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for success CROSS-COUNTRY SKI CLUBS AND RED DEER’S TRAIL SYSTEM ARE PREPARING TO HOST THE 2019 CANADA WINTER GAMES SEE STORY ON PAGE A2

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Chloe Yeo, 5, may be too young to participate in the Canada Winter Games when they come to Red Deer in 2019, but the Red Deer Nordic Ski Club is targeting younger skiers all the time as they continue to try and develop the sport at the Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area.

INSET TOP: A trail groomer works to prepare the trails at Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area for skiers on Friday.

INSET BOTTOM: Gord Klootwyk goes for an afternoon ski at the Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area on Friday.

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Kathy Burly enjoys an afternoon of cross country skiing at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area earlier this winter. While the trails currently work great for the recreational skier, they need a lot of work in order to get to competition level for the Canada Winter Games in 2019.

Cross-country skiing gains ground

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Hilly, twisty, windy and narrow.

Red Deer’s cross-country ski trails may not have been updated in at least 20 years, but the sport continues to gain ground in the city.

Brian Johnson, a long-time member and former coach, said Canada’s success in cross-country skiing on the international level may be one of the driving forces behind the surge in popularity.

“Kids actually have somebody to look up to competitively on the world scene,” he said. “There are a few clubs in Alberta that are flourishing.”

Johnson said in Red Deer there have been a few key families that have supported and nourished the sport bringing the young athletes into the club.

The Red Deer Nordic Ski Club, an offshoot of the Parkland Cross-Country Ski Club, will mark its 10th anniversary during the 2016 season.

Johnson said more young athletes are flocking to the winter sport.

And even more interest is expected to be piqued with the Canada Winter Games on the docket in 2019. It will be the largest Nordic event ever hosted in

Red Deer.

But there is a lot of work that needs to be done in order for the trails to meet the technical standards for the national games.

“We could not hold a competition on our current trails for that level,” said Johnson. “They need to be modernized.”

And the work needs to be done sooner or later in order for the skiers

… What were small trees 20 years ago are now pretty large trees. With skate skiing you take big wide strides and you really couldn’t pass an athlete on our hilly trails. They need to be doubled in width.”

Competitors from other places have said racing on the trails was like “going back to the 1970s-style racing” with its older design.

Modern is wider, bigger, longer

athletes that are eligible for the Canada Winter Games in 2019. He said they are recruiting athletes that come from a competitive sport background. The racing club is for youth between the ages of 12 and 17.

Several skiers have gone on to compete well on the provincial and national front.

“If there is anyone out there who is an athlete and wants to give the sport of cross-country skiing a try, they can give us a call,” said Parsons, who has coached at the last five Olympics. “We are building our racing team of the future.”

Parsons said there is a great trail system at River Bend that just needs a little fine tuning to make it race ready.

He expects the trails to become a mecca for for Nordic skiing in Central Alberta.

“We are building the trails not just to benefit the racers but also recreational skiers,” said Parsons, who coached Beckie Scott, the most-decorated Canadian cross-country skier.

“We are trying to build trails that can serve both functions.”

Visit www.reddeernordic.ca or email lesparsonsgreen@yahoo.ca for more information on the club. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

‘OUR TRAILS ARE LIKE A ROLLER COASTER. THEY ARE TOO NARROW. THEIR ORIGINAL INTENT WAS CLASSIC SKIING, WHICH IS A NARROW, SINGLE TRACK . . . . WE COULD NOT HOLD A COMPETITION ON OUR CURRENT TRAILS FOR THAT LEVEL. THEY NEED TO BE MODERNIZED.’ — BRIAN JOHNSON to race on and get used to the trails, says Johnson.

As with most sports in the Games, the competition venue must be up to standards at least a year before the competition.

“Our trails are like a roller coaster,” said Johnson. “They are too narrow. Their original intent was classic skiing, which is a narrow, single track

climbs, said Johnson.

The city is managing the project to modernize the trails.

The preliminary designs have to be approved by the Canada Games Host Society and the national sport organization to meet the technical specifications required for the Games.

Coach Les Parsons said the club’s short-term goal is to find those young

Accused in sexual assault trial ‘frightening’

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Two more teenage girls testified as victims during a sexual assault trial that continued Friday in Red Deer provincial court.

The trial began Wednesday with testimony from three youth who were members of Scouts and Cadet groups in Red Deer when they were allegedly assaulted by another member of the youth groups, between 2011 to 2015.

The accused, who is now 18, is charged with five counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault with a weapon and one count each of sexual interference and an indecent act.

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The male accused cannot be identified because he was a youth at the time of the offences.

A court ordered publication ban protects the identity of the victims as well.

On Friday, a 16-year-old girl told the court that the accused fondled and kissed her on four separate occasions between 2013 and 2015.

Both of them were cadets, but the incidents happened outside the program.

She said they dated for one day when the first assault happened.

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A 17-year-old girl also testified she started out as more than friends with the accused through texting conversations, but they actually never dated.

She said between 2014 and 2015, the accused fondled and kissed her during three separate incidents, including once when he put his hand down the front of her dress.

She said she was ashamed of herself for being too trusting.

“He had a way of making you trust him and acting different when no one else was around,” she said.

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while at cadets and that she made advances towards his client at a cadet camp in 2015.

Schollie also suggested the 16-yearold witness was out to cause problems for his client because of her friendship with the 17-year-old witness, and there were instances when his client rejected the 16-year-old when she wanted a relationship.

A voir dire, or a trial within the trial, began Friday looking at whether RCMP followed proper procedure and the admissibility of the accused’s statement to police.

RCMP officers were called as witnesses and the voir dire continues before Judge Darrel Riemer on Monday.

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Proposed tax hike trimmed

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

OPERATING BUDGET

Red Deer homeowners may see one of the smallest property tax increases in recent years.

After three days of debate, the proposed property rate hike is now sitting at 3.08 per cent, down .07 per cent from the previous day.

Mayor Tara Veer said this is the most rigorous that council has ever debated the operating budget.

“This is the most movement we have ever see in the operating budget in the past decade of city history,” she said.

“It is in recognition that we want to deliver quality effective services to our citizens. We are in a deep recession and we need to respond to the new economic normal that we are now navigating through.”

If there are no more changes to the 2016 operating budget, the owner of a home assessed at $325,000 would pay $4.95 per month more on their property tax bill or $59.40 more annually on the municipal portion. The 2016 bill would be $1,989 compared to $1,929.60 in 2015.

Three moves on Friday helped trim about $90,000 from the spending which included shifting two items to onetime funding and reducing the revenue from transit.

One-time funding does not impact the tax rate and is often brought up for debate in the next budget cycle.

The administration-recommended $309,114 in ongoing funding for preventative road maintenance to be shift-

ed to $231,835 (75 per cent) in ongoing funding while the remaining 25 per cent shifted to one-time funding.

Coun. Lawrence Lee who moved the change said it was a win-win and allows the city to evaluate the situation effectively.

In previous years council had allocated one-time funding to deal with a backlog of potholes.

A total of 14,621 potholes were repaired in 2014.

But Veer said the city recognizes it must build ongoing funding for preventative maintenance into the budget to deal with the potholes right away so it does not become a problem in the future.

The one-time funds will continue to deal with the backlog.

The IPSOS Reid survey identified transportation and road maintenance as the highest priority the city should address.

The downtown safety initiatives were shifted to one-time funding of $25,000. Council reasoned it did not have enough information on the group that organizes projects such as Art Alley.

Last year homeowners experienced a 3.75 per cent increase while in 2014 it was 3.83 per cent and it was 4.28 per cent in 2013.

Day 4 of the proposed $342-million operating budget will begin at 1 p.m. in council chambers. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Go Pass price rising

Environment Department remains under shredding ban EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says a ban on document shredding will continue in the Environment Department.

Notley said Friday her government wants to make sure problems cited in a report this week are resolved and that new rules and procedures already implemented are effective.

“Once those (new procedures) are clearly in place and we’re confident that they’re being acted on, then the moratorium will be lifted,” Notley said.

Her comments come a day after Alberta’s Privacy and Public Interest commissioners delivered their report into reports of improper document shredding at the department last May, during the power transfer between the Progressive Conservatives and Notley’s NDP. Notley imposed a ban on all government shredding at that time, but lifted it two months later, on July 13th, 2014, for all departments except Environment.

The report found that 344 boxes of high-level and ministerial-level documents and briefing notes were improperly disposed of.

Investigators said widespread confusion over the rules, coupled with a lack of proper documentation, meant they could not determine whether there was intent to illegally shred documents.

The investigators said the confusion and contradictions over what documents to retain and what to shred are occurring across government.

They also found that Service Alberta, the department responsible for the document retention rules, is not monitoring the system and there are no penalties for anyone caught improperly shredding documents.

The report makes 16 recommendations to improve performance and accountability in the system, and the government is now acting to implement all of them.

“We have a unit which essentially ensures compliance. We have better (staff) training programs in place and we have better record keeping,” said Notley. “(But) there are certainly worthwhile recommendations that also come from the report that was released yesterday, and we will be working very closely with our officials to ensure that all of those recommendations are incorporated into the improved records management practices.”

months earlier against the Progressive Conservatives, began appearing online.

One Facebook photo showed Drever at age 19 in dark glasses and hamming it up beside a marijuana T-shirt. Another showed a disembodied hand giving the middle finger to the Canadian flag.

An album cover photo for a garage band depicted her, at age 23, on her back, legs apart on the concrete against a chain-link fence, and restrained by one of four men while another stands over her with a bottle.

She has since worked to redeem herself and successfully shepherded through a private member’s bill in December to help spouses break rental leases if they need to flee domestic violence.

“If there’s any lesson to be learned it’s that … when you are getting attacked over and over again, to just stay strong and to remember why I ran to begin with … to fight for gender equality and fighting for social justice,” Drever said.

Stolen licence plates in Calgary up by 80 per cent

One man arrested, another man sought, in homicide HIGH PRAIRIE — One of two suspects in the death of a man in northern Alberta last summer has been charged with second-degree murder.

Dakota Anderson, who is 20, is accused of killing Ryan Joseph Ellefson in High Prairie late last July.

RCMP say the 20-year-old alleged victim, who lived in the community, was found unconscious outside a convenience store and died later in hos-

Calgary police say the number of stolen licence plates in the city has skyrocketed by 80 per cent.

Police say people steal licence plates for a number of reasons but often it is to hide traffic offences or to make sure their registration is covered off.

Staff-Sgt. Kristie Verheul says the trend could also be related to an increase in stolen vehicles in the city.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT APPROVAL FOR THE ALBERTA CHILD WELFARE CLASS ACTION PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS ATTENTION CLASS MEMBERS: All persons who suffered injuries before or during a time when they were subject to a permanent wardship order or permanent guardianship order by Alberta Child Welfare between July 1, 1966 and February 19, 2008, or a temporary guardianship order by Alberta Child Welfare between July 1, 1985 and February 19, 2008.

PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE This Notice advises Class Members that a Settlement Agreement has been approved by the Court. The Settlement Agreement resolves a class action lawsuit regarding the alleged breach of duty by the Director of Child Welfare and others to make claims under crimes compensation legislation or file lawsuits on behalf of Class Members who suffered injuries while they were in the care of Alberta Child Welfare.

The class action is known as T.L., R.M., and J.S. v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta as Represented by the Director of Child Welfare and the Public Trustee, Action No.: 0403-12989 in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta.

This lawsuit was certified as a class action on February 19, 2008. The time to opt-out of the action has passed.

All those meeting the criteria of class membership are bound by this settlement.

SUMMARY OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT • Class Members will be entitled to make an application to the Victims of Crime Financial Benefits Program (VOC), regardless of how much time has passed since the right to make an application for compensation arose.

• In the event that any Class Members’ claims are rejected under the VOC for being too late (i.e. outside the time period permitted under the VOC Act), the claim can be submitted to an independent adjudicator for evaluation in an Alternative Claims Process.

• Claims adjudicated under the Alternative Claims Process will be determined on the same criteria for eligibility and compensation as under the VOC (not including limitations considerations).

• The Defendants will create a fund of up to $6,500,00.00 out of which eligible claims in the Alternative Claims Process concerning Class Members who were subject to Permanent Wardship/Guardianship Orders/Agreements may be paid, and a fund of up to $1,000,000.00 out of which eligible claims in the Alternative Claims Process concerning Class Members who were subject to Temporary Guardianship Orders may be paid.

• All eligible VOC claims will be paid by the VOC Fund, (over and above the monies provided by the Defendants to pay for eligible claims in the Alternative Claims Process).

Further details regarding the Settlement Agreement may be viewed at: www.mckenzielake.com or by contacting Class Counsel as listed below.

MAKING A CLAIM All Class Member claims under the Settlement Agreement must start with the making of an application to the VOC, prior to January 15, 2017.

For application forms and information on making a claim to the VOC, call: (780) 427-7217 or toll free at: 310-0000; or email financialbenefits@gov.ab.ca; or visit www.victims.alberta.ca If your application is rejected by the VOC because is it too late (beyond the limitation period), you may advise the Adjudicator that you wish your application to be considered under the Alternative Claims Process. If your application is rejected by VOC, you will be told how to apply to the Adjudicator.

If you elect instead to have your rejected VOC claim proceed through the appeal process under the VOC, you will forfeit your opportunity to participate in the Alternative Claims Process. The Alternative Claims Process is final, there are no appeals from determinations by the Adjudicator.

If you require assistance or want further information regarding the process for making claims, you can contact Class Counsel (contact details below).

LEGAL FEES As part of the Settlement Agreement, the Defendants have agreed to pay $750,000 towards Class Counsel’s reasonable lawyer fees and expenses. The remaining legal fees are payable on a contingency fee basis, being up to 10% of all VOC applications approved by VOC for Class Members and 33.33% of all applications approved by the independent adjudicator in the Alternative Claims Process. The lawyer fees and expenses have been approved by the Court.

FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Class Counsel as follows: McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP 140 Fullarton Street, Suite 1800 London, Ontario N6A 5P2 1-800-261-4844 albertachildwelfare@mckenzielake.com

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CALGARY — A first-time member of the Alberta legislature who was suspended from the government’s caucus over embarrassing gaffes that resurfaced on social media is being allowed to return to the fold.

Deborah Drever, 27, has been sitting as an Independent since shortly after the NDP won the provincial election last May. House leader Brian Mason said Friday that Drever has done everything asked of her in the last seven-plus months.

“I am pleased to be rejoining the NDP caucus today,” Drever said at a news conference. “I’m proud to stand with my colleagues who are working together to make Alberta a better place.”

Drever was a third-year sociology student when she won a seat in Calgary Bow on May 5. Shortly after, images and quotes, including what appeared to be homophobic slurs written

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An arrest warrant on a murder charge was issued Thursday for the second suspect, Jesse Prestly Laboucan of Atikameg, Alta.

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Transit riders will soon have to dig deeper to ride the bus.

Starting in June, the Go Pass will go up by $4 bringing the monthly pass to $71 from $67.

The fare hike was debated at length on the third day of operating budget talks on Friday.

Administration had recommended an $8 increase in 2016 with a $3 increase slated in April and another $5 increase in September.

It was Coun. Dianne Wytnjes who flagged the item for council which resulted in a one-time lower hit to riders in 2016.

Wyntjes said she did not want to give transit riders two increases in one year.

Most councillors were reluctant to impose an increase at all.

“We wrestle with increases to our transit riders but at the same time the point has been made about the fairness to the taxpayers,” said Wyntjes. “We all support that service as we do in recreation subsidy.”

Mayor Tara Veer said the city needs to be fair and ensures the municipality offers an affordable transit system.

“But it has to balance that out that the fact that transit is one of the heavily subsided components of city operations to the tune of 66 per cent

subsidy by the general taxpayer,” she said.

Veer said the community has been very clear that when there are increases we need to have phased increases over time as opposed to having increases every year.

The last Go Pass increase was in September 2014. The monthly pass went up by 50 cents. Two years ago it was decided to address the monthly pass price again in 2016.

Coun. Lawrence Lee said the city has to catch up to be in the place where it should have been in the first place.

“Because you were basically subsisting at a higher rate prior to this decision,” he said. “That’s why I say I moderately support this. I don’t think we do enough to catch up to what other municipalities in equity to the tax base that is subsiding this at such a high level.”

Veer said there will be recommendations from the soon-to-be released Transit Master Plan and the full implementation of the fees and charges policy by the 2017 budgets.

She said this will balance out the interest of the taxpayers and transit users.

The money generated by the passes go back into other transit indicatives.

Monthly transit passes in Lethbridge are $77 compared to $99 in Calgary and $89 in Edmonton. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

A4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016

Military bases to house refugees

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Refugee agencies and the Red Cross are racing to line up housing for thousands of Syrians in the coming weeks as the focus of the Liberal government’s program shifts from refugees with private sponsors to those assisted by the government alone.

Three military bases in Ontario and Quebec should be ready by the end of next week to provide essential services for government-assisted refugees, said Hossam Elsharkawi, associate vice president, international operations for the Canadian Red Cross.

“We are not able at this stage to quite understand how many weeks they will stay at these centres, but at least these centres will have the capacity of three to four thousand refugees,” he said, “If we need to grow that to larger, we will.”

So far, the bases haven’t had to be used in part because privately sponsored refugees — representing about 10,000 of the 25,000 Syrians the Liberals say they will bring to Canada by the end of February — have groups arranging housing. Those refugees formed the majority of the first wave of resettlement.

But with arrivals set to spool up in the remaining seven weeks of the program, especially those of government-assisted refugees, finding enough temporary housing has become an urgent issue.

Over the course of a normal year, Canada takes in about 7,000 government-assisted refugees, sent to one of the 36 cities with agreements in place to provide support services paid for by the federal government.

In many of these cities, organizations run residences that can handle a few hundred people at most for a few weeks while they search for more permanent housing.

Government-assisted refugees often arrive in clusters, but having 15,000 of them coming in the space of three months is overwhelming.

Regina usually receives about 215 government-assisted refugees a year but is preparing to handle 348 by the end of February.

“It’s not too much more, but in the span of two months we are getting almost double what we get in a year, ”

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Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart takes a selfie Thursday morning as he gets his hair cut by Syrian immigrant Mohammed Kurdi, the uncle of Alan Kurdi who drowned and washed up on the Turkish beach. It was Kurdi’s first time cutting someone’s hair in Canada and symbolic of his new start with his family after so much turmoil. At left is Tima Kurdi. said Getachew Woldeyesus of the Regina Open Door Society. “The pressure is not the number but it is the time frame.”

Still, the extension of the original government deadline to resettle all 25,000 by the end of last year gave the group time to secure 300 apartments, thanks to the generosity of landlords and a lot of leg work.

As of Jan. 6, 6,974 Syrians had arrived in Canada. Currently, the overflow in other cities has been managed by accommodating people in hotels or motels.

Military bases are the option of last

resort, said Debbie Douglas, executive director, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.

“It’s difficult to have folks come from one camp into another military setting,” she said.

Since the start of the program, military bases were eyed for housing needs, but neither the Defence Department nor the Immigration Department would elaborate Friday on the plan to use them.

CFB Kingston and CFB Valcartier have always been at the top of the list, followed by Meaford, Petawawa, Trenton and Borden.

“Due to the many factors influencing if and when a refugee will have to go to an (interim lodging site), it is premature to speculate on the scale of possible operations,” Faith St. John, a spokesperson for the Immigration Department wrote in an e-mail.

Refugee agencies currently provide daily updates to the government on how many beds they have and some of the resettlement funding already allocated by the Liberals has gone to securing more space to avoid the use of bases.

UBC faculty sorry for response to sexual assaults

Cloud over Swift Current gone: Kennedy

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Former NHL hockey player Sheldon Kennedy says it’s like a cloud has been lifted over the Saskatchewan city where he was sexually abused by his junior hockey coach.

Kennedy was on hand Friday as officials in Swift Current launched a program for community organizations that will require not only criminal background checks for adults working with children, but training on how to prevent bullying and abuse.

Kennedy says groups such as Hockey Canada have similar training, but rules are lacking for organizations that fall under the city’s umbrella.

The former hockey player revealed 20 years ago that he was abused by Graham James, his coach with the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos.

Kennedy says there’s an energy in the city now where people realize it’s OK to talk about what happened, as

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Quebec baby out of danger after suffering severe burns when seat left on stove VICTORIAVILLE, Que. — The life of a five-month-old Quebec girl was no longer in danger Friday after she suffered severe burns while in a child seat that had been placed on a stove

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Former NHL hockey player Sheldon Kennedy, left, speaks with Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall before a screening of the documentary “Swift Current” at the Living Sky Casino in Swift Current, Saskatchewan on Friday. Kennedy says it’s like a cloud has been lifted over the Saskatchewan city where he was sexually abused by his junior hockey coach. well as a sense of peace and relief that comes with acceptance.

There was also a screening of a doc-

umentary entitled Swift Current, which looks at the repercussions of Kennedy’s abuse.

top, police said.

The infant was first sent to hospital in Victoriaville, where the incident occurred, before being transferred to a children’s facility in Montreal.

Provincial police were called about a fire in the home on Thursday night, said Sgt. Genevieve Bruneau.

“According to the first information we have, the baby was in a car seat and (it) was probably on the stove in the kitchen and the fire started there,” she said.

Bruneau said the girl’s life was no

longer in danger even though she was brought to hospital with injuries.

A neighbour, Jeannine Gendron, told reporters she brought the baby a blanket when she saw her outside with her mother.

“I took the baby and wrapped it up and I saw the baby’s face was burned,” she said.

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VANCOUVER — University of British Columbia faculty members have signed an open letter apologizing for not doing more to ensure the institution protects students from sexual assaults.

“As faculty members, we share in a responsibility to ensure that UBC fulfill its obligations to protect its community. We apologize to the people affected for not doing and not demanding better,” the letter says.

The university has come under fire after a group of students and alumni complained that it took a year and a half for school administrators to act on multiple sexual assault allegations against a PhD student.

The university has hired labour lawyer Paula Butler to review its response to the allegations and has promised to hold discussions with faculty, students and staff to develop a stand-alone sexual assault policy.

But the letter says more than a discussion is needed. The signees pledge to take an active role to have a new policy in place by the start of the next academic year in September.

Jonathan Ichikawa, an associate professor of philosophy, said about 30 or 40 faculty members met in December to discuss how to show support for affected students and pressure the university to improve its policy. One of the ideas was to craft the open letter, he said.

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FACIAL RECOGNITION

Cameras to watch for terrorists at border

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government plans to model its national security committee of parliamentarians after the one in Britain because it has successfully kept secret information under wraps over the years, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

It is very important that sensitive intelligence secrets be kept in the strictest confidence, Goodale said Friday in an interview with The Canadian Press.

He will be in the United Kingdom next week to learn more about its parliamentary intelligence and security committee, which oversees Britain’s spy agencies as well as the broader intelligence functions of the government.

Goodale said he is particularly interested to know how its members maintain the self-discipline to avoid spilling secrets.

“One obvious merit of the U.K. system is that it has not leaked.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that veteran MP David McGuinty, a lawyer and former mediator, would take a leadership role in Canada’s proposed committee, with details to emerge in coming months.

Goodale said he is working with House leader Dominic LeBlanc to introduce legislation before the Commons rises for summer to create the committee of security-cleared parliamentarians. He envisions the body keeping an eye on a range of federal agencies with intelligence powers, not just the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other key organizations.

“This will be a whole-of-government approach,” the minister said.

“Wherever those extraordinary authorities are vested, there needs to be adequate review and scrutiny to make sure they’re being effective, and also to make sure that they’re conducting themselves in a way that’s consistent with Canadian values.”

Critics have long pointed out that some federal agencies with intelligence powers, such as the Canada Border Services Agency, have no dedicated watchdog. In addition, the few watchdogs that do exist cannot easily share information to get to the bottom of a complaint or problem that involves several security services.

The previous Conservative government resisted calls for a full-fledged parliamentary security committee, suggesting arm’s-length review agencies — not partisan politicians — should oversee spy services.

Still, Britain and Canada’s other chief allies, including the United States, Australia and New Zealand, have embraced the concept.

Peace of mind part of reducing pain, fear for kids at Calgary hospital

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Five-year-old Micah Shaw didn’t seem to have a care in the world Thursday as she happily played a game on a computer tablet while she was getting treatment on her broken arm at Alberta Children’s Hospital.

While Micah was given special attention by child life specialist Cathy Smith, her mother Lindsay McKay was relieved that the hospital has implemented a program to help kids cope with pain and stress during emergency room visits.

“She’s kind of an introvert and a little bit shy and takes awhile to warm up,” said McKay. “When we first came on Dec. 23, there was a little craft bag in emergency … which is really great because she loves art. And even just sitting here now with someone playing with the iPad and something she’s comfortable with has been really great.”

The initiative to ease anxiety and pain for children was launched last

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Manitoba releases plan to conserve world’s biggest beluga population WINNIPEG — Manitoba has released a plan to preserve the world’s largest population of belugas while numbers of the white whales with the characteristic smiley face are still strong.

“We have a healthy population, but the environment is changing,” said Manitoba Conservation Minister Tom Nevakshonoff. “It’s a rare opportunity when you can take something that’s not in distress and focus on it now to preserve that rather than doing damage control.”

Nearly 60,000 belugas migrate along the Hudson Bay coast. In the summer, whales stop where the Churchill, Nelson and Seal rivers flow into the bay to feed, give birth and nurture their young.

“When belugas are in those estuaries, you’re not just seeing a beluga in there sporadically,” said Chris Debicki of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Oceans North Canada.

Oceans North Canada, an environmental group that worked with the province on the plan.

“You’re literally seeing hundreds and sometimes thousands of belugas at the same time.”

The plan, which Nevakshonoff refers to as a “discussion document,” involves protecting sections of the coastline as well as the outflow area of the Seal River.

It also requires help from the federal government.

Lufthansa flight diverted to Calgary after reports of passengers feeling ill CALGARY — Emergency crews were on scene at the Calgary International Airport after a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Los Angeles was diverted due to a passenger emergency.

Flight LH452 touched down shortly before 2 p.m. Friday afternoon after reports of passengers feeling ill.

Paramedics and Health Canada officials boarded the flight after it landed and two people were assessed, with one being taken to hospital.

The patient was a woman in her 30s,

fall. Emergency room physicians Antonia Stang and Jennifer Thull-Freedman talked to patients and 15 per cent said they would have taken pain medicine, but none was offered to them.

Eighteen per cent felt their pain was not being managed effectively.

“Realizing there were some areas where we could improve, we embarked on a project…to make sure that we partner with patients and families to make sure they have the tools that they need, so that their pain is assessed and managed here in the emergency department and when they go home,” said Stang.

Young patients are now given an individual, bookmark-sized pain scale to help them describe what they’re feeling and to help staff more accurately understand the level of each person’s pain.

“We want to make sure they treat the pain and there’s lots of ways we can do that,” Stang said. “Sometimes it’s with medicine they can take by mouth. Sometimes it’s with a needle — although that’s one of the big fears pa-

tients and families have, (that) treating pain means a needle.

“That’s one of the myths we’ve worked hard to dispel.”

The doctors are also using toys and tablet computers to help patients take their minds off their injuries.

Nine-year-old William Marshall broke his arm while snowboarding and found the pain scale useful.

“It really helped to look at the face scale and see what my pain was,” he said. “They gave me medicine to help the pain go away and they did a splint.

I think they did a really great job.”

Doctors and nurses have received more education on how to support a child in pain.

“For example, comfort positions are promoted when a child needs a procedure, so he or she can sit up or snuggle a parent and feel in control, rather than having to lie flat,” said Thull-Freedman.

Plans are being made to expand the program into other departments at the hospital and to more emergency departments across Calgary this spring.

who was complaining about general medical issues.

EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux said the cause of the illness is not known at this time, and it’s not clear how long the woman will be in hospital.

He did, however, say that her illness was not life-threatening.

No one else on the aircraft required medical assistance.

“Health Canada did clear the aircraft,” Brideaux said.

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OTTAWA — Canada’s border agency plans to compare images of people arriving in the country with photographs of suspects on watchlists to keep out alleged terrorists and other criminals.

The federal privacy watchdog has cautioned the agency that the scheme could ensnare the wrong travellers, resulting in unwarranted scrutiny for some people at the border.

The Canada Border Services Agency wants to see how well the facial-recognition technology works at various locations and under specific lighting and crowd-movement conditions.

The border agency’s science and engineering directorate has quietly been working with the University of Quebec and other partners to gauge the ability of devices to extract needed information from video footage.

The initiative is among the latest federal efforts to use biometric tools that focus on personal characteristics — such as fingerprints, an iris or the contours of one’s face — to identify people in the name of security.

In his recently released annual report, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says his office provided advice on the potential pitfalls, including the possibility of “false positives” that could result in unnecessary secondary screening for travellers.

The office also urged the border agency to assess the risks of using such technology, including issues that might arise during testing phases.

The border agency declined to make anyone available to discuss the project. In written answers, the agency said it continues to work with the commissioner to “ensure that privacy implications are appropriately addressed.”

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Forecasting future oil prices essential Forecasting the future price of oil is a bit like trying to forecast the future exchange rate of the Canadian dollar.

The volatility in oil prices, or the value of our dollar, over the past 25 years shows what a challenging task this is.

Yet having some idea of future oil prices is vital for planning for the future — for jobs, DAVID investment, tax CRANE revenues, and the exchange INSIGHT rate for our dollar. It clearly matters for oil companies. The cutbacks in oil patch spending and delays or cancellation of planned oil sands plants in Alberta suggest that oil companies are not expecting a recovery in oil prices soon.

Corporations, banks and governments spend a great deal of money trying to forecast where oil prices are headed, usually by trying to figure out future demand and future supply.

The latest effort comes from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in its recently published World Oil Outlook. In its reference scenario for planning purposes, it has the oil price remaining below US$100 (2014 dollars) through to 2040, though headed to the US$95 range 25 years from now. The year 2040 is important for planning purposes since, for example, that could be the close to the normal life of an oil sands plant.

But a blog from the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, and the head of the IMF commodity research team, Rabah Arezki, warns that forecasting future oil prices may be more difficult than in the past.

They quote the old adage of the oil industry, that “the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.”

That’s because low prices lead to cutbacks in investment, while existing oil fields run down, leading to prospects of a future shortages, so that prices start to rise, providing an incentive for new investment.

This is what has happened in the past.

But as the two IMF experts argue, “the dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time. Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.”

One factor is the advent of shale oil production by hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

This has already added some 4.2 million barrels a day to world oil supplies, more than double the role of the oil sands in Canada, and this has contributed to a global glut. Shale oil production will become more pronounced

in other countries as well, such as China and Argentina.

Obstfeld and Arezki argue that “shale oil will lead to shorter and more limited oil-price cycles.”

That’s because shale requires much less upfront capital, less than conventional oil (and far, far less than an oil sands plant), and the lag between the first investment and production is much shorter.

Although there are some problems with fracking, they contend that “shale is still at a relatively early stage of its industry life cycle, where the scope for learning is substantial, as shown by production levels that have proven resilient thanks to phenomenal efficiency gains forced by the big drop in oil prices.”

Other factors will also affect oil

prices.

One of the most important is future technological change, driven in large part by the urgency of acting on climate change.

Advances in technology could mean a sharp reduction in oil needs.

The world is making huge investments in research and development, and this can be expected to significantly increase.

But progress on technological change will be challenged by the arrival of 2 billion more people on this planet by 2040, a much larger global middle class and a global economy 244 per cent bigger by 2040, according to the OPEC oil report.

There will be significant growth in the ownership of cars, the petrochemicals industry and aviation, all major

users of oil today.

In 1970 there were only 1 million cars in China, but in 2013 the number reached 100 million and by 2040 there will be a projected 524 million (compared to 360 million in North America).

So while it is relatively easy to figure out roughly where oil prices will be over the next 3-6 months, figuring out where they will be in 2025 or 2040 is much more difficult, given all the unknowns in technology, carbon pricing and geopolitics.

Yet it is those future long-term price estimates, not the short-term numbers that are essential for planning in both the public and private sectors.

David Crane can be reached at crane@ interlog.com.

Dealing with incidence of desperate anger “Are you ok, do you need me to ago and the end result was that he recall an ambulance”? These questions ceived a sentence for his actions, but were directed at me as I slowly picked the look in his eyes has never left me. myself up off the floor in the midst of I saw that look again just recently, but a large number of concerned fellow not downtown. workers and clients.

The news on TV showed My throat hurt and I was the desperation of the Syrbreathless for a moment, ian and African refugees; a but I indicated that I was desperation so intense, that alright. it even made them lash out I had just been floored in anger against the very by a chop to the throat by people trying to help them. a fellow we ironically reI also have had fits of ferred to as “Saint” as I was anger, road rage, and othescorting him out the door. er forms of discontent with Sometime before he had the world around me, but been permanently banned I have never known a desfrom the kitchen for utterperation so intense that I ing death threats against a wanted to lash out at the CHRIS staff member. folks trying to make my He kept trying to get SALOMONS world better. Maybe it’s a back in or have other peomatter of wanting to take STREET TALKES ple bring him food, so I had some control. to escort him out, at which A few years ago the time he did a very quick nightly news depicted the round house, not with his fist, but the story of an incarcerated young girl, side of his hand like a judo chop. grossly overweight and with a comMy own reaction surprisingly bative attitude (because of some terenough, (to me especially), was not one rible abuses earlier in her life), who of fear, anger, nor was it retributive in was just totally mishandled by the nature, I just felt very sorry for him be- guards. They even went so far as to cause his actions were manifestations send in four large male guards, while of what I refer to as desperation anger. she was stripped naked, to subdue her It was something I saw in his eyes, but so they could inject her with drugs ignored, in my effort to kick him out. to calm her down. I believe she had This was about four or so years been stripped naked because she was

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trying to use her own clothing to hang herself. There had been no attempt to reach out to her, just to control her.

Sadly, the end result was for this totally misunderstood young girl to commit suicide.

All of her actions were a perfect demonstration of what I refer to as desperation anger. So intense is this emotion that it can and often does lead to suicide or a life in the drug world or just plainly a lashing out at society.

In the case of “Saint,” drugs helped him to overcome personal difficulties in his life; the only problem with drugs is that they only help for a few hours and then that same desperation rears its ugly head again and again.

From all the studies that I have done on this type of behaviour, the common denominator is control, or lack thereof, either by somebody else or their own. After a long period of time of not being in control of their own lives, the desperation starts to build and then with no solution or correction, anger becomes a large part of the equation.

In reading an article on female prisoners — whose suicide rate is five times higher than any other group — the following quote from a prisoner really struck home.

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This 2012 article was in the Guardian Newspaper from the UK in an expose’ on the rampant suicide rates among female prisoners.

The list of rules by which we must live grows increasingly long as one segment of society tries to control the activities of others. But is this healthy?

Are we not taking the right to control one’s life away from them? Is this perhaps a reason for so much desperation among our young people? It’s one thing to voluntarily give control to another, but to have it arbitrarily taken away leaves them as no more than a group of automatons.

If instead of more and more laws and rules, we but follow two simple rules as laid out in what I believe.

First: love god with everything you have; and second: love your neighbour as you love yourself.

An honest study of these two rules would take into account all of our interactions with each other.

The first rule gives us the reason to then reach out to hurting individuals instead of just herding them like animals.

Maybe it would then leave control to each and every one of us thereby reducing the incidence of desperate anger.

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May the force be with you The biggest movie of the year.

Heck, the biggest big screen flick of the century. Perhaps the millennium.

Perhaps you’ve seen it. Everybody says everyone has seen it by now. I know I’ve seen it. I remember it very clearly. I mean, who can forget Snow White and the Three Stooges.

The Paramount Theatre on Ross Street? SomeHARLEY time around HAY Christmas, 1961?

Oh, I bet you HAY’S DAZE thought I was talking about that other much anticipated momentous movie released just a few weeks ago. Alvin and the Chipmunks, right?

No? Well there really was a new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie called Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. So there. Truth be told, the Alvin, Theodore and Simon that I know (and used to love) (OK, still love) were introduced on an ancient vinyl record album that I think I still have somewhere — a relic of a hippie civilization around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. About the same time as Snow White and the Three Stooges, in fact. And I loved those three chipmunks who talked a bit like Mickey Mouse on the record album and that their human adoptive father Dave was always yelling at (especially Alvin), and I loved the Three Stooges.

They say things come in threes. Coincidence?

OK, I admit I’m just yanking your leg, pulling your chain, tugging on your tail feathers a little bit. It’s Star Wars of course. The new movie. The one breathlessly called The Force Awakens.

(Not to be confused with the Three Stooges short movie serial from 1959 called “The Farce Awakens”). (Kidding.)

But yes, I did see Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Twice. So far. Once with the Rotten Kids and once with the Better Half. Not that Yours Truly and the RKs left out the BH the first time we went, it’s just that, well, somebody has to work and her schedule conflicted with our timetable for fun. So we went without her. Harsh, I know. But as I mentioned I took her to the mov-

ie a few days later so that she could have a lovely night out at an insanely crowded movie theatre where it takes 20 minutes in a lineup to get your tickets and 45 minutes in another lineup to get your popcorn. Also, so that I could see Star Wars again. It’s that good. Also, there were some parts I didn’t understand, so I had to see it again.

And also, the Better Half and I have a long and dedicated past when it comes to Star Wars. We saw the iconic first one in Kelowna, B.C. as soon as it came out and I must say, walking out of that theatre after the movie that night I knew the universe had developed a cosmic crack or two. The solar system, I mean our solar system, not the Death Star and the desert planet Tatooine in the Outer Rim Territories where Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi hung out — the solar system or at least my view of it definitely made the jump to hyperspace in the Millennium Falcon that night. And since there wasn’t anything like the interweb or movie magazines around in the “dark” ages (a Star Wars pun) I can remember us coming out of the movie and having about a three-hour talk about it all, and I remember that I thought the big guy with the awesome black helmet and the deep resonant voice of a radio announcer speaking through what sounded like a cross between a SCUBA tank and a North Air Purifying Respirator, I thought his name was Garth Fader.

Or perhaps Marth Pater. So of course, we had to see it again. In fact we ended up seeing it seven times (not kidding) before the next one, The Empire Strikes Back came out three years later.

This of course was before the invention of video tape, mobile phones and sensible shoes and in those backward days the big honkin’ movie studios would release movies only in the big cities first and so a movie you HAD to see would FINALLY get to the Paramount about three months after the rest of the world had seen it. So to avoid plot spoilers you either had to drive to a big city to see the movie earlier, or avoid newspapers and walk around with your fingers in your ears saying “LA, LA, LA” out loud so nobody who’d seen the movie could tell you about it, or you could hide in a cave and practice your Jedi light saber skills until the next Star Wars movie arrived in town.

The Better Half and I still have a clipping from the front page of the

venerable Red Deer Advocate around 1980-something of a photograph by Calvin Caldwell that shows the two of us (if you look really really close) (with a magnifying glass) in the middle of a half a block long lineup outside the Paramount Theatre. The marquee clearly reads “The Three Stooges: The Umpire Strikes Back”. Kidding again, it reads Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, of course.

And that one was even better than the first Star Wars. And I for one was certain Yoda would win an Academy Award for best actor that year.

Thing is, the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie is just as good as the first three. (We try not to remember the middle three.) The only thing regrettable about seeing this latest installment is that I wish it could’ve been in the old Paramount Theatre.

From the balcony. Where you really knew the Force was with you.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Doing the right thing for Syrian refugees Back in 1999, Kosovo was not a great tion of accords on refugees, Canada is place to be. The whole Balkan region obliged to take them in. was breaking up — violently — into Well, that was then and this is now. various new states based on Taking in 2,000 refugees ethnic origins that did not from a European region like or trust each other. with Western-standard noLocal militias got access tions of justice and rule of to police and military arms law would be but a short as governance broke down introduction to the refuand entire regions were gee crisis in Africa and the “cleansed” of families who Middle East that Canada no longer belonged there, faces today. being of the “wrong” ethnic In the intervening time, origin for whoever locally we elected a Conservative claimed to be in charge. government that left more Canada intervened by than a third of positions on evacuating about 5,000 peothe Citizenship and ImmiGREG ple from areas where terror, gration board empty, while NEIMAN rape, arson and murder had abroad, thugs and terrorOPINION become the norm, and reists got much more effisettled about 2,000 refugees cient at creating refugees. into Canada — all within a Canada’s backlog of refuperiod of months. gee claims became an embarrassment, Gerry Van Kessel was a senior and the government tried to fix it by bureaucrat in the Canadian govern- putting an eight-day limit on processment at the time. He had a title with a ing claims, as well as designating “safe lengthy name: Director General, Ref- countries of origin” from which a fastugees Branch, Department of Citizen- er claims process could proceed. ship and Immigration. Over his career Now, even that has turned out to be he was also the co-ordinator of inter- just a short introduction to the refugee governmental consultations on asylum, problem that Canada faces to day. refugees and migration policy in GeSo it shouldn’t be a surprise that neva. even as professional a group as CanSo he knows a thing or two about ada’s civil service would slip a few how bureaucracies work to implement gears while attempting to process government policy around determin- 25,000 refugee claims from Syria in just ing who is or is not a refugee. That’s a few months. important, because as a signing naVan Kessel, a long champion of our

civil servants as non-partisan professionals, doesn’t like how the process is going. So, over the new year he gave an interview on the matter.

He sees — rightly — that when the force of political policy hits the wall of practical reality, something has to give.

A newly-elected government cannot undo the policy and practice of a 10-year government that had a completely different ideology concerning refugees and immigration, all in a matter of months. Much less while taking in 25,000 new permanent residents from abroad.

What irked Van Kessel was the constant changing of targets. From the policy introduction last March, to the swearing-in of the new government in November to now, targets got serially readjusted such that the 25,000 Syrian refugees would be identified by the end of 2015, and resettled by the end of 2016.

For a lot of governments that’s “immediately” as things can get for a project that large, involving that many thousands of vulnerable individuals.

Van Kessel just doesn’t like the messiness of it all. Which is strange, because he says he immediately saw the mess arriving when the Liberal refugee policy was announced. Because he’d been there before, and he knows how things work (or not work).

Very well, complain that it’s a mess, and that politics is being played in

public while the professionals work in the background. How, exactly, is that a change, except in scale?

So far, Red Deer has 26 new permanent Canadian residents from Syria.

The expectation is that we may receive as many as 60.

Non-profits like Catholic Social Services and a long list of others, plus many volunteers and donors are putting in long hours getting them housed, settled, with medical attention and kids in school — the whole list of connections that families have with a city.

To use Western terms, this isn’t our first rodeo.

We’ve done this before.

Bottom line, when people become aware of need, they step up to help.

That was proven over the Christmas season when local charities feared they might not reach their annual fundraising goals. Last-minute, they got there, and then some.

Nationally, setting the politics — the goal — was important. Without that, there’d likely be no new arrivals in Red Deer. That politicians will change the specifics of the goal when policy runs up against practice, is just something that happens.

Meanwhile, people keep on doing the right thing with the situation and resources in front of them. That’s the Canada I like to see.

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The Islamic wars of religion, past and present Last Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Sun- And the current phase of the Muslim ni Muslim rulers beheaded their wars of religion is being fought out becountry’s leading Shia Muslim cleric, tween Shias and Sunnis in Iraq, Syria Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, on charges and Yemen, just as the first phase of of seeking “foreign medthe Christian wars of relidling” in the kingdom. gion was fought out mainly On Saturday, an angry between Catholics and Protcrowd of Iranians — all estants in individual counShia Muslims, of course — tries. attacked the Saudi ArabiFrom the start of the conan embassy in Tehran. And flict in Europe, however, Iran’s Supreme Leader, each European state tried Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to help its co-believers in put a cartoon on his website neighbouring countries as comparing Saudi Arabia’s well, and alliances were inhead-chopping orgy on New creasingly shaped by reliYear’s Day (46 other exegious considerations. In the cutions on the same day) to second phase, these alliancGWYNNE the mass executions carried es dragged most of Europe DYER out by the Sunni extremist into the catastrophic ThirINSIGHT ‘Islamic State’ group. ty Years’ War (1618-1648), So on Sunday, Saudi Arafought mostly in the midbia broke diplomatic reladle of Europe but involving tions with Iran — and all the pundits armies from as far apart as Sweden started talking about the Sunni-Shia and Spain. “war of religion” that is about to enThe main battleground, Germany, gulf the Middle East. lost between one-third and one-half of This raises two questions. First, its population. Nobody won, of course, what would a Sunni-Shia war of reli- and in the very long run everybody just gion actually look like? And second, lost interest in the question. But it was has everybody in the Middle East tak- a very great waste of lives, time and en leave of their senses? money.

The first question is best answered The Muslim world is already caught by looking at the history of the Chris- up in the first phase of a comparable tian wars of religion, ca. 1520-1660. process, but it is not condemned to go The Muslim world now, like “Chris- the whole distance. One big difference tendom” in the 16th century, is made is that the Sunni-Shia split is ancient up of many independent countries. — more than 1,350 years old — where-

as the Catholic-Protestant split was new and still full of passion at the time of the Christian wars.

More than 99 per cent of today’s Muslims were simply born Sunni or Shia, whereas many 16th-century Christians had made a conscious choice about their religion. The current killings in the Muslim world are mostly driven by state policy, so maybe Muslims will not throw away a couple of generations following the same foolish, bloody road that the Christians took 500 years ago.

Those who live at the geographical extremes of the Muslim world — Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh in the East; Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa and even Egypt in the West — will certainly not suffer the same fate, for there are only tiny Shia minorities in these countries. But for those who live in the heart of the Muslim world, from Yemen to Turkey and from Lebanon to Iran, the future may be much darker.

And so to the second question: has everybody in the Middle East taken leave of their senses? Not exactly, but many players have lost sight of the bigger picture.

George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 unleashed the sectarian demon in the region. The “Arab Spring” of 2011 frightened the region’s dictatorships and absolute monarchies into increased repression and greater reliance on appeals to sectarian loyalty.

Then King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

died a year ago, and the kingdom spun out completely.

Saudi Arabia under its previous monarchs was very cautious and conservative in its foreign policy. It subsidized various extreme Sunni groups in other countries, but it clung tightly to its American alliance and never engaged directly in adventures abroad The new Saudi king, Salman, is 80 years old and infirm, so in practice most decisions are made by his nephew, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef (aged 56), or his son, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (aged only 30).

There is intense competition between the two men for the succession to the throne, and the decisions coming out of Riyadh have been much bolder than ever before.

The past nine months have seen a major Saudi Arabian military intervention against the Shia side in the Yemeni civil war, the creation of a Saudi-led alliance of almost all the Sunni-majority Arab states, and now the execution of a Shia leader in Saudi Arabia that was clearly calculated to cause a diplomatic breach with Iran.

It’s just dynastic politics, in other words, not some inevitable geopolitical juggernaut. But it was similar dynastic politics half a millennium ago that triggered the worst phase of the Christian wars of religion.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

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Military personnel from the Mexican Army search sewers at the place where Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was recaptured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, on Friday. Guzman, allegedly one of the world’s most powerful drug lords, made his second escape from a high-security prison in July 2015 using a series of sophisticated tunnels. The suspected head of the Sinaloa cartel was recaptured in the town of Los Mochis near the Pacific Coast in his home state of Sinaloa, the Milenio newspaper reported citing Mexican security authorities. Mexican marines engaged in a morning shootout with Guzman’s gang, killing five and arresting six. ministration hailed the capture as proof of the close ries were not life threatening. relationship between the two countries. “The arMarines seized two armoured vehicles, eight rirest is a significant achievement in our shared fight fles, one handgun and a rocket-propelled grenade against transnational organized crime, violence, and launcher at the home, the statement added. drug trafficking,” a DEA statement said.

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Both the officer and suspect were wounded during the barrage of gunfire.

The suspect, 30-year-old Edward Archer, also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group when he was questioned after his arrest in the shooting late Thursday, police said.

Police Commissioner Richard Ross described the attack on Officer Jesse Hartnett, captured on a police surveillance camera, as an attempted assassination.

“He just came out of nowhere and started firing on him,” Ross said. “He just started firing with one aim and one aim only, to kill him.”

Ross said Archer told police he believed the department defends laws that are contrary to Islam.

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by Mexican marines Friday, six months after he tunneled out of a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hollywood escape that deeply embarrassed the government and strained ties with the United States.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman using his Twitter account: “mission accomplished: we have him.”

Few had thought Guzman would be taken alive, and few now believe Mexico will want to try to hold him a third time in Mexican prisons. He escaped from maximum-security facilities in 2001 and on July 11, 2015, the second JOAQUIN GUZMAN breakout especially humiliating for the Pena Nieto administration, which only held him for less than 18 months. The U.S. has sought his extradition, though Mexico in the past has said he would serve sentences here first.

Pena Nieto gave a brief live message Friday afternoon that focused heavily on touting the competency of his administration, which has suffered a series of embarrassments and scandals in the first half of his presidency.

“The arrest of today is very important for the government of Mexico. It shows that the public can have confidence in its institutions,” Pena Nieto said.

“Mexicans can count on a government decided and determined to build a better country.”

Guzman was apprehended after a shootout between gunmen and Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa, said a federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name. He said Guzman was taken alive and was not wounded.

Five people were killed and one Mexican marine wounded in the clash at a house in an upscale neighbourhood of Los Mochis.

It was unclear if Guzman was there or nearby when the raid was underway. A law enforcement official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Guzman was captured at a motel on the outskirts of Los Mochis.

That official said Friday’s raid on the house was related to the later capture of Guzman at the hotel.

Guzman may have been at the house and fled while his gunmen and bodyguards provided covering fire from the house, the official said.

Marines checked the storm drain system, though it was unclear if Guzman had once again fled through the drains. In 2014, he escaped capture by fleeing through a network of interconnected tunnels in the drainage system under Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital.

After his first capture in Guatemala in June 1993, Guzman was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He reportedly made his 2001 escape from the maximum security prison in a laundry cart, though some have discounted that version.

His second escape last July was even more audacious. He slipped down a hole in his shower stall in plain view of guards into a mile-long tunnel dug from a property outside the prison. The tunnel had ventilation, lights and a motorbike on rails, illustrating the extent to which corruption was involved in covering up the elaborate operation.

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Belle Mont Farm

LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN CARIBBEAN, ST. KITTS AND ITS SMALLER SISTER ISLAND, NEVIS, ARE A TWO-ISLAND NATION THAT WAS ONCE THE HEARTBEAT OF THE WORLD’S SUGAR INDUSTRY. A FORMER PLANTATION, BELLE MONT FARM IS THE FIRST TROPICAL ORGANIC FARM HOTEL IN THE WORLD. There’s something different about Belle Mont Farm resort and you notice it from the moment you arrive at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport on the tiny island of St. Kitts.

Instead of standing in line to present your passport and clear customs, all-inclusive guests of Belle Mont Farm are whisked away to the private Yu Lounge where there is a bottomless champagne bar, gourmet snacks and a team of people who take passports and entry documents through customs, so guests “avoid the hassles of airport security and tedious lineDEBBIE ups.” Welcome to the lifeOLSEN style of the rich and famous.

But the mode of arrival TRAVEL is only the beginning. Belle Mont Farm is unlike any other resort in the Caribbean and is a completely new idea in sustainable eco-friendly tourism. It might be just what’s needed to move St. Kitts into the ultra-luxurious destination market that neighbouring St. Barts has become famous for.

Located in the southern Caribbean, St. Kitts and its smaller sister island, Nevis are a two-island nation that was once the heartbeat of the world’s sugar industry. The rich volcanic soil of these islands was almost exclusively used to grow sugar cane and the islands have traditionally imported almost all of their fruits and vegetables in an effort to conserve the soil for the most valuable crop – sugar cane. When the bottom fell out of the sugar industry, many of the plantations fell into ruin.

Drive around either island and you’re certain to come across abandoned sugar plantations – some now repurposed as plantation inns.

Belle Mont Farm is located in the middle of a former plantation that is now a 400-acre organic fruit and vegetable farm. Almost the entire landscape is edible and guests are encouraged to pick the fruits and vegetables on the grounds with “Pick Me” signs being hung where the ripest fruit is ready for picking.

The world’s only edible golf course is onsite and golfers are encouraged to pick mangoes, papayas and bananas while they play. To keep the course organic and eco-friendly, it is maintained without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers and uses a water-conserving irrigation system. They actually close the course one day each week to allow staff to hand weed it.

“Belle Mont Farm is the first tropical organic farm hotel in the world and Irie Fields is the first Golf Environment Organization-certified custom

Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/Freelance

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: You wouldn’t think a Caribbean resort that isn’t beach front could possibly compete, but the entire concept of surrounding the guest houses with organic gardens works at Belle Mont Farm; Surrounded by vegetable gardens, these private guesthouses have upscale amenities, outdoor bathrooms, giant movie screens, and in most cases private pools; This is what I was doing while other people waited in line to clear customs and gather the checked bags. It was awesome!; Chef Letard grew up in Normandy, France and spent quite a number of years in Canada working as the private chef to the lieutenant-governor of B.C. before coming to Belle Mont Farm. His farm-to-table cuisine is a key part of the Belle Mont Farm experience. built tropical organic golf course in the world,” said Val Kempadoo, the Trinidadian entrepreneur who masterminded the resort. “We’re creating a holistic community focused on health and wellness.”

Kempadoo doesn’t think of himself as an hotelier and says his primary motivation was to develop a hotel that could make positive social change.

His hope is that Belle Mont Farm will influence farming and food production on St. Kitts. “We’re trying to bring farming back to St. Kitts,” he said.

“The soil is so rich, there’s really no need to import produce anymore.”

There are more than 100 different types of mangoes, 20 varieties of avocados and 7 kinds of eggplant growing on the farm plus many other types of

produce. By planting different varieties, the farm has extended the traditional seasons for many fruits and vegetables. All of the ingredients used in the spectacular dishes created by the chefs at the resort are sourced locally – directly off the farm or from local producers.

“Organic farming is very labour intensive,” admits Yahsonn Tefari, the head farmer. “We hand weed and use a variety of techniques to keep pests away. We’re constantly experimenting and we share our expertise with the surrounding community to help reduce the island’s use of pesticides and to reduce the need to import fruits and vegetables.”

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LEFT: It may look like an ordinary golf course, but it’s the world’s first edible course. Think mangoes on the 7th green.

RIGHT: Belle Mont Farm is not on the beach, but it has a private beach club and restaurant on one of the grey volcanic sand beaches that St. Kitts is famous for.

BELOW: After a morning foraging tour on the farm, breakfast under the shade of the trees in the tree nursery was wonderful.

BELLE MONT FARM: Food served in fabulous setting As you might expect, food and dining is an important part of the Belle Mont Farm experience. Fresh farmgrown fruit is delivered to your room every day and the Caribbean-inspired cuisine of Executive Chef Christophe Letard is an absolute highlight of any stay. Letard, a strong advocate of the farm-to-table movement, served as Executive Chef at Government House in Victoria, British Columbia and Private Chef for the Lieutenant Governor of BC before coming to Belle Mont Farm.

His menus vary depending upon the fruits and vegetables in season and the fresh fish and meats available on the island. “The culinary team has to be creative and improvise at times to make a meal work with the ingredients on hand,” Letard explained. “For example, lemons are not local, but sometimes you can climb a tree and find a perfect sour orange that makes a good substitute.”

Food is served in fabulous settings as well. After a morning foraging tour, you can have breakfast under the shade of a giant tree in the farm’s tree nursery. Late evening dining can be set up at a long wooden communal table amongst the orchids and vegetables. Casual dining is available at Arthur’s Grill on the beach and fine dining is available at several onsite venues. A great selection of natural wines and local cocktails add to the dining experience.

When you’ve played in the sun and sand, relaxed at the onsite spa, foraged on the farm and eaten until you can hold no more, it’s great to go back to your private guesthouse and have a bubble bath under the stars in your candlelit outdoor bathtub, take a swim in your private plunge pool, or just relax and watch some Netflix on the giant movie screen inside your room.

Experiencing the lifestyle of the rich and famous has its perks.

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The Details ● Getting to St. Kitts from Alberta typically requires a flight with two stops. Rates vary depending on the dates of travel, but typically cost between $800-$1000 per person for an economy flight during the peak season. ● A room-only stay at Belle Mont Farm starts at $450 USD per night during the off-season and $650 USD per night during peak season. The Signature experience that includes all meals, airport ground transportation, YU Lounge, unlimited golf and a spa credit will cost $2,350 USD per night during peak season. Or you can book room only and pay extra for the Yu Lounge. ● If you want to experience Belle Mont Farm, but can’t afford the price tag of an overnight stay, consider booking a tee time at Irie Fields Golf Course or a dinner at one of the onsite restaurants while you are staying on St. Kitts. A less-costly onsite accommodation is also in the works. ● For more information about Belle Mont Farm, visit: bellemontfarm.com.

For more information on St. Kitts, visit: stkittstourism.kn.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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’Canes dump Rebels in shootout

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hurricanes 4 Rebels 3 (SO) The Red Deer Rebels played with fire in the first period of Friday’s Western Hockey League contest versus the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

And sure enough, the home squad got burnt as the ‘Canes struck for a trio of power-play goals en route to a 4-3 shootout victory before 5,838 fans at the Centrium.

“Their power play was the difference, that and the bad penalties (assessed to the Rebels),” said Red Deer GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who watched his squad tagged with three infractions, including a five-minute kneeing major to Evan Polei, who also picked up a game misconduct.

“For 11 minutes (of the first period) we were fine, but this was like a playoff game and you can’t take those kinds of penalties.”

The Rebels opened the scoring 2:19 into the contest when Reese Johnson connected from a scramble after linemate Braden Purtill rang a shot off the post behind ‘Canes netminder Jayden Sittler.

But the Lethbridge power play went to work a few minutes later with Jeff de Wit serving a tripping penalty called in the offensive zone. Tyler Wong chipped a loose puck past Rebels goalie Rylan Toth following a shot

by Georgio Estephan that bounced off the post.

Michael Spacek buried a power-play rebound to restore Red Deer’s lead at 8:27. But Polei was nailed for kneeing Ryley Lindgren — who never returned to the game — a minute later and the ‘Canes cashed in on the tail end of the penalty, with Egor Babenko pulling the trigger on his 20th of the season.

Then, with Red Deer defenceman Colton Bobyk off for high sticking, the ‘Canes’ league-best power play struck again as Justin Gutierrez, from the faceoff circle, wired a low shot to the far corner.

Despite being outshot 15-6 in the opening 20 minutes, the visitors held a 3-2 lead and never trailed the rest of the way.

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Brandon Hagel of the Red Deer Rebels and Andrew Nielsen of the Lethbridge Hurricanes collide with Hurricane goaltender Jayden Sittler during second period WHL action at the Enmax Centrium on Friday night. utes,” said Sutter.

The Rebels were outplayed in the first half of the middle frame and were outshot 14-9 in the period while getting a handful of stellar stops from Toth.

“We didn’t have a great first 11 minutes of the second period until we called the timeout, then we got got back to playing like we can play,” said Sutter. “It got to be kind of a tic-for-tac

game after that.”

Red Deer was arguably the better team in the third period and finally got the equalizer at 7:44 when Adam Helewka unleashed a shot from the top of the circle that beat Sittler on the short side.

From there, both goaltenders made a series of stunning stops to send the game to a scoreless overtime and the

ensuing shootout. The ‘Canes first shooter, Babenko, scored the lone goal of the skills competition.

The win gave the ‘Canes a single-point lead over Red Deer for first place in the Eastern Conference and was also their fourth over the Rebels in as many meetings this season.

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Lightning score three in the third to upend Oilers

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Tampa Bay Lightning’ Vladislav Namestnikov (90) and Edmonton Oilers’ Darnell Nurse (25) battle for the puck during first period NHL action in Edmonton Friday.

Tampa Bay 3 Edmonton 2 EDMONTON — The Tampa Bay Lightning had an inordinate amount of puck luck on Friday.

Victor Hedman scored a goal and added a pair of assists as Tampa Bay came from behind in unusual fashion to beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2.

Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning (2017-4), who had some good fortune on their side as all three of their goals deflected in off of an Edmonton skater.

“You earn your breaks and we had goals off caroms, but that’s the way it goes when you’re believing in yourselves,” Stamkos said. “We didn’t quit and we got rewarded.”

Lightning goalie Ben Bishop made 24 saves for the win.

“We’ll take it any way we can right now,” Bishop said. “We haven’t been getting goals the regular way, so we’ll take them any way. We had a really good third period, we talked about it, the guys really wanted it and I think they deserved it.”

Justin Schultz and Benoit Pouliot scored in response for the Oilers (1722-3), who led 2-0 heading into the third period before things took a decidedly unlucky turn.

“We had three pucks go off us into

our net with a 2-0 lead, so that part is disappointing, maybe a little bit of puck luck that didn’t go our way,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan. “We didn’t score enough to outplay our blunders around the net, and as a result we ended up losing.”

Oilers goalie Cam Talbot said he had never seen anything like what befell his team on the night.

“It’s extremely frustrating,” he said.

“Especially where we are in the standings. We need every point that we can get. When points slip away like that when you are doing the right things for most of the game, that is tough to swallow.”

Edmonton got on the board first, scoring with 4:40 remaining in the opening period as Schultz brought the puck in from the blue line and was able to poke his own rebound past Lightning starter Ben Bishop.

Hedman kept it a 1-0 game heading into the second, absolutely robbing Leon Draisaitl with a sprawling save while Bishop was out of the net on the play with eight seconds to play in the first.

The Oilers took a two-goal lead on the power play four minutes into the second period when Ryan Nugent-Hopkins put a shot on net that was tipped in by Pouliot.

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Queens turn to new blood to start second half of season

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Ooks 51 Queens 39 Winning would have been nice, but it was secondary for the RDC Queens basketball squad in their exhibition clash with the NAIT Ooks at RDC Friday.

“It was important to get everyone in, give them playing time and prepare for the second half,” said Queens head coach Ken King following a 51-39 loss to the Ooks, who sport a 10-2 record and sit second in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference North Division.

The Queens have a 4-5 mark and are fourth in the South.

The Queens made several changes during the Christmas break, losing Paige Sneed, Janelle Kakakaway and red shirt Maria Penner. They added guard Keitlyn Williams.

“The chances have been good for the team,” said King. “The atmosphere

and environment in practice has been good … it’s a positive sign for us.

“All three of when made a decision which was best for them and best for the program. We wish them the best and the decisions will benefit them and make them happy. Other decisions was best for the team. I believe they were the right ones.”

Kakakaway’s loss was a bit of a surprise as she was the backup to forward Emily White.

“Janelle has been part of the program for three years. She gave a lot to the team and we appreciate her time and work. But it was important for her to focus on schooling and have time for herself and we respect that. I believe she will be happy.”

Williams, a Lindsay Thurber grad, tried out for the Queens last fall, but decided she needed to work. However, she fits in nicely replacing Sneed.

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She got some playing time Friday and didn’t look out of place.

“That’s the first game outside of ladies league for her in several years, so this was new to her and she did a good job,” said King, who also didn’t dress veteran guards Cassidy Hollingsworth and Kennedy Burgess.

“It was best for them to rest and be healthy when we play Medicine Hat next weekend,” explained King, who also lost impressive first-year guard Maddi Whiting in the first half when she had a NAIT player land on her leg.

“It appears to be a strain and she’ll be fine,” said King. “I thought Maddi had a good game before she went down. Plus I liked Dedra (Janvier’s) defence. It was much better than the first half.”

As well six-foot-thee Anna Houtman continues to improve.

“She’s been working hard … she never gives up. Her advantage is that every day she’s up against Emily (White) in practice. They live together, work out together and go against each

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other and you can see the benefits.

She’s definitely more relaxed and has the calmness you didn’t see in the first half.”

The Queens started a bit slow and trailed 18-11 after the first quarter.

They took a 24-23 lead at the half and trailed 36-35 after three quarters.

They were outscored 15-4 in the fourth quarter as White and Eva Bonde both fouled out.

“I looked down the bench and we had two players who weren’t fouled out or injured,” said King. “But that’s fine. We got everyone in the game and we can build off this for Med Hat.” The RDC squads host Medicine Hat next Friday (6 p.m.) and Saturday (1 p.m.).

Janvier and Morgan Dool led the Queens with eight points each. Bonde had 10 rebounds.

Danny Rode is a retired advocate reporter who can be reached as drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 2016

Hockey

Today • Juvenile curling: Servus Credit Union Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

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

• Midget AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena; Red Deer Elks at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Olds, 2:15 p.m.; Central Alberta at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.

• Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Olds, 4:45 p.m.

• WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Centrium.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Three Hills at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday • Juvenile curling: Servus Credit Union Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Rockyview at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2:15 p.m., Arena.

• Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 2:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 5 p.m., Arena; Wheatland at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Carstar, Chillibongs vs. Monstars, Alken Basin vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Washed Up Warriors vs. NWS, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Triple A Batteries vs. The D Leaguers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Big Valley.

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, 4:45 p.m., Rimbey.

Football NFL Playoff s Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City (11-5) at Houston (9-7), 2:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (10-6) at Cincinnati (12-4), 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle (10-6) at Minnesota (11-6), 11 a.m.

Green Bay (10-6) at Washington (9-7), 2 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 & Sunday, Jan. 17 Pittsburgh, Kansas City or Houston at Denver (124), TBA Cincinnati, Houston or Kansas City at New England (12-4), TBA Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at Carolina (151), TBA Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay at Arizona (13-3), TBA Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 NFC, TBA AFC, TBA Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 6 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

TBD, 4:30 p.m.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 41 25 12 2 2 158 123 54 Prince Albert 41 23 14 3 1 134 133 50 Moose Jaw 40 20 15 4 1 139 130 45 Regina 41 17 18 3 3 128 149 40 Saskatoon 40 15 22 3 0 122 165 33 Swift Current 40 12 23 4 1 93 131 29 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Lethbridge 41 29 12 0 0 175 125 58 Red Deer 42 28 13 0 1 161 122 57 Calgary 43 25 16 1 1 142 134 52 Edmonton 41 17 20 4 0 115 133 38 Medicine Hat 40 15 21 3 1 130 153 34 Kootenay 42 8 31 3 0 87 175 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 41 28 11 2 0 147 116 58 Victoria 42 24 14 1 3 142 107 52 Prince George 40 24 14 1 1 137 118 50 Kamloops 39 19 14 4 2 135 120 44 Vancouver 42 16 21 3 2 124 144 37 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Everett 37 23 12 0 2 103 81 48 Seattle 38 21 14 3 0 121 112 45 Spokane 39 19 15 3 2 129 132 43 Portland 39 20 18 1 0 135 127 41 Tri-City 41 17 22 2 0 128 155 36 Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Medicine Hat 3 Saskatoon 1 Brandon 8 Prince Albert 1 Vancouver 5 Calgary 2 Kootenay 5 Regina 3 Lethbridge 4 Red Deer 3 (SO) Kamloops 3 Tri-City 2 Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett 3 Kelowna 2 Seattle 3 Portland 1 Saturday’s games Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Regina at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 1 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 6:05 p.m.

Tuesday, January 12 Saskatoon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Regina at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, January 13 Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Regina at Portland, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, January 15 Calgary at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

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

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Regina at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.HKO-WHL-Sums-Lethbridge-Red Deer Hurricanes 4, Rebels 3 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Johnson 2 (Purtill) 2:19.

2. Lethbridge, Wong 25 (Estephan, Burke) 5:19 (pp).

3. Red Deer, Spacek 11 (Polei, Hagel) 8:27 (pp).

4. Lethbridge, Babenko 20 (Pankewicz, Atwal) 13:37 (pp).

5. Lethbridge, Gutierrez 20 (Pankewicz, Atwal) 19:22 (pp).

Penalties — De Wit RD (tripping) 4:29, Nielsen Let (delay of game) 6:29, Polei RD (game misconduct) 9:32, Polei RD (Major-Kneeing) 9:32, Bobyk RD (high-sticking) 18:48, Nielsen Let (interference) 19:56.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Debrusk RD (fighting) 15:21, Bellerive Let (fighting) 15:21, Debrusk RD (roughing) 15:21, Wong Let (tripping) 18:48.

Third Period 6. Red Deer, Helewka 20 (Fleury, Bleackley) 7:44.

Penalties — None.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Nielsen Let (10-minute misconduct) 3:50, Gutierrez Let (slashing) 3:50.

Lethbridge : Babenko goal, Estephan miss, Wong miss.

Red Deer : Spacek miss, Nikolishin miss, Helewka miss.

Shots on goal by Lethbridge 6 14 11 1 3 — 35 Red Deer 15 9 12 1 3 — 39 Goal — Lethbridge: Sittler (W, 13-6-0) Red Deer: Toth (LS, 22-10-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Lethbridge: 3-5 Red Deer: 1-4.

Referees — Sean Raphael, Colin Watt.

Linesmen — Chris Carlson, Chad Huseby.

Tigers 3, Blades 1 First Period 1. Saskatoon, Hebig 20 (Gay, Hamm) 10:12 (pp).

Penalties — Zajac Sas (boarding) 4:19, Gingras Sas (interference) 7:56, Gerlach MH (slashing) 8:03, Quenneville MH (holding) 9:00, Clouston MH (boarding) 17:06.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hajek Sas (interference) 10:55.

Third Period 2. Medicine Hat, Quenneville 5 (Butcher, Bradley) 12:28 (pp).

3. Medicine Hat, Bradley 14 (Shaw, Forrest) 15:27.

4. Medicine Hat, Quenneville 6 (unassisted) 19:36 (-EN).

Penalties — Stanton MH (holding) 0:56, Sayers Sas (interference) 5:45, Shaw MH (tripping) 7:25, Reid Sas (holding) 7:36, McCarty Sas (interference) 10:41, Hebig Sas (tripping) 12:15.

Shots on goal by Medicine Hat17 12 24 — 53 Saskatoon 12 14 9 — 35 Goal — Medicine Hat: Shields (W, 5-7-0) Saskatoon: Hamm (L, 11-13-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Medicine Hat: 1-7 Saskatoon: 1-5.

Referees — Jason Bourdon, Cole Hamm.

Linesmen — Steven Lund, Devan Thiessen.

Ice 5, Pats 3 First Period 1. Kootenay, Philp 3 (Wellsby, Lishchynsky) 17:10.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Regina, Hobbs 11 (Wagner, Woods) 14:45.

Penalties — Grman Koo (cross-checking) 6:30, Smith Reg (inter. on goaltender) 15:26.

Third Period 3. Kootenay, Alfaro 11 (Zaharichuk, Zborosky) 2:54.

4. Kootenay, Lishchynsky 1 (Legien, Wellsby) 3:27.

5. Regina, Brooks 22 (Wagner, Harrison) 4:16.

6. Kootenay, Alfaro 12 (Zaharichuk, Zborosky) 7:25.

7. Regina, Kroeker 8 (Harrison, Woods) 14:54 (pp).

8. Kootenay, Wellsby 6 (Lishchynsky, Stewart) 18:00.

Penalties — Zborosky Koo (boarding) 10:37, Chapman Reg (Goalie, Ineligible P) 10:56, Fleury Koo (interference) 13:24, Harrison Reg (delay of game) 15:36.

Shots on goal by Regina 16 18 14 — 48 Kootenay 16 5 13 — 34 Goal — Regina: Hollett (L, 5-3-1) Kootenay: Hoflin

(W, 6-22-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 1-3 Kootenay: 0-3.

Referees — Bryan Bourdon, Jonathan Spurgeon.

Linesmen — Blake Copeland, Tyler Jensen.

Giants 5, Hitmen 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Lang 14 (Foster, Osipov) 13:43 (short-handed-SH).

2. Vancouver, Menell 4 (Lang, Foster) 19:21 (pp).

Penalties — Crunk Van (Playing w/broken st.)

13:15, Zipp CAL (holding) 18:51.

Second Period 3. Vancouver, Ronning 22 (Crunk, Popoff) 5:45.

4. Vancouver, Ronning 23 (Hardy, Popoff) 15:33.

5. Calgary, Kanzig 7 (Zipp, Bensmiller) 16:46 (pp).

Penalties — Van Bench (served by Hardy, too many men) 9:04, Plouffe Van (interference) 12:05, Brumm Van (slashing) 15:52.

Third Period 6. Vancouver, Popoff 11 (Baer) 16:16 (-EN).

7. Calgary, Hyman 1 (Bensmiller, Stallard) 18:02.

Penalties — Kanzig CAL (delay of game) 4:27, Barberis Van (hooking) 10:20.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 12 10 9 — 31 Calgary 9 11 16 — 36 Goal — Vancouver: Kubic (W, 11-11-2) Calgary: Porter (L, 15-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 1-2 Calgary: 1-5.

Referees — Reid Anderson, Trevor Peluk.

Linesmen — Sean Donnelly, Jared Mackey.

Blazers 3, Americans 2 First Period 1. Tri-City, McCue 15 (Sandhu, Lukin) 8:28.

Penalties — Rayman TC (checking from behind) 16:28.

Second Period 2. Kamloops, Needham 10 (Shirley, Sideroff) :21.

3. Kamloops, Needham 11 (Rehill, Sideroff) 2:44.

Penalties — Lukin TC (tripping) 7:38.

Third Period 4. Tri-City, Coghlan 2 (James, Stewart) 8:48.

5. Kamloops, Needham 12 (Shirley, Sideroff) 10:51.

Penalties — Verveda Kam (roughing) 5:52, Campese Kam (slashing) 12:08.

Shots on goal by Tri-City 7 10 13 — 30 Kamloops 9 16 7 — 32 Goal — Tri-City: Sarthou (L, 14-19-2) Kamloops: Ingram (W, 16-9-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Tri-City: 0-2 Kamloops: 0-2.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 40 30 7 3 63 128 86 Florida 41 25 12 4 54 114 88 Detroit 41 21 13 7 49 103 107 N.Y. Islanders 41 22 14 5 49 114 103 Montreal 42 23 16 3 49 121 104 N.Y. Rangers 40 22 14 4 48 118 105 Boston 39 21 14 4 46 122 106 New Jersey 42 20 17 5 45 95 101 Tampa Bay 41 20 17 4 44 104 100 Ottawa 41 19 16 6 44 116 123 Pittsburgh 40 19 16 5 43 94 99 Philadelphia 39 17 15 7 41 87 108 Carolina 42 17 18 7 41 98 115 Toronto 39 16 16 7 39 104 105 Buffalo 41 15 22 4 34 93 113 Columbus 42 15 24 3 33 106 135 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 43 29 10 4 62 148 114 Los Angeles 40 26 12 2 54 107 88 Chicago 43 26 13 4 56 120 101 Arizona 40 20 16 4 44 112 125 St. Louis 44 23 14 7 53 109 111 Anaheim 40 17 16 7 41 77 97 Minnesota 40 21 11 8 50 108 96 Nashville 41 19 15 7 45 107 111 Colorado 42 21 18 3 45 122 117 Winnipeg 41 19 19 3 41 109 117 Vancouver 41 16 16 9 41 100 115 Calgary 40 19 19 2 40 105 124 San Jose 38 18 18 2 38 102 108 Edmonton 42 17 22 3 37 104 125 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Dallas 2, Winnipeg 1, SO Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Florida 3, Ottawa 2 Philadelphia 4, Minnesota 3, OT Arizona 2, Calgary 1 Los Angeles 2, Toronto 1 Detroit 2, San Jose 1 Friday’s Games Anaheim 4, St. Louis 3, SO Boston 4, New Jersey 1 Carolina 4, Columbus 1 Chicago 3, Buffalo 1 Colorado 5, Nashville 3 Tampa Bay 3, Edmonton 2 Saturday’s Games Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 11 a.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Boston at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Toronto at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Buffalo at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Ottawa at Washington, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Florida at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Lightning 3, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Schultz 2 (Eberle) 15:20.

Penalties — Draisaitl Edm (hooking) 1:59, Edm Bench (too many men) 5:09.

Second Period 2. Edmonton, Pouliot 9 (Nugent-Hopkins, Sekera) 3:38 (pp).

Penalties — Kucherov TB (tripping) 2:52, Namestnikov TB (hooking) 5:25, Nesterov TB (interference) 19:05.

Third Period 3. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 15 (Hedman, Johnson) 3:01.

4. Tampa Bay, Hedman 3 (unassisted) 14:50.

5. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 18 (Hedman, Namestnikov) 15:51.

Penalties — Davidson Edm (holding) 5:11.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 9 8 9 — 26 Edmonton 5 14 7 — 26 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 16-13-3) Edmonton: Talbot (L, 7-12-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-3 Edmonton: 1-3.

Ducks 4, Blues 3 (SO) First Period 1. Anaheim, Kesler 7 (Silfverberg, Hagelin) 3:00.

Penalties — Manson Ana (holding) 14:32, Shattenkirk StL (cross-checking) 18:32.

Second Period 2. St. Louis, Reaves 2 (Berglund, Gunnarsson) 2:36.

3. St. Louis, Brouwer 8 (Edmundson) 7:03.

4. St. Louis, Fabbri 10 (Pietrangelo) 16:25.

5. Anaheim, Perry 15 (Getzlaf, Manson) 16:56.

Penalties — Perry Ana (interference) 7:28, Holzer Ana (hooking) 10:31, Kesler Ana (fighting) 10:44, Tarasenko StL (fighting) 10:44, Tarasenko StL (roughing) 10:44, Horcoff Ana (cross-checking) 12:46.

Third Period 6. Anaheim, Kesler 8 (Silfverberg, Lindholm) 4:32 (pp).

Penalties — Steen StL (high-sticking) 0:16, Jaskin StL (hooking) 3:15, Edmundson StL (cross-checking) 8:59.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Anaheim wins St. Louis : Steen goal, Tarasenko miss, Lehtera miss, Shattenkirk miss.

Anaheim : Silfverberg goal, Perry miss, Kesler miss, Getzlaf goal.

Shots on goal by St. Louis 8 17 2 1 — 28 Anaheim 12 5 19 3 — 39

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 25 9 .735 — Chicago 22 12 .647 3 Miami 22 14 .611 4 Toronto 23 15 .605 4 Atlanta 22 15 .595 4 1/2 Indiana 21 15 .583 5 Detroit 20 16 .556 6 Orlando 20 17 .541 6 1/2 Boston 19 17 .528 7 Charlotte 17 18 .486 8 1/2 New York 18 20 .474 9 Washington 15 19 .441 10 Milwaukee 15 23 .395 12 Brooklyn 10 26 .278 16 Philadelphia 4 34 .105 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB 34 2 .944 — 32 6 .842 3 25 11 .694 9 23 13 .639 11 21 16 .568 13 1/2 20 18 .526 15 18 19 .486 16 1/2 15 20 .429 18 1/2 15 21 .417 19 15 24 .385 20 1/2 13 24 .351 21 1/2 13 26 .333 22 1/2 12 25 .324 22 1/2 11 24 .314 22 1/2 8 29 .216 26 1/2

Golden State San Antonio Oklahoma City L.A. Clippers Dallas Memphis Houston Utah Sacramento Portland Denver Phoenix Minnesota New Orleans L.A. Lakers

Thursday’s Games Atlanta 126, Philadelphia 98 Chicago 101, Boston 92 Houston 103, Utah 94 Sacramento 118, L.A. Lakers 115 Friday’s Games Toronto 97, Washington 88 Orlando 83, Brooklyn 77 Cleveland 125, Minnesota 99 Indiana 91, New Orleans 86 Milwaukee 96, Dallas 95 Memphis 91, Denver 84 San Antonio 100, New York 99 Miami 103, Phoenix 95 Golden State 128, Portland 108 Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers,late Saturday’s Games Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 3 p.m.

Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 3 p.m.

Boston at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 5 p.m.

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

Charlotte at Denver, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 7 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Dustin Johnson 73-67—140 Bill Haas 71-69—140 Scott Piercy 71-69—140 Jimmy Walker 70-71—141 Chris Kirk 70-71—141 David Lingmerth 71-71—142 Troy Merritt 75-68—143 Russell Knox 71-72—143 Jason Day 70-73—143 Justin Thomas 70-73—143 J.B. Holmes 67-76—143 Zach Johnson 75-69—144 Alex Cejka 72-72—144 Emiliano Grillo 71-73—144 Graeme McDowell 75-70—145 Davis Love III 75-72—147 J.J. Henry 77-74—151 James Hahn 76-76—152 PGA European BMW South African Open Leading Scores

Friday At Glendower Golf Club Johannesburg Purse: $965,730 Yardage: 7,564 Par: 72 Second Round (77 golfers did not complete the second round) Keith Horne 67-69—136 Jbe’ Kruger 67-70—137 Justin Walters 68-70—138 Ross McGowan 68-70—138 Brandon Stone 71-67—138 Christiaan Bezuidenhout70-69—139 Retief Goosen 68-72—140 Dean Burmester 70-70—140 Cameron Moralee 69-71—140 Nicolo Ravano 69-72—141 Graeme Storm 72-70—142 Craig Lee 72-70—142 Thomas Linard 68-74—142

Golf

Transactions BASEBALL MLB LEAGUE — Suspended Cleveland RHP Joseph Colon (Columbus-IL) and Chicago Cubs RHP P.J. Francescon (Iowa-PCL) 50 games apiece under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program following second positive tests for a drug of abuse.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed INF-OF Joey Terdoslavich off waivers from Atlanta.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Acquired RHP Kirby Yates from the Cleveland Indians for cash.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with INF-OF Kelly Johnson on a one-year contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Named Gary Cathcart minor league field co-ordinator, Joe Dillon minor league hitting co-ordinator, Mike Cather minor league pitching co-ordinator and Tommy Thompson senior advisor of player development. Promoted Joe Coleman to senior advisor of pitching development, Joe Lisewski to minor league video co-ordinator.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Named Dan Jennings special assistant to president of baseball operations.

BASKETBALL NBA MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Elliot Williams to a 10-day contract. Recalled Fs James Ennis and Jarell Martin from Iowa (NBADL).

PHOENIX SUNS — Signed GLorenzo Brown to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL NFL MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DB Damarr Aultman to a reserve/future contract.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed coach Mike

McCoy a one-year contract extension through 2017.

HOCKEY NHL LEAGUE — Suspended Washington Capitals F Marcus Johansson for two games, without pay, for an illegal check to the head of New York Islanders D Thomas Hickey.

DALLAS STARS — Signed general manager Jim Nill to a five-year contract extension through the 2022-23 season.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F Mike Sislo to Albany (AHL). Placed F Tuomo Ruutu on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 6. Recalled D Marc-Andre Gragnani, F Jim O’Brien and F Paul Thompson from Albany.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Acquired F Nicklas Jensen and a 2017 sixth-round draft pick from Vancouver for RW Emerson Etem.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Paul Carey from Hershey (AHL). Reassigned D Ryan Stanton to Hershey.

AHL GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled D Scott Czarnowczan from Toledo (ECHL).

ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed F Joey Sides.

Announced F Robbie Czarnik was assigned to the team by Providence (AHL). Released Fs Adam Berkle and Andrew Ammon.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced D Joey Leach was recalled by Hershey (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Agreed to terms with M Dax McCarty and Felipe on multiyear contract extensions. Re-signed D Damien Perrinelle.

REAL SALT LAKE — Re-signed D Demar Phillips and D Phanuel Kavita.

Tournament of Champions Scores KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Scores Friday from the Tournament of Champions, played at the 7,452-yard, par-73 Plantation Course at Kapaula Resort.

Second Round Jordan Spieth 66-64—130 Kevin Kisner 69-65—134 Fabian Gomez 68-66—134 Patrick Reed 65-69—134 Danny Lee 67-68—135 Rickie Fowler 69-67—136 Steven Bowditch 69-67—136 Peter Malnati 71-66—137 Bubba Watson 69-68—137 Brooks Koepka 69-68—137 Padraig Harrington 70-68—138 Matt Every 70-68—138 Smylie Kaufman 70-69—139 Brandt Snedeker 67-72—139

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 New England 0 0 0 .000 0 Rochester 0 0 0 .000 0 Toronto 0 0 0 .000 0 Georgia 1 0 1 .000 15

Colorado

GP 1

West Division W L Pct. 1 0 1.000

GF 16

GA GB 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 — 16 .5 GA GB 15 —

Saskatchewan 1 Vancouver 0 Calgary 1

1 0 0

0 1.000 0 .000 1 .000

10 0 8

8 0 10

WEEK TWO Saturday, Jan. 9 Toronto at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.

Calgary at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

New England at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK THREE

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Thursday, Jan. 14 Rochester at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 15 Calgary at New England, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 16 Toronto at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17 New England at Georgia, 12:05 p.m.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 B5

DeRozan dazzles as 2016, the year of Spieth Raptors get revenge STARTS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS WITH A 16-UNDER

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NBA

Raptors 97 Wizards 88 WASHINGTON — Even though the Toronto Raptors have won six consecutive regular-season games against the Washington Wizards, they remember what happened last spring all too well.

Toronto lost in four straight games to Washington in the first round of the playoffs — and the Raptors can’t forget it.

DeMar DeRozan scored 21 of his season-high 35 points in the second half of the Raptors’ 97-88 victory over the Wizards 97-88 on Friday night, the kept referring to the post-season embarrassment.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a rivalry but more of, I was here during the playoffs and that was a bad feeling to get swept and coming back here just playing against them gives you that same reminder of what happened,” he said.

DeRozan and his backcourt mate, Kyle Lowry, who had 21 points and 10 assists, did most of the damage.

Lowry watched as DeRozan scored 11 in the third quarter and 10 in the fourth.

“He could go 0 for 20, but at the end of the day we’re still going to keep feeding the ball, feeding the ball, and we want him to take those shots that we know he can make,” Lowry said.

The Raptors overcame a season-high 23 turnovers, taking control with an 18-4 run that gave them a 69-59 lead with 2:40 to play in the third quarter.

John Wall scored 21 points as Washington lost for the fifth time in six games.

“The last three games, we take periods of games . and we take shortcuts.

We try to take easy ways out. We don’t make hustle plays,” Wizards coach Randy Wittman said.

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Raptors: F DeMarre Carroll missed his third game after right knee surgery on Wednesday. … The Raptors are one of three teams with a record over .500 every day over the last two years. Chicago and Golden State are the others. … F/G Terrence Ross left the game in the fourth quarter with a lower back injury. … Toronto had a season-high 13 blocked shots.

Wizards: Wittman said that G Bradley Beal, who has missed 14 games with a right leg injury, is nearing a return. … F Drew Gooden scored for the first time since Oct. 31. He played in his just second game since Nov. 17 because of a strained right calf. … F Kris Humphries has a sore right knee and missed his second straight game.

TURNING THEM OVER Toronto won despite committing 23 turnovers, its most this season.

“Coach is going to bark on it tomorrow, but it happens so we won the game, I don’t really care,” Lowry said.

DON”T FEEL SORRY Washington F Jared Dudley says the team’s effort is there, but something is missing.

“Our team did a poor job dealing with adversity this season,” Dudley said. “I don’t think we have too many come-from-behind victories. When we get down, heads drop a little bit.”

CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION Wittman said his team, which often has had five or six players hurt, is getting healthy.

“We had a party last night,” Wittman said. “We had 10 guys to practice.

We got to go a little bit of 5-on-5. That was the first time since right around Thanksgiving we’ve been able to do that.”

WALL SPEED Toronto coach Dwane Casey says that it’s hard to play against Wall because of his speed.

Grizzlys comeback falls short Storm 4 Grizzlys 3 GRANDE PRAIRIE – The Grande Prairie Storm rolled out to a 3-0 lead and hung on for a 4-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys Friday.

Josh Zablocki scored the first three Storm goals and Dallas Comeau, on the power play, potted the eventual winner at 15:52 of the third period.

Cale Brown, Tyr Thompson and Wyatt Noskey replied for the Grizzlys in front of 904 fans at Revolution Arena.

Tate Sproxton made 28 saves for the winners, while Ben Giesbrecht stopped 38 shots in the Olds net.

The Grizzlys are in Whitecourt tonight to face the Wolverines.

Slow start, but big result for Kings Kings 7 Clippers 3 CARONPORT, Sask. – It took the RDC Kings a bit to find their legs, but once they did they rolled to a 7-3 victory over the Briercrest Bible College Clippers in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play Friday.

The teams were tied 2-2 after the first period with RDC taking a 4-3 lead after 40 minutes.

Connor Patchett and Doug Jones connected in the first period with the Kings while Connor Hartley and David Heath scored in the middle stanza.

Jody Sick, who also had a pair of assists, Alex Marcinew and Pat Martens scored in the third period. Tyler Berkholtz finished with three assists while Mike Statchuk, Ben Williams and Tanner Butler had two apiece.

Josh Peters, Taylor Epp and Alex Bechtold connected for the Clippers against RDC netminder Mike Salmon, who finished with 30 saves. The Kings had 42 shots on Christian Mueller.

RDC was two for nine on the power play and killed off all five penalties.

The Kings, 11-6-0-2, face the Clippers again Saturday afternoon. BBC

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REBELS: Gap narrowing But if Friday’s outing was any indication, the Rebels have closed the margin between themselves and their Alberta foes.

“We couldn’t widen the gap, to be honest. They outscored us by a huge margin the first three games,” said Rebels assistant captain Conner Bleackley. “We came out real strong tonight and kind of shot ourselves in the foot with all those penalties. That five-minute penalty was a huge one.

We made it to the last minute (of the penalty kill) and they managed to get one.

“But I liked our effort. Shootouts can go either way. They got the extra point tonight but I think we’re hungry to play them again. We’ll learn from it, move on and get ready for tomorrow.”

Bleackley was referring to tonight’s contest against the visiting Vancouver Giants, who did the Rebels a favour Friday by bouncing the Hitmen 5-2 at Calgary.

“Lethbridge is a good hockey team and we know that not everything is going to go perfect every night,” said Sut-

is last in the league with a 2-17-0-0 record.

Canucks swap Jensen, sixthrounder for Etem VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks acquired Emerson Etem from the New York Rangers on Friday for fellow winger Nicklas Jensen and a 2017 sixth-round pick.

Etem, 23, played in 19 games with the Rangers this season, registering three assists. New York had assigned him to the AHL on a conditioning stint earlier Friday before the trade was announced.

The native of Long Beach, Calif., has 15 goals and 19 assists in 131 career games with the Rangers and Anaheim Ducks.

Etem, who played for Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins with the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers, was the 29th overall pick in the 2010 draft.

He was dealt by the Ducks to the Rangers last June in the deal that sent Carl Hagelin to Anaheim.

The 22-year-old Jensen, meanwhile, never lived up to expectations in Vancouver. The 29th overall pick in 2011 has been playing in the AHL this season and has three goals and three assists in 24 career NHL games.

Mack an All-Pro at two positions NEW YORK — Khalil Mack has become the first selection at two positions in the same year, while Adrian Peterson and J.J. Watt are unanimous choices for the 2015 Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team.

Mack was a force at both defensive end and outside linebacker for Oakland this season. He drew enough support Friday from a panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league to make history. Others, including Houston’s Watt last year, have been chosen first team at one position and second at another.

Carolina, with an NFL-best 15-1 record, had the most All-Pros with six:

quarterback Cam Newton, fullback Mike Tolbert, centre Ryan Kalil, linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis and cornerback Josh Norman.

Kuechly and Pittsburgh receiver Antonio Brown received 49 votes.

One rookie, Seattle kick returner Tyler Lockett, made the squad.

In all, 15 NFC players and 12 from the AFC were chosen.

St. Louis leaders speak out about Rams relocation claims ST. LOUIS — Civic officials are firing back after the Rams’ application for relocation to Los Angeles questioned fan support and the economic viability of the St. Louis market.

The Rams’ application highlights the potential benefits of owner Stan Kroenke’s planned stadium in Inglewood, California. And much to the anger of St. Louis fans and officials, it is critical of the St. Louis region, even questioning if it can support three pro sports teams.

In a five-page response sent to the league Friday, the St. Louis NFL Stadium Task Force wrote that it was not prepared “for the cruel attack and false claims” that “attempt to punish and embarrass St. Louis” despite two decades of support.

Cardinals scouting director pleads guilty to hacking HOUSTON — The former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals has pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database.

Christopher Correa pleaded guilty

Friday to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer, access authorities said dated back several years. The 35-year-old Correa was the Cardinals’ director of baseball development until he was fired last summer.

Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had blamed the alleged hack on “roguish behaviour” by a handful of individuals. No one else was charged.

The data breach was first reported in June 2014 when Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow told reporters the team had been the victim of hackers who accessed servers and published online months of internal trade talks. Luhnow is a former employee with the Cardinals.

Jays deal Revere to Nats TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have added to their bullpen by acquiring right-handed pitcher Drew Storen from the Washington Nationals.

Toronto sent outfielder Ben Revere and a player to be named later back to Washington to complete the deal Friday night.

The 28-year-old Storen appeared in 58 games for the Nationals last season, recording 29 saves with a 3.44 earned-run-average and 67 strikeouts in 55 innings.

In 2014 the six-foot-one righty posted a 1.12 ERA to lead all National League relievers. He has 95 career saves over his six seasons — with a career-high 43 in 2011.

Revere, 27, was acquired by Toronto from the Phillies on July 31 as the club pushed for the post-season. He posted a .319 average with in 56 games with the Jays. The left-handed hitter added 31 stolen bases on the season — his fourth season with 30 or more.

ter. “We have to understand that and we have to deal with adversity better when a game is not going exactly the way you need it to go.

“Five on five, I thought we played a pretty good game tonight, but again, the undisciplined stuff bothers you because it’s stuff that can’t happen at this time of the year and moving forward.”

Sittler turned aside 36 shots through 65 minutes for his 13th win of the season. Toth made 33 saves. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

OILERS: Owngoals do in Oil The Lightning made it 2-1 three minutes into the third period as a Kucherov shot deflected off defender Brandon Davidson and past Talbot.

Edmonton allowed another owngoal with five minutes left as Taylor Hall inadvertently deflected a Hedman shot past Talbot to tie the game up.

A minute later, Tampa Bay scored its third goal off an Oilers player as a Stamkos shot hit the skate of defender Darnell Nurse and into the net to make it 3-2.

The Lightning are right back at it on Saturday, heading to Vancouver to face the Canucks. The Oilers close out their six-game homestand on Sunday.

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KAPALUA, Hawaii — A new year, and everything is falling Jordan Spieth’s way.

Spieth chipped in for eagle, make a pair of tough par saves late and ended his round Friday with a 15-foot birdie putt into the grain that stopped on the lip and then dropped into the cup for a 9-under 64. It gave him a four-shot lead in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

Two rounds into 2016, it already feels a lot like last year.

Spieth is making putts. Spieth is holing chips. Spieth is in the lead.

For all the talk about how he can match what he did last year — two majors, five victories — it might be just as tough to repeat what he has done the opening two rounds. Spieth was at 16-under 130, one short of the 36-hole record at Kapalua set by Ernie Els in 2003.

“Did I see 16 under? Probably not to start the season,” Spieth said.

Kevin Kisner, coming off a big year of his own with his first victory and four runner-up finishes, missed a couple of short birdie putts and still shot his way around the Plantation Course with ease for an 8-under 65 that earned him a spot in the final group with Spieth on Saturday.

“What’s Jordan at? I saw he was at 15,” Kisner said when he finished.

“He’ll probably shoot another 15 (under), so I better get going tomorrow, the way he plays. We’ll just make a bunch of birdies and see what happens.”

Birdies have not been in short supply this week with only a moderate breeze and a blazing sun that is making Kapalua pick up some speed. Fabian Gomez of Argentina, one of 14 players making his debut this week, made seven birdies in his round of 66. He joined Kisner and Patrick Reed (69) in the group four shots behind.

Reed didn’t make nearly enough

birdies to keep pace. He fell out of the lead for the first time when Spieth made an 18-foot birdie on No. 8, and then Spieth took over with a chip from 35 feet behind the pin that broke sharply into the pin and disappeared.

But it was the back nine where Spieth built his lead.

Even this early in the year, he felt good enough with his driver to be aggressive on the 13th, and it led to a short wedge he hit to 3 feet. He driver again on the 14th, narrowly clearly a bunker and leaving a pitch just short of the green to 3 feet. And then from a hanging lie on the 15th, he drilled a 3-wood just off the back of the green and rolled the putt down to just over 4 feet for a third straight birdie.

Equally important, however, were the pars.

His worst swing of the week with a 52-degree wedge was fat and smothered, and it left him a long, tough putt across the green to 6 feet. He made that for par, and holed a 7-footer for par on the 17th. The final putt was a bonus.

“I go from leading by one to leading by four,” he said. “And that’s huge.”

Kisner only needed five holes to tie for the lead, making two birdies and a 30-foot eagle on the par-5 fifth hole.

He started the back nine with three straight birdies, and the only glitch was failing to birdie the two par 5s on the back nine.

“First tournament of the year, kind of rusty, haven’t played in a while,” Kisner said. “Seeing where my game is, I’m looking forward to having a chance on the weekend.”

Danny Lee recovered from a bogey-bogey start to shoot 68 and was five shots behind. Rickie Fowler and Steven Bowditch each had 67 and were another shot back.

Jason Day, the No. 2 player in the world competing for the first time in three months, had a 73 and already was 12 shots behind. He would appear to have little chance of getting to No. 1 this week.

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Labour market resilient in 2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In a tough year that saw the economy recoil over its first half, the country’s job market still produced its best result in three years, Statistics Canada data has revealed.

On Friday, the federal agency released a 2015 review of its labour force survey that showed national employment rose by 0.9 per cent over the course of the year.

The numbers say the economy bulked up by adding 158,100 net new jobs — and 95.5 per cent of those gigs, or 151,000, were full-time positions.

The results represent a flicker of positivity from an otherwise poor economic year packed with negatives.

The data also displayed signs of sectoral changes, as the number of natural resources jobs declined and manufacturing positions increased.

The landscape was shaken up after the sharp drop in commodity prices — and crude oil, in particular — forced Canada’s economy to contract through the first two quarters of the year. The lack of growth in two straight quarters met the definition of a technical recession.

Economic growth returned in the third quarter, but data has shown that weaknesses returned in the

final three months of 2015.

And yet, the overall labour market improved on its employment growth rates of 0.7 per cent in both 2013 and 2014.

The Conference Board of Canada’s Pedro Antunes pointed to another bright spot: the long-awaited uptick in manufacturing jobs.

Likely with help from a weaker exchange rate, the number of manufacturing positions in Canada rose last year by 35,900, or 2.1 per cent. It was the only goods-producing category to see an increase.

“Not a lot of job creation, but at least it was positive in 2015 for the first time in many years,” said Antunes, the Conference Board’s deputy chief economist.

“And we’re hoping to see more gains in manufacturing.”

It was the first time the manufacturing sector added net jobs since 2012 and, according to Desjardins senior economist Jimmy Jean, it marked the industry’s second-best year for growth since 2003.

“Looking back at 2015, the resurgence of manufacturing employment was a key reason for Canada recording its best job creation in the last three years,” Jean wrote in a research note, which kept a cautious tone when considering the future.

“Despite the weak currency, it is unclear whether this narrative will remain alive in 2016, given the

Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in December. Here’s what happened provincially (previous month in brackets): ● Newfoundland and Labrador 14.4 per cent (13.0) ● Prince Edward Island 9.7 (10.4) ● Nova Scotia 8.6 (8.6) ● New Brunswick 8.9 (8.7) ● Quebec 7.8 (7.5) ● Ontario 6.7 (6.9) ● Manitoba 5.9 (6.1) ● Saskatchewan 5.5 (5.5) ● Alberta 7.0 (7.0) ● British Columbia 6.7 (6.2) trajectory taken by the North American, and in fact, global manufacturing activity.”

The year-end data, however, painted a different picture for the once-mighty natural resources industry. Statistics Canada said employment fell in the sector last year by 25,600 jobs, or 6.8 per cent, following the drop in commodity prices.

The drop in natural resources jobs triggered a geographic shift when it came to where employment was created.

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Natural gas export licence approved BOARD OKS FIRST 40-YEAR LICENCE TO LNG CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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A reduced For Sale sign sits in front of a house on Timothy Dr. in the Timberlands subdivision. The house is one of many for sale in the area.

November a tough month for real estate

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta home sales plummeted in November compared with a year earlier.

The Multiple Listing Service registered 259 residential sales in November, down 28.3 per cent from November 2014.

Through the first 11 months of last year, Central Alberta sales are down 18.5 per cent to 4,277 units, according to the statistics released by the Central Alberta Realtors Association on Friday.

Province-wide, November sales activity is down 21 per cent as Alberta’s oil economy wrestles with sinking world prices.

While the numbers are grim, the realtors association notes that November 2014 was second highest

November on record for Central Alberta.

So far, slumping real estate markets have not translated into significant changes to the cost of housing. The year-over-year average price of homes sold through 11 months last year is down only 3.1 per cent to $298,673.

For buyers, there are a lot more homes to consider. A November record was set with 554 new listings, up 36.1 per cent from a year earlier.

There was also 9.5 months of inventory at the end of the month, compared with 5.6 months a year earlier. Inventory is a calculation based on how long it would take to sell the number of homes on the market at current sales rates.

Central Alberta Realtors Association is a co-operative representing more than 560 realtors in Central Alberta.

VANCOUVER — Plans for a liquefied-natural-gas export facility on British Columbia’s northwest coast inched forward after backers received the first-ever 40-year export licence issued by the National Energy Board.

The regulatory board granted LNG Canada the licence Thursday, allowing the international joint venture led by Shell (TSX:SHC) to export up to 38-billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas annually from a terminal to be located near Kitimat, B.C. LNG Canada will be allowed to export up to 1,494-billion cubic metres of gas over the 40-year term, but the licence will expire Dec. 31, 2022 unless exports have begun.

The licence is a significant milestone for the project, said LNG Canada CEO Andy Calitz.

“An extended term provides regulatory security beyond 25 years and allows us to better anticipate the economics of the project over a longer-time horizon,” said Calitz in a statement.

Until the National Energy Board Act was amended in June 2015, the maximum term length of an export permit was 25 years.

The prime minister and his cabinet must still approve the licence.

B.C.’s Ministry of Natural Gas Development said in a statement the province supports 40-year export licenses.

“It improves long-term certainty for the industry and strengthens B.C.’s competitive positioning in the global market,” said the ministry.

Concerns were raised during the application process about the amount of natural gas available in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, from where the gas will be extracted.

LNG Canada hired Navigant Consulting to assess the situation, and the firm delivered a report saying there is enough supply for about 100 years, even if all of the other proposed long-term gas exports in Canada proceeded.

The board said in a letter published Thursday exports will be surplus to Canadian needs.

“The board is satisfied that the natural gas resource base in Canada, as well as North America overall, is large and can accommodate reasonably foreseeable Canadian demand, including the natural gas exports proposed in this application, and a plausible potential increase in demand,” the letter said.

The export licence comes just days after the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission approved an LNG Canada facility permit, which outlines design, construction and operation requirements.

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Figuring out what to do after high school a challenge Dear Working Wise: My son is graduating from high school this year, but he still doesn’t know what he wants to study afterward. How can I encourage him to find a path and follow it? Signed, Worried Dear Worried: The huge variety of career options combined with an unfamiliarity with the workplace and the weight of choosing the right career can be overwhelming for some.

Fortunately, there are a number of resources available to help young Albertans decide what careers interest them and how to pursue success in the workplace.

Start your son’s journey off right with these six steps.

Step 1—Self-discovery is the foundation of solid career planning. Getting to know yourself can be tricky, though. The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site http://alis.alberta.ca offers a free online, self-directed career-planning tool called CAREERinsite that he may find helpful. He may also prefer to use the This Is Your Life workbook, which is available in the Publications section of the ALIS web site.

Step 2—Encourage him to explore careers that fit his list of wants and interests. This may be just the thing to get him excited about his post-secondary ed-

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ucation. The OCCinfo section of the ALIS web site houses a wealth of information on career options including detailed profiles of more than 500 occupations, including typical wages, duties, work environments, and educational requirements.

Step 3—Get him to narrow down his choices. Suggest that he interview people who work in the careers that interest him. Informational interviews CHARLES will give him a real-world STRACHEY view of the job plus they WORKING WISE might open up other exciting opportunities. Job-shadowing, volunteering and part-time jobs are fantastic ways for students to pick up valuable work experience and try out careers before they spend years in post-secondary. He should also factor in what the future demand is likely to be for his target career by checking out Alberta’s Occupational Supply and Demand Outlook at http://work. alberta.ca/lmi.

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Step 4—Help him choose a program and then a school. The EdInfo section of the ALIS website http:// alis.alberta.ca/edinfo is a searchable database of nearly 2,800 different education programs available in Alberta.

Step 5—Apply. The ApplyAlberta website has made it easier for students to apply to one or more post-secondary institutions, authorize transcript transfers, and avoid having to fill out the same information over and over. Check out the ApplyAlberta web site at https://www.applyalberta.ca.

Step 6—Visit www.alis.alberta.ca/payingforschool to find out about the costs of post-secondary education and how to pay for it. You can learn more about scholarships, bursaries and student loans, and apply for loans, on the Student Aid Alberta website www. studentaid.alberta.ca.

Finally, if you would like any more tips to help you work with your son, check out the Career Coaching Your Teens: A Guide for Parents publication on ALIS. Good luck to you both.

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov.ab. ca. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 117.16 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 35.40 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.21 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.93 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.26 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.20 Cdn. National Railway . . 72.62 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 159.55 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 31.97 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.72 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.35 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.28 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.89 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 17.80 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.23 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.53 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.84 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 38.98 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.05 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.42 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 4.43 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 43.47 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 109.86 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.61 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.60 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.25 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Hopes for a reprieve on North American stock markets were dashed Friday in another dismal session that capped off a turbulent start to the year.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index was down 2.76 points at 12,445.45, a relatively flat close that marked the eighth consecutive day of declines that left it more than 20 per cent below its all-time high set in September 2014. A drop of that magnitude is generally considered to signal a bear market.

The TSX has lost 4.3 per cent of its value since the start of the week and the beginning of 2016 — with a precipitous drop in key commodities like oil and gold making the biggest dent.

Wall Street declines were even steeper on Friday as U.S. markets wrapped up their worst week since 2011.

The Dow Jones ended down 167.65 points at 16,346.45 while the broader S&P 500 slipped 21.06 points to 1,922.03 and the Nasdaq dropped 45.80 points to 4,643.63.

A lot has happened since traders ushered in the new year with hopes of moving past 2015, which was accented by falling oil prices and a sour outlook for Canada’s economy.

But optimism quickly evaporated when China’s new circuit breaker kicked in early Monday after the Shanghai index plunged seven per cent. While the mechanism was intended to avert further falls, it also appeared to send global stock markets into a panic as traders shifted their positions in anticipation of other surprises.

Matters only worsened by Thursday when a surprise move

by China’s central bank to adjust its currency rate did little to calm fears, and the market dropped again, causing the local regulator to suspend the circuit breaker.

China’s main indexes finally moved higher on Friday, though it didn’t seem to be enough to resurrect positivity in North America.

“Right now in the marketplace there’s a lot of ‘Sell first, ask questions later,”’ said Kevin Headland, director of capital markets and strategy at Manulife

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.97 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.26 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.54 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.34 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 11.92 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.21 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.24 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.68 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.42 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.64 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.17 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.79 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.670 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 4.45 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 15.96 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.02 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.58 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.44 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 14.92 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.30 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.47 Canyon Services Group. . 3.32 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.50 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.91 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.510 Asset Management.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.26 of a cent at 70.68 cents U.S. as it continued to plumb depths not seen since July 2003.

In the latest sign of a strengthening American economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 292,000 jobs in December, far more than analysts forecast. Canada added about 22,800 jobs in December, though that was fuelled by parttime work.

On the TSX, the energy sector inched up 0.2 per cent, even as the February crude contract lost 11 cents to US$33.16 a barrel — settling down more than 10 per cent on the week.

“We’re trying to find a base in oil prices — where that base is, I don’t think anyone really knows,” said Headland.

“When you start seeing pressure at corporations, in terms of more defaults and more M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity … when you see companies trying to hold on for dear life, and that’s when you start to see the bottoming of oil prices in North America.”

The natural gas contract for February rose nine cents to US$2.47 per mmBtu. Gold stocks dropped 2.3 per cent and February gold fell by $9.90 to US$1,097.90 an ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,445.45, down 2.76 points Dow — 16,346.45, down 167.65 points S&P 500 — 1,922.03, down 21.06 points Nasdaq — 4,643.63, down 45.80 points Currencies: Cdn — 70.68 cents US, down 0.26 of a cent Pound — C$2.0555, down 0.57 of a cent Euro — C$1.5450, up 0.36 of a cent Euro — US$1.0919, down 0.15 of a cent Oil futures: US$33.16 per barrel, down 11 cents (record low) (February contract)

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 74.69 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.46 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.31 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.40 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.38 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 0.97 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.990 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.66 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.25 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.415 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.80 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 34.61 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1100 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.52 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 54.56 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.14 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 21.56 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.17 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 33.84 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 86.94 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.01 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 38.80 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.07 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.07 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.05 Gold futures: US$1,097.90 per oz., down $9.90 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.56 oz., down 26.8 cents $661 kg., down $8.52 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘16 $3.30 higher $473.20 March ‘16 $3.30 higher $481.30 May ‘16 $3.50 higher $488.60 July ‘16 $4.40 higher $493.20 Nov. ‘16 $5.20 higher $490.20 Jan. ‘17 $5.90 higher $493.50 March ‘17 $5.90 higher $493.60 May ‘17 $5.90 higher $493.60 July ‘17 $5.90 higher $493.60 Nov. ‘17 $5.90 higher $493.60 Jan. ‘18 $5.90 higher $493.60.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $182.00 May ‘16 unchanged $188.00 July ‘16 unchanged $190.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $190.00 March ‘17 unchanged $190.00 May ‘17 unchanged $190.00 July ‘17 unchanged $190.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $190.00 March ‘18 unchanged $190.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 335,860 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 335,860.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The clock has run out on Suncor Energy’s $4-billion hostile takeover offer for Canadian Oil Sands.

The all-stock bid, which was open until Friday evening, needs two-thirds support to go through.

The final results have not been made public yet, and Suncor’s CEO has said the company may need the weekend to decide its next move.

Suncor has said the likelihood of it raising its offer is negligible and it’s prepared to walk away and move on to other opportunities if it doesn’t garner enough support by the deadline.

The board and management of COS say the best way forward is for the company to stay independent and that it’s poised to prosper once crude prices recover.

Suncor argues that’s a risky proposition for shareholders given the likelihood of a prolonged downturn in crude prices.

“I will watch with very close attention as the tenders come in,” CEO Steve Williams said on a conference call this week. “We’ll make the judg-

Court upholds award against negligent auditor TORONTO — The corporate auditor to the once high-flying Livent theatre company run by disgraced mogul Garth Drabinsky was partly responsible for the hundreds of millions of dollars creditors ended up losing, Ontario’s top court ruled Friday.

In upholding an $85.6-million award against Deloitte and Touche — $118 million with interest — the Court of Appeal sided with a judge who found the auditor had been negligent in failing to detect, and act on, the fraudulent behaviour of Drabinsky and his partner, Myron Gottlieb, in the 1990s.

After all, there had been numerous red flags for several years that Deloitte essentially ignored, the court found.

“Deloitte knew that Drabinsky and Gottlieb were aggressive entre-

ment through the weekend as to whether we believe we will be able to move to closing the deal out.”

COS shares closed at $7.47 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday, about 10 per cent below the value of the bid based on Suncor’s closing share price Friday.

At the crux of the battle is the outlook for oil.

U.S. crude settled at a paltry US$33.16 a barrel on Friday.

COS is focused entirely on its 37 per cent share of the Syncrude oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta., making it particularly exposed to swings in commodity prices.

Suncor, whose 12 per cent stake in Syncrude represents a small slice of its oilsands holdings, believes oil prices will remain low for a long time and says COS shareholders face an uncertain future if they say reject the deal.

COS has accused Suncor of fear mongering.

Bradley Freelan, a partner at law firm Fasken Martineau who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, said there are a number of possible scenarios that could play out now that the deadline has passed. preneurs who pushed the envelope in terms of accounting and financial measures,” the Appeal Court said in a 100-page judgment.

“It is more likely than not that a careful and objective investigation into Livent’s financial statements, pursued with ‘an attitude of professional skepticism,’ would have revealed the fraud.”

Under the flamboyant Drabinsky, Livent Inc. brought popular shows like “Phantom of the Opera,” “Show Boat,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” to stages across North America.

The shenanigans were discovered in mid-1998 when a new management team took over. Within months, Livent went bust — leaving investors and banks about $500 million out of pocket.

Drabinsky and Gottlieb went to prison for fraud and forgery.

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JOBS: Alberta loses 14,600 net jobs Energy-rich Alberta lost 14,600 net jobs — or 0.6 per cent — in 2015, a tally dragged down significantly by a loss of 20,900 positions in the commodity sector.

Over the year, 44,000 full-time jobs were lost in the province, Statistics Canada said.

Newfoundland and Labrador, meanwhile, shed 4,300 positions, a 1.8 per cent decrease that helped push the unemployment rate up by 2.6 percentage points to 14.4 per cent. Its natural resources sector lost 11 per cent, or 1,900, of its jobs.

On the flip side, the changing conditions boosted employment last year in places like British Columbia, where overall jobs grew by 2.3 per cent — the highest rate of any province. B.C. added 51,600 jobs, a total that included 17,300 manufacturing positions.

Ontario, which added 80,700 jobs in 2015, and Quebec, which saw an increase of 48,300, each saw their employment totals rise by 1.2 per cent.

“The 2015 picture was not so bad given the difficult circumstances in some parts of the country,” National Bank senior economist Matthieu Arseneau wrote in a note.

“However, all in all, we doubt the Canadian labour market will be able to match 2015’s performance this year if commodity prices do not stabilize.”-

LNG: 4,500 to 7,500 jobs The four-square-kilometre facility will include a marine terminal, a rail yard, storage tanks and a water treatment facility.

Between 4,500 and 7,500 workers would be hired to construct the plant.

LNG Canada, which includes Shell Canada Energy and affiliates of PetroChina, Korea Gas Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp., has not yet made a final investment decision about the project.

“If the LNG Canada project moves into construction, it will be one of the largest energy infrastructure projects ever built in Canada, and will make an important and lasting contribution to the local, provincial and national economy,” Calitz said.

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Westerner introduces Antifaiff as CEO PREPARING TO CELEBRATE LANDMARK 125TH ANNIVERSARY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Cue the music and light the candles — Westerner Park is 125 years old.

Since 1891, Central Albertans have gathered at the park for celebrations, community events, agricultural activities, entertainment, sports and conferences.

On Thursday, Westerner Park officials and guests met at the Holiday Inn Chalet to honour the park’s past and greet the future that includes a new CEO and general manager.

Ben Antifaiff officially joined the Westerner team Jan. 1.

Antifaiff, a chartered accountant, taught accounting and finance at two post-secondary institutions in Regina, and has over 15 years of leadership experience in a number of organizations.

Since July 2013, he had been the vice-president of finance/administration and chief financial officer with The Regina Exhibition Association Limited.

The new CEO said the Westerner has plenty of advantages over similar venues.

“It’s tidy. It’s well kept. There’s been money spent on infrastructure.

Some event facilities across the country are old and have been run down and maybe capital has been a challenge. It appears that Red Deer and the community has done a really good job looking after this property,” said Antifaiff, whose appointment was announced in October.

He said the warm welcome for visitors begins right at the gates to the park.

“Then walk into the Centrium Centre, it’s a beautiful lobby, and it opens up nicely into, I think, probably one of the best WHL arenas in the country

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Ben Antifaiff, the new Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Westerner Park, talks about the upcoming activities and plans for Westerner Park on Thursday afternoon at the Holiday Inn Chalet. right now.”

He said during this special anniversary year, there will also be a “different taste and feel” to the park.

“It’s actually quite exciting,” Antifaiff said.

Graham Heron, president and board chair of Westerner Exposition Association, said he couldn’t divulge any details except that the organization would be recognizing and immortalizing the landmark anniversary.

“As we move forward, every event that we have will circle back and focus on remembering 125 years of history,” Heron said.

The Westerner is also looking to build on its strengths.

Heron said results of a recent customer survey showed the park wasn’t

utilizing its position in the community to the greatest extent possible.

“It was recognized that in order to continue to have events both nationally and internationally recognized, we have to take the facilities that we have, we have to maintain them to the highest standard, and we have to also develop further facilities to expand. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward,” Heron said.

Westerner Park is Central Alberta’s largest trade show, agricultural, sports, entertainment and convention facility.

The centre has 50 full-time staff and 150 volunteers and generates $150 million in economic activity by hosting more than 1,500 annual events. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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As snow continued to fall throughout the day, City of Red Deer crews worked to clear off sidewalks downtown the past couple of days.

RDC makes pitch to province for new status

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College officials were joined this week by Grande Prairie Regional College counterparts to press the province for degree-granting status.

Alberta Minister of Advanced Education Lori Sigurdson was in Red Deer on Tuesday to meet with student, college administration, local MLAs, business and municipal representatives from both cities to discuss their polytechnic university ambitions.

“I think she left with a very clear understanding of the deep level of support and the need for this initiative in these two communities,” said Red Deer College president Joel Ward.

“I think we have made progress. In no way have they said yes, but they certainly do understand the need.”

Ward said both colleges want to see a decision this year.

“I think we’re closer than we have ever been and we will continue our advocacy.”

Red Deer College Student Association president Maryann McGrath and the association’s three vice-presidents met with the minister as a group to demonstrate students’ support.

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“I THINK WE HAVE MADE PROGRESS. IN NO WAY HAVE THEY SAID YES, BUT THEY CERTAINLY DO UNDERSTAND THE NEED.” - JOEL WARD, RED DEER COLLEGE PRESIDENT McGrath said the minister was receptive to the college’s goal.

“Overall, the JOEL WARD most important thing that the student association took away from that meeting is (Sigurdson) seemed to be taking small steps toward ensuring that we do become degree granting,” she said.

The province and Red Deer College are at a “critical moment,” said McGrath.

Alberta’s economic downturn has left more people seeking further education and training. At the same time, the college is poised to expand its mandate when it gets the green light from the province.

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kicked off a postcard campaign to get students to sign a card showing their support for a polytechnic university.

It is hoped 3,000 cards will be ready to be delivered to the province sometime this spring.

Red Deer MLAs, Barb Miller and Kim Schreiner were joined by Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Wildrose MLA Don McIntyre in the meeting with the minister.

McIntyre was later critical of the minister’s failure to commit now to creating a polytechnic university.

Sigurdson missed an opportunity to show its support for rural residents in Central Alberta and northwestern Alberta, he says.

Rural politicians are keen to see the college expand its offerings to stem the brain drain into the major centres. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

The plan to end homelessness in Red Deer by 2018 reached a milestone on Friday with the release of a new “road map” outlining a way to better co-ordinate services and help people who experience homelessness.

Scott Cameron, Social Planning Manager for the City of Red Deer, said a Request For Proposals will go out on Tuesday, asking organizations to submit proposals for housing and support services.

The 52-page Systems Framework for Housing and Supports, a comprehensive and consultative report, outlines 10 components in the framework for agencies to work together in a co-ordinated way with the city and province.

These components include things like co-ordinated entry, rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing and landlord engagement services.

The integrated systems approach in the report “means that no matter where a person enters the system through the co-ordinated entry, he/she can access any services that are needed.

“Service-access is not granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Rather, streamlined assessment and referral protocols will be used to ensure that people receive the services they need and want at any given time.

Thus rather than relying on an organization-by-organization, or program-by-program approach, the system framework aims at the delivery of initiatives in a purposeful and strategic manner for a collective group of stakeholders to support client outcomes.”

The top two priorities include housing 115 of the longest-term shelter stayers in Red Deer to bring the average length of stay in shelters down to four days; and house 43 rough sleepers (people who sleep outdoors) who are not connected to shelter, eliminating street homelessness.

Through the Community Housing Advisory Board, the city administers $3.44 million in homelessness funding each year from the province.

As the existing contracts with support agencies were all due to expire on June 30, the city needed another mechanism to continue to move the dollars out into the community, Cameron said.

So an overall systems review was done, looking at how the money was working, where the successes were and where opportunities were to tighten things up in the delivery of homelessness supports and services in the community, he said.

The report identifies components that appear to be having great success elsewhere in ending homelessness.

“Some of them we’ve been doing for years,” Cameron said.

“What this report is saying is maybe we have some of these components but they might not have been talking to each other in the way we need them to be. And so this is more of we’ll be more deliberate and intentional about how those components work together so that someone doesn’t get lost in the system.

“Our focus needs to be on those people who have been homeless the longest.

“Our data tells us that if we shift to a more proactive outreach, focusing on those who have been homeless longest, about 160 people, we can end homelessness,” Cameron said. “There’s opportunities to improve co-ordination.”

The report, based on a lot of consultation with stakeholders, builds on previous work done in the current fiveyear plan on homelessness. It is “our road map to end homelessness,” he said.

The community housing board will review the proposals once they are received.

“There are any number of organizations that can apply for any of the components of the framework,” Cameron said.

Community agencies can learn more at an information session on Monday, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Room 3 at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

Systems Framework for Housing and Supports is available on the city’s website at reddeer.ca/whats-happening/news-room/ barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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CAIRO — Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded three foreign tourists — two Austrians and a Swede — at a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.

Security forces opened fire at the two assailants, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to a ministry statement. The wounded attacker was arrested, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

It is the second attack on a hotel frequented by foreign tourists in Egypt in as many days, an ominous development for the country’s already battered tourism industry.

The attacks came less than three months after a Russian airliner was

downed over the Sinai Peninsula shortly after it took off from Sharm elSheikh, another popular Red Sea resort in Egypt. All 224 people on board, most of them Russian, were killed. The local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft, saying it had planted a bomb aboard.

The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said two men armed with knives had entered the restaurant at the front of the seaside, fourstar Bella Vista Hotel and attacked the tourists.

The ministry identified the slain attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Mahfouz, a student from Cairo’s neighbourhood of Giza.

Both attackers, it said, carried knives

Obama mocks conspiracy theorists, tears into NRA FAIRFAX, Va. — President Barack Obama mocked conspiracy theorists and tore into the National Rifle Association for pushing “imaginary fiction,” as he described his plans to tighten gun control rules as modest first steps toward tackling gun violence in America.

In a prime-time, televised town hall meeting Thursday, Obama fielded tough questions from high-profile gun control opponents and supporters alike, often answering with sympathy and without confrontation as he tried to reassure Americans there is a middle ground on a fiercely divisive issue.

But Obama didn’t hold back when asked by CNN moderator Anderson Cooper about the notion that the federal government — and Obama in particular — wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law.

He blamed that notion on the NRA and like-minded groups that convince its members that “somebody’s going to come grab your guns.”

“Yes, that is a conspiracy,” Obama said. “I’m only going to be here for an-

other year. When would I have started on this enterprise?” Obama defended his support for the constitutional right to gun ownership while arguing it was consistent with his efforts to curb mass shootings. He said the NRA refused to acknowledge the government’s responsibility to make legal products safer, citing seatbelts and child-proof medicine bottles as examples.

Taking the stage at George Mason University, Obama accused the NRA of refusing to participate in the town hall despite having its headquarters nearby.

“Since this is a main reason they exist, you’d think that they’d be prepared to have a debate with the president,” Obama said.

NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said beforehand that the group saw “no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House.” Several NRA members were in the audience for the event, which was organized and hosted

by CNN. And the NRA pushed back on Twitter in real time, noting at one point “none of the president’s orders would have stopped any of the recent mass shootings.”

Saudi Arabia must choose between hatred or stability, says Iran engage in dialogue and accommodation to promote regional stability and combat destabilizing extremist violence.”

But Zarif accused the Saudis of trying to prevent or defeat the nuclear deal reached in July with six world powers, of producing and supporting extremists who have carried out “acts of terror” and of waging a “senseless war” in Yemen.

Iran’s foreign minister says Saudi Arabia has to make “a crucial choice” — either continue supporting extremists and promoting sectarian hatred or promote good neighbourliness and regional stability.

Javad Zarif said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Iran has “no desire or interest in escalation of tension in our neighbourhood” and hopes Saudi Arabia will “heed the cause of reason.”

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acceptable again in Europe, it is necessary to research and critically present the appalling driving forces of National Socialism and its deadly racism,” Wirsching said.

Mein Kampf published in Germany for first time since Second World War

Belgian prosecutors reveal new details about Paris attacks

MUNICH — An annotated edition of Mein Kampf, the first version of Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of the Second World War, went on sale Friday — a volume that many hope will help demystify the book and debunk the Nazi leader’s writing.

The Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History has worked for several years on the plain-covered volume, officially titled Hitler, Mein Kampf: A Critical Edition. It launched the book days after the copyright of the German-language original expired at the end of 2015 — 70 years after Hitler’s death.

Over the years Bavaria’s state finance ministry had used its copyright on the book to prevent the publication of new editions. The book wasn’t actually banned in Germany, though, and could be found online, in secondhand bookshops and in libraries.

The new edition “sets out as far as possible Hitler’s sources, which were deeply rooted in the German racist tradition of the late 19th century,” said the Munich institute’s director, Andreas Wirsching. “This edition exposes the false information spread

by Hitler, his downright lies and his many half-truths, which aimed at a pure propaganda effect.”

“At a time when the well-known formulae of far-right xenophobia are threatening to become … socially

BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors on Friday revealed new details about the biggest mystery in the Paris attacks: What happened to fugitive Salah Abdeslam after he ditched his car and explosive vest?

After slipping through a police dragnet, they said, he apparently hid out in the same Brussels apartment that served as the killers’ bomb factory.

“We found material to make explosives, we found traces of explosives and we found three belts. So you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to make the right deduction,” Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said.

Also discovered during a Dec. 10 police search of the third-floor residence on the Rue Henri Berge: one of 26-year-old Abdeslam’s fingerprints, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement.

A Brussels native whose older brother, Brahim, was one of the Paris suicide bombers, Abdeslam is believed to have played a key logistical role in the Nov. 13 carnage in which 130 people lost their lives. Islamic State extremists have claimed responsibility for the mass killings.

Early on the morning of Nov. 14, Abdeslam called two friends in Brussels to come fetch him from the French capital.

A French gendarme stopped the three men in their car near the border, but released them.

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The witness spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the hotel’s management regulations.

The attack came just hours after the local affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack a day earlier on a hotel in Cairo near the Giza Pyramids. No one was hurt in the Thursday attack in which a group of over a dozen men fired flares and birdshot at a security post outside the hotel where Arab Israeli tourists were staying.

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All three wounded tourists were taken to hospital, where one was treated and discharged, the statement said.

There was no word in the statement on the condition of the other two, but Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed described the condition of the three as “not serious.”

Security officials had initially said the attackers wounded two tourists, a Dane and a German, but such discrepancies are common in the immediate aftermath of terror attacks.

A member of the hotel’s management staff who witnessed the incident said the attackers sneaked into the Bella Vista from a hotel next door, accessing the facility from the beach.

The slain attacker, he said, appeared to want to take a female tourist hostage, dragging her into the hotel’s lobby with his knife held against her neck when he was shot dead by a po-

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Going into the dark places of the soul

BY SETH HAINES SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In the evenings I brewed tea — oolong, peppermint, occasionally chamomile — and sat in the corner chair.

The autumnal chill reached under the door, stretched into my living room where I wrapped my hands around a near-scalding mug.

This was my place of prayer, which is to say, it was the place where I entered into the darker places of my heart.

It was 2013, and I was only 50 days into a shaky sobriety. I’d given up the bottle that September, and in the wake of drying out, the voices prattling away in my noggin amplified — voices of doubt, voices of pain.

My son, Titus, had been fighting a mysterious illness, and despite all praying, pleading, and groveling, God had opted to remain quiet.

God had opted to bless Titus with continuing sickness.

And it was this conspicuous absence of God, his failure to answer my prayers, that fueled my drinking problem.

On that nippy November evening, I sat in my prayer chair, but before the spiritual salutation left my lips, the voices from the darker places of the heart interrupted.

“If you had enough faith, your son might be healed,” I heard, and the implications rose: I was not a man of strong faith.

I followed deeper into the dark places, sat in the bleak blackness and prayed a Franciscan prayer: enlighten the darkness of my heart. It was the evening that God would finally enter the darkness with me.

This is how I recorded it in my journal: I hear the echoes in the cavernous spaces of my heart and I sit with them. I listen to the accusations: that my faith is too small, that God is a liar, that he might not be God at all. I sit with them, allow them to say their piece, listen as they try to tempt my will to throw a temper tantrum, to kick against God’s shins.

I close my eyes and listen.

I will never leave you nor forsake you.

I hear it. I sit in it.

Go back to the mesquite trees.

I hear this too, and I imagine myself in my childhood grove, braiding strands of long grass into a rope, which I will attach to my Han Solo action figure so that he can rappel down the knotty side of one of the trees. I hear the wind, how it whispers through the grass and tells me I am not alone. I hear myself singing the songs of my youth while my hands are at work: humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. I always loved that song.

In those days, I was with God, and despite the world’s best attempts to either upend faith or saddle me with the pressure of mustering enough faith to prove my fidelity to God, I know the truth. God is still with me now.

The voices in the darker spaces grow higher pitched, but fainter. They are desperate liars, and I can hear the voices thinning. I sit in prayer, repeat the words of Christ at Gethsemane: not my will but yours. I pray it, and then sink into the mystery of knowing God, of God knowing me.

In the days of early faith, my proofs of God were in the wind, the simple songs, the whispers that the “ears of my ears” were born to hear. My proofs were the generos-

Vatican loans deeply symbolic religious relic to meeting of Anglicans in Britain

ity of the church ladies, the midnight prayers of my parents over my dreams, the way the thunder rolled across the Texas plain, making me feel so small. The open sky, Kool-Aid at vacation Bible school — the nearness of God was palpable in these. God was close in the days when it was okay to rest in my smallness, when I needed no theological answer for every trauma of life. God was close when my will was, by its nature, bent low before an immeasurable mystery.

Yes, I will bow low like a child, bend my will to the will of God. And in the surrender — Lord, not my will — in the meeting of God, whether in Gethsemane or Eden, I’ll pray with more abandon. Perhaps I’ll rejoice in knowing the measure of Emmanuel, God with us in darker days. Perhaps I’ll see light breaking through the cave mouth, coming broader and brighter like the rising of some inner sun. Perhaps I’ll see that the God who was then and is now and is to come, whether in life or death, in sickness or healing, is here.

Yes, his promise is that he has never left me nor forsaken me. The thought steels my legs, props me upright.

The thought brings me into the beauty that is God’s presence, and the words of E. E. Cummings’ great poem come before I can turn my thoughts back toward Scripture or prayer or any other sanctioned spiritual discipline: I thank You God for most this amazing day.

That November night was the culmination of months of prayerful practice, of exploring the darker places of my heart.

There is pain crouching there, waiting.

But when we enter into the darkness, when we ask God to bring his light of truth into the caves of our own souls, this is what we find: sometimes God is quieter, more mysterious, and less tangible than we’d prefer; ever and always, though, He is abiding.

Seth Haines is a writer, attorney, and worship leader, but most importantly, he has experienced firsthand the grace that comes from a God who lives in mystery. Seth and his wife, author Amber Haines, live in Northwest Arkansas with their four sons. He writes about faith, creativity, marriage, and culture at SethHaines.com. Seth is the author of “Coming Clean.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELFAST, Ireland — A Belfast evangelist charged with hate speech against Muslims has been acquitted after a judge ruled that his sermon had not been sufficiently offensive.

Scores of Christian supporters cheered Tuesday’s judgment at Belfast Magistrates Court as Pastor James McConnell walked free.

McConnell faced a charge of spreading grossly offensive messages after his church put his May 2014 sermon denouncing Muslims online.

Outside, the 78-year-old McConnell said he hadn’t intended to offend Muslims when describing their faith as satanic and many Muslims as terrorists. He said: “I wouldn’t hurt a hair on their head.”

District Judge Liam McNally said courts must be “careful not to criminalize speech which, however contemptible, is no more than offensive.

It is not the task of criminal law to censor offensive utterances.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CITY — The Vatican is loaning a deeply symbolic religious relic to a meeting in Britain discussing the future of the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion that has been badly divided over issues of female bishops and same-sex marriage.

The ivory top of the pastoral staff of St. Gregory the Great — the 6th-century pope who dispatched missionaries to England to spread Christianity — will be displayed in England’s Canterbury Cathedral before and after the Jan. 11-16 meeting of Anglican primates.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has summoned the 37 primates to discuss how the Communion can keep working together after it has been splintering for years over issues such as the ordination of female and gay bishops and the blessings of same-sex marriage.

The Vatican has watched from afar but nevertheless with alarm as the rift has widened, fearing that schism within the Anglican Communion will only complicate its own efforts at promoting Christian unity.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister, authorized the loan of Gregory’s pastoral staff last month, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

He wrote that it was a “highly symbolic” relic and a “mark of the bond that spiritually unites the Catholic and the Anglican churches.”

Gregory, who was pope from 540-604, sent a mission to England in 597 to bring Christianity to the region.

The mission leader, Augustine, became the first archbishop of Canterbury, and both Augustine and Gregory remain important figures to the Anglican Church.

The dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the Very Rev. Robert Willis, said the loan of Gregory’s crozier was a sign of “ecumenical encouragement” during the primates’ meeting, as well as a link to Gregory.

The Catholic and Anglican churches split in 1534 after English King Henry VIII was refused a marriage annulment. A half-millennium later, the two churches remain divided on a host of issues, including the same ones that are dividing the Communion itself: female bishops and gays.

The idea to send the relic came from the Rev. Robert McCulloch, the Australian procurator general of the St. Columban Catholic missionary order.

McCulloch — who has been active in interfaith and ecumenical relations, most recently the round of cricket matches between the Vatican’s cricket club and the Church of England’s team — will personally take the relic to Britain on Friday.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The next Red Deer Symphony Orchestra concert will turn the spotlight on some highly talented home-grown musicians.

The RDSO’s Red Deer’s Got Talent show on Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, features not one, not two, but three Central Alberta soloists.

Cellist Rylan Gajek Leonard take centre stage when the RDSO strikes up Camille Saint-Saens’s “major” Cello Concerto in A Minor.

Violist Stephanie Galipeau will solo on the Concerto for Viola, Opus 1, by Czech/German composer Carl Philipp Stamitz.

And young violinist Susanna Heysteck, a recent RDSO Class Winner from the Red Deer Performing Arts Festival, will be featured during Ludwig van Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2.

“All three players are awesome,” said music director Claude Lapalme, who predicted an “incredible” evening of music by the Red Deer-area musicians and orchestra.

Galipeau is a former student of RDSO violinist Louise Stuppard, who now attends the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She will perform a piece that should be heard more often, said Lapalme. The Stamitz composition is “very tuneful and elegant,” straddling

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the 18th-century divide between Bach and Mozart.

“It exploits the range of the viola quite well,” he added — which means it’s demanding for Galipeau to play.

While the concerto involves the full orchestra, it’s so focused on the viola, Lapalme noted that any missed notes by the soloist would be noticed. “It’s not flashy, but it’s difficult.”

On the other hand, the Saint-Saens cello concerto is definitely showy, as well as virtuosic. “It’s a big piece, a great piece,” said Lapalme, who added its four epic movements flow together without breaks.

The composition also runs the gam-

ut of emotions — from turbulent to tranquil.

“It’s full of sturm und drang,” added Lapalme, “but the minuet in the second movement is one of the loveliest things, so quiet and peaceful.”

Leonard is a former student of RDSO cellist (and Lapalme’s wife) Janet Kuschak.

He’s attending the Bard College Conservatory of Music in New York State.

Festival winner Heysteck, concertmaster for the Red Deer Youth Orchestra who also studied with Stuppard, will solo on an eight-minute Beethoven

work that’s described as poetic and beautiful.

Then the RDSO’s wind section will go it alone for the upbeat Harmonie for Wind Octet by Bohemian composer Franz Krommer. It features pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns.

Lapalme said he looks forward to a show that celebrates locally grown musicians. “The quality will be very obvious.”

Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert are $67.35 ($57.35 seniors/$47.35 students, first three rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate

Capturing natural wonder

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Artist Ruth Moore captures the devastating beauty of a natural wonder on Central Alberta’s doorstep in her exhibit at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

The Innisfail-area painter has been fascinated by the Columbia Icefield her whole life. The 77-year-old said she’s hiked in, taken a tour bus over its slopes, and observed its receding glaciers from a viewing platform near where Hwy 11 meets the Icefields Parkway.

For the first time, three years ago, Moore flew in a helicopter over the frozen peaks.

And the breathtaking bird’s-eye views she captured with her camera later became the source material for 12 oil paintings. They can be seen in her Cracks and Crevasses exhibit at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in Red Deer’s nature centre.

Moore’s works are not your typical mountain scenes. Her bold paintings convey the power and vastness of the Rocky Mountains in a way that postcard-pretty pictures fail to represent.

Moore’s canvas Seracs shows the house-sized columns of glacial ice, formed by intersecting glacier crevasses, that are so dangerous to mountaineers since they can topple without warning.

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“Mt. Columbia,” an oil painting depicting one of the many spectacular views in and around the Columbia Icefields, is one of several pieces featured in Ruth Moore’s Cracks and Crevasses exhibit at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre’s Marjorie Wood Gallery over the next two months. The artist, who grew up west of Calgary, will be available during the Feb. 5 First Fridays reception at the gallery from 4-6 p.m.

The highest point between two slopes is depicted as a sharp, knifeedge of rock in Serrated Ridge. One slope drops off into an abyss.

The foreground of her Crevasse Obstruction shows an ominous line in the ice that was actually a fissure. “I could see it was terribly deep. You wouldn’t be able to cross it unless you had a snow ladder,” said Moore.

She illustrated voluminous layers of ice and snow trapped between mountain peaks in Cracks and Crevasses and The Chute. The latter painting shows an icy pattern that resembles delicate folds of fabric.

“It’s absolutely (strange) how it’s compressed into equal folds like that.

It acts like it’s something soft, when it’s actually bumpy ridges of ice,” said Moore, who hopes to take another helicopter trip over the peaks someday.

“I could keep painting this… I love the mountains more than anything.”

Moore, who grew up west of Calgary, used to accompany her artist mother to sessions of the Calgary Sketch Club while she was a girl. After she married, moved to the Innisfail area and raised a family, Moore kept painting the outdoors, often taking private lessons from artists, such as American wildlife painter Dwayne Harty.

Moore hopes viewers will gain a better appreciation of the natural splendors we have in our province

though her paintings. “Here we are, so close to it, and often we don’t get to appreciate it.”

Although the Columbia Icefield has been in the news lately, its receding glaciers linked to global warming, Moore is confident that nature will prevail. “I believe this has happened many times before through the millenia… it get warmer and cooler. I believe it will swing back.”

Her Cracks and Crevasses exhibit continues to Feb. 29. Moore will attend a First Friday reception at the gallery from 4-6 p.m. on Feb. 5. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Soul on Ice explores trials, triumphs of black hockey players

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As Damon Kwame Mason’s childhood love of hockey reignited in his later years, he couldn’t help but notice the lack of visible role models in the NHL. “That burning question was always in my mind: ‘How come there’s not a lot of black players in this league up until now?”’ recalled the Toronto native, who played organized hockey for two years and grew up idolizing Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur.

In Soul on Ice: Past, Present & Future, the filmmaker explores the involvement of black athletes in hockey from the minors to the NHL. The award-winning documentary delves deeper into the legacy of players who broke racial barriers and overcame tremendous adversity to leave their mark on the game.

Damon will join NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis at a private screening of the film in Washington on Jan. 13. Retired NHL stars Grant Fuhr, Anson Carter, Kevin Weekes and Willie O’Ree — the first black hockey player in the NHL — are among the invited guests.

The event will serve as the launch for a variety of NHL activities coinciding with Black History Month in February, and continuing through March with Hockey Is For Everyone Month.

Mason was inspired to further explore the history of black hockey players after moving to Edmonton in 2005, where he worked as a radio announcer. He befriended members of the Oilers, including now-retired Georges Laraque with whom he co-hosted a show.

Mason learned of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes formed in

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Documentary filmmaker Damon Kwame Mason is pictured at a Toronto community rink in December as he promotes his film Soul On Ice. Halifax in 1895 — 22 years before the NHL was born.

“I was floored, because at that time I was in my 30s and I thought to myself: ‘If I don’t know this information … how many Canadians don’t know this information? How many black Canadians don’t know this information?

Even Fuhr, a Hall of Fame goaltender, said he had little knowledge of the league and was fascinated by its history.

“I think it shows that hockey has been a diversified game for a long time — it’s just that people didn’t realize it,” said the seven-time all-star, who won five Stanley Cups with the Oilers.

The film also turns its lens on other trailblazers like Herb Carnegie, whom

Mason interviewed just over a week before his death in 2012.

Carnegie suited up for the Quebec Aces and could have been the NHL’s first black player. He was invited to the New York Rangers’ training camp in 1948, and was offered chances to play with the team’s farm club which he turned down because the pay was too low, citing discrimination.

The film also reveals the intense racial abuse faced by players like Toronto’s Mike Marson, who was drafted by the Washington Capitals in 1974 and received death threats.

“Imagine you have to focus on the game but you also have to focus on, ‘OK, is someone going to throw a battery at me? Who’s going to yell this and

that about me?”’ said Mason.

“These are added pressures to a young player of colour — especially back then. Yet still, something else was in the back of their head saying: “Don’t give up … just keep fighting. We have a dream, we have a purpose, and nobody’s going to stop us.’”

Val James, the first American-born black player in the NHL, credited his family and teammates for encouraging him to persevere.

“Otherwise I probably would have at one point decided, ‘Why should I have to put up with this?”’ said James, who played for the Buffalo Sabres and the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1980s.

“It didn’t matter where I was: Canada, the U.S. — there was some form of racism being thrown my way.”

The film also chronicles young players like prospect Jaden Lindo.

Karl Subban, father of all-star Habs defenceman P.K. Subban, is also featured, as is younger son Malcolm.

The film also features NHL players like Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers and Joel Ward of the San Jose Sharks. Despite increased diversity at the NHL level, neither have been immune from discriminatory acts. Simmonds had a banana thrown at him during a pre-season game in London, Ont., in 2011. And while playing for the Capitals, Joel Ward was subjected to racial slurs on Twitter after his overtime goal eliminated the Boston Bruins from the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Both players shrugged off the respective incidents.

“They could have yelled, screamed, gave up and said, ‘Forget about it.’

Or they could have said, ‘I’m moving forward and I’m going to continue to score, I’m going to continue to be a winner,”’ Mason said.

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BRIEF Beyonce is returning to the Super Bowl halftime show in February NEW YORK — Beyonce is returning to the Super Bowl halftime show.

Pepsi confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the 34-year-old singer will perform at the Feb. 7 show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Last month, Coldplay announced they would perform at the halftime show.

Beyonce headlined the 2013 Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans at the Superdome, where she was joined by her Destiny Child’s bandmates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

Beyonce and Coldplay recently collaborated on the band’s new album, A Head Full of Dreams.

Katy Perry, who performed at last year’s Super Bowl, had the most-watched halftime show in history with 118 million viewers.

Other past halftime headliners include Bruno Mars, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and the Rolling Stones.

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Golden Globes executive producer Barry Adelman, from left, Miss Golden Globe 2016 Corinne Foxx, executive producer Allen Shapiro and Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, roll out the red carpet during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards Preview Day at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. The annual awards show including film and television will be held on Sunday

Golden Globes to offer galaxy of stars, even if they lack the Force

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The 73rd annual Golden Globes will hope its assemblage of Hollywood stars, from Jennifer Lawrence to Leonardo DiCaprio, will be enough to offset the absence of a different kind of star.

Though Star Wars is again packing movie theatres and smashing box office records, J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens will be a conspicuous outsider at Sunday night’s Globes, which announced nominations a few days before the film was screened in mid-December. That, surely, will be one of the things host Ricky Gervais needles the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about at the Beverly Hills, Calif., ceremony, which kicks off at 6 p.m., telecast live on NBC. Gervais will host for the fourth time, returning after a much-lauded three-year stint by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

After a 10-year ratings high three years ago, viewership has dipped slightly since, with an audience of 19.3 million tuning in last year.

That, though, is still very strong for the Golden Globes, which have worked to shed an image of eccentric selections made by a group of little-known international journalists. The Globes have instead grown into one of the most popular award show broadcasts of the year, thanks to increasingly credible nominees, its trademark laid-back atmosphere and its unique position as a major awards show that honours both film and television.

Going into Sunday night, Todd Haynes’ 1950s ro-

mance Carol leads all nominees with five nods, including best picture (drama) and best actress for both of its leads, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

In the best picture category, it will compete with Spotlight, The Revenant, Room and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Adam McKay’s finance farce The Big Short tops the comedy side with four nominations, including best picture (comedy) and nods for Steve Carell and Christian Bale. The category’s favourite, though, may be Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure The Martian.

The two films are nominated alongside Joy, Spy and Trainwreck.

The Golden Globes have little correlation with the Academy Awards, which will announce their nominees next Thursday. But momentum is a cherished commodity during awards season — especially this year, when the Oscar field is seen by many as wide open, without a runaway favourite.

Netflix earned a leading eight nods on the TV side, where nominations were scattered across streaming services, broadcast and cable. Six shows come in tied for the most nominations with three: Fargo, Mr. Robot, Outlander, Transparent, American Crime and Wolf Hall.

Presenters at Sunday night’s Globes will include Jim Carrey, Amy Adams, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Redmayne, Channing Tatum and Mel Gibson, who is returning to the Hollywood spotlight after keeping a low profile for almost a decade, following an explosive drunken-driving arrest and public custody dispute.

Toronto’s Sarah Gadon stars in J.J. Abrams’s JFK conspiracy saga 11.22.63

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Sarah Gadon is far too young to have been around when former U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, but it wasn’t hard for the 28-year-old to become fascinated with the conspiracy theories that still live on.

The Toronto-bred actress plays a 1960s librarian drawn into one of America’s most controversial tragedies in 11.22.63, a eight-part time-travelling miniseries executive produced

by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and based on the 2011 Stephen King novel of the same name.

James Franco plays Jake Epping, a modern-day high school teacher who goes back in time to try to stop the shooting and change the course of history.

Things quickly be-

come complicated as he falls in love with Gadon’s librarian, Sadie.

The whole operation is also threatened by the presence of Lee Harvey Oswald, not to mention the fact that the past itself doesn’t seem to want to be changed.

The period drama was shot in Toronto and Dallas, and Gadon said filming in the very city that witnessed these events had a palpable effect.

“When we went to Dallas to shoot the series I went to the JFK museum and I learned a lot about the different conspiracies and it was incredible,” said Gadon.

“We recreated the motorcade and it was actually really intense to be there.”

Gadon said she was enthralled by the romantic arc of King’s book and there’s more to the show than a simple revisit of the oft-dissected historical event.

“THEY DO HAVE A SWEEPING CLASSIC ROMANCE AND IT’S REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND I THINK JAMES DID SUCH A GREAT JOB. HE’S AN INCREDIBLE ACTOR AND IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL TO BE ABLE TO WORK OPPOSITE HIM” — SARAH GADON “They do have a sweeping classic romance and it’s really beautiful and I think James did such a great job,” said Gadon, whose other credits include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Maps to the Stars and Cosmopolis.

“He’s an incredible actor and it was really special to be able to work opposite him.”

Gadon said Abrams came to set a few times, but was understandably busy with another project at the time.

“He was kind of making Star Wars so he wasn’t around all the time,” she said.

“But I think it has all

the kind of classic American storytelling that he … has made his name for.”

11.22.63 debuts in Canada on Super Channel on Feb. 17, two days after it hits the U.S. streaming service Hulu on President’s Day.

Montreal’s Ian Kelly gets stolen hard drives back after social media pleas Montreal indie pop-rocker Ian Kelly says someone has returned stolen hard drives containing the only copies of an album he was preparing to release.

Kelly took to Twitter and Facebook this week to plead for the return of the drives, which he says were swiped from an SUV on Tuesday between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET. At around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Kelly announced on Twitter his property had been returned by the thief’s father.

Kelly had offered a reward to anyone who found his hard drives, but he says the man refused it.

The singer-songwriter says the stolen master copy and backup contain about six months of work.

SNL’s Kate McKinnon and Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani to host Independent Spirit Awards LOS ANGELES -- Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon and Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani will co-host the 31st annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Film Independent President Josh Welsh made the announcement Thursday.

McKinnon has been nominated for multiple Emmys for her work on “Saturday Night Live,” where she’s best known for such impressions as Hillary Clinton and Justin Bieber. Nanjiani is a comedic writer and actor, known for HBO’s Silicon Valley and films such as The Five-Year Engagement.

The awards celebrate the best in independent filmmaking.

With its tent on the beach in Santa Monica, the event serves as a relaxed, low-key lead-up to the Academy Awards.

Awards will be handed out in a ceremony broadcast live on IFC on Feb. 27, the day before the Oscars.

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LIFESTYLE Dear Annie: Six years ago, our son ly normal and not a reason to be hurt. married a woman with a 4-year-old Also, it could be one way your daughter. We immediately daughter-in-law chooses not fell in love with this little to upset her own parents, girl. who live too far away to atThere is no biological tend. father in the picture, and A similar dynamic apher maternal grandparplies to your son’s birthents live out of state. We day. He wants a party with have always told her that friends, and as much as he we consider her to be our loves his parents, it doesn’t granddaughter, with everymean you fit in to such a one’s blessing. gathering.

This will be the second Please think of this differyear that my husband and ently. It is not intended to be I have not been invited to hurtful. Instead, ask to take MITCHELL her birthday party. Over your granddaughter out for & SUGAR the years, we have tried a special outing to celebrate to do special things for her birthday. (P.S.: What she ANNIE her, such as outings, new calls you is not important if clothes, toys and books, the relationship is good.) just as if we were her Dear Annie: “Frustrated grandparents by blood.

Wife’s” husband is being stalked by his She never calls us “Grandma” or ex-mistress.

“Grandpa,” but her parents say she You suggested an order of protecrefers to us as her grandparents to oth- tion. I say her emails are considered ers. Our son was also given a birthday cyber stalking. All of the emails should party by our daughter-in-law, and we be placed in a file. All of the notes left were not invited to even stop by. on his car should also be kept as eviI don’t know why we are being left dence of stalking. out of these celebrations and we are He should inform his former misincredibly hurt. We spend other hol- tress that he is collecting this evidence idays together, such as Thanksgiving and will proceed with legal action if and Christmas, and we are always very she does not stop. I’ve been there, dogenerous in contributing toward those ne that, and it worked. — Mississippi times. We also help them if they run Lady short of money.

Dear Mississippi: Several readers If relations were strained, I could pointed out that the ex-mistress is understand, but we always seem to guilty of stalking and all notes should have a great time together, both alone be kept as evidence. We agree. But we with our granddaughter and with the also hope the husband is not tacitly enentire family. Please tell us what to couraging this behavior. do. And if we just need to accept this, That is unfortunately too often the how can we get over the pain so that it case when the wife can’t understand won’t jeopardize our future relation- why the mistress won’t go away. ship? — Unhappy Grandparents Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Dear Unhappy: This girl is now 10 Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edyears old. It may come as a surprise itors of the Ann Landers column. Please to you, but most kids stop including email your questions to anniesmailbox@ adults in their birthday parties around creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailthe age of 7, if not sooner. box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd They want parties with their school Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You friends. Some kids include the grand- can also find Annie on Facebook at Faceparents, but many do not. It is perfect- book.com/AskAnnies.

Some US colleges tell students to leave their hoverboards at home THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

tied to the motorized scooters. Fire officials from New Jersey to California have blamed the boards for fires that damaged homes. The federal commission also said there have been serious injuries caused by falls.

Colleges reported that even though the gadget has been gaining popularity, it’s still relatively rare on campuses.

Dolan, of Kean University, said he saw about six students riding the scooters last fall.

News of swift sales over the holidays, plus the reports of fires, led him to propose the ban.

“If that may inconvenience a couple dozen students, then that’s what it’s going to have to be,” he said.

Fire officials in several states have issued their own warnings about the devices, including in New Jersey, were authorities recommended that all public colleges ban them.

Sunday, Jan. 10 Saturday, Jan. 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Alex CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Richard Nixon, 81; Joan Baez, 74; Kate Middleton, Merez, 31; Rod Stewart, 70; Pat Benatar, 62 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to be calm 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon is and consistent today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a robust and the perfect time to wipe the slate clean and start realistic approach to life but donít let afresh. that preclude you from letting your HAPPY BIRTHDAY: With hair down and having fun along the your ruling planet Saturn moving way! through Sagittarius, 2016 is the ARIES (March 21-April 19): Amyear to be more flexible and open bitious Aries — today you’re keen in your approach to life. to tackle challenging projects; plus ARIES (March 21-April 19): motivate others to do the same. And, Use your talent for self-promowith so many planets in steady Caption to shine in the public spotlight ricorn, you might even finish what and further your career. The old you start! adage, “It’s not what you know, TAURUS (April 20-May 20): but who you know,” has never When it comes to work and relationbeen truer, so start networking ships, avoid making hasty moves. right now.

The earthy Capricorn Moon encourTAURUS (April 20-May 20): ages you to take a calm and steady Boredom is a big no-no for Bulls approach, as you enjoy spending at the moment. The New Moon time in a beautiful natural setting. activates your adventure zone so JOANNE MADELINE GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The get off your beautiful bovine beMOORE more you network, the more your hind and start planning an excitbusiness will grow. Single Twins ing escape for some time soon.

— slow down and take your time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): HOROSCOPE With Venus and Saturn in your relaA fresh financial or sexual start tionship zone, you’re looking for far is likely, as the New Moon urges more than a passing flirtation. you to take a chance with a smart CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you take savings or investment plan; a new love interest, the initiative when communicating with a child, or the renaissance of a stale old relationship.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): With the New teenager or friend, you’ll be pleasantly surprised Moon revving up your relationship zone, it’s time by the results. Don’t side-step Crabs — the more to re-evaluate a problematic partnership. Setting decisive you are, the better the day will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you can get the new patterns of behaviour sees the union move balance right between professional projects and to a deeper and more satisfying level in 2016.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the New Moon domestic responsibilities, then you’ll have a haphighlighting your well-being zone, aim to make py and rewarding day. Singles — love is likely your diet and exercise choices as healthy and in- with an adventurous Aquarian or a sexy Sagitformed as possible. 2016 will be a bumper year, tarian.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Capricorn Moon and Cats need to be in tip-top condition!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Capricorn energy makes earthy Virgos feel even more inNew Moon is a super time to re-structure a ten- dustrious than usual, which can be intimidating uous relationship with a child, teenager or close for other people. Cut them some slack today — friend. Give them plenty of room to make mis- not everyone is as organized as you!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lively Librans will takes. Itís the only way they will learn.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many Librans will be busy bees today, as you boost the confidence commence an exciting new life chapter in 2016, of a family member or have fun with friends. involving home or family. Perhaps renovations; When it comes to work and health issues, clear relocation; a new housemate or welcoming an communication is the key.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Powerful Mars additional family member.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The New boosts your personal magnetism — and your Moon signals a fresh start within your local area. super obsessive streak. You’re in the mood to You could join a local community group or help focus on others, but don’t scare them away by a neighbour in need. You have many talents to being too intense. Take a chill pill Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarishare so don’t be shy about making a contribuans are super at starting things, but not so good tion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Cap- at following through. Today, strive to complete ricorn New Moon will help steady your fiery Sag- unfinished business — especially at home — beittarian energy. Are you worried about money? fore you launch into exciting new projects.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re an When it comes to finances — the more organized you are, the better your bank balance will expert at multi-tasking but try to complete current projects before you launch into the next batch. be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With the If you make proactive decisions at home, then New Moon and Pluto both lighting up your sign, family members will sit up and take notice.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mercury it’s all about you at the moment Capricorn. Just make sure being self-aware doesnít turn into be- reversing through your sign, strive to be more organized and disciplined than usual. If you are ing stubborn and selfish.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t be su- rushed and disorganized, then you’ll just get perficial and accept people and situations at face nothing done. Patience is the key.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t sit value today Aquarius — take the time to look a little deeper. The more you research things, the around waiting for others to fix a problem. If you are a proactive Piscean, you’ll be amazed by more fascinating details you will discover.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Capricorn how quickly things change. Singles — it’s up to New Moon helps stabilize your restless Piscean you to be bold and make the first move.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally soul. So it’s a wonderful weekend to tackle an ambitious project that requires concentration, syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. motivation and mountains of discipline.

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BOSTON — One of the holiday’s hottest presents is now considered contraband at many U.S. colleges.

More than 30 universities have banned or restricted hoverboards on their campuses in recent weeks, saying the two-wheeled, motorized scooters are unsafe. Beyond the risk of falls and collisions, colleges are citing warnings from federal authorities that some of the self-balancing gadgets have caught on fire.

“It’s clear that these things are potentially dangerous,” said Len Dolan, managing director of fire safety at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. The public school of 14,000 students issued a campus-wide ban effective on Monday, telling students in an email that any hoverboards found on campus would be confiscated.

“These things are just catching fire without warning, and we don’t want that in any of our dorms,” Dolan said.

Outright bans also have been issued at schools such as American University and George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C. Other schools said they will forbid the scooters in dorm rooms or campus buildings, a policy adopted at colleges including Louisiana State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Arkansas.

After banning hoverboards from dorms in December, officials at the University of Hartford in Connecticut are now considering a full ban because of concerns over how to store them safely, said David Isgu, a school spokesman. Some of the reported fires have occurred while the boards were being charged, authorities say.

At Ohio State University and at Xavier Uni-

versity in Cincinnati, students were told they can bring a hoverboard only if it came with a seal showing that the board meets certain safety standards.

Schools have issued bans as recently as Thursday, when the University of Connecticut announced that the devices aren’t welcome on campus. The University of Alabama and the University of Kentucky declared bans on Wednesday as students prepare to return from break.

“We are not willing to risk your safety and our community’s safety,” University of Kentucky Fire Marshal Greg Williamson told students in a statement.

Bryce Colegrove, a sophomore at Shawnee State University in Ohio, got an email from his school on Tuesday telling students to leave their hoverboards at home after the holidays.

It was bad timing for Colegrove, who had just received one as a gift from his girlfriend and had even plotted his new routes to class.

“Honestly I was really disappointed,” said Colegrove, 20. “I don’t think it’s right to ban them.

I mean, it’s a college campus it’s not a high school.”

Others took to social media to voice their frustration, with some saying they planned to bring their scooters to school anyway.

Hoverboards, which are made by several brands, already have been banned by the three largest U.S. airlines, citing potential fire danger from the lithium-ion batteries that power them.

The devices also are prohibited on New York City streets, and a new law in California requires riders to be at least 16 and wear a helmet in public.

On Monday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that it’s now investigating 28 fires in 19 states

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It’s a light fixture, and it’s a speaker — and it might even tell you what the fridge is thinking.

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But not at a loss to privacy or home security CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ARE GETTING SMARTER AND MAKE LIFE EASIER, BUT THE INTERNET OF THINGS IS A LONG TIME COMING

BY RYAN NAKASHIMA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Look around. How many computing devices do you see?

Your phone, probably maybe a tablet or a laptop. Your car, the TV set, the microwave, bedside alarm clock, possibly the thermostat, and others you’ve never noticed.

Much of that computing isn’t doing much while segregated into individual devices. But many of these gadgets have the potential to get smarter by connecting to their fellows, which in turn could open the door to a brave new “Internet of Things.” and these “things” will soon be invading our homes, or sitting on the curb outside our homes.

To see where that might be taking us, there’s no better place than the annual gadget extravaganza formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show — and now simply as CES. The show, which starts Wednesday in Las Vegas, is the place for companies large and small to show off new connected devices. These range from the seemingly trivial — for instance, smart umbrellas that message you if you leave them behind — to the undeniably helpful, such as navigation devices that display driving directions onto your windshield so you don’t have to take your eyes off the road.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, a division of the consulting giant McKinsey & Co., the value created by connecting the world’s devices could hit $11 trillion annually by 2025, a mind-boggling sum that represents over half of U.S. economic output in a year.

Most of the value comes from industrial uses — like cleaner air from smarter energy use and fewer factory shut-downs due to smarter maintenance. But trillions in benefits are expected to come from consumer-bought products: safer streets because of better-driving cars, robots that take care of household chores and health and fitness trackers that let us know when our bodies need medical attention.

“There’s a big value in avoiding pain and suffering,” says report coauthor Michael Chui.

Of course, people have been making big projections for the Internet of Things for years, yet progress remains halting and fragmentary. Major technology companies can purposefully make it tougher to interact with other companies’ gadgets for business reasons. More data can mean less privacy.

In recent years, CES has begun catering more heavily to startups hoping to break through the noise. The sprawling show has sections for wearable fitness gadgets, drones, autonomous vehicles, education, virtual reality, video games, robots, 3-D printers and smart homes.

That’s largely a reaction to the fact that many of technology’s biggest names have been no-shows for some

time. Apple Inc. has skipped the show since the 1990s, and Microsoft Corp.’s then-CEO Steve Ballmer gave the company’s last CES keynote in 2012. Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. hold their own events to release products.

And the Consumer Technology Association that runs CES is aiming for attendance this year at or below last year’s record 176,000.

Shawn DuBravac, the CTA’s chief economist, argues the show’s maturity is a good thing, its focus transforming over the last two decades from what was “technologically possible” to what’s “technologically meaningful.” It’s no longer about a robot that can walk up steps. It’s about robots that actually mow your lawn.

It’s worth bearing in mind that CES is first and foremost a venue for promoting the tech industry — at least the non-Google/Apple/Amazon/ Microsoft part of it. Sometimes the promotion falls flat 3-D screen technology unveiled at CES in 2010 went from the next big thing to a mostly unused feature.

Netbooks introduced in 2009 took a back seat to the

iPad released a year later.

And concepts such as the smart home have taken a really long time to materialize. Above: Four doors, plus your social media sites, news and weather — Samsung’s Family For all we know, the In- Hub Refrigerator. ternet of Things could be Inset: You know you want one. Reporter Jonathan Strickland sits on the Immersit dynamic next on that list.

Last summer, two re- chair. The prototype device uses dynamic feet placed beneath any chair with four feet to searchers described how move the chair around in sync with movies and video games. they hacked into and took control of a Jeep Cherokee gets, means security is often an after- lems than they solve. Such regulations via its cellular connection to the Inter- thought. And the more devices there could also crimp the utility of selfnet. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 gave a are, the bigger the potential problem. parking cars that can act like robotic failing grade to eight of nine popular “With the Internet of Things, we re- valets. Similarly, new drone rules from baby monitors for simple and obvi- ally have to think in terms of scale,” the Federal Aviation Administration ous weaknesses like failing to encrypt says Rapid7 senior security consultant require approval for commercial use Internet-streamed video to prevent Mark Stanislav. and a $5 registration fee for hobbyeavesdropping or using unchangeable Another cautionary note: Regula- ists. A report released in December by passwords that malicious types could tors are tapping the brakes on entire Bard College’s Center for the Study of easily find online. industries that are getting lavish attenthe Drone said there were 241 reports Such issues point to a deeper prob- tion at CES. lem: Many would-be connected devices In December, California’s Depart- to the FAA of near-collisions between max out their capabilities doing one ment of Motor Vehicles released re- drones and manned aircraft from Dething well, leaving little headroom for strictive draft rules for self-driving cember 2013 to September 2015.

Tougher rules to corral these consecurity protection that wasn’t ever cars. necessary in an unconnected world.

They would require licensed human nected devices could mean that people Such gadgets could offer hackers drivers to be ready to take the wheel. will be less carefree about buying and an easy route into home or work com- Google, which has already a prototype using them. That could limit a future puters. The fact that many such de- autonomous car that lacks a steering where you might casually throw a selfvices are produced by startups, often wheel, decried the decision, saying flying drone up into the air for a highcrowd-funded and on shoestring bud- such handoffs could create more prob- tech selfie.

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Home work grows great young people HARD WORK INSPIRES ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Learning to work around the house and in small home maintenance and gardening businesses of their own gives kids something they can’t get anywhere else. to meet.

The place was big and my record time for a grass cutting was 6 hours 20 minutes, delivering me an unheard of $3.17 per hour — 20% more than the adult minimum wage at the time. I was a wealthy boy.

Learning to work — first as a service to the family, then as a young entrepreneur — is a powerful way to help young people meet their full potential.

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What to do with your mantel after the holidays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When January arrives, even Christmas-loving homeowners might be happy to put away Santa and his reindeer. But the post-holiday mantel and fireplace can look strangely bare.

The days are still short and the weather chilly, so “the key word after the holidays is cosy,” says Pittsburgh-based interior designer Cathy Davin.

A well-decorated fireplace — even without a wood-burning fire inside — can be the perfect source of cheerful style and warm glow throughout the first weeks of the new year.

Here, Davin and two other designers — HGTV stylist Meg Allan Cole and Atlanta-based interior designer Mallory Mathison — offer four ideas for making the most of your mantel and fireplace throughout the post-holiday season: KEEP THE WINTER THEME Davin believes in celebrating winter even after the holidays are over. She removes red poinsettias, but keeps white ones and white cyclamen around her fireplace. And she continues lighting white and gold candles on the mantel.

She also encourages clients to keep tiny white lights in their living space for a warm glow throughout January.

Cole agrees: White lights “can absolutely stay up all winter long,” she says. “They yell, ‘Warm and festive! Come on inside! Get out of the cold!”’

Alongside traditional lights, she recommends using LED copper strips on the mantel. “Copper is really on-trend right now,” Cole says. And these strips of lights are battery-operated, so there are no wires snaking away.

LAYER YOUR FAVORITES A clean, classic mantel with just a pair of vases or hurricane lamps flanking one large painting can look lovely year-round.

It’s the perfect way to highlight a piece of art, and this sparse approach can be a nice break after busy holiday decorations.

Another approach “is to layer pieces on a mantel by propping up different sizes of art, mirrors and objects” in an asymmetrical arrangement, Mathison says.

This casual look is a great way to display a collection of items — perhaps small, framed prints in various sizes, Mathison says, or a collection of tea cups.

This vibrant approach can make a post-holiday mantel seem a little less stark and empty.

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Prior................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........357-8949 .......... 357-8949 ............................Rosedale ............................ Rosedale Meadows 3 Greenham Drive ......... .........2:00 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Sena ...Sena Walker ................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........358-0077 .......... 358-0077 ............................Glendale ............................ Glendale Park Estates 6325 61 Avenue .............1:00 ............. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ...Bob ...Bob Pelletier ............... SERGE’S HOMES ..............................505-8050 .............................. 505-8050 ............................Highland ............................ Highland Green 28 George Crescent ...... ......2:00 2:00 -4:00 p.m......Angela .....Angela Stonehouse . ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........598-4342 .......... 598-4342 ............................Glendale ............................ Glendale 6 Thompson Crescent ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. .Aaron .Aaron ............................ LAEBON HOMES ..............................396-4016 .............................. 396-4016 ............................Timberstone ............................ Timberstone 22 Tindale Place .............12:00 ............. 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. .Samantha .Samantha .................... LAEBON HOMES ..............................392-6261 .............................. 392-6261 ............................The ............................ The Timbers 105 Lazaro Close ............1:00 ............ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. ....Aisha ....Aisha Geary-Arnault MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Laredo ............................ Laredo 17 Lazaro Close ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. ....Kyle ....Kyle Lygas .................... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Laredo ............................ Laredo

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 - OUT OF TOWN 56 Henderson Cres........ ........1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Shaun ...Shaun Heidt................ BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES .392-6919 . 392-6919 ...$489,900 ... $489,900 ......Penhold ...... Penhold 4702 43 Street.................2:00 ................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Dennis ...Dennis Bowness........ CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE ..........357-8087 .......... 357-8087 ...$254,900 ... $254,900 ......Sylvan ...... Sylvan Lake 9 Falcon Ridge Drive..... .....1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Darlis ...Darlis Dreveny ........... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........358-4981 .......... 358-4981 ............................Sylvan ............................ Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.....Jocelyn ...Jocelyn ......................... LAEBON HOMES ..............................302-9612 .............................. 302-9612 ............................Penhold ............................ Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd ..1:00 .. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.....Lyle ...Lyle Kellington ........... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2231 .............. 588-2231 ............................Sylvan ............................ Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street ..... .....11:00 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. .Jessica .Jessica Mercereau .... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Springbrook ............................ Springbrook

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 - RED DEER 62 Arnold Close ..............2:00 .............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Kim ...Kim Argent .................. REMAX ................................................ ................................................343-3020 343-3020 ............................Aspen ............................ Aspen Ridge 21 Downing Close .........2:00 ......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Rick ...Rick Burega ................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........350-6023 .......... 350-6023 ...$339,900 ... $339,900 ......Devonshire ...... Devonshire 211 Davison Drive .........1:00 ......... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ...Cindy ...Cindy Vander Linden REMAX ................................................ ................................................343-3020 343-3020 ...$429,900 ... $429,900 ......Deer ...... Deer Park Village 245 Allan Street ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ..Keith ..Keith Prior....................

Prior.................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........357-8949 .......... 357-8949 ............................Anders ............................ Anders Park 24 Erickson Drive ...........2:00 ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Sena ...Sena Walker ................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ..........358-0077 .......... 358-0077 ............................Eastview ............................ Eastview Estates 6325 61 Avenue .............1:00 ............. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ...Bob ...Bob Pelletier ............... SERGE’S HOMES ..............................505-8050 .............................. 505-8050 ............................Highland ............................ Highland Green 120 Jordan Parkway...... ......2:00 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Hilary ...Hilary Rosebrugh ...... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE ..........346-0021 .......... 346-0021 ...$365,000 ... $365,000 ......Johnstone ...... Johnstone Crossing 6 Thompson Crescent ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. .Aaron .Aaron ............................ LAEBON HOMES ..............................396-4016 .............................. 396-4016 ............................Timberstone ............................ Timberstone 22 Tindale Place .............12:00 ............. 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. .Samantha .Samantha .................... LAEBON HOMES ..............................392-6261 .............................. 392-6261 ............................The ............................ The Timbers 105 Lazaro Close ............1:00 ............ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. ....Aisha ....Aisha Geary-Arnault MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Laredo ............................ Laredo 17 Lazaro Close ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. ....Kyle ....Kyle Lygas .................... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Laredo ............................ Laredo

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 - OUT OF TOWN 53 Springfield Heights ..1:00 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ...Margaret ...Margaret Comeau .... REMAX ................................................ ................................................343-3020 343-3020 ...$624,900 ... $624,900 ......Red ...... Red Deer County 9 MacKenzie Avenue .... ....1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ..Chris ..Chris Forsyth .............. MAXWELL REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS..... .....391-8141 391-8141 ............................Lacombe ............................ Lacombe 129 Mann Drive ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.....Jocelyn ...Jocelyn ......................... LAEBON HOMES ..............................302-9612 .............................. 302-9612 ............................Penhold ............................ Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd ..1:00 .. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.....Lyle ...Lyle Kellington ........... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2231 .............. 588-2231 ............................Sylvan ............................ Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street ..... .....11:00 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. .Jessica .Jessica Mercereau .... MASON MARTIN HOMES..............588-2550 .............. 588-2550 ............................Springbrook ............................ Springbrook

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I’m not sure any country can have too many entrepreneurs, but I am sure Canada needs more.

And when it comes to growing young entrepreneurs, simple home improvement and maintenance work offers a lot of promise.

I know because Ive experienced it.

In 1975, my parents hired STEVE a contractor MAXWELL for major renHOUSEWORKS ovations to our suburban bungalow, and that event changed the course of my life.

Sometimes big things start small.

The contractor’s name was Andy Steier, a Hungarian Jew who somehow managed to survive a ride on a Nazi death train as a boy during WWII. Mr. Steier eventually made his way to Canada and started his own building firm.

Watching him work was my first introduction to the entrepreneurial life.

I’ve been addicted ever since. I was 12 years old at the time and I’d never before seen a man earn money in true proportion to his efforts and effectiveness.

Mr. Steier didn’t have a job, he was the generous ruler of his own little kingdom.

He also let me experience the entrepreneurial life for myself in a way that more young people today should.

It began one day as I was riding my bike down the street.

A friend’s father flagged me down with a question: “How’s that garage project going at your place, Steve?”

“Really good, Mr. Abernathy. The workers start early and finish late.

They’ll be done the roof this week. My parents like it” A few days later, Mr. Steier drove up and handed me an envelope with my name on it. Inside was a cheque for $100. “Thats your commission”, he said in his thick European accent.

“Your neighbour chose me to build his pool because of what you said.” It was the sweetest $100 I’ve ever earned.

Later on Mr. Steier went on to make me into my own contractor of sorts.

He lived on a large country property with 5 acres of grass to mow and rake, plus lots of small fixit jobs to do around the place.

He taught me how to use his John Deere tractor, how to back up a trailer full of leaves, and the enormously motivating sensation of being paid for results, not for time spent on the clock.

I learned how to use tools, how to continue working when I was tired and cold, and how to put in 8 hour days without a boss. “ ‘I’ll pay you $20 for each cutting,” he explained.

“How quickly or slowly you do the work, I don’t care. Just do the job right.”

My days cutting grass never went so quickly as when I rushed around trying my best to get quality and speed

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Many of the new or refurbished con- satin finish, which helps to seal the dos and lofts have high ceilings, some wall. The first decorative layer is provery high. Even though the square foot- duced using silver transfer foil. These age of these living quarters foils come in various metalmay be small, the added lic shades including gold, height creates a welcome silver and colours. They feeling of space. Decorating are sold in sheets or rolls. a wall that is 10 to 15 feet Size is an adhesive for the high can be daunting, esfoil. Water-based size rolls pecially if you are used to on cloudy and dries clear. living in homes where the You know it is ready when norm is 8 or 9 feet. A white the surface feels tacky, not paint finish appears to be wet. Apply the size to 100% the safest bet, and will enof the surface. When tacky, hance the airy atmosphere. press sheets of the silver However, if you would like transfer onto the surface, to add some interest, whethshiny side facing you, and DEBBIE er subtle, dramatic or filled smooth it out with a spatula TRAVIS with pizzazz, take a look at or any wide tool, rubbing to what a glint of metal can do. adhere the transfer foil to HOUSE TO HOME Today, all the metal the size. Remove the paper shades are mixing it up in leaving the silver behind on the decorating market. Bathroom fau- the wall. cets, handles, and sinks range from To complete this metal deco applicabronze and golden hues to brushed tion, I used Venetian plaster to thinly chrome and nickel. Furnishings are cover the silver foil. (You could use finished with metal and hammered stucco, but Venetian plaster can be nail detailing on both wood and up- shined to a lustrous finish.) The plaster holstery. Stunning floor designs insert is applied in a thin coat with a spatula. slits of metal between tiles, or border Cross-hatching is the customary appliwood planks. And not to be left behind, cation, which means smearing on and walls shine with a combination of me- taking off the plaster in small vís and tallic paints, wallpapers and plaster xís. You want to cover the foil, leaving techniques that bring out the luxurious small patches of silver to shine through quality of metallic products in any or in random patches. all shades. When I first saw the modThe space beside the fireplace is ern condo shown here, I was impressed perfect for display shelves, where your with the size and clean lines, but the own choice of art, books, curios and area felt cold. The fireplace was un- collections will personalize your room. adorned, but the niches above the fire- (The faux gates behind the shelves place added sleek detail. This over- were hand painted with the help of lots sized wall was the place to create some of tape.) atmosphere, to inject some character Debbie Travis’ House to Home column that would make this new home unique. is produced by Debbie Travis and BarbaI used a combination of techniques that ra Dingle. Please email your questions to complemented each other and the out- house2home@debbietravis.com. You can come was exciting. follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.

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CURRIER Ione Lois Feb. 26, 1935 - Jan. 6, 2016 Ione Lois Currier passed away at the Red Deer Hospital, surrounded by her loving family and friends, at the age of 80. She is survived by her children, Don Currier (2 grandchildren), Roch (Wendy) Currier, Wendy Atkinson, Andy Currier, Lloyd (Bobbi) Currier and Randy Currier; her 12 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; sisters, Eileen Bantjes (Ron Harden); Karen (Harvey) Stanvick, Irma Messinger; sister-in-law, Evelyn Olstad and numerous extended family members.

Ione was predeceased by her husband, Stanley Currier; brother, Bevan Olstad and by her brother-in-law, Bob Messinger.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make a donation in Ione’s name to the Canadian Cancer Society or to a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

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HILMAN Donald Thomas Feb 6, 1947 - Jan 4, 2016 Don was born in Nordegg, Alberta and raised in Red Deer. He graduated from SAIT with a Diploma of Technology in Electronic Technology in 1968. He continued his education at the University of Calgary graduating in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

He started his teaching career in Castlegar, BC then moved to Victoria where he taught Computer Science at Camosun College for 30 years. He was a lifelong Ham radio enthusiast connecting with many people including King Hussein of Jordan. At age 23 while travelling around the South Seas, he brought radio to Tonga. He also lived and worked in Iran for a period. Don was an accomplished musician playing both acoustic guitar and accordion. He loved to cook and had a vast array of secret delicious recipes. He was an enthusiastic hockey dad always cheering on his children. He was a kind, gentle and generous man devoted to his family and friends and he just wanted the world to be a happy place. Don is survived by his loving wife Lorraine, his children Laura and Jeff, his stepchildren Darren and Brent (Laurie) and grandchildren, as well as many cousins and lifelong friends. Thank you to the doctors, nurses and staff at RJH for the care and kindness they provided Don in his last days. A Memorial Service and Reception will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at McCall’s Downtown, Johnson and Vancouver Street, Victoria, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Parkinson’s Society British Columbia would be gratefully appreciated.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.mccallbros.com MCCALL’S OF Victoria, BC (1-800-870-4210)

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JACKSON(Stendie), Dorothy M. Dorothy M. Jackson (Stendie) passed away on Saturday, January 2, 2016 surrounded by family.

Dorothy left her earthly home and walked peacefully into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father. Dorothy is very dearly treasured and will be deeply missed by her family and friends. She is survived by five children; Lorrie (Rob), G. Alaine, Donnell (Allona), Kristine (Hans), and Patricia, ten grandchildren, and fourteen great-grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice in Dorothy’s memory.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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HOVIND Mary Apr. 12, 1929 - Jan. 7, 2016 It is with sadness we announce the passing of Mary Hovind of the Royal Oak, Lacombe on January 7, 2016 at the age of 86 years.

Mary was born in Petrova, Czechoslovakia on April 12, 1929. She emigrated to Canada in 1938 with her parents and worked at the Estevan Hospital as a dietary technician from 1969 to 1994. She is survived by her children; Debra (Kevin), Jim, Donald (Susan), David (Kim), her grandchildren; Kevin, Darren, Tyler, Lexi, Kirby, Jody, Sarah, Jacquiline, Bradley, her great grandchildren; Brea, Ty, Landon, Andrew, Mya, Mailiya as well as sisters Margaret (Stewart), Anne (Vernon), and Helen (Ron).

Mary was predeceased by her husband Lloyd Hovind in 2006 and by her parents John and Anne Renchko. A Celebration of Life will be held from St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church, 5005 C&E Trail, Lacombe, AB. on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 at 2:00 PM. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made to the Arthritis Society, #200-1301-8 St. S.W., Suite 200, Calgary, AB. T2R 1B7.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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LOWE Steven Lowe passed away on Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 at the age of 41.

Steven, the second of three sons, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 5, 1974.

He moved to St. Paul, Alberta when he was 6 months old. Steven was 7 when he moved to Red Deer.

He attended G.W. Smith Elementary school starting in Grade 1. He finished school at Horizons School and Olds College in Olds. Steven had a great personality with a corny sense of humor, infectious laugh, brought joy to others, made friends easily, was polite, and determined. He was part of the Accredited Supports to the Community family for 15+ years. He loved the staff and they were part of his social circle of family and friends.

Steven loved loud Country Music, the family trip to Hawaii, driving his dad’s quad by himself, Special Olympics, bowling and winning trophies, winning a game of Skip Bo, and watching Star Trek movies, the Edmonton Oilers and Karaoke (the louder the better). He is survived by his parents, Doug and Jane Lowe of Peace River and his brothers, Jeff of Calgary and Bryan, wife Vela and nephews Kresimir and Drazen of Ottawa.

“Steven has left the party”

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KOENIG Marvin of Rimbey, Alta. Born March 12, 1930 - January 6, 2016. It is with love that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, grandpa, papa, and brother (and many other cherished titles). Marvin was born in Horsham, Saskatchewan.

From there, his family moved to Alberta, where he spent the majority of his life. He went on to complete tradesschool, where he obtained his gas-fitting and plumbing tickets and went on to establish a life-long career with both the federal and provincial governments. Marvin met his loving wife, Joan (nee Gray) Koenig, in Stettler and they were gifted with three sons, Alan, James, and Mark (Cheryl Arsenault).

Joan passed away in 1986, after which Marvin continued to live in Rimbey with their sons. Marvin was also predeceased by his father, John Koenig (1967) and mother, Nathalia Koenig (1987); Brother Wallace (1983); Sisters Eileen (1983), Lorene (1985), Viola (1989) and Burnetta (2015). His is survived by his sons, Alan (Pam), James (Debbie), and Mark; his sister Edith; brothers Vern (Evelyn) and Gerald (Carol); his six grandchildren Victoria (Carl) Haapala, Joanne Koenig, Vanessa Koenig, Kassaundra Bushey, John Koenig, and Jesse Koenig; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other family members.

On behalf of the entire family, we invite you to join us in the celebration of Marvin’s life on January 12, 2016 at 2 o’clock p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel , 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, Alta. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you graciously consider donating to a charitable organization, such as the Lacombe Long Term Care, where Marvin spent the last three months of his life being attentively cared for by the staff there. Special thanks to everyone that took time to come visit Marvin, as well as kept him (and our family) in your thoughts and prayers.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.com WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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LARSEN Carl 1954 - 2016 Carl Richard Larsen of Red Deer passed away at the Rosefield Centre in Innisfail on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at the age of 61 years.

There is a special place in our hearts reserved for Angels that became a little fuller with the passing of Carl. Carl was born and raised in Hussar, Alberta and then left the farm life for the oil patch. He started with Nowsco in 1973 then on to Fracmaster in Canada, the U.S. and Russia.

After returning to Canada, Carl started his dream job with Encana in 2004. Carl made many lifelong friends through the years with work, his annual golf tournaments, the “5 o’clock” club, being an avid supporter of the Pilsner Brewery, the Bruins and the New Orleans Saints. Carl will be lovingly remembered by his loving wife and partner of 29 years, Patty Gorety; son Kyle Larsen; stepdaughter Chelsey (Logan) Tannahill; brother Paul (Elaine) Larsen; sister Mona (Darrell) Vermunt as well as numerous nieces, nephews other family members and his many friends. A Celebration of Carl’s life will be held at the Red Deer Legion, 2810 - Bremner Ave, Red Deer, AB on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, 5002 - 39 St. Red Deer AB T4N 2P2.

Condolences to Carl’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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LOUGH Colin James Family, friends and workmates of Colin Lough, 30, are heart-broken to learn of his unexpected death in Edmonton on January 6, after completing his shift rotation as civilian RCMP 911 Dispatch Supervisor, where he was highly respected by colleagues.

Beloved son of Peggy Birse (Red Deer) and David Lough (Nain, NL), brother of Kevin (Calgary), Chris and Mercy (Edmonton), and grandson of Betty Birse (Wetaskiwin).

Uncle Colin will be especially missed by Keana, Sienna, Sean and Hayden, who he loved dearly and treated to concerts, hockey games, dinners, and swimming. Colin was loved by his aunts, uncles and cousins from Quebec, Ontario, Texas to Alberta and friends across Canada.

Service details, obituary notice and memorial suggestions will be posted by Baker Funeral Chapel, Wetaskiwin www.womboldfuneralhomes.com where the family will appreciate receiving your condolences, tributes and memories. Colin’s life was a miracle, a gift, and now a memory. To honor Colin, dream big, follow your heart and carpe diem - seize the day.

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MCDONALD Charles Roger (Chuck) April 26, 1931 - Jan. 3, 2016 It is with great sadness that the family of Chuck McDonald announces his peaceful passing at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on January 3, 2016 at the age of 84. Chuck will be lovingly remembered by his four children; Colin McDonald of Chetwynd, BC; Valerie Bardick (Jim) of Red Deer, AB., Lisa McDonald of Lacombe, AB, and John McDonald (Carrie) of Kelowna, BC. He is also survived by his six grandchildren; Rylan, Noah, Ashton, Kaelan, Kaeden and Grayden.

Chuck was predeceased by his loving wife Velma; his parents Charles and Lottie; his three sisters, Dorothy, Margaret and Jean; his brother Robert; his infant son Ross, and his infant grandson Taylor.

Chuck married Velma in 1956 and they moved to Alix where Chuck was the District Agent for Northwestern Utilities (Atco) for 36 years until February 2, 1988 when he chose to retire. After his retirement Chuck and Velma spent many summers out at their cabin at Valhalla. Later in his life they decided to move to Red Deer and that is where he lived until the time of his passing. Chuck was an avid woodworker, gardener, and had a true love for old cars. Chuck will always be remembered for his sense of humor, not a day passed when he wasn’t trying to make someone laugh at one of his jokes. A small graveside service will be held for Chuck and Velma in Camrose at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, #1, 5550 45 St. Red Deer, AB, T4N 1L1...or to the charity of one’s choice.

REITMEIER Wayne (Butch) Passed away December 28, 2015 at Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 73.

Butch was predeceased by his parents George and Dorothy Reitmeier; two brothers, Robbie and Phil; two nieces, Carrie and Tracey Vance. He leaves three sons; Lyle (Nui) of Thailand, Guy and Alan (Debbie) of Red Deer; daughter, Angela of B.C.; three sisters, Georgina Rhodes (Doug) of Eckville, Karen Vance of Red Deer, Barb Pasiechnyk (Lorance) of Calgary; six grandchildren, three great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Butch worked in the oilfield in and around Alberta. He was a big part of the All Pro Canadian Chuckwagon Association. He had a lot of good times judging and volunteering to cook at the Western Days. In his last years he spent a lot of time camping at the river in Big Valley with a lot of good friends and family. He will be sadly missed and never forgotten. A Celebration of Butch’s Life will be held on January 16, 2016 at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #35, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB at 1:00 pm - 4 pm.

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Companions ODENBACH Melba May Odenbach of Rimbey, Alberta passed away at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre ~ Long Term Care on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at the age of 89 years. Melba will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her children: one son, Murray (Trudy) Odenbach of Bentley; and three daughters, Charlene (Wayne) Shearer of Vulcan, Alberta; Carol (Don) Wiebe of Calgary; and Gail (Bill) Mathew of Edmonton; as well as nine grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; and three great, great grandchildren. She will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her two brothers, Gordon (Joelaine) Chiles; and Norman (Marg) Chiles, both of Red Deer; and her three sisters, Evva (Don) McKay of Wetaskiwin; Belva (Dave) Westerby of Cranbrook, B.C.; and Joyce (Malcomb) Grant of Calgary; in addition to numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives, and many close friends.

Melba was predeceased by her parents, Elwood and Ellen Chiles; her beloved husband, Albert ‘Abb’; one brother, Bill; and one sister, Marion. A Public Memorial Service in Celebration of Melba’s Life will be held at the Rimbey United Church, Rimbey on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. with the Reverend Deborah Laing officiating. Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer.

Interment will take place in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Rimbey at a later date. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Melba’s Memory may be made directly to the David Thompson Health Trust, c/o Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre ~ Long Term Care, Box 440, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0.

Condolences to the Odenbach Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Funeral and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Melba May Odenbach

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PETERS 1988 - 2016 Parker Lee Peters passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at the young age of 27 years.

Parker was born in Red Deer where he lived his entire life.

He will always be remembered as a man who had a heart of gold and was always there to help family and friends when problems or tasks needed to be done. Parker enjoyed bonfires, the outdoors, hunting, fishing and quading with his buddies. He spent the last five years with Marshall Construction where he earned his Journeyman Certificate as a Carpenter in 2015.

Parker was deeply loved and his memory will be forever cherished by his parents; Dale and Brenda Peters; sister Kelsey (Adam) Wilcott; dearest nephews Nixon and Rowan Wilcott; paternal grandmother Leona Ewing; uncles Mitch (Candy), Darrell (Ora), Duane (Tracy), Bryant (Susan), Blaine (Kathy); aunts Shirley (Wes), Sharin (Leif), Lauri (Ernie) and their respective families. Parker was predeceased by his paternal grandfather, Larry Peters; step-grandfather Newell Ewing, and his maternal grandparents, Jerry and Shirley Petkau. Parker touched the lives of many and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Gone, but never forgotten!!! A celebration of Parker’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:30 a.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made to the Red Deer and District S.P.C.A., 4505 - 77 St, Red Deer AB T4P 2J1 or to Make-A-Wish (Southern Alberta) # 4, 2308 - 24 St SW, Calgary AB T2T 5H8.

Condolences to Parker’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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PRE PLANNING FUNERAL DIRECTORS Eventide Funeral Chapel & Red Deer Funeral Home Red Deer, Alberta The Pre Planning Funeral Director is responsible for promoting and providing funeral planning by contacting and meeting clients to prearrange their funerals and discuss pre arranging cemetery products and services in the community.

Our ideal candidate will be responsible for the following: • Working various lead sources, contacting and visiting client families to assess pre-arrangement needs.

• Communicating the Company’s Pre Need Funeral planning program.

• Generating lead sources by following-up on all referrals, walk-ins and mail drops, working with at-need families to promote the aftercare program.

• Presenting to community organizations, arranging and hosting seminars and mall shows, notifying agencies and special groups about the pre-need funeral program and reviewing all files.

• Establishing and organizing programs and seminars at the funeral home, with guest speakers and arranges co-sponsors of the seminars and programs.

• Ensuring all contracts are accurately completed, required signatures are obtained, copies are forwarded to appropriate parties and that files are maintained.

• Participating in funeral home staff and management meetings, communicates regularly with all funeral home staff to obtain and provide information on the families served or new lead sources.

If you are interested in applying for this position or know someone who may be interested, please email your resume and cover letter to Michael Montanaro, Manager, Pre-Planning at mmontanaro@arbormemorial.com.

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Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related field. Preferably, you will have 3–5 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as, excellent interpersonal, team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal.

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