In corporate news, shares in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (TSX:VRX) fell C$17.49 or 11 per cent to $140.19 on news that Michael Pearson, CEO of the embattled drugmaker, is in hospital being treated for pneumonia.

Meanwhile, Pep Boys (NYSE:PBY) surged $1.53 or almost nine eight per cent to US$18.94 after the auto parts and services retailer received another offer from activist investor Carl Icahn, putting the deal in the neighbourhood of US$1 billion.

Pep Boys stocks have been moving steadily higher over the last two months as a takeover bid from Japanese tire manufacturer Bridgestone turned into a fight for control with Icahn.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘16 $3.30 higher $483.60 March ‘16 $4.00 higher $492.80 May ‘16 $2.80 higher $496.90 July ‘16 $2.00 higher $498.30 Nov. ‘16 $1.70 higher $492.70 Jan. ‘17 $1.20 higher $495.10 March ‘17 $1.20 higher $495.10 May ‘17 $1.20 higher $495.10 July ‘17 $1.20 higher $495.10 Nov. ‘17 $1.20 higher $495.10 Jan. ‘18 $1.20 higher $495.10.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $184.00 May ‘16 unchanged $190.00 July ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 March ‘17 unchanged $192.00 May ‘17 unchanged $192.00 July ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 March ‘18 unchanged $192.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 439,140 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 439,140.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,245.75, down 64.05 points Dow — 17,720.98, up 192.71 points S&P 500 — 2,078.36, up 21.86 points Nasdaq — 5,107.94, up

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Boralex grows wind power portfolio in France, construction expected in June MONTREAL — Boralex Inc. (TSX:BLX) is taking steps to increase its presence in France, including completion of a number of wind power projects that the company has just recent-

ly acquired.

The Montreal-based company says the developments will require about C$225 million of investments over the next two years.

Construction is expected to begin in June.

With the acquisition, Boralex gains access to a major pipeline of projects, of which over 150 megawatts may be commissioned in 2017 and 2018.

Boralex currently operates 500 MW of generating capacity in France and has development projects representing nearly 850 MW of capacity, including the recent acquisition.

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Hampton Creek Foods pastry chef Ben Roche preparing french toast made with Just Scramble at their office in San Francisco. Hampton Creek’s mission is to replace the eggs in products without anyone noticing. In trying to appeal to the mainstream, co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick has a simple rule. “No. 1, never use the word ‘vegan,’� he said.

Startups seek meat alternatives that taste authentic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Patrick Brown is on an improbable mission: Make a burger Americans love, minus the meat.

Veggie patties have been around for decades, but Brown and others want to make foods without animal products that look, cook and taste like the real thing — and can finally appeal to the masses.

Brown’s company, Impossible Foods, is part of a wave of startups aiming to wean Americans off foods like burgers and eggs, and their efforts are attracting tens of millions of dollars from investors. The goal is to lessen the dependence on livestock for food, which they say isn’t as healthy, affordable or environmentally friendly as plant-based alternatives.

The challenge is that most Americans happily eat meat and eggs. That means that, without a breakthrough, those seeking to upend factory farming risk becoming footnotes in the history of startups.

To understand the difficulty of their task, consider the transformation raw chicken undergoes when cooked. It starts as a slimy, unappetizing blob, then turns into a tender piece of meat.

LEARNING TO MIMIC NATURE In its office in Southern California, Beyond Meat works on “chicken� strips made with pea and soy proteins that have been sold at places like Whole Foods since 2012. But founder Ethan Brown concedes the product needs work. To give the “meat� its fat, for instance, canola oil is evenly mixed throughout the product. “That’s not really how it works in an animal,� said Brown, a vegan. “The fat can be a sheath on tendons.�

To form the strips, a mixture is pressed through a machine that forms and sets the product’s texture with heating and cooling chambers. The method isn’t new in the world of fake meats, but the company says it finetuned the process to deliver a more realistic offering. Brown dismisses the idea that fake meat might weird people out and says it’s a “desirable evolution.�

But Beyond Meat isn’t quite there

yet The Huffington Post described the strips as having an “unpleasant� taste that inhabits a “strange territory between meat and vegetable.�

At Impossible Foods, the patty is made by extracting proteins from foods like spinach and beans, then combining them with other ingredients. The company, which has about 100 employees, expects the product to be available in the latter half of next year, initially through a food-service operator.

CULTURING MEAT, JUST LIKE YOGURT Another startup isn’t totally ditching the cow.

With $15.5 million in funding, Modern Meadow in New York City takes cells from a cow through a biopsy and cultures them to grow into meat. At a conference in February, company founder Andras Forgacs likened the process to culturing yogurt or brewing beer. “This is an extension of that,� he said.

Modern Meadow doesn’t have a product on the market yet either. The company says it doesn’t necessarily want to replicate steaks and burgers, and gave a hint of the type of foods it might make by presenting “steak chips� for attendees at a small conference last year.

Only about 200 people have tried the chips, which Forgacs describes as “crispy, crunchy beef jerky.�

BANNING THE WORD ‘VEGAN’ In San Francisco, Hampton Creek’s mission is to replace the eggs in products without anyone noticing. In trying to appeal to the mainstream, co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick has a simple rule. “Number one, never use the word ‘vegan,�’ he said.

To avoid perceptions its eggless spread Just Mayo won’t taste good, Hampton Creek even removed the V-word from the label. Tetrick says what makes the product different is that it tastes better and costs less — not that it’s made with a protein from a Canadian yellow pea instead of eggs. “The egg-free thing is almost irrelevant,� he said.

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Flames blanked by Ducks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Ducks 1 Flames 0 CALGARY — Shawn Horcoff scored the only goal and John Gibson made 14 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Anaheim Ducks won 1-0 over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.

Tested only seven times over the first 40 minutes, Gibson was busiest in the third as the Flames finally were able to generate some pressure.

However, Calgary could not solve the 22-year-old and Sam Bennett, the Flames best player on the night, put a shot off the cross bar.

The loss was the first home ice since Oct. 30 for Calgary (17-17-2) and snapped the Flames’ franchise-record 11-game winning streak at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

Anaheim (14-15-6) was opening up a three-game Western Canada road swing that will continue Thursday in Edmonton.

Anaheim opened the scoring at 12:36 of the second period on an excellent shift by Swedish winger Rickard Rakell.

First, Rakell was stopped

from close-in on a sharp pad save by Karri Ramo after he was set up by Ryan Getzlaf.

After the rest of his line changed, Rakell remained on the ice and with the puck behind the net, he set-up Horcoff at the face-off dot, who onetimed a high shot past Ramo.

It was the only goal surrendered by Ramo, who finished with 20 saves to fall to 13-11-1.

Ramo was starting his seventh game in a row and 22nd in the last 25. Gibson improved to 6-4-2. For 40 minutes, the Ducks carried the play territorially and were deserving of the lead. In one stretch between the last shot in the second and the first shot of the third, Calgary went over 13 minutes without forcing Gibson to make a save. Only three Flames forwards ended up with shots on goal - Johnny Gaudreau (4), Micheal Ferland (1) and Bennett (1). It was second meeting of the season between two teams that met in the second round of the playoffs last year. The teams played a tight-checking and physical first period with both squads finishing their checks.

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Anaheim Ducks’ goalie John Gibson, right, deflects a shot as Calgary Flames’ Michael Ferland looks for a rebound during first period NHL hockey action, in Calgary, on Tuesday.

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Canadian defenceman Haydn Fleury — of the Red Deer Rebels— moves the puck away from Switzerland’s Calvin Thurkauf during third period preliminary round hockey action at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday.

Canada survives shootout with Switzerland WORLD JUNIORS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 3 Switzerland 2 (SO) HELSINKI — Canada’s world junior team has learned a valuable lesson about respecting its opponent.

Matt Barzal scored the shootout winner as Canada edged Switzerland 3-2 at Helsinki Ice Hall on Tuesday to avoid a big preliminary-round upset at the world junior hockey championship.

The Swiss side gave the defending champions all they could handle, jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first period.

Dylan Strome scored late in the opening frame for Canada and Joe Hicketts tied the game in the second period.

Brayden Point had the other shootout goal while both Swiss shooters were stopped by goalie Mackenzie Blackwood, who was making his world juniors debut.

Barzal and his teammates plan to use the game as a learning experience.

“I think it could be good for us just knowing that we can’t take anyone lightly coming out of the gates,” Barzal said. “Every game’s going to be a hard-fought game and we’ve got to prepare the same way.”

Many Canadian players gave credit to Hicketts for the turnaround. The defenceman gave a speech in the locker-room during the first intermission.

“It was about getting back to work,” said Hicketts.

“Maybe we underestimated them a little bit, maybe the respect factor wasn’t there and maybe it was just a lack of preparation.

“We knew that when we came out for the second period it was going to have to be a 180, to flip the switch, to start playing our brand of hockey.”

Damian Riat and Dario Meyer scored for Switzerland, which was defeated for the third time but picked up its first point of the tourna-

ment with the overtime loss.

Joren van Pottelberghe stopped 32 shots.

Blackwood, who made 23 saves, sat out Canada’s first two games as he completed an eightgame suspension from the Ontario Hockey League.

Netminder Mason McDonald started the first two games of the tournament with Samuel Montembeault serving as the backup.

Switzerland has relied on a physical, punishing brand of hockey to make up for its relative lack of skill compared to countries like Canada and Sweden.

That led to suspensions for three Swiss players after an 8-2 loss to Sweden on Saturday.

A similar strategy was used against Canada on Tuesday with more success.

The Canadians, who lost 4-2 to the United States on Saturday and routed Denmark 6-1 on Monday, admitted to not doing their homework on the Swiss or their tactics.

“We didn’t come out with the same intensity as we did against the Americans or against the Danes for that matter,” said Barzal.

“That’s a lack of preparation on our part and we’re not going to make that mistake again.

“Kind of shot ourselves in the foot with that 2-0 deficit there but I thought we finished strong in the second and third and kind of pushed the pace.”

Canada now has a regulation win, an overtime win and a loss for five points. A regulation win at the tournament is worth three points, one more than an overtime victory.

Hicketts is one of four players who played on last year’s gold medal-winning team. Although the win over Switzerland was a little too close for comfort, he’s glad it happened when it did.

“We have to prepare to play every game.

Nothing’s easy in this tournament,” said Hicketts.

“The four returnees especially know that from last year but I think having the whole group go through that at an earlier stage of the tournament is something that going forward is going to (have) an impact.”

Canada has a day off before facing undefeated Sweden (2-0) on Thursday.

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

Kings shell Talbot with three goals in 96 seconds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Kings 5 Oilers 2 EDMONTON — It took the Los Angeles Kings just over a minute-and-a-half to do all the damage they needed.

Dustin Brown and Trevor Lewis each recorded a goal and two assists as the Kings scored three goals in a span of 96 seconds to win their third game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 Tuesday.

Dwight King, Michael Mersch and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the Kings (23-112), who have won four of their last six games.

“It’s a good win for our team, it’s tough playing backto-back coming in,” said Kings head coach Darryl Sutter, who praised goalie Jonathan Quick for making 42 saves to improve to 17-1-5 in his career against the Oilers.

“Jonathan is a great goalie and most night’s he gives you a chance to win. He’s an important player for us.”

King also had an assist for Los Angeles in the first game he has played this season, missing the first 35 contests due to a broken foot.

“It’s been a long process to get back and the boys have been doing really well without me, so to come back to a win is a good feeling,” he said.

Benoit Pouliot and Mark Letestu replied for the Oilers (15-20-3), who have lost three straight and saw a seven-game winning streak at home ended.

“Things were going pretty well for us, we were doing a lot of things we wanted to do against a real good team,” said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan.

“And in a matter of a minute and a half, the bottom falls out on us for a number of reasons. That was disappointing.”

Edmonton had 13 shots on Quick in the scoreless first, while Los Angeles had 10 on Oilers goalie Cam Talbot.

The Kings broke the deadlock 4:22 into the second pe-

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riod after some soft play behind the net by defender Justin Schultz allowed King to emerge from behind the goal line and sneak a bad-angled shot past Talbot.

“He’s got to have it. There’s no other way of putting it,” McLellan said.

That poor goal opened the floodgates, as the Kings quickly made it 3-0 with goals 16 seconds apart. Just over a minute after King scored, Mersch swung out behind the net and scored his first career NHL goal.

Seconds later, Toffoli beat Talbot over the shoulder, prompting the Oilers to replace him in net with Anders Nilsson.

Edmonton got one back midway through the second as Pouliot scored in his third goal in the last two games, beating Quick with a wrist shot.

Los Angeles made it 4-1 with six minutes left in the second as Lewis converted on a nice feed from Brown.

The Oilers scored two minutes into the third as Lauri Korpikoski sent a backhand feed in front to Letestu for the goal.

Brown scored his fourth of the season on the power play with eight minutes to play.

Both teams return to action on Thursday, as the Oilers continue a six-game homestand against the Anaheim Ducks and the Kings travel to Calgary to face the Flames.

Notes: Kings forward Anze Kopitar entered the game with a +31 rating in his career against Edmonton… Out with injuries for Los Angeles were Jeff Carter (upper body), Matt Greene (shoulder), Dwight King (foot) and Kyle Clifford (upper body)… Absent from the Oilers lineup were Connor McDavid (collarbone), Rob Klinkhammer (ankle), Nail Yakupov (ankle), Brandon Davidson (ribs), Oscar Klefbom (finger) and Andrew Ference (undisclosed).

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Jays win CP team of the year award

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A trade deadline to remember. A second-half surge to the playoffs. A bat flip for the ages.

The Toronto Blue Jays put baseball back on the map in the playoff-starved city this year and the rest of the country took notice. Canada’s lone Major League Baseball team, which won the East Division title and came within two wins of the World Series, was voted the landslide winner of The Canadian Press team of the year award.

“There’s so many adjectives that come to mind, but great, exciting, proud,” former general manager Alex Anthopoulos said of the 2015 team. “I think it just meant a lot for Canada and the city obviously, but more Canada than anything else.

“I know the slogan and the hashtag was ‘Come Together’ and it was true.

It seemed like everybody came together and fans that weren’t fans became fans. I think we’ll be talking about it for years to come.”

The Blue Jays picked up 40 votes (71 per cent) in an online survey of broadcasters and editors from media outlets across the country. The Canadian world junior hockey team that won gold last January was a distant second with six votes (11 per cent).

“It seems funny, on some levels, to elect a team that didn’t even get to its league final,” said Jonathan McDonald, sports editor of The Province in Vancouver. “But for the first time in a long, long time, the Blue Jays had a good chunk of Canada captivated by baseball again. And I mean captivated. People were talking about the Jays seven days a week for about three months. That’s an accomplishment in itself.”

The Blue Jays had a powerful offence but were tripped up by several key injuries at the start of the season.

Team defence suffered and Toronto split its first 100 games.

“You can be a .500 club and know that maybe the roof is going to cave in and you’re overachieving. Or you

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Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista acknowledges the crowd after hitting a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during seventh inning game five American League Division Series playoff baseball action in Toronto.

The Blue Jays are the runaway winners of The Canadian Press team of the year award. know you can be underachieving and know that you’re way better than this,” Anthopoulos said. “And it was clear in our minds, we were way better than this.”

That’s when Anthopoulos pulled off the first in a series of stunning trades.

He acquired star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki in a deal with Colorado and soon topped that by landing ace lefthander David Price, giving the Blue Jays the front-line starter they needed.

After years of looking to the future, Toronto was playing for the present.

Outfielder Ben Revere and relievers LaTroy Hawkins and Mark Lowe also joined the team during that memorable week and Toronto’s fanbase was downright giddy.

The Blue Jays were suddenly real contenders in the American League.

Over the second half of the season,

they played like it.

With an offence that boasted league MVP Josh Donaldson and sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, Toronto soon powered its way to the top of the division standings. Price came as advertised, going 9-1 with the Blue Jays and providing a stabilizing force to the rotation.

There were some pleasant surprises too.

Marco Estrada started the year in the bullpen and became a key starter.

Rookie closer Roberto Osuna played like a veteran. And waiver wire pickup Chris Colabello hit at an impressive .321 clip.

Manager John Gibbons was pulling the strings and had the team playing with confidence. The sellout crowds at Rogers Centre couldn’t get enough.

“This was a group that cared about

Eagles fire coach Chip Kelly

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — GM Chip Kelly cost coach Chip Kelly his job.

The Philadelphia Eagles fired Kelly Tuesday night with one game left in his third season, dumping the coach/ personnel boss after missing the playoffs in consecutive years.

Kelly was released before the finale of a disappointing season that began with Super Bowl expectations.

The Eagles are 6-9 after going 10-6 two years in a row. They were eliminated from playoff contention after losing to Washington at home on Saturday night.

Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie issued a one-sentence statement to the media, saying he appreciates Kelly’s contributions and wishes him success going forward.

Lurie told fans in an email that he decided to make a change after “evaluating the many factors involved in our performance as a team.”

The Eagles also fired Ed Marynowitz, who was vice-president of player personnel. Longtime NFL executive Tom Donahoe will assume the role of senior director of player personnel.

Kelly gained full control of personnel decisions last off-season, winning a power struggle with then-general manager Howie Roseman. But Kelly tore apart a winning team and several of his bold moves backfired.

Since March 2014, Kelly released three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver DeSean Jackson, traded two-time All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy, didn’t re-sign 2014 Pro Bowl wideout Jeremy Maclin, cut two-time Pro Bowl guard Evan Mathis and traded quarterback

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FLAMES: Chance Anaheim’s best chance in the first came when Mark Giordano’s ill-advised pass was intercepted in the slot

by Ryan Kesler, forcing Ramo to make a sharp save.

Nick Foles and a 2016 second-round draft pick for Sam Bradford.

He also gave big money in free agency to running back DeMarco Murray and cornerback Byron Maxwell.

Murray has been a bust and Maxwell has underperformed. Kelly even signed Tim Tebow, but released him after he won the competition for the No. 3 quarterback job.

Kelly didn’t want players perceived as “me-first” guys. He alienated some of his players, though the only ones who spoke out against him did it after they were gone.

McCoy, the franchise’s all-time leading rusher and a fan favourite, made headlines when he said there’s a reason Kelly got rid of “all the good black players.” Cornerback Brandon Boykin, who was traded to Pittsburgh, said Kelly was “uncomfortable” around black players.

Other players supported Kelly and moves such as signing Murray and Maxwell contradicted McCoy’s claim.

But Kelly’s reputation took a hit anyway.

Shortly after Kelly was fired, Eagles linebacker Emmanuel Acho tweeted: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Suspended Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Gordon tweeted: “Shady, Maclin, Foles, Djax.. Smh.” Kelly replaced Andy Reid and led the Eagles to an NFC East title in 2013 after they were 4-12 a year earlier.

The Eagles lost at home to New Orleans in the playoffs and missed the post-season in 2014 following a 9-3 start.

They were 7-12 in Kelly’s last 19 games.

each other, that played for one another,” Anthopoulos said. “Look, they were talented as well — we had some star players — but they meshed so well together. I had people come up to me and say with so many superstar players, how come? They just bonded together, that’s a credit to the manager, to the staff and to the players themselves.

“They all bought in. I think the fans — they connected with the fans — because they saw that day in and day out.”

An East Division title would follow and then came a five-game series win over the Texas Rangers. The Blue Jays stumbled over the first two games at home but rebounded to win the next two on the road.

It set up a deciding Game 5 that featured a Bautista homer — complete with that epic bat flip — in a four-run seventh inning that helped the Blue Jays to a 6-3 victory and sent the home crowd into a frenzy.

Next up were the Kansas City Royals, who won the first two games of the best-of-seven ALCS at home and eventually took a 3-2 series lead back to Kauffman Stadium. Bautista hit two homers in Game 6 but it wasn’t enough as the Blue Jays dropped a 4-3 decision, going 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position.

The Royals went on to beat the New York Mets in the World Series.

“We had a great club and I don’t feel arrogant saying that. I mean, I feel it’s a fact,” Anthopoulos said. “We had a club that was capable of winning the World Series. We didn’t, the Royals won it and they deserved to win it.

They played the best.

“But it was a sense of pride in the front office, organizationally, all of us collectively helped put a World Series-calibre team on the field, which is what it’s about.”

New president Mark Shapiro and GM Ross Atkins will try to guide the Blue Jays back to the playoffs in 2016.

Anthopoulos turned down a contract offer to return and former president Paul Beeston retired.

WORLD RINGETTE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Canada puts a beating on Sweden 31-0 HELSINKI, Finland — Canada’s junior team, which includes Kelsie Caine of Red Deer, improved to 3-0 at the world ringette championships Tuesday with a 31-0 spanking of the Swedish junior squad.

“We came here with a plan and that is to play a consistent game – our game,” said Team Canada captain Talia Gallant, who scored a hat trick and picked up five assists in the game.

“We go into every game with a set of goals and we are here to execute our plan.”

The Canadians will meet their toughest competition on New Year’s Day when they meet the Finns.

They play Slovakia today and meet the United States on Thursday.

In other round robin games Tuesday, Finland’s junior team beat Czech Republic 32-0, while the United States beat Slovakia 16-0 and Sweden defeated Czech Republic 22-1.

The senior category of the worlds gets underway on New Years Day. Dailyn and Jamie Bell of Lacombe are on the Canadian team that will engage defending champion Finland in a bestof-three series.

SPENGLER CUP

Canada adds goaltender Climie to Spengler Cup roster after MacIntyre injury DAVOS, Switzerland — The Canadian team added goaltender Matt Climie to its Spengler Cup roster Tuesday as a replacement for injured netminder Drew MacIntyre.

Climie, a 32-year-old native of Leduc, is in his first season with the Straubing Tigers of the German

Notes: Calgary made one line-up change inserting Brandon Bollig for Mason Raymond. Bollig had been scratched the last seven games… With Cam Fowler (sprained knee) placed on injured reserve, defenceman Shea Theodore was recalled from San Diego and made his NHL debut for Anaheim.

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Ducks improve to 10-0-1 when leading after two periods.

league.

He has spent most of his pro career in the American Hockey League.

Jeff Glass earned the shutout for Canada in a 2-0 win over HC Davos on Monday.

Team officials decided after the game that a replacement for MacIntyre would be needed due to an unspecified injury.

Canada will play the host side again in the semifinals Wednesday at Vaillant Arena.

The championship game is scheduled for Thursday.

Canada last won the Spengler Cup in 2012.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today • Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Calgary Buffaloes, 11:45 a.m., Max Bell Centre.

Thursday • WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Kootenay Ice, 4 p.m. (The Drive).

Saturday • Peewee AA hockey: Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m.; Red Deer TBS Chiefs at Central Alberta Selects, 2:45 p.m., Clive; Red Deer Parkland Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley Timberwolves at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Airdrie Lightning at Central Alberta Selects, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe; Medicine Hat Hounds at West Central Tigers, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• AJHL: Brooks Bandits at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m.

Sunday • Peewee AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Olds Grizzlys, 12:15 p.m..

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada Chiefs at Olds Grizzlys, 2:45 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 5:30 p.m.

Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived G Russ Smith. Signed C Ryan Hollins.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF D’Vontrey Richardson.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Placed NT Paul Soliai on injured reserve. Signed TE D.J. Tialavea from the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS — Placed WR Marcus Easley on injured reserve. Claimed WR Leonard Hankerson off waivers from New England.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived DE Wes Horton.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed QB Mike Kafka to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DB Sean Baker to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed S Corey Moore from the practice squad. Placed CB Charles James on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed QBs Josh Freeman and Ryan Lindley. Signed LB Amarlo Herrera. Signed G Kitt O’Brien to the practice squad.

Placed LB Josh McNary on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed LB Dekoda Watson.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed LB Devon Kennard on injured reserve.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DB Dewey McDonald from the practice squad. Signed DB Chris Hackett and G Cole Manhart to the practice squad.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Fired Chip Kelly coach and Ed Marynowitz vice-president of player personnel.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released WR Vincent Brown.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed CB Kyle Sebetic to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Jeremy Harris from the practice squad. Waived TE Je’Ron Hamm.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with DL Willie McGinnis.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled Fs Craig Cunningham and Laurent Dauphin from Springfield (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Reassigned F Colin Jacobs from Rochester (AHL) to Elmira (ECHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Patrik Elias on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 21. Activated F Bobby Farnham off injured reserve.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Zach Sill from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Ontario D Kurtis MacDermid 12 games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Dec. 26 game at San Diego. Suspended San Diego C Joseph Cramarossa one game for his actions in a Dec. 27 game at Bakersfield.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled C Alden Hirschfeld from Toledo (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Recalled D Eric Knodel from Utah (ECHL). Signed D Shayne Taker to a professional tryout agreement.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Manchester s Danick Paquette eight games for his actions in a Dec. 26 game at Adirondack.

READING ROYALS — Loaned F Robbie Czarnik to Providence (AHL).

COLLEGE MARQUETTE — Annouced a contract extension with Steve Wojciechowski men’s basketball coach through the 2021-22 season.

RUTGERS — Named Bill Busch defensive backs coach.

WASHINGTON STATE — Signed football coach Mike Leach to a contract extension through the 2020 season and defensive co-ordinator Alex Grinch and defensive line coach Joe Salave’a to multi-year contracts.

NHL BRIEFS

Boston Bruins put centre David Krejci on injured reserve with upper-body injury BOSTON — The Boston Bruins have placed centre David Krejci on injured reserve with an upper-body injury.

The team announced the move Tuesday. Krejci was hurt Sunday in Boston’s 3-1 loss at Ottawa in the opener of a home-and-home series. He must sit out for at least seven days from the time he was injured, meaning Krejci will miss the Winter Classic on New Year’s Day against Montreal. Krejci has 11 goals and 22 assists in 35 games for the Bruins this season.

Fleury returns to practice for first time since concussion Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury returned to practice on Tuesday for the first time since being sidelined by a concussion earlier this month.

Fleury has missed Pittsburgh’s past six games since reporting concussion-like symptoms following a loss to Washington on Dec. 14.

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Hockey WHL All Times Mountain EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 37 23 11 1 2 143 107 Prince Albert 36 21 11 3 1 116 107 Moose Jaw 36 18 13 4 1 126 113 Regina 37 16 16 3 2 113 128 Saskatoon 35 13 19 3 0 105 147 Swift Current 36 11 21 3 1 81 115

Pt 49 46 41 37 29 26

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Lethbridge 37 26 11 0 0 158 111 Calgary 39 24 13 1 1 130 117 Red Deer 37 24 13 0 0 133 111 Edmonton 38 15 19 4 0 106 124 Medicine Hat 36 12 20 3 1 114 144 Kootenay 38 6 30 2 0 72 161

Pt 52 50 48 34 28 14

2015 SPENGLER CUP DAVOS, Switzerland — 2015 Spengler Cup At Davos, Switzerland Preliminary Round Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt x-Canada 2 2 0 0 0 4 1 6 Yekaterinberg 2 1 0 0 0 6 3 3 Davos 2 0 0 0 2 1 7 0 Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt x-Lugano 2 1 0 0 1 10 9 3 Helsinki 2 1 0 0 1 9 9 3 Mannheim 2 1 0 0 1 8 9 3 x—clinched semifinal berth.

Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Monday’s results Canada 2 HC Davos 0 Jokerit Helsinki 6 HC Lugano 4 End of Preliminary Round

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 37 27 9 1 0 138 104 55 Victoria 37 22 12 1 2 125 90 47 Prince George 36 22 12 1 1 123 103 46 Kamloops 34 17 13 3 1 120 106 38 Vancouver 37 13 19 3 2 106 129 31 GP Seattle Everett Spokane Portland Tri-City

W 35 33 36 34 35

U.S. DIVISION L OTLSOL GF 20 12 3 0 19 12 0 2 18 14 3 1 17 16 1 0 14 19 2 0

GA Pt 115 103 43 91 74 40 118 119 40 118 112 35 109 135 30

Tuesday’s results Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 5 Regina 3 Saskatoon 1 Swift Current 3 Prince Albert 2(OT) Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 2 Seattle 2 Spokane 1 Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s results Calgary 3 Kootenay 2 Edmonton 3 Red Deer 1 Kelowna 3 Kamloops 2 Prince George 3 Victoria 2 (SO) Wednesday’s games Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

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

Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games Red Deer at Kootenay, 4 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

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

Seattle at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.

Brandon at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 3 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 3:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saturday, January 2 Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday, January 3 Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.

Kootenay at Swift Current, 3 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 3 p.m.

Brandon at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 6 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, January 5 Red Deer at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s results Quarter-finals HC Davos 5 Jokerit Helsinki 4 (OT) Automobilist Yekaterinberg 3 Adler Mannheim 1 Today’s games Semifinals Canada vs. HC Davos, 7 a.m.

HC Lugano vs. Automobilist Yekaterinberg, 12:15 p.m.

Thursday’s game Championship Canada-Davos winner vs. Lugano-Yekaterinberg winner, 4 a.m.

2016 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP HELSINKI — 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship At Helsinki, Finland PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Sweden 2 2 0 0 0 9 3 6 Canada 3 1 1 0 1 11 7 5 U.S. 2 1 0 0 1 4 3 3 Denmark 2 1 0 0 1 3 7 3 Switzerland 3 0 0 1 2 6 13 1 Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Russia 3 2 1 0 0 12 6 8 Czech Rep. 2 1 0 1 0 3 2 4 Finland 2 1 0 0 1 10 6 3 Slovakia 2 1 0 0 1 4 4 3 Belarus 3 0 0 0 3 3 14 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Tuesday’s results Canada 3 Switzerland 2 (SO) Russia 4 Belarus 1 Monday’s results Canada 6 Denmark 1 Czech Republic 2 Slovakia 0 Sweden 1 United States 0 Russia 6 Finland 4 Today’s games Belarus vs. Czech Republic, 5 a.m.

Denmark vs. Sweden, 7 a.m.

Finland vs. Slovakia, 9 a.m.

Switzerland vs. United States, 11 a.m.

Thursday’s games Slovakia vs. Russia, 5 a.m.

United States vs. Denmark, 7 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Finland, 9 a.m.

Sweden vs. Canada, 11 a.m.

End of Preliminary Round

Brendan Perlini 0 0 Travis Sanheim 0 0 Mitchell Stephens 0 0 Jake Virtanen 0 0 GOALTENDING Min Avg W 1 M. Blackwood 65 1.85 M. McDonald 118 2.54 1 S.Montembeault 0 0.00 0

First B vs. Fourth A, TBA Second B vs. Third A, TBA Sunday, Jan. 3 Relegation Fifth A vs. Fifth B, 3 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 4 Semifinals Quarter-final Winners, 7 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Relegation (if necessary) Fifth A vs. Fifth B, 3 a.m.

Bronze Medal Semifinal Losers, 7 a.m.

Gold Medal Semifinal Winners, 11:30 a.m.

WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY SCORING LEADERS HELSINKI — Official 2016 World junior hockey scoring leaders through Tuesday’s games: G 2 2 1 0 3 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

A 4 3 4 5 1 2 2 3 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Pts 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Washington 35 27 6 2 56 Florida 37 21 12 4 46 N.Y. Islanders37 20 12 5 45 Montreal 39 21 15 3 45 Boston 36 20 12 4 44 N.Y. Rangers37 20 13 4 44 Detroit 37 18 12 7 43 Ottawa 37 18 13 6 42 New Jersey 37 18 14 5 41 Tampa Bay 37 18 15 4 40 Pittsburgh 35 17 15 3 37 Philadelphia 35 15 13 7 37 Carolina 37 15 17 5 35 Buffalo 36 15 17 4 34 Toronto 35 13 15 7 33 Columbus 39 14 22 3 31

GF GA 110 72 101 84 103 88 111 98 115 97 107 98 94 98 111 112 87 92 95 88 79 86 76 96 87 106 85 94 92 100 98 123

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 38 27 8 3 57 132 97 Los Angeles 36 23 11 2 48 98 81 St. Louis 39 23 12 4 50 99 93 Arizona 36 17 16 3 37 100 116 Chicago 38 21 13 4 46 104 94 Vancouver 38 14 15 9 37 93 109 Minnesota 35 19 10 6 44 95 84 Nashville 37 18 12 7 43 100 96 Colorado 37 18 17 2 38 106 102 San Jose 35 17 16 2 36 96 100 Winnipeg 36 17 17 2 36 97 105 Calgary 36 17 17 2 36 96 117 Anaheim 35 14 15 6 34 67 87 Edmonton 38 15 20 3 33 97 118 NOTE: Two points for for overtime loss.

a win,

onepoint

Monday’s Games Montreal 4,TampaBay 3,SO Washington 2,Buffalo 0 Nashville 5,N.Y.Rangers 3 Minnesota 3,Detroit 1 Los Angeles 5,Vancouver 0 Colorado 6,San Jose 3

WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY CANADIAN STATISTICS HELSINKI — Unofficial 2016 World junior hockey Canadian statistics through Tuesday’s game: SCORING G A Pts Dylan Strome 3 1 4 Mathew Barzal 2 1 3 Lawson Crouse 1 2 3 Mitch Marner 1 2 3 Brayden Point 0 3 3 Joe Hicketts 1 1 2 Thomas Chabot 0 2 2 Rourke Chartier 0 2 2 Travis Dermott 0 2 2 Anthony Beauvillier 1 0 1 John Quenneville 1 0 1 Julien Gauthier 0 1 1 Travis Konecny 0 1 1 Haydn Fleury 0 0 0 Brandon Hickey 0 0 0 Roland McKeown 0 0 0

Saturday, Jan. 2 Relegation Fifth A vs. Fifth B, 3 a.m.

Quarter-finals (times 5, 7, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.)

First A vs. Fourth B, TBA Second A vs. Third B, TBA

L OL GA SO 0 0 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0

National Hockey League

TUESDAY’S SUMMARIES Canada 3, Switzerland 2 (SO) First Period 1. Switzerland, Riat 1 (Rod, Malgin) 2:12 (pp) 2. Switzerland, Meyer 1 (Forrer, Privet) 15:37 3. Canada, Strome 3 (Chabot, Crouse) 19:37 Penalties — Perlini Cda (holding) 0:46, Rod Sui (cross-checking) 9:09.

Second Period 4. Canada, Hicketts 1 (Crouse) 12:17 Penalties — Virtanen Cda (high-sticking) 5:13, Thurkauf Sui (high-sticking) 14:44, Kindschi Sui (holding) 16:09.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Malgin Sui (tripping) 8:12.

Shots on goal by Switzerland 9 8 8 0 — 25 Canada 7 10 16 1 — 34 Goal — Switzerland: van Pottelberghe (SOL,0-1-1) Canada: Blackwood (W,1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Switzerland: 1-2 Canada: 0-4.

Puljujarvi, Fin Lazarev, Rus Nylander Swe Korshkov, Rus Strome, Cda Laine, Fin Timashov, Swe Aho, Fin Polunin, Rus Saarela, Fin Barzal, Cda Kamenev, Rus Rod, Sui Crouse, Cda Kaprizov, Rus Marner, Cda Pettersson, Swe Point, Cda Malgin, Sui Provorov, Rus

0 0 0 0

Tuesday’s Games Boston 7,Ottawa 3 N.Y. Islanders 6, Toronto 3 New Jersey 3,Carolina 2 Columbus 6,Dallas 3 Florida 3,Montreal 1 St. Louis 4,Nashville 3, OT Winnipeg 4,Detroit 1 Anaheim 1,Calgary 0 Los Angeles 5,Edmonton 2 Chicago 7,Arizona 5 Wednesday’sGames Toronto at Pittsburgh,5p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

N.Y. Rangers atTampaBay 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at SanJose, 8:30p.m.

Thursday’sGames N.Y.Islanders at Buffalo, 4p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m.

Minnesota atSt.Louis, 6p.m.

Chicago at Colorado,6p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 6:30p.m.

Los Angeles At Calgary, 7p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 7p.m.

Winnipeg AtArizona, 7 p.m.

Football NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-New England 12 3 0 .800 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 Miami 5 10 0 .333 South W L T Pct Houston 8 7 0 .533 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 North W L T Pct y-Cincinnati 11 4 0 .733 Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 Baltimore 5 10 0 .333 Cleveland 3 12 0 .200 West W L T Pct x-Denver 11 4 0 .733

x-Kansas City Oakland San Diego PF 455 370 357 290

PA 295 292 342 379

PF 309 303 370 275

PA 307 384 418 393

PF 395 395 312 266

PA 263 307 377 404

PF 328

PA 276

10 7 4

5 8 11

0 0 0

.667 .467 .267

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 South W L T Pct y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 North W L T Pct x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 Detroit 6 9 0 .400 Chicago 6 9 0 .400

382 342 300

270 376 371

PF 354 342 390 252

PA 356 400 407 340

PF 462 322 332 388

PA 298 325 379 459

PF 355 345 334 315

PA 303 289 380 373

West W L y-Arizona 13 2 x-Seattle 9 6 St. Louis 7 8 San Francisco 4 11 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .867 .600 .467 .267

Sunday’s Games Houston 34, Tennessee 6 Kansas City 17, Cleveland 13 N.Y. Jets 26, New England 20, OT Indianapolis 18, Miami 12 Detroit 32, San Francisco 17 Buffalo 16, Dallas 6 Chicago 26, Tampa Bay 21 Atlanta 20, Carolina 13 Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17 New Orleans 38, Jacksonville 27 St. Louis 23, Seattle 17 Arizona 38, Green Bay 8 Minnesota 49, N.Y. Giants 17

PF 483 387 264 219

PA 277 271 311 371

Monday’s Game Denver 20, Cincinnati 17, OT Sunday, Jan. 3 Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

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

New England at Miami, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

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

St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 2:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB 21 9 .700 — 21 13 .618 2 18 12 .600 3 19 13 .594 3 17 12 .586 3 1/2 18 13 .581 3 1/2 18 13 .581 3 1/2 18 13 .581 3 1/2 17 13 .567 4 17 15 .531 5 14 15 .483 6 1/2 15 18 .455 7 1/2 12 21 .364 10 1/2 9 22 .290 12 1/2 2 31 .061 20 1/2

Cleveland Atlanta Indiana Toronto Chicago Boston Miami Orlando Charlotte Detroit Washington New York Milwaukee Brooklyn Philadelphia

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 29 1 .967 — San Antonio 27 6 .818 3 1/2 Oklahoma City 22 10 .688 8 L.A. Clippers 19 13 .594 11 Dallas 18 13 .581 11 1/2 Memphis 18 16 .529 13 Houston 16 17 .485 14 1/2 Utah 13 16 .448 15 1/2 Portland 13 20 .394 17 1/2 Sacramento 12 19 .387 17 1/2 Denver 12 20 .375 18 Phoenix 12 21 .364 18 1/2 Minnesota 11 20 .355 18 1/2 New Orleans 10 21 .323 19 1/2 L.A. Lakers 5 27 .156 25

Orlando 104,NewOrleans 89 L.A. Clippers 108,Washington 91 Charlotte 108,L.A.Lakers 98 Brooklyn 111,Miami 105 Chicago 104,Toronto97 San Antonio 101,Minnesota 95 Dallas 103,Milwaukee 93 Utah 95,Philadelphia91 Cleveland 101,Phoenix 97 Golden State122,Sacramento103

Monday’s Games Indiana 93,Atlanta 87

Wednesday’s Games Brooklyn atOrlando, 5 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games New York 108,Detroit 96 Memphis 99,Miami 90, OT Atlanta 121,Houston115 Oklahoma City131,Milwaukee123 Cleveland 93,Denver87

L.A. Clippers atCharlotte, 5 p.m.

Washington atToronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers atBoston,5:30p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at SanAntonio, 6:30p.m.

Golden State at Dallas ,6:30p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 8p.m.

Thursday’s Games Milwaukee at Indiana,4 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Houston, 5 p.m.

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

Phoenix at OklahomaCity, 6 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 7p.m.

Soccer in 2015: Blatter brought down in FIFA scandal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Dawn had just broken in Zurich when a man was spotted being dragged out of an opulent hotel’s side entrance. Raising a single white sheet, hotel staff made an inadequate attempt to shield the guest being forced to check out early after being arrested in his bedroom.

Eduardo Li was in clear view on the quiet side street as he was bundled into an unmarked police car, one of seven FIFA officials arrested as Swiss police swooped on the Baur au Lac hotel at the behest of American authorities.

Years of investigations into soccer corruption burst into public view on the morning of May 27 as the so-called “World Cup of fraud” was exposed and FIFA would be coerced into cleaning up its act. Li, the Costa Rican federation president who was in Zurich expecting to join FIFA’s elite executive committee, was a lesser-known target of the U.S. case. But his arrest, which was captured on video by The Associated Press (http:// bit.ly/1UdDi1A ), was the most visible.

By the end of 2015, four FIFA vice-presidents had been indicted in the United States, including two swept up in a second wave of arrests in December after being chosen to replace those from the Americas indicted in May. A fifth VP, Michel Platini, was banished by FIFA from soccer until 2023 along with Sepp Blatter — the man he was expected to succeed as president — after their dealings became the subject of

a Swiss criminal case.

After 40 years at FIFA, 17 as president, the reign of the seemingly immovable Blatter ended in disgrace in 2015. Few lamented his downfall.

The 79-year-old Blatter did not see it coming in February when he beamed: “Now you see why I am happy” as he relaxed in a Northern Ireland hotel accompanied by a girlfriend almost 30 years his junior at a FIFA meeting.

And Blatter managed to brush off the anger that greeted revelations about the scale of bribery and kickbacks — corruption that mostly occurred within confederations rather than involving FIFA HQ in Zurich — to be voted in for a fifth term by federations on May 29.

Blatter subjected himself to a bruising encounter with the media the next day, a Saturday morning when he was asked whether some of the accusations were indicative of his “incompetence or intentional negligence.”

Blatter was defiant, vowing to see out his four-year term. The bravado quickly evaporated.

“Then came the different information from the U.S. with this and that,” Blatter aide Walter Gagg told the AP. After being warned in meetings with associates that he could be the next FIFA executive in the prosecutors’ sights, Blatter stunned the world on Tuesday June 2 by announcing plans to resign, accepting he lacked the game’s backing.

Blatter hoped to hand over power in February, but the Swiss attorney general intervened by raiding FIFA’s HQ in

September and questioning the president. Years of suspicions about Blatter’s integrity were confirmed when he was banished by FIFA’s ethics judge for unethical conduct over a financial transaction with Platini, who received the same eight-year ban from soccer.

The Swiss investigation — like the parallel American case — will continue into 2016 as trials begin and more officials fear their illicit profiteering from sporting contracts is uncovered. At the same time, FIFA will implement reforms designed to clean up the organization and elect a new president on Feb. 26.

Perhaps what surprised soccer fans in 2015 as much as the arrests was the interest of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in such sleaze.

But the significant role the world’s most popular sport plays in the U.S. was confirmed not only by Lynch but by Americans at, of all things in this year, a FIFA event. When the U.S. won a third Women’s World Cup title in July, the victory over Japan was watched by more than 25 million American television viewers. The wrong side of passion for soccer in the U.S. was also displayed this year when the AP filmed ( fans from New York rivals City and Red Bulls clashing before their derby in New Jersey in August, hooliganism previously associated with European supporters. One of the enduring images, though, of a soccer year scarred by wrongdoing was of the game’s ability to provide a powerful platform for unity after becoming a target for Islamic extremists in last month’s Paris attacks.

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A second chance at life MILK RIVER DOGS ARE REHABBING WELL WITH NEW FAMILIES AFTER BEING RESCUED

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Jax is thriving in his new home.

Three months ago he started picking up toys and dropping them around the house.

He still gets a little shy around new people but before long he will offer up a paw.

The “fluffy, playful” mix of Irish wolf hound and English sheepdog is one of the Milk River dogs adopted in Red Deer over the last year.

Robyn Colonna and her family adopted the now two-year-old dog in February after one of her dogs died in October.

“Everyone just fell in love with him,” said Colonna.

It didn’t matter that he was generally afraid of most people. There was something about that timid grey and white pooch.

“That was a big thing we all had to talk about,” said Colonna. “We knew he would have to be a lot more work because of what he has been through.

It was so worth it. He is a totally different dog today than the day we got him.”

Colonna said he was very skinny.

His hair was shaved because it was so mated. Any kind of noise would startle him.

“Now he is a very, very fluffy and playful,” said Colonna. “It’s almost like he saved us. He is such a big part of our family that we lucked out that he got to come home with us. Even though we saved him, he’s been a huge part of our family.”

In Red Deer alone, some 76 of the 201 dogs rescued from an acreage near Milk River were sheltered and brought back to health.

The dogs were a mix of huskies, Irish wolf hounds, malamutes, komondors.

There were even a batch of puppies, two of which Mark and Jacquie Linton brought into their home. The couple adopted a brother and sister (Irish wolf hound and English sheepdog mix) in late February. The dog’s mom was adopted too, by another family.

Linton said the story of abuse and neglect touched them and they wanted to take a look at the puppies. Their old dog died earlier in the year.

“We fell in love with two of them,” said Linton. “One was in good shape

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Jax, an Irish wolf hound and English sheepdog mix rescued from Milk River a year ago, hangs out with his owner, Robyn Colonna, Tuesday afternoon at their home. so we took him home right away. The sister we left down there for an extra week or so.”

The couple is getting ready to send the dogs (George and Sophie) to school

in order to become therapy dogs that work in hospitals and with seniors or people with special needs.

The Red Deer SPCA took in 40 dogs before they were adopted. Two bond-

ed pairs — Miss Daizy and Kena, and Burke and Britz — are still looking for homes. To find out more information visit www.reddeerspca.com. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan Lake set for New Year’s Day fireworks 15-MINUTE LIGHT SHOW SET TO GO AT 7 P.M.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by The Sylvan Lake News

Sylvan Lakers do not miss an opportunity to set off fireworks and will do so again on Friday at 7 p.m. to ring in the new year.

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BRIEFS

Rocky RCMP charge pair with drug trafficking A man and a youth have been charged with trafficking a variety of drugs after they were pulled over for numerous vehicle violations.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP said they arrested the pair in the early morning hours of Dec. 27. Police said they had pulled over a vehicle for violations when they found the

accused. At the time of the vehicle stop, they were both on conditions to not have contact with each other.

Police also found they were in possession of several drugs including cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, marijuana, ecstasy, oxycodone and prescription pills.

They have both been charged with possession of controlled substances for the purpose of trafficking as well as breaching recognizances.

They have been remanded into custody pending their first court appearance.

Police said the man was from Red Deer and the youth can’t be identified because of provisions in the Canada Youth Justice Act. Anyone can report suspicious

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Fireworks and New Year’s Day go hand-in-hand at Sylvan Lake.

Joanne Gaudet, communication officer with the town, said New Year’s Day fireworks have been a tradition for Sylvan Lake since the mid-80s.

Fireworks will be fired off the end of the downtown pier at 7 p.m. The display runs for about 15 minutes.

“We like to do fireworks. It’s fun.

We just had a really good show for our Santa Claus Parade back in November.

We do some for Canada Day as well.

And then sometimes, if we can find another reason, we’ll do more (fireworks),” Gaudet said with a laugh on Tuesday.

“It’s magnified in the summer when you do them over the lake. It’s pretty spectacular.”

The town’s second firework show of 2016 happens Feb. 13 as part of Sylvan Lake Winterfest in celebration of Family Day. Gaudet said in the winter fireworks happen early in the evening which makes them more family-friendly. But crowds that come out to watch displays in Sylvan Lake are always big, summer or winter.

With New Year’s Day on Friday, fireworks will be a fun way to start out the weekend, she said.

In the winter, some people drive their vehicles onto the frozen lake to watch.

She said town crews have been out activity by calling the Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403-845-2881 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Friends rally to help Hoadley family who lost house in fire Friends are rallying support for a young family that lost their home in a fire on Christmas Eve. Angela Davis, a close friend of Raeann and Sheldon Thompson, said her friends are a great family who works hard and has some bumps in the roads over the last couple of years.

The fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 24. While the family of four was sleeping in their home near Hoad-

“WE LIKE TO DO FIREWORKS. IT’S FUN. WE JUST HAD A REALLY GOOD SHOW FOR OUR SANTA CLAUS PARADE BACK IN NOVEMBER. WE DO SOME FOR CANADA DAY AS WELL. AND THEN SOMETIMES, IF WE CAN FIND ANOTHER REASON, WE’LL DO MORE (FIREWORKS).”

JOANNE GAUDET, SYLVAN LAKE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER maintaining the ice surface.

“We test regularly. If it’s not (safe), the gate to the access will be closed,” she said regarding the gate at the mouth of the pier off Lakeshore Drive.

She said with only one access point onto the lake, traffic does get congested following the fireworks so the town suggests that people walk to the fireworks if they can.

“But we understand it’s not always an option being that it’s winter and you may have people needing assistance to get out there.”

She said many people view the fireworks from nearby Centennial Park.

People are reminded to stay a minimum of 500 metres away from the firing zone at the end of the pier on Friday.

This year’s fireworks will be synchronized to music. People can tune into 88.7 FM on their radio to listen. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com ley, north of Rimbey. The couple and their two children, aged two and 18 months, were able to escape without injury. But they lost a puppy and two kittens in the fire and all their possessions, said Davis.

“They saved everything they had and bought that little ranch out there in Hoadley,” said Davis. “They are obviously devastated. They lost their home. They lost their pets.”

Davis said the family is sticking close to family.

She said people have stepped up and donated clothing and supplies.

She said right now the best thing would be donations at any ATB Financial in Alberta or through Please Help the Thompsons, on GoFundMe. The fire is under investigation.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s a holiday heist that has an Ontario community buzzing with disbelief.

Two sizable hives holding some 30,000 bees have been stolen from a field in the Ottawa area, and the couple that cares for them is asking for the public’s help in finding whoever is responsible.

Marianne Gee and her husband run the Gees Bees Honey Company, which rents bee hives to business in the capital region.

A real estate company, Minto Group, rented two hives from the couple as part of its efforts to help the declining honeybee population in the area.

When Gee and her husband went to conduct a regular check on the hives on Boxing Day, they found that the large wooden structures were missing, as were the bees living inside them.

“Both hives, the entire boxes, the bees, everything, they had been carried down quite a big hill,” said Gee. “You could see footprints in the mud where someone had walked up and taken them and left. And they would have had to have left in a truck or trailer.”

The beige hives, with blue and white Minto logos on their sides, probably weighed about 34 kilograms, said Gee, and likely couldn’t be carried too far.

While the financial loss of the missing hives — about $400 to $500 each — isn’t a huge one, Gee and her husband are more concerned about the well-being of the bees.

“Beekeepers don’t move their bees in the winter,” she said, explaining that bees cluster in a ball around the queen bee during cold weather, vibrating their wings for warmth.

“If the hive is moved in the winter, that cluster can get shaken apart and the bees can very quickly freeze.”

Gee also noted that there would be just enough honey in the hive for the bees to get through the winter, but not enough to harvest.

The couple has filed a police report and has asked Ottawa area residents to report any sightings of the hives.

“We were definitely shocked that they disappeared,” said Gee. “I’ve never heard of someone in Ottawa or Ontario having bee hives stolen.”

Whoever made away with the hives likely knows something about bees or is interest in bee keeping, Gee added.

“We’re hoping someone in Ottawa has seen someone acquire brand new beehives,” she said. “It’s really quite bizarre to me.”

Despite the bewildering loss of their hives, Gee says she and her husband have been heartened by many Ottawa residents reaching out to them over the incident and helping to spread the word.

“I think there’s a lot of good-hearted people out there,” she said. “That’s been heartwarming to see that sort of response from the community.”

Ontario has seen a decline in its bee population over the past few years due to a variety of causes including weather pattern changes and use of pesticides.

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TORONTO — The brother of a Carleton University student who killed herself in 2008 said whatever happens to the a U.S. man originally charged with trying to encourage her to commit suicide won’t bring her back.

William Melchert-Dinkel, a former nurse from Minnesota, was convicted in 2014 of attempting to assist the suicide of 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji, of Brampton, Ont., who died after jumping into the frigid Rideau River in 2008.

But the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that there wasn’t enough evidence to uphold Melchert-Dinkel’s conviction in Kajouji’s death.

“The original punishment of 180 days sleeping in jail wasn’t anything severe anyways and there is not a punishment that will make Nadia come back,” Marc Kajouji told The Canadian Press from Puerto Rico, where he now lives.

“I’m not an eye-for-an-eye guy anyway.”

For the most part, he said, his family has moved on, somewhat. They’ll never forget Nadia, he said, and her suicide nearly broke them. Their father, Mohamed Kajouji, has found solace in his homeland, Morocco, where he spends part of his time with family.

“He’s doing much better, but it still hurts for all of us — birthdays, the day she went missing, holidays, Halloween,” he said.

“She really liked Christmas as well, so this time of year isn’t easy, but I don’t think a parent can ever accept it.”

The court upheld Melchert-Dinkel’s conviction on the higher charge of assisting the suicide of a British man, saying he gave 32-year-old Mark Drybrough, of Coventry, England, detailed instructions on how to hang himself.

Melchert-Dinkel was obsessed with suicide and death and trolled chat rooms dedicated to suicide methods posing as a woman.

He said at trial he entered into a suicide pact with Kajouji and tried to get her to hang herself while he watched via webcam.

The defence argued that the online activities were protected speech, the victims were predisposed to suicide and Melchert-Dinkel’s comments were not a factor in their deaths.

WINNIPEG — A judge has ruled that the death of a senior hours after she was sent home from a Winnipeg hospital in a cab was not preventable.

But Judge Margaret Wiebe said in her inquest report, released Tuesday, that Heather Brenan’s death was still a tragedy that has raised concerns about her medical care.

The judge made 25 recommendations, including calling for more patient beds at the Seven Oaks hospital.

Brenan’s daughter, Dana Brenan, who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, said she thinks the recommendations are sound.

“But it’s still unclear who’s going to make sure that the doctors, the departments, the administrators of the hospital are following these recommendations.

And so in that, I think, there’s a failure.”

Her 68-year-old mother spent four days in the hospital’s overcrowded emergency department before she was discharged on the frigid night of Jan. 27, 2012.

She was sent home without house keys but hospital staff did call a friend who met Brenan at her house to let her in.

Brenan struggled to walk to her back door, then collapsed and was rushed back to Seven Oaks.

She died the next morning of a blood clot that had travelled from a leg into her lung.

Months later, two other patients were sent home in taxis from Winnipeg’s Grace Hospital and died on their doorsteps.

David Silver, 78, was found frozen about 14 hours after he was sent home in the middle of the night.

The other patient, 62-year-old Wayne Miller, was spotted on a sidewalk by a passing driver who called 911.

An internal investigation by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority later found Grace staff did nothing wrong when they decided to discharge the two men. Both had been suffering from underlying medical conditions that caused their sudden deaths.

Brenan suffered from obesity and diabetes, among other health conditions. In the months before she died, she had trouble eating and had lost 40 pounds. Her family doctor advised her to get to a hospital.

At Seven Oaks, Brenan was given tests and treated for dehydration and kidney failure.

The judge said all of the physicians who saw Brenan at Seven Oaks believed her death was unpredictable.

What should have been prevented, Wiebe said, was the length of time Brenan spent in the emergency department and the number of staff

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Data from B.C.’s Education Ministry show the number of indigenous students finishing high school in the province has jumped from about 54 to 63 per cent in the past six years.

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A kids’ virus you should know about CHAD HAYES ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES It’s that time of year again. No, not for last-minute Christmas shopping, but for a particularly nasty virus that in children can cause everything from mild common-cold symptoms to breathing problems bad enough to hospitalize a child — or, rarely, death.

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is very common, with infections occurring in 90 per cent of children before their second birthday. Fortunately, the majority of these infections cause relatively mild congestion and runny nose. But for about 20 to 30 per cent of those younger than 2, the virus travels deep inside the lungs, resulting in bronchiolitis, a disease that causes the small airways (or bronchioles) in the lungs to fill up with thick mucus and dead cells from the lining of the airway. This makes the airways narrower, forcing the child to work harder to move air through a smaller tube — like breathing through a soda straw instead of a snorkel.

RSV is transmitted in the same way as many other respiratory viruses: by germs from a child’s respiratory secretions being passed to another child either by coughing or sneezing, or through direct contact between people or with a contaminated surface. As you can imagine, it can spread pretty quickly in a room full of kids.

Most children with bronchiolitis can be diagnosed with just a physical exam. We doctors often hear the cough from outside the examination room and see the snotty nose when we enter.

When we listen to the lungs, it sounds as if the airways are full of mucus — because they are.

All the areas of the lungs sound about the same; that helps to rule out bacterial pneumonia, which is often localized in one spot. Wheezing — which doesn’t always mean asthma — is common. And many children with RSV need to breathe harder or faster than normal.

Some doctors will order a chest X-ray or a test to look for the RSV virus, but that’s usually not necessary. Chest X-rays that reveal bronchiolitis are sometimes difficult to distinguish from those that show pneumonia, and that can mean unnecessary treatment with antibiotics.

Once the diagnosis is made, the question is what to do about it. For the majority of kids, with relatively mild symptoms and without significant distress, the best treatment is symptomatic care. That means staying home, using saline drops and nasal suction for a small child (or tissues for an older one) to keep the nose clear, encouraging fluid intake to keep secretions thin and keeping an eye out for worsening symptoms.

Children with more-severe symptoms, such as rapid or laboured breath-

RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS ing or decreased fluid intake, may need to be admitted to the hospital.

But even there, the mainstays of treatment are sucking out the snot and keeping the kid hydrated. (Hospitals just have better tools for the job than most families do.)

Over the years, doctors have tried a lot of things to treat RSV. Steroids seemed to make sense (because we use them for asthma and croup), but they don’t help with bronchiolitis. Inhaled albuterol or epinephrine doesn’t usually help either, because bronchiolitis isn’t an issue of constriction or swelling of the airways: It’s just that they are full of mucus. There are a few kids out there — mostly those who already have a history of recurrent wheezing — who may benefit from albuterol, an inhaled medicine that relaxes muscles in the airways. But that benefit is usually pretty minimal.

In fact, if you read the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines for caring for children with bronchiolitis, it sounds like a list of things not to do. That’s because there are very few interventions that actually help. Doctors can run IV fluids for dehydrated kids or try some saline in a nebulizer to help loosen up the mucus. And they can help kids breathe with some oxygen or higher-flow air — or in very

severe cases, with a ventilator. And then it’s just a matter of waiting until the child is healthy enough to go home.

The good news is that the symptoms tend to peak around Day 4 and then gradually resolve over the next few days. It might seem as if it lasts forever, but both parent and child will make it through.

Although most of cases of bronchiolitis can be safely managed at home, here are some things for parents to keep in mind: • An infant younger than 2 months with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher requires medical evaluation.

While the fever could certainly be caused by RSV or a similar virus, it’s important to rule out other possible life-threatening causes for the fever.

• Any child who stops breathing, turns blue or grey, or doesn’t respond to stimulation needs emergency.

• Children who are not able to drink enough fluids to stay hydrated should be evaluated for dehydration.

• Any child who is breathing harder or faster than usual or seems to have difficulty breathing should be seen by a doctor.

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It would be great if RSV could be prevented. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for it, although scientists are working to develop one. At this time, the best thing we have is a monthly injection of antibodies to RSV (called pavilizumab, or Synagis), which is intended to minimize the severity of an infection if it develops. This medication is very expensive (about $2,000 per dose, or $10,000 for the season).

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Trend watchers, chefs and foodies alike stand united on vegetables — once lowly or overlooked as a side, they’re being elevated to a starring role.

Christine Couvelier says 2015 has been an amazing year for vegetables and the root-to-leaf movement will continue in 2016 with more creative preparations, from grilling and smoking to roasting and charring.

“We thought seeing whole roasted cauliflowers was a wow on some menus, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says the Victoria-based Couvelier, whose Culinary Concierge company helps clients around North America keep ahead of market trends.

“I think it’s a continuation on understanding fresh and local and being very innovative and creative in the kitchen,” she says.

“I think a lot of it also is consumers’ understanding the health benefits around that style of eating too. We’re not saying not to have meat but all in proportion and looking to vegetables to fill a great deal of the plate.”

Couvelier recently noshed on “spectacular” grilled rainbow carrots with creme fraiche and pistachio carrot-top pesto at Vendemmia in Seattle, Wash.

Quebec celebrity chef Ricardo Larrivee has found brussels sprouts on many restaurant menus, including roasted and presented at the table on the stalk with vinegar syrup and grated cheese.

Donna Dooher, president and CEO of Restaurants Canada, says we’ve moved beyond the kale revolution.

“It was kale on everything, kale this and kale that, kale chips. I think squash is going to come back with gangbusters. There’s so many varieties. It’s easy to grow here in Canada.”

Larrivee predicts the comeback of the Jerusalem artichoke, or sunchoke.

The gnarly tuber can be served as a puree and in soup, and its yellow flowers make a colourful addition to the garden.

Couvelier also sees hummus emerg-

ing as the new salsa, juice bars as the new coffee shops, and fried chicken being the new pork belly. Fried chicken, often paired with waffles, can feature different seasonings and be made spicy, sweet, brined or crusted.

High in protein and fibre and low in fat, hummus can be an appetizer, dip, spread or part of a main course.

“It’s recognizable in its original form and accepted, so now people are branching out and they’re eager to try something different,” says Couvelier, who’s had black bean hummus, edamame hummus with roasted red peppers, spicy yellow lentil hummus and, her favourite, a zesty Sriracha carrot hummus.

Increasingly popping up on restaurant menus is toast.

“It is certainly a very innovative dish to develop recipes and thoughts around. I’m watching it as the ingredient of the year,” says Couvelier.

“A lot of restaurants I’ve been in in the last six or nine months, they have great toast offerings.”

She’s had pickled anchovies and tomato toast and smoked chicken and walnut Waldorf toast at Steak Bird Provisions in San Francisco. Purple Pig in Chicago has a menu section called Smears, with toast and toppings including roasted bone marrow, liver pate, or pork neckbone gravy with ricotta.

“It can be any time of day — breakfast, lunch, snacking, appetizer, for dinner. You can share it,” she says of eating toast.

Restaurateurs are also embracing more customer choice.

“We now see the phenomenon of what we call the clockless menu, so ‘I want to eat when I want, what I want, where I want 24-7.’ All-day breakfast is huge right now and we’re seeing that creep into the dinner service as well,” says Dooher.

Operators are also deconstructing the plate, then charging for each item separately.

“Everything is about construct your own: construct your own burger, construct your own risotto, construct your own dinner.”

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Other trends that Couvelier predicts will grow next year: — More of the complex flavour combination of sweet and heat. Consider chilies and honey, Sriracha and maple syrup drizzled over roasted vegetables, honey and wasabi on chicken, jalapeno-infused honey and Sriracha peach jam, Couvelier suggests.

— Savoury yogurt could go mainstream. Unexpected flavours developed in the kitchens of Blue Hill and Blue Hill Stone Barns, two of New York’s top farm-to-table destinations, include butternut squash, beet, tomato, carrot, sweet potato and parsnip.

“When you think of it as an ingredient application it’s brilliant,” says Couvelier. You can make a lower-fat salad dressing, soup or sauce with a flavour boost from the vegetable yogurt.

— Bartenders and mixologists will experiment more with shrubs — and not the green bushes used in landscaping. Shrubs are created when you preserve fruit with vinegar, sugar and water. They allow for new punches, cocktails and spritzes.

— Ice cubes that are carved into shapes or infused with flavoured smoke or alcohol. As the ice melts it doesn’t water down your drink. “But at the same time, it’s giving you a different flavour at different times when you sip the drink, because it would change

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Fruit infused ice cubes as the ice melted a little bit. Say you had mint or citrus in the ice cube as well, that would infuse it differently as it started to melt,” says Couvelier.

— New Yorkers have been lining up to buy paper cups of flavourful bone broth from chef Marco Canora, who opened a takeout window at his restaurant Hearth. Because the bones are roasted and cooked longer than with stock, they release protein, minerals and nutrients. “You can put them in soups or stews. You can just drink them. Chefs are putting them on their menus and they can add things to them like coconut milk or beet juice or ginger juice.

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Whitening - Yeah or Nay! Dear Dr. D: My niece is obsessed with having whiter teeth. She has tried every over the counter product in the drug stores, and had her teeth lasered apparently to make them brighter. I noticed she was holding her mouth after eating some cold dessert, and it sure looked like an ice cream headache. Do you think she has damaged her teeth?

A: Whitening has a place in dentistry, and like just about anything else it is entirely possible to go overboard on the idea. New patients show up at the front desk wanting to have their teeth whitened. Most want in in an hour as the advertising has certainly worked on them.

Almost universally their focus is on whiter teeth, not necessarily healthier teeth. We have options. All of them have a prerequisite – which is clean teeth. Some will request whitening and not want to bother having their teeth cleaned properly. If there is a layer of plaque coating the teeth, no whitening procedure will work as planned.

Another issue is just 'how white' you want your teeth. We've heard it termed 'kitchen porcelain white' which is brighter than gleaming.

Dentists have shade charts to match colours on crowns and partials, and many factors such as natural staining of teeth, age, etc. come into play when choosing a colour. Often patients who are having unrelated cosmetic work completed may choose to whiten their existing teeth and then match up the shade of their new dental work to match their 'new' appearance. You mentioned that your niece appeared to have sensitive teeth if she was grimacing when eating something cold. This isn't unusual, and the severity or duration will be certainly affected by the bleaching solution applied. The key is the percentage of bleach in the solution, and how long it is applied to the teeth. There are options which vary from retail whitening 'kits', to in office bleaching trays with clinically certified gel which must be applied by dental professionals, to take home trays of clinical gel, to the popularized 'Zoom!' whitening that has received much media attention recently. It is advertised as 'one hour whitening' which is possible depending on how many shades are desired. Some systems advocate bypassing the dentist and using 'whitening pens' to do it yourself. We suggest caution. Systems sold through non dental sources have been found to use abnormally high levels of bleach which may cause tooth sensitivity, burning of the mouth or gums. Some promises made can never be realized because of decades of staining from tobacco, wine, and coffee. We recommend getting your mouth healthy first from a dental professional, and then concerning oneself with the colour. There is an appropriate order, and this one has the patient's best interests at heart!

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PHILIPPE FALARDEAU

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is known for tender dramedies that tug at the heartstrings, so the subject matter of his newest movie seems like new territory.

The Bleeder is the true story of Chuck Wepner, a liquor salesman from New Jersey who went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. Liev Schreiber stars as the journeyman heavyweight, whose life of hard knocks inspired the billion-dollar film series “Rocky.”

During 10 brutal years in the ring, Wepner endured two knockouts, eight broken noses and 313 stitches. But there were more battles outside the ring, involving drugs, booze and women.

JEAN-MARC VALLEE

The acclaimed director of Dallas Buyers Club returns to the big screen with Jake Gyllenhaal and Watts in Demolition.

The off-kilter drama centres on a grieving widower, played by Gyllenhaal, whose inability to express his sorrow sends him spiralling into bizarre and sometimes violent outbursts.

It’s set for release in April.

During a round of promotion at TIFF, Vallee talked about falling in love with an “irreverent, edgy, provocative, deeply moving” script.

“It’s mainly a film that celebrates life and reminds us to not forget the love, it reminds us to love, to take care of this beautiful feeling.”

Meanwhile, HBO has said Vallee will direct all seven episodes of Big Little Lies, starring Kidman and Witherspoon. Vallee will also serve as ex-

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Canadian film director Xavier Dolan poses as he arrives at Louis Vuitton’s SpringSummer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection during the Paris Fashion Week in October. Dolan is expected to return to theatres in 2016 with It’s Only The End of ecutive producer.

The limited series will be an adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s 2014 comic novel about three mothers whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder. Laura Dern, Adam Scott and Zoe Kravitz also star.

At TIFF, Vallee admitted the Oscar attention surrounding Dallas Buyers Club catapulted him to a new sphere of fame, but he didn’t expect it to affect the kind of projects that interested him.

“I’m not into big-budget, I’m into good scripts and if the good script has a big budget maybe I’ll go there,” he said. “Normally the scripts that I relate to — that I want to do, want to direct —are character-driven. They don’t ask for big budgets.”

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Earlier this year, Villeneuve spoke gingerly about his affection for the iconic neo-noir film from 1982, taking care not to reveal too much about the new script.

“Blade Runner is one of my favourite projects of all time and … this movie is linked with the birth of my passion for cinema, so I take that very seriously,” Villeneuve said. Despite being better known at home for cerebral arthouse fare like his Oscar-nominated Incendies and the black-and-white Montreal massacre feature Polytechnique, Villeneuve said he’s “been dreaming” of tackling sci-fi since he was 10 years old. But it will be a big project, he admitted, noting he expected to spend most of 2016 preparing for the shoot.

In the meantime, he’ll be courting audiences with another sci-fi feature, the alien invasion film Story of Your Life. That film stars Amy Adams as a linguist tasked with determining whether alien invaders come in peace or not.

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Quebec’s wunderkind is riding high from one of his shortest works — the sepia-toned music video for Adele’s now-ubiquitous single, Hello, which reportedly earned a record-breaking 27 million views in 24 hours when it debuted.

Dolan is expected to return to theatres in 2016 with It’s Only The End of The World starring Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel. It’s based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play about a writer who tells his family he’s dying.

But anticipation is especially high for Dolan’s English-language debut The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, which is set to begin shooting in the spring.

The film stars Jessica Chastain and Harington and centres on a young actor who recalls the correspondence he shared as a teenager with a U.S. TV star. The star-studded cast also includes Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates and Canadian actors Taylor Kitsch and Emily Hampshire, who teased earlier this year that “the movie is just epic.”

“He’s a genius, he really is the real deal,” Hampshire gushed of Dolan, a longtime friend. “But I think what really speaks to who he is as a person is he wrote this part for me four years ago. Tons of huge-name actresses have wanted this part and he has said, ‘No.’ (There was) not even a thought that he would get someone else.”

The film explores the hardships of fame through the lives of both actors while delving into the issues of identity and diversity in Hollywood.

“It is a movie about a man trying to make it, trying to live his dream and his life all at once, and being told that he basically can’t,” Dolan said earlier this year in a statement.

“It also is about a kid dreaming of having this man’s life for all the wrong reasons, not realizing how painful it actually is. I was that kid, writing love letters to actors — as a matter of fact it seems like I still am. And that story is a tribute to both the kid I was and the idols of my childhood — some died, some just disappeared without a trace, because they didn’t fit.”

PATRICK HUARD

During a round of interviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Quebec actor, writer and director said Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 would finally be ready to shoot in May 2016, roughly 10 years after the first bilingual comedy hit theatres.

“I’m still working on the script, we’re going to rewrite it basically until Day 1, in comedy that’s how it works,” Huard said back in September.

“The only thing I can tell you is this time instead of being Quebec versus Ontario, it’s going to be Canada versus the United States.”

As in the successful 2006 original, the followup will be bilingual and follow two very different police officers — Huard’s Quebec detective David Bouchard, and Colm Feore’s Ontario investigator Martin Ward.

“This time around I can promise you one thing —Colm is going to be the star. I wrote him a great part, he’s going to have a blast,” said Huard, who also helped write the original.

On top of that, Huard said he’s busy working on a francophone TV series for Quebec audiences. It’ll be a dark comedy he describes as Jerry McGuire meets Entourage.

“It’s about hockey — and there’s no hockey in it. It’s the business side, it’s an agency and agents, so it’s all the (politics) and business and money.”

Huard will star as “one of the worst agents possible.”

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The acclaimed auteurs each have varied film and TV ventures involving big-name stars, ranging from Ryan Gosling to Nicole Kidman to Kit Harington.

Here’s a look at the year ahead for five of Canada’s biggest players:

The Bleeder also stars Schreiber’s real-life partner Naomi Watts and Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss. It’s expected to hit theatres in the fall.

Falardeau’s last Hollywood foray was The Good Lie, starring Reese Witherspoon. That centred on a group of Sudanese refugees given the chance to resettle in the United States.

His francophone classroom tale Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign language category.

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LOVEN Einar Edward Einar Edward Loven passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at the age of 89 years.

Left to cherish his memory are his two daughters: Nadine (David) Brandon and Beverly Loven (friend Gary); six grandchildren - Candice (Jim), Rob (Sarah), Dan (Julie), Nicole (Tyler), Barbie (Luke), Heather (Jarrod); five great-grandchildren - Beck, Mallie, Layla, Wyatt, Marra; sister Lorna Forst; sisters-inlaw Karen (Andy) Plummer, Laura Hauger; and brotherin-law Bill (Josie) Dahl. He will also be missed by his caregivers Novelie, Bev M. and Linda as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.

He was predeceased by the love of his life, Joan in 2012; his parents Ed and Polly; siblings Eleanor (Bob) Martin, Sylvia (Jim) Arneson, Warner (Joy) Loven, Galen Loven, and brothers-in-law Allan Hauger and Glen Allen. A Celebration of Einar’s life will be held at the Alliance Community Church, Sylvan Lake, AB on Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made in Einar’s name to the Red Deer Hospice Society. Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, AB. Condolences can be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

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ZEREBESKI Murray Dec. 16, 1947 - Dec. 26, 2015 Murray Zerebeski, of Eckville, AB, passed away on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at home surrounded by his family.

Murray was born in Saskatoon, SK to Anne and Roman Zerebeski on December of 1947. Murray is survived by his wife Jan; sister Virginia; daughters Corrilyn (Dusan) and Lana (Stephen); sons Nicholas and Matthew; and grandchildren Maya, Nathanial and Kacie. Murray was predeceased by his sister Terri. Family and friends were most important to him.

His life was made brighter by his children and grandchildren and he was their role model and biggest supporter. Murray spent most of his years in automotive sales, and was well known in the industry.

His family and friends will cherish his memory, sense of humor, his warm smile and loving heart. A Celebration of Murray’s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 212, Sylvan Lake, AB on Sunday, January 3, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

All are welcome. Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, AB. Condolences can be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com.

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WOOD George Carmond 1929 - 2015 George Carmond Wood passed peacefully on Thursday, December 24, 2015 in Red Deer, AB at the age of 86 years. George was born in Edmonton, AB on March 7, 1929 to Carmond and Dorothy Wood, the 4th of 5 children.

He attended North Edmonton and Eastwood High School before joining CP Rail at the age of 16, where he was employed for 39 years. He married Barbara May Drabble in 1953 and they had two children, Carmond Ronald (1955) and Tammy Ivy (1957) while living in Edmonton, before the family moved to Red Deer. George had a great love of the outdoors. He was an avid hunter, trapper and fisherman. He was known as ‘Uncle George’ around Pine Lake, where he introduced many children to fishing.

Everyone was always welcome to the Woods’ fish fries, especially if they brought some fresh perch with them! George enjoyed being a snowbird in Scottsdale, Arizona during his retirement, where he took up the craft of making rock clocks. He later expanded into making fire pokers, and sold his enduring crafts at various flea markets around Alberta.

George was predeceased by his spouses Barbara (nee Drabble) and Evelyn Freed, as well as his parents and siblings; Vernon, Doris, Marye and Joyce. He is survived by his son; Carmond Wood (Gail), daughter Tammy Wood Little (Jim), five grandchildren; Farrah, Stacey (Adrian), Sara (Sebrina), Mandy (Justin) and Trevor (Mellisa) and his great grandchildren; Caprica and Juliet. The family wishes to thank Aspen Ridge and the Red Deer Hospital for the care given to George during his time with them. A Celebration of George’s Life will be held at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzeheimer Society Alberta and Northwest Territoriesat www.alzheimer.ca.

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

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BOS Henry R. Henry R. Bos of Red Deer, AB passed away December 27, 2015 at the age of 82 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his guardian and friend, Robin Martens (Grant Ellertson) of Red Deer, AB; sons, Doug Bos (Debbie) of Innisfail, AB, Elbert Bos of Red Deer, AB and Vincent Bos of Grande Prairie, AB; daughters, Ivy McDonald of Red Deer, AB and Cindy Feeg of Didsbury, AB; 8 grandchildren; 5 great grandchildren; brothers, John Bos of Cusp, BC and David Bos; sister, Joyce Reynolds of Sylvan Lake, AB. Henry was predeceased by his parents, John and Bessie Bos; brother, George and by sisters, Pat and Anne. A memorial gathering will be held at the Davenport Church of Christ, 68 Donlevy, Avenue, Red Deer, AB on Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

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WARREN Roy Arne It is with sadness Roy’s family announces his passing at Red Deer Regional Hospital on December 22, 2015 at the age of 89 years.

Roy was born on September 22, 1926 on the family farm southeast of Delburne, and received his education in Delburne. He attended Vancouver Technical School where he learned to weld and then spent a year at the University of British Columbia in the engineering faculty. Returning to Delburne in April, 1947, his business life started with the founding of Delburne Machine Shop, where he repaired farm equipment.

1947 was a momentous year for Roy as he married June Beatrice Randall, his partner in love and business. In 1950 Roy and June became a Cockshutt farm equipment dealer. Roy was nominated to the Delburne Village Council and was instrumental in bringing natural gas, water and sewer to the Village. He served on Council until buying a farm and moving from the Village. In January, 1961, Roy was signed as a United Farmers of Alberta (“UFA”) fuel agent and opened the facility in April of that year. In 1965, Roy and June closed the machine shop and the Cockshutt farm equipment dealership to devote their full time to their UFA dealership and farm. In the late 1960’s, a life-long friend, Angus MacArthur, talked Roy and June into opening a Co-Operators Insurance business in Delburne. Roy and June’s devotion to their business and serving their customers earned them several awards.

Roy and June sold their UFA dealership in 1982 to embark on what they considered to be retirement as farmers, where they raised cattle and grain. The family will miss this quiet, kind and unassuming man. Roy is survived by his children: Judy (Larry Watson) and their children Erin (Sheldon Portsmouth) and Chelsey (Zac Harink) and their children (Justice and Kane Portsmouth & Zoe, Hailee and Everly Harink); Chris (Sandra) and their children Mitchell and Natalie; and Kerry (Sheryl) and their children (Avery, Amy, Brett, Sheridan); his brother George and his sister-in-law, Grace Bolander. Roy is also survived by his large extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews.

Roy was predeceased by his wife, June in 2007, his parents, Art and Annie, his brother Don, his sister Dorothy and her husband Dave Guynup, his sister-in-law Irma Warren and his brotherin-law Richard Randall. The funeral will be held January 2, 2016 at 2 pm at the Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, 4304-49 Avenue, Innisfail, Alberta. Roy received compassionate care from Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the family wishes to note the care from Jim on that unit that exemplifies the best in hospital care. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Red Deer Regional Hospital to benefit Unit 31 or the Pediatric Unit.

JAFFRAY Lyle John Dec. 24, 2015 - Calgary, AB. Lyle Jaffray, beloved husband of Sherry of Calgary, passed away suddenly on December 24, 2015 at the age of 59 years. Besides his loving wife Sherry, Lyle is survived by his daughter Kristina, son James, and extended family.

A Celebration of Lyle’s life will be held in the spring 2016.

Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the South Health Campus at 4448 Front Street S.E. Calgary, Alberta T3M 1M4. Telephone 403-956-1111. In living memory of Lyle Jaffray, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Fish Creek, 14441 Bannister Road SE. Telephone: 403-256-9575

McGRATH Mr. Robert (Bob) Ernest McGrath of Red Deer, (formerly of Rocky Mountain House), passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice, on December 25th, 2015, surrounded by family and friends at the age of sixty three years. Bob will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by, his son Clayton Stasiuk (Susie and her daughters Carissa and Chello), grandson Cassius Stasiuk, and special friend Amanda Yuen and her daughter Bailey. He is also survived by his sister Darlene (Ken) Boylan, brothers Garry (Diana) McGrath, Randy (Shelly) McGrath, Russell (Cindy) McGrath, Todd (Therese) Maupin, Robert (Lynn) Maupin, Kelly (Liz) Maupin as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Bob was predeceased by his father, Clayton McGrath, his step father W.R. Maupin and mother Sally Maupin, his sisters Brenda and Mavis McGrath, brother Ron McGrath, and step brother Mike Maupin. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, December 31st at 1:00 pm at the Rocky Funeral Home. As an expression of sympathy friends may donate to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6

KARASHOWSKY Eugene 1928-2015 It is with great sadness that Eugene’s family announces his passing on December 26, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Eugene passed at the age of 87, after a brief yet courageous battle with cancer. Eugene is survived by his four children (Debbie, Cindy, Tom, Larry), his grandchildren (Deseree, Amanda, April, Brandon, and Rossy), as well as his great grandchildren (Meadow, Cooper, Talon, Dove, and Braxdyn).

Eugene will be fondly remembered for his amazing sense of humor and bright, contagious smile. The laughs and smiles we shared will be cherished until we meet again. “In the Breeze”. A memorial service for Eugene will be held on Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 1pm at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers donations may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, 200, 325 Manning Road NE, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 2P5.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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HOLT CARL EDWIN Mar.15, 1934 - Dec. 26, 2015 It is with great sadness that the family of Carl Holt announces his peaceful passing on December 26, 2015 at the age of 81 years.

Carl will be lovingly remembered by his wife Doris of 54 years; his son Stephen (Dyane); his daughter Lori (Bill) and five grandchildren. Carl is also survived by his nephew Clarence (Lorraine) and their family, sister in law Leona (Glen) - all who loved him dearly.Carl was predeceased by his parents Mabel and Edwin. Carl was born in Innisfail, Alberta and later pursued his love of the land farming in the Kneehill Valley District for 61 years after completing Agriculture Sciences at the Olds College in 1953.

Thank you to the medical team, Dr Konynenbelt, Dr Thaine and Dr Metcalf at Red Deer Regional Hospital -Unit 32 for the loving care they provided to Carl and wonderful support for Doris.

A Funeral Service will be held at the Innisfail United Church, Innisfail, Alberta on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Memorial tributes may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements. Phone: 403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

WALLACE (nee Kopec) Edna Virginia Edna passed away in Red Deer on December 16, 2015 as a result of a stroke she sustained on December 10, 2015. She was predeceased by her husband Ken in January 1998, her parents as well as her sister Wanda, brother Stan and infant brother Ed. She was Mom to Blair Wallace of Innisfail, Gary Wallace (Colleen) of Red Deer, and Karen Wallace-Fraser (Brent) of Calgary.

She was the beloved Nana to Calon Rogan, Brandon Rogan and Aidan Fraser. She is also survived by her dear sister and best friend whom she’d call every night, Kae McLellan of New Westminster, B.C. and her brother Leo Kopec (Rose) of Weyburn, SK., many nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. She was a dear friend to her Golden Girls for which they claim they know way to much about each other. Mom had the kindest neighbors past and present of her residential close where she lived independently until her passing in part to their generosity and helpful hand.

She will be missed by her bingo friends (her job as she jokingly referred to bingo) and her collection of “adopted” daughters. Mom loved sports especially golf, both playing and watching.

Born in Weyburn, SK., this Saskie gal enjoyed “watching” Roughrider football games on the phone with her sister, Kae. In her last days she received passionate care from the staff on Unit 33 and Unit 22 and we the family extend our deepest thanks to them. The family will hold a Celebration of Life at a later date to be announced. If friends so desire, Memorial Tributes may be directed to The Alberta Heart and Stroke Foundation or a charity of your choice.

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WALLS Shirley 1938 - 2015 Mrs. Shirley Joan Walls of Red Deer passed away, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, December 27, 2015 at the age of 77 years. Shirley was born on September 28, 1938 at Granby, Quebec to Hugh and Violet Collins. After numerous stops across the country due to her father’s work with the Military, they finally ended up in Edmonton when he retired. Shirley met the love of her life, Donald Walls, and they were married for over fifty-eight years before her passing. She will be sadly missed by her loving husband, Don; her children, Neil (Kim) Walls, Cheryl Walls all of Red Deer, Scott (Patricia) Walls of Lethbridge, Alberta; her dear seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren which brought her such joy.

Shirley will also be lovingly remembered by her sister, Kathryn Cameron of Stellarton, Nova Scotia as well as her many friends.

She was predeceased by her mother, Violet Collins in 1982, and her father, Hugh Collins in 2002.

A Celebration of Shirley’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Shirley’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.ca.

This is truly a very special place and no words could describe the support that Shirley and her family received in her days spent there. Thank you to all the staff and Dr. Hulyk; you are truly very special people and won’t be forgotten. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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CAVE Lester The family of Lester Cave regrets to announce his passing peacefully at home on Friday, December 25, 2015 at the age of 75 years.

Lester is lovingly remembered by his wife, Donna Cave; brother, Art Cave; and sister, Merrilyn Cummerford; sons, Terry and Darren Cave; daughters, Sharellen Hutlet, Sherry Shribar, Corinne Dent and Wendi Tran; and numerous grandchildren. A Celebration of Lester’s Life will be held at the Red Deer Senior Citizen’s Downtown House, 5414 - 43 Street, Red Deer, AB on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Lester’s memory to the Red Deer Senior Citizen’s Downtown House, 5414 - 43 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1C9. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH OF ALBERTA JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF RED DEER NOTICE TO: ROSS JOLICOER Take notice that Linda Znak has filed a Statement of Claim, Court File Number: 1510-00080 in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial District of Red Deer, claiming General and Special Damages in an amount to be determined, plus interest and costs. The grounds alleged are stated in the Statement of Claim, a copy of which will be mailed to you upon request directed to the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Court House, 4909 - 48 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3T5. Your whereabouts being unknown, the Court has ordered substitutional service upon you by this advertisement.

Should you wish to oppose the Claim, or seek other relief, you must promptly take steps in accordance with the Notice to you endorsed on the Statement of Claim, or instruct your lawyer to do so. If within 30 days after this publication, you fail to file and serve upon the Solicitors for the Plaintiff a Statement of Defence or Demand of notice to the Statement of Claim and Notice to Defendant herein, the Plaintiff may proceed according to the practice of the Court to note you in default, and you will not thereafter be entitled to notice of any further proceedings and the relief sought by the Plaintiff may be given in your absence.

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They said he had used the name Silent Bomber to ask Twitter followers to help him choose a target.

He was also convicted of possessing an article to be used for terrorist purposes.

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Guinea declared free of Ebola, major step toward end of spread of disease

Two arrested, suspected of planning holiday attacks in Belgium BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities announced Tuesday they have arrested two men and seized military-type uniforms and Islamic State group propaganda in connection with a suspected plot to unleash holiday season attacks against police, soldiers and celebrated locations in Brussels.

The attacks under preparation “were the same style as those perpetrated in Paris Nov. 13,” in which 130 people were killed and hundreds injured by suicide bombers and gunmen equipped with Kalashnikov-style assault rifles, according to an internal document from Belgian state security services cited

by RTBF French-language television. Those lethal actions were claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.

The two suspects were arrested following searches Sunday and Monday in the Brussels area, the eastern Liege region and Flemish Brabant, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. It did not disclose their names or further information about them.

During the searches, no weapons or explosives were found, but military-type training uniforms, IS propaganda material and computer equipment were impounded and are being examined, the prosecutor’s office said.

It said the case was unrelated to the brazen and bloody extremist actions in Paris a month and a half ago but that the investigation, which is still ongoing, has revealed a “threat of serious attacks that would target several emblematic places in Brussels and be committed during the end-of-year holidays.”

Husband, wife convicted of planning bomb attack in London LONDON — A husband and wife have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005 attacks on the city’s transit system.

Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty Tuesday at the Old Bailey court.

Prosecutors said Rehman was only a few days away from finishing work on a bomb capable of causing mass casualties. Authorities found a video of him detonating a smaller device in his backyard.

CONAKRY, Guinea — The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak over in Guinea Tuesday, a huge step in the fight against the world’s largest epidemic and the first time there are no known cases anywhere since the virus emerged in Guinea two years ago.

The West Africa-concentrated outbreak last year spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia is on a countdown to become Ebola-free on Jan. 14, which could mark a final end to the epidemic. Sierra Leone, the third West African country to be hammered by the epidemic, was declared free from transmissions on Nov. 7. No new cases have been reported anywhere in the world in at least 21 days, according to WHO. “This is the first time that all three countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — have stopped the original chains of transmission that were responsible for starting this devastating outbreak two years ago,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

But experts warn that cases may still emerge.

So far, the virus has killed more than 11,300 people worldwide.

“We definitely cannot let our guard down,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s certainly possible we will have more cases and more clusters in the coming months.”

Two Cleveland police officers and City Hall still face fallout from Rice case CLEVELAND — Despite the grand jury decision not to charge a white patrolman in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the case is far from over for the city of Cleveland, the officers involved in the shooting, or the black boy’s grief-stricken family.

The family is suing the city, federal prosecutors are looking into possible civil rights charges against Timothy Loehmann and his partner, and the two officers face a departmental investigation that could result in disciplinary action, including firing.

Tamir was carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun when Loehmann shot and killed the boy within two seconds of emerging from his police cruiser in November 2014. On Monday, prosecutors said a grand jury concluded that Loehmann reasonably believed that it was a real gun and that his life was

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The case has stirred racial tensions and added Cleveland to the list of U.S. cities — Ferguson, Missouri Baltimore North Charleston, South Carolina and New York City, among them — where blacks have died in the past two years at the hands of police.

On Tuesday, about 50 people marched peacefully in front of the county courthouse in downtown Cleveland to protest the grand jury decision. Demonstrators chanted, “Justice for Tamir!”

In addition to the potential legal and financial consequences is the human cost. Tamir’s mother, Samaria, must live without her baby boy, a happy-golucky kid in a man-sized body. Loehmann, Garmback and other officers were surprised to learn after the shooting that Tamir was just 12.

Family attorney Subodh Chandra said Samaria Rice wept for much of the day after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty’s announcement that Loehmann and Garmback wouldn’t be charged.

“She doesn’t know what she can do,” Chandra said. “And there are no answers because the prosecutors have foreclosed the possibility of criminal accountability.”

Loehmann’s attorney said the officer bears a heavy burden, too.

‘Affluenza’ teen, mom held in Mexico had planned disappearance FORT WORTH, Texas — A teen fugitive who’s known for using an “affluenza” defence and his mother attempted to disguise themselves and disappear among the American tourists thronging a Mexican resort city for the holidays, but are now in custody and will be returned to the U.S. after a cellphone used to order pizza gave away their location, authorities said Tuesday.

Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said 18-year-old Ethan Couch — who was on juvenile probation after killing four people in a drunken driving wreck — and his mother had prepared to be gone a while, even dyeing Couch’s blond hair black, before being detained Monday in the Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta.

“They had planned to disappear. They even had something that was almost akin to a going-away party before leaving town,” Anderson said. He would not give details about the event, including how many people attended.

During the sentencing phase of Couch’s trial, a defence expert argued that his wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility — a condition the expert termed “affluenza.” The condition is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, and its invocation drew ridicule.

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Dec. 30 2004 — Agriculture Canada announces finding a second case of mad cow disease; a day after the U.S. said it planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef.

1988 — Senate of Canada passes the bill approving the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.

1981 — Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, including his 50th of the season into an empty

net, leading the Edmonton Oilers to a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Scoring in only his 39th game of the season, Gretzky becomes the First player to reach the mark in fewer than 50 games.

1923 — Canadian National Railways sets up the First radio network in Canada by hooking up Montréal station CHYC with CNRO Ottawa over telephone lines to broadcast the CNR anniversary program 1870 — Manitoba holds its First provincial election

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Mother of ‘Helicopter Momzilla’ needs to let her be a mother ing terms. Will she ever change? — Momzilla’s Mother Dear Mother: Probably not until her daughter is older and rejects Mom’s overprotectiveness.

Until then, however, please stop creating a tug-of-war over who is the more sensible parent. She is the child’s mother and has her best interests at heart, even though she is overbearing. When she says to respect her, she means that you don’t get to undermine her decisions unless you feel they are a danger to the child, which they are not. Yes, the baby shampoo was fine, but Mom specifically asked you to use something else and you should have done so.

You owe her an apology. Really.

Her nitpicking attitude is exhausting, we know, and it isn’t particularly helpful to her daughter, either. But you absolutely must bite your tongue and allow her to make these decisions.

You raised your kid, Mom. Now it’s her turn. Let her be.

Dear Annie: This is for “Suffocating in Saskatchewan,” whose co-worker has a terrible body odor. My son used to have body odor, but I noticed it only after he showered. It turned out to be his aftershave.

When I got up the courage to speak to him about it, the problem was solved and he thanked me for letting him know.

It could be that the co-worker’s soap, aftershave, cologne or other product doesn’t mix well with his body chemistry. That might be an approach to use when speaking to him about it.

— Been There Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com.

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The last time she stayed overnight with me, her mother sent bath products that got in her eyes and burned.

So this time, I used my own baby shampoo and some moisturizing body wash.

Everything went well, but when my daughter saw that I had used those products, she went ballistic.

Later that evening, she sent me a text message saying I had disrespected her authority as a parent. Annie, the baby shampoo didn’t hurt my granddaughter one iota and neither did the body wash. From my daughter’s reaction, you would have thought I threw acid on the child. We had a huge disagreement via text, and my blood pressure spiked so high I thought I was having a stroke. We haven’t corresponded since.

My daughter is 45 and one of those Helicopter Momzillas. She watches her daughter like a hawk, never missing a chance to correct someone who says anything objectionable to her daughter or when another child doesn’t play with her the way she thinks is right.

She believes she is the only one who knows how to raise a child. I guess my 50 years of child rearing experience mean nothing. She acts this way even toward her husband, as if he is a total idiot, and he won’t stand up for himself.

When I have my granddaughter at my house, I don’t want my daughter around because she can be so unpleasant, snapping and biting at the least little thing.

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THOUGHT OF THE LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): DAY: Avoid making importThere could be a fraction too much ant decisions today, as confriction at chez Libra, as the planets fusion is likely. stir up problems in your domestic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: In zone. A double dose of diplomacy 2016, try to get the balance will get you through the day — and right between being organight — OK! nized and spontaneous.

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