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A REMOTE NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN COMMUNITY IS DEEPLY SADDENED AND DEEPLY SHAKEN AFTER A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AT A LOCAL SCHOOL, KILLING FOUR AND INJURING SEVERAL OTHERS

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The outside of La Loche Community School is shown on Friday. A government source tells The Canadian Press at least four people have been killed and several others have been injured in a mid-day shooting at a remote northern Saskatchewan school.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS As people in a remote Dene community try to fathom any possible motive for a mass shooting that took the lives of four people and wounded several others Friday, witnesses are recalling a terrifying scene of panic as students fled for their lives.

Noel Desjarlais-Thomas was just returning from lunch at the junior and senior high school in La Loche, Sask., when the shooter opened fire. In a flash, his friends were running past him, urging him to get out. “Run, bro, run!� the 16-year-old said his friends shouted. “There’s a shotgun! There’s a shotgun! They were just yelling to me. And then I was hearing those shots, too, so of course I started running.�

The teen said it was a blur of partial sights and sounds. He thought he saw one of his friends fall to the ground after being shot, but wasn’t sure. “You know how it is — something happens, you’ve got to go for your life. I ended up running and I didn’t want to look back.�

Geordie Janvier, 16, was walking in the halls when the shots rang out. “We were going back to gym class, that’s when I heard the first shot,� he explained. “I looked back. He didn’t see me, that’s why I ran to the gym class, closed the door, and I ran in the dressing room. We stayed there for, like, three hours.�

Desjarlais-Thomas forwarded to The Canadian Press a screenshot of a chilling exchange that had taken place on social media a short time before the shooting between a young man and his friends. “Just killed 2 ppl,� wrote the young man. “Bout to shoot ip the school.�

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“Why?� asked a friend. “Why?�

Kevin Janvier said his 23-year old daughter, Marie, a teacher, was one of the victims.

RCMP told him the gunman is believed to have first shot two of his own siblings before killing Janvier’s daughter. He didn’t know if the shooter personally knew his daughter. “He shot two of his brothers at his home and made his way to the school,� said Janvier, adding that Marie was his only child. “I’m just so sad.�

RCMP confirmed at a brief news conference Friday night that the alleged shooter was in custody and they

‘OBVIOUSLY THIS IS EVERY PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE. WE ALL GRIEVE WITH AND STAND WITH THE COMMUNITY OF LA LOCHE AND ALL OF SASKATCHEWAN ON THIS TERRIBLE, TRAGIC DAY.’ — PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU

had investigators at both the school and a second location.

Speaking from Davos, Switzerland, a solemn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had been advised of the situation by the commissioner of the RCMP. “Obviously this is every parent’s worst nightmare,� the prime minister said. “We all grieve with and stand with the community of La Loche and all of Saskatchewan on this terrible, tragic day.�

Bruce Heyman, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, sent a message of con-

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dolence and solidarity. “We have experienced similar tragedies far too often in the United States and understand all too well the heartache and sadness that result from such a horrific event,� he said.

Canadian tennis superstar Milos Raonic, competing at the Australian Open, dedicated his game victory to the people of La Loche. “It was a difficult day back home ‌ I want to take a moment and give thoughts to that community, the families, the students and the school affected. Today’s victory was for that community and a quick recovery. All of Canada and I’m sure the world is behind you.â€?

Initially, the indication was five people had been killed but RCMP Chief Supt. Maureen Levy ended up revising that down to four at a news conference late Friday, adding that “a number� of others were injured.

She offered no further details. “I can’t give any information about their sex or their ages. We are in the early onset of the investigation and we want to ensure the integrity of the investigation.�

Levy said one male was in custody, police had confiscated a firearm and there was no remaining risk to public safety. She said she was not aware of the threatening chat on social media.

Premier Brad Wall issued a statement expressing shock and sorrow at what he called “the horrific events.�

He promised that necessary crisis support and counselling services would be provided to the community of 3,000 on the eastern shore of Lac La Loche in the northern boreal forest.

QUICK FACTS Here is a list of some other school shootings in Canada: â—? Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal: On Dec. 6, 1989, 25-year-old Marc Lepine shot more than two dozen people, killing 14 women before killing himself. â—? Dawson College, Laval, Que: On Sept. 13, 2006, 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa was killed and 20 others were hurt when gunman Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon. Gill was killed in a police gunfight. â—? W.C. Jeffreys Collegiate Institute, Toronto: On May, 23, 2007, 15-year-old Jordan Manners is found in a hallway with single gunshot wound to the chest. He later dies in hospital.

Two teens were charged with first-degree-murder and were later acquitted. � Les Racines de vie Montessori, Gatineau, Que.: On April 5, 2013, two men die during a shooting at the school’s daycare. The shooter is identified as Robert Charron. Thirty-eightyear-old Neil Galliou is killed before Charron takes his own life. Charron told staff to take the 53 children to safety before he opened fire. � W.R. Myers High, Taber, Alta.: On April 28, 1999, a 14-year-old Grade 9 students shoots three students, killing 17-year-old Jason Lang before he is arrested.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta’s oil and gas meltdown will hit rural municipalities hard, said a surface rights advocate on Friday.

Daryl Bennett said the Alberta Energy Regulator would like to see thousands of suspended wells reclassified as abandoned. As oil prices drop the number of suspended wells is expected to soar as companies struggle to pay their bills.

When wells are classified as abandoned “those wells come off the tax rolls,” said Bennett in an interview following a presentation at the Alberta Federation of Agriculture’s annual general meeting in Red Deer.

“That’s going to signifi‘A LOT OF THESE cantly affect the amount COUNTIES ARE GOof property taxes municipalities and counties are ING TO SEE SOME getting from the oil comOF THEIR BUDGET panies.

“There are a lot of REVENUES CLAWED counties that vary from 6o to 95 per cent of their BACK OR JUST LOST total budget comes from BECAUSE THESE the oil and gas sector,” BANKRUPT COMPAsaid Bennett, who is a member of the Alberta NIES ARE NO LONSurface Rights FederaGER ARE PAYING tion, an umbrella organization for surface rights WHAT’S OWED.’ group across the province.

— DARYL BENNETT, The Municipal District SURFACE RIGHTS ADVOCATE of Taber, where Bennett lives, relies on oil and gas income for 68 per cent of its budget. Some comes from linear taxes, applied to pipelines and similar infrastructure and local property taxes.

Adding to the fiscal crunch for municipalities are the growing numbers of oil companies going bankrupt while owing millions in back taxes.

“A lot of these counties are going to see some of their budget revenues clawed back or just lost because these bankrupt companies are no longer are paying what’s owed.”

Even those companies that are more financially stable are beginning to contribute less to municipalities.

“They are cutting and capping wells and reducing the amount of money paid in taxes,” he said.

Meanwhile, as more wells are abandoned by their cash-poor corporate owners, the organization that oversees their reclamation to farmland is facing a heavy burden.

The Orphan Well Association’s number of wells on its list to be reclaimed jumped to 705 at the end of March 31, 2015 from 162 a year earlier, according to the association’s last annual report. That number has since climbed and Bennett predicts thousands of suspended wells could be coming its way.

Despite doubling its funding to $30 million this year, there is nowhere near enough money to handle the numbers of orphan well reclamations required.

“Their budget is woefully inadequate,” he said.

And since funding comes mostly from a levy on oil and gas companies, solvent firms find themselves having to pay for the mess left by bankrupt companies.

“That’s not fair and it’s not sustainable, but that is what the system is. Certainly the system is broken and it never was intended to take care of the problem we’re now seeing with these low oil and gas rates.”

While an unfair burden is being placed on active companies and taxpayers, landowners are also seeing bankrupt companies trying to shift the liability for abandoned wells to them.

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From the left, Anna Stafford, Mica Harlow and Gabby Gades donned ‘beer goggles’ Friday as the three Grade 5 students, along with their classmates at École Mountview Elementary, took part in a Brain Walk event at the school. The Central Alberta Brain Injury Society spent the day at the school guiding the students through a variety informative stations that included the nervous system, the five senses, brain function, and how to protect the brain and spinal cord. The ‘beer goggles’ when worn, show the students how drugs and alcohol affect the brain.

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Man who fatally stabbed group home worker as teen sentenced as adult WETASKIWIN — A judge has handed a life sentence to a man who was 17 when he killed a worker at his Alberta group home.

Travis Scheerschmidt earlier pleaded guilty in youth court to second-degree murder.

The judge ruled Scheerschmidt, now 21, should serve his sentence as an adult.

He will be eligible for parole after serving seven years.

Dianne McClements was found stabbed to death in the basement of the Camrose group home in May 2012.

Court heard Scheerschmidt stole the 61-year-old woman’s car and drove to Vermilion, Alta., where he confessed the killing to several people.

The Crown presented evidence from a psychiatrist who said Scheerschmidt hasn’t shown any remorse and blames his actions on a psychotic episode, even though there was no evidence of that.

The expert believes the young man is a high risk to reoffend.

Ex-Tory minister says NDP should order school boards to adopt LGBTQ policy CALGARY — A former Tory education minister says Alberta’s NDP government should order school boards, including the Catholic system, to adopt a policy that protects LGBTQ students if they won’t do it voluntarily.

Thomas Lukaszuk says the government would take some flak, but it would be in the best interest of students.

He says it would be a better move than disbanding school boards that refuse to fall in line.

Education Minister David Eggen has given school boards until the end of March to draft policies that protect these students from discrimination.

Some Catholic leaders and school trustees oppose the idea for religious reasons, arguing all students are already protected.

Lukaszuk was a Catholic school teacher in Edmonton before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative, at one point serving as education

minister.

He was defeated in the provincial election last year.

Refugees hit peak flu season, agency says resources drained EDMONTON — A group of Syrian refugees has been given more than they bargained for upon their recent arrival in Edmonton — a lot of them have gotten the flu.

Jason Gariepy of Catholic Social Services says the agency is assisting approximately 254 Syrians and about half of the children in that group have fallen ill.

He says adults have also caught it, but only one person required a hospital stay.

Gariepy says the refugees did not arrive in Canada with any pre-existing conditions and just had the unfortunate timing of showing up in Edmonton at the peak of flu season.

Gariepy says the mini-epidemic is draining CSS resources, with staff making three to five trips per day to medical clinics and hospitals.

An Arabic-speaking doctor is now coming in to the CSS welcome centre to see the refugees twice a week to reduce the need to transport them, and they are receiving flu shots.

One dead, at least four injured, after rough day on Alberta’s highways One person is dead and a second person is in hospital after the pickup truck they were in collided with a semi-trailer truck northeast of Edmonton.

RCMP at Smoky Lake say the injured person was airlifted to an Edmonton-area hospital after the Thursday evening accident on Highway 28.

Two other people are in hospital after another crash involving a semi and car on Highway 815 south of Edmonton the same evening.

Emergency officials say a woman in the car had to be freed from the wreckage using special equipment before she was airlifted to Edmonton.

A male passenger was sent to the Lacombe hospital in stable condition, while the semi driver wasn’t hurt.

Earlier in the day, crews had to work carefully to rescue a critically injured woman from the wreckage of a multi-vehicle crash just east of Calgary involving a car, a pickup truck and a semi.

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“It’s important that people get a good idea of what she looks like,” Const. Jullie Rogers-Marsh said about Marissa Shephard, 20, who hasn’t been seen since mid December.

“Marissa Shephard can change her looks. It is important for people to look at the online photos that we’ve put out as well as what’s on social media and get an idea … of how easily she can change her look.”

Shephard is charged with first-degree murder and arson in the death of 18-year-old Baylee Wylie, whose body was found inside a burned-out triplex.

week to seek an interim order to keep the toddler in B.C. until the petition can be heard. Government lawyers filed an application to strike the petition on the grounds that it’s an abuse of process.

A judge reserved her decision on both matters Friday afternoon and issued an order that the child not be removed from the foster parents’ care until her decision is made.

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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will soon be asked to decide on a $400-million project to supply the military with new, mobile headquarters tents, but questions have been raised about one of the competitors, which recently hired a former officer who helped draw up requirements for new equipment in the army.

Former lieutenantcolonel Greg Burton was the co-ordinator in the directorate of land requirements until November of last year and, says National Defence, his responsibilities included a role in the development of the specifications for the headquarters shelter system project, a claim Burton disputes. Tenders on the project closed in September.

One month after his departure, he became the senior director of strategic business development at DEW Engineering, which is among four bidders on the program.

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There is no doubt that Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly were harassed by Gregory Alan Elliott, either due to the volume or content of his tweets, but that alone does not meet the legal threshold for a conviction, Ontario Court Judge Brent Knazan said.

The two activists testified at the trial that they believe Elliot kept tabs on them and their whereabouts through social media, even after they blocked his account.

But Elliott’s tweets contained nothing of a “violent or sexual nature,” and there was no indication he intended to hurt them, Knazan said.

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Angelil remembered as a ‘giant’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Rene Angelil’s teenage son described his father as a “tough act to follow” Friday as he promised to take what he learned from the longtime impresario and pass it along to his little twin brothers.

Rene-Charles Angelil, who will turn 15 on Monday, spoke for little more than a minute at his father’s funeral on Friday as his superstar mother, Celine Dion, and more than 2,000 other people looked on at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.

“You had a busy life but we were communicating through golf, hockey, poker and smoked meat,” he said to laughter — “and a lot of other wonderful food, bonding more and more as time went by.

“You left me now with enough good memories of you to share with my younger brothers. As they grow older, without you being around, I’ll make sure to pass on what I’ve learned from you.

“You are a tough act to follow but with your help, everything is going to be fine. Dad, I promise you here that we’re all going to live up to your standards. Je t’aime papa.”

Dion, 47, entered the church and walked to her seat holding the hands of Eddy and Nelson, the five-year-old twins she also had with Angelil, her longtime manager and husband who died of throat cancer at the age of 73 last week.

The ceremony began at 3:20 p.m. with a taped rendition of Dion’s version of the appropriately named “Trois heures vingt,” which was part of a service meticulously planned by Angelil.

Patrick Angelil, one of the deceased’s three adult children from two previous marriages, told the service his father was a loving man.

“If he couldn’t always be there with us, he never missed a chance to declare his love for us,” he said of Angelil. “All our life, our father told us, ‘I love you.’

“And now, more than ever, we realize how exceptional it was to have had a father who never hesitated to utter such precious words.”

Angelil also said his father shared his passions, especially his love of gambling.

“When we were very young, we all learned we had to say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you,’ that we had to look left and right before crossing the street and that at blackjack, if you have a five and a six, you have to double your bet.”

The service ended with a version of Dion’s “Pour que tu m’aimes encore” playing, with the twins again by her side.

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Celine Dion follows the casket of her husband Rene Angelil after funeral services at Notre-Dame Basilica Friday in Montreal. Angelil died in Las Vegas on Jan. 14 at the age of 73.

Dion then kissed the casket for several seconds, put her hand to her lips and touched the coffin with her hand once more.

The singer’s family accepted Premier Philippe Couillard’s offer for the government to play a role in the organization of the funeral.

The premier called Dion’s international success a source of pride for Quebec and noted Angelil was there to help develop her career.

“But today, we’re not honouring Celine Dion’s husband, we’re honouring Rene Angelil himself, who did a lot for our culture to make it be known better all around the world,” he said.

“We also honour the philanthropist, somebody who has been extremely active in our artistic and cultural community.”

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney described Angelil as a “terrific

gentleman” who will be sorely missed.

“He was a giant, Rene, and together they created the biggest success story in showbiz in Canadian history,” said Mulroney, who attended the couple’s 1994 wedding at the basilica.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was in Davos for the World Economic Summit, was represented by his spouse, Sophie Gregoire.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONCTON, N.B. — The Crown and defence have asked for more time to prepare a case on alleged Canada Labour Code violations by the RCMP related to the force’s response to a June 2014 shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B. Defence lawyer Mark Ertel of Ottawa told the court that the defence has given the federal Crown a list of changes to the statement of facts and both sides need time in an effort to narrow the issues in the complex case. “It’s a big, serious case,� he later told reporters outside the court.

It’s the latest in a string of delays dating back to July 2015. Ertel told Provincial Court Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman that they hope to reach some agreements because a trial would take months to prosecute and defend.

Federal Crown prosecutor Paul Adams agreed and stated that the charges are indictable.

Employment and Social Development Canada alleges there were four violations of the code relating to the force’s equipment, training and supervision in the June 4, 2014 incident that resulted in the deaths of three Mounties.

Justin Bourque shot and killed constables Doug Larche, Fabrice Gevaudan and Dave Ross, while constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were wounded. He was captured after a 30-hour manhunt.

Bourque was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

An RCMP review of the shootings said responding officers faced a litany of problems that included communicating accurate information, accessing high-powered weaponry and securing protective equipment.

In May 2015, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada recommended the RCMP be prosecuted for contravention of the occupational health and safety provisions of Part II of the Canada Labour Code.

The charges allege the RCMP failed to provide members with appropriate equipment, information, instruction and training in an active shooter event, and failed to provide supervisors with appropriate information and instruction or training in an active shooter event.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Canada’s spy agency has lost a bid to hold a secret hearing over its involvement in an investigation involving a couple who were later found guilty on terror charges in British Columbia.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce has ruled the media and the public will be allowed to attend the hearing that is considering if the RCMP manipulated the couple into carrying out the bomb plot.

John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were found guilty for plotting to blow up the B.C. legislature on Canada Day 2013, but the convictions have been put on hold while their lawyers argue the pair was en-

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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service had asked the judge to allow a hearing to be held in camera, arguing that some of the information is so sensitive to national security that only lawyers for the service and the judge should hear it.

The judge says that although the court will be open, the doors could be shuttered at any time if sensitive information comes up.

Bruce says if that happens, the lawyers must put their legal arguments into writing so they can be made available to the public, while the sensitive facts will be heard in oral arguments behind closed doors.

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LGBT Tories organizing to change party policy on same sex marriage OTTAWA — A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Tories says now is the time to drop language opposing same-sex marriage from Conservative party policy.

The party’s need to rebuild after the fall election provides an opportunity to get rid of a policy that’s offensive and hurts the party’s chances for growth, a group called LGBTories says and they are asking interim party leader Rona Ambrose for help. “This policy is a significant obstacle to the acceptance of the Conservative message by voters who would otherwise be attracted to the party’s stance on economic, security, and foreign policy issues,� they wrote in a letter to her made public this week.

The group started about a year ago ahead of Toronto Pride, an event that saw — for the first time — some Conservatives show up for the parade, including current Ontario PC leader and former Tory MP Patrick Brown and Tory MP Kellie Leitch.

Leitch is among those considering a bid for

the federal party leadership, a race likely to kick off in earnest at this spring’s Conservative policy convention.

Feds say court case moot now that new Senate appointment process launched OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is arguing that a court challenge over prolonged vacancies in the Senate is moot now that it has created a new process for appointing non-partisan individuals to the discredited upper house.

But the Vancouver lawyer who launched the challenge, says it’s still important for the courts to determine whether a prime minister can let Senate seats sit empty indefinitely.

Aniz Alani notes that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newly minted appointment process may yet face lengthy delays.

Moreover, New Democrats and Conservatives maintain Senate vacancies should be allowed to pile up until the chamber is effectively abolished by attrition.

Consequently, Alani says the courts must clarify if the prime minister has absolute discretion to fill Senate vacancies when — or if — he chooses.

Alani is asking the Federal Court to declare that there’s a constitutional obligation to fill vacant Senate seats within a reasonable time.

He launched the case last year when Stephen Harper was prime minister and refused to fill

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Harper stopped appointing senators in March 2013, when the Senate expenses scandal began engulfing his Conservative government.

As a result, there were 22 vacancies in the upper house when Trudeau’s Liberals won power on Oct. 19. Four more seats are due to fall vacant this spring and summer as senators retire.

Ontario colleges operating menonly campuses outside Canada ‘unacceptable’:Wynne TORONTO — It is “unacceptable� for publicly funded Ontario colleges to operate campuses outside Canada that exclude women, the premier of Ontario said Friday when asked about two men-only schools in Saudi Arabia.

Ontario post-secondary institutions have a duty to ensure those programs offer equal access to women and men, added Kathleen Wynne. “That is, I think, the minimum we expect in 2016,� she said. “As soon as I found out there was a possibility that women weren’t being offered programs, I asked questions about it, and it’s unacceptable to me.�

Niagara College and Ottawa-based Algonquin College opened men-only campuses two years ago in two cities in Saudi Arabia, where Sharia law forbids the education of women and men in the same classes.

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Moving slowly on ISIS could backfire Maybe it’s because the length of the campaign served Justin Trudeau so well that the prime minister sometimes sounds like he is still campaigning instead of governing.

When it comes to the Canadian economy, this never-ending campaign talk is serving Trudeau, and Canadians, well.

But the same recipe of inaction on our role in an anti-ISIS coalition is costing this government.

This is a government with a TIM strong mandate HARPER and four years ahead of it, and INSIGHT despite the initial urgency attached to a long list of campaign promises, it is moving very deliberately, whether on refugees, electoral and Senate reform, national security or foreign policy.

First, the economy.

Trudeau has little choice at the moment but to promote the three-Cs calm, control and confidence - while all those around him are seemingly running around with their hair on fire.

The opposition demands a meeting.

Journalists demand an earlier budget.

Editorial boards demand faster, deeper stimulus spending.

Budgets are best delivered when they are ready, not expedited because there is bubbling panic in the land.

The prime minister is a communicator and if times are troubled, his message has to be “we have a plan, we’ve got this.”

It’s not as if Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are not aware of what has transpired in the 92 days since the Liberals celebrated their majority.

Here’s a reminder.

On the day Trudeau was elected, the Canadian dollar was worth 77.2 cents (U.S.).

Tuesday it traded at 68.6 cents.

A barrel of oil was at $45.89 (U.S.) last Oct. 19. Midday Tuesday, it sat at $29.04.

The loonie and oil were at 12-year lows.

On election day, the Toronto Stock Exchange composite index stood at 13,756.81. Tuesday, it opened at 11,942.17.

The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its growth outlook for Canada in 2017.

Perhaps most troubling, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says Canadians now owe $171 for every $100 of disposable income. Household debt is at its highest level in 25 years and we have grown more debt than any other G7 country in the past 15 years.

Trudeau cannot raise the price of oil or boost Chinese economic growth, but by showing alarm or an unseemly urgency — or, perhaps suggesting this is a “buying opportunity” — he could risk making the situation much worse.

“The priority that the Canadian government has is to grow the economy in meaningful ways for middle-class Canadians and for those working hard to join the middle class,” he said. “That means putting Canadians to work.”

That is nothing more than campaign boilerplate, but it is a statement from a man who will not be pushed off course.

He and a handful of cabinet ministers are off to Davos, Switzerland, with the message that Canada is spending: It is a welcoming environment for investors and it is much more than a resource-based economy. This is the anti-Stephen Harper message.

The former prime minister used Davos as a backdrop in 2012 when he called his effort to get crude oil to Asia

a “national priority.”

But a lot has happened on another front in the days since the election.

There have been terrorist slaughters in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Seven Canadians have been killed in terrorist attacks.

Our allies are stepping up the fight against Islamic State but the Trudeau government has dithered, not backing away from its pledge to withdraw six CF-18s from the coalition, but offering ever-shifting rationales and timelines, without announcing any commensurate contributions on the ground to counter the perception it is retreating from the fight.

Meanwhile, Canadian planes have flown 2,038 bombing, refueling and reconnaissance sorties.

Late last week two CF-18 Hornets struck an ISIS fighting position east of Mosul and another pair of CF-18s hit an ISIS fighting position north of Tikrit.

The current mandate for the fighters expires in March, but here the Trudeau government’s deliberations are seen as inaction and 90 days of indecision. That has become costly.

It has cost Ottawa a seat at the table at a Paris meeting of “significant contributors” to the anti-ISIS coalition chaired by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

Snub or not, it is a barometer of where our allies see Canada. Our standing ebbs the longer it takes to make a decision on a training commitment.

A leader can go a long way resisting pressure for a knee-jerk response to a discouraging domestic economic ledger.

But the Trudeau Liberals are learning the same luxury of time may not exist on the international front.

Tim Harper is a national affairs wroter syndicated by Torstar.

Time for Morneau to step up to the plate The country is facing an econom- knows what must be done. So why ic crisis, but the new Liberal govern- wait? In fact, we need two sets of polment is not handling it well. Its slow icy — one to deal with the immediresponse mirrors that of the Conser- ate economic disarray and another to vatives who, on first being elected in address more deep-seated structural 2006, refused to recognize the world weaknesses, including the need for a was on the brink of the much more innovative and Great Recession. competitive business secThe circumstances are tor that can meet the chaldifferent this time but also lenges of the global marketalarming. We need strong place. economic stimulus now, not In fairness to the Liba budget sometime towards erals, they did inherit a the end of March. These are mess from the Conservanot typical times, as oil prictives — an economy in rees and the dollar plummet, cession in the early part of businesses rethink hiring last year, weak job growth, plans, investments in inrestrained business investnovation are being cut and ment and collapsing comCanada is running an unmodity prices. Finance DAVID sustainable current account Minister Joe Oliver’s budCRANE deficit with the rest of the get was a spectacular exOPINION world. ercise in misjudgment, Finance Minister Bill focused on balancing the Morneau says he is optimisbudget rather than promottic. Good for him. But many Canadi- ing growth at a time when the economy ans aren’t.”The good news is we have was encountering serious difficulty. a plan,” he says. But if he does, then But the misjudgments predated Olimplement it now. Given the time lags iver. The Harper government was fothat follow any new policy, even a bud- cused from its early days on a vision get now will be unlikely to have a ma- of Canada as an energy superpower, jor impact until the end of this year or which led to a reckless reliance on the beginning of 2017. an economy driven by high oil pricMorneau is running around the es, large-scale oil sands investment, country holding budget “consulta- massive pipeline projects and soartions” with Canadians. But he already ing oil exports. While the government

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Compounding this error, the Harper government made balancing the budget its key fiscal policy target. While it was reluctantly pushed into major fiscal stimulus after misjudging the real risks to the economy in 2008, it prematurely ended this stimulus as it made a balanced budget its priority. Fiscal policy became a drag on the economy, weakening growth and leading to higher unemployment. The country needed a budget deficit, not a budget surplus, an expansionary fiscal policy, not a restrictive policy.

Two recent reports highlight the weak state of the economy.

The first, from Statistics Canada, shows that in December there were 158,100 more jobs than a year earlier. But 91,500 of these jobs were for self-employed people and only 66,600 for new hires. Moreover, of these new hires, 40,800 were in the public sector and just a miniscule 25,900 in the private sector. There was also a demographic problem: Canadians 55 and over had a net employment gain of 220,000 jobs while Canadians in the 1554 age group actually suffered a loss of 62,200 jobs.

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PAD: a slippery slope “A rose by any other name is still a rose” is a line from Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

It is what it is! A common saying used to put away a need for explanation for an event.

No matter how many flowers you put on a garbage truck, it is still always a smelly garbage truck.

George OrCHRIS well was right SALOMONS on in his book STREET TALES 1984 when he coined the term ‘doublespeak’.

Now 30-plus years later, we see all kinds of instances where society, led by a vote seeking government, uses doublespeak or cushioning words to lessen the negative aspect of a given situation.

Take for instance the issue of Physician Assisted Suicide; oops, sorry, Physician Assisted Death, not Suicide any more.

Doublespeak.

The changing of the word from suicide to death not only cushions the deed, but opens up a whole new opportunity for abuses. Here I will run into

direct opposition to the way I see it and how I will state my case.

I think that I can understand how and why people would desire PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide), especially when terminally ill and in a lot of pain. My own sister who for almost 40 years was afflicted with MS, strongly considered joining the Hemlock Society, but when the end came there was just no way that she even wanted to carry through with such an act.

Eventually, it was not MS, but a painful cancer that took her life. Her pain though was very well managed, and her final days were spent with family and friends by her side, and in that time there were many lucid and enjoyable moments. It was her faith that carried her through to the end.

On top of that, we were able to grieve normally.

A friend of mine from the street took hundreds of pills to try to take his own life but was found and revived.

His bi-polar condition along with severe depression had taken over his mind so that death seemed to be the only way out. Now he is once again functioning well and is quite active; not that he doesn’t have issues, but he is able to manage them better.

In both cases; with my friend and my sister, the cost to bring them back or to let them die naturally would probably have been in the thousands if not tens of thousands of health

care dollars. Also many are the cases where someone who overdoses — and it doesn’t have to be anyone from the street — is brought back only to retain a brain dysfunction as a result, so the cost to the health care system is huge.

So here in lies what I consider to be the dilemma.

If you call the procedure Physician Assisted Suicide, you are dealing with only one form of death; but if you call it Physician Assisted Death, you now unintentionally or intentionally (still not sure which one the rulers desire) open the door to euthanasia because the word death is all-inclusive. Our intentions today may be that such is not the case, but consider this; 30 years ago PAS or PAD was not even on the radar. So if our attitudes can change in just a few short years, what makes us think that we will not go further?

How long before we no longer require stringent rules to enact this function? How long before finances become the determining factor for decision making? Or will this be a way to deal with what society considers ‘undesirables,’ such as those on the street, or those who chronically use up our health care dollars?

If we continue to listen to university professors, like Richard Dawkins, who teach and grade their students on the fact that life really has no motive or purpose and that morals have no place in an “enlightened” society, then we

will have no problem justifying cost as a factor to initiate euthanasia. As a matter of fact, he has even advocated something like this in one of his speaking engagements at a different university.

Are we so comfortable in our society that death by any means is no longer a subject worthy of discussion or perhaps some kind of action?

In the coming year our newly elected government will have to grapple with this issue. In all of their deliberations and fanciful language (used to mollify the nay-sayers) it is almost a guarantee that this bill will be passed — the Supreme Court has already taken over the right to govern in this matter.

Again a very useful place for doublespeak.

As a result, we will just have to wait for successive governments to relax and otherwise destroy any limiting intentions that the present government might have.

Then all of a sudden we will know how to deal with the huge aging population, or for that matter, the street bums that are so common now.

I hope for you, my friend, that your turn and/or mine comes before someone else arbitrarily makes that choice for us.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Sorry, you cannot use punctuation at the end of your password. hellothereyounumber1moron-iHateyou*GiveMeAccessRightNowOrShoveThisPassword Sorry, that password is already taken.

There are a lot of painfully amusing examples of this type of password angst on various websites, all of which need complicated passwords to view, of course. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been there. More than once. Way more than once.

Maybe I happen to spend more time on the old desk top than most people, on account of noodling around various joke sites and Kijiji and Ebay and Wastelotsoftime.com for most of the

day and much of the night is what I like to call “writing.” Or sometimes, when I feel particularly deluded: “working.”

I used to have one password. Nice and simple. Four characters, easy to remember. Even my dog could remember it. But then my dog died. But still, the password served me well for quite a long time. Until the dark day when certain unavoidable websites like those of financial institutions, mobile phone service providers and Jokes. com started getting all huffy about “security” and “hacking” and “spelling.”

And that’s when the password plethora caught fire and spread uncontrollably. Like – well — like wildfire. Like Ebola, the bubonic plague and boy singing groups. It was innocent enough at first, just a marginally unreasonable requirement that your password must be more than four characters.

And then you couldn’t repeat a character. Then came the obligation for the obligatory numerals, then symbols and then the deed to your house and your first born.

It got so bad, I had to start a password book just to keep track of how to get into Amazon and my own on-line banking, and how to peruse the best sports car sites, vintage guitar websites, illegal music and movie sites, and videos of cats doing adorable things.

My password book has — I kid you not — 20 pages of passwords. Either I spend WAY too much time in cyberspace or my password book has very, very small pages. And I think we both know the answer to that one.

Which reminds me of a good password related joke I found on the interweb (after having to create a password) to view the website. This joke (apparently) (supposedly) (according to the interweb which is always 100 per cent true), this joke won a competition for the “funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe (whatever that is): Stand-up comedian Nick Helm: “I needed a password that was seven characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Har har. Not the biggest knee-slapper anybody’s ever heard, but hey — anything to make the painful password poppycock a little less poppycockish.

Or how about this one from a different password protected website: “I

changed my password to “incorrect” — so whenever I forget what it is the computer will say: ‘Your password is incorrect.’”

And finally, to illustrate just how far we’ve descended into the Password Rabbit Hole of Hell, I found this corporate note which could be or even may actually be true: “Note to all staff: because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin

using it immediately.”

So that’s one desperate attempt to sort out the password problem. Now if someone can come up with another desperate way to deal with all the mind-numbing security requirements concerning entering your User ID? Oh, and did I mention I have another separate little book containing only my various User IDs? Guess how many pages that one has.

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

Colombia: After 51 years, peace?

Ending Colombia’s 51-year-old civil war has taken a very long time. The first ceasefire and peace talks began in 1984, and collapsed two years later.

There was another unsuccessful attempt in 1991, and yet another, involving four years of negotiations, in 1998. It’s a bit like porcupines having sex: you have GWYNNE to move very DYER slowly and carefully, and OPINION it can still go wrong in the end.

But more than three years after the current round of peace talks got underway, the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are almost there.

On Tuesday they asked the United Nations Security Council to provide a one-year unarmed mission to supervise a ceasefire and the disarmament of FARC’s forces.

It’s still a tricky process. Take, for example, the case of the “false positives.” In medical research, a false positive is a test that says a disease

or condition is present when it actually isn’t. In the Colombian civil war, “false positives” were civilians killed by the army even though they were not members of FARC. There were at least 3,000 “false positives” between 2004 and 2008.

Moreover, the Colombian soldiers doing the killing knew the victims were not FARC members. The army was rewarding them for high bodycounts, and they just needed more bodies to get their bonuses. When the scandal broke, several hundred of these murderers got long prison sentences — but these convictions could be overturned under the new “Special Peace Jurisdiction” that was agreed last December.

The key task now is to make it worthwhile for FARC members to disarm. The Special Peace Jurisdiction, agreed in December, will hear confessions from guerilla fighters who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, and determine the reparations they must make to victims. But except in the most extreme cases, they will not be sent to jail.

So how can you keep the former soldiers who are serving long sentences for their own crimes in jail? It’s thorny questions like this that have made the negotiations so long and complicated, but they are finally coming to a conclusion. The negotiators in Havana (Cuba has been hosting the talks) are working to a March deadline for a final cease-

fire, and it looks like they may actually make it this time.

It will be a great relief for the 48 million Colombians, most of whom have lived with this nightmare for their entire lives. Over the years 220,000 people have been killed and about 7 million driven from their homes. The proportion of the country’s people living in poverty has dropped from 48 per cent in 2003 to 33 per cent in 2012, but in rebel-held areas, where there have not been government services for decades, it is up around 60-65 per cent.

Colombia has paid a very high price for this war. The country’s economic growth rate, although a respectable 4 per cent annually in the past decade, would probably have been twice as high without the war. In fact, the whole thing has really been a bloody and pointless distraction from the real task of development.

When FARC, then the armed wing of the Colombian Communist Party, first took up arms in 1964, Colombia was a country desperately in need of change. Almost 40 per cent of the population were peasants who did not own any land, and barely half the population was literate. But all the long FARC insurrection did was slow things down — and it didn’t slow them much.

Today only 23 per cent of Colombia’s people still live on the land; the rest are in the cities. Literacy among 15 to 24-year-olds is over 98 per cent.

Land-ownership is still largely unreformed, but that matters a lot less than it used to. In the midst of the endless war, Colombia has become a modern society anyway, and a democratic one at that.

So it’s high time to end the war, and even FARC has recognized that. The peace deal includes amnesties for all but a few of its members and a guarantee that they will have full political rights. The government has promised that it will tackle land reform in a serious way (which will be quite expensive). And FARC has promised to end its involvement in the drug trade, which was probably its biggest source of funds.

There are all sorts of land-mines hiding under this deal, like the fact that the cocaine trade (Colombia is the world’s biggest producer) may just fall into the hands of criminal gangs instead. Indeed, it probably will. But there is no doubt that the peace deal will be enormously beneficial to Colombia as a whole.

In the 1970s almost every country in Latin America had either a rural insurgency or an “urban guerrilla” movement (or both). They meant well, of course, but they didn’t do much good. In fact, they did more harm than good, but this is really the last of them.

An era is ending. Good riddance.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

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Take me out to the ballgame WITH ITS RELAXED SURROUNDINGS, INTIMATE STADIUMS AND LOW TICKET PRICES, THE CACTUS LEAGUE IS A BASEBALL-LOVER’S DREAM On a sunny afternoon in late March, my family and I walked into Sloan Park, the Arizona spring training home of the Chicago Cubs, and made our way to our seats in the sold-out stadium.

As we walked into the ballpark, the first thing my husband noticed was how much it resembled Wrigley Field, the regular season home of the Chicago Cubs. The first thing I noticed was the food vendors.

Hot dogs taste better when you’re watching a baseball game and Sloan Park is home to one of the best dogs on the planet — the world famous Chicago Red Hot. Served on a poppy seed bun with mustard, DEBBIE onions, sweet relish, a dill OLSEN pickle spear, chili peppers, and fresh tomatoes instead of TRAVEL ketchup, Chicagoans like to say it’s been “dragged through the garden.”

As we made our way to our seats to watch the Chicago Cubs play against the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants, I was looking forward to some incredible pre-season baseball between two great teams. But with a sold-out house and Chicago Red Hots and Chicago deep dish pizza amongst the many offerings in the concession area, the sports food connoisseur in me was making plans.

If I timed it right, would I be able to sample both the hot dog and the pizza and still have room for a shave ice cone?

Spring training baseball gives you a chance to see many different major league baseball teams in a short period of time. The custom built stadiums are far more intimate than the teams’ regular season homes. Wrigley Field has the capacity for more than 41,000 fans, while Sloan Park tops out at about 15,000.

And seats are a bargain during spring training —

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TOP: You can see the berm seating behind this pitcher. Admission to the berms is often under US$10 per person and you can lay your blanket anywhere. It’s hot and sunny, but you’re close to the action and tickets are cheap.

ABOVE: Spring training is a chance to see the stars of baseball up close and in a relaxed atmosphere. starting at as little as US$10 for those who don’t mind sitting on blankets in the sunny berm areas.

Every March, thousands of baseball fans converge on Greater Phoenix to watch the annual rite of spring training in the Cactus League. Fifteen major league baseball teams play more than 200 games in custom-built stadiums that are all within a 45-minute radius, so it’s a baseball-lovers dream.

Over several days, our family attended games at different ballparks and saw some great baseball in relaxed surroundings. We loved the low ticket prices and the intimate stadiums that get you close to the

action. Our girls caught a baseball, got autographs and stood within a few metres of some of the sport’s star players. As a self-appointed sports food connoisseur, I had the chance to sample many different kinds of ballpark food and realized that it is really hard to beat a Chicago Red Hot — unless you are eating a “porker” dog that is topped with pulled pork, coleslaw and BBQ sauce at the Peoria Sports Complex, the spring training and player development home of the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres.

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ABOVE: Even the entrance sign at Sloan Park resembles the entrance sign at Wrigley Field.

LEFT: If you’re lucky, you might manage to catch a baseball and at Spring training, your chances of getting an autograph are substantially higher.

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CACTUS LEAGUE: Buy tickets in advance Spring Training Tips ● Plan ahead You’ll find more information along with the 2016 Cactus League Schedule at: cactusleague.com. Games between the most popular teams sell out and you should purchase those tickets in advance online. If you really want to see a sold out game, you can often get last-minute tickets on game day in the sunny berm areas if you go very early and bring a blanket. Call the ballpark for details. Even the best seats in the house are far more affordable in Arizona than in the regular season and planning ahead can help you secure the best seats. Be aware that seats in the full sun will be substantially hotter than shaded seats. A car rental can save you money when you are

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proved as a result of NOAA’s research.

Although these remnants of the Jurassic age can live several decades, these turtles retire from their work after only three tests and are released back to the wild. My mind reeled when Rio said these turtles would return to lay eggs on the beach where they were born even though they have never seen it! “Keeping only a few grains of sand with the eggs when they are removed provides enough information that the turtles can find their way back where they came from,” he explained. It appears sea turtles have greater powers than even ninja mutant turtles. My love affair continues.

If you decide to go: Public viewing at NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory is limited. Weekly tours should be booked well in advance by calling 403-7663500. No reservations are needed for Ocean Discovery Day on March 12, 2016.

Sea Turtle Inc. on Texas’s South Padre Island offers visitors a chance to travelling between ballparks. If you don’t want to rent a car, you’ll need to choose a hotel that is within walking distance of a ballpark and those hotels book up fast and cost more. ● Bring Your gear Wear your favourite baseball cap and jersey everywhere. If ever there was a time to do it – this is it. You’ll also need sunscreen, a water bottle and sunglasses at the ballpark. Bring a rain jacket – just in case. ● Avoid the crowds If you want to see your favourite players without bracing a big crowd, attend a workout or a weekday game.

Most teams have workouts in the morning that are free to the public. Weekday games are always less busy than weekend or evening games. ● Berm areas Tickets in berm areas are a great value (often $10 USD or less). If you want to purchase berm tickets, bring a blanket and get to the park early.

The Milwaukee Brewers have one of the biggest berm areas in the Cactus League. There’s often a real party atmosphere in the berms. ● Early or late March?

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Since that encounter I look for turtles whenever I’m at a coastal destination, even one more often associated with longhorns and oil barons. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the number of turtles found here. There are only seven species of sea turtles in the world and five can be seen in Texas — the green, loggerhead, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback and hawksbill. In keeping with the Lone Star state’s entrepreneurial spirit some turtles even hold jobs! A few lucky tourists visit them each week at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service in Galveston to learn how turtles help scientists.

Fishing kills hundreds of thousands of turtles around the world each year.

Often turtles are not the target species but get caught in fishing nets and drown. To reduce the carnage all U.S. federally regulated nets must have a turtle excluder device (TED). Shrimp imported to the U.S. must also come from countries using TEDs. At the NOAA turtle barn in Galveston, loggerhead turtles are raised to test TEDs. Hatched from eggs taken from wild turtles, these turtles are carefully raised, doing a small amount of research before being released back to the wild. I was in turtle heaven as we entered the barn and saw hundreds of turtles doing laps in their individual enclosures, my camera battery fading as I attempted to get the perfect turtle photograph. The youngest turtles would have fit in the palm of my hands if we were allowed to tough (we weren’t), those born in 2014 were dinner-plate sized and swam circles in large barrels. The turtles would stay at the barn for only two years before travelling to Florida to participate in the testing.

Master Naturalists Carlos Rios and Maureen Nolan-Hilde helped our tour group discover what a turtle work day is like, a giant fishing net spread across the lawn next to the turtle barn.

“Crawl into the net, then hold your breath and pretend you are swimming all the way to the end. As you climb out of the TED tell us what kind of turtle you are,” Rio instructed. I stumbled through the net as my arms flapped in a feeble imitation of a green sea turtle; my lungs burned as I thought of the thousands of turtles that used to drown in fishing nets.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 2016

Broncos edge Rebels in shootout

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Broncos 5 Rebels 4 (SO) The Red Deer Rebels owned the puck through the vast majority of the contest, but the Swift Current Broncos got the last laugh Friday night at the Centrium.

Despite being outshot 46-22, the Broncos got a deciding shootout goal from Jon Martin and pulled out a 5-4 WHL win in front of 5,878 fans.

“We dominated the game, we had the puck 80 per cent of the night,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, whose club hosts the Everett Silvertips tonight. “We had some quality chances, especially in the third period, but we didn’t capitalize on enough of them.”

The lone goal the Rebels potted in the third, on a blast from Colton Bobyk from the top of the circle at 14:15, forced a scoreless overtime frame. Ivan Nikolishin beat former Rebels goalie Taz Burman to open the shootout, but the next four Red Deer players fired blanks.

Jamal Watson, and then Martin, with the winner, were the Swift Current marksmen in the skills competition.

While Burman stood tall in the Broncos net, blocking 42 shots, the Rebels got a less-than-impressive performance from their starting netminder. Rylan Toth allowed four goals on 12 shots through two periods before being replaced by Trevor Martin at the start of the third stanza.

With Toth struggling, the Rebels — who were coming off a six-for-six penalty-killing effort in Wednesday’s 6-2 win over visiting Moose Jaw — gave up two man-advantage markers Friday.

“Tother has been really good for us and I thought he didn’t have one of his better games tonight,” said Sutter.

“Again, your best penalty killer is always your goalie.”

Rebels forward Adam Musil opened the scoring 7:08 into the contest, bust-

ing to the net and finishing off a nifty three-way passing play with Evan Polei and Ivan Nikolishin, who fed Musil.

Former Rebel Austin Adamson pulled the visitors even three minutes later, chipping a backhand past Toth on an odd-man break.

The Rebels enjoyed a three-minute power play early in the second period due to a boarding major assessed to another former teammate, Lane Pederson, late in the first. Two minutes

of the penalty were erased due to a roughing call on Musil.

Instead of cashing in, the Rebels allowed a short-handed goal when Michael Spacek turned the puck over at the Broncos blueline and Red Deer native Scott Feser and Calvin Spencer headed up ice on a two-on-one that culminated in Spencer’s first of two goals on the evening.

Adam Helewka scored near the end of the major penalty two minutes later,

cashing a feed from Nikolishin, but the Broncos were back in front in short order on a man-advantage marker from Glenn Gawdin.

“When you play a team like this, they wait for chances and force you to turn pucks over,” said Sutter. “We made some critical turnovers in the first two periods that cost us goals against.”

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RDC Queens volleyball sweep Briercrest

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 3 Clippers 1 The last time the RDC Queens faced the Briercrest Bible College Clippers it was early in the season and on the road in Caronport, Sask.

The Queens aren’t the same team that lost 3-1 and 3-0 in Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League play to the Clippers back in November.

“It was early and we weren’t ready for that calibre of a team,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton following a 24-26, 27-25, 25-23, 25-23 victory over BBC before a near full house at RDC Friday.

“Some may be excited that we won, but in reality that’s how much we’ve improved. It was a big learning curve for us. We have nine new bodies and they had to learn each other and learn our system. That takes time.”

Queens setter Meagan Kuzyk, who transferred in from NAIT, was one of those new players who had to adjust to a new team and players.

“It takes a little time,” she said.

“For myself every hitter likes something different and I had to get to know that and it showed.”

The Queens passing has also improve considerably, as has their overall defence.

“We’ve been working a lot on that in practice and the level has gone up,” said Kuzyk, who was the RDC player of the game with two kills, five aces, 10 digs, a block and 38 assists.

“Our defence has been working hard and the passing certainly helps

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Red Deer College Queens Hanna Delemont, left, and Kelsey Tymkow block a shot as they take on Briercrest College at Red Deer College Friday. me to run the offence with a better tempo.”

The win gave the Queens a 10-5 record with BBC at 13-4.

“We came into this match looking to protect home court,” said Kuzyk.

“We had nothing to lose and we came out and played as a team … we came together.”

The Queens trailed in both the first

two sets only to come from behind. A questionable non-call with the score tied at 24 in the first set may have cost them the set, but they shock off the setback and were steady the rest of the way. As well the Clippers showed why they are ranked No. 4 in Canada as they refused to give in even when they fell behind in the third and fourth sets, consistently coming back to make

things interesting.

“They have a good offence and generate a lot of confidence off that,” said Walton. “It was important for us to be able to deal with that.”

The Queens also got a strong performance from their left side with Kelsey Tymkow and Jessica Jones starting and Miranda Dawe coming in in the second set for Jones.

Dawe, who is one of the top players in the conference, played a key role in the victory both at the net and on defence. She made several outstanding defensive players in the third and fourth sets.

“Miranda was in a bit of a slump over Christmas, but she’s working her way out of it and tonight played at the level we expect her to play,” said Walton.

Tymkow was also outstanding, finishing with 17 kills and 14 digs while Dawe had six kills, nine digs and two aces. Hanna Delemont finished with six kills and McKenna Barthel had four kills and 10 digs and former Clipper Whitney Zylstra five kills, two aces, three digs and three blocks.

All-Canadian Samantha Zacharias led the Clippers with 18 kills, three aces and 14 digs while Kathleen Bruce had 11 kills. Queens are also playing without middle blocker Taylor Wickman, who is their leading blocker, and veteran Lauren Marshall.

Kings 3 Clippers 1 What looked like an easy walk in the park turned out to be battle before the Kings downed the Clippers 25-16, 25-14, 24-26, 25-21.

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DeRozan powers Raptors to win over Heat

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 101 Miami 81 TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan is making the decision easy for NBA coaches mulling over fleshing out the league’s all-star roster.

The Raptors guard poured in 33 points Friday night as Toronto extended its winning streak to seven games with a 101-81 victory over the injury-riddled Miami Heat.

DeRozan scored 22 of those points in the first half on nine-of-15 shooting. He was a little colder in the second half but teammates were usually around to finish off what he started.

DeRozan made 12 of 25 shots on the night, including four of five from threepoint range. He also had six rebounds and four assists.

Toronto coach Dwane Casey says DeRozan is evolving and adding to his repertoire. DeRozan says it’s like checkers — you try to think two or three moves ahead.

“The game is coming slow to him,” said Casey. “He’s now shooting the three-ball and teams are going to have

to run out to him now. He’s got the opportunity to get to the point. That’s something he’s added.”

“If it’s there, I’ll shoot it,” DeRozan said of the three-pointer. “I’m not going to come out like a Ray Allen.”

It marks Toronto’s longest winning string under Casey and the franchise’s longest run of victories since a ninegame stretch in 2002.

There was some symmetry to the night. It was 10 years ago to the day that Lakers star Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in a 122-104 victory over the Raptors at the Staples Center. There was another 81 scored but this time it was the opposition’s total. And Toronto won.

The Heat never led and trailed by as many as 20 as they lost their fourth straight and seventh of their last eight.

DeRozan, looking to join teammate Kyle Lowry at next month’s all-star game in Toronto, came out on fire and had 22 points, five rebounds and four assists in the first half. His nine field goals made in the half were a career high.

It’s the second time in DeRozan’s career that he has scored 30 or more

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points in three straight games. He came into the contest averaging 23.1 points per game for the season.

“It’s not like I’m going out there telling myself I’m going to get 30, 40 points,” DeRozan said. “I just try to go out there and win.”

Lowry had 15 points on the night, with the crowd chanting MVP as he went to the line in the final minutes.

Asked about DeRozan’s performance, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra was quick to include Lowry.

“Well, it’s both of them. It’s not the end stat, it’s the timeliness of their plays.”

Former Raptor Chris Bosh, with 10 first-quarter points, went over the 17,000 mark for his career. He finished with 26, drawing a regular chorus of boos throughout the night.

All-star guard Dwyane Wade, who overcame a shoulder injury to start, finished with 22 points.

But the Heat were without Chris Andersen (knee), Luol Deng (eye), Josh McRoberts (knee), Hassan Whiteside (oblique) and Beno Udrih (neck). Goran Dragic (calf) dressed but did not play.

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The Heat essentially went with eight players. The ninth, Jarnell Stokes, played one minute 36 seconds.

“Today’s approach was business as usual,” Spoelstra said prior to the game.

“We’re not feeling sorry for ourselves,” he added. “Nobody else will, we know that.”

The game was a sellout of 19,800, marking the first time the Air Canada Centre has been full for the first 20 games of a Raptors season.

The crowd roared in the first quarter when Miami’s Tyler Johnson blew a breakaway reverse dunk attempt in spectacular fashion. Johnson came in for more abuse in the second when a Cory Joseph move left him stumbling like a drunken sailor.

Rachel McAdams, meanwhile, was shown some love by a clearly smitten Raptors mascot who presented the Canadian actress with a team jersey, flowers and mini-Raptor plush toy.

The Heat’s Gerald Green missed a dunk over Raptor behemoth Bismack Biyombo in the second quarter. Green was hit with a technical soon after.

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Raonic dedicates win to La Loche victims AUSTRALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Twotime Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka walked onto Rod Laver Arena knowing that the No. 2- and No. 3-ranked players were already out of the tournament and that the draw appeared to be opening up in her favour.

She blinked at first, when Japanese qualifier Naomi Osaka broke her at love in the first game of their thirdround match, but recovered quickly and responded with a 6-1, 6-1 win in 56 minutes.

The 14th-seeded Azarenka, back in form after two injury-interrupted seasons, has dropped just five games in three matches at Melbourne Park after warming up with a title at the Brisbane International.

Azarenka had 24 winners to only four for Osaka, who was making her Grand Slam main draw debut.

“She’s a little unpredictable and she surprised me with her game,” said Azarenka, who signed off with a now-customary “dab” and discussion on dancing and music.

She will next play No. 48-ranked Barbora Strycova, who upset third-seeded Garbine Muguruza 6-3, 6-2.

Milos Raonic dedicated his third-

round victory, a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over Viktor Troicki on Margaret Court Arena, to victims of a shooting in a remote community in Saskatchewan, Canada which left four people dead and at least two injured.

The 25-year-old Canadian, his voice sounding emotional at times, told the crowd: “Today, before I stepped out on court it was a difficult day back home.”

“I want to take a moment and give thoughts to that community. Today’s victory was for that community, and a quick recovery and all of Canada, and I’m sure the world is behind you.”

Another big server, No. 10-seeded John Isner, advanced with a 6-7 (8), 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4 win over Fernando Lopez.

Isner had 44 aces.

In the women’s draw, Azarenka is one of three Australian Open champions remaining — six-time winner Serena Williams and 2008 winner Maria Sharapova are on the other half and could meet in the quarterfinals.

Muguruza’s rapid rise to the No. 3 ranking sharpened the focus on her run in Australia, attention which only increased after No. 2-ranked Simona Halep and No. 8 Venus Williams lost in the first round.

It didn’t help Muguruza, though, with her loss to Strycova extending a disappointing follow-up in majors since a breakthrough run to last year’s Wimbledon final. She lost in the second round at the U.S. Open and her third-round exit here was worse than her two previous trips to Melbourne

Former RDSA members honoured posthumously ASA AWARD OF MERIT

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Two former long-time members of the Red Deer Soccer Association will be honoured posthumously at the Alberta Soccer Association general meeting today in Edmonton.

Peter Cade and Terry Boase, each of whom lost a battle with cancer in 2015, will be presented with ASA Award of Merit awards after being nominated by the Red Deer Association.

Cade and Boase both moved to Red Deer from England in the ’70s and served the local soccer community as players, coaches, board members and referees.

“I would say they were involved in everything,” said RDSA president Paul Morigeau.

“They played the game and they were both great players. Then they went into coaching, and then Peter formed the Central Alberta Soccer Referees Association.

“The numbers were really low at one point, no young refs were coming in.”

Cade was the first president of the Referees Association and when he came ill, Boase took the reins.

“Soccer has two seasons every year,” said Morigeau, in reference to the outdoor and indoor versions.

“Since I came to Red Deer in 1994 those guys were involved every season in one way or the other. They really made a huge contribution to the officiating. The ref numbers are way up now and the quality is way up.

“Their mentoring has a lot to do with that. They were cornerstones.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

WOMEN’S CURLING PROVINCIALS

Carey edges Kleibrink in B-event final CALGARY — Chelsea Carey of Calgary, with Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman tossing second rocks, edged Shannon Kleibrink of Coaldale 5-4 in the B-event final of the provincial women’s championship Friday at the North Hill Curling Club.

Carey reached the playoff qualifier final by defeating Jessie Kaufman of Edmonton 9-7 earlier in the day.

Meanwhile, second Whitney Eckstrand of Red Deer helped Nadine Chyz’s Calgary foursome advance to one of today’s two C-event qualifiers by posting a pair of wins Friday.

Chyz dropped a 7-4 B-event decision to Jessie Kaufman, then posted 10-4 and 10-3 wins over Nicky Kaufman and Deanne Nichol, both of Edmonton.

Chyz will face Kleibrink today, with the winner advancing to the playoffs of the 12-rink playdowns.

The championship final will be played Sunday.

Conner Bleackley’s 13th goal of the season at 10:59 of the period — on a give-and-go with Spacek — made it a 3-3 game, but Spencer potted a power-play marker at 16:41, beating Toth high to short side while breaking in from the wing.

“I didn’t like the short-handed goal they (Broncos) got on him (Toth) and I certainly didn’t like the last power-play goal they got on him either,” said Sutter.

Martin faced only eight shots in the third period, but played a huge role in keeping it a one-goal game when he denied Gawdin on a penalty shot.

“He’s a battler,” Sutter said of Martin.

“Tother had a tough night, he wasn’t good enough. Tother understood it, I talked to him after the second period and he knew he didn’t have a good night. I told him I was changing goaltenders and Marty went in and battled … he played well.

“That was a big save on the penalty shot to keep us within one and we were

able to capitalize later.”

The loss was Red Deer’s second to the Broncos — well back in the Eastern Conference standings with 15 wins — in a week. Swift Current took advantage of a late turnover to defeat the visiting Rebels 2-1 last Saturday.

“It just goes to show the little mistakes that have been costing us, especially against this team,” said Bleackley. “ We obviously dominated the game and it’s pretty frustrating to not come out with two points, but at the same time we can’t fault our effort.

“The effort was good and we’ll take the point. We have a game in less than 24 hours and we have to move on.”

Other than the giveaways and Toth’s struggles, Sutter didn’t detect any negatives in his club’s play.

“We worked, played hard and competed,” said the Rebels boss.

“When you have the puck most of the night you should win the game, but you can’t make those turnovers we had that cost us at the end of the night.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kings blow lead to Huskies PENHOLD – The RDC Kings coughed up a trio of third-period goals Friday and dropped a 5-4 Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League decision to the Fort McMurray Keyano Huskies.

The Kings were in good shape when Connor Hartley gave the home side a 4-2 lead early in the final frame, but the Huskies responded with goals from Alex Scully, Mitch McMullin and Drake Hart to pull out the victory.

Scully scored twice for the visitors, who got an additional goal from Owen Solecki. Doug Jones, Dylan Thudium and David Heath accounted for the other RDC goals.

RDC BASKETBALL Kodiaks 90 Kings 78 LETHBRIDGE – The RDC Kings are still nowhere near where they need to be if they expect to make a run at the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League title this season.

The Kings lost their third game in a row – 90-78 to the homestanding Lethbridge College Kodiaks Friday.

The loss left them with a 9-3 record, the same as Medicine Hat and Olds and one up on Lethbridge, 8-4.

“We didn’t play well until I went to my bench in the fourth quarter,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“We were down by 26 at one point, but once I put my bench in over the final six-and-a-half minutes we outplayed them.”

The Kings trailed 24-17, 46-30 and 76-54 by quarters before holding a 2414 edge in the final quarter.

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Kings head coach Aaron Schulha went to his bench in the third set, as did BBC coach Nigel Mullan. The move seemed to help BBC more than the Kings who lost their momentum.

On the other hand the Clippers started playing more like Schulha expected.

“They’re fighting for their playoff lives and that team on the other side of the net the first two sets was not indicative of the type of team they have,” Schulha said. “They started to hit tougher serves and we didn’t serve receive as well and made some errors.

But they dug the heck out of the ball and showed the type of team they do have. They’re scrappy and won’t go away. I expect to see that team tomorrow (today).”

bottom half of the women’s draw.

Strycova has only been past the third round once before in 38 Grand Slams, and that was when she reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2014. Knowing her next rival was likely to be the growing favourite, Azarenka, Strycova decided to stay in the moment.

Winning netminder Jamie Tucker turned aside 24 shots. Kraymer Barnstable made 35 saves in the Kings net.

The clubs meet again today at 1:30 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Grizzlys slip past Kodiaks CAMROSE — Ben Giesbrecht turned aside 45 shots and Jack Goranson scored the third-period winner as the Olds Grizzlys defeated the Camrose Kodiaks 3-2 in AJHL action Friday.

Also scoring for the Grizzlys, who led 1-0 after one period and 2-1 after 40 minutes were Chase Olsen and Jeremy Klessens. Liam Motley and Max Salpeter tallied for the Kodiaks, who got a 24-save performance from Brodan Salmond before 1,961 fans at Encana Arena.

The Grizzlys host the Calgary Canucks tonight.

Matt Matear had 13 points and seven rebounds and Spencer Klassen came in off the bench to drop in 11 points. JP LeBLanc also had 11 points.

Kodiaks 68 Queens 59 The Queens played well for three of the four quarters against the No. 1 ranked team in the country. However, it was a disastrous third quarter when they were outscored 29-13 that did them in.

“We had a poor start to that quarter and that cost us,” said Queens head coach Ken King, whose squad led 13-12 after the first quarter and trailed 29-27 at the half. They were down 58-40 after three quarters before outscoring Lethbridge 19-10 in the final 10 minutes.

Kaylee St. Germain was the RDC player of the game and was outstanding off the bench in the final quarter.

Eva Bonde and Kennedy Burgess had 10 points each for RDC. Schulha talked to his players in the third set about what to expect from the Clippers but for some reason “we seemed a bit surprised.”

Schulha put his starters back in in the fourth set and they also had a battle on their hands before putting it away.

Regan Fathers led the Kings with 12 kills and five aces while Riley Friesen had 11 kills, four digs and there blocks and Matt Lofgren contributed eight kills and six digs. Libero Michael Sumner had 13 digs and setter Luke Brisbane was the player of the game with a kill, an ace, a block, eight digs and 42 assists. Taylor Klassen had 12 kills for BBC. Teams meet again today with the women getting underway at 1 p.m., followed by the men.

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

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Park, where she reached the fourth round.

“Clearly not my best, for sure.

I think today is a very bad day, you know, at the office,” she said. “I just couldn’t find the court, my shots. Yeah.

Didn’t really find my game.”

Her loss left No. 7 Angelique Kerber as the highest-ranked player in the

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

Today • 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, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer North Star, 2 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Wheatland at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

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

• AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at

Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Stettler at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

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.

Transactions Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended free agent RHP Derrick Bernard 100 games after a third positive test for a drug of abuse free agent RHP Jared Burton 50 games a second positive test for a drug of abuse and Kansas City RHP Matt Murray (Omaha-PCL) 50 games after testing positive for amphetamine, a banned stimulant, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Kevin Jepsen on a one-year contract. Claimed LHP Mike Strong from Miami. Designated LHP Logan Darnell for release or assignment.

National League NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with LHP Antonio Bastardo on a two-year contract. Designated RHP Carlos Torres for assignment.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with INF Alexei Ramirez on a one-year contract. Designated OF Rymer Liriano for assignment.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed C Brian Erie and RHP Richard Castillo.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed OF Michael Lang.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed OF Albert Cartwright. Claimed LHP Mark Hardy off waivers from Quebec.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released C Justin Marra and OF Joash Brodin. Traded LHP Derrick Penilla to Evansville for future considerations.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed OF Cody Livesay, INF Craig Massoni, and LHP Jason Ziegler to contract extensions.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF Phil Bates to a contract extension.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed RHP Francisco Carrillo.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed catcher Mike Valadez to a contract extension BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Fired coach David Blatt. Named Tyronn Lue interim coach.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Announced coach Steve Kerr has returned from his leave of absence.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Acquired F Josh Smith, the rights to F-C Sergei Lishouk and cash considerations from the Los Angeles Clippers for the rights to F Maarty Leunen.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined New England WR Danny Amendola $23,152 for a blindside block during a punt in a Jan. 16 game against Kansas City.

CHICAGO BEARS — Named Dave Ragone quarterbacks coach.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Ray Horton defensive co-ordinator, Pep Hamilton associate head coach-offence, Al Saunders senior offensive assistant/wide receivers coach, Kirby Wilson running backs/run game co-ordinator, Hal Hunter offensive line coach, Mark Hutson assistant offensive line coach, Greg Seamon tight ends coach, Bob Saunders offensive quality control coach, Shawn Mennenga special teams assistant coach and Stan

Watson special teams quality control coach.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Named Larry Izzo special teams co-ordinator, Sean Ryan wide receivers coach and Anthony Weaver defensive line coach.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed coach Gus Bradley a one-year contract extension. Promoted Todd Wash to defensive co-ordinator, Tony Sorrentino to assistant receivers coach and Aaron Whitecotton to assistant defensive line coach.

Named Daniel Bullocks assistant defensive backs coach.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Greg Manusky as outside linebackers coach.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed QB Quentin Williams and WR Quincy McDuffie.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Placed F Zemgus Girgensons on injured reserve. Recalled F Cal O’Reilly from Rochester (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Placed D Willie Mitchell on injured reserve. Recalled D Dylan Olsen from Portland (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed D John Moore on injured reserve. Recalled D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). Reassigned LW Ben Johnson to Albany from Adirondack (ECHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F Jayson Megna to Hartford (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAN RAPID GRIFFINS — Reassigned F Zach Nastasiuk to Toledo (ECHL). Released F A.J. Jenks from his professional tryout contract and assigned him to Toledo.

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Released Fs Rocco Carzo and Robert Czarnik from their professional tryout contracts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW SC — Signed M Emil Larsen.

FC DALLAS — Waived Ms Rolando Escobar and Ezequiel Cirigliano.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed D Diego Martinez.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed D Jermaine Taylor.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Re-signed D Zach Scott.

United Soccer League PORTLAND T2 — Signed of M Akinjide Idowu.

COLLEGE COLORADO — Released QB Sheriron Jones from his scholarship.

DAVIS & ELKINS — Named Brian Anken men’s lacrosse coach and assistant athletic director for facilities and logistics.

FLAGLER — Named Karen Hudgins senior woman administrator.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE — Named Tony Franklin offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach.

MISSISSIPPI STATE — Named Peter Sirmon defensive co-ordinator.

POST (CONN.) — Named Joseph Taylor sprint football coach.

WISCONSIN — Signed football coach Paul Chryst to a contract extension through Jan. 31, 2021.

Golf PGA CareerBuilder Challenge Scores FridayLa Quinta, Calif.

Purse: $5.8 million t-TPC Stadium Course at PGA West, Yardage: 7,113 j-Jack Nicklaus TC at PGA West, Yardage: 7,159 q-La Quinta CC, Yardage: 7,060 All courses are Par 72 Second Round Jason Dufner 64t-65j—129 Jamie Lovemark 65q-65t—130 Adam Hadwin 66j-66q—132 Jason Gore 68q-64t—132 Andrew Loupe 66t-66j—132 Anirban Lahiri 64q-68t—132 Bill Haas 66q-66t—132 Angel Cabrera 67q-66t—133 Phil Mickelson 68q-65t—133 Michael Thompson 66q-67t—133 Brian Harman 67q-66t—133 Brendan Steele 68q-65t—133 Ryan Palmer 67j-66q—133 John Huh 69q-64t—133 Francesco Molinari 67q-67t—134 Matt Kuchar 67q-67t—134 Jerry Kelly 64q-70t—134 Colt Knost 65t-69j—134 Charles Howell III 68t-67j—135 Ben Crane 66q-69t—135 Webb Simpson 70t-65j—135 Jeff Overton 64t-71j—135 Rod Pampling 69j-66q—135 Chris Stroud 71t-65j—136 Scott Pinckney 69j-67q—136 Ricky Barnes 66q-70t—136 Ben Martin 66t-70j—136 Tim Wilkinson 69t-67j—136 Blayne Barber 66q-70t—136 Graham DeLaet 67t-69j—136 David Lingmerth 68j-68q—136 Aaron Baddeley 67t-69j—136 Freddie Jacobson 69j-67q—136 Luke List 68t-68j—136 Abu Dhabi Championship Leading Scores Friday At Abu Dhabi Golf Club Suspended Second Round

60 golfers did not complete the round Andy Sullivan 67-67—134 Joost Luiten 69-68—137 Rafa Cabrera-Bello 70-67—137 Peter Hanson 69-69—138 Matthew Fitzpatrick 68-71—139 Trevor Fisher, Jr. 69-70—139 Ian Poulter 70-69—139 David Horsey 71-68—139 Matthew Baldwin 69-70—139 Richey Ramsey 73-66—139 Fabrizio Zanotti 70-69—139 Johan Carlsson 69-71—140 Branden Grace 66-74—140 Niclas Fasth 68-72—140 Eduardo De La Riva 72-69—141 Simon Dyson 69-72—141 Ashun Wu 69-72—141 Thongchai Jaidee 71-70—141 Michael Hoey 72-69—141 George Coetzee 69-72—141 Leaderboard SCORE Andy Sullivan -10 Bryson DeChambeau -9 Joost Luiten -7 Rafael Cabrera-Bello -7 Thomas Bjorn -7 Richard Bland -7 Peter Hanson -6 David Howell -6 Matthew Fitzpatrick -5 Trevor Fisher, Jr. -5 Ian Poulter -5 David Horsey -5 Matthew Baldwin -5 Richie Ramsay -5 Rickie Fowler -5 Fabrizio Zanotti -5 Rickie Fowler -5 Rory McIlroy -5 Martin Kaymer -5 Byeong-Hun An -5

THRU F 9 F F 11 11 F 16 F F F F F F 13 F 13 13 12 11

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Brandon 45 28 13 2 2 170 130 Prince Albert 46 26 15 4 1 151 144 Moose Jaw 47 24 17 5 1 160 147 Regina 46 19 20 3 4 146 167 Saskatoon 47 17 26 4 0 138 192 Swift Current 46 15 26 4 1 115 153

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Friday’s results Brandon 3 PrinceAlbert 0 Edmonton 1Everett 0 Spokane 7 Kootenay 6(OT) Moose Jaw 5 Calgary 1 Swift Current 5 RedDeer 4(SO) Prince George 9 Kamloops 4 Seattle 3 Portland 0 Kelowna 4 Tri-City 2 Medicine Hat atVancouver Late Saturday’s games Prince Albert atRegina, 6p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon ,6:05p.m.

Everett at RedDeer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge,7p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat atK elowna, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Spokane ,8:05p.m.

Vancouver atVictoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05p.m.

Pt 60 57 54 45 38 35 Pt 68 63 56 45 40 20

Pt 67 59 58 51 39 Pt 60 55 48 47 42

Prince Albert atCalgary, 7p.m.

Brandon atEdmonton, 7p.m.

Kootenay at RedDeer, 7p.m.

Moose Jaw atMedicineHat,7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Montreal Ottawa Carolina Philadelphia Toronto Buffalo Columbus

Broncos 5, Rebels 4 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Musil 13 (Nikolishin, Polei) 7:08.

2. Swift Current, Adamson 1 (Watson, Lajoie) 10:11.

Penalties — Gawdin SC (fighting) 19:04, Bobyk RD (fighting) 19:04, Pederson SC (Major-Boarding) 19:37, Pederson SC (game misconduct) 19:37, Musil RD (roughing) 19:37.

Second Period 3. Swift Current, Spencer 4 (Feser) 2:48 (shorthanded-SH).

4. Red Deer, Helewka 25 (Nikolishin, Debrusk) 4:29 (pp).

5. Swift Current, Gawdin 9 (Minulin) 9:15 (pp).

6. Red Deer, Bleackley 13 (Spacek, Shmoorkoff) 10:59.

7. Swift Current, Spencer 5 (Watson, Feser) 16:41 (pp).

Penalties — Purtill RD (tripping) 6:34, Nogier RD (delay of game) 8:39, Debrusk RD (cross-checking) 15:24.

Third Period 8. Red Deer, Bobyk 12 (Spacek, Bleackley) 14:15.

Penalties — Doetzel RD (hooking) 5:37.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Bleackley RD (cross-checking) 3:41.

Swift Current : Minulin miss, Gawdin miss, Watson goal, Lajoie miss, Martin goal.

Red Deer : Nikolishin goal, Spacek miss, Helewka miss, Debrusk miss, Fleury miss.

Shots on goal by Swift Current 7 5 8 1 5 — 21 Red Deer 12 17 15 2 5 — 46 Goal — Swift Current: Burman (W, 2-6-0) Red Deer: Martin (LS, 6-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Swift Current: 2-5 Red Deer: 1-2.

Referees — Jason Cramer, Jordan Lightbrown.

Linesmen — Cody Huseby, Michael Roberts.

Attendance — 5,878 at Red Deer.

NHL

Sunday’s games Brandon atRegina, 3 p.m.

Vancouver atVictoria, 3p.m.

Edmonton a Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland ,6 p.m.

Monday’s games Medicine Hat at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Friday, January 29 Prince George atSwiftCurrent,6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6p.m.

Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF Florida 47 27 15 5 125 Tampa Bay 47 26 17 4 127 Detroit 47 24 15 8 115 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF Washington 46 35 8 3 155 NY Rangers 47 26 16 5 136 NY Islanders 46 25 15 6 128 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF Boston 46 24 17 5 139 New Jersey 48 24 19 5 111 Pittsburgh 46 22 17 7 114

GA 105 112 118

Pt 59 56 56

GA 100 123 114

Pt 73 57 56

GA 121 115 116

Pt 53 53 51

47 48 49 45 45 48 48

23 22 21 20 17 19 17

20 20 20 17 20 25 27

4 6 8 8 8 4 4

129 134 113 103 111 108 121

122 152 133 121 125 128 156

50 50 50 48 42 42 38

Western Conference Central Division W L OL GF GA Pt Chicago 32 15 4 145 117 68 Dallas 30 13 5 159 129 65 St. Louis 28 15 8 129 126 64 Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Los Angeles 46 29 14 3 121 104 61 San Jose 45 24 18 3 130 122 51 Vancouver 48 20 17 11 117 132 51 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Minnesota 47 23 16 8 117 109 54 Colorado 49 25 21 3 135 132 53 Nashville 47 21 18 8 121 128 50 Arizona 46 22 19 5 124 138 49 Anaheim 45 20 18 7 91 106 47 Calgary 45 21 21 3 122 137 45 Winnipeg 47 21 23 3 120 135 45 Edmonton 49 19 25 5 121 145 43 Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column. The team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

GP 51 48 51

Friday’s results Washington 0 Anaheim 0 postponed Detroit 3 Buffalo 0 NY Rangers 4 Carolina 1 Florida 4 Chicago 0 NY Islanders 5 Ottawa 2 Colorado 2 St.Louis 1(SO) Saturday’s games Vancouver at Pittsburgh,10:30 a.m.

Minnesota at SanJose, 2 p.m.

Anaheim at Detroit, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Boston,5 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida,5 p.m.

Philadelphia at NYIslanders, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Edmonton,8 p.m.

Sunday’s games Pittsburgh atWashington,10:30 a.m.

NY Rangers a tOttawa, 1 p.m.

Calgary at Carolina, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at SanJose, 8 p.m.

Monday’s games Montreal at Columbus, 5p.m.

Detroit at NYIslanders, 5p.m.

Buffalo at NYRangers, 5p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 5p.m.

Arizona at Minnesota, 6:30p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 30 11 .732 — Toronto 28 15 .651 3 Atlanta 26 18 .591 5 1/2 Chicago 24 18 .571 6 1/2 Indiana 23 19 .548 7 1/2 Detroit 23 20 .535 8 Boston 23 21 .523 8 1/2 Miami 23 21 .523 8 1/2 New York 22 23 .489 10 Washington 20 21 .488 10 Orlando 20 22 .476 10 1/2 Charlotte 20 23 .465 11 Milwaukee 19 26 .422 13 Brooklyn 11 33 .250 20 1/2 Philadelphia 6 38 .136 25 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB

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

39 37 33 28 25 25 23 19 19 19 16 15 13 13 9

4 .907 6 .860 12 .733 15 .651 19 .568 20 .556 22 .511 23 .452 24 .442 26 .422 27 .372 27 .357 31 .295 31 .295 35 .205

— 2 7 11 14 15 17 19 20 21 23 23 26 26 30

Friday’s Games Charlotte 120,Orlando116, OT Utah 108, Brooklyn 86 Boston 110, Chicago 101 L.A. Clippers 116, New York

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1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Houston 102,Milwaukee98 Toronto 101, Miami 81 Oklahoma City 109,Dallas 106 Indiana at GoldenState,Late San Antonio at L.A.Lakers, Late.

Saturday’s Games Utah at Washington, ppd.

Milwaukee at NewOrleans, 5p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia,ppd.

New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6:30p.m.

Atlanta at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 7:30p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 8:30p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Dallas at Houston, 1:30p.m.

Oklahoma City at Brooklyn,1:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia,5p.m.

Tortorella breaks ribs, will not coach Blue Jackets on Saturday

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella broke two ribs falling after a collision with forward Rene Bourque during an outdoor practice Friday and will not coach Saturday night at Boston. Associate coach Craig Hartsburg will lead Columbus against the Bruins. Tortorella’s status for Monday night against the Montreal Canadiens is unknown. The injury occurred about 20 minutes into the Blue Jackets’ first practice at a temporary rink built for public skating in McFerson Commons, across the street from the Blue Jackets’ Nationwide Arena. The team practiced there to promote the opening of Winter Park. Bourque was part of a 3-on-3 drill, and Tortorella was along the left boards near centre ice when Bourque took a tumble and undercut his coach, who was blindsided.

“I was just coming off the boards,” Bourque said. “I hit a rut, there’s big rut in the ice, a hole, and I went down. I fell into him and took his feet out. I didn’t even see him. It happened so fast. I knew I hit something but I didn’t have time to turn around and see him fall. I didn’t know who I hit.”

Tortorella went down hard on his back and was prone for

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several minutes as he was attended to by the team’s medical staff.

“I saw it from the bench,” defenceman Seth Jones said. “It looked pretty nasty.”

The incident brought the practice to halt and a hush fell over the several hundred spectators braving 25-degree weather.

Tortorella skated off with staff by his side and eventually walked the half-block to the arena.

“That’s so unfortunate,” Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. “We were out here to have fun and Borkie falls. I feel so bad for John and Borkie. The funny thing about Torts, he’s tougher than all of us. If you see him down you know he’s hurt.”

About two hours after the fall, Tortorella was taken by ambulance from the arena to Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus where he was examined and released about 90 minutes later. He replaced Todd Richards as coach on Oct. 21 after the Blue Jackets lost their first seven games. Columbus is 17-20-4 under Tortorella and the Blue Jackets’ 38 points are the fewest in the NHL.

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Cornerbacks will be highlight of NFC championship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEMPE, Ariz. — Cornerbacks might have the toughest job in the NFL. They are expected to shadow a receiver, who knows where he’s going while the defender doesn’t, and the rules are stacked against them.

Few truly excel at the job. This season, Arizona’s Patrick Peterson and Carolina’s Josh Norman might have been the best, and they will be plying their trade in the biggest game of their careers in Sunday’s NFC championship game.

Both made the AP’s All-Pro team, and they are “very” similar,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said.

“They’re different styles of defences,” he said, “but they’re long, they’re fast, they’re athletic and they’re tough.”

Norman has the edge in statistics, but Peterson’s are misleading. He’s shut down some of the best receivers in the league in one-on-one coverage, and quarterbacks simply stopped throwing in his direction.

Peterson has allowed two touchdowns this season — one on broken coverage at Chicago and the other, famously, on Aaron Rodgers’ Hail Mary to Jeff Janis at the end of regulation in Saturday’s overtime victory over Green Bay. Peterson and Carolina’s Cam Newton go back to their SEC days, when Peterson played at LSU and Newton at Auburn.

“You ask yourself what can’t he do,” Newton said.

“He’s fast, he’s physical and when the ball is in the air, he’s not thinking to bat it down, he’s thinking that’s his ball, and you just have to have respect for a guy like that.”

Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer was equally complimentary of Norman.

“He’s got that build that I think everybody’s looking for,” Palmer said, “really long, gets a good extension with his arms, plays with his hands really, really well. He’s got top-end speed. He doesn’t go for a de-

flection he goes for the football and gets a deflection out of it, or an interception. He comes up in the run game and makes plays. If anybody reminds you of Richard Sherman, I think it’s him.”

Norman had 55 tackles, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and four interceptions. All four came in the first four games of the season, and he returned two of them for touchdowns.

“Josh Norman is a premier cornerback,” the Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald said. “There’s a reason he’s going to be the highest-paid free agent come this off-season. Whatever team he goes to, I hope it’s in the AFC, so we don’t have to deal with him. … You watch him on tape, there’s nothing that you say, oh he struggles with this or he’s deficient at this.

There’s nothing that shows you that.”

Peterson, who had a 100-yard interception return negated by a penalty last weekend, has made the Pro Bowl each of his five NFL seasons. But he had a subpar 2014, when he was a bit overweight and was diagnosed with diabetes. This year, he’s noticeably slimmer and faster.

“Last year definitely wasn’t my best year, and this year it’s just getting back to Patrick Peterson, for the most part,” he said. “I’ve been All-Pro before.

I’ve been recognized as one of the best cornerbacks before, been to five Pro Bowls, so it’s not a shock or surprise that I’m getting my recognition back.”

Just what their exact roles will be on Sunday is something of a mystery.

Peterson usually goes against the opponent’s best receiver. That would be tight end Greg Olsen, and that seems an unlikely matchup, given Arizona’s 3-4 defensive scheme and the way the Cardinals have defended tight ends all season.

And don’t expect Norman to go against Fitzgerald.

Norman rarely defends a player who lines up in the slot, where Fitzgerald usually is.

“We’re going to do things according to situational football and we’ll see how it plays out,” Carolina coach Ron Rivera said.

But there will be plenty of work for Norman. The

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Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman heads for the end zone after intercepting a pass from Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston during an NFL football game in Tampa.

Arizona offence features a trio of talented receivers and Arians loves to have his team throw long.

“I’m licking my chops,” Norman said. “I have my ears pinned back and ready to run. I’m anticipating it. I know he is a great quarterback and that is why I am so amped about it — I get to play formidable competition and what he brings to the table is great receivers that he has in his arsenal. I can’t be happier for this matchup because I won’t be just standing around anymore.”

Broncos would love to run while Brady stays on sideline

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — After dropping seven of night in November, the Broncos ran for 179 yards, Peyton Manning’s passes against Pittsburgh, the including C.J. Anderson’s 48-yard scamper that won Denver Broncos wide receivers found themselves it 30-24 in overtime. running the “gauntlet” drill this week.

However, 105 of those yards came after Patriots They ran from one sideline to the other catching linebacker Dont’a Hightower left with a knee injury. rapid-fire passes from their left and right, a staple of Hightower is back for the rematch although he’s still the NFL’s scouting combine every February where bothered by the knee injury and linebacker Jamie prospective pass-catchers show off their good hands.

Collins has a bad back. Another linebacker, Jerod That wasn’t the only fundamental skill the Bron- Mayo, went on IR this week with a shoulder injury. cos worked on as they prepared for Sunday’s AFC The Broncos had trouble running the ball early in championship game against New England. the season, but once their O-line “I think it will come down to jelled and the running backs adbig runs on offence,” Demaryjusted to coach Gary Kubiak’s ius Thomas said. zone-blocking scheme, things start“We already were talking ed to come together. about that as a group of receivAnderson and Ronnie Hillman ers that we don’t want to just combined for a season-best 212 go out there and work on our yards against San Diego on Jan. 3 drops we’ve had. We also want — DEMARYIUS THOMAS, DENVER BRONCOS WR and Anderson had 72 yards and a to block in the secondary so TD in 15 carries against the Steelthe running backs can have ers last week. running room.

Both New England and Denver have porous offen“We can do better than what we’ve been doing. So, sive lines but are coming off their best performances we challenge ourselves to go out, make every catch of the season. Plus, they have quarterbacks who get and also block down the field.” rid of the ball lickety-split.

The Broncos know one of the best ways for ManThe Broncos also have had bouts of big dropped ning to win his 17th matchup with Tom Brady is to passes this season. take pressure off their own QB and keep the Patriots’ In Denver’s win over the Patriots on Nov. 29, passer cooling his cleats on the sideline.

Thomas had five drops and his only catch was a leapThe best way to do that is the grind out yards on ing 36-yard grab that ignited the Broncos’ go-ahead the ground. drive in the closing minutes of regulation.

When these teams played on a snowy Sunday Thomas had one of Denver’s seven drops last Sun-

‘I THINK IT WILL COME DOWN TO BIG RUNS ON OFFENCE.’

Jason Dufner shoots 65 to take CareerBuilder Challenge lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA QUINTA, Calif. — Jason Dufner knows his way around PGA West’s TPC Stadium Course and the adjacent Nicklaus Tournament Course. He learned out of necessity at the 2008 PGA Tour qualifying tournament.

“I probably played each four or five times before that Q-school started,” Dufner said. “I played unbelievable. I think I shot 24 or 25 under for the six rounds. And to be honest with you, this is kind of where everything started for me, because then in 2009 I had a really nice season. That’s kind of when I started playing some good golf.”

He thought back to that experience Friday in the CareerBuilder Challenge when he shot a 7-under 65 on the Stadium Course to take a one-stroke lead over Jamie Lovemark.

“I remember a lot of the shots and how the course played,” Dufner said.

The Pete Dye-designed Stadium Course is back in the event rotation after being dumped following its debut in 1987, and the Nicklaus Tournament Course is being used for the first time.

They got in when the Palmer and Nicklaus private layouts dropped out.

The Stadium Course has mellowed over the years and equipment technology has helped tame it — a bit.

“It’s a difficult golf course,” Dufner said. “There’s a little bit of room to play off the tee, but if you get off the path a little bit, you can get into some trouble.

He’s (Dye’s) got some water out there. He’s got some tricky bunkers. You get some uneven lies here and there. … It’s definitely the most difficult of the courses we have played here.”

Dufner parred the final four holes, escaping trouble on the par-5 16th after his drive strayed to the left. The 2013 PGA Championship winner played the front nine in 6-under 30, bogeyed the 10th after hitting into the greenside water, and added birdies on 12 and 14.

He was forced to lay up on all four par-5 holes and took advantage of many short approach shots.

“Any time I’m inside of 130 yards I feel pretty good,” Dufner said. “I had some really good numbers with my wedges, which helps. I wasn’t in between on too many of them.”

Dufner’s drive on 16 perched on a ledge of dormant grass above one of the deep bunkers that line the left side. The ball at knee level, he slashed it 100 yards down the fairway before slipping to his hands and knees on the steep bank.

“I thought I would have a good go at that green in two and maybe get another birdie or possibly even an eagle and walked away with a 5, but no damage done,” Dufner said.

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day, miscues that would have resulted in 82 more yards, not even counting yards after the catch.

Thomas said fans are starting to ask him about the dropped passes.

“I just say, ‘We’ll fix it, we’ll be fine.’ That’s all I say. I don’t really have any conversation with them because I get tired of hearing the questions about the drops,” Thomas said.

The Patriots only had 39 yards rushing in that loss in Denver two months ago.

But Brady, more than any other quarterback, has no problem being a one-man show when it comes to moving the ball downfield.

New England rushed for 38 yards on 14 carries in its 27-20 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round.

That 2.7-yard average was identical to the Patriots’ output in last year’s Super Bowl, factoring in Brady’s three kneel-downs, when they gained just 15 per cent of their yards on the ground.

The Patriots’ ground game was better than only San Diego’s and Detroit’s this season, and Denver’s top-ranked defence was third in the league against the run. That doesn’t mean the Broncos aren’t wary of James White, Steven Jackson or Brandon Bolden.

“You definitely can’t just focus on the pass game the whole time, because if you do and you forget about the run they’ll gash you,” linebacker Brandon Marshall said.

“So, it’s a mixture of both. We all know they’re a predominantly passing team. I think they were 30th in the league in rushing. It is what it is. They’re going to pass the ball, but you’ve got to be ready for the run.”

As do the Patriots.

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Debate over pipelines anything but ‘drama free’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has said she wants the discussion over pipelines to be “drama free,” but this week it was anything but.

A coalition of Montreal-area mayors came out against the $15.7-billion Energy East Pipeline on Thursday, setting off a bout RACHEL NOTLEY of cross-Canada sniping between municipal and provincial politicians over a matter that falls within federal jurisdiction.

Notley said it was “short-sighted” for the Montreal Metropolitan Community to oppose Energy East on the grounds its risks outweigh its economic benefit.

Other Western politicians had harsher words on social media.

“I trust Montreal-area mayors will politely return their share of $10B in equalization supported by West,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall tweeted.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre retorted with the respective populations of metropolitan Montreal versus Saskatchewan: four million compared to 1.13 million.

Meanwhile, Brian Jean, head of Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose Party, blasted Coderre for allowing raw sewage to be dumped into the St. Law-

Pipeline fight a challenge for Trudeau DAVOS, Switzerland — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to leave a meeting of the world’s economic and financial elites, he has a pipeline battle brewing at home.

The Energy East pipeline has pitted oil-rich Alberta against its neighbours to the east. Ontario has placed seven conditions on its support for the project and 82 Montreal-area municipalities have come out against the project. Meanwhile, the premier of New Brunswick sees it as a good source of jobs.

“This is a project that is going to help us stimulate the economy at a time when we need it,” Premier Brian Gallant said during the World Economic Forum in Davos in the Swiss Alps.

“I mean, we’re talking thousands of jobs over a nine-year period during construction. It’s

rence River while opposing Energy East on environmental grounds.

The tone between Notley and her Ontario counterpart was much more congenial at a news conference Friday.

Premier Kathleen Wynne praised the climate change initiatives of Alberta’s NDP government, saying those efforts are making “the national conversation about climate targets and pipelines easier.”

Many of Ontario’s conditions for supporting the pipeline are starting to be addressed, Wynne added.

Energy East, proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP), would take up to 1.1 million barrels a day of Alberta crude as far east as an Irving Oil refinery and export terminal in Saint John, N.B. In Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged everyone to work together.

“I’m very much in the camp of both premiers Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on eco-ssues for all of us. That’s the focus that I’ve always taken — collaborating, respectful, working together to solve the challenges that are facing all Canadians.”

Trevor McLeod, director of the centre for natural resources policy at the Canada West Foundation, said the sub-national pipeline spat is frustrating to watch when there are bigger issues to deal with — like the U.S. going from Canada’s biggest customer to its biggest competitor.

“There’s big stuff going on right now and we’re playing this parochial game in Canada about who gets what,” he said. “Are we a country or not? If you can’t get product through the other provinces to global markets, I don’t think we can sustain this notion that

we’re going to be a trading nation.”

The debate over pipelines has become the “trickiest national unity issue in Canada” over the past five years or so, said Sean Kheraj, a York University historian focused on Canada’s approach to energy and the environment.

Similar East-versus-West quarrels have erupted in the past. But the lines of division have flipped.

Amid the 1970s oil shocks, Ottawa wanted a pipeline to send western crude east to ensure a steady supply of crude and offered subsidies to Interprovincial Pipe Lines, the forerunner of Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB), to get it done. Alberta opposed the move because producers could sell oil for a higher price to the Americans than domestically.

The prime minister at the time — Pierre Trudeau, the father of the current prime minister — took a much

also a way for us to help an industry that is very important for the Canadian economy.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Energy East would eliminate the need for tankers to navigate the St. Lawrence River to bring oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to central Canada.

“Some times, you’ve got to do what’s right for the country,” Nenshi said in Davos.

All of this came as Trudeau rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s most influential people at the economic forum. He posed for a selfie with U2 frontman Bono and actor Kevin Spacey at a Wednesday night bash hosted by billionaire Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba.

At the same party, Trudeau said he rebuked what he called inflamed rhetoric about oil from movie star Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Liberals have promised a more robust environmental review process for energy projects, on the principle that demonstrating a serious commitment to protecting the environment

will reduce opposition — at home and abroad — to oilsands development and pipelines.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr announced early last month that projects such as Energy East, already under review, will “not be asked to go back to square one” while the government develops a new regulatory regime.

Instead, they will be subject to an interim assessment process with higher standards than currently exist.

Earlier this week at a cabinet retreat in New Brunswick, Carr said the government is aware of the urgency felt by energy-producing provinces but won’t be rushed into coming up with the new rules.

Those rules can’t come fast enough — or may not go far enough — for international critics, including DiCaprio.

The actor is a vocal critic of the oilsands and used an address in Davos to call on political and business leaders to help end the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. He said those who deny climate change will find themselves

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The Energy East pipeline proposed route is pictured as TransCanada officials speak during a news conference in Calgary, in 2013.

economically disadvantaged and urged delegates to not allow the “corporate greed” of the coal, oil and gas sectors “to determine the future of humanity.”

“Those entities with a financial interest in preserving this destructive system have denied and even covered up the evidence of our changing climate,” DiCaprio said.

“History will place the blame for this devastation squarely at their feet. Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.”

Trudeau said he told DiCaprio that “there are families suffering and out of work who need to be supported and inflamed rhetoric doesn’t necessarily help either the families or help Canada achieve its significant carbon reduction targets.”

The Opposition Conservatives have called on Trudeau to state where he stands on the Energy East line, which would carry Alberta oil towards the Atlantic coast. Conservative critic Candice Bergen said in a release that Trudeau can’t change his tune on the energy sector depending on what province he is in.

Surge in produce prices push inflation up to 1.6%

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BRIEF Moody’s reviews debt ratings for some companies due to low oil and gas prices

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Fuelled by climbing prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, the pace of Canada’s annual inflation rate accelerated last month to 1.6 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Inflation grew at its fastest pace in December since late 2014. Last month’s number also followed a 1.4 per cent year-over-year increase in November, the agency’s latest consumer price index found.

The figure came out as the economy deals with the effects of the steep slide in commodity and oil prices, which have also helped drag down Canada’s exchange rate. The lower loonie is expected to drive up costs for imported goods.

The report said prices for fresh fruit increased 13.2 per cent last month compared to a year earlier, while fresh vegetables rose 13.3 per cent.

The price of lettuce surged 21.8 per cent.

Overall, consumers spent 3.7 per cent more on food last month than the previous year.

On top of higher produce prices, Canadians were also paying considerably more for home and mortgage insurance, automobiles and electricity compared to a year earlier, the report said.

The agency said lower prices for gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil applied downward pressure on inflation.

Gasoline prices were down 4.8 per cent compared to December 2014, while natural gas decreased 12.9 per cent and fuel oil dropped by 16.8 per cent.

But the slipping price of energy slowed somewhat, which allowed overall inflation to creep up, said Dawn Desjardins, deputy chief economist for RBC. “We all knew that there was going

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A customer buys lettuce at the Jean Talon Market, in Montreal. The leafy green salad staple was a whopping 21.8 per cent more expensive in December than it was a year ago. to be this huge weight on that headline rate because of the energy and now we’re seeing some relief from that,” Desjardins said.

“It’s kind of following the script, if you will, of what forecasters were looking for.”

To help explain the inflation-cooling effect, some analysts also pointed to the sharp monthly decline in the price of clothing and footwear, which fell 5.2 per cent from November to December. But moving forward, National Bank senior economist Matthieu Ar-

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seneau predicts shoppers will continue to face higher prices for imported goods in many categories.

“Despite weak energy prices, we don’t expect Canadian consumers to get some respite because the dive in the currency should be a significant offset,” Arseneau wrote in a note to clients.

By region, Statistics Canada found that consumer prices increased in every province last month compared to the year before, with British Columbia seeing the largest gain.

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more hands-on approach to energy issues, said Kheraj.

“That’s the irony. In the 1970s, Interprovincial got dragged kicking and screaming into building this pipeline to Montreal and today we’ve got TransCanada, Kinder Morgan and Enbridge banging down the door trying to get these pipelines built.”

Mount Royal University political scientist Keith Brownsey said Ottawa has the power to declare Energy East a “national project” and approve it over local objections.

But whether the Liberal government chooses to do so is another matter.

“I think there will be a reluctance on the part of Mr. Trudeau — as there was on the part of Mr. Harper — to make those decisions.”

CALGARY — The debt ratings for more than a dozen Canadian companies have been placed under review and may be downgraded by Moody’s Investor Services as a result of lower oil and gas prices.

Among the biggest names on the list is Calgary-based Precision Drilling (TSX:PD), which owns and operates fleets of rigs used by oil and gas companies in Canada, the United States and other countries.

Other companies on the Moody’s review list include Paramount Resources Ltd. (TSX:POU) and other oil and gas producers as well as companies that provide drilling, transportation and environmental services to the industry.

Moody’s says it’s reviewing the debt ratings for a total of 120 companies around the world because of the outlook for energy prices.

It’s estimating the West Texas Intermediate benchmark crude will be about US$33 a barrel this year, on average, rising to US$38 per barrel next year and US$43 barrel per day in 2018 — higher than recent prices but down from 2014 and 2015.

The New York-based agency said it was lowering its estimates for oil prices because of continuing oversupply, particularly in light of new Iranian exports following the end of bans put in place until it met demands to limit its nuclear program.

“Increased production vastly exceeds growth in oil consumption, even with consumption growth by major consumers such as the U.S., China and India,” Moody’s said Friday.

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B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Strengthening oil prices boosted North American markets Friday as investors mulled the possibility of monetary stimulus in Europe and Asia.

The Toronto Stock Exchangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s S&P/TSX composite index soared 353.72 points to 12,389.58, adding to a big 192-point gain on Thursday.

Energy stocks led the charge, climbing 5.64 per cent as the March contract for benchmark crude rose $2.66 or nine per cent to US$32.19 a barrel.

The commodity-sensitive loonie also benefited from the bounce in oil prices, rising 0.64 of a U.S. cent to 70.67 cents US. The gains on the TSX were fairly widespread, with only two segments posting losses. Base metals stocks declined by 1.19 per cent, while metals and mining stocks slipped 0.36 per cent.

Steve Belisle, senior portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typical for companies beyond the energy sector to benefit from a boost in crude prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As oil has been going down and down, some stocks were being sold for no reason and are now very cheap,â&#x20AC;? Belisle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal that when oil recovers you see the whole market being lifted up like this.â&#x20AC;?

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 210.83 points at 16,093.51, while the S&P 500 advanced 37.91 points to 1,906.90 and the Nasdaq rose 119.12 points to 4,591.18.

The boost on North American markets followed big rallies Friday in Europe and Asia amid expectations central banks are poised to inject more stimulus into flagging economies.

Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nikkei 225 index, which earlier this week moved into bear market territory, rose 5.9 per cent on expectations the Bank of Japan will move to stimulate the economy.

Rallies on European markets also strengthened after the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, said the bank had many options to boost inflation and is determined and willing to act. On Thursday, Draghi suggested the bank will consider more stimulus action at its next meeting in March.

Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CAC 40 added 3.1 per cent, Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s FTSE 100 climbed 2.2 per cent and Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DAX rose two per cent.

Elsewhere in commodities, February natural gas was unchanged at US$2.14 per mmBtu and March copper advanced a penny to US$2.00 a pound, while February gold slumped $1.90 to US$1,096.30 an ounce.

Although he is skeptical that the rally will persist in the immediate term, Belisle said his outlook for the U.S. stock market is positive for the year overall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think in the medium term youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see a re-acceleration in the U.S. economy and that will drive a recovery in the stock market,â&#x20AC;?

Belisle said.

Several pieces of data released Friday pointed to strength in the U.S. economy, including a preliminary reading of the January manufacturing purchasing managersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; index, which came in above expectations. Meanwhile, sales of existing homes south of the border jumped 14.7 per cent in December. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way things were going, the market was almost pricing in a recession in the U.S., and we really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen,â&#x20AC;? Belisle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the economic data confirms that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no recession, I think the market at some point will turn.â&#x20AC;?

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12,389.58, up 353.72 points Dow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 16,093.51, up 210.83

points S&P 500 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1,906.90, up 37.91 points Nasdaq â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4,591.18, up 119.12 points Currencies: Cdn â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 70.67 cents US, up 0.64 of a cent Pound â&#x20AC;&#x201D; C$2.0203, down 1.34 cents Euro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; C$1.5278, down 2.71 cents Euro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; US$1.0797, down 0.92 of a cent Oil futures: US$32.19 per barrel, up $2.66 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,096.30 per oz., down $1.90 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.805 oz., down 16 cents $668.88 kg., down $5.14 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 $1.30 lower $481.70 May â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 $1.00 lower $490.20 July â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 $0.20 lower $495.30 Nov. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 $0.40 lower $494.70 Jan. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 $1.20 lower $496.50 March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 $1.30 lower $496.70 May â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 $1.30 lower $495.40 July â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 $1.30 lower $495.40 Nov. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 $1.30 lower $495.40 Jan. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;18 $1.30 lower $495.40 March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;18 $1.30 lower $495.40.

Barley (Western): March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 unchanged $190.00 May â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 unchanged $194.00 July â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 unchanged $196.00 Oct. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 unchanged $196.00 Dec. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16 unchanged $196.00 March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 unchanged $196.00 May â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 unchanged $196.00 July â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 unchanged $196.00 Oct. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 unchanged $196.00 Dec. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 unchanged $196.00 March â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;18 unchanged $196.00.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimated volume of trade: 337,620 tonnes of canola 500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 337,620.

Promoting climate measures key to natural gas and oil exports: analyst

CALGARY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Strong environmental leadership will help boost Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural gas exports and could pave the way for future oilsands exports, says a high-profile analyst.

Robert Johnston, CEO of political risk assessment firm Eurasia Group, says Prime Minister Trudeau should promote stricter emissions targets in Asia to boost the potential of liquefied natural gas exports to the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see actually a very positive opportunity to align what Alberta wants for its gas sector, what Trudeau wants on climate change and what Asian consumers and governments really want,â&#x20AC;?

Johnston said Friday at a Calgary Chamber event.

Coal is still projected to be the fastest-growing energy source in Asia, but cleaner-burning natural gas could replace some of that if the right regulations are in place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada has a role to play in advocating for natural gas a climate solution,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston.

The switch to natural gas would mean cleaner air for smog-choked Asian cities as well as help with the aim of reducing carbon emissions globally, making it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;quick and easy winâ&#x20AC;? for Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Prime Minister Trudeau and Hillary Clinton and EU leaders really want to do something about this, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to put more gas into the market versus coal.â&#x20AC;?

Getting a liquefied natural gas exporting project completed would also have the symbolic benefit of showing Canada can still build and permit major infrastructure projects, Johnston added.

Promoting stricter environmental controls could also give a boost to exporting Alberta oilsands crude, even opening the potential of having the Keystone XL pipeline approved, Johnson suggested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still think that maybe you can get a Keystone-XL-for-carbon deal with Hillary Clinton,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having a proactive leadership position from the Canadian side on car-

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Gas prices are advertised at 81.4 cents per litre, in Ottawa, on Wednesday.

Falling crude prices not reflected at the pump LOW DOLLAR, REFINERS TAKE CUT

STRICTER EMISSIONS TARGETS COULD BOOST EXPORTS TO ASIA

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I SEE ACTUALLY A VERY POSITIVE OPPORTUNITY TO ALIGN WHAT ALBERTA WANTS FOR ITS GAS SECTOR, WHAT TRUDEAU WANTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT ASIAN CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENTS REALLY WANT.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ROBERT JOHNSTON, CEO OF POLITICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FIRM EURASIA GROUP bon will make it a lot easier to have a dialogue.â&#x20AC;?

And given the sensitive politics of mayors and local communities opposing Canadian pipelines, Keystone might actually be easier to negotiate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that Justin Trudeau might find the politics of Keystone XL easier than the politics of Energy East,â&#x20AC;? he said.

But while better environmental policy could open up export routes, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so optimistic on oilsands development itself.

The International Energy Agency recently slashed its long-term oil demand profile, removing 10 million barrels a day of â&#x20AC;&#x153;high-cost oil that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to need anymore,â&#x20AC;? he said.

And he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect oil to recover towards US$50 until sometime in 2017.

In the meantime, Canada needs to do what it can to make its energy projects more appealing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Governments have to recognize that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a marginal, high-cost supplier and everything we can do to make it a better place to invest, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal, environmental, regulatory efficiencies, First Nations, all those will be important.â&#x20AC;?

Sound environmental policy is important but not necessarily at the expense of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to have a carbon angle, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to have a clean energy angle, but you can also include oil and gas in that deal,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.â&#x20AC;?

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GAS PRICES

CALGARY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Low oil prices are hammering Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource economy but drivers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seeing the silver lining of equally low prices at the pump.

In its latest monetary policy report this week, the Bank of Canada pointed out that oil prices have dropped about 75 per cent from their peak in June 2014 but that gasoline prices have not fallen â&#x20AC;&#x153;as much as the reduction in crude oil prices would suggest, based on historical experience.â&#x20AC;?

Gasoline prices in Canada averaged $1.02 per litre in December when crude averaged US$37.21 a barrel. But in February 2009, when oil sold for US$39.09 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; close to $2 more than last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s price â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the average price for gas was 85 cents a litre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being taken to the cleaners considering how low a barrel of oil costs these days,â&#x20AC;? said Alan Mauch in Vancouver, where gas is still averaging over a dollar a litre even as it hovers below 70 cents in parts of Alberta, as he filled his tank this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the oil companies are taking advantage of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re used to as far as pricing is concerned and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to milk it for as long as they can.â&#x20AC;?

But analysts say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not quite so simple: the disconnect between low crude prices and what people pay at the pump is being caused by the low Canadian dollar, higher margins at refiners and increased taxes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest factor right now is exchange rates it makes a huge difference in the product prices we pay,â&#x20AC;? said Jason Parent, vice president of consulting at the Kent Group which provides data to the petroleum sector.

He said gasoline prices in Canada need to be hiked to be competitive with U.S. markets to compensate for the low loonie, which has been bobbing above and below 70 cents in recent days.

Dan McTeague, a gas analyst at Gasbuddy.com, says drivers would be paying far less per litre if the Canadian dollar was at par. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The weakness in the loonie accounts for over 12 cents a litre in lost purchasing power for motorists,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague.

And while prices havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dropped as much as drivers would like, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still taking advantage of cheaper gas and driving more. That has led to more demand for gasoline and, in turn, allowed refiners to charge more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Refineries have increased their margins,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wholesalers are making a significantly greater amount of money than they were in the past.â&#x20AC;?

Margins and costs vary widely across Canada and are vulnerable to regional bottlenecks. The prairies were hit with a price spike last summer when a major Midwest refinery went offline in the U.S., while Vancouver has recently been hit with higher prices because of refinery issues on the West Coast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Refined products are very separate commodities from crude oil they each have their own kind of supply-and-demand fundamentals,â&#x20AC;? said Parent.

Refinery margins were about 16 cents a litre in Toronto in January 2015, but by the end of the year they were at almost 26 cents a litre. In Vancouver, margins increased from 23 cents to 38 cents over the year, while all regions saw significantly higher peaks in the summer driving season.

The other factor keeping gas prices from following crude is increased taxes, both through green initiatives and straight revenue-boosting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taxes play a much greater role than what we would normally assume,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have increased pretty much right across the country since 2008, and dramatically so.â&#x20AC;?

Vancouver drivers pay about 48 cents a litre in taxes, which is about 10 cents higher than early 2009 thanks in part to the 6.7-cent-per-litre carbon tax. Montreal drivers pay about the same tax and have seen a similar increase.

Toronto drivers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burdened with the city taxes charged in Vancouver and Montreal, but have still seen taxes go up about 8.5 cents a litre since 2009 to average 37 cents a litre, which includes a 10 cent federal tax, a 14.7 cent provincial tax, plus the HST.

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MS Society Whiskey Festival The MS Whisky Festival, presented by the MS Society of Canada â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Central Alberta Chapter was held January 12 at the exclusive Red Deer Golf & Country Club. Marking its second year, the event attacted guests from across Central Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton.

VIP ticketed guests were treated to five exclusively casked whiskies as part of a Master Class presented by Andrew Ferguson of Kensington Wine Market in Calgary.

Notable whisky industry giants, Dan Volway, Dan Tullio, Matt Jones, Alex Bruce, Jonathan Bray and Andy Dunn were also present to share their knowledge and passion with guests.

Over 60 international whiskies, rums, whiskybeer, gin and vodka were available for guests to sample. The evening was rounded out by the musical accompaniment of jazz music performer Claude Godin.

Over $8300 was raised towards much needed services in the community for those affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS), as well as helping fund ground-breaking research dedicated to finding a cure.

Canada is the number one country in the world for people living with MS and Alberta is recognized as having the highest population with MS in the nation.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 2016

PROVINCE TO TAKE ITS TIME DRAFTING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY FARM LEGISLATION

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The government hopes to have Occupational Health and Safety regulations for controversial farm legislation drawn up by the end of the year, said Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier on Friday .

“However, I want to be clear right now, we will be taking the time necessary to make sure we get this right,” said Carlier, at the Alberta Federation of Agriculture’s annual general meeting in Red Deer.

Carlier said if it takes six months more to get the fine details right, the government will take that time.

“We can’t rush it.”

The government plans six technical working groups, four focused on Occupational Health and Safety, and one each on labor relations and employment codes. The groups are comprised of representatives from agriculture and labour groups and others representing those affected by the

AGRICULTURE

“WE NEED SOMETHING THAT’S BUILT IN ALBERTA.” ONEIL CARLIER, ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY MINSTER legislation.

Groups will be led by mediators and more ONEIL CARLIER information is expected to be released by the government as early as next week.

Best practices and what’s worked in other provinces will be reviewed, but the government does not want to simply adopt another province’s legislation. Some have suggested Alberta follow B.C.’s lead, but Carlier said Alberta’s agriculture has its own distinctions.

“We need something that’s built in

Alberta.”

Speaking to reporters after his speech, Carlier said the plan is to send packages out to agencies, boards, commissions, and labour and farm organizations, such as the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, to canvass their members for those interested in being part of the working groups comprised of 10 to 12 representatives each headed by a mediator.

The government expects to sift through legislation elsewhere to see what has been working best and would be a good fit in this province.

The government will also keep what is already working in Alberta “so we

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don’t have to re-invent the wheel.”

Farmers not chosen for the working groups will still have opportunity to raise their issues by contacting the government or one of the groups that represent them, including agriculture service boards.

The Alberta Wheat Commission rolled out an online survey earlier this month for input.

In a bear pit session with Olds College students, the implications of Bill 6, as the farm safety legislation is known, was clearly on their minds.

Carlier assured one student that the legislation would not interfere with 4-H clubs or the ability of farm kids to help out.

Another student raised concerns that too much legislation will hurt young farmers’ productivity and ability to compete.

Carlier said whatever the government comes up with will have to work for the farm community. If there is no buy-in the legislation will fail to achieve its goal of improving safety. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

RED DEER

City installing new warning system CITIZENS WILL HAVE CHOICE OF EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS THROUGH TEXT, EMAIL OR PHONE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Cronquist House volunteer Margaret Day serves up a pot of tea for Eileen Ford and Sylvia Glass at the Cronquist House Friday afternoon. The Cronquist House hosted a Robbie Burns Day Tea featuring tea, Scottish treats and live piping but no Haggis.

New heroin mix has advocates concerned

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

FENTANYL

A drug even stronger than fentanyl may be causing overdoses among heroin users in Red Deer.

For more than a year, communities across Alberta, including Red Deer, have been dealing with a jump in overdoses from fentanyl, which is 100 times stronger than morphine. The potent opiate used to treat severe pain has been showing up unexpectedly in street drugs.

Turning Point executive director Jennifer Vanderschaeghe said last weekend heroin called Death H, likely laced with fentanyl and possibly a compound much stronger, caused 18 non-fatal overdoses.

She said there were probably more overdoses that staff didn’t hear about.

“The thing that hit us was that the people who were telling us these stories were people who were experienced injection drug users and they were rocked by how hard and fast the overdoses were,” Vanderschaeghe said on Friday.

Last year Turning Point, formerly known as Cen-

tral Alberta AIDS Network, started distributing Naloxone kits to reverse opiod overdoses as part of a provincial response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Naloxone is injected intramuscularly and keeps people breathing until paramedics arrive.

Usually one dose is sufficient, maybe two, until help arrives. But Death H is scary stuff, she said.

“There was one gentleman that got two doses of Naloxone and when the ambulance came he needed another two doses.”

As far as Vanderschaeghe was able to find out, Death H was the only heroin available in Red Deer at the time.

Since July, Turning Point has distributed 163 Naloxone kits, containing two doses each, and has heard of 49 lives being saved as a result. At least seven kits used to save people using Death H. This week 19 kits were dispensed.

She said the nurse at Turning Point was away sick on Monday and Tuesday so likely more kits would have been distributed if a nurse had been available. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS

Registration for trades seminar closes Monday A free, one-day seminar for trades people looking to start their own business will be held at Red Deer College on Jan. 30.

Organized by RDC’s School of Trades and Technologies and Donald School of Business, Business Basics for the Tradesperson is open to the public and runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Pre-registration by Monday is encouraged as seating is limited.

The intention of the seminar is to inspire and empower individuals working in a trade who may be contemplating starting their own business but are unsure how to begin.

Topics include legal structure and risk management, tax and accounting, employment, sales and marketing and small business finance.

Speakers include ALTA Law; accounting, tax

and business consulting firm MNP; electrical and instrumentation contractor Studon Electric & Controls; Creative Concrete; and Scotiabank.

A panel discussion will allow people to ask questions. Lunch will be provided.

RSVP by Monday by e-mailing tradesbusinessbasics@rdc.ab.ca.

Visit www.rdc.ab.ca/tradesbusinessbasics for more information.

Head-on collision sends one to hospital

by STARS A head-on collision between a car and semi on Hwy 815 northeast of Lacombe Thursday night sent a female driver to hospital.

Blackfalds RCMP said at about 9 p.m., the female driver of a northbound car struck the southbound semi. She had to be extracted from her car using the jaws of life and was transported to Lacombe where she was air lifted by STARS air ambulance to Edmonton.

Her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.

The male driver of the semi was not injured.

RCMP said road conditions were considered a factor in the crash, but the exact cause was still under investigation by a collision analyst.

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Text, email or phone calls.

Red Deerians will soon be able to choose how they are alerted to emergency situations.

Later this year, the City of Red Deer will roll out a new mass notification system for the community.

Julia Harvie-Shemko, Communications and Strategic Planning director, said the way people receive information and expect information has changed in recent years.

“People want information now and they want it clear with whatever tool they want to receive it with,” she said. “This new process puts the choice in their hands.”

With the new system, anybody in or outside the community can choose how they would like to receive information about imminent threats to life or property and non-emergent situations.

The city currently used a variety of traditional methods including the newspaper, radio, social media and advertising.

Harvie-Shemko said the city used the white papers in the phone book to send messages in emergencies in some circumstances.

“Sometimes it took hours,” she said. “With this new process, it will happen within seconds. It is way more efficient and faster.”

Harvie-Shemko said the city will be able to get its messages out through email, text, cellphone or land line. Registrants will also be able to determine the order of notification.

“If I like to get things by text first, I would put text at the top and I would choose the other ways I would like to receive information,” she said. “So if they did not reach me by the first method it would go on the second one and so on.”

The resident will choose which addresses they want to receive information about such as your work, home, child’s daycare or school, or family member’s home.

It really is about getting out the right message to the right person at the right time, said Harvie-Shemko.

Council approved $70,000 in the 2016 operating budget and inked another $20,000 in 2017 to cover set up, fees and promotions for the new system. Once it is fully implemented, it will cost $50,000 a year.

Over the next few months, the city will determine the types of information that it will relay through the system. It could be snow and ice updates, road closures, boil water advisories or power outages.

All registrants will receive information about community-wide emergencies or in their area of town.

Harvie-Shemko said the city wants to communicate better with the community especially in emergency situations. She said mass notification systems are used quite frequently in the United States. She said an effective example was in the Boston Marathon bombings.

“They got people to shelter in place or out of an area,” she said. “They called in emergency responders using these tools.”

A similar process has been up and running in Saskatoon, Edmonton and Okotoks are in the early stages of implementing a similar system.

“It will work for people who are very plugged in or people who are not plugged in,” she said. “It can work for every method that people use. That’s why this was one of the best options we had because it was so versatile. This is a partnership between the city and the community. We can buy a system and put a lot of great information into it but if we don’t get the community buying into it and registering, it won’t really be a great system we can use to communicate effectively.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pope denounces violence done in God’s name during synagogue visit

LOCAL EVENTS SATURDAY, JAN. 23

Snowflake Luncheon hosted Knox Presbyterian Church Ladies Group will be offered on Jan. 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church. Enjoy a soup and bun luncheon. A selection of sweet trays and frozen meat pies will be available for sale. Tools for Schools Africa will have jewelry and books for sale. Admission is $5 per person.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — Pope Francis denounced all religiously inspired violence during a visit to Rome’s main synagogue Sunday, joining the oldest Jewish community in the diaspora in a sign of interfaith friendship at a time of Islamic extremist attacks around the globe.

During a visit marked by tight security and historic continuity, Francis also rejected all forms of anti-Semitism and called for “maximum vigilance” and early intervention to prevent another Holocaust.

Francis joined a standing ovation when Holocaust survivors, some wearing striped scarves reminiscent of their camp uniforms, were singled out for applause at the start of the ceremony. And he elicited an ovation of his own when he paused in his remarks to acknowledge the survivors in the synagogue’s front row.

The visit comes amid a spate of Islamic extremist attacks in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere — violence which Francis has repeatedly condemned as anathema to religion, particularly given that Christians and religious minorities have often been the target.

“Violence of man against man is in contradiction to every religion that merits the name, in particular the three monotheistic religions,” Francis said, referring to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. “Every human being, as a creature of God, is our brother regardless of his origins or religious belief.”

His sentiments were shared by members of the Jewish community, who sought to hold up the visit as a sign of interfaith friendship in the face of Muslim extremism.

“Today, the sad novelty is that after two centuries of disasters produced by nationalism and ideologies, violence has come back and it is fed and justified by fanatic visions inspired by religion,” Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, told the pope. “A meeting of peace between different religious communities, as the one that is taking place today here in Rome, is a very strong sign against the invasion and abuse of religious violence.”

Francis’ visit is meant to continue the tradition of papal visits that began with St. John Paul II in 1986 and continued with Benedict XVI in 2010. It also highlighted the 50th anniversary of the revolution in Christian-Jewish relations sparked by the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern era.

Among other things, the council document “Nostra Aetate” repudiated the centuries-old charge that Jews as a whole were responsible for the death of Christ.

SUNDAY, JAN. 24

Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation. See www.livingfaithlcrd.org, contact Ralph at 403-347-9852 or John at 403-341-4022.

Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-3476706.

TUESDAY, JAN. 27

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Pope Francis sits flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, right, during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Jan. 17. Pope Francis made his first visit to a synagogue as pope Sunday, greeting Rome’s Jewish community in their house of worship as his two predecessors did in a show interfaith friendship at a time of religiously-inspired violence around the globe.

Living Stones Church seniors monthly luncheon will be offered on Jan. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Jessica Leman will speak on helping hands, and The New Song Band will perform. The cost is $10 per person at the door. Phone 403-347-7311.

SATURDAY, JAN. 30

Impasto Duo Chamber Music Concert with piano and flute will be presented at St. Luke’s Anglican Church on Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Admission by silver collection.

Contact Elizabeth at 4o3-347-2114.

Francis said the decla- like for the pope and the fence of human dignity and ration amounted to a “‘yes’ Vatican as a whole to ac- peace.” to the rediscovery of the of knowledge the special link The comments were nothe Jewish roots of Chris- Jews have with the land of table because Benedict’s UPCOMING EVENTS tianity and a ‘no’ to every Israel.

2010 visit was marked by his form of anti-Semitism and Francis recalled that defence of Pope Pius XII, Knights of Columbus 4503 Annual a condemnation of every during the Holocaust, 6 the World War II-era pope Steak Fry goes Feb. 7 at St. Augustine insult, discrimination and million Jews were “victims accused by many Jews of Parish Hall in Ponoka. Wine and refreshpersecution that is derived of the most inhuman bar- having failed to do enough ments at 5:30 p.m. followed by buffet supfrom it.” barism, perpetrated in the to protect Jews from the per at 6 p.m., entertainment, guest speakFrancis said several name of an ideology that Holocaust. The Vatican has times that Jews were the wanted to replace God with long maintained that Pi- er, 50/50 draw, meat draws, and door priz“elder brothers” of Chris- man.” us used behind-the-scenes es. Menu features barbecue steak, baked tians, repeating the words “The Shoah teaches us diplomacy in a bid to save potato, garlic bread, desserts and more.

Proceeds to St. Augustine Building Fund. first uttered by John Paul that we must have maxi- Jewish lives. during his historic visit mum vigilance, to be able Francis made no men- Tickets cost $25 per person. Contact Berto the synagogue 30 years to intervene quickly in de- tion of Pius. nie at 403-783-2386 for tickets. ago. But he added that Christians also had “elder sisters” in the Jewish faith.

Francis began his visit by laying a wreath at a plaque outside the synagogue marking where Roman Jews were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and at another marking the slaying of a 2-year-old boy in an attack by Palestinians on the synagogue in 1982.

He met with members of the boy’s family and survivors of the attack before entering the synagogue to rounds of warm applause, which continued during his speech, interrupting him sever

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has offered a place to stay to a homeless woman who gave birth on a piece of cardboard near St. Peter’s Square early Wednesday.

She’s thinking about it.

Italian police said a patrol stopped to help the woman after she gave birth in a square just beyond Vatican territory at about 2 a.m. Wednesday, when temperatures were hovering around freezing.

“When I got close I saw that the baby was already born and was still attached by the umbilical cord to the mother,” one of the responding officers, Maria Capone, told The Associated Press. “With my colleagues we tried to warm them up. We covered them with our uniform jackets.”

They called an ambulance which took mother and child to a nearby hospital.

Later in the day, Pope Francis’ top charity official, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, visited and offered the woman a place to stay for a year at a Vatican-owned residence for mothers and babies in need.

The woman hadn’t decided whether to accept the offer, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

The baby’s mother and father, both Romanian, were known to the Vatican as they sometimes showered at facilities Krajewski’s office had built off St. Peter’s Square for the homeless.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 2016

A toe-tapping good time

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF If you already love the sound of wailing bagpipes, wait until piper Bill O’Neil of St. James’ Gate goes medieval on them.

“It’ll be very primal sounding, very percussion driven and obnoxious,” promises O’Neil. He performs with his Celtic-rock dance band on Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Arts & Craft (Beer) second-annual fundraiser for the Red Deer Arts Council.

Those kicking up their heels at the Festival Hall benefit just might be doing it to O’Neil’s latest composition — the medieval bagpipe tune, Bannockburn.

The instrumental that’s destined for the group’s new album suggests the savagery of a Scottish battle from 1314 while also providing the soundtrack for an upbeat dance experience.

Like all Celtic music — the tune merges heart-break and a rollicking good-time melody, said a chuckling O’Neill. “We’ll be keeping everyone happy and getting people’s feet moving” at the Arts & Craft (Beer) event.

O’Neil believes St. James’ Gate musicians were a natural choice as entertainers, since “we’re very good at promoting beer and at beer drinking.”

Product from 10 craft breweries can be sampled at the fundraiser — everything from sweet cream stouts to ginger beers and raspberry ales. Tasters get score cards to note their favourites.

Diana Anderson, executive-director of the Red Deer Arts Council, said appetizers from favourite restaurants can also be tasted. There will be a 5050 draw as well as raffle prizes such as original art, including beer steins, some jewelry, dinner theatre tickets, gift cards and merchandise from local businesses.

The beer tasting goes from 7 to 9

p.m. , followed by entertainment from St. James Gate.

The Celtic rock band that started in 2001 has become a local favourite, even though several of the musicians now live out of the area.

Accordion and bagpipe player O’Neil moved to Calgary a decade ago.

Electric guitarist Justin Stewart now lives in Edmonton, as does new drummer Brian Buckle (who like Stewart is originally from Nova Scotia). Bassist Dave Best lives in Lacombe, singer and guitarist Dwayne Marsden is in Penhold and singer and mandolin player Glenn MacLeod resides in Red Deer.

“We call Hwy 2 home,” said O’Neil, who admitted the musicians have to supplement rehearsals for their twicea-month gigs with some Skyping sessions these days.

St. James’ Gate last put out the album Licence to Kilt in 2012. O’Neil hopes to have the yet-untitled new album out by the end of the year.

About half the songs will be originals and the rest will be traditionals, including a couple of Newfoundland standards. The band is also doing a cover of The Trew’s tune I Can’t Stop Laughing — yet another Celtic-flavoured song that mixes a riotous melody with a maudlin message.

“It’s got absolutely miserable lyrics about a guy whose girlfriend leaves him and who plans to drink himself to death,” said O’Neil.

But, boy, can you ever dance to it.

Tickets are $50 ($350 for a table of eight) from the Red Deer Arts Council.

Proceeds will go towards the Red Deer Arts Council’s emerging artist award and general operations. For more information, please call 403-505-6094 and 403-872-4155. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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St. James Gate perform on Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Arts & Craft (Beer) secondannual fundraiser for the Red Deer Arts Council.

Roger Roger channel real togetherness

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF There was a time when the Roger twins of Winnipeg led entirely separate lives.

Madeleine Roger was studying theatre and going on regular canoeing trips, while her brother, Lucas Roger, was learning guitar-making and restoring a hot rod.

Then, about two years ago, their lives converged in music.

The offspring of Winnipeg music producer Lloyd Peterson (Royal Canoe, The Wailin’ Jennys) became the folk duo Roger Roger — and started learning about what real togetherness means.

The 24-year-olds, who just released their debut album, Fairweather, now sing together, live together and even share the same car and bank account.

But “we’re still friends and we get along,” said Madeleine, since no one takes offence when some alone time is demanded.

“I told (Lucas) the other day, ‘We just need to not see each other for a couple days,’ and he said, ‘Cool. I’m kind of sick of you too,’” she recalled with a laugh.

The two will soon venture out on their first Western Canadian tour that will bring them to Fratters Speakeasy on Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Madeleine and Lucas are excited to bring new songs from Fairweather to Saskatchewan and Alberta. They’ve already toured in Ontario with music that’s getting some airplay on the CBC. So far, the album’s getting good word-of-mouth from critics and fans, said Madeleine, who with her broth-

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Roger Roger come to Fratters Speakeasy on Wednesday, Feb. 3. er, learned the recording process by watching their father produce music for other musicians while growing up.

Madeleine particularly remembers sessions with alt-country group O My Darling and singer J.P Hoe. “Both first albums were recorded in

my house… I was fascinated and had to watch, even though I had exams to study for…”

When the duo began recording their own tunes, the singers took a quietly complementary approach to harmonizing on each other’s material. “It’s

about knowing when to take a backseat and not get in the way of the story,” said Madeleine, whose songs often combine reality and imagination.

For instance, the title character in The Mad Trapper really existed, working a trap line around Florence Lake, where Madeline and Lucas spent many summers. “I think he died before I was born,” she recalled. But kids staying at the lakeside cabins would scare each other with stories about his purported ghost.

Tales of the trapper were fuelled by a mystery: He’d been spotted with one of his hands missing while still alive.

“Of course, it turned into 18 versions of what happened,” said Madeleine, who came up with a rather macabre explanation in the song.

Her tune Another Girl’s Shoes and Lucas’s introspective Fairweather are both rooted in personal experience.

But the song that’s getting some radio play, 13 Crows, draws lyrics about an old radio from another Florence Lake story.

Madeleine recalled writing music for a month at the family’s unserviced cabin last winter. While she had to stoke a fire in the wood stove to keep warm and melt ice for her drinking water, there was still enough time to get bored and lonely.

“I found this little plastic, wind-up radio in a drawer and I was so excited! … I was really hoping that I could tune it to an AM radio station, just so I could hear another human voice, but it didn’t work! It was horrible, horrible!”

There’s no cover for the duo’s 8:30 p.m. show. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate

Scully, Mulder, paranoia return in The X-Files reboot

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The X-Files creator Chris Carter is pleased to update the original template with his 21st-century unease. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are glad to be playing opposite each other again as Scully and Mulder.

And admirers likely will do a happy dance to the Fox TV drama’s eerie theme music as it returns with a six-episode limited run.

The two-part opener airs on Sunday, immediately after the NFL’s NFC championship game, and at 6 p.m.

Monday. Subsequent episodes also air at 6 p.m. Monday Will the reboot retain the dark magic of the original TV series, which in its 1993-2002 lifespan offered a wildly entertaining blend of government conspiracies, otherworldly suspense and black comedy that was placed in the hands of two unknown but charismatic actors?

Creator and executive producer Carter offers assurances, but with the caveat that he insisted on more than an exercise in nostalgia for the franchise that included two big-screen movies.

“Someone said to me, ‘Great, a victory lap,”’ when the new project was

announced, he said.

“That’s the opposite of why we came back. We didn’t want to do something that reworked old material or was just a sequel to what we’d done before. I wanted to make something fresh and original.”

Current events and figures proved helpful, Carter said, citing National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and eroding personal privacy as examples.

“These are interesting and heady times, and perfect for telling X-Files tales,” he said, promising a series more directly topical than the original.

“We deal with fear in a lot of different ways. … The fact that we’re being spied on and don’t seem to be raising any protest is a frightening prospect for me.”

One tricky aspect is balancing the interests of X-Files devotees and potential newcomers.

“We have to be respectful of people who are familiar with the show so we don’t beat them over the head with things they know,” Carter said. “I think our approach is artful in what it gives fans and what it will provide non-fans.”

He’s joined in the cause by members of the creative team that helped make the first series a sensation, with

Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan and James Wong splitting writing and directing duties with Carter on the new episodes.

Also back are Mitch Pileggi, who played FBI assistant director Walter Skinner in the original series, along with William B. Davis as the shadowy Smoking Man and — despite their deaths — the beloved conspiracy-theory geeks known collectively as the Lone Gunmen.

“No one is every truly dead on The X-Files,” Carter said, drolly.

Newcomer Joel McHale is onboard as Tad O’Malley, a news anchor.

In the first go-round, FBI agent Fox Mulder was driven to prove the government was hiding evidence of aliens on Earth. Fellow agent Dana Scully was his initially skeptical colleague.

In the reboot, new evidence reunites them in the quest to uncover the truth. It’s personal as well, Anderson said.

“There’s something that’s missing in Scully’s life, and that thing is clearly Mulder. Both of them feel disconnected from the world and themselves because they’re missing a limb,” she said.

She and Duchovny have moved on to a variety of on-screen and other projects, including writing (both have published novels), and, in Duchovny’s case, music.

But they said returning to the X-Files fold, with Carter again in charge, felt right.

“Chris is a serious person and an artist. And if he says he’s got a way to make it work, I trust that,” Duchovny said.

Said Anderson: “There were aspects of it that felt ridiculously familiar and kind of felt we never left. Some elements were much more challenging — running in heels,” she added, laughing.

Last summer’s taping in Vancouver, Canada, was arranged around her London-based family life.

But she brought part of it with her: daughter Piper, who is studying production design, was on the set to gain work experience and ended up contributing to the series, Anderson said.

Whatever work-related tension that existed between the stars, the by-product of churning out some two-dozen episodes a season and becoming instant stars, is long gone, Duchovny said.

“Put any human being in that situation, working the amount that we worked and going through the ride from obscurity to global (fame), it’s just crazy-making,” he said. “It’s a natural human emotion to have enough of one another in that situation. Now it’s quite the opposite, it’s respect and love and gratitude.”

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Canadian director Jeremy LaLonde poses in this photo. Toronto-based directors Matt Johnson and Jeremy LaLonde are lucky enough to have one of the world’s largest movie festivals in their own backyard. But the two up-and-comers say the more indie-focused Sundance and Slamdance film festivals remain the best platforms for emerging artists ed with his movie My Enemies, about a young novelist reeling from losing both his girlfriend and a publishing deal. LaLonde’s film makes its U.S. debut after screening at a handful of Canadian festivals, but the writer/director notes it was not accepted at the glitzy Toronto fest. Looking back now, LaLonde says that was for the best.

“In a lot of ways, I think you get a lot more recognition playing at a big U.S. festival as a Canadian than you do at TIFF, unfortunately, because you heard them before at the Red Deer College Arts Centre’s Studio A. There’s no admission charge for this show, but donations will be accepted at the door.

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He’s been called a “national treasure” in his native Australia.

Roots artist Jeff Lang brings his songs from dusty roads Down Under to a Feb. 1st show at Bo’s Bar and Grill in Red Deer.

The music veteran has 15 studio albums, three Australian Aria Awards, has experience performing all over the world, including the Glastonbury festival in England, Fuji Rock and the Ottawa Bluesfest.

His latest Canada-only release on iTunes is a sixsong digital EP, Running by the Rock. It’s made up of five original tunes as well as Lang’s version of the traditional Scottish tune, The House Carpenter.

Tickets for his Red Deer concert, with guests, are $8 from the venue or Ticketfly.com. For more information, please call 403-309-2200.

Marimba/piano duet ready to play RDC Arts Centre A rare musical treat will be served up on the first Thursday of February in Red Deer.

A marimba/piano duet will be performed at noon, Feb. 4, by Anne-Julie Caron and Akiko Tominaga.

Works by Claude Debussy, Keiko Abe and Camille Saint-Saens will be played as you’ve probably never

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Pooh and Piglet (chased by an angry cloud of honey bees) will be rushing soon to a theatre near you.

Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School students will perform a musical based on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh stories from Feb. 5 to 13 in the school’s drama studio in Red Deer.

The show by Kristin Sergel and Allan Jay Friedman merges Milne’s poetry about the famous bear of “Very Little Brain” with some tuneful melodies.

Winnie-the-Pooh will sing Isn’t it funny how a bear likes honey, while trying to steal some of that sweet, sticky stuff from a beehive. When the “terrible trouble” begins, Kanga comes to the rescue with bath soaps and spoonfuls of Strengthening Medicine.

This entertaining family musical is for the young and young-at-heart.

Tickets are $12 from the school (rush seating).

The show runs at 7 p.m. on Feb. 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 and is also on at 1:30 p.m.

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Toronto-based directors Matt Johnson and Jeremy LaLonde are lucky enough to have one of the world’s largest movie festivals in their own backyard.

But the two up-and-comers say the more indie-focused Sundance and Slamdance film festivals remain the best platforms for emerging artists.

The upstarts are among a group of Canadian filmmakers heading to the mountains of Utah this weekend to promote their latest features.

“Sundance is just the place to be if you’re an independent filmmaker making movies for under $10 million. You couldn’t pick a better place,” says the 31-year-old Johnson, who was notably absent at the most recent Toronto International Film Festival.

“For me, growing up, Sundance was it. That’s where I wanted to be.”

And it’s proven to be a powerful launching pad.

Johnson debuted his low-budget high school flick The Dirties at the concurrent Slamdance Film Festival in 2013, going on to win the best narrative film prize.

He heads to Sundance this year with the much more ambitious conspiracy tale “Operation Avalanche,” a ’60s-set thriller that suggests the moon landing was faked by the CIA. The fact that the tale skewers U.S. lore made all the more reason to screen the film south of the border first, says Johnson, calling it “their story.”

“It’s a movie about the great American legacy of the space program,” he says.

“We shot a lot of the movie right near there in Arizona and in Texas so I think that showing it to Americans first is probably the right thing to do.”

The 35-year-old LaLonde heads to the Slamdance festival with his sex comedy How to Plan An Orgy In A Small Town, about a famous sex columnist who attempts to host an orgy with old high school acquaintances in her conservative hometown.

It’ll be part of a carefully curated section called Beyond, a sampling of just five emerging artists considered to be on the cusp of breakthrough. Canadian filmmaker Stephane Gehami is also being highlight-

kind of blend in with everything else,” says LaLonde, referring to the hundreds of Hollywood, international and homegrown films competing for attention at the Toronto fest.

“This is going to mean more for the film than if we had premiered at TIFF itself.”

Also heading to Slamdance is the Canadian film Myrtle Beach, from directors Neil Rough and Michael Fuller, in the documentary features competition.

And writer/director Dusty Mancinelli brings his short Winter Hymns to the narrative shorts section.

Johnson returns to Utah with a considerably more ambitious project this time around, complete with “big car chases and action sequences,” not to mention some grand lunar set pieces that drove the budget up.

“There was a lot of travel, a lot of really, really big set builds that we had to do. All the stuff that NASA sent to the moon we had to build, so we had to build a lunar escape module, we had to build all of the spacesuits,” he says.

The film is just one of several Canuck offerings at Sundance. In the Sundance Kids section, the animated Snowtime! centres on a group of Quebec youngsters embroiled in a massive snowball fight.

It’s directed by Francois Brisson and Jean-Francois Pouliot. And the world documentary section includes The Settlers, a France-Canada-Israel-Germany co-production that looks at Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Canada is especially well-represented with eight shorts in a competitive field of 72, selected from a record 8,000 submissions. They include Bacon & God’s Wrath, directed by Sol Friedman The Chickening, directed by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force and It’s Not You, directed by Don McKellar.

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ships can be taken “custody” of, and that she is a victim of rude behavior when others have a laugh and a nice conversation. Part of your answer — to briefly introduce couples, then say, “Sorry we can’t stay and chat” — is just enabling her jealousy and anti-social attitude. Attempting to control people is not an act of friendship — A True Friend Dear Friend: You are very generous.

Her problem was not that her friends enjoyed the company of her other friends, but rather that their conversation excluded her.

This is rude. Here’s one more with a different viewpoint: Dear Annie: Tell “Annoyed” to completely avoid any couples who do this.

It reminds me of my sister-in-law and her husband.

Every time my husband and I were becoming tentative friends with a new couple, these in-laws would “take over,” and these new people suddenly

became “their” friends while my husband and I were left out in the cold.

But, oh, the daggers I would get any time I ran into my sister-in-law and attempted to initiate a sociable chat with one of her friends.

Frankly, I enjoyed seeing her squirm, thinking I was somehow going to steal her friend. It validated my suspicions that she was insecure.

I refused to fight her over this and learned to move in my own circles rather than in hers.

I’m much happier now. — Just No Time for Shenanigans 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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Dear Annie: I’ve been with a won- simply not aware of why things are this derful gentleman for several years. way. — Not Worth It Our biggest issue is that he has no idea Dear Not: If you are satisfied with how to make love. your nonexistent sex life and At the beginning of our he isn’t trying to make it betrelationship, I would try ter, so be it. to guide him on what felt We hope he has other qualgood to me. He was a little ities that make up for his unclumsy about it and gradwillingness and inability to ually lapsed into thinking learn how to please his parta few kisses constituted ner. Sometimes, sex therapy sufficient foreplay. can help when talking beMeanwhile, I was doing comes a source of friction. everything for him. After Dear Annie: I have a differa while, I became resentent perspective on the letter ful of this one-sided sex, from “Annoyed,” the woman since he never touched who was upset because couMITCHELL my body. So now there is ples whom she introduced to & SUGAR no sex at all. her friends became friendly ANNIE Discussing it is not an themselves. option. He gets defensive.

I believe that encouragTherapy is also not an oping new friendships is a good tion. practice, not something to be avoided.

The truth is, I’m pretty satisfied the “Annoyed” seems to be suffering from way we are. So too bad for him as he is a case of envy, thinking that friend-

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New job in new city could cost boyfriend Dear Harlan; I’m afraid of taking a what will happen next. Talking before job in a different city. I don’t want to sex also gives you time to see if someone actually wants you or just wants to lose my boyfriend.

I’m a senior in college and he’s a ju- have sex with you.

Time gives you lots of answers. nior. I have trust issues and don’t want Time will expose the truth. to live four hours away Since the deed has already from him. been done, the most powerful The job I’ve been ofthing you can do now is focus fered is what I have alon what you want. ways wanted. I’m not You need to set boundarso sure I still want it if ies. Tell him what you thought it means losing my boyyou were getting. Ask him if friend. Is there a way to he wants it. If he can’t give make this work? — Job you what you want, move on.

Hunting You can’t get someone to talk Dear Job Hunting; If to you or respond to you if taking a dream job in a that person isn’t interested in different city is going to talking or responding. ruin your relationship, it HARLAN Dear Harlan; I’m considerwas never much of a relaCOHEN ing going to an urban univertionship. sity with over 20,000 students.

Listen, you can stay in HELP ME HARLAN It has a reputation of bethe same city and still end ing a commuter school, but up breaking up. Living near each other is no guarantee that I would be living on campus. I heard you’ll stay together. If anything, pursu- that many students go home on the ing your dream will give you an oppor- weekend.

Is there still a social atmosphere tunity to see if you can make this work.

You guys should be able to live your on campus? Will there be parties and dreams and stay together. And really, get-togethers, or different activities goif you’re going to stay together, you’re ing on at the campus during the weekgoing to have to be able to manage end? — Living on Campus Dear Living on Campus; If 15,000 stuchange.

Your boyfriend’s life will be filled dents go home on the weekend, you’ll with changes. Being apart just means still have 5,000 students on campus. Is you’re going to need to communicate that enough?

Hang out with people who go home, better, trust more and be independently happy. The problem isn’t the job. It’s and you’ll be on campus alone. Hang that you’re too afraid of losing him and out with people who stick around, and you’ll have a social life. Create a life being on your own.

Dear Harlan; I had sex with some- within the residential community (take one two nights ago. He said he really on a leadership role), join organizaliked me. We then went over what we tions that include weekend activities, get a job near campus, participate in wanted from each other.

The problem is, he hasn’t talked to sports, and look into fraternities and me since. Awkward. What should I do? sororities. And talk to seniors who live on or near campus.

— Silent Treatment Sometimes being a residential stuDear Silent Treatment; You need to dent on a commuter campus gives you do the talking before having sex.

After sex happens, it’s hard to know an edge. You know who is around,

what is happening and where you can find what you want on and off campus.

Dear Harlan; I’m single and in my early 20s. I have a great job, friends and hobbies. I enjoy yoga, cooking and traveling.

My problem is being assertive. I struggle with approaching men who interest me. I’m told I’m attractive, but I end up being quiet or a third wheel.

How do I get someone to notice me without appearing desperate? — Not Desperate Dear Not Desperate; Santa needed to give you self-confidence.

You need more. Yes, being told you’re attractive is much better than being told you’re ugly, but it tells me that you don’t know you’re attractive.

You need to know you’re attractive.

You need to know that you live in a world of options. This is how you will have the power to say what you think and express how you feel.

Right now, everyone but YOU has all the power.

Want to change this? Work to feel attractive without anyone having to tell you.

Make this the year of looking your best and feeling your best.

When you know you’re attractive, your world isn’t driven by fear. When you know you have options, you can express how you feel without worrying about appearing desperate.

When you can handle rejection, you can give people permission to want you or not want you. Work on knowing that you’re attractive and good enough without anyone having to tell you.

Then it will be much easier to get someone to notice you without looking desperate.

Dear Harlan; I’ve been accepted to my first-choice college, but it’s very expensive.

I most likely will qualify for full financial aid, and am working on achieving grants and scholarships. I am grad-

uating high school with 25 transferable college credits, and have worked very hard for this.

I do not come from a wealthy family, and I’m paying for my own college.

This university absolutely is where I want to go, but I am terrified of the financial facts of this process.

Do I go to my first choice or choose a less-expensive school? Should I be afraid of student loans? — Living the Dream Dear Living the Dream; Forget fear.

Focus on the math.

Once you get your financial-aid package (your financial-aid package will tell you how much the school will offer in the form of loans, grants, scholarships and work-study programs), you’ll need to do the math.

I like to work backward. Start with what happens beyond college. For example, if you need to take $5,000 per semester to graduate in four years, you will graduate with $40,000 in student loans. This gives you a number to help you calculate the expected monthly payment after you graduate.

For example, I entered $40,000 using The Federal Stafford Loan fixed interest rate of 6.8 percent (via www. finaid.org). If you repay the loan over 10 years, your payment will be roughly $460 a month. If you pay back your loan over 25 years, it will cost you $277 a month.

Once you know that monthly cost, estimate the starting salary you’ll need to manage your payments. Make sure your loan payment is no more than 10 percent of your gross pay.

Once you have an idea of your loan payments and average salary, you can determine if the investment is worth it.

Work with numbers, not emotions.

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Drew Barrymore sets new sights for beauty brand NEW YORK — Hollywood actress, director and author Drew Barrymore may soon add a new title to her resume: international retailer.

Barrymore launched her Flower brand of affordable cosmetics exclusively at Wal-Mart in 2013. Now she says she’s in talks with retailers overseas to sell the cosmetics in such places as China, South America, Australia and the United Kingdom. She’ll also be launching her own e-commerce business later this year.

Last year, she started selling an eyewear collection, also exclusively with Wal-Mart. And Barrymore told The Associated Press earlier this week she wants to expand into clothing, though it’s unlikely it will be with Wal-Mart, even though she said she will always give the Bentonville, Arkansas-based discounter “first right of refusal.”

Barrymore didn’t want to use her name for the brand, saying she’s aware

of the perils of slapping a celebrity name on a product.

“The name of the game is about how you financially succeed fast enough so somebody doesn’t dump you, and grow slowly and thoughtfully so that you are just not a flash in the pan,” said Barrymore in a one-hour address at the annual industry forum.

Her father-in-law Arie Kopelman, the former president of Chanel, led the discussion in a room full of several hundred fashion industry executives.

Barrymore, the mother of two toddlers, has found a successful niche in the beauty business. Unlike other cosmetic brands that spend a big portion of their money on advertising, the Flower brand spends most of its money on formulations and packaging.

That results in premium makeup quality, she said. Flower Beauty, launched in 1,600 stores, is now in 2,500 stores, according to Wal-Mart spokeswoman Molly Blakeman. Neither Barrymore nor Wal-Mart offered sales volume.

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Wal-Mart says that the Flower eyewear is in all its stores that have vision centres, which number close to 3,000.

Barrymore said it is the No. 1 brand of eyewear at the discounter, although Wal-Mart could not confirm that publicly. It ranges in price from $39 to $88.

Wal-Mart, she said, has been a “great” partner. But, she added, “at the end of the day, it is business. It is not friendship. They will drop us like a hot potato if we are not doing well.”

As for her clothing venture, Barrymore, known for her Bohemian chic style, noted she won’t be offering expensive clothes. “It’s not the way I shop,” she said.

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Our kitchens have run the full palette of colours over the years; black accents are the new ‘neutral’ between them

BY KIM COOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The kitchen’s often a room to experiment — with decor, as well as food and drink. Over the years we’ve seen yellow, turquoise, avocado green, greige and white take their turn as favoured hues.

But right now, black is back.

“It makes perfect sense, style-wise,” says New York City designer Elaine Griffin. “We began seeing the rise of black appliances as sleek and stylish non-white alternatives to pricier stainless options at the new millennium, and black as the ‘new neutral’ wall colour has been gaining popularity over the past decade.”

You can go ultramodern or traditional when bringing black into the kitchen.

High-end, Euro-style lacquered cabinetry from companies like Boffi, Poliform and Bulthap is sleek and sexy.

Marble countertops and geometric fixtures can create a glamorous, jewelbox kitchen, great for entertaining.

Put the hue on Shaker-style cabinets, add rustic French tile, smooth quartz counters and hand-rubbed brass fittings, and you’ve got a sophisticated space. Or add a walnut or maple slab island and saddle leather stools for an industrial look.

A few things to remember if you’re going to get a black kitchen right: Contrast is key.

Going overboard with black will get you a kitchen that resembles a bad mall hair salon, says Griffin. Use black on the cabinets and a paler hue on counters and floors, or vice versa.

Maria Killam, a colour expert and designer in Vancouver, British Columbia, agrees.

“Make sure your floors and countertops are very light to balance and contrast the super-dark cabinets. Working with black is a balancing act and requires some skill,” she advises.

“Simple white tile with black grout is a great way to get some light in the space and give a nod to classic kitchens.”

Killam suggests including wood elements like a butcher-block island countertop. “Wood lower cabinets would work with black countertops and upper shelving, for example. I

would keep the wood finishes as natural as possible … and relatively pale so the overall effect isn’t too heavy,” she says.

Ikea offers the Sektion kitchen cabinets in black, and there is a range of co-ordinating black kitchen fittings h i l di drawer d ll storthere too, including pulls, age items and trash cans. (www.ikea. com ) You can repaint existing cabinetry if you’re budget-conscious. Consider Benjamin Moore’s Midsummer Night, Sherwin-Williams’ Black Fox, Valspar’s Raven Black or Behr’s Black Suede. Many shades of black pick up other hues in an interesting way — midnight blues, chocolates and sooty greys, for example. Choose the right finish: Save the glossy paint for trim or you’ll be swabbing fingerprints forever.

“Like a little black dress, accessories make a statement in a black kitchen, so choose your hardware and fixtures with care,” advises Griffin.

“Polished or antiqued brass and black is a white-hot finish option right now, for both contemporary and traditional looks.”

Add a cool stool Houzz has a big selection. Recent offerings include stools with chic, slim hairpin legs, as well as comfy-looking upholstered ones, and

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T Top photo: You don’t have to go all-in. For those interested in a black kitchen but unwilling or unable to in dasrken the entire room, consider a faucet, towel rail or d kitchen cart. These options from Ikea are affordable. k Above: A midcentury style barstool upholstered in A ccharcoal fabric introduces a touch of black to the kitchen.

Accessories and appliances can bring in the dramatic hue A without major changes to cabinetry, walls or flooring. w LLeft: A transitional kitchen island or cart in black would be a smart way to introduce the colour without committing tto more permanent elements like cabinetry. This one from Houzz combines on-trend distressed wood with black.

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several stools in snazzy hues like red, orange and blue. (www.houzz.com ) Embossed or painted concrete, sculpted limestone, pressed tin, or wallpaper would be striking complements to black cabinetry and fittings.

Add an Art Deco touch to a black kitchen with Giorbello’s Water Jet glass tiles. Daltile’s Bamboo Forest faux wood tile would be a durable, style-savvy backsplash or floor. Italian ceramic tile maker Fap has a matteblack subway tile in its new Boston

collection. (www.wayfair. c com www.italyti ile.com ) The right l lighting is important in a b black kitchen.

K Killam likes skyl lights and large w windows to take advantage of natural light.

To avoid what Griffin calls “black hole syndrome”, install lights at multiple height levels: ceiling, pendant, under-cabinet and even countertop lamps.

Lamps Plus has forged-iron and rubbed-bronze chandeliers and pendants. Hudson Valley Lighting’s Lydney polished black nickel pendant would work well in any style of kitchen. (www.lampsplus.com www.hudson-

valleylighting.com ) Those who like the idea of black but are tentative might consider introducing one or two black elements.

Chicago design studio KitchenLab has used black accents like islands, lighting, kitchen ladders and window treatments. (www.kitchenlabdesign.com ) Artwork and textiles incorporating black with brights, whites, or subtle neutrals like sage, putty and cream add drama.

Instead of paint, consider black appliances. GE’s got a slate, French-door refrigerator with a smudge-resistant finish. Ikea offers a black cooktop. Upscale brands like AGA and Le Cornue have black enameled stoves. JennAir’s Obsidian fridge has a black interior, ostensibly making even the humblest leftovers look magazine-worthy.

Wayfair stocks a broad range of black faucets by Moen, Delta and Kohler, in matte or satin finishes. (www.wayfair.com )

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ABOVE: An important part of the main living area, cottage character flows from the kitchen’s open shelves and antiqued cabinets.

TOP RIGHT: A brown glaze is brushed over the painted surface.

Beach cottage style you love. The country kitchen can be as plain or pretty as you please.

Plain or patterned tile makes an appropriate backsplash — in a contrasting colour such as red to add some zing.

Wood and tile floors are in character, as well as linoleum. A popular choice, linoleum is hardwearing, comfortable underfoot, and comes in a variety of colours and patterns that give it a “new” country look. You will find lots of inspiration on line and in magazines. Have fun.

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ADVANTAGE.............. 348-6303 .... $314,900....... Blackfalds 63 Crestview Boulevard 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764 .... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 14 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315 .... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 56 Henderson Crescent . 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919 .... $489,900....... Penhold 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Lyle .... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......11:00 ....... 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. ..Jessica .. Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Springbrook

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Heights.... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Margaret .... Margaret Comeau ...... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020 .............................. Morrisroe 211 Davison Drive ........... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Barb .... Barb McIntyre .............. REMAX .................................................. 350-0375 .... $419,900....... Deer Park Village 20 Valentine Crescent .... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Len ..... Len Parsons .................. REMAX .................................................. 350-9227 .... $614,900....... Vanier Woods 62 Arnold Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Argent ................... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020 .... $274,900....... Aspen Ridge 142 Vancouver Cres. ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Avril .... Avril Evans.....................

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ADVANTAGE.............. 348-6303 .... $369,900....... Vanier East 262 Teasdale Drive .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bett .... Bett Portelance ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 307-5581 .... $359,900....... Timber Ridge 100 Timberstone Drive .. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bett .... Bett Portelance ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 307-5581 .... $559,900....... Timber Ridge 19 Webb Close .................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Wagar ................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 304-2747 .... $729,900....... Westlake 283 Lancaster Drive ........ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Amanda .... Amanda Cowley ......... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900 .............................. Lancaster Green 3 Greenham Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Sena .... Sena Walker .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 358-0077 .... $269,900....... Glendale Park Estates 236 Illingworth ................. 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 550-3984 .............................. Ironstone 372 Timothy Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jan .... Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-1200 .... $369,900 ...... Timberlands 252 Dempsey Street ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Les ..... Les Anderson ............... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900 .... $329,900....... Davenport 234, 18 Averill Street....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Lana .... Lana Clubine ................ COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 318-5144 .............................. Aspen Ridge 132 Kemp Avenue ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Simona .... Simona Tantas ............. REALTY EXECUTIVES ........................ 396-5192 .... $314,900....... Kentwood West 98 Lalor Drive .................... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ... .......................................... CANADA WEST HOMES ................. 598-5051 .............................. Laredo 6325 61 Ave ....................... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Pelletier ................. SERGE’S HOMES ................................ 505-8050 .............................. Highland Green 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016 .............................. Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261 .............................. The Timbers 105 Lazaro Close ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. .....Aisha ..... Aisha Geary-Arnault .. MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Laredo 17 Lazaro Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. .....Kyle ..... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Laredo

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142 Red Ash Cove ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Cam .... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900 .............................. Springbrook 46 Rozier Close ................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Nadine .... Nadine Marchand ...... ROYAL CARPET REALTY................... 342-7700 .............................. Sylvan Lake 49 Westview Crescent .... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552 .... $260,000....... Blackfalds 21 Portway Close ............. 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. ....Jeff .... Jeff Glover ..................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 872-0123 .............................. Blackfalds 63 Crestview Boulevard 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764 .... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 14 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315 .... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919 .... $399,900....... Lacombe 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Lyle .... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......11:00 ....... 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. ..Jessica .. Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Springbrook

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How to resurrect a wood floor sanding power and mild manners. Its large, flat sanding area gives the greatest stability, making it easier to avoid gouging the wood.

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The drum-type sander is a powerful sanding option, but the round cross section of its abrasive drum means you’ve got to be very careful to keep it moving to avoid gouging your floor. I’m not crazy about this tool.

Walk-behind sanders are useful for main floor areas, but they’re too big to get right into corners. For this work you’ll need a hand-held machine, either a belt sander or a random orbit sander.

You can rent these, but a handy neighbour might have one to lend. Two passes with either of these tools — first with an 80-grit abrasive and another with 120-grit will do fine. Even with these tools, however, you’ll need to do a bit of hand work with a sanding block to finish up.

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Optimal finish application depends

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Start With Prep This involves removing baseboard trim and installing plastic dust control sheets at all entrances to the room.

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Baseboard can be removed with almost no damage by using a 6î-long, thin-edged cats paw pry bar. Place a putty knife against the drywall to protect it, then lever the trim off incrementally at each nail location until it comes free. If the nail comes out with the trim, pull it right through from the back with pliers to avoid splintering the front face of the trim.

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AGRAI-DAIRY Mart is currently hiring a permanent full-time Dairy WHAT’S HAPPENING Equipment Service and Installation Technicians to CLASSIFICATIONS serve the Olds to Ponoka 50-70 area, out of our Lacombe location. We’re looking for a motivated individual with experience in the dairy and Personals dairy equipment industry.

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MCINTOSH LINTON Sharon Rose Sharon Rose McIntosh Linton of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Rosefield Centre in Innisfail at the age of 63 on January 20, 2016. Sharon was born on April 20, 1952 in Calgary, Alberta. Most of her life was spent in Red Deer close to her family and many friends. She was an active member of the Royal Purple of Canada in Red Deer for many years where she enjoyed volunteering her time and giving back to the community.

Sharon was predeceased by her parents William (Bill) and Tabatha (Baya) Kaiser. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband Gary Linton, daughter Jennifer (Cale) Place, son Allen (Christina) Monk, stepdaughter Leah Black, stepson Michael (Pam) Linton, her beloved grandchildren Connor and Kennedy Beagrie, Peyton Place, Taron Haggith, William, Elizabeth and Jasen Monk, Korissa Linton, Justin Crate and Dakota and Wyatt Black, her brothers Arnold (Jean) Kaiser, Milton (Lorraine) Kaiser and Leonard (Maricel) Kaiser, as well as many nieces and nephews. At Sharon’s request a formal service will not be held; however a gathering to celebrate her life will take place at the Waskasoo Estates Community Hall, 217 England Way, Red Deer County on January 30, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, 20 Eglinton Avenue West, 16th Floor Toronto, ON M4R 1K8 or online at alzheimers.ca.

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Card Of Thanks BILL MISCHKE The Mischke family would like to thank everyone for their condolences, food, flowers, donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation and offers of help during this sad time. Special thanks to Sobeys, Dr. Eric Brodie and the Red Deer Hospital. We thank all of you who attended the service and especially those who came from out of province.

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MELZER Lotte Elizabeth Lotte passed away in Airdrie, Alberta on January 18, 2016, at the age of 86 years. Lotte was still very lively till the day she passed. She was born in Bavaria, on December 6, 1929 in Linach near Munich.

She grew up in the mountain resort town of Bad Reichenhall, Germany near Salzburg. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 22, in 1951. The following year she married a young fellow from East Germany, Manfred Max Melzer, on the 16th of August 1952. They lived in St. John New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Cornwall and Kemptville Ontario, Calgary Alberta, Hudson Hope BC, and finally moving back to the Acadia district in Calgary to raise their family. Lotte loved gardening, scrabble, travel, and feeding her many favorite birds. She treasured the family cabin in Sunbreaker Cove on Sylvan Lake, and retirement vacations to Yuma, Arizona. She is lovingly remembered by her husband Manfred, daughter Nora (granddaughter Eleanor), son Manfred (Fred Jr), (granddaughters Kailyn and Jadyn) and daughter Roseline. Funeral services for Lotte Melzer will be held at the Alliance Community Church, Sylvan Lake on Monday, January 25th, at 11:00 AM. Viewing will be held one hour before at the Church. Burial will follow at the Sylvan Lake Cemetery.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca.

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Card Of Thanks CAVE The family of Lester Cave would like to thank everyone for the love and support shown to us during the loss of our loved one.

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PETERS We, the family of Parker Peters would like to extend our sincere thank you to all those who supported our family during the recent loss of our loved one. Your overwhelming support and love meant more than words can say. The heartfelt condolences, cards, emails, flowers, food and memorial donations have been so generous. Extended family, friends and co-workers filled the Chapel and our hearts with their expressions of love and admiration for our dear Parker. His spirit will always be with us!

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ROYAL Doulton “Pheasant” figurine. Dated 1941.

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VINTAGE (circa 1950’s) muskrat fur jacket. Waistlength, Ladies’ Size M. In beautiful/MINT condition. $75. Call (403) 342-7908.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 LOGS SMALL RURAL MEAT BOWER DENTAL Semi loads of pine, spruce, SHOP in central AB CENTER tamarack, poplar, birch. looking for F/T meat req’s a full time Registered Price depends on location cutter. 8 - 4:30, no weekDental Assistant who is a of delivery. Lil Mule motivated, committed and ends. Knowledge of cutting Logging 403-318-4346 hanging carcasses passionate individual. We needed. Rental house run a high paced practice Household avail. within walking diswhere experience is an tance of meat shop at a asset, but new grads are Appliances welcome. Must be avail. on very reasonable rate with paid utils. $21 to start with evenings and one Sat. per HAIER 5.1 cu. ft. deep skill & exp. 403-843-4383 freeze, L29”, W21”, H33”, month. Very rewarding jkcmeats@hotmail.ca position. Please send apartment size $155 like resume to: new 403-358-5568 ebakleh@yahoo.com or Business apply within office.

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Based in Blackfalds, Alberta, Blackfalds Law Office has been serving clients throughout central Alberta since 2008.

We are currently seeking up to 2 junior associates to join our real estate, wills and family law practice.

Blackfalds is a thriving community, with record population growth, nearing 9000 residents. Only a few short minutes to Red Deer, with all the benefits of small town living, Blackfalds is a great place to work and live. If you have strong interpersonal, organizational and problem solving skills, combined with at least 1 year experience as a junior associate, we encourage you to apply. Please send resumes by fax to 403-885-4509, or by email to reception@ blackfaldslawoffice.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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LOOKING for a sales position? Have you experience selling newspaper and online advertising? You may be the right person for a company that is experiencing growth.

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AMELL June Edith 1936 - 2016 It is with sadness, June’s family announce her sudden passing on Friday, January 15, 2016 at the age of 79 years. June was born on May 29,1936 in Dorenlee, Alberta.

In 1956 June married Joe Amell. She spent many years raising her family and also worked at Pines Lodge. She loved her dogs and never turned down an opportunity to dance. She is survived by her son, Darrell Amell (Dawn), grandsons; Jeff, Brian, Patrick, Chris and daughter, Cheryl Radtke (Chris), granddaughters; Shayla and Ashley. She is also survived by six great grandchildren.

June will also be missed by her brother, Charles Smithson, niece, Judy Bloomfield and nephew, Jack Cox. June would always light up a room with her radiant smile. Please join us in her Celebration of Life at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel, 3310 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

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

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Progressive Waste Solutions, Coronation Landfill, is looking for a full time Heavy Equipment Operator. Must have five to ten years experience operating heavy equipment including, bulldozers, rock trucks, excavator.

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Please mail or fax a covering letter and resume to Progressive Waste Services, P.O. Box 848, Coronation, Alberta. T0C 1C0.

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403-314-9603 PILLOWS, (4) from N/S home, good cond. $15. for all. 403-314-9603 THREE sewing machines, Kenmore, Elna and Singer, all in working order, $25 each; and 2 ironing boards to give away.

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5’ MISTRAL Rivet 58 Snowboard with size 9 boots and bindings $125.00 call 403-728-3485 TWO bike helmets, $5 each, 4 motorcycle/snow machine helmets, $10 each. Call 403-728-3485

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CROSS country skiis, made in Norway, Fisher brand, includes, poles and size 7 1/2 boots $20, boys Bauer skates size 8, and helmut $10, exc. cond, 403-347-3849

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Snowstorm set to batter U.S. east coast

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A storm that arrived postcard-pretty in the nation’s capital Friday was morphing into a painful, even paralyzing blizzard with gale-force winds pushing heavy snow and coastal flooding. One in seven Americans could get at least half a foot of snow by Sunday, and Washington could see snowdrifts more than 4 feet high.

The first flakes were lovely, but forecasters warned that much, much more was on its way.

Not that anyone will see the worst of it: Much heavier snow and wind gusting to 50 mph should create blinding whiteout conditions once the storm joins up with a low pressure system off the coast, said Bruce Sullivan, a forecaster at the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Two feet or more of snowfall is forecast for Washington and Baltimore, and nearly as much for Philadelphia.

New York City’s expected total was upped Friday to a foot or more. But Sullivan said “the winds are going to be the real problem that’s when we’ll see possible power outages.”

The result could create snowdrifts 4 to 5 feet high, so even measuring it for records could be difficult, he said.

By evening, wet, heavy snow was falling in the capital, making downed power lines more likely, and yet many people remained on the roads, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said.

“Find a safe place and stay there,” she beseeched.

Anyone trying to travel in this mess risks getting stuck for hours, marooned in odd places, or killed, authorities warned. At least seven people died in storm-related crashes before the worst of the storm, including Stacy Sherrill, whose car plummeted off an icy road in Tennessee. Her husband survived after climbing for hours up a 300-foot embankment.

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Penny Friend walks with Brody through the falling snow for some ‘last minute exercise’ in Fishersville, Va. on Friday. over the place,” said Kentucky State Police Trooper Lloyd Cochran — as soon as one wreck was cleared, other cars slammed into each other, causing gridlock for hours on interstate highways.

Conditions quickly became treacherous all along the path of the storm.

Arkansas and Tennessee got 8 inches Kentucky got more than a foot, and states across the Deep South grappled with icy, snow-covered roads and power outages. Two tornadoes arrived along with the snow in Mississippi.

The storm could easily cause more than $1 billion in damage, weather service director Louis Uccellini said.

All the ingredients have come together for a massive snowfall: The winds initially picked up warm wa-

ter from the Gulf of Mexico, and now the storm is taking much more moisture from the warmer-than-usual Gulf Stream as it rotates slowly over mid-Atlantic states, with the District of Columbia in its bulls-eye.

At least meteorologists appear to have gotten this storm right. Predictions converged and millions of people got clear warnings, well in advance.

Blizzard warnings stretched to just north of New York City. Boston and other New England cities should get a less windy winter storm, and much less snow.

In all, 82 million Americans will get at least an inch of snow, 47 million more than 6 inches, and 22 million Americans more than a foot, Ryan Maue at WeatherBell Analytics said

Friday.

Fortunately, temperatures will be just above freezing after the storm passes in most places, and there’s no second storm lurking behind this one, making for a slow and steady melt and less likelihood of more ice and floods, Peterson said.

As food and supplies vanished from store shelves Friday, states of emergency were declared, lawmakers went home, and schools, government offices and transit systems closed early around the region. Thousands of flights were cancelled, sporting events were called off, bands postponed concerts and NASCAR delayed its Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Broadway’s shows were still going on in New York, but as snow fell in Atlanta, people there were urged to stay home all weekend, rather than risk a repeat of the city’s 2014 “icepocalypse,” when a relatively mild winter storm caused days of commuter chaos.

Travel was already impossible across a wide swath of the Ohio River valley. Nashville, Tennessee, was gridlocked by accidents. Several drivers died on icy roads in North Carolina. In Washington, Baltimore, and Delaware, archdioceses pre-emptively excused Catholics from showing up for Sunday Mass.

Coastal flooding and the loss of beaches from high surf were major worries from Delaware north to Long Island. New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie cancelled presidential campaign events in New Hampshire, which should be spared from the storm. “I’m sorry, NH but I gotta go home — we got snow coming,” Christie wrote on Twitter.

In Washington, the federal government closed its offices at noon, and all mass transit was shutting down through Sunday. President Barack Obama, hunkering down at the White House, was one of many who stayed home. Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina addressed anti-abortion activists at the annual March for Life as the storm closed in.

U.S. student held in North Korea, little information released

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Syrian government thanks Russia for help capturing town

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALMA, Syria — Pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad hang on nearly every building in the town of Salma, which government troops captured last week in one of their most significant advances since Russia intervened militarily on their side.

The Syrian government offensive has given Assad a stronger hand going into peace talks with the opposition that are planned for next week in Switzerland.

The Russian military on Friday took Moscow-based reporters to see the town in Latakia province, which had been out of government control for more than three years.

Most of the buildings bore visible signs of fighting, with holes in concrete walls gaping open and windows blown out.

Government forces were able to capture the city “thanks to the support of the friendly Russian aviation,” Latakia Governor Ibrahim Khder alSaalem said. “Our army will now press its offensive further.”

Since Russia launched its bombing campaign on Sept. 30, its warplanes have flown nearly 6,000 missions in support of the Syrian government troops.

The airstrikes were ostensibly to target Islamic State militants and other extremists, but they also have helped Assad push back rebels on several fronts and capture dozens of villages in the north and west.

While Salma had been under rebel control since 2012, the government had continued to hold most of the rest of Latakia province, the heartland of Assad’s minority Alawite sect.

Salma, a town of 10,000, sits on hills overlooking the Mediterranean coast, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.

The governor said the militants who had held Salma burned 200 hectares (500 acres) of apple orchards and 300 hectares (750 acres) of forest around the city before retreating toward Turkey.

The border with Turkey, a key supporter of rebels in the area, is only 12 kilometres (seven miles) away.

On Friday, Syrian troops captured more areas from insurgents in Latakia province, including Kaluksi mountain and several other villages, according to the state-run SANA news agency.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy clashes in the mountains of Latakia province, saying that the Syrian army and progovernment forces were advancing in the area.

The hills around Salma were littered with blown-up tanks and other vehicles. Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russian planes had helped destroy military vehicles and bunkers placed in strategic positions, helping prepare the way for the Syrian army to capture the city.

He said the area had many ammunition depots, holding massive caches of explosives, which also were targeted by Russian warplanes.

Syria’s five-year civil war has killed a quarter of a million people, displaced half the country and enabled the radical Islamic State group to seize a third of Syria’s territory.

The talks planned for next week in Geneva are meant to start a political process to end the conflict, which started in 2011 as a largely peaceful uprising against Assad’s rule but escalated into an all-out war after a harsh state crackdown.

The plan calls for cease-fires in parallel to the talks, a new constitution and elections in a year and a half.

Before the fighting began, Salma was a popular spot in the summer with people seeking a respite from the heat.

On Friday, life was returning to the city, with doctors standing outside the local clinic and police officers gathering at their station, which was adorned with a multitude of Assad portraits.

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Local people stand at a building with a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Salma, Syria, Friday. Syrian government forces relying on Russian air cover have recently seized Salma, located in Syria’s province of Lattakia, from militants. The Syrian government offensive has given Assad a stronger hand going into peace talks with the opposition that are planned for next week in Switzerland.

CINCINNATI — Officials in North Korea and the U.S. released little information Friday about a university student from Ohio who was detained for what the authoritarian nation called a “hostile act.”

Otto Warmbier is the second person from southwest Ohio to be detained in North Korea in less than two years. A Dayton-area man, Jeffrey Fowle, was held for nearly six months in 2014.

North Korea’s state media said the University of Virginia student entered the country under the guise of a tourist and plotted against North Korean unity with “the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.” The date of his arrest was unclear, as were any details of what he did.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, campaigning in New Hampshire as a Republican presidential candidate, called the arrest “inexcusable.” His Columbus office released a letter he sent to President Barack Obama, urging his Democratic administration to “make every effort to secure Mr. Warmbier’s immediate release and keep (his) family constantly apprised.” Kasich said

North Korea should either provide evidence of the alleged anti-state activities or release Warmbier.

The U.S. Department of State said it was “aware of media reports that a U.S. citizen was detained in North Korea.”

A China-based tour company specializing in travel to North Korea, Young Pioneer Tours, confirmed that one of its customers, identified only as Otto, had been detained in Pyongyang, the North’s capital, but provided no other details. Social media accounts for Warmbier show interests in finance, travel and rap music. Warmbier is majoring in economics with a minor in global sustainability and was on the dean’s list. A professor at the university’s school of commerce, Jeremy Marcel, called Warmbier “a very intelligent, wonderful young man.” A Theta Chi fraternity brother, Miles Kirwin, added, “He’s an incredible guy.”

An attorney who represented Fowle in 2014 advised caution for those involved with the student. Attorney Timothy Tepe, of Lebanon, said North Korean authorities monitor reports and comments about detainees.

Fowle said on Friday he was “surprised and disheartened” to learn of Warmbier’s detainment.

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LEFT: A Spanish Water Dog is introduced Thursday, as one of seven breeds that will compete for the first time at next month’s Westminster Dog Show.

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an agility competition in 2014 and the obedience event this year both are open to non-purebreds. (The traditional judging hasn’t featured mixes since the 1800s.)

The obedience competition didn’t draw any mixes, but 26 are entered in the agility contest, up from 17 last year. Among them is Dobby, a corgi-terrier-Australian Kelpie mix that comforts patients at the New Jersey dental office where his owner, Stefanie Freundlich, works.

“He’s just an all-around great dog,” she said. “It doesn’t matter what breed he is.”

After the Feb. 13 agility competition, the rest of the show unfolds Feb. 15-16, with high-level judging televised on CBNC Feb. 15 and on USA Feb. 16.

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NEW YORK — A bumper crop of seven new dog breeds will get a shot at being best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club competition next month, while a new obedience contest makes more room for mixed-breed dogs at the nation’s premier canine competition.

Drawing over 3,000 dogs from all 50 U.S. states, the 139-year-old event still features primped pooches parading before a Madison Square Garden crowd. But it also is evolving to reflect both a growing roster of recognized breeds and rising interest in dog sports beyond the traditional breed judging.

This year’s newcomer breeds are the most added in any one year since at least 2000, organizers say.

“To be in the first Powered Powe ered by (Westminster) show that they’re able to compete in Central Alberta’s — it’s quite an honour,” career site of choice.

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CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED Bred to guard farms in APPLY NOW TO PROVIDE VALUE IN THE HUMAN SERVICES INDUSTRY South Africa, the Boerboel (prounouced BUHR’- We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with developmental buhl) is powerful and disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an imposing. But 150-pound incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Full Time Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe Oblio also happens to and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Respite (part time) Proprietors be “a happy-go-lucky, offer support and care, working one to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves loving-life dog” with a the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where jokester streak and a han- Respite can be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home. kering for banana pudding, said Weatherbee, of Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual.

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The berger Picard (behr-ZHAY’ PEEK’-ahr) hails from France, but Americans might recognize the shaggy, highly active breed from the 2005 movie “Because of Winn-Dixie.”

The miniature American shepherd, developed in California in the 1960s, resembles an Australian shepherd and is known for versatility. The eagerto-please Spanish water dog also has played multiple roles, herding livestock and helping fishermen.

Dog breeding has drawn fire from animal-rights advocates who say it prioritizes looks over love of animals and fuels puppy mills the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has protested the Westminster show. Purebred advocates counter that responsible breeding helps track dog health traits and helps owners predict 7416893A23 their pets’ characteristics and make a lasting match.

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OPPORTUNITY We are currently recruiting the right person to ½ll the position of Land & Economic Development Of½cer for a one year term. This position is responsible for leading and coordinating the functions of the Economic Development Section and overseeing the City’s interests in regional economic partnerships. Developing and implementing economic development strategies, marketing plans and programs to facilitate investment and labour force retention and attraction; and interacting with business and stakeholders at a local, provincial, federal and international level.

As our preferred candidate you will have: • Undergraduate degree, majoring in marketing, communications or business administration plus ½ve or more years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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HUMAN RESOURCE BUSINESS PARTNER Salary Range: $ 59,225.38 - $81,434.90

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SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 2016

How and why to eat a whole foods diet As we welcome 2016 and the New terations made to the foods that many Year gets underway, resolutions and Canadians consume are toxic to our lifestyle changes are of high priori- health. I believe the deterioration in ty. It is that time of year again where healthy eating and today’s fads circuthe word “diet” is all around us. It is lating around the “modern diet” has when the quick fixes are given rise to cardiovascular being signed up for at redisease, obesity, diabetes, cord pace so individuals and the culprit for other syscan shed a few pounds in temic inflammatory diseastime for bikini season. es, including autoimmune Unfortunately, statisdiseases. tics show us time and time Eating wholesome foods again that most people do is attainable through adoptnot make it past January ing a few lifestyle changes. with their renewed efforts Below are some tips to help at eating well. you get started in eating a So what is the answer? whole foods diet.

I believe it is a whole foods 1. Processed, Refined and diet.

Packaged DR. SHANE What is a whole foods Opt for food that is unproJOHNSON diet? It takes you back to cessed and unrefined. This the basics of eating, withtype of preparation removes NATUROPATH out over-thinking what we essential nutrients from the are doing. It is selecting, food. That is why white flour preparing and consuming foods close must be “enriched”- because refining to how they are found in nature: un- the flour removes all the vitamins and processed; unrefined and free from minerals that were originally in the preservatives, additives, pesticides, product. antibiotics and hormones. Although it Packaged food is laden with unis becoming more and more difficult natural additives and preservatives. to find foods in their natural form, at One tip is to do most of your shopping the very minimum, it can help one to on the perimeter of the supermarbe more aware of the ingredients they ket. That is where you will find fresh, are eating and reduce their exposure non-packaged foods. The frozen secto processed foods. tion is also good for fruits and vegetaSo, why is it important to eat a bles. whole foods diet? The health of the 2. Organic digestive system is essential to the Certified organic foods are free health and well-being of the entire from pesticides and herbicides. These body (and mind!). The numerous al- chemicals are ubiquitous in our envi-

ronment today, and most of them remain untested as to their effects on human and animal health.

The most important category of foods to buy organic is animal products.

Organic meat and dairy should be free from antibiotics and hormones.

Organic meat should also be free from pesticides and herbicides, since the animals ingest organic feed.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) publishes a list of, “The Dirty Dozen.” These are the 12 most contaminated and the 12 least contaminated fruits and vegetables. The EWG routinely tests vegetables for pesticide residues and publishes this list on their website: http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty_dozen_list.php This list will help you budget for the most important fruit and vegetable items to purchase organic.

3. Fruits and Vegetables A good general rule is, eat something green everyday. Another good rule is, eat at least one colorful fruit and vegetable every day.

When cooking green vegetables, you should try to avoid overcooking them, as this depletes their nutrients. Steaming or quickly sautéing them is good. If you cook vegetables in water, save that water and drink it or put in soup stock.

The cooking water contains nutrients too!

When buying vegetables, you should always first try to buy them fresh. Second choice should be frozen and lastly, canned.

4. Courage and Variety With a whole foods diet, you may have to stretch your palate to try foods that you have never heard of, let alone tasted. Be bold!

Try buying a vegetable you have never seen before and figure out how to prepare it.

Eating a variety of foods is beneficial for two reasons: Variety will keep you from getting bored with your diet and is also helpful for optimizing your nutrient intake and decreasing the chance of developing food sensitivities.

At first glance, this lifestyle change may seem a little intimidating but rest assured, people have thrived eating this way for thousands of years!

So get back to the basics and eat a whole foods diet throughout the year to remove the need to crash diet, which sets you up for short term gains and long term failure.

If you need more information and support in regards to your nutritional plan, talk to your naturopathic doctor today!

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at the prestigious Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

TMAO: dodge this major heart risk Steak. Hamburgers. Egg yolks. Liver.

Groundbreaking research shows that these foods are as dangerous for your arteries as smoking, but surprisingly, the fat and cholesterol they contain aren’t the only reasons.

A heart-threatening substance called TMAO (trimethylamine n-oxide) is an DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN e v e n b i g g e r AND DR. MEHMET OZ menace, plugYOU DOCS ging arteries with ever-more plaque, and maybe helping cancers thrive, too.

Fortunately, we now know how to prevent TMAO-related health risks.

Brand-new studies from the Cleveland Clinic (where Dr. Mike is chief wellness officer) have uncovered a Superman compound that thwarts TMAO. And you can start using it today — deliciously —to lower your risk for heart attack, stroke, even kidney problems and wrinkles.

This protector is called DMB, but

it’s far from dumb. Found in some extra-virgin olive oils and red wines, DMB (3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol) stops bacteria in your digestive system from turning choline, l-carnitine and lecithin from food into TMA, a precursor that the liver then converts into TMAO. With less TMAO in the bloodstream, the study showed that atherosclerosis — the buildup of fatty, gunky plaque in artery walls — slowed down and even went into reverse.

Wow! Meanwhile, back in the digestive system, there was a decrease in TMA-producing gut bugs. (It doesn’t take many of these unfriendly bugs to cause problems in your arteries, so the fewer the better.) Double benefits!

WHY TMAO Matters TMAO burst into the headlines two years ago when the Cleveland Clinic’s Steven Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., looked at it in the lab and in humans.

Hazen’s team measured TMAO in 4,007 people; those with the highest levels were two and a half times more likely to have a heart attack or stroke over the next three years than those with the lowest.

It turns out that TMAO traps cholesterol inside gunky, foamy cells that burrow into artery walls. Normally, some of this cholesterol is sucked out

and whisked away by friendly HDL cholesterol.

But dastardly TMAO shuts down that cleanup operation, inviting more and more cholesterol to pile in. The shocker: Risk was high regardless of whether levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol were high or low.

Where did this TMAO come from?

In related studies, people who ate two hard-boiled eggs or an 8-ounce sirloin steak saw blood levels of TMAO soar.

The researchers also have discovered links between high TMAO and declining kidney health. TMAO might raise cancer risk and promote skin wrinkles, too.

TMAO-Fighting Plan Thanks to this amazing research from the Cleveland Clinic, we know more than ever about how to knock back TMAO. Here’s what you can do right now to avoid its dangers, and what we think you’ll be able to do in the near future, too.

Eat less of these: You don’t have to become a vegan (but it helps) to reduce TMAO levels. Eating up to 4 ounces of red meat, 8 ounces of lean pork or two egg yolks per week is safe. Fish is a better entree, but limit servings of tilapia, cod and Chilean sea bass;

these contain more TMAO than other seafood.

Go for “fruity” extra-virgin olive oil: There’s DMB in some fruity-tasting extra-virgin olive oils. You need two to four tablespoons a day; at 120 calories per tablespoon, you need to be aware of how that could add up to extra calories.

Be sure to use olive oil in place of other fats and make other calorie adjustments as needed. Store olive oil away from light in a tightly capped, brown bottle to preserve DMB. Grapeseed oil, balsamic vinegar and red wine also may be good sources.

Ask about the new TMAO blood test: Available to doctors since December 2015, this brand-new blood test could give you and your health-care team new insights into your future heart health.

Watch for a DMB pill (that affects just your gut bacteria): Someday, cutting TMAO could be that simple. Stay tuned!

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com

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