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Hammer to fall VEHICLES PARKED ON THE STREET IN A PLOW ZONE WILL BE TICKETED AND/OR TOWED, WARNS CITY OFFICIALS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Be prepared to pay if you leave your vehicle on the road when the snow plows come through your neighourhood this winter.

City crews are officially in the thick of residential plowing.

Public Works manager Greg Sikora said the city is trying to develop a culture of change and encourage residents to be part of a collaborative program.

Last La st yea earr th ther ere e we were re 10, 0,00 000 0 ve ve-

hicles hicl es lef eftt on the str tree eett du duri ring ng the plowing campaign. Warning letters were handed out to remind residents about the program as opposed to tickets.

But this year the hammer will come down on the rule breakers.

Vehicles parked on the street when a snow zone is being plowed will be ticketed and/or towed.

Tickets are $85 on grey routes and $155 if you leave your vehicle and it is ticketed and towed on green routes.

Vehicles parked on the street

slow down slo n th the e pl plo owss, mak akin ing g it dififfficult to plow a smooth surface, re-sulting in an uneven roadway, said d Sikora.

The recent freeze-thaw condi-tions have created ruts on the green n routes. “It makes it very difficult in some e situations to move in and out off lanes,� said Sikora. “We want to gett them all nicely cleaned up and we’re e going to proceed with grey routes ass well.�

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The City of Red Deer has begun the process of clearing snow from residential areas this week. Here a grader operator works on Oak Drive in Oriole Park on Tuesday.

City officials say vehicles parked on the street slow down the plows, making it difficult to plow a smooth surface, resulting in an uneven roadway.

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RCMP defend handling of root beer incident

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF RCMP officers believed a man was obstructing a liquor offence investigation when he refused to comply with their instructions.

Const. Robert Andrew Scott Burchett, 50, and Cpl. Kevin Roger Lee Halwa, 42, both testified Monday as to why they applied the force they did on Levi Desjarlais on the evening of Aug. 20, 2011.

Desjarlais has filed a lawsuit against Halwa, Burchett and Cpl. Dean Allan Purcka, 41, for the alleged assault that followed. The three RCMP officers also face assault charges.

Desjarlais said he was pepper-sprayed, kneed in the groin and beaten during the altercation. “If you obstruct the police, sometimes bad things happen,� said Burchett during his testimony.

Burchett and Purcka were in Sylvan Lake that evening on overtime from other detachments. In the summer, the Sylvan Lake RCMP are provided extra money from the town to increase the police presence for the summer rowdiness.

Burchett was driving in a dark blue unmarked prisoner van. He saw Desjarlais walking on the sidewalk holding what he believed at the time to be a bottle of beer. Later, Burchett would learn it was in fact root beer.

Throughout direct and cross examination, Burchett said he thought Desjarlais held a beer during the incident.

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Grade 1 student Danika Jensen reacts while playing a math game with Red Deer Rebel goaltender Rylan Toth Tuesday at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School in Red Deer. Each class at the school got a visit from a member of the Rebels, who helped students with their studies. The Rebels take to the ice at the Centrium in Red Deer tonight, 7 p.m., against the Moose Jaw Warriors.

Crime prevention centre taps social media to respond to growing complaints about crime

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Advocates for deterring and reducing crime are on high alert as the economy continues to tank.

Their weapon of choice?

Information.

TerryLee Ropchan, Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre executive di-

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rector, said as soon as you hear about the economy and layoffs, immediately the first thing that comes to mind is that there will be repercussions felt throughout the community. “Definitely it is on our radar,� said Ropchan. “We try to stay connected with some of the social media so the Facebook pages around stolen vehicles. We are monitoring. We are watch-

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One of the agency’s goals this year is to respond to some of the growing complaints about crimes or happenings in neighbourhoods on social media platforms.

She wants people to know they have some place to go.

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Flames organization backs hospice gala

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Hospice Society has a new corporate friend from Southern Alberta.

Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, owner of the Calgary Flames, will be supporting the 2016 Funhouse Gala on Feb. 17 by contributing live and silent auction items.

Brian Burke, president of hockey operations with the Flames, who toured the hospice on Tuesday afternoon, said it wasn’t his first time at a hospice.

“I was involved when the Canucks built Canuck Place, which is a hospice for children with life-limiting illnesses,” said Burke who was also the key speaker at a Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

“One thing I do every summer is, I go fishing in British Columbia and bring fish back to the hospice so they can have a salmon barbecue for the kids.”

He said his mother was also a final stage hospice volunteer for 12 years. She died in hospice about a year-and-a-half ago.

Burke’s presentation before Red Deer business leaders focused on sports and business working within the community.

He said giving back to the community is what the Flames have always done.

“The original owners of the Calgary Flames, continuing through to this day, have been local business people who are philanthropic and altruistic. That’s part of our DNA from day one. The Flames have been one of the most generous, committed organizations in terms of charity work in the history of pro sports. This is not something I had to sell when I got here. This is what we do.”

And the Flames continue to garner public support for its fundraising efforts through Flames Foundation for Life.

“Flames Foundation for Life, it is one of the bigger players in Alberta in terms of distributing money. We carry our weight and we punch above our weight when it comes to charitable activity in Alberta.”

“We raised $420,000 this past week in our poker tournament for the Flames Foundation for Life. In this economy, that’s an extraordinary number.”

Personally, Burke is committed to anti-bullying

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PLOWING: Look for signage He said this will resurface the road and move some of the snowpack and build some small windrows on both sides of the road. The intent is to prepare for the snowfall to ensure there are safe and accessible roads, said Sikora.

Look for signage: Red “no parking” signs are used on green routes only. On grey routes, there will be large signs at the entrances to neighbourhoods indicating when plowing is taking place.

Crews began plowing in Snow Zone C and green routes on Tuesday.

Green routes are plowed to bare pavement with no windrows. The snow is removed.

Grey routes are plowed to a 5 cm snowpack, and windrows are left on both sides of the street. Windrows from front driveways will be cleared and the snow will be placed on the windrows on the remainder of the street.

The remaining snow zones and routes will be scheduled and announced in alphabetical order until complete (ending with B).

To find out more about snow zones, visit www. reddeer.ca/snowzone or call the Snow Zone Hotline at 403-406-8796. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

ASSAULT: Arrested for obstruction Even when Crown Prosecutor Photini Papadatou continually questioned him about the legality of drinking a root beer in public.

During her cross examination, Papadatou held up a clear plastic cup and asked Burchett “water or

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Brian Burke, president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames, and Flames account executive Jodie Schreiner get a tour of the Red Deer Hospice with hospice executive director Val Hilario, left, and hospice event co-ordinator Lori Dufresne Tuesday afternoon. efforts through Canadian Safe School Network and You Can Play Project, Special Olympics, Ducks Unlimited, Canadian Forces and girls hockey.

Lori Dufresne, hospice event co-ordinator, said the annual gala is the largest fundraising event for the hospice and is thrilled with the continued corporate support and new support from Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation and others.

“Last year (the gala) brought in $130,000 in profits and it’s largely because of the great corporate support. In this economy this year I was a little nervous,

but our corporate support and sponsorship is at the same levels as it was last year.”

She expects another sell-out event with less than 100 tickets still available. This year the gala at Red Deer Sheraton has a funhouse theme that promises to be a colourful, experiential extravaganza.

“I think it’s important to stay new and fresh in Red Deer.”

For ticket or more information go to www.reddeerhospice.com.

vodka?”

Burchett said water. Papadatou asked “how do you know?”

Burchett said “I don’t.”

Papadatou took a sip and put the cup down.

Burchett said he called out several times, trying to get Desjarlais’ attention. He was unsuccessful at first, so the 14-year Mountie parked his vehicle partially on the sidewalk, exited and walked up to Desjarlais.

Burchett walked towards Desjarlais, said “I’ll take that,” and tried to grab the bottle from his hands. Burchett said Desjarlais pulled away, told the officer he wasn’t handing over the bottle and walked away. Burchett called for backup saying he was concerned for his safety, noting that Desjarlais had an angry look to him.

On Monday, Desjarlais testified he had handed the bottle over twice and on the first inspection Burchett said it was beer.

As the matter escalated, Burchett said Desjarlais refused to identify himself and took a swig from the bottle. It was at this point that Burchett told Desjarlais he was under arrest for obstruction.

Halwa testified Burchett and Purcka held Desjarlais and attempted to get handcuffs on him, but were “losing the battle.” Halwa said they felt Desjarlais was resisting and was succeeding in not complying with police direction. At one point Desjarlais grabbed onto Purcka’s vest, which the officers interpreted as a threat.

Halwa used his pepper-spray on Desjarlais to get him to the ground. After the struggle, which only lasted a few minutes, Halwa and Purcka attempted to get Desjarlais into a police car. Halwa said Desjarlais went stiff and there was a bit of a struggle that ensued.

On Monday, Desjarlais said he had his groin grabbed and kneed in an effort to get him into the vehicle. Halwa denied the allegation on Tuesday during his testimony.

Desjarlais was transported to the Sylvan Lake RCMP detachment where he was given treatment for his pepper-sprayed eyes. A promise to appear in court was written up, alleging causing a disturbance, obstruction and resisting arrest. Halwa later made the decision to not formally swear the charges against

Desjarlais and they did not proceed.

Trial continues today in Red Deer provincial court. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

CRIME: Engage more on social media “We have programs, resources and information,” said Ropchan. “We want to engage more with the social media crowd. People use social media to vent and find other people who are experiencing the same. But it has not translated to people who want to be part of Citizens on Patrol or join Neighbourhood Watch. Those are the things that we are offering to them so they realize they can make a difference.”

Crime prevention is more important than ever and is reflected in the work it is doing in the community with its graffiti program, SAFE program, presentations and other programs, she said.

“The solutions haven’t changed,” said Ropchan.

“We’re hoping going out more and hoping people realize they have a role. Then we can give them our resources.”

This year the agency will mark Crime Prevention Month in May. It is usually one week in May. Ropchan said they wanted to expand the program to reach more people. On May 14, the agency will host Touch-a-Truck Day, as opposed to its annual fair, at Crossroads Church between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

She said it will offer the same resources as the fair but will have more of an event atmosphere for the entire family. There will be all kinds of trucks and equipment.

“It’s a community event,” she said. “We want people to come out and talk to each other and get a little information about crime prevention.”

CACPC is currently seeking trucks and equipment for display during the family-friendly event.

For more information visit www.cacpc.ca crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Education minister ‘disturbed’ by dysfunction at school board Group expected to FARM SAFETY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s education minister says he is disturbed by the latest example of dysfunction at Edmonton’s Catholic school board.

David Eggen also acknowledges that dissolving the board is an option, and says it is an idea that has been on his mind.

“I’m very concerned because of course they are responsible for many tens of thousands of children and running one of the biggest boards in the province,” Eggen told reporters Tuesday.

“We need to know the procedures for making decisions are clear.”

Eggen’s comments come after board members met without the knowledge of their chairwoman last week to send out to all parents a letter from Calgary’s bishop.

The letter from Bishop Fred Henry condemns a provincial policy being pursued by the board on helping LGBTQ students.

Eggen was asked if he is now considering dissolving the board.

“Moving down that road is certainly one of the options I have available to me, and I have been reflecting on that in the last few days,” he replied.

He said next steps will take place over the next two days after he meets again with facilitator Donald

Cummings.

Cummings was hired by Eggen last fall to help the Edmonton Catholic board members work together after public meetings over the issue of a transgender girl disintegrated into shouts, anger, insults, and tears.

The Edmonton Catholic board is one of 61 boards across Alberta charged by the province with drafting a policy to make schools safe and welcoming to LGBTQ students, as mandated under Alberta’s School Act. The boards must submit draft policies to the province for review by March 31.

To assist the boards, Eggen’s department has sent out guidelines for the policies.

The guidelines, among other recommendations, specify that transgender students be allowed to use the washroom of their choice depending on their sex or on whether they perceive themselves to be a girl or a boy.

They say students should be allowed to dress based on the same principle and play on sports teams they feel align with their sexuality.

Eggen has said he expects the boards’ submissions will reflect the spirit, if not the letter, of the guidelines.

The guidelines provoked a furious response last week from Calgary Bishop Fred Henry.

Securities commission says investment scammers targeting baby boomers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta Securities Commission is warning investors to beware of scams that could cost them money or earn them a reputation for fraud.

The regulator says scammers like to target baby boomers by preying on their fear that they haven’t saved enough for retirement.

The “hot” investment tip usually involves a high rate of return with little or no risk.

Such promises are a red flag for fraud, said Alison Trollope, a spokeswoman for the securities commission.

“Baby boomers are the largest and wealthiest generation in Canadian history, so to scam artists they are fantastic targets,” she said.

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“We all know what our mothers told us: ‘If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.’ What we say is if it sounds too good to be true, it is.”

The commission has some other tips for people pondering what to do with their money as the Feb. 29 RRSP deadline approaches.

Trollope said investors should avoid unregistered sales people and companies.

When in doubt, people can check the registration by visiting the regulator’s website.

The securities commission is also warning against making investment decisions based on information from Facebook “friends” or social media chat rooms.

The tip someone hears about from a relative, co-worker or stranger could be based on untrue information planted by a scammer in the hope of ripping people off.

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craft rules as early as next month

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta’s agriculture minister says he hopes to get going as soon as next month on a process to craft the regulations that will underpin the new farm safety law.

Oneil Carlier, speaking to reporters Tuesday, said the plan is to have six working groups composed of industry experts and front-line farmers and ranchers.

Carlier said they will help guide the process as the province drafts rules in the areas of occupational health and safety, labour relations and employment standards.

Carlier said he is reaching out to industry groups now to see if they can assist on finding the best people.

There would be between 10 and 12 members for each of the six groups.

“We’re looking to have a very broad cross-representation from farming and ranching stakeholder groups as well as from labourers and workers themselves,” said Carlier.

He said the hope is to get the groups organized by mid-February.

“It’s still a work in progress,” he said.

The new law gives workers compensation benefits to paid farm workers injured on the job effective Jan. 1 of this year.

It also puts farms under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Farms must meet a basic standard of care until specific rules and regulations are hashed out in the next year to 18 months.

The farm safety bill passed late last year against a backdrop of angry protests from farmers.

Alberta was the only jurisdiction in Canada without employment standards coverage for farm and ranch workers and one of the few without WCB coverage when the NDP government introduced the legislation last fall.

Opponents have said they are concerned the regulations will cripple family farms with too much red tape or will have blanket regulations that are unworkable and unadaptable to farm operations.

The opposition Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties have said the legislation moved too far too fast in the house and that more discussion was needed.

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Red Deer man charged after seatbelt infraction prompts dangerous drive MERRITT, B.C. — A Red Deer man who didn’t bother to buckle up is now facing several charges in southern British Columbia, and failure to use a seatbelt is the least of his problems.

RCMP near Merritt say officers tried to pull over a westbound red Ford pickup last Friday because the driver was not wearing a seatbelt and appeared to have loose cargo in the back of the truck.

Instead the man, accompanied by a female passenger, began to drive erratically along Highway 97C, racing through a red light and attempting a sharp turn onto the Coquihalla Highway access, before skidding off the road.

Officers say the man and woman tried to run on foot but were quickly arrested.

The Red Deer resident, who hasn’t been named, remains in custody, charged with various offences including possession of stolen property and breaching conditions related to charges laid in Alberta.

The woman passenger also appeared before a judge and has been released while awaiting a next court date on charges of possessing break in instruments.

Legislative committee wants input on Personal Information Privacy Act EDMONTON — A legislative committee is looking for feedback from Albertans as it reviews the Personal Information Protection Act. The act is meant to protect the personal information of customers, clients and employees

Police officer charged with assault going back three years EDMONTON — An Edmonton police constable faces one count of assault in relation to an on-duty call three years ago.

Police say Dustin Adsett was responding to a report of a disturbance in January 2013.

Adsett is a seven-year-member of the Edmonton Police Service and remains on active duty.

The charge follows an investigation by the police department’s professional standards branch and a recommendation from Alberta Justice.

Four Alberta snowmobilers rescued in B.C. could be facing big price tag GOLDEN, B.C. — Four male snowmobilers from Alberta could be facing a hefty price tag after they had to be rescued on the weekend from Quartz Creek, west of Golden, B.C. Golden-Field RCMP say in a news release that the quartet will be required to organize and pay for a helicopter and permits to remove their stranded snowmobiles.

Parks Canada will also be investigating to determine if they will be charged under the National Parks Act for entering Glacier National Park on snowmobiles.

RCMP say they were advised on Saturday that the group was stranded and required a helicopter to rescue them.

Instead, a search and rescue team from Golden headed out on snowmobiles and found the group of four, who were uninjured and waiting at an area cabin.

Const. Spencer Lainchbury says the group is believed to have crossed into Glacier National Park and got stuck and unable to get out.

The four males were transported back to the staging area where their vehicle was parked.

Police in Lethbridge say death of woman, 78, in own home a homicide LETHBRIDGE — Police in southern Alberta have ruled the death of a 78-year-old woman in her own home a homicide.

Family members who went to check on her when she couldn’t be reached found the body of Irene Carter in her Lethbridge residence on Sunday.

Police said an autopsy indicates the senior died after being stabbed.

“We don’t have any specific evidence to suggest that there’s an ongoing risk or threat to neighbours or the general public,” police spokeswoman Kristen Harding said Tuesday.

“Part of the investigation right now is working to determine a timeline of Mrs. Carter’s activities prior to her death.”

Mounties arrest man after tires slashed on four RCMP cruisers VEGREVILLE, — An RCMP detachment east of Edmonton has been going through a lot of tires.

Mounties say they have arrested a man after the tires of four police cruisers were slashed at the Vegreville detachment earlier this month.

Jason Larry Kotowich, who is 35, has been charged with three counts of mischief under $5,000, resisting arrest and breaching a probation order.

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The review will determine whether any amendments are needed at this time.

Ricardo Miranda, committee chair and MLA for Calgary Cross, says input from the public is key and he urges all Albertans to participate in this process and let the committee know what they think.

Written submissions from all Albertans are welcome and the deadline is Feb. 26.

The committee has also begun to solicit feedback from stakeholder organizations and has sought preliminary information from experts such as Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner.

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Not only richer but avoiding more taxes So, just 62 people own as much should outrage us the most, or the one wealth as the bottom half of all human- that decision-makers should concenity put together. That number decreas- trate on. The report is just data. es every year, but it’s like we’re waitWhat should outrage is how little ing for the point where it’s this group gives back, cononly one person who’s rich sidering their vastly disproas half of humanity before portionate wealth. we’ll be impressed.

Oxfam reports that of Either we’re becoming the fortunes of this group, jaded by constant reports about $7.6 trillion resides of income inequality, or in the accounts of tax hawe’re not paying attention vens. because we’re being asked Are you weary of being to draw the wrong concluasked to contribute, over sions. Probably both. and over again, to alleviate International charity the worst effects of poverOxfam releases a report on ty in Africa? Oxfam reports global wealth inequality evalmost a third of the total GREG ery January. This year’s rewealth of that continent NEIMAN port just happens to come is held offshore. Gabriel right before the rich and Zuchman of the University OPINION powerful gather at Davos, of California, Berkeley esSwitzerland for the World timates that $14 billion has Economic Forum. Oxfam’s report is been lost as revenue for African coungiving the politicians there a gold-plat- tries to improve their own economies ed opportunity to talk about the wrong and infrastructure for education and things. health care.

It is true, the share of global wealth In my view, that’s more important is concentrating in ever-greater ex- than the data of mere inequality. tent, to the top percentile of people.

But don’t think it’s just Africa that In 2010, it took 388 people to amass as offends in this way. much wealth as the bottom 50 per cent A sidebar to the Oxfam report tells of people in the world, according to us that five Canadians hold the equivaOxfam. That dropped to 177 people in lent wealth of the bottom 30 per cent of 2011, then 159 in 2012, plummeting to all Canadians.

92 in 2013, and in the global economic Global News has the list posted, and struggles beginning in 2014, a slight it includes all the usual suspects. But drop to 80. Now, it’s 62. smack in the middle of that list is GarBut that’s not the information that rett Camp, owner of the Canadian arm

of Uber and a major web developer.

Uber doesn’t pay taxes, or is at least reported not to pay taxes. The drivers are expected to, but 20 per cent of every Uber ride goes to a holding company in the Netherlands, which pays another holding company in the Netherlands for the right to Uber’s intellectual property, which is not taxed in that country. From there the money goes to an offshore haven owned by the top holding company in San Franscisco.

The scheme is called by Fortune Magazine “double Irish with a Dutch sandwich” and it’s used by a lot of international companies whose payments occur online and which don’t become real money, until they’re out of reach of the tax departments of the countries where the payments were made.

In fact, Oxfam says 188 of 201 leading global companies use offshore havens to avoid helping to maintain the infrastructure of the economies that generate their wealth. Uber drivers use the road, they block the parking stalls and the bike lanes of big cities — why doesn’t the parent company contribute like their licenced taxi competitors, and everyone else?

That’s where the anger should be focused.

The Canadian government under the Conservatives refused to accept data offered to them, listing the biggest Canadian tax cheats, who collectively owe hundreds of millions if not

billions of dollars to the nation. Canada helped build their wealth, why shouldn’t they support our nation according to law?

There’s plenty of criticism of Oxfam’s methodology and reporting. Yes, CEO salaries increased almost a thousand per cent since 1982, while worker salaries increased a mere 10.9 per cent.

But wealth is not a finite pie. In that time, the value of S&P 500 companies increased by more than 500 per cent.

That’s a whole lot of new wealth, reflected in the value of millions of Canadians’ RSP accounts — at least those who invested and held through the numerous up-and-down cycles over the years.

More, Oxfam’s study calculates wealth as a simple assets-minus-debts equation. In that scenario, a young Canadian worker making $50,000 a year, but with a big student loan and a mortgage is listed among the world’s poorest people. Apples and over-ripe bananas, as far as poverty should be considered.

I don’t like seeing the egregious wealth-taking the world talks about.

But what I hate more is how we ignore the ability of the super-rich to thumb their noses at tax-paying slobs like us who build the economy that makes them so rich.

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Government must spend wisely to maintain and improve society The current global downturn in the general economy is a cause for serious concern, obviously making it much more difficult to provide funding for specific projects.

However, investment in such things as roads, bridges, alternate and clean energy production, retrofitted housing and commercial structures for energy efficiency, adequate social housing, improved medical and hospital access, training for doctors, nurses, care attendants, teachers, social workers — the list is long and urgent. This is not simply spending into debt. This is healthy investment in our nation and our future generations.

In addition, while subsidies have been generous for fossil fuel production, they have been limited for other energy sources. Social housing and seniors’ care are not profit-making for private investment (or should not be) but are absolutely essential for quality of life. And public education must keep pace in this changing world.

Investment in culture — the arts, music, public TV and even radio, is an essential in a civilized society.

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as a cultured nation that supports all the abilities of all our citizens.

Of course, technology is a growing and expanding field, and Alberta is already well placed to develop this new area of endeavour at many levels. We must encourage and equip our people for this future reality.

No one likes paying taxes, so reasonable rates adjusted for income must and can be set up, as long as citizens can see the benefits that accrue from their input. Education is needed to combat the opposition to such action by some sources not as concerned for the common good. Reasonable pay for reasonable work will allow Canada to assist those citizens who cannot participate fully in the workforce for whatever cause, via the tax base.

Government has a responsibility to all citizens, not only to ‘balance the books” in a transparent and accountable manner, but to provide the means for each person to participate and benefit from a just and caring society. Fear, self-centred consumerism, cynicism regarding governments, and overdone individualism are creeping into our national mindset. Positive investment in a responsible and visibly compassionate future can overcome that, and lead back to the kind of open and caring society we all desire.

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Money for study could be much better spent on homeless housing Several seniors from the Golden Circle and youth elsewhere in Red Deer, are absolutely appalled that city council would spend $100,000 of our hard-earned money to pay for words on paper — a study. That person you would have hired would be mighty lucky to have a down payment on a house. We all hope you will nix the idea.

We want you to take that $100,000 and spend it on a down payment on a building that will house our homeless, with rules and regulations of course. We can make a second payment next year and another in two years. The building would then be all paid for.

This way we will get value for our money. There are lots of city employees that can find an appropriate building.

If city council cannot do this, then we would suggest that we have a finance committee that will, in the present and future, make financial decisions, taking the burden off of city council. We would be okay with $5,000.

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VICTORIA — The federal government joined the provinces and territories on Tuesday in a program to buy drugs in bulk, a sign of a thaw in relations over the national health agenda.

Health Minister Jane Philpott said drug plans administered by the federal government will unite with the provincial and territorial pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance to negotiate lower prices on brand name and generic drugs. Ottawa didn’t join the alliance when it was formed five years ago.

Prof. Michael Prince, a University of Victoria health policy expert, said the federal government’s decision to get involved in the plan adds strength to the program.

“The federal government is the fifth or sixth of the largest health-care providers in the country,” he said. “It’s a major health-care provider and player in its own right and bringing the government of Canada to the table is going to be very helpful.”

Ottawa’s change in position on the drug program was announced on the eve of a meeting of the country’s health ministers that takes place on Wednesday and Thursday in Vancouver and is expected to discuss everything from the treatment of chronic diseases to funding formulas The new tone between Ottawa and the provinces and territories is also expected at the meetings after a decade of testy relations when Stephen Harper was prime minister.

“For the last 10 years, and I don’t need to get partisan about this, we had a prime minister who chose not to engage very actively on these inter-governmental files,” said Prince.

“He (Harper) was more interested in law and order and criminal justice. That’s where his priorities were.”

Prince said by resuming meetings on health care, the federal government “will reactivate and re-energize federal-provincial relations on health issues in a way we haven’t seen for over a decade in this country.”

In a statement after the drug program announcement, Philpott said combining the negotiating power of the federal, provincial and territorial governments achieves greater savings for all publicly funded drug programs, increases access to drug-treatment options and improves the consistency of pricing across Canada.

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will trade the snowy hillsides of a seaside New Brunswick town this morning for the snowcapped Alps of Switzerland, with the national and global economy following him across the Atlantic Ocean.

Trudeau left Tuesday for Davos and the World Economic Forum, which brings together the world’s most powerful and influential political and business leaders, celebrities and activists.

“We’re going to talk about how diversity is a strength and really showcase the fact that Canada has tremendous opportunities and is facing challenges like lots of places, but we have the tools to surpass those challenges in a way that should draw in global interest,” he said before leaving a federal cabinet retreat in Saint Andrews, N.B. Trudeau will have a chance to give a keynote address on Wednesday, talk about gender parity in his cabinet alongside Melinda Gates and sell his plans for growing the Canadian economy.

Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science and economic development, said that Davos — like last month’s climate change conference in Paris — is a chance to demonstrate that Canada can show global leadership.

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Taking the fight to blue-green algae MOVEMENT TO CREATE WETLANDS TO HELP FILTER RUNOFF AND SEPTIC SEEPAGE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Blue-green algae blooms in lakes are obvious signs of nature thrown out of kilter.

Last summer, Alberta Environment issued advisories for both Pigeon and Pine Lakes in Central Alberta. For humans, the algae caused by nutrient loading in the lake can cause skin and eye irritation and illness if ingested.

For animals, drinking large amounts of polluted water can be fatal.

Gull Lake has been spared so far and a dedicated group of volunteers and home-grown conservationists have joined forces on a new initiative to create wetlands, nature’s amazingly efficient filter for nutrients most often associated with fertilizer runoff or septic field seepage.

Craig MacLeod, president of the Gull Lake Watershed Society, said the goal is to develop a “long-term game plan for mitigating inputs into the lake, especially nutrients that are forming algae and have the potential to form blue-green algae like we’ve seen in other lakes in Central Alberta.

“We’re trying to take a very proactive approach as opposed to reacting once there is a major problem,” said MacLeod.

The strategy is built on working with key stakeholders around the lake, which in this case means, residents, farmers, developers, summer villages, and Ponoka and Lacombe Counties.

“We’re really looking at a comprehensive approach, everyone possible,” he said.

Farmers have been approached to see if they will allow ecological reserves on marginal land to create wetlands, to allow nutrients draining off to pool and be slowly filtered naturally.

So efficient are wetlands, that it is not uncommon for water that emerges

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Craig MacLeod, president of Gull Lake Watershed Society standing next to a stream bed that has cut through a farm field and leads to the lake. An initiative hopes to prevent such conduits for nutrient-laden runoff by creating wetlands to act as filters.

ENVIRONMENT downstream to be close to drinkable quality.

Gull Lake’s southeast corner has been chosen as the first focus area, although the goal is to ring the lake with wetlands eventually. The southeast is an area that has been used for farming for decades and has been identified as an area of higher nutrient loading.

To encourage buy-in, funding is being sought to compensate landowners for property they are making available

to create wetlands.

“We want to make it so it’s a winwin for agriculture, so we can compensate them and we can create an incentive for them for sustainable agriculture and a sustainable lake.”

A presentation was made last week to Lacombe County to pitch the initiative and make the case for funding.

No specific dollar amount has been requested yet and Lacombe County is reviewing the proposal.

Former Lacombe-Ponoka MLA and Lacombe County Reeve Ray Prins is among the local landowners who has

Students teaching seniors the online world

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF When it comes to technology, seniors in Olds are learning from old pros — teenagers.

Olds Connected Community with Olds Institute has developed a Cyber-Seniors program to connect local seniors to technology with the help of students from Olds High School.

“It’s a reverse mentoring scenario where students visit with seniors to work with them on technology use,” said Olds Institute executive director Mitch Thompson on Tuesday.

Students are natural technology tutors, he said.

“Kids today, they grow up with these things attached almost, so there is a vast array of knowledge in their own experiences.”

In October, Cyber-Seniors began as a three-month pilot with 20 seniors at White Water Way and Sunrise Village paired with 20 student volunteers who visit the facilities for an hour or two a week.

The program is free for seniors who can also access a free laptop if they don’t have a computer.

Thompson said tutoring material is provided to teach seniors about online sites like Facebook, Skype, how to communicate by e-mail, and more depending on the senior and their interests.

He said the success of the program means it will be extended to June. Se-

leant his support to the project.

A similar approach will be made to Ponoka County and there is also a partnership underway with the Summer Village of Parkland Beach.

Corporate donations and funding from other levels of government are other options.

How much compensation and wetland construction will cost has not been fully costed out. But it will likely cost in the hundreds of thousands over a period of years to fully realize the wetland initiative. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Seniors in Olds are tackling technology with the help of savvy high school students through the new Cyber-Seniors Project. niors and other high school students in Olds and Mountain View County are encouraged to find out how they can join.

The idea for Cyber-Seniors came out of Eastern Canada a few years ago.

Cyber-Seniors has since grown into an international organization.

“We just thought it was a great opportunity to bring different demographics of people together, students and seniors, so they both learn from one another,” Thompson said.

He said it provides some health and

social benefits for seniors and students can earn credits by volunteering.

To learn more about Cyber-Seniors and meet local participants, Olds Institute will be hosting a showing of a documentary based on the international Cyber-Seniors organization at Mayfair Theatre in Olds on Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information go to www. oldsinstitute.com or call Olds Institute at 1-403-586-4000. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Almost 30 months after he was charged with several drug and gun offences, a Red Deer man entered a guilty plea.

Cody Steven Mackenzie, 31, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a controlled substance. The pleas were entered on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Mackenzie was sentenced to 135 days in jail, which was satisfied by time served.

The aging charges were laid against Mackenzie in July 2013 after the Red Deer RCMP street team executed a search warrant on a vehicle and a Stanhope Avenue residence.

Police said they found heroin, crack cocaine, crystal meth, GHB, drug paraphernalia, a shotgun, ammunition, body armour and cash.

Blackfalds forming new recreation plan

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Fast-growing Blackfalds is making sure it’s ahead of the game where local recreation is concerned.

Council recently endorsed a Parks and Facilities Master Plan and an AllStar Park Design Concept. Together, the plans map out the recreation future for the community that has grown by 130 per cent since 2003, including 12 per cent last year alone.

Mayor Melodie Stol said the town’s popular Abbey Centre addressed many of the initiatives proposed in the previous master plan. Now, attention has been turned to the next few years.

“Whether these new facilities come on stream in a year or the next 10 years it’s good to have a plan to know what direction we’re going,” said Stol.

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COUNCIL “WHETHER THESE NEW FACILITIES COME ON STREAM IN A YEAR OR THE NEXT 10 YEARS IT’S GOOD TO HAVE A PLAN TO KNOW WHAT DIRECTION WE’RE GOING.” —MELODIE STOL, MAYOR OF BLACKFALDS expectations for monthly and day passes.

However, as the community continues to grow, more facilities will be needed. The master plan identifies future facilities and when they are likely needed.

For instance, a second ice sheet may be needed when the town hits 12,000 to 15,000 residents; a second fit-

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ness facility at 30,000; and a performing arts centre at 15,000 to 20,000.

The plan also explores financing and partnership strategies that could be pursued.

“We also have to have a regional view of what we do,” she said. “The master plan reaffirms some of the strategies to accomplish that.”

Also approved by council was the direction for All-Star Park, the 65-acre recreation area on the south edge of town.

The All-Star Park Design Concept anticipates a new high school including two new full-size soccer fields next to the existing Iron Ridge Junior High School.

Bike skills and skate parks would eventually be joined by a football field, running track and additional ball diamonds in the staged redevelopment of the site.

Council has already put aside mon-

ey in its 2016 capital budget for an offleash dog park, skateboard park, new baseball diamond benches and an a new diamond in the Cottonwood Meadows.

A unique addition to the park will be the Wadey House, a historic home now located on South Street. The plan is to move it to All-Star Park this year and restore it as an entry point and the home of the Blackfalds and Area Historical Society.

Stol said $167,000 in federal funding has already been lined up for the project to restore the home, which is an example of an early pre-fabricated house that could be purchased through the Eatons catalogue.

All-Star Park is a joint plan between the town and Wild Rose School Division, which sold Blackfalds land next to the site for future recreation needs. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Cities step up to host families

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — As some cities take a breather from resettling government-assisted Syrian refugees, others say their doors are open — if the federal government asks and also offers to pay.

While the home communities for refugees with private sponsors is dictated by where those sponsors are, refugees whose costs are covered entirely by the federal government are sent to just 36 cities.

Not included is Victoria — the lone provincial capital that isn’t an official reception centre for government-assisted refugees. The only Syrians arriving there as part of the Liberals’ Syrian program are those whose costs are split between the government and private sponsors, as well as those coming thanks to private sponsors alone.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said she told the federal immigration minister even before the Liberal program was unveiled that her city was interested in taking in Syrians but is still waiting.

“We are ready. The church, the school board, the credit union, private donors, private families, we’re ready,” she said.

The reason Victoria isn’t on the list dates back to the late 1980s when the federal government got out of the business of providing direct support to the refugees it was resettling and began contracting out to local agencies.

In British Columbia, the city with the highest number of those was Metro Vancouver so that’s where government-assisted refugees all go to this

day.

But looking at some of the other cities on the list — like Medicine Hat., Alta., or Moose Jaw. Sask., — raises the question of why Victoria isn’t there now.

“We are bigger than a lot of the centres that settle (them) now,” said Jean McRae, the director of Victoria’s Intercultural Association. “We’d have to rebuild the capacity but we’re totally capable of doing that.”

Of the 25,000 Syrians set to arrive by the end of next month, the Liberals have said 15,000 would be government-assisted. A further 10,000 government-assisted are to arrive by the end of this year.

But right now, Vancouver has asked the federal government to temporarily halt sending new government-assisted refugees their way as they work through a housing shortage. Ottawa has also made the same request.

In Ontario, there are six cities that serve as destination points for government-assisted Syrian refugees. With most of the services refugees need only available in the southern parts of the province it makes some sense that none are settled beyond there, said Deborah Robertson, the executive director of the North Bay and District Multicultural Centre.

But with the right funding, there’s no reason her community couldn’t welcome more, she said.

“I think the interest is absolutely there, it’s there from the centre and from the community and the community has proven that in the way they’ve responded to this current crisis,” she said.

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Feds may consider forgiving flight costs SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — The federal government may consider forgiving the flight costs for Syrian refugees who came to Canada before the Liberals came to power, the federal immigration minister said Tuesday.

Until Nov. 4, all refugees arriving under the government’s resettlement programs were required to cover their own airfare, a long-standing policy dating back decades.

But the Liberals decided to waive that requirement for Syrian refugees it was bringing to Canada as part of its program to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of February and a further 10,000 by the end of 2016.

“We only came to power on Nov. 4, so our policy affects post-Nov. 4 refugees,” Immigration Minister John McCallum said outside a Liberal cabinet meeting taking place in New Brunswick.

“But we will consider whether we should makea special case for the pre-Nov. 4 refugees. That is one of the things that we will be considering very soon.”

All other refugees who arrived in Canada after Nov. 4 are still re-

quired to cover their travel costs most do so by way of a loan. A recent internal government evaluation found the loan program often ends up having a negative impact on the lives of refugees in Canada as they struggle to pay it back.

Winnipeg hotel undergoing renos gives beds, mattresses, sofas WINNIPEG — A hotel that is being converted into luxury apartments is giving 34-suites worth of bed frames, mattresses and sofas to Syrian refugees.

John Saad, general manager of Place Louis Riel Suite Hotel, says they could have sold the items to another hotel chain.

But he says it is a great “repurpose” of the furniture and it gives people a fresh start with their new lives in Canada.

Ahmad Jameel, a refugee, said through a translator that they are thankful for any help offered and called it “amazing” and “wonderful.”

But Saad says there is nothing amazing about the donation and it was just “a natural thought process.”

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Two laws complicate efforts to lift sanctions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The former Conservative government “booby-trapped” Canada’s international relations with a pair of laws that are preventing the Liberals from lifting sanctions on Iran, says a former Canadian military analyst and Middle East expert.

Thomas Juneau, a University of Ottawa expert on Iran who spent 11 years at the Department of National Defence, cited the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and the listing of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism as obstacles to the government’s ability to lift sanctions.

In 2012, the Tories passed the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which allowed victims of terrorism to sue countries that are listed as supporters of terrorism.

Meanwhile, Canada has yet to lift sanctions against Iran in return for its verified compliance with the last weekend’s nuclear agreement with the United States and five other major powers.

“The Conservatives booby-trapped the issue of relations with Iran,” Juneau said Tuesday.

The two laws are also affecting the Liberal government’s decision — and campaign promise — to re-open its embassy in Tehran and restart diplomatic relations with Iran, which the Conservatives severed in 2012, he added.

“That complicates the issue of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Iran and lifting additional sanctions, because Iran, as a result of a legislative process … is a state sponsor of terrorism in Canada,” Juneau said.

“And that complicates issues right now. My understanding right now is the government is struggling to figure out how do we deal with that.”

Juneau said there are likely legal steps the government can take to deal with obstacles, but they could take time.

Global Affairs Canada said nothing in Canada’s decision to list Iran as a state supporter of terrorism prevents Canada from having contact with Iranian authorities. Spokeswoman Rachna Mishra said Canada is still reviewing its sanctions relief on Iran because of concerns over that country’s recent ballistic missile tests.

Despite the landmark deal reached this past weekend, the U.S. has imposed new sanctions in recent days on Iran because of the tests, which it says are destabilizing to the region.

Canada shares those concerns because the test is a violation of a UN Security Council resolution, said Mishra.

Canada also wants to ensure that the lifting of any sanctions does not lead to an illicit trade in “nuclear and ballistic missiles technologies” by Iran, she said.

Canada believes that the deal, “so long as it continues to be faithfully implemented, will effectively constrain Iran’s nuclear program.”

Iran expects the deal will provide it an estimated $100 billion in sanctions relief.

Canada, like the United States, Japan and the European Union, has imposed its own series of bilateral sanctions on Iran in addition to the UN regime. While the UN sanctions have largely been lifted, Juneau said work is under way to lift the bilateral ones.

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair as he curls with the NDP Caucus during a retreat in Montebello, Quebec on Tuesday.

Mulcair vowed Tuesday to make sure the New Democrats do not lose sight of their identity as they attempt to rebuild from last year’s crushing election defeat. During a speech, Mulcair promised to ensure the NDP remains loyal to its leftist roots.

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Next Conservative party leader will be chosen in 2017 OTTAWA — The Conservative party will choose its next leader on May 27, 2017.

The party says the date allows for a time frame that will provide an exciting and competitive race and a fair and open contest for all potential candidates.

The decision was made over the weekend by the leadership election organizing committee, a small group of party stalwarts in charge of setting the terms for the race.

The specific rules around how the next full-time leader will be chosen will be discussed by the committee in the coming weeks, but the vote will only be open to party members.

Rona Ambrose, an Alberta MP and former Conservative cabinet minister, is currently serving as the party’s interim leader, a position she was elected to after Stephen Harper stepped down on election night.

Several current MPs are believed to be considering a run, along with former Conservative parliamentarians and at least one high-profile outsider, businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau in critical but stable condition after surgery HULL, Que. — Sen. Patrick Brazeau was in critical but stable condition in a Quebec hospital on Tuesday after successful surgery, says

a spokesperson for the health-care institution.

Brazeau, 41, was admitted to hospital in Hull early Tuesday morning, according to a brief statement issued by the western Quebec centre.

“Mr. Brazeau’s condition is considered critical but stable,” the statement said.

“His life is not in danger.”

There were PATRICK BRAZEAU no details on the type of surgery he underwent.

Provincial police officers went to a residence in Mayo, Que., late Monday night to support ambulance technicians, said police spokesman Marc Tessier.

He added there is no criminal investigation.

It is still unclear what happened to Brazeau or if anyone else was present in the home when he was taken to hospital.

RCMP to help in Burkina Faso after six Canadians killed in terror attack OTTAWA — RCMP officers have been dispatched to Burkina Faso to help local authorities after more than two dozen people — including six Canadians — were killed in a terrorist attack.

A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says the Mounties will assist officials with victim identification and paperwork so the bodies of Canadian victims can be

returned home.

Six Quebecers on a humanitarian mission were killed in Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou last week during an attack carried out by alQaida.

Four of the dead were from the same family: Yves Carrier, his wife Gladys Chamberland, their adult son Charlelie Carrier and Yves’ adult daughter, Maude Carrier.

Anti-ISIL coalition meeting in Paris just one of many, defence minister insists OTTAWA — Canada again finds itself on the outside looking in when it comes to a gathering of countries fighting militants in the Middle East, something the new defence minister is trying to shrug off in the face of opposition criticism.

There are meetings all the time to discuss threats around the world, Harjit Sajjan insisted Tuesday, but he stopped short of explaining exactly why Canada isn’t invited to this week’s meeting in Paris.

Counterparts from France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands will gather Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter to discuss the ongoing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Defence sources and at least one defence analyst say there may be more to the fact the Trudeau government was excluded than the domestic political outrage suggests.

Officials at NATO and the European Union are seized with ISIL’s expanding presence in Libya. U.S. commandos were recently looking for allies among local militias to counter the extremist influence, but met with little success, according to published reports.

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Web series takes on bulimia, body shame

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It takes a special kind of filmmaker to make bulimia funny. Jessie Kahnweiler is that person.

Before hooking up with Jill Soloway and her Wifey.TV for the new Web series, The Skinny the Los Angeles comedian kept busy making shorts that have landed her all over the Internet. But this project, inspired by her more than 10-year relationship with the eating disorder, is different.

It’s her first series, and it’s taking her to Sundance after she raised about $12,000 on Kickstarter to help pay for it. That’s after chatting up Soloway as a partner and tracking down Illeana Douglas to join her as a producer and the mother to her feminist wannabe YouTube star.

“I’m a broke indie filmmaker … and I’m an avid TV addict, and I noticed that there weren’t that many stories that really spoke to the truth of my experience, of what it was really like to have an eating disorder and also be this strong, feminist, crazy, loud, Jewish chick,” the 30-year-old Atlanta native said. “I started shopping it around to Hollywood and everyone was like, eating disorders aren’t sexy and nobody wants to watch that.”

After friends and family came through on Kickstarter, she shipped off a spec pilot to Soloway, who got her together with Refinery29.com, where the first Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS six 10-minute episodes will debut Jan. 27.

So how does a broke indie filmmaker meet the Jessie Kahnweiler, star of the web series ‘The Skinny,’ poses in New York. The Los Angeles comedian has likes of Soloway? made shorts that have landed her all over the Internet. But her current project, ‘The Skinny,’ was inspired by “I’ve known Jill for a few years. I’m really good at her more than 10-year relationship with bulimia. stalking people. You can ask all my ex-boyfriends. So I stalked Jill on Facebook and I sent her a short film she sits euphoric on the tile, rattling on about bad More raw, real and vulnerable was the advice of that I made,” Kahnweiler said. “Jill really gave me sushi to hide the obvious.

Soloway, and Kahnweiler went there. Her goal: Let’s permission to give myself permission. She taught me “You’re stillll doing this,” he says. “No, I have talk about it. Let’s talk about our complicated mothhow to trust my own voice and trust my intuition.”

Clearly, Kahnweiler knows there’s nothing funny food poisoning,” she responds weakly, head down- er-daughter stuff, our body issues, the messier side cast. of things. about having an eating disorder.

Clingy, needy, co-dependent — the Jessie in this “We show sex and drugs and violence all the “Having an eating disorder is awful and horrifying … but for me, my experience as a person, a wom- comedy is dark. Trigger after trigger has her on the time,” Kahnweiler said. “But yet we don’t talk about an, an artist, you know, I tend to find a lot of comedy binge and purge, stealing chocolate laxative, par- food, and to me that just further reinforces the cycle in the hardest, most tragic moments,” she said. “Go- tying, showing a younger Vine star how it’s done on of shame. As a young girl growing up with this secret … there was no conversation to join.” ing back from when I was a little kid, I would real- one’s knees, face in a toilet bowl. ly use humour as a way to cope and handle and interact, and make meaning of my life.”

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BoC weighing rate cut

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is once again facing the question of whether nudging down its already-low key interest rate will help soothe the country’s aching economy.

Governor Stephen Poloz will make the central bank’s latest scheduled rate announcement Wednesday at a time of tumbling oil prices, a weak global economy and downgraded outlooks for Canadian growth.

Poloz lowered the trend-setting rate twice in 2015 to 0.5 per cent to help blunt the blow of sliding oil prices.

The first of those moves — almost a year ago to the day — was a surprise adjustment that blindsided markets.

This time around, observers are divided on whether he will pull the trigger again — and whether he should.

Desjardins senior economist Jimmy Jean falls into the camp of analysts who expect Poloz to stand pat — and said he believes he’d be wise to do so.

This year, Poloz must once again consider falling oil prices, a weakening dollar and inflation at the lower end of the bank’s one- to two-per-cent target range.

But things have also changed over the last 12 months, Jean said as he explained why he thinks Poloz should

avoid using the primary tool in the central bank’s kit.

Jean said the country now has a federal government that has pledged to stimulate the economy by investing in infrastructure by running deficits. Last year, the previous government was STEPHEN POLOZ heading into an election striving to produce a balanced budget.

He thinks the new Liberal government’s spending plans are expected to provide enough help to the economy to keep Poloz on the sidelines Wednesday.

But he doesn’t expect Ottawa’s commitments, which also include a revamped child-benefits program and tax-bracket changes, to shield the economy from a rough ride in 2016 and 2017.

“Those policies will help, but we have to face the fact that we’re going to suffer for a while,” Jean said.

“There’s no way to really, fully off-

set that pain.”

Earlier this month, Poloz spoke of the bumpy road ahead as he warned that the forces uncorked by the oilprice shock “simply must work themselves out.”

Poloz’s comments led some to believe he would leave the rate untouched. But economic conditions — such as still-falling oil prices — have deteriorated since the speech, which was only a couple of weeks ago.

Over the last week, many analysts have changed their positions — they now believe Poloz will cut.

Emanuella Enenajor, senior economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research, was among the first prominent forecasters to switch her call.

She predicts the Bank of Canada to lower the rate by 0.25 per cent and decrease its projection for 2016 real gross domestic product to 1.5 per cent, from two per cent.

“In our view, this is a shock substantial enough to warrant another easing,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research wrote in a note to clients Tuesday that also speculated Poloz may be forced into action a second time this year.

“If energy prices remain persistently low, one rate cut will not likely be enough to stimulate the economy back

to a reasonable growth path.”

Experts, including the International Monetary Fund, have downgraded their growth projections for Canada.

The IMF dropped its 2017 forecast Tuesday to 2.1 per cent, from 2.4 per cent in October.

Canada’s commodity-dependent economy has been walloped by falling prices — particularly in resource-rich Alberta, where bond rating agency Moody’s changed the outlook to negative from stable while retaining the province’s triple-A rating.

A new report by the International Energy Agency warned that world oil prices could fall further because markets could drown in over-supply — particularly as sanctions are lifted on Iran amid pessimism about the prospects of global demand.

Lower oil prices, meanwhile, have also helped drag down the dollar.

While the weaker loonie has some negative effects, such as driving up prices on some consumer products and the cost of travel to the United States, experts say it provides benefits for the economy overall.

Poloz has described the flexible exchange rate, which tightly tracks the ups and downs of crude prices, as one of the “minor shock absorbers” that help limit the fallout for some segments of the economy.

Debt payment ratio to climb: PBO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal budget watchdog says in the coming years increasingly indebted households are poised to become the most financially vulnerable Canadians in decades.

The parliamentary budget office released a report Tuesday predicting the ratio of debt payments — including principal and interest payments — relative to disposable income will creep upwards over the next five years as interest rates rise.

The office projects that by the end of 2020, this ratio will increase to 15.9 per cent of disposable income from its late 2015 level of 14.1 per cent.

“Household debt-servicing capacity will become stretched further as interest rates rise to ‘normal’ levels over the next five years,” the report said.

“Based on PBO’s projection, the financial vulnerability of the average household would rise to levels beyond historical experience.”

The increase would mean households would be even more vulnerable to negative shocks to their income or to interest rates, which could also have an adverse effect on financial institutions.

The budget office said the ratio’s highest level over the past 25 years was 14.9 per cent — a mark reached in late 2007.

Since 1991, the report said the total financial obligations of households has broken down, on average, in the following way: mortgage debt has represented 63 per cent of all debt, consumer credit 29 per cent and other loans eight per cent.

Over that period, household debt has increased each quarter, on average, by almost seven per cent on a year-over-year basis, the document said. The budget office also noted that indebtedness has continued to edge higher in Canada, which has seen the largest increase in household debt relative to income of any G7 country since 2000.

Household debt loads have climbed during an era of low interest rates. The budget office said the effective household borrowing rate — which the Bank of Canada describes as a weighted average of interest rates on various mortgage and consumer loans — declined to 3.1 per cent in December from 6.7 per cent in January 1999.

The Bank of Canada has pointed to the potential hazards linked to high household debt — particularly if the country were hit by a severe recession or a prolonged period of increasing unemployment. But the central bank has argued that the likelihood of household debt levels becoming a serious problem remains low and the situation is likely to improve once the economy starts to recover. The bank has said there’s been little evidence of significant increases in delinquency rates. Still, the Bank of Canada has described the country’s mounting household debt level as the most important vulnerability in the financial system’s armour — and this susceptibility has continued to grow.

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Jamie Antone, 9, of the Squamish First Nation, holds a sign as protesters gather outside National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday. The proposed $5-billion expansion would nearly triple the capacity of the pipeline that carries crude oil from near Edmonton to the Vancouver area to be loaded on tankers and shipped overseas

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BURNABY, B.C. — First Nations and environmentalists called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop a National Energy Board review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as hearings on the proposal began Tuesday.

Opponents of Kinder Morgan’s US$5.4 billion plan to triple the current capacity of the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline held a rally outside the hearings in Burnaby, B.C. Speakers demanded Trudeau immediately stop the hearings and overhaul the review process.

“This is a fundamentally flawed process,” said Carleen Thomas of North Vancouver’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

“The voices of Canadian citizens are not being respected or heard, and this is wrong.”

The hearings will last for 10 days in B.C. and will wrap up in Calgary next month.

Local municipalities, environmental groups, First Nations and residents who live along the pipeline are set to deliver final arguments.

The National Energy Board streamlined the review process to meet time limits set by the previous Conservative government. Interveners are not allowed to cross-examine Kinder Morgan representatives and instead had to send in written questions. The company answered a portion of those questions.

Karen Campbell, a lawyer with Ecojustice, said the process is “incredibly broken,” noting that the review does not consider the potential impacts of

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“YOU HAVE HEARD, THROUGH THE SUBMISSIONS AND ARGUMENT OF TRANS MOUNTAIN, A STORY — A STORY APPLAUDING THE EXPERTISE OF THE BOARD’S ADVISERS, A STORY FULL OF SELF-SERVING STATEMENTS EXPRESSING HOW FAIR THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN. SADLY, THAT STORY IS A FICTION. THE CITY OF SURREY’S SUBMISSIONS AND ARGUMENT ARE BASED ON FACTS — FACTS SUPPORTED IN EVIDENCE AND FACTS SUPPORTED BY LAW.” — ANTHONY CAPUCCINELLO, CITY OF SURREY LAWYER the project on climate change.

“The federal government needs to step up and it needs to stop this flawed process right now,” she said.

“It’s not too late.”

Trudeau promised on the campaign trail in June to engage in a “new open process” for all pipelines and in August said it would apply to existing pipelines.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has also written Trudeau, asking him to put the review on hold while the government implements the promised changes.

Kai Nagata with environmental group Dogwood Initiative said if the process continues without changes, then the Liberal government will have broken its election promise.

“The clock is ticking,” he said.

“There’s an irony in letting this unfold while promising real change and promising to overhaul the process.”

Karen Mahon of ForestEthics Advocacy said of the 55 interveners set to make arguments at the Burnaby hearings, 50 oppose the project.

The City of Surrey was the first to deliver arguments on Tuesday, with lawyer Anthony Capuccinello reiterating its opposition to the expansion.

The city, about 45 kilometres east of Vancouver, is asking the board to require Kinder Morgan to decommission

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and remove the portion of the current pipeline that runs through Surrey as a condition of any approval it grants.

“You have heard, through the submissions and argument of Trans Mountain, a story — a story applauding the expertise of the board’s advisers, a story full of self-serving statements expressing how fair this process has been,” Capuccinello told the three-member panel.

“Sadly, that story is a fiction. The City of Surrey’s submissions and argument are based on facts — facts supported in evidence and facts supported by law.”

Capuccinello criticized the energy board’s advisers for “falling asleep at the wheel,” saying their lack of expertise is clear from the draft conditions the board submitted for comment.

He also expressed concerns about the ability of municipalities to cover expenses and be reimbursed for any additional costs they incur as a result of the expansion.

The B.C. government announced last week it could not support the project because of concerns about spill response and aboriginal support, while the Alberta government backed the project because of its economic benefits.

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Elevating pulse crops In the agriculture world, the first page of fresh, new calendars are quickly filled during ‘meeting season’ for farmers. But the dawn of 2016 has been special in another way to a local producer.

Allison Ammeter and her husband Mike farm southwest of Sylvan Lake. They’re both involved in producer organizations, so are busy running to events this month. Allison is particuDIANNE larly enthused FINSTAD about her role as chair of the FROM THE FIELD Alberta Pulse Growers, because 2016 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of the Pulse. That means a chance to elevate the humble bean and its cousins, to receive the worldwide recognition they deserve.

“It’s a fabulous opportunity for us to get the word out on what’s really an ancient grain,” explained Ammeter.

The roots of pulse crops may go back to history’s earliest records, but the industry believes the timing is perfect for a fresh look and a new appreciation of what’s really a super food.

Plus it’s a great way to celebrate the key role dried beans, chickpeas and lentils play in feeding the world.

Ammeter sees pulse crops as really ‘having it all’.

They’re a great source of protein,

and more studies are showing how important such a low fat fibre can be to a healthy diet. Plus they’re winners on both affordability for food and environmental benefits for farmers.

As the Chair of the International Year of the Pulse Committee for all of Canada, Ammeter is off to Winnipeg this week for a pulse industry roundtable, to provide an update on activities in this country for the celebration.

“We’ll be doing various promotions, school activities, reaching out to the medical community, and more. I guess I’m the overarching cheerleader,” she smiled.

“It’s such a great ride and so exciting. Usually when you do this kind of work, there’s some kind of downside, but there’s just no downside to pulses!”

As a crop in central Alberta, pulses are one of the relative newcomers. I can remember in my “This Business of Farming” TV show days doing numerous interviews on the challenges of harvesting peas. But improved varieties and steady crop prices, not to mention the agronomic benefits of the nitrogen fixing ability of the crops, means that many farmers, like the Ammeters, have made pulse crops a regular part of their rotation.

“I was talking with someone this week who was involved in the early days of the Alberta Pulse Commission,” said Ammeter.

“They thought then the market would be saturated if we hit a hundred thousand acres.”

“Last year, we grew 1.7 million acres. We expect even more to be planted this year with the prices the way they are. They’re so good for the

soil, they need less water, and because they make their own fertilizer, are less expensive for inputs.”

Severe drought in India has made the pulse market an active one this year.

“India is the largest grower of pulses, but also the biggest consumer. Canada is the world’s largest exporter of pulses, so it impacts our prices. We’ve really got a perfect storm of strong prices at the same time we’re promoting the benefits of pulses.”

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations wants to promote pulses for food security, especially in areas like Africa. Pulse crops could be a double whammy of providing higher protein for a healthier diet as well as being good for the soil.

“There are 35 countries on the organizing committee for the Year of the Pulse,” adds Ammeter.

“It always amazes me when we’re on a conference call, and getting updates from places like Japan and Norway.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that Pulse Canada is the envy of the world as an organization. We’re fortunate to have such a good overseeing group to promote the pulse industry.”

It’s only fitting to get some pulse eating tips from such a national pulse promoter!

“Well, I had always been old school – baked beans (from scratch), chili or split pea soup. But one of my favorites now is a Pulse Canada recipe for Butter Chickpeas.”

As well, in the ‘who would’ve thought you could use pulses here’ category, Ammeter’s family loves her cinnamon buns, which contained pureed beans. ‘Health by Stealth’ she calls

that. She also now finds herself adding a handful of lentils regularly to store-bought soups for an extra dose of protein and texture, or pulling cooked beans out of the freezer to puree and add to baking recipes. And she has a tasty dahl dish on her ‘must try soon’ list.

If you’re looking for interesting ways of incorporating pulses, she’s found a helpful book is Spilling the Beans by Calgary’s Julie Van Rosendaal and Sue Duncan.

Even better, Ammeter points to the Year’s unique promotion called the Pulse Pledge, a challenge asking people around the world to commit to eating pulses once a week for ten weeks.

At www.pulsepledge.com you can sign up and get weekly tips or recipes to help with meeting the challenge.

The UN announced its upcoming focus on Pulse Crops at the end of 2013.

Since then, the industry around the world has been gearing up for this special year, so is poised, and eager to get rolling. Allison Ammeter is excited about the potential impact such an international promotion can have on pulse production.

But she wants to see the good news last more than just a year.

“Pulse crops are environmentally sustainable, healthy, tasty and economical. We hope the message keeps going even after 2016.”

Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.

Yukon mine announces layoffs as copper prices slump

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WHITEHORSE — Declining copper prices are forcing Yukon’s only hardrock mine to curtail operations and layoff dozens of workers, says a senior manager.

The Minto Mine, owned by Capstone Mining Corp. (TSX:CS), is located about 240 kilometres north of Whitehorse and is an open-pit and underground copper operation, producing gold-and-silver byproducts.

Mine manager Ron Light said Tuesday the company plans to stop underground mining at the end of March and will halt open-pit mining in August.

He said about 40 contract miners who work underground and are employed by Dumas Mine Contracting will be affected.

If market conditions don’t change

by August, 76 jobs for employees who work in the open-pit mine for Pelly Construction would be reduced significantly, he said.

“People are looking at the positive things we can do to reduce costs and keep our head above water,” said Light.

“Everybody is doing what they can

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to get through this survival mode.”

Light said the company plans to stockpile ore to keep the mill operating until April 2017, then implement a temporary closure to wait for the price of copper to rebound.

If the price of copper is right, there is enough ore left to keep mining into 2022, he said.

Light said he believes copper must return to a price of US$2.20 or US$2.30 per pound before Capstone reconsiders its current strategy.

Copper was selling Tuesday for US$1.97 per pound.

In its 2016 operating plan announced Monday, Capstone estimates its cost of producing one pound of copper at the Minto Mine is between $1.90 and $2.

Over the last five years, the price of copper has fallen steadily from a high of US$4.60 a pound in January 2011.

The company’s website said 282 people, including contract employees, work at the mine.

The Minto Mine is the only producing hard rock mine in the Yukon.

The Wolverine Mine, 282 kilometres northeast of Whitehorse, suspended operations a year ago and is currently in a care and maintenance mode.

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Heavy equipment works at a copper mine in Minto, Yukon in 2012.

Alexco Resource Corp. put its Bellekeno mine, also in Yukon, into

care and maintenance in the fall of 2013 amid slumping silver prices.

The company is also trimming 15,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day from its projected 2016 production targets. And it is looking to sell holding in Western Canada that together produce 55,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day and is exploring the partial sale of pipeline and storage assets.

“We continue to take decisive action in this period of persistent supply-demand imbalance,” CEO Asim Ghosh said in a release. “These actions are in line with the principles we have established, namely, balancing capital spending with cash flow and maintaining a strong balance sheet. Our fundamental goal remains unchanged — the steps we are taking will see Husky emerge from this cycle as a more resilient and more profitable company.”

Meanwhile, Whitecap Resources Inc. (TSX:WCP) has also cut its 2016 budget, reducing planned spending by 53 per cent from what it outlined a month ago to $70 million.

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Husky Energy is cutting $800 million from its capital spending plans for this year and suspending its dividend as it copes with the deep rout in crude prices. The moves come as the U.S. benchmark price for crude oil has sunk below US$30 a barrel. Husky’s capital budget for 2016 is now pegged at between $2.1 billion and $2.3 billion, down from a previous range of $2.9 billion to $3.1 billion. The Calgary-based company (TSX:HSE) introduced a stock dividend WALMART CORRECTION NOTICE in the third quarter in lieu of a cash payout, but Flyer ending January 20th, 2016. given the weak outlook for PAGE 5 – The $78.88 advertised price for the Keurig oil prices, Husky says it’s K200 in our current flyer is incorrect. The correct price is suspending its dividend $98.88. altogether for the fourth We apologize for any inconvenience. quarter.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 B3

MARKETS

ONTARIO ALLOWING BEER IN GROCERY STORES

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

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 107.38 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.72 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.50 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.27 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended the day in the black for just the third time since the Christmas break on Tuesday despite another fall in the price of oil that dragged down energy stocks.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index ended the session up 60.07 points at 12,002.24, recouping less than half of its 131-point decline on Monday.

Michael Greenberg, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions, said the Canadian market is in for more pain in the short term, but relief could be on the horizon.

“It’s a really volatile environment and I think we’re in that for a little while,” he said.

Greenberg said the outlook for the Canadian market is closely tied to the price of oil, which has tanked in the face of a worldwide supply glut, and to other commodities, which have been dragged down by slowing demand from emerging economies. On Tuesday, the February contract for benchmark crude oil fell 96 cents to settle at US$28.46 a barrel. Oil has slid from a high above $105 in June 2014 as the OPEC cartel has maintained sky-high production levels and the thirsty Chinese economy has faltered.

Yet Greenberg said the price of oil should rise as rock-bottom prices deter production.

“At some point this sets up pretty well for a decent rally in energy prices,” he said. “We just may suffer a little while before we get there because there’s a lot of production out there and it hasn’t been coming off as fast as we’ve expected.”

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The Canadian dollar posted a slight decline on the day, falling 0.01 of a U.S. cent to 68.69 cents US. Like the price of oil, the loonie has plumbed 13-year lows in recent weeks.

“When you look at the prices, the pain we felt in Canadian equities and the Canadian dollar, a lot of bad news is being priced in there so I don’t think it’s going to take too much to see those markets do well,” Greenberg said.

In other commodities, February natural gas shed 0.9 of a cent to US$2.091 per mmBtu and February gold fell $1.60 to US$1,089.10 a troy ounce.

In New York, markets were mixed after being closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 27.94 points to 16,016.02, while the broader S&P 500 added one point to 1,881.33 and the Nasdaq fell 11.47 points to 4,476.95.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX added 1.5 per cent, with France’s CAC 40 rose two per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 1.7 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,002.24, up 60.07 points Dow — 16,016.02, up 27.94 points S&P 500 — 1,881.33, up one point Nasdaq — 4,476.95, down 11.47 points

NEWS IN BRIEF

As oil price woes weigh on banks, Scotiabank turns to Latin America TORONTO — Declining commodity prices — particularly oil — are dampening the domestic growth prospects of the Canadian banks, but Scotiabank says at least one area of its business is still poised for expansion.

At its two-day investor event in Mexico City, the bank (TSX:BNS) touted its Latin American operations as one of the bright spots in its business.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 76.40 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 29.79 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.12 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.20 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 39.64 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 0.750 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.790 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 3.95 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.09 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.580 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.58 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 33.05 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0900 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 71.30 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.27 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.84 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 20.23 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.65 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 32.47 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.92 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.04 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 36.63 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.06 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 37.43 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.18 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.29

Currencies: Cdn — 68.69 cents US, down 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$2.0640, down 0.94 of a cent Euro — C$1.5882, up 0.16 of a cent Euro — US$1.0909, up 0.10 of a cent Oil futures: US$28.46 per barrel, down 96 cents (record low) (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,089.10 per oz., down $1.60 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.258 oz., up 20.7 cents $683.44 kg., up $6.65 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $1.00 higher $487.70 May ‘16 $1.60 higher $495.90 July ‘16 $1.80 higher $499.80 Nov. ‘16 $2.50 higher $498.30 Jan. ‘17 $2.10 higher $500.40 March ‘17 $2.20 higher $500.70 May ‘17 $2.20 higher $499.70 July ‘17 $2.20 higher $499.70 Nov. ‘17 $2.20 higher $499.70 Jan. ‘18 $2.20 higher $499.70 March ‘18 $2.20 higher $499.70.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 $2.00 higher $185.00 May ‘16 $2.00 higher $190.00 July ‘16 $2.00 higher $192.00 Oct. ‘16 $2.00 higher $192.00 Dec. ‘16 $2.00 higher $192.00 March ‘17 $2.00 higher $192.00 May ‘17 $2.00 higher $192.00 July ‘17 $2.00 higher $192.00 Oct. ‘17 $2.00 higher $192.00 Dec. ‘17 $2.00 higher $192.00 March ‘18 $2.00 higher $192.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 325,420 tonnes of canola 500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 325,920.

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Varieties of beer are on display for sale at a FreshCo grocery store in Oakville, Ont., Monday Fifty-eight grocery stores are now authorized to sell beer in Ontario. Over the coming years, up to 450 grocery stores will be authorized, with the goal of ensuring fair competition and distribution, including independent and large grocers from across the province.

Postmedia lays off staff, merges newsrooms in four cities

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Postmedia is cutting approximately 90 jobs and merging newsrooms in four cities as Canada’s largest newspaper chain steps up plans to slash costs in the midst of mounting revenue losses.

The company owns two newspapers in each of the cities of Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver following its acquisition of Sun Media last year. Now those city papers will share a newsroom, although they’ll continue putting out different publications.

In an interview, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey said the decline in print advertising revenue since the Sun Media acquisition drove the changes.

“The business model has been disrupted,” Godfrey said. “Our goal was trying to keep the newsrooms separate at the time, but with the continuation of the decline, we thought the important thing was to keep the newspapers open and we figured out this was the best way to do it.”

The two Calgary newspapers — the Calgary Sun and Calgary Herald — will share one editor, as will the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, Godfrey said.

He said the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun will also have one editor, adding that the company is looking for someone to fill that role.

In all, about 90 staff have been laid off. Phyllise Gelfand, the company’s vice-president of communications, said those layoffs include about 35 people in Edmonton, 25 in Calgary and 12 in Ottawa.

Gelfand said there were no job losses in Vancouver but the company will offer buyout packages in the coming days. The two Ottawa papers will also offer buyouts, which could result in another 50 employees leaving the company, she said. Paul Morse, president of Unifor Local 87-M — representing some of the Ottawa employees who were let go — accused Postmedia of breaking its promise to continue operating two independent newspapers in each of those four markets.

D I L B E R T

“The countries that we have focused on, they are able to still generate growth not withstanding the softening in prices,” Dieter Jentsch, the bank’s group head of international banking, told reporters during a conference call Tuesday. “And that’s because they have diversified economies and in many cases the reduction in energy costs is a net benefit.”

Canadian banks are grappling with a number of challenges on their home turf, including rock-bottom interest rates, which hurt the banks’ lending margins, and slowing loan growth amid debt-laden consumers. Meanwhile, the oil price shock is expected to lead to higher loan losses both among companies in the oilpatch and consumers in Western Canada.

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SPORTS

B4

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 2016

Not getting caught up in the rankings SUTTER DOESN’T WANT DE WIT AND HAGEL TO LET THEIR DRAFT STOCK GO TO THEIR HEADS

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR That Red Deer Rebels forwards Jeff de Wit and Brandon Hagel are on the Central Scouting radar for June’s NHL entry draft is all fine and well, GM/head coach Brent Sutter stated Tuesday.

However …

“It’s the Central Scouting rankings. We’ve seen this before, where players have been ranked and nothing materializes come June,” said Sutter, in reference to the CS mid-term list released earlier in the day which has de Wit as the 98th-ranked North American skater and Hagel at No. 114.

“Take it for what it’s worth. The biggest thing for me is that the players not get caught up in it. Yes, it is a ranking, one of many that are always out there, but sometimes it can work for you and other times it can work against you. In the past we’ve had players ranked and they really let it go to their heads. Their game dropped off.”

Sutter is in full agreement that both players have the potential to play for a living down the road, however he stressed that both are still relatively raw.

“There are areas in which both of these young players have to improve, there’s a lot of work that has to be done to get them to the next level,” said the Rebels boss. “And yet there’s a very good upside with both of them.

“The important thing right now is getting them to the level that we need to have them at on a consistent basis, that’s going to be the most important thing from here to the end of May. What happens in June will take place in June and their play until then will determine that.”

Hagel and de Wit, both 17, took different routes to the Western Hockey League. Red Deer native de Wit, who is six-foot-three and 189 pounds, was selected by the Rebels in the first round of the 2013 bantam draft and is in his second season in the league. Hagel, who checks in at six-foot, 165 pounds, is a listed player who started the current campaign with the junior A Whitecourt Wolverines before bringing his act to the Rebels in late September.

“Brandon, to be quite honest, was one of our most consistent players on our recent road trip,” said Sutter, whose team hosts the Moose Jaw Warriors tonight at the Centrium. “When you look at where he was and where he is now … obviously coming here has helped him a lot.

“It’s just a higher level of play and he’s brought his game to another level. He’s matched the intensity and emotional level needed to play here.”

That wasn’t always the case, Sutter noted.

“He came in and after the honeymoon thing was over his play dropped off back to where he was when we recruited him,” said Sutter. “We went through it with him and explained that there’s an emotional level you need to play at and a certain work ethic you have to show.

“He rose to the challenge and his game has taken off again. Certainly he’s pushed himself to be one of the four top left wingers on the team and he can play on the right side if needed. We also use him on the point on the power play just because he’s smart and can see the ice.

“He has to work on his strength to play at the next level, but certainly it’s an encouraging sign to see that there’s (NHL) interest in him out there.”

Sutter and his coaching staff have also worked with de Wit in an effort to bring out the passion in

his game.

“In a lot of circumstances, because you’re a bigger guy there are higher expectations,” said Sutter.

“That being said, Jeff has to understand that if he wants to be a pro player he has to compete at a high level night in and night out.

“He has great hands, he sees the game well and he’s an intelligent player. But what hurts him at times is he lets a certain level of softness creep into his game and he can’t allow that to happen. He has to continue to push through that.”

Sutter hasn’t let up on de Wit, reminding him time and again that there’s a “switch” he has to throw whenever he goes out the door of the dressing room and on to the ice.

“Jeff is going to be a very, very good player in this league and he will be a very good pro if he shows that want and will and burning fire all of the time.”

Rebels defenceman Josh Mahura is not ranked

by Central Scouting due exclusively to the fact he’s been out of the lineup basically the entire season after undergoing ankle surgery.

Still, Sutter would be shocked if Mahura, who is expected to be cleared for action in March or April, doesn’t hear his name at the entry draft.

In fact …

“Josh will likely be our highest player taken in the draft, just because of his talent,” said Sutter.

“The scouts saw how he progressed as a 16-year-old last season.

“When we get calls from NHL scouts, he’s the first guy who gets brought up just because people are aware of his talent. He hasn’t played this season but some teams are going to want to grab him because they know what he is.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Devils double up on slumping Flames

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Devils 4 Flames 2 NEWARK, N.J. — Cory Schneider and the New Jersey Devils are aware that analysts didn’t think much of their chances to qualify for the post-season.

It has been something of a rallying point for a team that now finds itself among Eastern Conference teams jockeying for playoff positioning.

“Everyone has written us off,” Schneider said after he made nine of his 26 saves in the third period to lead the Devils to a 4-2 over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.

“It’s up to us. We can’t sit here and complain no one takes us seriously because we have to keep winning,” he said. “It seems every team around us keeps winning and every team is in the mix.

“You can definitely play yourself out of the playoffs but you can’t play yourself in. You have to keep your head above water and have some fun down the stretch.”

Adam Larsson, Lee Stempniak, Reid Boucher and Andy Greene scored for the Devils, who have won two straight after dropping three in a row.

“We talked about the importance of this game and next three heading into the (All-Star) break,” Stempniak said.

“The next 15 to 20 games are going to be huge setting us up for a playoff push and there’s a lot of urgency to get these wins.”

The same theory was echoed by the Flames, who have lost four of five to drop to 20-21-3.

“We’ve put ourselves in a little bit of a hole. I believe in this team, I believe we can get out of it,” said Kris Russell, who scored for Calgary along with Sean Monahan. Jonas Hiller stopped 22 shots.

“It’s up to us to play a full 60,” Russell said.

Larsson opened the scoring at 5:12 with his second of the season, and his first since scoring the decider in the Devils’ 3-2 overtime win over Arizona

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New Jersey Devils center Travis Zajac, right, attacks on Calgary Flames goalie Jonas Hiller during the third period of an NHL game, Tuesday, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 4-2. on Oct. 20.

Calgary drew even at 9:16 on Monahan’s power-play goal. It his 14th of the season, but only his second in 12 games.

But the Devils used a 17-second span early in the second to regain control. Stempniak (57 seconds) and Boucher (1:14) scored back-to-back goals to give the Devils a 3-1 lead.

Called up from AHL Albany on Jan. 15, Boucher has scored in two straight

games. He has two goals in five games this season, and has five goals and six assists for 11 points in 39 career NHL games.

“I’ve always been a goal scorer,” said Boucher.

“It’s just getting to those spots to score goals. I’m feeling a little bit more comfortable doing that and feel good about my shot.”

Calgary wouldn’t go quietly, as Russell’s power play goal at 15:56 of the

second cut the deficit to 3-2. Russell beat Schneider with a quick shot from the slot, while the Devils were trying to kill penalties to David Schlemko and Adam Henrique.

Russell’s goal energized the Flames, who peppered Schneider in the third period. Calgary outshot New Jersey 9-3 in the period, but Greene’s empty netter at 18:59 was the only goal.

“Ran out of time,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said.

Oilers struck down by streaking Lightning

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning 6 Oilers 4 TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Lightning have a season-high six-game winning streak. Next up — their Stanley Cup Final opponents, the Chicago Blackhawks, who have won 12 in a row for a franchise record.

Brian Boyle scored a go-ahead, short-handed goal in the third period to lead the Lightning over the Edmonton Oilers 6-4 on Tuesday night. The Lightning will host Chicago Thursday night in the Blackhawks’ first game in Tampa since beating the Lightning in last season’s final.

“We turned the page on last year,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “But the storyline is going to read, the Stanley Cup Finals a year later. Eighteen wins between the two. So, somebody’s streak is going on.”

The Blackhawks downed Nashville 4-1 Tuesday night to set the new team victory streak record.

“They’re probably the best team in the NHL right now,” Palat said. “It’s going to be tough. I think we’ve got to play better than today against them.”

The Lightning also got goals from Nikita Nesterov, Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov and Alex Killorn. Zack Kassian, Mark Letestu, Leon Draisaitl and Iiro Pakarinen scored for Edmonton.

“We’re not going to win many games giving up six,” Oilers coach Todd McLellan said. “I thought some of our grinders did their thing tonight. I wasn’t overly impressed with a lot of our skilled players.”

The Oilers said centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, hurt blocking a shot in Monday’s 4-2 win at Florida, will miss six to eight weeks with a hand injury. Edmonton right wing Nail Yakupov needed help skating off the ice 5 minutes into Tuesday’s game, but returned later in the period.

Boyle gave Tampa Bay a 5-4 lead when he beat goalie Anders Nilsson to the puck and scored from the left circle at 7:42 of the third. Killorn added an empty-netter.

“We beat ourselves,” Letestu said. “Tonight we gave easy offence.”

After Draisailt scored during a two-on-one breakaway at 2:10 of the third, Pakarinen got Edmonton even at 4 when he beat Andrei Vasilevskiy from the right circle 2:19 later.

Namestnikov extended the Lightning lead to 4-2 at 17:12 of the second when he reached from the behind net with his stick and knocked in the puck after Palat’s left circle shot went high into the air off Nilsson and behind the goalie.

Palat gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead at 6:09 of the second. Namestnikov set up the goal with a backhand pass while falling to the ice.

Kucherov put the Lightning up 2-1 with 3:03 to go in the first on his 19th goal this season that extended his point streak to six games.

Letestu made it 2-2 on a short-handed goal with 33.3 seconds left in the first.

After Nesterov opened the scoring at 3:57 of the first, Kassian tied it just 88 seconds later.

Lightning captain Steven Stamkos had an eventful game, getting two assists and making an errant pass that lead to the first Edmonton goal. He got a trip-

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Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov celebrates with the bench after his goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the first period of an NHL game Tuesday, in Tampa, Fla. ping penalty midway through the second for kicking the leg of Kassian

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Collin Shirley, Kam Nolan Patrick, Bra Andrew Nielsen, Let GA 130 141 140 167 192 149

Pt 58 57 52 45 38 33

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 45 33 12 0 0 196 46 29 15 1 1 168 46 27 17 1 1 153 47 18 22 6 1 128 44 18 22 3 1 146 46 8 35 3 0 93

GA 132 134 146 150 171 195

Pt 66 60 56 43 40 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 45 31 11 3 0 166 Victoria 46 26 15 2 3 151 Prince George 46 27 17 1 1 157 Kamloops 44 22 15 4 3 151 Vancouver 47 17 25 3 2 139

GA 130 116 139 136 166

Pt 65 57 56 51 39

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 43 27 12 2 2 121 44 25 16 3 0 139 45 23 20 2 0 149 43 20 18 3 2 143 45 20 23 2 0 147

GA 93 127 142 147 170

Pt 58 53 48 45 42

Everett Seattle Portland Spokane Tri-City

Monday’s results Everett 2 Saskatoon 1 (OT) Portland 3 Vancouver 2 Tuesday’s results Edmonton 3 Moose Jaw 1 Seattle 4 Saskatoon 0 Tri-City 5 Vancouver 1 Kelowna 7 Prince George 4 Wednesday’s games Spokane at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

WHL Scoring Leaders G 27 26 14 28 29 26 26 19 17 24 31 23 13 26

27 17 12

24 34 38

Edmonton at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 7 p.m.

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

51 51 50

A 44 41 52 37 35 36 34 38 40 31 23 31 40 26

Pts 71 67 66 65 64 62 60 57 57 55 54 54 53 52

Today

Tuesday’s summaries Lightning 6, Oilers 4 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Nesterov 3 (Killorn, Sustr) 3:57.

2. Edmonton, Kassian 1 (Pakarinen) 5:25.

3. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 19 (Johnson, Killorn) 16:57.

4. Edmonton, Letestu 7 (Nurse) 19:26 (sh).

Penalties — Condra TB (cross-checking) 11:14, Schultz Edm (holding) 18:15.

Second Period 5. Tampa Bay, Palat 4 (Namestnikov, Stamkos) 6:09.

6. Tampa Bay, Namestnikov 10 (Palat, Stamkos) 17:12.

Penalties — Johnson TB (hooking) 7:31, Kassian Edm (roughing) 7:31, Killorn TB (roughing) 7:31, Stamkos TB (tripping) 10:20, Davidson Edm (hooking) 19:14.

Third Period 7. Edmonton, Draisaitl 11 (Hall, Kassian) 2:10.

8. Edmonton, Pakarinen 4 (unassisted) 4:29.

9. Tampa Bay, Boyle 9 (Coburn, Brown) 7:42 (sh).

10. Tampa Bay, Killorn 8 (Kucherov) 19:33 (en).

Penalties — Condra TB (high-sticking) 6:02.

Shots on goal Edmonton 11 5 10 — 26 Tampa Bay 10 11 10 — 31 Goal — Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 10-11-2) Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (W, 7-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-4 Tampa Bay: 0-2.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Florida 46 26 15 5 121 105 57 Detroit 45 23 14 8 111 116 54 Tampa Bay 46 25 17 4 125 111 54 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Washington 46 35 8 3 155 100 73 NY Rangers 46 25 16 5 132 122 55 NY Islanders 45 24 15 6 123 112 54 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Boston 45 24 16 5 137 117 53 New Jersey 47 23 19 5 105 112 51 Ottawa 46 22 18 6 129 141 50 Montreal 47 23 20 4 129 122 50 Pittsburgh 45 21 17 7 110 113 49 Philadelphia 44 20 16 8 100 117 48 Carolina 47 20 19 8 111 129 48 Buffalo 46 19 23 4 107 123 42 Toronto 44 17 20 7 111 124 41 Columbus 47 17 26 4 119 152 38 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Chicago 49 32 13 4 144 111 68 Dallas 46 29 12 5 154 124 63 St. Louis 49 27 15 7 126 123 61 Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Los Angeles 44 28 13 3 118 99 59 San Jose 44 23 18 3 127 121 49 Arizona 45 22 18 5 123 135 49 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Minnesota 45 22 15 8 113 106 52 Colorado 47 23 21 3 131 130 49 Vancouver 47 19 17 11 113 130 49 Nashville 46 20 18 8 117 127 48 Anaheim 44 19 18 7 88 105 45 Winnipeg 46 21 22 3 119 131 45 Calgary 44 20 21 3 118 135 43 Edmonton 48 19 24 5 119 142 43

Devils 4, Flames 2 First Period 1. New Jersey, Larsson 2 (Boucher, Kalinin) 5:12.

2. Calgary, Monahan 14 (Gaudreau, Hamilton) 9:16 (pp).

Penalties — Ruutu NJ (interference) 8:48.

Second Period 3. New Jersey, Stempniak 11 (Cammalleri, Henrique) :57.

4. New Jersey, Boucher 2 (Kennedy, Severson) 1:14.

5. Calgary, Russell 3 (Gaudreau, Giordano) 15:55 (pp).

Penalties — Wideman Cgy (hooking) 2:32, Ferland Cgy (hooking) 11:26, Schlemko NJ (hooking) 13:49, Henrique NJ (slashing) 15:27, Kalinin NJ (holding) 18:14.

Third Period 6. New Jersey, Greene 4 (Stempniak, Larsson) 18:59 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 8 11 — 28 New Jersey 10 12 4 — 26 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 5-5-1) New Jersey: Schneider (W, 20-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 2-4 New Jersey: 0-2.

Monday’s results Edmonton 4 Florida 2 St. Louis 5 Pittsburgh 2 Colorado 2 Winnipeg 1 Buffalo 2 Arizona 1 Ottawa 4 San Jose 3 (SO)

Friday’s games Brandon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Everett at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Medicine Hat at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

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NHL Scoring Leaders Wednesday’s games St. Louis at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Taylor Hall, Edm Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Blake Wheeler, Wpg Joe Pavelski, SJ Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Artemi Panarin, Chi

Thursday’s games Calgary at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Boston, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

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

Carolina at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

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Moose Jaw Warriors Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium Prior to their meeting with the Oil Kings Tuesday at Edmonton, the Warriors sat third in the East Division and sixth in the Eastern Conference with a 23-15-5-1 record, and were 6-3-1-0 in their previous 10 games ‌ LW Dryden Hunt led all Moose Jaw point producers — and was fifth in the league — with 64 (28g,36a) in 44 games prior to Tuesday at Edmonton. C Brayden Point, despite appearing in just 23 games due to injury and his time with the Canadian national junior team, was next at 49 points (20-29). Others players of note are C Noah Gregor (18-22-40), D Marc McNulty (7-31-38), C Brett Howden (17-20-37) and LW Nikita Popugaev (11-24-35). Howden and Gregor are highly-ranked prospects for this year’s NHL entry draft ‌ Zach Sawchen-

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Injuries — Moose Jaw: D Josh Brook (upper body, week-to-week), C Jesse Shynkaruk (illness, dayto-day). Red Deer: D Josh Mahura (upper body, indefinite), C Luke Philp (lower body, week-toweek), RW Taden Rattie (upper body, weekto-week).

Special teams — Moose Jaw: Power play 23.5 per cent prior to Tuesday at Edmonton, third overall; penalty kill 82.2 per cent, eighth. Red Deer — Power play 22.7 per cent, fourth overall; penalty kill 75.7 per cent, 20th.

Scouting report

• WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. • Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Friday • Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. • College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. • Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe. • WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. • College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. • Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. • Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena; Calgary Canucks at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Central Alberta, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe. • Chinook senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday • Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. • College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. • College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC,

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NFL Playoffs Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC New England at Denver, 1:05 p.m.

NFC Arizona at Carolina, 4:40 p.m.

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16 Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 5 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT Sunday, Jan. 17 Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

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

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National women’s basketball assistant coach to speak at RDC

The Red Deer U12C Elite edged the Northwest Calgary Super Tsunamis 5-4 to take top honours in their division of the Esso Golden Ring ringette tournament at Calgary during the weekend.

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Boston at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

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

Golden State at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

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

Atlanta at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Detroit at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

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

Memphis at Denver, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.

Forward Nugent-Hopkins out 6-8 weeks with hand injury The Edmonton Oilers say forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will be out six to eight weeks with a hand injury.

Nugent-Hopkins left in the second period of the Oilers’ 4-2 win at Florida on Monday after blocking a shot.

Oilers coach Todd McLellan said after the game that Nugent-Hopkins’s injury would be “long-term,� then provided a time frame for his recovery at Tuesday’s practice Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton’s first-overall pick in the 2011 NHL draft, has eight goals and 22 assists in 46 games this season.

McLellan said that despite the injury to one of his top forwards, the Oilers are not prepared to rush star rookie Connor McDavid back to action this week as he recovers from a broken clavicle. “Not one bit. He’s not ready,� McLellan said.

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Veteran RDC volleyball Kings right side Nic Dubinsky is the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference male athlete of the week.

Dubinsky, who is also the RDC male athlete of the week, led the Kings to a pair of wins over the Rattlers in Medicine Hat last weekend. He was the Kings’ top performer in a tough 3-2 win on Friday, finishing with 20 kills, 11 digs, three aces and a block. On Saturday, despite dislocating his shoulder late in the third set of the 3-1 victory, Nic

Canadian women’s basketball team assistant coach Shawnee Harle will speak to Central Alberta coaches from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Red Deer College Margaret Parsons Theatre.

Harle’s talk will focus on teaching and coaching athletes to take risks as a means of facing their fears and accepting mistakes as a necessary part of sport and life.

Admission for the event, staged by the Red Deer Minor Basketball Association in conjunction with Alberta Sport Connection, Alberta Sport Development Centre Central, and Red Deer College, is $25.

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had 12 kills, nine digs and two blocks.

The fifth-year business student-athlete is expected to be out for up to six weeks with the shoulder injury. He’s hoping to return by the ACAC finals Feb. 25-27 at NAIT. The top two Alberta teams will advance to the national championships March 9-12 at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.

Wagers named to Canada’s U21 canoe polo team

Sunday • Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. • Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena. • Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer TBS, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. • Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Midget AA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Blue at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe. • Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Stettler, 4:30 p.m.

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Nadal sent packing in first round of Australian Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — For five sets and nearly five hours, two chiseled Spanish left-handers went head-to-head again at the Australian Open.

It wasn’t a semifinal this time, though, and It didn’t end nearly as well for Rafael Nadal, who lost 7-6 (6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Fernando Verdasco and was eliminated in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament for only the second time in a career that has netted him 14 major titles.

Nadal won his only Australian title in 2009 after overcoming Verdasco in a 5-hour, 14-minute semifinal, a match that still ranks among the classics at Melbourne Park.

This time, Verdasco rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win the last two sets, and came from a break down in the fifth to win in 4:41 and reach the second round.

Nadal’s only previous first-round exit in a Grand Slam was at Wimbledon in 2013, when he lost in straight sets to No. 135-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium.

“It’s a hard and painful loss,” the fifth-seeded Nadal said. “He was playing amazing in the last set … more aggressive than me. He took more risks than me, and he won. Probably he deserved.”

No. 2 Simona Halep and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams also went out in the first round on Tuesday, when a series of upsets took some focus off a match-fixing controversy that had overshadowed the first day of the season’s first major.

Halep lost 6-4, 6-3 to Zhang Shuai, giving the No. 133-ranked Chinese qualifier her first win at a Grand Slam after 14 losses.

“It’s OK. I don’t want to make this match like dramatic,” said Halep, who refused to blame an Achilles tendon problem for contributing to her third first-round loss in five years at Melbourne Park.

Verdasco went for everything on his ground strokes, ripping 90 winners against only 37 for Nadal as he worked to the extremes to unsettle his former No. 1-ranked rival.

“To win against Rafa here coming from two sets down is unbelievable,” the No. 45-ranked Verdasco said. “I think I played unbelievable — the fifth set from the break that he made me, I just started hitting winners. I don’t know how, just, you know I was closing the eyes and everything was coming in and I keep doing it and I was doing well.”

Stan Wawrinka, who beat Nadal in the 2014 Australian final, and four-time runner-up Andy Murray advanced, along with No. 8 David Ferrer, No. 10 John Isner, no. 13 Milos Raonic and Lleyton Hewitt, the two-time major winner who is playing his 20th and last Australian Open tournament before retiring.

French Open champion Wawrinka was leading 7-6 (2), 6-3 when his opponent Dmitry Tursonov retired with what appeared to be an upper leg injury.

After beating Halep, Zhang burst into tears when asked about breaking the drought.

“I think in my life, it’s the best tennis,” she said.

“To win against a top-two player, I’m so happy, so excited.”

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Serena Williams hammers a serve during action against Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday.

Williams, Sharapova into 3rd round in early Wednesday play Serena Williams has had so much success for such a long time that even in a second-round match she can set a record at the season’s first Grand Slam event.

The six-time and defending champion beat No. 90-ranked Hsieh Su-wei 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday at Rod Laver Arena, an all-time record 79th main draw match at the Australian Open. She closed with an ace, her seventh, finishing in precisely an hour.

“It all started here — this is where I played my first Grand Slam right on this court and I’m still going, it’s such an honour,” said Williams, who has a 70-9 win-loss record at Melbourne Park since her debut in 1998. “I love it every time I come here.”

She hit 26 winners, including one around the post that she thought may have been a first for her, at age 34.

“My first one I think,” she said. “I was like, “Yay.

Never too late.”

Williams’ next opponent will be 18-year-old Russian Daria Kasatkina, who beat Croatia’s Ana Konjuh 6-4, 6-3, and she faces a potential quarterfinal match against Maria Sharapova, which would be a rematch of the 2015 final.

Sharapova reached the third round with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the first match completed on day three, when light rain caused an hour-long delay getting started on the outside courts.

Roger Federer extended his streak by reaching the third round for the 17th straight Australian Open. Playing his 65th consecutive major, advanced 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 over Alexandr Dolgopolov. He lost in the third round in his first two trips to Melbourne Park in 2000 and ‘01 and again last year — in between he won the title four times and lost one final during a run of reaching the semifinals or better in 11 straight years.

Seventh-seeded Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open finalist, advanced with a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Austin Krajicek.

NHL says John Scott will captain Pacific Team in all-star game NEW YORK — John Scott’s improbable road to the NHL all-star game took another twist Tuesday, with the league confirming he will keep his elected role as Pacific Division captain despite a trade and a demotion.

The journeyman tough guy was chosen to lead the Pacific team at the showcase tournament by a fan vote, but last week he was traded out of the division as part of a deal between Arizona and Montreal. The Canadiens promptly assigned him to the American Hockey League’s St. John’s IceCaps, making his eligibility for the allstar festivities on Jan. 30-31 in Nashville unclear.

Though the NHL did not publicly comment on the issue until Tuesday, there was some debate as to whether the league would allow a lumbering, six-foot-eight fighter with 11 career points to play in a 3-on-3 tournament designed to showcase speed and skill.

Fans angry about the prospect of Scott not being allowed to play in the game took to social media over the

weekend, creating a FreeJohnScott hashtag.

The NHL says Scott’s move to a different division and his minor league assignment “created a unique circumstance that required review.”

Scott told the Arizona Republic when voting began that he didn’t want to be voted into the all-star game.

“It would be cool, but I definitely don’t deserve it at this point,” he said.

“You never know. There’s still some time left. I could turn it on.”

But later he warmed to the idea, printing T-shirts he planned to give to Pacific Division teammates that read: “Thanks for believing in me. Love always, The Captain.” Those shirts were sold online for charity after the trade.

Now back in the all-star plans, Scott says he’s “looking forward to enjoying a fun and unique experience.”

The other all-star captains are Florida’s Jaromir Jagr (Atlantic), Washington’s Alex Ovechkin (Metropolitan) and Chicago’s Patrick Kane (Central).

The NHL will likely change the way fan voting for the game works going forward, as this isn’t the first attempt to use the system to turn a journeyman

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White Teeth or Healthy Teeth Dear Dr. D: My teeth are solid as a rock, and my older dentist has kept a pretty good eye on them over the years. The issue is that they are pretty darned yellow. This got worst since I retired, but when I look at the ads in the magazines those people have teeth that are whiter than white. How white should they be? And, how healthy is that to zap your teeth with a machine to make them whiter?

A: There are multiple methods to whiten your teeth. Some are simple strips you buy at a pharmacy, or take home trays you get from your dentist with home grade whitening gel, and some practices will provide a clinical grade of gel which is applied in the office. The 'zapping' solution you mention is an ultraviolet light system called 'Zoom!' which works with a gel that brightens the enamel on teeth. There is also a plasma arc laser system called 'Sapphire' which uses the same gel. Many practices, including ours, do offer some or all of them. There are other possibilities involving having your teeth whitened at a hair salon or a kiosk at the airport. Don't let your dentist cut your hair, and refrain from having those individuals work on your teeth!

Teeth change colour as we age, and this is exacerbated by coffee, wine. Generally, the faster someone insists on results can have a detrimental effect on the longevity of the treatment. A gradual whitening program in the dentist chair may provide a longer lasting result than the '1 hour' program that brings many patients to a dental office. TV shows offering 'instant makeovers' generate a lot of very optimistic patients who may be disappointed. Some teeth are so stained that we cannot achieve the result a patient desires with simple 'zap' solutions. When we do a 're-do' of a smile involving crowns, veneers, etc – we do have the option of choosing a colour most desired. The worst case situation is where a patient is a 'whitening' only patient. Teeth can become extremely sensitive to heat, cold, and touch. Fortunately this is usually a temporary condition. Expectations of bleaching front teeth that may have worn enamel, composite fillings, crowns, badly root canaled teeth, and even bridges are not candidates for a simple 'zap' solution.

They may necessitate a smile makeover involving veneers or crowns to achieve a greater result. We actually have discouraged straight whitening treatment on patients who seek dental advice all the way from neighbor to their physic. Thank goodness your teeth are healthy. That is the most critical factor. Ask your dentist for his/her opinion, and realize you do have options.

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KUPROWSKI Joanne Marie July 29, 1936 - Jan. 14, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Joanne Marie Kuprowski on January 14, 2016 at the Rocky Mountain House General Hospital.

She passed away surrounded by her children after a courageous battle with pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer. Joanne will be greatly missed by her daughter Donna and partner Howard; her son Allan, daughter-in-law Shireen and grandchildren Lucaas and Laura; her brother Raymond Tymko and his wife Jenny and her brother Barry Tymko, as well as many special relatives and friends. Joanne was born to her parents John and Anne Tymko at her grandparent’s home in Fenwood, Saskatchewan. As a baby and child Joanne moved with her family to many country schools, as her father was a teacher and principal. She was the oldest of four children and often helped to care for her brothers Gordon, Ray and Barry. The family settled in Wadena, SK where Joanne completed her high school. She went on to follow her calling to train as a registered nurse in Humboldt, SK. Once finished her training Joanne worked in the hospitals in Wadena and Borden.

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(Jenny) Nelson; and his Please mail or fax a covering letter and great-grandchildren Vienna, resume to Progressive Waste Services, Lucas, Hudson, Gavin, Fiona and Haven. He’s additionally P.O. Box 848, Coronation, Alberta. T0C 1C0. survived by brother and Fax number is 403 578-3313. sister-in-laws and several nieces and nephews. Les always enjoyed the company of his long time close friend Sarah Noren, who was an important part of his life. The Nelson family would like to thank the staff of Revera Inglewood for their excellent care of our Dad, Dr. T. Taiwo and her team and the nurses of Homecare for their CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 commitment to Dad’s needs.

A Memorial Service will be To Advertise Your Business held on Saturday, January or Service Here 23, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. at Red Call Classifieds Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street. In lieu of flowers 403-309-3300 memorial donations in Les’ classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com memory may be directed to the Diabetes Association, the Handyman Heart and Stroke Foundation Services or the Cancer Society. Accounting Condolences may be forwarded BOOK NOW! to the family by visiting INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS For help on your home Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. www.reddeerfuneralhome.com. projects such as bathroom, with oilfield service Arrangements entrusted to main floor, and bsmt. companies, other small RED DEER FUNERAL businesses and individuals renovations. Also painting HOME and flooring.

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HUSS Ernest “Ernie” Adolph Ernie passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on January 17, 2016 at the age of 69 years. Ernie was born on July 3, 1946 in Lacombe, Alberta to Anton and Freda Huss.

On February 12, 1966, he married the love of his life, Sandra Thompson. Ernie was a wonderful man with his own sense of style. He will be missed. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Sandra; daughters, Brenda (Dan) and Karry (Neil); two granddaughters, Alisha (Darnell) and Erika; two Card Of Thanks grandsons, Garett (Amanda) and Dylan (Barb); two granddaughters-in-law; one grandson-in-law; three great granddaughters and three great grandsons. At Ernie’s request no funeral service JARDINE will be held. In lieu of flowers On behalf of our family, memorial donations in Ernie’s I would like to extend my memory may be directed to heartfelt thanks for many the Heart and Stroke people who came to visit, Foundation.

Condolences who sent cards, flowers, food may be forwarded to the and who prayed for Doris family by visiting and our family during her www.reddeerfuneralhome.com illness and passing.

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ROBINSON Oct. 2, 1945 - Jan. 15, 2016 Gary Clifford Robinson of Bentley, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Red Deer on Friday, January 15, 2016 at the age of 70 years. Gary leaves behind his cherished family: his loving wife, Myrna; his daughter, Teryn (Steve); and his sons, Scott (Becky), Shane (Natasha), and Wyatt (Vanessa); his beloved grandchildren, Lorne, Addison, Deegan, Ben, and Harper; his parents, Doreen and Les Peters; and his brothers, Aaron (Gerri), and Darrell (Pam). A Memorial Service in Celebration of Gary’s Life will be held at the Blindman Valley Ag Centre, Bentley on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

A complete obituary will appear later in the week. Funeral and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Gary Clifford Robinson entrusted to the care of OBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD.

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SEIBEL PROPERTY Feb. 1. 403-304-5337 6 locations in Red Deer, NEWLY reno’d Lancaster well-maintained town3 bdrm., 2 baths, main flr. houses, lrg, 3 bdrm, $1900. all inclusive includ11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. ing TV & internet. Rear Westpark, Kentwood, garage. 403-877-0489 Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at STETTLER older 3 bdrm. $1100. For more info, 2 storey, 4912-53 St. large phone 403-304-7576 or fenced yard, single car 403-347-7545 garage, 1 blk. from school, 3 blks. from main street, SOUTHWOOD PARK $1000/mo. + utils. $500 3110-47TH Avenue, DD avail. Feb. 1. Call 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Corrinne to see generously sized, 1 1/2 403-742-1344, call Don baths, fenced yards, 403-742-9615 to rent. full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets.

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Yurkiw puts Canada back on the downhill map

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Larisa Yurkiw’s instincts are steering her onto the World Cup downhill podium.

The 27-year-old skier from Owen Sound, Ont., is coming off back-to-back medals.

A silver in Altenmarkt, Austria, and bronze in Val-d’Isere, France, make Yurkiw the first Canadian woman to win multiple World Cup ski medals in a single season since Emily Brydon in 2009-10.

Yurkiw wants to make it three in a row Saturday in Cortina, Italy, where she won silver a year ago for her first career podium.

“I like a little bit of pressure that I can feel is in Cortina,” Yurkiw said in an interview.

“It’s magical to be on the podium. A lot has to go right.”

Yurkiw manages her own career and pays for her ski racing outside of the umbrella of Alpine Canada.

When she was cut from the women’s ski team prior to the 2013-14 season, Yurkiw found sponsors, hired a coach and achieved the qualifying results she needed to race for Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Yurkiw has since been invited to re-join the national team. She’s chosen to remain independent because she’s had the best results of her career operating as Team Larisa.

She is the only Canadian woman racing World Cup downhills full-time this season. Yurkiw isn’t convinced Alpine Canada has a women’s speed program that can do better than the environment she’s created for herself.

The organization has a stronger women’s technical program focused on slalom skiers.

Coming up with roughly $240,000 annually to pay Yurkiw’s coach, medical support team, training and travel costs is stressful and time-consuming. Yurkiw said she was 30 per cent short of her budget for the season at December’s season-opener in Lake Louise, Alta.

Winning medals helped as sponsors stepped up their contributions. Yurkiw also picked up almost C$40,000 in prize money for her two podium results.

“It has changed the remainder of the season,” Yurkiw said. “I wasn’t panicking, but I needed the math to work. People need to get paid.”

“The sooner I could put that out of my mind, the better.”

Her medal in Val-d’Isere also signalled that Yurkiw left behind her painful history there. A catastrophic knee injury sustained in a training run six years ago wiped out her next two seasons, including the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“Having stood on the podium in a place that knocked me out was very massive,” Yurkiw said. “It was monumental in a sense that I’m a more experienced and mature and weathered athlete coming here now.”

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Larisa Yurkiw of Canada in action during the Women’s Super G race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Zauchensee, Austria, January 10. She finished second in the race which was the second race in row in which she has medalled.

The distance she’s put on her injury and lost seasons, plus feeling she’s made the right decisions for her ski career, is translating into success on the piste now.

She and her Austrian coach Kurt Mayr go into each race with a plan, but Yurkiw has the confidence to adapt mid-race to the changing variables of an outdoor sport.

“Generally I get a lot more instinctual for a race,” Yurkiw explained.

“I was instinctual prior to my injury, but almost recklessly so. When I got injured, I was extremely robotic for a while. Probably trying to prevent it from happening again.

“Having my feet under me for five years out of my injury, in the last little while, I think I’ve really trusted that my instincts were why I was fast and why

I made the national team and why I was successful at a younger age.

“I need to find that again and trust it again. I am a better skier now and have more skills now to pull it off.”

Yurkiw heads to Cortina ranked fourth overall in the women’s World Cup downhill standings behind leader Lindsey Vonn of the U.S., Cornelia Huetter of Austria and Fabienne Suter of Switzerland.

Yurkiw mitigates the loneliness of operating as a team of one by travelling and training with the Swedes, Norwegians and Germans. Sweden’s Kaisa Kling is her roommate on the road.

“I have good friends around me for teammates, I have a great coach that has no ego and treats me like a human no matter what the result,” Yurkiw said.

“That goes a long way for me.”

Sanchez looks to return to starting rotation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Blue Jays pitchers Aaron Sanchez and Marcus Stroman are using the mantra “Nine Every Five” to help push them through their workouts together this off-season.

The big question now is whether Sanchez will get the opportunity to pitch nine innings every five days like his teammate.

Team brass has yet to announce whether Sanchez will be moved out of the bullpen after a successful stint as a setup man last season. Sanchez said Tuesday that he’d like another opportunity to start and Stroman completely agreed.

“Starter, 100 per cent. Everything we’ve done this year was for that,” Stroman said. “We didn’t work out twice a day for two months for him to be a reliever.

He’s 100 per cent ready to go out there and go seven, eight, nine innings every five days.”

Sanchez was starting to find his form as a starter last season before a strained back muscle sent him to the disabled list. When he returned, he was used out of the bullpen and became a reliable setup man for closer Roberto Osuna over the second half.

The Blue Jays went on to win the East Division title and came two wins away from reaching the World Series.

The Toronto rotation will have a different look this season after the departures of Mark Buehrle and ace David Price. Stroman, Marco Estrada and R.A. Dickey are back, Jesse Chavez was acquired in the off-season, J.A. Happ signed for a second stint in Toronto and Drew Hutchison could also be in the mix.

It remains unclear whether Sanchez will be stretched out to compete for a spot or remain in a bullpen that features Osuna, Brett Cecil and the newly acquired Drew Storen.

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Aaron Sanchez poses for a photograph after taking part in the Jays Care Foundation in Toronto on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old right-hander said he’ll do what’s best for the team, but is hoping he’ll be in the rotation.

“I think my mindset right when we finished last

NASCAR expands Chase format to other two national series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR is expanding its Chase format to include its feeder series, meaning the champions from the Xfinity and Truck Series will now be crowned in a four-driver shootout at the season finale.

The format announced Tuesday by NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France mostly mirrors the playoff-style setup used to determine the Sprint Cup champion the last two years. That system has 16 drivers race through three rounds of eliminations to establish a field of four in which the highest finisher in the finale wins the championship.

The Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series will use a seven-race Chase to decide their champions.

The Cup series uses a 10-race format.

All three series will crown a champ at Homestead-Miami Speedway. However, all three will begin at different tracks: Chicago (Sprint Cup), Kentucky (Xfinity) and New Hampshire (Trucks).

France said the change will prepare the sport’s young drivers for the challenges of winning a championship at the Sprint Cup level.

“I think it’s important that they understand how difficult it’s going to be when they get to the next level,” France said. “Certainly, it makes it more exciting for our fans. Fans love elimination style and

McGrattan conscious and alert after fall during fight in AHL SAN ANTONIO — Formr NHLer Brian McGrattan is conscious and alert after taking a bad fall during a fight in an American Hockey League game on Tuesday night.

McGrattan, who is now with the San Diego Gulls, was apparently knocked unconscious on his feet by a punch from Daniel Maggio of the San Antonio

emphasis on wins. I think for the drivers, I think it’s important to get conditioned to what it’s going to take . to handle the next level.”

There will be 12 drivers eligible for the Xfinity Chase, which will then be whittled to eight drivers and conclude with a final four championship race at Homestead. In Trucks, the format is eight drivers cut down to six and then a final four at Homestead.

NASCAR said the 16 Sprint Cup drivers who qualified for last year’s Chase will not be eligible to compete in the lower-tier championship races. That eliminates Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano — drivers who often moonlight in at least the Xfinity Series — from participating in the season finale.

Other changes announced for the two lower series Tuesday include: • A caution clock for the Truck Series. The clock will be set to 20 minutes and triggered at the start of each green-flag run. When the clock reaches zero, the caution flag will be displayed. The clock will be restarted when the green flag reappears.

• In the Xfinity Series, the four “Dash 4 Cash” races will include two heat races and a main event.

Results of the heat races will set the starting field for the main. The fields for the heat races will be set via qualifying.

Those races are at Bristol, Richmond, Dover and Indianapolis.

Rampage. The 34-year-old — who had lost his helmet during the scrap — fell to the ice face first without protecting himself for the fall. His San Diego teammates immediately waved for a trainer to come to his aid.

McGrattan lay face down and unmoving on the ice while being attended to but a tweet from the Gulls organization later said he was conscious, alert and had full movement. He has played for the Ottawa Senators, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames and Nashville Predators organizations.

season was to get in shape to start,” Sanchez said.

“That’s what I’ve done my entire minor-league career and I want to prove to people here that I can do it. It was unfortunate that the injury happened when it did last year because I felt like I was coming into my own.

“But you can’t really stop an injury and hopefully there’s no more issues there. I’m excited and ready to go.”

Sanchez made 11 starts over his 41 appearances last season. He had a 7-6 record and 3.22 earned-run average to go with 61 strikeouts and 44 walks.

Stroman and Sanchez have been working out together most recently in Florida and the results have been noticeable. The six-foot-four Sanchez has bulked up to 215 pounds.

“I’ve gained about 25 pounds from the time I started to now, so that’s a plus,” he said at a Rogers Centre availability as part of the team’s Winter Tour.

“That’s what my goal was going into the off-season.

Wanting to start, I knew I needed to be durable and I couldn’t do it at 190. So that was a big step forward for me.”

The team’s pitching plans will come into focus next month when spring training begins in Dunedin, Fla. Pitchers and catchers are slated to report Feb. 22, four days ahead of the full squad.

“My goal is to be a starter in the big leagues and that’s what I’m here to do,” Sanchez said. “If they say that I need to go to the pen, I have no control over that. I’ll go down there and I’ll be the best seventh, eighth, ninth-inning guy that this team needs me to be to win ball games. But we’ll see.

“Like I said, nobody knows what the plan is right now and when they do know, I’m sure everybody else will too.”

The Blue Jays will kick off their 2016 regular season on April 3 at Tampa Bay.

CURLING

Edmonton named host city of 2017 men’s world curling championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton will host the 2017 men’s world curling championship at Rexall Place.

The announcement was made Tuesday at Edmonton’s city hall.

The tournament will be the last chance for countries to earn enough points to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

A dozen countries, including host Canada, will be in the field for the event April 1-9. Canada’s representative will be determined in March at the Canadian men’s championship in St. John’s, N.L. Edmonton holds the attendance record for the Ford World Men’s Curling championship with 184,970 in 2007 at Rexall Place. Canada’s Glenn Howard won the world title that year.

The city also set attendance records of 281,985 for the Tim Hortons Brier in 2005 and 175,852 for the Olympic trials in 2009.

Rexall Place has a capacity just under 17,000. The arena is the current home of the Edmonton Oilers, but the NHL team will move to the new 18,647-seat Rogers Place in 2016-17.

Edmonton has hosted six Briers and most recently in 2013.

The men’s world championship has been held in Canada 23 times since the event’s inception in 1959.

Canada has won 34 world titles with Howard the most recent Canadian victor in 2012 in Basel, Switzerland.

Basel is again the host city of this year’s men’s championship April 2-10.

The women’s world championship will be held March 19-27 in Swift Current, Sask.

LIFESTYLE Dear Annie: You must know that for every letter that you get, you only hear half of the story. I read the letter from “Wife on the Outside,” who said her husband talks to his mother negatively about her.

I hope that my wife reads that and follows your advice to go to counseling.

I am a loving husband and father, and tired KATHY MITCHELL of accusations AND MARCY SUGAR of disloyalty. I love my wife.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX When my mother asks me how she’s doing and my answer is, “She is very unhappy,” I am not being disloyal. I am being truthful. But my wife doesn’t like it.

My wife drinks a lot of wine in the evening. When she is no longer sober, she becomes nasty to the point where she is unbearable. She refused to go for counseling, so I went alone. My counselor recommended that I attend Al-Anon, and I plan to go back soon.

My wife does not consider herself an alcoholic.

If there is any way you can help convince her to get counseling, I would be very grateful. — Suffering Husband Dear Suffering: Your wife didn’t write to us, and we are unlikely to convince her of anything, since she is unwilling to admit she has a problem.

Our advice is for you: First, please stop telling your mother that your wife is unhappy.

While we know that Mom can be a source of support, your marital problems are not really her business. If your wife considers it “disloyal,” then you must stop confiding in Mom. If you need to talk to someone, go back to your counselor.

Second, we hope you will return to Al-Anon meetings and learn the limits of what you can do in this situation and

how you can help yourself cope. Living with someone who abuses alcohol can be both difficult and exhausting. We’ll be thinking of you.

Dear Annie: I read your column every day, and I’ve been finding myself feeling sorrier and sorrier for women in their 40s and 50s. So many letters are about men who can’t anymore and women who don’t want to anymore.

The message seems to be that sex has to end the minute a woman hits menopause. And that’s absolutely not true!

Last week, I had lunch with two women who have been my friends since high school.

We are all in our early 70s, and every one of us agreed: Sex has been better in the last 15 years than ever before.

We’re not working now, so we can stay in bed and cuddle for hours if we want.

There are no kids at home, so we can “take a nap” with our honeys without the slightest embarrassment. If we need lubrication, we use it. If there’s more petting than fireworks, then we celebrate petting — but we all have delighted in recent fireworks, too.

Come on, women!

So our bodies don’t look as awesome as they used to. So our sweethearts are a bit flabby. If two people love each other, they should still enjoy giving and taking pleasure. And, take it from us three women, you’ll look years younger with that glow in your cheeks and that sparkle in your eyes. — Three Sexy Old Broads in Vermont Dear Vermont: Whatever they are putting in the water up there, you ought to bottle it. Bless you for pointing out that loving someone makes the effort worthwhile.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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match against Bob Backlund in Philadelphia in April 1983, four months after his WWE debut.

Although he called himself “Canada’s Greatest Athlete” he transitioned into being a so-called “enhancement talent,” after that title shot, losing to bigger stars in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Sharpe then regularly competed on and off for both WWE and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Sharpe’s final WWE match was in 1995.

Following his retirement, Sharpe opened a wrestling school in Brick, N.J., where he trained many aspiring competitors. His students included former WWE superstars Charlie Haas and Simon Dean (also known as ECW’s Nova), as well as WCW superstar Crowbar.

Former Canadian professional wrestler “Iron” Mike Sharpe dies at 64 Former professional wrestler “Iron” Mike Sharpe has died at age 64, the WWE announced on Monday morning.

The Hamilton native was managed

by WWE Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano and used the mysterious — and often loaded — black brace on his right forearm to defeat opponents.

Sharpe’s winning ways were enough to earn him a WWE championship

A Better Renovation Experience WE DO CABINETS TOO!

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 2016 HOROSCOPE backwards. A pinch of patience will help you Wednesday, Jan. 20 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: cruise through any problems Virgo.

Buzz Aldrin, 85; David Lynch, 69; Erin WasLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans are the son, 33 perfectionists of the zodiac. With THOUGHT OF THE DAY: the Moon opposing Saturn, resist Mercury is still retrograde so it’s the urge to be super critical of time to revise, review and revisit. yourself and others. Your stanHAPPY BIRTHDAY: You dards are high, but don’t make have a big heart and are great them impossibly so. fun to be around. 2016 is the SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. year to adopt a more proactive 21): Expect some communicaattitude towards money, as you tion chaos to continue over the plan for a secure financial future. next week, as Mercury reverses ARIES (March 21-April 19): through your talking, texting and It may feel like one step fortweeting zone. wards and two steps back today, So be very careful who you as Saturn squashes your motisend messages to. vation and stymies your energy.

JOANNE MADELINE SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22So avoid tackling projects that MOORE Dec. 21): No amount of jokes require extra energy and enthuand funny stories will amuse HOROSCOPE siasm. some people today Sagittarius.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Saturn is making many feel You know what you want and down-in-the-dumps, so strive to need Bulls, but don’t expect loved ones to be concentrate on personal projects instead. mind-readers. If you fail to tell them — clearly CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Saturn — what you require, then how can they posincreases your ambition today — and your sibly help you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Mercury fussy, criticizing side. Time to improve your — your ruling planet — retrograde until Jan. own performance, before you start telling ev26, double-check all travel arrangements and eryone else what they should be doing!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You prefer expect some frustrating problems with cars or to tackle projects with short bursts of electric computers over the next few days.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect energy.

But with today’s Saturn aspect, a patient, some friction between professional demands and relationship responsibilities today Crabs. steady and sustained approach will get things Time to put your multi-tasking skills to good done more thoroughly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may use, as you juggle opposing needs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It won’t take feel incredibly indecisive today Pisces, as you much to turn you into a cranky Cat today, as strive to see a current situation from everyone’s perspective. If you are too accommopatience is low — and irritation high.

A child, teenager or friend could also be a dating, you’ll just end up totally confused! source of endless frustration.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Mercury still reversing through your love zone, a ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her romantic relationship may feel as if it’s going column appears daily in the Advocate.

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