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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta lost more jobs last year than in any year since 1982, when the province was in the throes of a deep recession, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

The government agency released revised figures showing that Alberta had a net loss of 19,600 jobs in 2015, up from the 14,600 job losses it estimated in early January.

That was much higher than the 17,200 jobs lost in 2009 and the most since 1982, when the province shed 45,000 jobs. At that time, the province was reeling from a recession and the federally-imposed national energy program, ending the year with an unemployment rate of 10.3 per cent.

The figures put into stark relief the damage falling oil prices have left on the province’s economy, which has seen mass layoffs across the energy sector with an estimated 40,000 jobs lost.

At the beginning of last year, crude prices were near the US$53 mark.

They closed Tuesday at US$31.45 a barrel.

The job loss numbers are also a stark contrast to 2014, when Alberta added 63,700 positions — more than half of all jobs created in Canada that year. “Alberta is, in effect, ground zero when it comes to absorbing a commodity price shock,� National Bank said in a note. “More than any province, it will take the brunt of the expected drop-off in business investment.�

Last year saw the province’s unemployment rate steadily climb from 4.8 per cent to seven per cent as the anticipated recovery in oil prices failed to materialize.

But ATB Financial is forecasting that to edge up to 7.2 per cent and the economy to shrink by 0.5 per cent this year.

In a research note published Tuesday, TD Bank said it expects unemployment in the province heading towards 7.5 per cent by mid-year before some of the oil price shock wears off. “This will set the stage for a return to modest growth — and a tapering off in the sharp upward trend in jobless rates — in Alberta and Saskatchewan,� the bank said.

Red Deer group raises $60,000 for Syrian families

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

R.J. Thompson of Elnora spots his landing after taking a jump in the terrain park at Canyon Ski Resort east of Red Deer Tuesday.

The recent dump of snow in Central Alberta has made for excellent conditions at the ski hill this week, just in time for the Red Deer Ski Club to host a provincial U-18 slalom race this weekend. Upcoming events at the resort include a Tube and Dine for Valentines on Friday, Feb. 12, when couples can tube and dine for $79.99. The Tube Park is open on weekends, as is the double chair so skiers and snowboarders can access the North Bowl Runs.

Rescued snowmobilers facing charges, fees

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Four snowmobilers — three from Central Alberta and one from Saskatchewan — have been charged after they entered Glacier National Park and then had to be rescued.

Jacolyn Daniluck, a Parks Canada communications officer for the park, said Tuesday that the four are charged with operating an over-snow vehicle in the park without a permit.

Those charged have not been identified. The case is scheduled for court on March 8 in Golden, B.C. Daniluck said the penalty can be as high as $25,000, and there are other costs involved, such as the recovery of the snowmobiles from the park.

Shauna Speers, a Golden and District Search and Rescue manager, said she received a call on Saturday, Jan.

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Speers said since the call came in at about 6 p.m., they could not dispatch a helicopter in darkness so she sent in eight search and rescue snowmobilers, including herself. “Now this is a big mountainous region, so definitely not something we like responding to at night, based on avalanche conditions and generally seeing where everything was.�

As well, since there is no snowmobiling allowed in the park, the snowpack is “unconsolidated,� meaning it isn’t compacted. The potential for avalanche is always there in those kind of

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conditions, Speers said.

The snowmobilers had apparently gone down a ridge into Glacier National Park and then their machines became stuck. “It’s steep, steep terrain in there,�

Speers said.

As Search and Rescue set out, the foursome walked back up the ridge and managed to attract the attention of other snowmobiling friends. Those friends then brought them back to a cabin outside the park, which is where Search and Rescue met up with them.

Speers said the four people — three men and a woman — were then taken back to the parking area, where they gave statements to waiting police.

The snowmobiles were later lifted out of the park by helicopter at a cost of about $4,000 to the snowmobilers.

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More than 30 Red Deerians have pooled their resources together to bring two Syrian refugee families to Red Deer for a new start.

Michelle Baer got the ball rolling on the group effort after feeling she had to do something as she watched the crisis unfold in Europe. “I just thought that was it. I had to do something and something tangible,� said Baer. “I had to take some action. I was feeling very un-empowered just sitting and watching it happen.�

Friends and family came together to privately sponsor some refugees. They reached out into the community and more people came on board.

Red Deer Empathy to Action was formed in November. Its members have pitched in about $60,000 to welcome at least one or two families to the city.

The group is not affiliated with any religious group and its members come from all walks of life in Red Deer.

Group member Leigh-Ann Martin said there was a bit of a learning curve because no one had sponsored a family before.

The financial portion is only one part of the process, said Martin. “We also need to support them in the community for that first year,� she said. “That’s everything from helping them find schooling and find housing, helping with transportation to getting a doctor and dentist. It’s not just financial but helping to make Red Deer home.�

Members are divided into teams to focus on certain settlement areas, such as housing and connecting to other resources.

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A victory for First Nations children A nine-year battle with Ottawa culminated in a landmark human rights decision on Tuesday.

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Dom Sareegul has the ice to himself as he puts in a practice skate Tuesday afternoon. The snowbank rink on the pond in Westlake in Red Deer is surrounded by shrubs and cattails that make it a beautiful place for a skate.

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On Wednesday, crews will be finishing grey routes in Snow Zone F, and green routes in both Snow Zone D and Snow Zone J. On Wednesday and Thursday, plowing will take place on green routes in Snow Zone K. On Thursday and Friday, crews will work on grey routes in Snow Zone G. Residents should look for red ‘no parking’ signs on green routes. For grey routes, large signs will be at entrances to neighbourhoods indicating where plowing is taking place.

Residents are reminded that parking restrictions are in effect while green and grey route plowing is underway.

Vehicles parked on green routes will be ticketed $155 and towed, and vehicles parked on grey routes will be ticketed $85 and plowed in.

To avoid getting a ticket, residents should know their snow zone and route, and check the snow clearing schedule at www.reddeer.ca/snowzone.

People can also sign up for Snow Zone e-mail alerts at www.reddeer.ca/snowzone.

The Snow Zone Hotline is 403-406-8796.

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REFUGEES: Enhance the community The group is waiting to hear when they will be matched with the families. After they are matched, it could take between one and four months before they arrive.

“This is the largest humanitarian crisis the world has seen since the (Second World War),” said Baer.

“Refugees hold a special place in my heart because they are people who just had circumstances fall upon them. They are just living their lives, going about their day-to-day and through no action of their own they are caught in the middle of terrible circumstances.”

Martin said Red Deer has an amazing community

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EDMONTON — The mayors of Calgary and Edmonton say they are working more closely with the province in the hope of improving services without spending lots of new money.

Naheed Nenshi and Don Iveson met with the NDP cabinet Tuesday in Edmonton.

Nenshi says they talked about collaborating on ways to bolster transit, policing and housing, as well as on ways to reduce poverty.

Iveson says improvements in housing for the poor could save the province money by reducing health care and justice system costs.

He says one idea is to allow cities to finance projects with the province. Giving the cities more taxation powers was not on the table.

Nenshi says some of these ideas could come to fruition over the next year to 18 months.

“We are saying investments in affordable housing can save you money in health care, can save you money in policing,” Nenshi said Tuesday. “It costs about $100,000 per year to keep someone in the shelter system.”

Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee said the sluggish economy will have a bearing on how quickly the province can move on these ideas.

“Given the current fiscal concerns with the province we are definitely talking more about non-monetary partnerships at this point,” she said.

Larivee said the province will work with the cities on infrastructure projects that make the most sense.

The Alberta government has been talking for years about creating charters for its two largest cities to give them more power to deal with growth pressures. and by bringing these people here and helping them get settled, they will enhance our community.

“And they will have a home, something they don’t have right now,” she said.

Donations are being accepted through a GoFundMe account.

All of the funds raised will go to the sponsored refugees for the first 12 months in Canada.

Find Red Deer Empathy to Action on Facebook for more information. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

SNOWMOBILES: Can damage at-risk species Golden has a lot of infrastructure reliant on tourists and is a major destination for snowmobilers, said Speers.

“I rescue just as many Americans, versus Alber-

Calling the Crown Prosecutors Office in Red Deer negligent, a judge dismissed armed robbery charges against two youths citing a failure of the Crown’s basic duties.

Central to the dismissal was a stunning lack of disclosure provided by the Crown to defence counsel, dating back to March 19, 2015.

Judge Jim Hunter said the Crown had not provided disclosure on the matter for seven months, adding the Crown had not done its basic duty.

“This is squarely at the feet of the Crown’s office and the Chief Crown Prosecutor,” said Hunter.

“Two young people have had their liberty curtailed for nine months.

“These serous matters have been unceremoniously dumped by the Crown. It’s pure negligence.”

The two youths, who can’t be identified because of the Canada Youth Justice Act, are both males and are 15 and 17 years old.

They and another 17-year-old male were accused of the Feb. 22, 2015 armed robbery of the Blackfalds Mia’s Pizzeria.

Improper subpoena service also played a role, as no civilian witnesses were present and had not been properly served their notice to appear.

The Crown is obligated to provide evidence collected by the Crown and police to prosecute the case. Accused persons have a constitutional right to know the evidence that will be used against them.

Defence counsel Michael Scrase and Paul Morigeau told Hunter they still did not have several disclosure items including missing audio/video surveillance video from the robbery. Scrase said he only had his client’s statement to police while Morigeau had the police statements of his client and the third accused.

Morigeau also noted the video statements the Crown did provide on a CD that did not work. Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring also noted he had a similar issue with his copy of disclosure.

Ring did put on the record that disclosure was provided to defence, after fully reviewing and auditing the disclosure process.

Complicating matters was confusion on which courtroom the trial would be heard in. The Red Deer Crown Prosecutor office generally assigns prosecutors to courtrooms and not to files, which meant over the course of two weeks as the trial bounced between courtrooms it also bounced between prosecutors. Morigeau and Scrase said there were three different prosecutors assigned to the file in January.

Hunter went on to say there was some kind of fundamental disconnect either in the Crown Prosecutor’s office or between the Crown and local defence counsel. He even suggested the two parties meet to “clear the air” and talk about concerns. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com tans, versus B.C.” “Most people are super apologetic. They feel silly that they needed help. … Most people are very thankful,” Speers said.

This is the third time snowmobilers have been found entering Glacier Park this winter, according to Parks Canada.

In all three cases, charges have been laid by park wardens, Daniluck said.

Parks Canada works hard with the local snowmobiling club to inform people about the park boundary. Posting signage is ongoing. Park wardens patrol the boundary regularly, she said.

Snowmobiles can easily damage endangered species like white bark pine, an at-risk tree that grows in Glacier National Park alpine areas, Daniluck said.

As well, the noise of the engines can disturb wildlife and adversely affect the enjoyment and safety of other park visitors.

Furthermore snowmobilers can cause avalanches. “Someone backcountry skiing wouldn’t expect a snowmobile to be above them.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prisoner escape short-lived PEACE RIVER — It was a scene right out of a TV crime drama when an armed, masked gunman stopped two Alberta correctional officers Monday and freed a prisoner on his way to a medical appointment.

Mounties say guards were escorting Harley John Lay, 29, to the hospital in Peace River when they were confronted in the hospital parking lot.

The gunman and Lay jumped into a minivan driven by a third man and the trio hightailed it out of town.

Their flight from the law was shortlived — RCMP pulled over a vehicle at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday near Fort Nelson, B. C., and arrested Lay and two other individuals.

Peace River RCMP Const. Nicole Viergutz said Lay “does have matters before the courts,” but declined to discuss his background further.

Court records indicate he most recently was behind bars facing numerous charges, including unlawful confinement, dating back to last July. He also faced a charge of escaping lawful custody in 2011 and has previously served time for drug trafficking.

Alberta correctional officers do not carry firearms.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees informed its members about what happened on the union website.

Both guards involved have been offered counselling and a union leader said the escape highlights the dangers corrections workers face every day.

Judge rules Vader murder trial will go ahead

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A judge has ruled that charges against an accused in the mysterious deaths of two Alberta seniors will stand even though the RCMP made serious mistakes and prosecutors didn’t get the suspect to trial quickly.

Justice Denny Thomas said Tuesday that lawyers for Travis Vader failed to prove the case should be dropped because it didn’t get to trial in a reasonable time. He also dismissed an alleged abuse of TRAVIS VADER process, which the defence argued occurred when Mounties didn’t initially disclose all the evidence against Vader to lawyers.

Vader was charged in 2012 with first-degree murder in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann. The McCanns, in their late 70s, were last seen fuelling up their motorhome two years earlier in their hometown of St. Albert, just north of Edmonton. Their bodies have never been found.

The charges against Vader were stayed days before a trial in 2014, but were reactivated by the Crown nine months later. A trial is now set to begin March 8.

“Mr. Vader’s long and interrupted march to the courtroom is troubling,” Thomas wrote in his decision.

“However … the seriousness of the charges and the shared interests of Mr. Vader and the public in his very public name being cleared align to favour a full adjudication of the charges against him.”

Bret McCann said outside court that his family, unable to sleep over the possibility charges could be tossed, is relieved.

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The province issued the order on Friday over concerns the water could be contaminated after a main water line break.

The line has been flushed and things are mostly back to normal.

But a new water leak has emerged on the south end of the village, which is affecting the school and a handful of residents.

Carmangay is about 35 minutes north of Lethbridge.

Worker badly burned in oilsands explosion dies EDMONTON — Occupational Health and Safety says a 30-year-old worker who was critically injured in an explosion at an oilsands upgrader in northern Alberta has died.

The man, identified previously by his cousin as Dave Williams of Scotchtown, N.S., had been transported to the burn unit at an Edmonton hospital after the blast Jan. 15.

Kelly MacEachern told the Cape Breton Post last week that her cousin was a journeyman millwright and had

owned up to them, he said.

“At the end of the day, they did an enormous and effective job. I mean, mistakes happen and what’s crucial is they realize them and they address them.”

The couple’s burned-out motorhome was discovered in a wooded area near Edson, west of Edmonton, two days after they were last seen at the gas station in July 2010. The SUV they had been towing was also found concealed in another location.

The RCMP was criticized early in the investigation. Documents inside the motorhome linked it to the McCanns and officers phoned the couple and knocked on the door of their house.

They didn’t begin searching until five days later when the couple’s daughter reported that they hadn’t shown up for a family camping trip in British Columbia.

Mounties also faced embarrassment when they revealed tipsters had come into a detachment in Prince George, B.C., and reported that they had spotted the McCanns’ SUV. RCMP admitted that they hadn’t taken down the tipsters’ contact information.

Vader, arrested on a long list of outstanding warrants at a rural home in the same area where the vehicles were found, was quickly named as a person of interest and later a suspect. But he wasn’t charged for two years.

Just before Vader’s trial was to begin in 2014, the Crown said it discovered the “egregious disclosure mess”

by RCMP and stayed the charges because it wasn’t ready to proceed with a fair trial. Court heard the RCMP have since made changes to the way they handle disclosure in major investigations.

Defence lawyer Brian Beresh argued the delay was a tactic to “buy more time” for investigators. Vader has filed lawsuits against prosecutors and the RCMP claiming malicious prosecution.

Vader is disappointed he has to go to trial, Beresh said outside court, but “is looking forward to clearing his name.” been living and working in the West for several years, but loved coming home for vacations and was in Cape Breton for Christmas.

It’s the second death resulting from the explosion — a 52-year-old employee was pronounced dead at the scene.

The blast occurred at Calgary-based Nexen’s (TSX:NXY) Long Lake plant near Fort McMurray on Jan. 15.

A Nexen official said at the time that the two men were doing maintenance work.

No one else was injured.

The blast occurred in a part of the upgrader that breaks hydrocarbon molecules into smaller pieces to make a lighter oil product for shipping.

High River says Alberta’s response to June 2013 flood inadequate, wants action EDMONTON — A community badly hit by flooding that swept through southern Alberta in 2013 says hundreds of damage claims still have not been resolved.

The Town of High River has issued a report called Finish The Job — Fix the System that lists what it calls systemic failings of Alberta’s Disaster Recovery Program.

The report says the system needs to be overhauled to spare others the suffering that people in the area have endured before there is another major disaster.

“We want the people of Alberta to be aware of these problems so the government will be motivated to fix a broken system,” Jim Ross, a spokesman for the town, said Tuesday.

“It is a dangerous job. You never know what’s going to happen.

We’re fortunate nobody got hurt and that’s due to the professionalism of these officers,” said Erez Raz, a union vice-president and a correctional officer himself.

Raz said correctional offi- HARLEY JOHN LAY cers have not been equipped with firearms since the 1970s and the decision is totally up to the Alberta government.

He doesn’t think it would have made a difference in this case.

“If someone comes up to you with a gun to your head and says, ‘Give me what you have,’ I don’t think I’m going to pull a gun on him knowing he’s got a gun facing me,” Raz said.

“It would have caused a lot more damage than good. It could have escalated right from there.”

The union has called for a full report, including a “hazard assessment” of what occurred.

“It’s where the employer sits down with the affected workers to debrief, and look at what occurred, and identify the risks and the controls that will be put into control as a consequence of what occurred,” said health and safety representative Dennis Malayko.

Conservatives back removal of same-sex ban from policy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta Conservatives have joined the call to have a ban on same-sex marriage dropped from official party policy, adopting a resolution to that effect at their recent policy convention.

The move gives more weight to efforts by grassroots lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Tories to have the party’s declaration on the issue changed at this spring’s Conservative convention, which will lay the groundwork for the party’s leadership vote in 2017.

The group LGBTory wrote to interim party leader Rona Ambrose last week asking for her help on the issue, saying the policy as it stands is offensive and risks alienating voters.

This past weekend, Alberta’s card-carrying Conservative party members met to agree on what party policy changes and additions they’d like to see adopted this spring when the entire party meets in Vancouver for a policy convention.

Two electoral district associations, one in Edmonton and the other in Fort McMurray, proposed an update to the same-sex marriage policy.

The policy currently says Parliament, not the courts, should determine the definition of marriage and that the party supports legislation defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

In their resolution, the Fort McMurray-Cold Lake association said the first point is moot as there was a free vote in 2006 on a motion calling for such legislation and it failed.

They also said that if the party is committed to free votes on matters of conscience — of which same-sex marriage is one — it makes no sense to have a policy that takes a specific stand on the issue.

“Individual members of Parliament should be empowered to vote with their conscience in consultation with their constituents without having them biased one way or the other by their party policy declaration,” the association said.

The resolution called for the two lines that deal with same-sex marriage to be deleted from the section.

Alberta MP Michelle Rempel said she was glad to see the motion get broad support.

“It’s a very positive thing and something that’s been very positively accepted,” she said.

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ALBERTANS FIRST IS A MOVEMENT OF NON-PARTISAN, GRASS-ROOTS ALBERTANS, FOR THE RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE OF ALBERTA This movement has united Albertans from across this province, all working together, with one goal in mind: to ensure responsible governance by the current government for all business sectors, for all urban and rural communities, and for all individuals that call this province home!

ALBERTANS FIRST is concerned that the current government is not listening to the concern of Albertans and as a result, has left this province vulnerable to the plummeting price of oil and the Canadian dollar.

We are in an economic crisis! We need our government to provide steadfast guidance, inspire confidence, and instill market stability to ensure that Alberta’s economy can “ride out this storm.”

Petition: Bill 6—The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Legislation without consultation is not democracy; legislation without clear content is not just the burden for farmers and ranchers to bear. The agricultural community will not only have to absorb the unknown costs of meeting the protocols of Bill 6, it will also face an increase in production and transportation expenditures as a result of the Carbon Tax The bottom line – food will cost more! During a time of uncertainty, the shocking initiatives of Bill 6, put forth by this current government, is not only financially devastating to all Albertans—it is IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE.

Petition: Carbon Tax The Carbon Tax will be implemented at $20 per tonne in January 2017 and then increased in January 2018 to $30 per tonne, bringing an unknown cost to “everything that moves” (Canadian Taxpayers Federation). This planned tax on ALL carbon emissions, executed by the current government at a time when many in this province have faced job layoffs, is not only financially devastating to all Albertans—it is IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE.

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Is trading with China this important?

On Saturday, I had the opportunity functioning organ-donor registration to be a speaker for one of the films fea- system, but somehow they can find you tured at this year’s Justice Film Festi- a tissue match, from a living donor, val at Red Deer College. That allowed within a few days. me to preview the movie As the movie heartlessHuman Harvest. ly points out, the donors The preview was chillare not willing— they are ing, the research that folpulled from a prison system lowed was depressing and that houses tens of thouthe second viewing at the sands of mostly Falun Gong festival was saddening. In religious practitioners. Uiall, several evenings wellghurs, Muslims, Christians spent. and criminals bound for exReleased in 2014, the ecution round out the rosmuiltiple-award-winning ter, but the overwhelming film presents a disturbing harvest is of Falun Gong picture of the world’s favoubelievers. It’s a billion-dolrite potential trade partner: lar industry which could GREG China. It also raises serious not exist in this scale in any NEIMAN questions about our collecother country without globtive complicity — a turningal attention and outrage.

OPINION of-the-eyes away from a proBut — because it’s China gram of mass murder with— trade delegations turn a in China’s health care system, where blind eye, looking more to profits in thousands of prisoners of conscience the world’s second-largest economy. are harvested every year, and their orThe movie follows a report comgans sold to “transplant tourists.” piled in 2006/07 by former MP and secWhile the world’s developed coun- retary of state David Kilgour, and Datries have years-long wait times for vid Matas, a respected immigration patients needing a new liver, kidneys, and human rights lawyer. Their efforts corneas, or a heart, for $30,000 and up, won them a Nobel Peace Prize nomiyou can get replacement parts in Chi- nation in 2010, and the ongoing enmity na in a couple of weeks. China has no of China.

One question that immediately comes to mind on seeing the film is: why hasn’t the world heard about this?

I like to think of myself as reasonably informed, but I had no idea this gruesome industry existed in China and I doubt many others of general society were that much ahead of me.

While by no means a well-kept secret, why hasn’t this issue come to wider discussion?

Another question: Why have there been no international sanctions for what is by any definition a crime against humanity?

In 2009, Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskj introduced a private members bill making it illegal for Canadians to get a transplant abroad if the organ was taken from an unwilling donor. I couldn’t find any evidence that bill ever passed.

Should such law ever pass, a Canadian discovered to have travelled to buy a kidney or a heart could be prosecuted as a participant in a murder.

Kilgour and Matas say we should go further. They want the names of all the doctors and nurses in all the hospitals in China that annually kill thousands of people in order to sell their organs, so we can prosecute them in an international court.

It’s no less a crime against humanity than the Holocaust, and indeed, Matas and Kilgour draw parallels. First, you demonize and dehumanize the victims, as was done in pre-war Europe, or in intertribal conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. Then, you have people simply remain silent about atrocities.

Wrzesnewskj, who has proposed and supported a wide variety of human rights causes over the years, particularly in the Ukraine, himself trod lightly on the Chinese tiger’s tail.

He said that although Canadians benefit from trade with China, and that we want even more trade in the future, “it does not exonerate us for addressing the issue of organ transplantation in the People’s Republic of China.” Well, yes, but …

He warned against “trusting a country that would engage in this sort of horrific crime against its own people.”

Do feel warned?

I would suggest that in any country other than China, such a program of mass-murder-for-profit would result in global trade sanctions, if not military invasion.

And once you know about this, a share of the responsibility falls on you.

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Red Deer falling behind growth of other local communities How does Red Deer’s population growth compare with Sylvan Lake and Blackfalds over the last 15 years, and what would Red Deer’s population be today if it grew at the same rate?

Red Deer has a 2015 population of 100,807, 2011 population of 90,564, 2006 population of 82,772 and a 2001 population of 67,907. Between 2001 and 2006 the population grew by 14,865 or 21.9 per cent. Between 2006 and 2011 the population grew by 7,792 or 9.4 per cent and between 2011 and 2015 the population grew by 10,243 or 11.3 per cent. Total of 48 per cent since 2001.

Sylvan Lake has a 2015 population of 14,310, 2011 population of 12,327, 2006 population of 10,268 and a 2001 population of 7,493. Between 2001 and 2006 the population grew by 2,775 or 37 per cent. Between 2006 and 2011 the population grew by 2,059 or 20 per cent and between 2011 and 2015 the population grew by 1983 or 16 per cent. Total of 91 per cent since 2001.

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2001 population of 3,116. Between 2001 and 2006 the population grew by 1,502 or 48 per cent. Between 2006 and 2011 the population grew by 1,682 or 30 per cent and between 2011 and 2015 the population grew by 2,493 or 39 per cent. Total of 182 per cent since 2001.

If Red Deer had matched Sylvan Lake’s growth since 2011, Red Deer would have a population of 105,054, and if Red Deer had kept pace since 2001, Red Deer would have a population of 129,702.

If Red Deer had matched Blackfalds’ growth since 2011, Red Deer would have a population of 125,884 and if Red Deer had kept pace since 2001, Red Deer would have a population of 191,498.

So why did Red Deer only grow 11.3 per cent since 2011 while Sylvan Lake grew 16per cent and Blackfalds grew by a whopping 39per cent since 2011? Was it standard bedroom community growth? Was it the construction of the Abbey Centre, that saw Blackfalds grow so quickly? Is it Red Deer turning people away with it’s taxes, policies and bylaws? I do not know.

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years, the two cities would be of equal size in about 42 years. Remember in 2001 Red Deer was 22 times the size of Blackfalds but today it is only 11.5 times the size of Blackfalds.

Can Red Deer learn from Blackfalds’ success?

Can Red Deer compete?

It may look like comparing apples and oranges, but is it? Blackfalds has beaten Red Deer in number of building permits in a year, so if numerical numbers favor Blackfalds not just percentages then, it may be time to be concerned. If a small town builds more houses than the neighbouring city 11.5 times it’s size, I might start to wonder, wouldn’t you?

What are they investing in, that is attracting growth? What is Red Deer doing that is impeding growth?

Should we not be asking questions or should we silently wait 42 years and merge cities and become Black Deer or Redfalds? Me, I am asking questions, I am starting at city hall, and I am not getting any answers.

Perhaps it is time to rethink our city’s operations.

I think so.

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A victory for the kids FILL CHILD WELFARE FUNDING GAP, ADVOCATES URGE OTTAWA AFTER LANDMARK HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION

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OTTAWA — It will take a lot more than just lip service to put right the years of systemic discrimination and underfunding endured by First Nations children, an emotional group of indigenous advocates said Tuesday as their nine-year battle with Ottawa culminated in a landmark human rights decision.

Money — specifically, at least $200 million more a year in child welfare funding in order to close the fiscal gap — would be a good first start, said Cindy Blackstock, the social worker whose tireless crusade is at the heart of the ruling.

“Why did we have to bring the government of Canada to court to get them to treat First Nations children fairly — little kids?” Blackstock asked during an emotional news conference not far from Parliament Hill.

“Why would it ever be OK to give a child less than other children?”

The long-awaited ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that children in First Nations communities have long suffered adverse effects as a result of the way federal services are delivered on reserve. In some cases, government involvement has meant some children have been unfairly denied benefits.

The federal government failed to provide the same level of child welfare services that the provinces provided off-reserve, the tribunal noted. As a result, countless First Nations children have ended up in foster care, away from their families.

“By analogy, it is like adding support pillars to a house that has a weak foundation in an attempt to straighten and support the house,” the tribunal said.

“At some point, the foundation needs to be fixed or, ultimately, the house will fall down.”

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No appetite for force FORCILLO CASE REVEALS SHIFTING ATTITUDE TOWARD COPS’ DEALING WITH THOSE IN CRISIS

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TORONTO — A guilty finding against a Toronto police officer who gunned down a knife-wielding teen on an empty streetcar suggests the public has become more sensitive toward how police deal with those in crisis, some experts said Tuesday.

At the same time, they said, the prosecution of Const. James Forcillo has highlighted the need to address systemic issues around police training and the funding of mental health services.

“The public no longer has an appetite for police simply saying, ‘This is use of force’,” said Frances Jewell, executive director with the Mental Health Rights Coalition in Hamilton.

“The conversation has started but there’s a disconnect between what police are saying has changed and what has changed.”

In what has been described as a “compromise” verdict, a jury acquitted Forcillo on Monday of second-degree murder for shooting Sammy Yatim, 18, but found him guilty of attempted murder for continuing to fire after the dying teen had fallen to the floor.

Forcillo’s union warned the verdict would put officers at further risk by causing them to hesitate before responding to dangerous situations. On the other hand, the lawyer for Yatim’s family suggested too many officers have been literally getting away with murder by claiming self-defence.

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Const. James Forcillo leaves court in Toronto on Monday. Forcillo was found guilty of attempted murder in the 2013 shooting death of troubled teen Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar. ogist in Kingston, Ont., said the verdict is a sign attitudes toward the mentally ill — and police accountability — have shifted.

“The significance of this whole trial is really in the fact that there was a trial and he was found guilty of anything at all,” said Cotton, who has worked with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Mental Health

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Commission of Canada.

“In contrast to attitudes we had in the past toward people who appear to be crazy or out of their minds, society as a whole is saying that this is not the norm and we can’t tolerate this any more.”

Statistics Canada data show about one million interactions between police and people in some kind of men-

tal health crisis each year. The vast majority end without serious incident.

For others, however, the result is what advocates consider an unnecessary fatality as well as trauma for both the families and officers involved.

Advocates have long called for better police training for dealing with people in crisis. They insist officers should do everything possible to defuse a volatile situation before resorting to Tasers or firearms.

For their part, police insist they are doing what they can to help. In B.C., for example, new and seasoned officers are required to undergo training on dealing with the mentally ill. Other services say their training does emphasize de-escalation techniques.

Jewell, however, was skeptical, noting Forcillo barked orders and shot Yatim dead less than one minute after arriving on scene.

“Where on earth did they get the message that was a de-escalation technique?” she said. “I must say I’m jaded in that we hear that the changes will happen and yet they don’t.”

Still, training and accountability issues aside, mental health advocates say the Yatim killing — and others like it — demonstrate a crying need for more funding of supports for the mentally ill to avert potentially deadly confrontations with officers in the first place.

All too often, they note, people finding themselves on the wrong end of an officer’s gun had tried unsuccessfully to find help for their worsening mental health.

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Race and ethnic origin have also been factors, perpetuating the historical disadvantage and trauma suffered

by Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples as a result of the residential school system, the tribunal concluded.

Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, brought the original 2007 complaint to the tribunal, along with the Assembly of First Nations.

Federal funding for child welfare is between 22 and 38.5 per cent less than what has typically been provided at the provincial level, she added.

The ramifications of Tuesday’s decision were etched on the face of Charlie Angus, the NDP’s indigenous affairs critic and a northern Ontario MP who knows all too well the tragic legacy of underfunded child welfare in aboriginal communities.

“I was in one of my communities just recently and all the teachers kept leaving the classroom because we had a child on a suicide watch and there was no money,” Angus said, fighting back tears.

“They fired the child welfare workers at the height of a suicide epidemic in James Bay — 89 kids, and they fired the child welfare workers to save both the province and the feds money. That’s what it looks like on the ground.”

The Liberal government’s forthcoming federal budget, expected next month, needs to contain significant, tangible financial commitments to address the ongoing crisis flagged in the decision, he added.

The government will review the lengthy decision, but it’s unlikely there will be any cause to seek judicial review of the ruling, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said Tuesday

1. The fight has been underway for nine years The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint in 2007 arguing the federal government failed to provide First Nations children the same level of welfare services that exist elsewhere, contrary to the Canadian Human Rights Act. It said this was discrimination on racial grounds. Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the society, said many things have changed during the course of this fight but most importantly, “a whole generation grew up.”

2. Ottawa spent millions fighting the complaint

ing this case. She wonders why it was necessary for the government to fight its discrimination of First Nations kids in court.

3. Blackstock was spied on during the feud In 2013, then-privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart found two government departments had overstepped in monitoring Blackstock and her personal Facebook account. Stoddart said the Aboriginal Affairs and Justice departments violated the spirit, if not the intent, of the Privacy Act by compiling information from Blackstock’s personal social media page. Both departments agreed to cease the monitoring, destroy personal information not directly linked to federal policy and set up a new system to ensure such surveillance did not happen again.

Blackstock estimates the federal government has spent at least $5 million fightduring question period.

Wilson-Raybould and Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett stopped short of providing a dollar figure on how much the government is willing to provide to address the disparity.

“We know we are going to have to significantly increase the dollars that are available for child welfare programs,” Bennett acknowledged.

Wilson-Raybould, a former B.C. regional chief with the Assembly of First Nations, said the tribunal’s decision is “about equity.”

“This is a good day,” she said, citing the now-familiar Liberal commitment to reset the relationship between the federal government and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.

“This is about ensuring that there is equal investment, and it is not just in terms of money, it is in terms of out-

comes — that we create the space in this country for every child to be able to succeed,” Wilson-Raybould said.

“This is the place and time.”

Angus scoffed at the notion that the government doesn’t have at least some sense of how much it needs to spend

4. The tribunal also found the government retaliated against Blackstock Last June, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found a government official “retaliated” against Blackstock and awarded her $20,000 for pain and suffering. She donated the money to children’s charities.

The dispute centred on a December 2009 meeting at the ministerial headquarters in Gatineau, Que., where Blackstock said she was the only person barred from a gathering with the chiefs of Ontario.

5. The challenge is not over Blackstock and AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde say they will push for the federal government to make concrete financial commitments to address child welfare in the upcoming budget. Blackstock estimates it will take at least $200 million a year to close the funding gap. per year to end the disparity. And beyond that, there are other important considerations, he added.

“What are they going to pay in compensation for the damage that they’ve done to this generation of young people?”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LA LOCHE, Sask. — Despite the pain and grief following a mass shooting that has torn at the fabric of a northern Saskatchewan town, there is hope among its leaders that what happened will be a catalyst for change.

The violent deaths of four people at a school and in a home have exposed La Loche and its social problems to national scrutiny.

Leonard Montgard, executive director of the La Loche Friendship Centre, suggests locals should look at it as a call to action.

“The stigma that comes with all the things that happen in our community, the negative things, it discourages people from coming to our community to set up,” he said a few days after the shooting.

“And now it’s dependent upon our community members to go forth and set up their own businesses. We have to take that direction.”

La Loche is a town, not a reserve.

But more than 90 per cent of the region’s population self-identify as aboriginal, the Keewatin Yatthe Regional Health Authority said in its 2014-15 annual report.

A lack of opportunity in the community of about 3,000 has been cited as a reason behind crime rates that are much higher than the provincial average.

Curtis Woloschuk, senior policy adviser for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, said La Loche had 83,021 reported crimes per 100,000 people in 2014. The provincial average was 10,505. La Loche RCMP dealt with 3,012 incidents in 2014, down from 3,662 a decade earlier.

Woloschuk said violent crime has dropped 50 per cent in La Loche in the last decade. Rates have been dropping nationally as well.

But there have been high-profile encounters.

In 2011, RCMP members had to barricade themselves in the hospital away from a mob of angry party-goers when a man on an all-terrain vehicle ran off the road while being chased by police.

In 2009, a 13-year-old girl was hit in a drive-by shooting.

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Drunk driver sent to prison for death of woman in crash SASKATOON — A man who admitted he was drunk when he caused a crash that killed a 25-year-old Saskatchewan woman has been sent to prison.

A judge in Saskatoon provincial court accepted a joint submission of four years for John Koch, whose blood alcohol was three times the legal limit.

Koch pleaded guilty earlier this month to impaired driving causing the death of Danille Kerpan of Kenaston in October 2014.

She died on the Thanksgiving weekend when a truck going the wrong way collided with her vehicle on Highway 11 near Bladworth.

Her father, former Saskatchewan MLA Allan Kerpan, has become an anti-drunk-driving advocate.

About 50 of Kerpan’s family and friends lined the walls of the courtroom and wore pins with a picture of her smiling face.

WASHINGTON — The Canadian government has fired off a pre-emptive strike before American lawmakers hold a hearing in which the northern

A suicide rate triple the provincial average has also received a lot of attention since Friday’s shooting.

Kathy Willerth with the Saskatchewan Health Ministry said the suicide rate for the health authority that includes La Loche was 44.6 per 100,000 people from 2008 to 2012. The average provincial rate was 12.2.

But Willerth said the actual number of suicides in the region of about 11,000 people is much lower. There were two in 2010, three a year later and two again in 2012.

It’s unclear when children will return to school in La Loche.

“What is key is creating a sense of normalcy for the students,” Donna Johnson of the Education Ministry said Tuesday.

“What’s also important is ensuring the community have the appropriate time to grieve their losses, to have their memorials and receive counselling.”

Resident Perry Herman said the community doesn’t want the outside world to focus on the negative.

“It takes a lot of time for them to realize and then all of a sudden to step up and say, ‘OK, I need to do something to move on,” he said. “In those

times, they need people like counsellors and whatnot. They need people who are going to get up and to be motivated to move on in life again.”

For Montgard the problem is economic opportunity.

“La Loche is not a bad community.

This is an isolated incident,” he said.

“This could happen to any community anywhere in Canada.

“But we have economic conditions and social conditions that are, bar none … really, really hurtful to our community and … they’ll take time to change.”

neighbour’s Syria refugee policy will be on the hot seat.

It sent a note to members of a powerful U.S. Senate committee that has scheduled a meeting next week titled, “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.”

The U.S. Senate homeland-security hearing is, for the Trudeau government, an unwanted flip-side to the praise it received from progressives and foreign media outlets last month when the prime minister personally greeted refugees at the airport.

This will be far less laudatory, judging from the list of witnesses invited to testify before the committee next Wednesday: most have already publicly challenged Canada’s plan to quickly accept 25,000 refugees.

The Canadian embassy had also been invited to testify but declined, said ambassador Gary Doer, citing a long-standing practice of avoiding ap-

pearances in that partisan domestic political chamber.

lowing 30 days of consultations with doctors and Ontario residents.

An earlier draft limited physicians to providing the service only to Ontario residents.

Other changes include a clarification that conscientious objectors do not have to assess whether a patient is eligible for doctor-assisted death before referring them to another physician.

The Supreme Court found last year that Canadians with unbearable and irremediable suffering could be eligible to end their lives with a doctor’s aid.

The decision to strike down the ban on doctor-assisted dying was set to take effect on Feb. 6 but the federal government obtained a four-month extension, during which those seeking the service must get approval from court.

Ont. doctors receive interim guidelines for providing assisted death TORONTO — Ontario doctors will be permitted to provide assistance in dying to eligible patients within Canada who qualify for publicly funded health care as the federal government works to legislate doctor-assisted suicide.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on Monday approved its interim guidelines for doctors who are approached by patients seeking help in dying before doctor-assisted suicide becomes legal nationwide on June 6.

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Lacombe turns down RDC for funding

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“I THINK IT’S JUST MAKING SURE EVERYONE IS HEARD AND GETS A VOICE, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND STAFF.”

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Notre Dame High School principal Rose McQuay is one of 40 principals from across the country to be recognized for exemplifying excellence in public education.

Difference making educator NOTRE DAME’S ROSE MCQUAY A FINALIST FOR CANADA’S OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer has a finalist for Canada’s Outstanding Principal.

Notre Dame High School principal Rose McQuay is one of 40 principals from across the country to be recognized for exemplifying excellence in public education.

The 12th annual award program, presented by the Learning Partnership, celebrates principals who demonstrate innovation, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are creative in finding solutions and opportunities.

As part of the program, each of the 40 winners attends an intensive fiveday executive leadership program in Toronto at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and is recognized at an awards gala on Feb. 23.

McQuay said the award is the result of a strong shared vision at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools.

“This award is a culmination. I’ve had amazing mentors who have led the way and most importantly I’ve had great staff and colleagues working with in order for me to be successful.

It’s really a group effort. This a group award I will be graciously be accepting everyone’s behalf,” said McQuay, 50, on Tuesday.

McQuay has worked as a principal for six years. She said over that time, the job has become more hands-on and focused on being an instructional leader to help students become critical thinkers.

McQuay was principal at Holy Family School in Red Deer and St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Catholic School in Innisfail before moving into the position at Notre Dame in 2014.

She said the main difference with Notre Dame was its size — 1,625 students and over 100 staff.

“I think it’s just making sure everyone is heard and gets a voice, students, parents and staff.”

She said her role encompasses meeting students’ needs, being an instructional leader, mentoring teachers and modeling change, making sure teachers have resources in their hands and proper professional development.

“It’s a great job,” McQuay said.

Superintendent Paul Mason said McQuay is an excellent educator and administrator. She has a way of making a positive difference in the lives of students, staff and parents.

“It’s a very diverse and demanding job and Rose does it with a sense of polish and caring and heartfelt enthusiasm,” Mason said.

The 2016 Canada’s Outstanding Principals will join the ranks of the National Academy of Canada’s Outstanding Principals, which now boasts almost 400 members.

For more information, visit www. thelearningpartnership.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Council seeks grant for arena upgrade

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF City of Lacombe is hoping to land a $350,000 grant to help pay for a $13.7-million recreation complex upgrade.

Council approved a motion on Monday to apply for an Alberta Community Partnership Intermunicipal Collaboration Grant. The provincial grant program is designed to provide money for projects where communities are working together.

City of Lacombe has started work on a $13.7-million project to build new dressing rooms as part of a 7,000-square-foot addition to the Barnett Arena. That work was approved last month and was added to a $10.3-million project to upgrade the arena and swimming complex, including adding a redesigned lobby, more community space and undertaking re-

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“THE ALBERTA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM CONTAINS SPECIFIC PROVISION FOR UPGRADES OR EXPANSION OF FACILITIES WHERE EFFORTS RESULT IN EXPANDED LEVELS OF SERVICES OR REDUCES SAFETY ISSUES FOR THE COMMUNITY.” —BRENDA VAUGHAN, LACOMBE COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR quired safety code improvements.

The city is confident its project fits the government’s intentions.

“The Alberta Community Partner-

ship Grant Program contains specific provision for upgrades or expansion of facilities where efforts result in expanded levels of services or reduces safety issues for the community,” said the city’s community services director Brenda Vaughan. “The arena renovation project appears to align with these criteria.”

On Thursday, Lacombe County council will discuss providing some funding help based on the percentage of users of the recreation complex from its population. The two municipalities are joining forces on a separate $350,000 application, this time to go towards completion of a trail between Lacombe and Ponoka.

Running mostly on the west side of the highway, the section of Trans Canada Trail would connect to a popular trail already built between Blackfalds and Lacombe. The cost of the new portion has not yet been determined. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan forming anti-social task force TARGETING GRAFFITI, DOG CONTROL, NUISANCE PROPERTIES

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Igloos for Insulin raising funds for diabetes association Canadian Diabetes Association is inviting Central Albertans to make super snow forts by participating in Igloos for Insulin on March 18 at 2 p.m.

Igloos for the fundraising challenge will be built in Parkland Mall parking lot.

Teams of 10 people are invited to take on the frosty challenge and must bring their own tools for igloo construction.

To enter, each team must contribute $500. Any additional funds provided earns the team extra snow to construct their igloo for a chance to win some great prizes.

Proceeds will support diabetes research and educational programs in Alberta, including helping to send children with Type 1 diabetes to camp.

To register a team, contact Shalene at 403-638-6573 or Jackie at 403-3464631.

Mayor’s Recognition Awards open for nominations Nominations are now being accepted for the Mayor’s Recognition Awards.

The awards program recognizes individuals, groups and teams from Red Deer whose actions have brought honour and recognition to the city.

Five recognition categories are athletics, fine and performing arts, distinguished voluntary service, community builder and mayor’s special award.

Nominations will be accepted until Feb. 16 at 9 a.m. Awards will be presented at a ceremony in June.

For more information, or to print a nomination form, visit www.reddeer.ca.

Nomination forms can also be picked up at the Legislative Services department at City Hall, 4914-48 Ave.

Conservation, education and awareness focus of awards

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake wants to crack down on graffiti and anti-social behaviour.

A persistent problem with graffiti vandalism prompted council last fall to examine ways to deal with nuisance issues.

Council directed staff to explore and cost out initiatives that could be included within a Community Standards Enhancement Program.

But first, staff are recommending a task force be created to pinpoint recurring anti-social behaviours that concern the community and how best to respond.

Town communication officer Joanne Gaudet said the task force is a “creative way” to address issues.

“It’s not only graffiti, we get a lot of complaints about dog control on the beach or about nuisance properties.

“So it kind of covers all of that.”

City of Lacombe says it doesn’t have any extra cash to help the Red Deer College’s huge expansion.

Lacombe’s mayor and councillors were given a tour of the college and told about plans to market the Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport as a regional facility.

The city was asked if it could contribute funding towards the $88-million project.

“It’s an incredible facility and it’s great for the region, but at this time our plate is full with our existing capital projects,” said Mayor Steve Christie on Tuesday. “I can’t see us affording any financial contribution at this time.”

Lacombe has begun work on a $13.7-million project to upgrade its recreation complex, including a $3.4-million addition to the arena to expand dressing rooms.

The city estimates it needs to spend $67 million over the next 10 years in infrastructure upgrades.

Christie said while the city doesn’t have the financial means to support the centre, local volunteers are expected to be a part of the 2019 Canada Winter Games, which will use the college facility.

The college has an ambitious fundraising campaign in full swing. Lacombe County has donated $1 million, Red Deer County $500,000 and the City of Red Deer is committing $1.15 million annually for 10 years beginning in 2017.

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Sylvan Lake is looking at developing a Community Standards Task Force to look into how to address a persistent graffiti problem and other community nuisances.

In a staff report reviewed by council on Monday, it was recommended a task force be created and given a budget of $5,000 to look at problems and how to address them and then report back to council.

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But council wanted more information on the terms of reference for the task force before making a decision.

The issue is expected to come back to council on Feb. 8. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Heritage conservation, education and awareness in the Red Deer area is the focus of the 2016 Heritage Recognition Awards.

The City of Red Deer and Red Deer County will host an event to launch the call for submissions at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, 4525 47A Avenue on Feb. 3 from 11 a.m. to noon.

Nominations for the awards will be accepted until 3 p.m. on June 30.

The 2016 Heritage Recognition Awards will be held on Oct. 21 at Red Deer County Council Chambers.

“These awards recognize individuals and groups who have made an impact in preserving our heritage,” said Paul Gowans, chairman of the Heritage Preservation Committee. “Whether you’re a heritage enthusiast or would just like to learn more about the history of Red Deer and area, you’re welcome to attend the launch.”

Members of the Heritage Preservation Committee will be in attendance to answer questions.

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Moving to protect against Zika BRAZIL OLYMPIC VENUES TO BE CHECKED DAILY TO HELP STOP ZIKA VIRUS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic venues will be inspected daily during the games in a bid to prevent the spread of a mosquito-borne virus linked to a rare birth defect and also a condition that can cause paralysis, local organizers said Sunday.

Brazil is suffering from an outbreak of Zika virus, which health officials here say may be behind a spike in cases of microcephaly, which sees infants born with unusually small heads, as well as the paralysis-causing Guillain-Barre syndrome. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised pregnant women to reconsider travel to Brazil and 21 other countries with Zika outbreaks.

The Rio 2016 local organizing committee stressed that because the Aug. 5-21 games are during the southern hemisphere winter, Brazil’s dry season, the mosquito population will be smaller.

In any case, teams will scour Rio’s Olympic and Paralympic sites daily, looking for stagnant waters that are the breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits Zika, as well as dengue and chikungunya.

“Rio 2016 will continue to monitor the issue closely and follow guidance from the Brazilian Ministry of Health,” the committee said in a statement.

The Zika outbreak is the latest problem to hit South America’s first Olympics, coming as Brazil battles its deepest recession in generations, as

well as a gargantuan corruption probe that has ensnared top politicians and some of the country’s most prominent businessmen.

Rio organizers are cutting about $500 million in expenses, several million tickets remain unsold, and venues for sailing, canoeing and rowing are rife with high virus levels linked to Rio’s outdate sewage treatment system.

The Zika virus originated in Africa and has spread through parts of Asia. It was first detected in Brazil late last year. Researchers suspect it may have been brought to the South American nation by a tourist during the 2014 World Cup or during an international canoeing event in Rio the same year.

The disease spread swiftly, hitting hardest the poor and underdeveloped region in the country’s northeast.

Health officials sounded the alarm in October, after noticing a spike in cases of microcephaly in tandem with the Zika outbreak. Since October, Brazil has recorded 3,893 suspected cases of the birth defect — which can lead to stillbirths, as well as long-lasting developmental and health problems among survivors. In all of 2014, South America’s most-populous nation recorded fewer than 150 cases of microcephaly.

Brazil’s Health Ministry doesn’t track the cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare and potentially life-threatening nerve condition that can leave victims paralyzed and on life-support, but doctors in the northeast have reported a six-fold jump in

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A female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Aedes aegypti can spread the Zika virus, which is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and usually causes a mild illness but is now suspected in an unusual birth defect and possibly other health issues. the number of cases during last year’s rainy season.

Health experts blame the chaotic growth of urban centres and the proliferation of plastic, which provide fertile mosquito breeding grounds, for the spread of the Aedes aegypti mos-

quito that carries Zikai.

They say that a vaccine appears to be the best way of stopping Zika. Although the government has said it is pouring funds into developing a vaccine, officials caution that it will take at least three years.

An effective solution to the winter blues TALK THERAPY MARLENE CIMONS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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Seasonal affective disorder can trigger crippling depression once the shorter winter days come around. A recent study found that traditional talk therapy may actually work better over time than other traditional treatments like light therapy and ant-depressants. the University of Vermont and author of the study, published last fall in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

By contrast, cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, is a preventive approach that teaches people to recognize and challenge their negative thoughts, and replace them with positive feelings and actions. “It’s great progress to get someone with SAD to think, ‘I prefer summer to winter’ than ‘I hate winter,’ and encourage them to engage in proactive behavior,’’ such as getting out of bed on a dark morning to exercise rather than going back to sleep, Rohan says.

“What is unique about this form of depression is that it follows a seasonal pattern,’’ Rohan says. “A winter-type SAD person feels the very best in the summer. There is a very slim minority of patients who are depressed in the summer and feel best in the winter, mostly because of a sensitivity to heat and humidity, but most experience

Study by Calgary doctors warns home cooks about parasites in raw fish

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary doctors say a rare parasite could become more common as uncooked culinary trends such as sushi, sashimi and ceviche grow in popularity.

A new report in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology examines the case of a Calgary man stricken by tiny parasitic worms in his stomach after eating raw, wild salmon from a grocery store.

The article says it’s the first time the tiny, toothed worms have been found in a human after consuming Canadian store-bought salmon.

Dr. Stephen Vaughan from Calgary’s South Health Campus led the study and reported the results.

The report says the 50-year-old man arrived in the emergency department with vomiting and upper abdomen pain about one hour after eating raw, wild salmon.

After x-rays and stool tests found nothing remarkable, doctors sent an endoscope camera inside the patient’s stomach and spotted the worms — between one and two centimetres long

— wriggling inside several stomach ulcers.

Two worms were removed and identified as anisakis, a parasitic worm that lives in fish and aquatic animals and leads to the condition anisakiasis.

“Although a skilled sushi chef will recognize the distinctive `watch coil’ appearance of the larval worms (approximately 1 centimetres to 2 centimetres) in raw fish, individuals preparing their own sushi may not,” the report’s authors wrote.

Researchers say that raw fish prepared at home can contain anisakis and other dangerous parasites because the fish may not have been frozen — a process typically used by sushi restaurants that kills the tiny larvae.

Several provinces have regulations that ensure that raw fish is frozen before being served at restaurants, but grocery stores are often not included in such regulations.

To err on the side of caution, the report recommends that fish purchased from grocery stores be frozen at -20 C for a week — or at a colder temperature for a shorter period of time — before being eaten raw.

SAD in the winter. We see dramatic changes in behavior. These people don’t interact with others, sometimes they don’t even answer the phone.

They go into hibernation mode.’’

In her study, funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, 177 people with SAD were treated with six weeks of either light therapy - timed, daily exposure to bright artificial light of specific wavelengths using a light box - or a special form of CBT, with 90-minute group therapy sessions twice a week.

The latter group learned to challenge negative thoughts about dark winter months and to resist certain behaviors such as avoiding social contact.

“We developed a CBT protocol specific to seasonal depression,’’ Rohan explains. “The cognitive part involves having people write down their thoughts and examine them in less negative ways. When you engage in that process - recognizing and chal-

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Many of us, myself included, dread that Sunday every fall when we must turn the clocks back and sunset comes early. (I’d rather curse the darkness than light a single candle.) I miss being outdoors in the evening, walking or playing with my dogs, and I hate driving in the dark, when I don’t see as well.

But these reactions are mild compared with what some people experience. For the more than 14 million Americans (an estimate extrapolated from research surveys) with seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, the onset of shorter, darker days can trigger a far more serious reaction.

This is real depression, with symptoms that can be crippling: While some researchers dispute that winter per se is the cause, many studies have found specific seasonal symptoms as the light wanes: profound melancholy, loss of interest in otherwise enjoyable activities, social isolation, significant sleep and/or appetite changes, difficulty concentrating and, in extreme cases, thoughts of suicide.

For years, the gold standard of treatment for SAD has been regular exposure to artificial light, an effective approach as long as people consistently use it. Patients also sometimes take antidepressants to ease their symptoms; Wellbutrin XL is the only drug specifically approved to treat SAD, although some clinicians also prescribe selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors, such as Zoloft and Prozac.

But a recent study found that traditional talk therapy actually may work better over time, especially in preventing relapses.

“Light therapy is a palliative treatment, like blood pressure medication, that requires you to keep using the treatment to be effective,’’ says Kelly Rohan, a professor of psychology at

lenging these negative thoughts - your mood improves.’’

The behavioral piece of the treatment encouraged participants to resist “spending a lot of time indoors under a blanket and cutting themselves off from social contact’’ by such activities as getting out of the house to exercise, for example, and interacting more with their friends and family.

“We have them try to take baby steps to get out of that negative mode,’’ Rohan says. “We encourage them to think about things they might be able to do in the winter, even though it does take more effort. Short of lying on a beach, there are things you can do. For example, maybe you like to garden, so perhaps you could start cultivating bulbs indoors.’’

The cognitive and behavioral aspects “work in tandem by changing thoughts and actions, and they put a dent in the depression,’’ she adds.

Two winters after the initial treatment, 46 percent in the light-therapy group reported a recurrence of depression, compared with 27 percent in the CBT group. Symptoms also were more severe in the light-therapy group, according to the study.

“Only about one-third of our light-therapy participants reported any light therapy at the first or second winter follow-up,’’ Rohan says. “This is lower than hoped for a treatment that is meant to be continued each fall/winter season.’’

The study did not ask why patients failed to comply with the regimen, but Rohan believes they probably find it inconvenient and burdensome.

“Think about spending at least 30 minutes in front of a device each day for the duration of SAD season,’’ she says. The season lasts five months, which means 75 hours of light therapy.

“If they have a job or other responsibilities, they typically have to rise early to get their light therapy in before they need to go to work, or get the kids ready for school, and most SAD patients have low energy and oversleeping as symptoms that make this difficult,’’ she says.

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Always best to tell spouse the truth Dear Annie: Several years ago, I had a much talked about affair with an older married man at my office. It lasted for several years. I was single at the time, and I met him at a very low period in my life.

He told me I was smart, pretty and fun to be with. He showered me with flowers and gifts. He led me to believe his marKATHY MITCHELL riage was loveAND MARCY SUGAR less and his only happiness ANNIE’S MAILBOX was seeing me at work and talking to me on the phone.

We did everything leading up to sex, but never actually completed intercourse due to religious reasons.

After a few years, I met the man I

am now married to.

The older man became very angry and began harassing me, emotionally and verbally. I reported him to my supervisors several times, but it only made matters worse.

He has finally retired, but I still feel him watching me. I can’t prove anything, and I can’t tell my husband because he has no idea how involved we were. Aside from warning other women to beware of married men bearing love and gifts, what can I do? — Learned My Lesson Dear Learned: If your affair did not include intercourse and it happened before you met your husband, he may be more understanding than you think.

Everyone makes mistakes.

Also, if the people in your office are aware of the relationship, your husband may find out about it anyway.

A loving spouse can be a tremendous source of support, and your husband may be perfectly willing to forgive this lapse in judgment.

Nonetheless, it will help you to talk to someone, and if your husband is not

Wednesday, Jan. 27 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Alan Cumming, 50; Rosamund Pike, 36; Mimi Rogers, 59 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Work hard and keep your opinions to yourself.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: You are bright and even precocious, and others love JOANNE MADELINE to be around you.

MOORE 2016 is the year to define your goals HOROSCOPE and dreams more clearly and succinctly.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Relationships will be tricky today Rams, and there may be some tension between professional and personal partnerships. The main thing that will help resolve problems is compromise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tread carefully with a fragile friendship today. Don’t barge in like a Bull at a gate! There’s more to the situation than meets the eye, so dig deeper to discover what’s really going on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The more honest and open you are with family members, the better the day will be. All types of study and research are also favoured, as you take the time to investigate something thoroughly.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may feel sluggish today Crabs. Perhaps you need to be more disciplined with your exercise routine? If you haven’t done so already, now’s the time to establish healthy habits for 2016.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A relationship with a child, teenager or friend may be tested today Lions, as you discover what their real

agenda is. Cooperation is required, if you want to get things back on track.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What you want and what you need are two very different things today Virgo. An old hope, dream or wish may need to be updated so its a more positive expression of the new you in 2016.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It will be difficult to connect with others emotionally. The more dependent you are, the more they’ll distance themselves. Don’t take it personally — look for emotional nourishment from within.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Passion and intensity are in the air today Scorpio, as your relationships move to a deeper level.

Don’t keep your feelings to yourself — have the courage to express your heart’s true desire.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re full of ideas but the challenge is to follow through on commitments. If you make a promise — keep it; if you set a goal — work to achieve it. And, most of all — finish what you start.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Goats — you’ll need to handle others with kid gloves today, as irritation is high and patience low.

Avoid being bossy and bombastic — consultation and cooperation will get you a lot further.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep re-inventing yourself Aquarius. Your motto for the moment is from birthday great, writer Lewis Carroll: “I can’t go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Close relationships are highlighted.

But connecting with loved ones will be tricky today, as pressing responsibilities pull you in opposing directions. Clear communication is the key.

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“A.” Evaluations were conducted for three main factors: curriculum content development of critical and creative thinking skills and the amount of mandatory Canadian history content at junior, intermediate and senior levels.

Here is the overview of final grades and percentages: 1. Ontario, A-, 82 per cent 2. British Columbia, A-, 81 per cent 3. (tie) Quebec, A-, 80 per cent 3. (tie) Manitoba, A-, 80 per cent 5. Newfoundland and Labrador, B, 75 per cent (anglophone) 74 per cent (francophone) 6. Nova Scotia, B-, 73 per cent (anglophone) 72 per cent (francophone) 7. New Brunswick, B-, 71 per cent (anglophone) 71 per cent (francophone) 8. Prince Edward Island B-, 71 per cent (anglophone) 70 per cent (francophone) 9. Saskatchewan, C+, 69 per cent 10. Alberta, C-, 62 per cent 1. Yukon, A-, 81 per cent 2. (tie) Northwest Territories, B-, 72 per cent 2. (tie) Nunavut, B-, 72 per cent

The majority of Canada’s provinces and territories have been assigned high marks on a new report card on history education. Historica Canada looked at both social studies and history curricula from grades 7 through 12 across the country. Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and Manitoba topped the provincial rankings in the Canadian History Report Card, with each earning A- grades. Among the territories, Yukon was assigned A-, ahead of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut which both got B-minus.

It’s a vast improvement from the 2009 report card, which focused solely on history courses offered from grades 9 through 12. Four provinces were assigned an “F” and none receiving an

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kids in front of the TV all day, which was blatantly untrue. A new job across the country helped separate me from her venom.

Her terrible behavior and her efforts to hang on to her son cost her a decent relationship with my husband and any connection to her grandchildren. Perhaps the letter writers need to honestly examine their own behavior to determine the cause of their family strife. It isn’t always the daughter-in-law. — Been There, Survived Dear Been: How sad for everyone.

We hope all estranged family members will make a genuine effort to consider whether their own actions need adjusting before placing the blame on the other person.

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the right person, please consider discussing your fears with a counselor or clergyperson.

The more serious problem is the possibility that the ex is stalking you.

If you ever catch him watching your home, car or office, or following you anywhere, please notify the police immediately and, if necessary, get a restraining order.

Dear Annie: I have read many letters in your column from mothers-inlaw who don’t understand why they have a strained relationship with their daughters-in-law. May I add a perspective from the other side?

We lived a couple of miles from my in-laws. We had a good relationship until our children were born.

Then my MIL dropped in unannounced at least once a day.

She refused to call in advance, despite numerous requests to do so. Her attitude was overbearing and critical.

She had nothing positive to say, and criticized our house, child rearing and financial decisions. She loudly and repeatedly accused me of putting my

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Dear Dr. D: My husband and I are planning on having a baby this year. My teeth are in decent shape, but I need to know what I should be planning to make sure I don't need to have any dentistry performed that might harm my unborn child.

Usually I suggest my patients have a checkup prior to A: becoming pregnant. Make sure this includes a comprehensive hygiene session (cleaning), and they will also pinpoint any other oral health issues that your dentist discovers. Should you 'find' yourself pregnant and you haven't had a very recent checkup or any dental work – I suggest you wait until your 2nd trimester before undergoing any dental treatment unless it is an absolute emergency. If you have wisdom teeth, have them examined prior to your planned pregnancy. If they infect, it can be a risky situation.

Your baby will be in a critical stage prior to 2nd trimester, and nobody wishes to expose you and your child to any dental procedure that could in any way influence baby's development.

Routine cleaning can be done just about any time, but you should postpone any of your elective treatment until post-delivery.

This would be the ideal time to share with your dental office your 'expectant' state. Inform them of any prenatal vitamins or perhaps medications that you may be on. Plus, if your physician has you on any specific regimen as part of your pregnancy please share that as well. As a general rule, please avoid dental X-rays during your pregnancy. In the event of a real dental emergency, your dentist will take every step to safeguard your child. With digital technology that most offices now use, the amount of potentially harmful radiation is miniscule – but why take any chance?

It is most critical that you pledge to maintain a very high level of personal oral hygiene. You can still have a checkup, and your dentist will be measuring your gum (periodontal) pockets. There is an outside chance you may be consuming more sweet foods during this time, so brush often and floss often. Expect some additional tenderness with your gums, and watch for any bleeding or swelling. That would be the time to consult a dentist ASAP. If you do experience nausea in the morning, change the flavor of your toothpaste and that may eliminate or reduce any reaction to some of that 'bright cheery flavour' in some toothpastes.

Remember that your baby's primary teeth will begin to develop in st your 1 trimester. Adult teeth begin forming at 6 months postdelivery. Yes - you are 'eating for two' but try to eat healthy foods because the food you consume provides nutrients for your child's oral development too!

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The truth is out there AMERICANS LOVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES — ‘THE X-FILES’ SHOWS US WHY WE FALL FOR THEM

BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Resurrections of old franchises have colonized pop culture with the ruthless efficiency of an alien invasion, from Netflix’s Fuller House to the movie box-office conquest by The Force Awakens.

But while most of these projects feel driven mostly by the profit motive, The X-Files, which returned to Fox on Sunday as a miniseries, has perhaps slightly more claim than its peers to contemporary relevance. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have come back to television at a time when conspiratorial thinking has a fresh hold on the American imagination.

Jacob Clifton, in a great column in the Austin Chronicle about how TV has gotten better and braver about naming specific people and ideas for contemporary problems, pointed out that a key characteristic of the series has aged less well at a moment when shows such as Billions and Mr. Robot are attacking real institutions and technological developments rather than vague and sinister forces.

“The truth: out ‘there.’ Advertising: evil. Naomi Klein: very upset about something. The bad guys? The real, actual, vile bad guys? Still not sure. It involved bees, I know that much. Goo, of various colors and consistencies, may have been to blame,” Clifton writes.

“So when The X-Files returns, will it be a Bernie Sanders: transparent, fire and brimstone, no-nonsense, utopian? A Hillary Clinton: all emojis and abuelas? A Vape-Smoking Man on a hoverboard like Fisher Stevens in Hackers? Or will it be a Donald Trump: red-faced, spooky, xenophobic, and babbling? I can see it going any way.

What I don’t want to see is a return to the safe arms of a faceless conspiracy, with no financial interests and an unknown agenda, because we did that, and it didn’t work, and we know who the bad guys are.”

But if the elusive nature of the conspiracy in The X-Files indicated a lack of political courage, Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever suggests that the ability to project anything you wanted to onto the show was part of its appeal.

“The motto of The X-Files, ‘the truth is out there,’ first sounded like a clarion call to skeptics, scientists and kooks alike, who, it was assumed, could agree to disagree, so long as the result was the unearthing of fact,” he wrote in his review of the new series. “Today, in a world of birthers and truthers and other conspiracy wackos who find remarkable amplitude with the Internet, ‘the truth is out there’ sounds like a taunt to a people who can no longer agree on what to disagree about.

Everyone is spooked by the very real notion that the most outlandish possibilities and rumors could very well be

Abe Vigoda, sunken-eyed character actor, dead at 94 NEW YORK — Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sunken-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series Barney Miller and the doomed Mafia soldier in “The Godfather,” died Tuesday at age 94.

Vigoda’s daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, said Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at Fuchs’ home in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The cause of death was old age. “This man was never sick,” Fuchs said.

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In the first episode of ‘The X-Files’ miniseries, we learn that Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now doing reconstructive surgeries for children born without ears, while Mulder (David Duchovny) has gone mostly off the grid and become a scruffy recluse.

They’re brought back together by Tad O’Malley (‘Community’ star Joel McHale), an Alex Jones-like figure who wants to enlist them as he goes public with his theories about the relationship between the military-industrial complex and the existence of aliens. true.”

I’ve seen three episodes of the new run of The X-Files. The first lays out a new theory of alien activity and alien technology on Earth before the show scampers off to the sort of monsterof-the-week episodes it executed so deftly during its original stint on television. And while the third episode in particular is better than the first, The X-Files manages to make an oddly compelling case for the appeal of conspiratorial thinking.

In that first episode, we learn that Scully is now doing reconstructive surgeries for children born without

meeting a woman with mysterious scars (Annet Mahendru, used less well here than on The Americans) and seeing some very shiny hardware, they’re back on the trail of the paranormal.

Watching O’Malley and Mulder trying to convince Scully — drawing connections among hydrogen bomb testing, the Tuskeegee syphilis study and Henrietta Lacks, or among police militarization, conspiracy theories about Federal Emergency Management camps and a scenario in which banks collude to seize all our money — The X-Files makes a case for how emotionally reassuring it might be to find a

‘CONSPIRACY THEORIES MAY BE A PRODUCT OF DEEP UNREASON. BUT IN MULDER AND O’MALLEY’S CASE, THEY’VE TURNED TO CONSPIRATORIAL THINKING AS A WAY TO RATIONALIZE THE WORLD, TO MAKE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SEEMINGLY DISPARATE EVENTS AND TO SUGGEST THAT SOMETHING TIES THE CHAOS OF THE WORLD TOGETHER. CONSPIRACY THEORIES OFTEN LEAD TO DARK PLACES, BUT THEY’RE A WAY TO AVOID FACING THE MUCH MORE TERRIFYING CHAOS OF THE UNIVERSE.’ ears, while Mulder has gone mostly off the grid and become a scruffy recluse. They’re brought back together

by Tad O’Malley (Community star Joel McHale), an Alex Jones-like figure who wants to enlist them as he goes public with his theories about the relationship between the military-industrial complex and the existence of aliens.

At first, Scully and Mulder are suspicious of O’Malley — “Conspiracy sells. It pays for bullet-proof limousines,” Mulder tells O’Malley, a charge that also applies to everyone involved in resurrecting The X-Files. But after

theory that connects all sorts of seemingly disparate attempts.

Conspiracy theories may be a product of deep unreason. But in Mulder and O’Malley’s case, they’ve turned to conspiratorial thinking as a way to rationalize the world, to make connections between seemingly disparate events and to suggest that something ties the chaos of the world together.

Conspiracy theories often lead to dark places, but they’re a way to avoid facing the much more terrifying chaos of the universe.

And more than that, they often sug-

gest that our problems are fixable.

O’Malley proves himself to Mulder by revealing the existence of a clean, free-energy technology that he says the U.S. government has known about since the 1940s. Ideas like this suggest that the solutions to humankind’s gravest calamities are either within our grasp or known to us already. It’s the venality of other people we have to overcome, not our own ignorance or situations that may be fundamentally unfixable.

Once again, the ideas may be grim it’s bad enough to think that we fought wars for oil, but even worse to believe that we did so even though we could have been freed from our oil addiction decades ago - but the impulses are fundamentally optimistic to naivete.

It’s much more frightening to think that some of our problems can’t be conquered at all than to think bad men are trying to keep us from obvious advances that would improve our quality of life.

In a way, the boldest thing “The X-Files” could do wouldn’t be to prove any of Mulder’s wildest theories, but to debunk them entirely, and force Mulder and Scully to simply accept that some things are mysteries, and some pain is unending. If Mulder’s sister, Samantha, was abducted first by aliens and then the government, that gives her disappearance and Mulder’s agony meaning in the way her simple vanishment and death would not.

If William, Scully and Mulder’s child, is chosen, rather than merely gone, that gives him significance that acts as a kind of tonic. “I want to believe,” Mulder says over and over again. But that desire can be a way to hide from the truth, rather than confront it directly.

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Trudeau clears the air PRIME MINISTER SAYS HIS JOB IS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER

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MONTREAL — Ottawa’s role is not to force cities such as Montreal to accept energy projects, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, a day after his opponents demanded he tell the city’s mayor to “smarten up” and accept the Energy East pipeline.

Trudeau met with Denis Coderre for 45 minutes Tuesday to discuss a range of issues including the recent decision by the Montreal mayor and the organization that represents area municipalities to reject the 4,600-kilometre pipeline.

The prime minister said his government will create a review process to provide energy companies with a chance to prove to cities and towns across the country that a project is in their best interests.

“The responsibility of the federal government is to establish a clear process whereby people can evaluate the projects in a rigorous and open man-

ner,” Trudeau said.

He added the new review rules will include additional requirements forcing energy companies to “take into account all greenhouse gas emissions, including those upstream.”

The Conservatives have accused Trudeau of lacking leadership on the energy file.

Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose says Trudeau should be championing pipelines and calling on Coderre and other mayors to accept Energy East to enable Alberta’s oilsands to be able to be shipped overseas.

Tory MP Candice Bergen told Trudeau in the Commons on Monday to “call Mr. Coderre and tell him to smarten up.”

Trudeau showed no signs he told Coderre any-

thing of the sort and added to reporters his government’s new review process for pipelines and energy projects is on its way. He gave no timeline.

TransCanada (TSX:TRP) plans to build a pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands, through Montreal, ending in New Brunswick, in order to open new markets.

The project would ship 1.1 million barrels of crude oil a day and allow Alberta’s energy — which is currently landlocked — to be exported to international markets other than the United States.

Coderre and several other Quebec mayors came out last week against the project, arguing the environmental risks associated with it far outweigh the economic benefits.

That triggered a war of words with certain western Canadian politicians, including Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Brian Jean, head of the Opposition Wildrose party in Alberta.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Few investors have escaped the carnage on the stock markets this year as the bears have taken over the Toronto exchange.

But for those closing in on retirement and those already there, the downturn may be even more frightening as the value in Canadian investment portfolios invested in stocks have taken a beating.

Pace Sturdevant, a retiree in Ottawa, says “it’s been depressing.”

“They’ve lost so much value that’s basically the only thing to do is sit tight and wait,” he said of his portfolio of stocks.

Sturdevant, 67, is keeping a close watch for any dividend cuts by companies in his portfolio of mostly dividend-paying stocks.

“It hasn’t happened so far,” he said.

The S&P/TSX composite is down about 20 per cent from his highs of last year, putting it in bear market territory.

Sturdevant knows he hopefully has another couple of decades of retirement to pay for, so he has time on his side.

That doesn’t make the losses any easier to take.

“I sold one stock that was a strong sell and I bought some stocks that have tanked,” he said.

The turmoil on the markets has amounted to a painful lesson for those close to retirement about the importance of balancing risk in their portfolios.

Peter Bowen, vice-president of tax and retirement research and solutions at Fidelity Investments, says investors need to start by asking themselves why they’re investing.

“If it’s for a house, that gives you a different answer than if it’s for retirement, and if it’s for a car, well yet again — a different answer,” he said. “The investment time horizon is one of those key inputs to the strategy, in addition to the individual’s goals and their tolerance for risk.”

Bowen says bear markets can serve as a litmus test for investors and their risk tolerance.

“If they aren’t sleeping at night because of their concerns about their portfolio, maybe they’ve overstated that risk tolerance,” he said.

Generally, the closer you are to spending your investments, the more conservative your portfolio should be.

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A CN locomotive moves in the railway yard in Dartmouth, N.S. Canadian National Railway has boosted its dividend by 20 per cent after capping a challenging year by growing profits 11 per cent to $941 in the fourth quarter.

Canadians hording a record $75B in extra cash: study

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadians are holding a record $75 billion in extra cash and continue to sock away money at a rate not seen in more than four years, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets.

Normally that extra money would be invested in equities, but the study found that nervousness over volatility in the markets has many Canadians reluctant to take the plunge.

And that, CIBC says, could end up costing them billions in lost investment returns.

According to the study, excess cash reserves held

by Canadians have risen notably since the 2008 financial crisis.

In the past year alone, cash positions are estimated to have risen more than 11 per cent — the fastest pace since early 2012 — reaching $75 billion as of December 2015.

That figure represented almost 10 per cent of the total value of overall personal liquid assets in Canada.

“We are currently witnessing the creation of personal cash buffers larger than at any other time on record,” said Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist

at CIBC World Markets and a co-author of the report.

“From a broader perspective, the Canadian economy is losing out because capital is not being allocated efficiently.”

An overly sour view of Canada from foreign investors combined with recent volatility in stock markets around the world has made for a tough investing environment, the report says.

“Consistent with past behaviour, Canadian investors have used current market volatility as an excuse to let cash pile up in their chequing and savings accounts,” Tal said.

The report finds that all Canadians, young and old alike, are making cash a bigger part of their portfolios.

“But , strikingly, those under 35 — the farthest away from retirement — are holding twice as much cash as those over the age of 65, about 33 per cent versus 15 per cent,” CIBC said in a release.

“While holding cash can guard against short-term spikes in volatility, it’s certainly a long-term drag on portfolio returns,” Tal said, adding that while the rush into cash during periods of volatility is understandable, Canadians tend to maintained those elevated cash positions for far too long after markets rebound.

Civil service negotiations could reverse $900M in savings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberals are poised to abandon the Conservative hardline approach to contract talks with public labour unions, a move that could cost the federal balance sheet nearly $1 billion this fiscal year.

The Liberal government has confirmed it will repeal Tory legislation that allows Ottawa to impose changes to short-term disability and sick leave in the public service.

The Treasury Board recently signalled to federal unions that it would make withdrawing a provision in Bill C-59 “one of its first orders of business.”

The action is expected to have fiscal consequences.

The Conservatives booked $900 million in savings to the government’s bottom line in last year’s budget, even though negotiations were still ongoing with the unions.

The Harper government’s accounting decision helped its election-year budget forecast a $2.4-billion surplus, including the contingency reserve.

By booking that figure, it means the 2015-16 bal-

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Since coming to power, the Liberals updated the 2015-16 budget projection in November to a $3-billion shortfall.

Internally, however, the government is aware that more could be shaved from the public books because of the accounting around the short-term disability and sick leave regime.

“If the (short-term disability plan) is not implemented this fiscal year, then the $900 million in savings in 2015-16 will need to be unwound,” said briefing material on “urgent issues” provided to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shortly after he took office.

The briefing said the matter could require action or a decision within 50 days of the October election.

Regardless of the outcome of contract talks, the government won’t ever see the $900 million in estimated savings realized in actual dollar terms, said Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada.

That’s because the value is a booked liability, she said.

“They can remove the liability from their books, but the Canadian public needs to understand it’s

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a liability that would have sat there to foreverness without ever actually having to be paid out,” Daviau said.

“Truth be told — and I’m sure this is not what Canadians want to hear — but there will be another $900 million that we’re in deficit.”

Briefing material prepared for Treasury Board President Scott Brison informed him about two court applications filed in June against the federal government by about a dozen labour unions. The Treasury Board oversees government negotiations with the civil service.

The unions allege that part of C-59 substantially interfered with collective bargaining and contravened the freedom of association section in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Brison’s briefing binder said.

The Trudeau briefing document noted that C-59 enacted provisions to permit the Treasury Board to modify terms and conditions of public service sick leaves and create the short-term disability plan in the absence of a negotiated agreement.

The Trudeau and Brison briefings, each labelled “secret,” were obtained separately by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

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Racing against the clock PAUL GODFREY ON POSTMEDIA’S WOES, ‘UNPROFITABLE’ TABLET-SPECIFIC BUSINESS MODEL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Paul Godfrey doesn’t need to be prompted to talk about the troubled state of Canada’s media industry in the midst of a steady stream of bleak news — the Postmedia CEO raises the topic himself.

Just a few minutes after stepping into his office at the company’s headquarters in downtown Toronto, Godfrey is already expounding on how he sees an industry in strife.

“There’s no doubt the business models for newspapers, magazines and conventional television are all being disrupted,” said the 77-year-old executive, stating what’s become painfully obvious for Canadian news outlets.

Godfrey points to technology giants like Google and Facebook as behemoth competitors who are luring away longtime advertisers by selling audience reach and metrics that traditional media companies simply cannot offer.

Canada’s media industry is indeed facing widespread turmoil — hundreds of pink slips have been handed out already this year, and two daily newspapers are closing down permanently — but Postmedia is sitting with its own unique time bomb of financial constraints.

The country’s largest newspaper chain, owner of the National Post and city dailies like the Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun, is operating under debt obligations that come due over the next few years at astronomical amounts.

This year, Postmedia owes $25.9 million of longterm debt, and that figure jumps to a stunning $302.7-million in 2017, according to its annual report filed last November.

If Postmedia is unable to repay those debts, or find a solution to refinance what it owes, the company is almost certain to wind up in bankruptcy.

Godfrey stops short of trying predict Postmedia’s future, saying that any suggestion its days are numbered is “a guess.” But he clearly identifies where the potential pitfalls lie.

“We have bills to pay called mortgages — firstlien and second-lien notes,” he said.

“When you own a house with two mortgages, you’re still bringing in income every week, but if your revenue starts to fall and you can’t pay off your mortgages, what are you going to do? You’re going to

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ENERGY EAST: Coderre could change his mind Rejecting Energy East is also partly a political decision, as surveys indicate the majority of Quebecers are against the project.

Coderre hinted Tuesday that if TransCanada were more forthcoming with details of the project and address the city’s environmental concerns, his mind could be changed.

“It’s not because we are asking questions and we are asking people to do their homework that we are not being respectful,” he said.

“At the end of the day it’s all about being respected. It’s to be responsible and have a balanced approach between economic development and sustainable development.”

Coderre pointed out that the Montreal area threw its support behind the

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Postmedia President and CEO Paul Godfrey is pictured in his Toronto office on Monday. keep cutting your costs or someone takes your home away from you,” he added.

Godfrey then explains one of the biggest challenges in repaying those debts.

“What’s really hurtful to us (is the) second-lien notes are all in U.S. funds,” he said. “With the Canadian dollar falling the way it’s falling, that’s almost like a noose around your neck.”

Others share those concerns, including Moody’s Investors Service, which last week further downgraded its ratings on the company over its refinanc-

Enbridge project because “they did their homework.”

Energy East’s vice-president for New Brunswick and Quebec, Louis Bergeron, said Tuesday that TransCanada intends to continue working with players affected by the pipeline, including the City of Montreal.

He said he hopes he can meet with Coderre.

Reminded of the mayor’s recent comment that TransCanada was arrogant for not participating in Montreal-area consultations on the project, Bergeron said the company is changing its approach.

“I think with my background and the experience I got building one pipeline in the province of Quebec in the last few years, I know what it takes to succeed,” he said. “I am right now completing my management team in Montreal and the No. 1 criteria to work for me is to be a respectful person.”

Bergeron led development of the Pipeline Saint-Laurent, a 240-kilometre-long project connecting Ultramar’s refinery near Quebec City with its Montreal-East petroleum product distribution centre.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock exchange reversed course from the previous day’s big loss to post a triple-digit gain Tuesday as zig-zagging oil prices rose sharply.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 188.16 points at 12,331.32, following a 246-point decline on Monday.

The heavily weighted energy subsector rose by more than four per cent as the March contract for North American benchmark crude oil rose $1.11 to settle at US$31.45 a barrel.

The commodity-sensitive loonie was also a big beneficiary of the jump in oil prices, rising 0.97 of a cent to end trading at 71.05 cents US. The last time the loonie closed above 71 cents US was on Jan. 6 and the currency fell as low as 68.21 cents US last week, according to Bank of Canada data.

Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory, a Raymond James company, said the rebound in oil prices from a 13-year low of US$28.35 last week could be temporary.

“You don’t want to let a few days of stability in oil prices fool you into thinking we’ve reached the bottom, because that type of thinking would have been wrong at least a handful of times over the last even just six months,” he said.

Pashootan said the root cause for the slide in the price of oil, which has fallen from a high above US$105 in June 2014, is a worldwide supply glut that shows little sign of easing.

On Tuesday Canada joined the United States and other world powers in dropping sanctions against Iran in return for that country’s abandonment of its nuclear ambitions.

Now, with Iran’s oil poised to flood an already oversaturated

market, Pashootan says there is still a significant chance that oil could fall even further.

“We need to see more consolidation in the industry, we need to see more blood, we need to see more oil companies go bankrupt, we need to see more defaults and dividend cuts,” he said.

“Oil companies have been doing everything they can to buy time, but unfortunately there’s no evidence that oil prices are going to stabilize any time soon.”

In other commodities the March contract for natural gas added 0.3 of a cent to US$2.158 per mmBtu and February gold advanced $14.90 to US$1,120.20 a troy ounce.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average bounced back from a 208-point decline the day before as it soared 282.01 points to 16,167.23. The S&P 500 gained 26.55 points to close at 1,903.63 and the Nasdaq added 49.18 points to 4,567.67.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 both rose 1.1 per cent, while Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.6 per cent.

It was a different story in Asia, where markets reacted strongly to Monday’s big downturn in oil prices.

China’s Shanghai composite index dropped 6.4 per cent to finish at 2,749.78, the lowest it’s been since December 2014, while markets in Hong Kong and Japan both declined about 2.5 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,331.32, up 188.16 points Dow — 16,167.23, up 282.01 points S&P 500 — 1,903.63, up 26.55 points

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Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $190.00 May ‘16 unchanged $194.00 July ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 March ‘17 unchanged $196.00 May ‘17 unchanged $196.00 July ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 March ‘18 unchanged $196.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 275,380 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 275,380.

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POSTMEDIA: Cuts ‘paramount’ The acquisition was contested by some, including the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, which urged the federal government to reconsider the consolidation of so many newspapers, especially under a U.S. participant.

Golden Tree has remained a sticking point for media critics, with some suggesting the firm is sapping Postmedia business — particularly its valuable real estate assets — for as much as it can get.

Godfrey disputes those assertions.

“Golden Tree is an equity player, not a debt player,” he said.

“If it wasn’t for Golden Tree Asset Management, this chain may not be in existence today because there were no Canadians who stepped up to buy (the papers) …. People should be happy that at least somebody (bought the newspapers) and kept a lot of people employed.”

In early 2010, the Toronto Star’s parent company bid for Canwest’s newspaper and digital business in partnership with Fairfax Financial Holdings.

Sources familiar with the proceedings say executives halted those negotiations after the price tag became too high. Eventually the papers were bought for $1.1 billion and formed into Postmedia.

Over the coming months, Godfrey will reshape Postmedia even further in preparation for lender negotiations he hopes will lead to refinancing the first-lien notes by August 2017.

The latest round of cuts are “paramount,” he said, to making Postmedia’s business model attractive for investors who hold the keys to financial relief.

The company recently announced it was merging newsrooms and cutting about 90 jobs as part of a large-scale

effort to save $80 million by the middle of next year. The newsroom cuts only get the company “part way” to the goal, Godfrey said.

Beyond its journalists, he said executives are considering many avenues of change. Those include whether money can be saved in how the newspapers are laid out each night, whether printing the paper half an hour earlier would be cheaper and if there’s a way to have fewer delivery people on the streets each morning.

“We’re going to do our very best adjusting the cost base so that people who are potential investors in the debt see we are doing everything we can to be able to repay the debt,” he said.

“Is it a pleasant thing to do? Obviously it’s the most painful thing to do to … disrupt your own company. You know you’re hurting certain people’s lives.”

At the same time, executives are on the hunt to create new revenue streams.

One of them took shape on Monday when Postmedia announced a threeyear partnership with Mogo Finance Technology Inc. that will see it pocket a portion of revenues generated by the short-term loan provider.

The partnership is unconventional but comes with a solid upside — if Mogo can find customers in Postmedia’s readership, then both companies will reap the rewards.

Godfrey said the Mogo agreement is a snapshot of what’s to come.

“This one area seemed to be a natural,” he said. “We have two or three others we are working on.”

Postmedia has also abandoned ventures it found didn’t deliver results — including an evening tablet edition once trumpeted as a major area of growth for the company. Godfrey said Postmedia bailed on the tablet experiment when it was clear it wasn’t going to deliver a profit.

He suggested the Toronto Star — which has invested millions of dollars on its Star Touch tablet platform — reconsider its devotion to the tablet as well.

A man works on construction of the Kingdom Tower, a planned 252story building, which aims to become the world’s tallest skyscraper when complete, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is racing to attract more investment and overhaul its economy as low oil prices expose it to urgent domestic challenges.

B.C. mines minister clarifies remarks on Trudeau

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s mines minister is clarifying his position on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks about Canada’s natural-resource economy.

Bill Bennett said the meaning behind a comment he made Tuesday was not that Trudeau might come to regret remarks he made in a speech overseas, but that the media may have misquoted the prime minister.

Speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trudeau said his predecessor wanted Canada to be known for its resources, but he wants it known for its resourcefulness.

Canada amounts to not just the resources under Canadians’ feet but rather what lies between their ears, the prime minister said in his keynote address.

Bennett originally told reporters that Trudeau may regret the statement after being asked about the quotes at a mineral-exploration conference in Vancouver.

“I’ve been quoted many, many times in my 15-year career and regretted

some of the things that I’ve said, and just the context that I said them in, so perhaps there’s some element of that here.”

Bennett said Canada’s resource sector is one of the most technologically advanced in the world and that its workers are well trained and well educated.

He acknowledged the flagging state of the natural-resources economy but insisted the world still needs Canada’s resources and that global commodity prices will eventually rebound.

But Bennett clarified his comments later Tuesday in a phone interview.

“It was in no way a disrespectful comment about the new prime minister,” he said.

“I’m actually proud of the fact that the guy is over there representing Canada, and doing a pretty damn good job.”

Bennett was at the conference to help unveil the first phase of results coming out of a $2.4-million project from Geoscience B.C. The organization is using airborne magnetic surveying technology to map mineral exploration data within a 6,700-square-kilometre expanse in west-central British Columbia.

Weight Watchers stock gains as Oprah loses 26 pounds

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Weight Watchers stock is gaining again, thanks to Oprah Winfrey’s weight loss.

The company’s shares soared Tuesday after a new commercial starring Winfrey aired where she says she has lost 26 pounds on Weight Watchers.

Winfrey said during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that she started on the plan in August.

Winfrey bought a 10 per cent stake in the weight-loss company in October.

Its stock is up more than 90 per cent since then. Winfrey is a natural fit for the company: Her struggle with weight was a frequent topic of her former talk

show.

“I love bread!,” Winfrey says in the new commercial. “That’s the genius of this program. I lost 26 pounds and I have eaten bread every single day.”

Winfrey posted the ad online Tuesday to her nearly 31 million Twitter followers.

Weight Watchers has also made changes to its plans recently to better fit in with Winfrey’s message of living a healthy and happier life, and not just focusing on weight loss.

Shares of New York-based Weight Watchers International Inc. rose 21 per cent to $13.44 in afternoon trading.

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Dutch model Maartje Verhoef presents a creation from the Spring/Summer 2016 Haute Couture collection of Dior fashion house during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France.

Spring fashion on display in Paris

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Spring-summer couture shows blossomed into focus Monday — parading their silken, and often sexy, savoir faire to front rows spilling with celebrities from Uma Thurman, Kate Bosworth to Rita Ora. Here are the highlights of the 2016 collections.

RITA ORA HITS VERSACE WITH INVISIBLE UNDERWEAR All eyes were on British singer Ora who arrived at the Versace Atelier show to a flurry of paparazzi flashes.

The 25-year-old star wore a red cutout mini dress — with invisible underwear — and sandals inspired by the Italian house’s spring-summer 2016 collection.

“I love Versace,” she purred from the front row in a carpeted pavilion in Paris’ exclusive Place Vendome.

VERSACE ATELIER “I was born with a body to manifest my power,” boomed the soundtrack to Donatella Versace’s flesh-baring and architectural couture show.

It was a feminism of sorts — Versace-style — a collection of 46 assertive looks that seemed to say a woman’s body can be a force to be reckoned with.

Sporty white skirt and pant-suits began the collection with dangerous flashes of primary red and yellow, giving way to floor length light turquoise and blue silk gowns gathered sometimes in strong rope-like sections.

Then the Italian designer got creative — exploring the metaphor that a body — like a building — can be a strong, architectural structure.

Interlocking panels, and, as the program notes described, cinch waisted dresses “caged by cutouts,” gave a steely strength to the sometimes 6-foottall models.

While, a white jumpsuit with draped back was held by a harness of hand-embroidered micro-paillettes.

“I believe women can be powerful and achieve their dreams while also having great elegance and beauty,” the 60-year-old designer said.

“This is a collection for all women who walk their own path.”

DIOR’S STUDIO SHOW It shocked the fashion world in October when Dior’s latest star designer Raf Simons resigned.

Many were baffled, since it came just a few months after the release of the highly-publicized documentary, “Dior and I,” which explored the Belgian-born designer’s beginnings at the iconic Parisian house.

Christian Dior’s first couture show since Simons left took place on Monday — designed, the house said, by “the studio.”

A group of unnamed atelier designers came out at the end of the valiant job-well-done to take a deserved bow.

It was against the rather symbolic decor of 360-degree, identity-less mirrors.

Dior is currently searching for a new designer — their third in 5 years.

Simons had replaced John Galliano after he was sacked amid controversy in 2011.

DIOR’S PARISIENNE US Vogue fashion doyenne Anna Wintour, former French first lady Bernadette Chirac and Chinese actress Liu Yifei were among celebrities on

the pared-down front row of the show held in an annex inside the picturesque Rodin Museum gardens.

In the clothes, the “spontaneous, relaxed Parisienne of today” mixed with the iconic styles of the 1940s and 1950s.

High-cut post-War shoes with occasional retro ankle bows accessorized embroidered silk gowns in freestyle volumes — often with “sensual, bare” accentuated shoulders. A couple of flapper-style lace, chiffon and tulle look also evoked the joyful feeling of the 1920s — the period between the two World Wars.

The studio team also set about experimenting with the famed “bar jacket” — it “changes appearance depending on whether it is worn closed or loose,” said the program notes.

It thus came in myriad forms: in tight, embroidered black wool, loose and white, open to expose the breast sensually, oversized and masculine, or as a beautiful dark navy wool coat.

There were also traces of the historical musings of past creative directors — such as Galliano and Simons — set off nicely in one look off-white wool “bar” jacket interpretation with flappy 18th-century cuffs.

SCHIAPARELLI’S GASTRO-COUTURE Actress Bosworth — who sported an elegant chignon — hit the Schiaparelli front row on Monday, taking her seat next to pop singer, model, and former French First Lady Carla Bruni — distracting some by talking on her cellphone.

In the collection, designer Bertrand Guyon continued to explore the fascinating universe of couturier Elsa Schiaparelli in his sophomore outing for the house.

On the creative menu at the Monday morning show was fashion gastronomy.

It was an interesting way showcase the eccentricity of the vivacious “Schiap,” as she was known, who loved eating well.

Crockery lined the walls of the show venue, as daywear looks inspired by the table — such as botanical diagrams and vegetable prints — opened the show on light, sporty skirt suits.

At times, it worked well — but occasionally the ideas translated too obviously, like one cream floorlength gown based on a red striped table cloth motif with plates on it.

The collection experienced a crescendo however as the looks moved into the evening.

By then, fashionistas could almost hear their stomachs rumbling.

RALPH & RUSSO’S STAR POWER Proving there are serious contenders in the couture calendar, relative newcomers Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo are drawing the big names to their collections. Pulp Fiction star Thurman set off the cameras naps arriving in a LBD and silk shawl at the Monday afternoon show.

The youthful-looking 45-year-old is in the City of Light to attend a private dinner hosted by the couture house and by French jewelry brand Chopoard.

The house say the event will be “celebrating the finest savoir-faire” of couture — and will include a musical performance by Ora. VALLI CHANNELS 60S AND EMPIRE LINES A strong ’60s influence infused Giambattista Valli’s vision for spring — as ever, served up in a long line

of cocktail dresses and floor length gowns.

A silk jacquard cocktail dress in two-tone grey sported a tight retro bodice and A-line mini.

Another silk crepe dress with delicate embroidered flowers had voluminous organza ruffles at the sleeve that evoked the silhouette of a bolero jacket, also popular in that era.

As the looks progressed, the dress-

es got more structural — riffing off the Empire Line silhouette, in one instance on a dress in printed lily of the valley with a tight, embroidered paillette bustier.

The floor-sweeping draped silk mousseline dresses at the end of the collection also evoked the delicate Romanticism of this early 19th-century style.

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Kings lose Mulder for season THIRD-YEAR DEFENCEMAN OUT FOR SEASON AFTER SNOWMOBILE ACCIDENT

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The RDC hockey Kings will be minus the services of key defenceman and team leader Blair Mulder for the remainder of the Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League season.

But considering the circumstances, the timing of his return to the Kings is secondary to the concern for his overall health moving forward.

Mulder, a Lacombe native and third-year Kings rearguard, was involved in a snowmobile accident near Ponoka during the weekend and was transported to the University of Alberta hospital with severe injuries.

“He’s at the U of A now and they’re keeping him there until at least Wednesday (today),” Kings head coach Trevor Keeper said Tuesday. “He has a small fracture on his skull, kind of on the side of his head, and a fractured jaw. He didn’t require surgery

but he’s pretty beat up. He was unconscious for 15 minutes (following the accident). He was brought into Red Deer and then taken right away to the U of A. “He’s up and talking now, alBLAIR MULDER though I guess he wasn’t able to talk or do much on Sunday. His parents were up there and were obviously pretty concerned about him.”

On a positive note, the 23-year-old appeared to be improving Monday.

“Some of the guys (Kings teammates) went up and saw him yesterday,” said Keeper. “I cancelled practice and they drove up. He was sitting up and drinking fluids and was talking

a bit.

“He’ll be laid up for a bit and I would suspect that we’ve lost him for the year because of the severity of his head injury.”

Not that the Kings bench boss is concerning himself with the basic certainty that Mulder won’t be playing again this season.

“The first thing is we’re concerned about him, and he’s worried about school,” said Keeper.

“We’re trying to take care of that right now, we’re trying to find any provisions that we can for him so he doesn’t have to worry about the stress of that.

“But hockey is definitely a distance thought right now.”

As Keeper noted, the third-year electrical engineering student has advantages as he strives to regain his health — most notable being his age and the fact he’s an athlete.

“No question, people in his situation can recover quickly, so hopefully

that’s the case with Blair,” said Keeper.

“Doctors thought there was a bit of swelling and hemorrhaging on the brain. They think he’ll be all right but he’s being kept under surveillance.

“He’s pretty groggy and out of it still.”

Mulder, according to the Kings coach, is due to graduate with his diploma this year and was considering enrolling in another technical trade course next fall and playing a fourth season with the hockey team.

He’ll be missed for the remainder of the current campaign.

“He’s a significant loss, not just because of his defensive capabilities, but he’s an assistant captain and a thirdyear player,” said Keeper.

“But, for sure, there’s a lot more important things than just trying to get back to the rink. Our thoughts are with him and hopefully he can have a quick recovery.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Raptors roll to ninth-straight win TIES THEIR FRANCHISEBEST WINNING STREAK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 106 Wizards 89 TORONTO — It’s nine and counting for the red-hot Toronto Raptors.

All-star starter Kyle Lowry poured in 29 points as the Raptors matched their franchise-best nine-game winning streak, beating the Washington Wizards 106-89 on Tuesday.

It wasn’t pretty, but Toronto found a way to win. And that says plenty about this edition of the Raptors, DeMar DeRozan said afterward.

“Just lets you know it’ll be scary once we get rolling on both ends and we play a complete game. Anything is possible,” DeRozan said. “We feel like we can beat anybody, compete with anybody every single night.”

Lowry had another solid outing, shooting 5-for-9 from three-point range, before some tense moments in the fourth quarter. The two-time allstar got his left wrist caught up in a play, and made a beeline for the dressing room. Post-game Xrays were negative, and the team called it a sprain.

“I really thought that it was something worse than what it was but I’m fine,” said Lowry, who broke the same wrist in his rookie season with Memphis.

“I got caught in a screen. I’m fine,” he added, his hands stuffed in his pants pockets as he spoke to reporters.

DeRozan added 17 points for the Raptors (30-15), who swept their fourgame series with Washington. Terrence Ross added 15 points, while Jonas Valanciunas had 13 points and a game-high 12 rebounds, and Cory Joseph chipped in with 10 points.

The Raptors tied the franchise-high nine consecutive wins they set March 22 to April 9, 2002. They were ousted in the first round of the playoffs that season by Detroit.

Coach Dwane Casey is trying to temper the team’s mood during this hot streak — “The guys will tell you I’m a negative Nelly,” he said pre-game. And true to form, he picked apart the Raptors’ defensive efforts after the victory.

“Our transition defence was non-existent. We were in a malaise with our transition defence,” he said. “Again we found a way to win, but you can’t continue to live like that. We’ve got to

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Toronto Raptors’ Jonas Valanciunas is blocked by Washington Wizards’ Nene, left, during first half NBA action, in Toronto, on Tuesday. get a complete game where things are going the way we want them to go both offensively and defensively. I applaud our guys for finding a way to pull it out.”

The Raptors were swept by the Wizards in the first round of last season’s playoffs, and are keen to prove they’re a better team this season.

Playing Game 5 of a seven-game homestand, they never led by more than 14 points through the first three quarters before taking a 77-70 advantage into the fourth. Then they put the Wizards away for good.

When DeRozan drove to the basket,

and drew a foul, on a floating jumper with 4:40 to play, his three-point play put the Raptors up 95-78, in front of a capacity crowd of 19,800 fans that included six-time Olympian Clara Hughes and retired Canadian NBA veteran Rick Fox. “I think we’ll all look back after the season is over and look at the individual accomplishments and team accomplishments and enjoy it when we’re not in it,” Lowry said. “Right now, we’re too focused on our next opponent … and just taking it game-bygame, day-by-day, hour-by-hour.

“I know everybody’s enjoying it,

we’ll enjoy it later.”

Casey said winning streaks are good for the fans, the organization and players’ confidence, but “it’s not worth a darn if you don’t go out there and back it up with hard play.

“If you say ‘OK, we won eight in a row,’ or whatever it is, on the court you’re going to get your fanny whupped.”

John Wall had 18 points and 14 assists to top the Wizards (20-23), who were missing Bradley Beal. Beal has a broken nose and concussion after being hit in the face by Boston’s Marcus Smart a night earlier.

Kerber, Konta win on another distracting day in Melbourne AUSTRALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Angelique Kerber and Johanna Konta advanced to the Australian Open semifinals Wednesday on another day when the integrity of tennis was part of the tournament conversation.

The first Grand Slam of the season has been overshadowed from the start by media reports alleging that tennis authorities had failed to thoroughly investigate evidence of match-fixing.

On Wednesday, just as Kerber began her 6-3, 7-5 win over two-time champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals, the governing bodies of tennis announced they will commission an independent review of their anti-corruption unit to restore “public confidence in our sport.”

In announcing the review, ATP Chairman Chris Kermode said the reports had “caused damage to the sport,” which compelled the major stakeholders in tennis — the International Tennis Federation, ATP and WTA tours, and the four Grand Slams — to take quick action to address the

issue.

A BBC and Buzzfeed News report which coincided with the start of the Australian Open alleged 16 players — all ranked at some stage in the top 50 — had been flagged for being involved in matches where suspicious betting activity was detected. No players were identified and no specifics were published, and many critics believed the data was based on matches that had already examined.

Philip Brook, chairman of the Tennis Integrity Board, said while the reports “did not reveal anything new, it was widely written about and has caused damage to our sport.”

With that going on in the background, Konta went on court and beat Chinese qualifier Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-1 to become the first British woman since 1983 to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam.

It will be Konta’s first semifinal at a Grand Slam, and it ended Zhang’s seven-match winning streak, including three in qualifying.

“It will be my first match against her (Kerber),” Konta said. “She’s top 10. She’s an incredibly decorated and successful competitor and player. I’m just going to go out there and bring to the court what I can.”

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The The 27-year-old Zhang entered the Australian Open with a 0-14 record in Grand Slam matches.

Zhang says her two weeks in Melbourne should result in a big rankings boost that could help her get into the Rio Olympics for China.

“In my heart I feel like I’ve won this tournament because I’ve won seven matches,” Zhang said. “It didn’t matter winning or losing today.”

Kerber went down a break in the second set before winning five consecutive games and saving five set points before beating two-time champion Azarenka, the result coming as a surprise despite the difference in seedings.

No. 7 Kerber broke No. 14 Azarenka’s serve to end the match, her first win in seven matches against the Belarussian.

“When I was down 2-5, I was actually playing more aggressive,” Kerber said. “I think the key from this match was that I was playing and I won the match, she didn’t lose it.”

It ended a strong few weeks for Azarenka, who won the Brisbane International and hadn’t dropped a set.

“My footwork didn’t have enough, my shots didn’t have enough,” Azarenka said. “I felt I did a little bit too many unforced errors in the key moments.”

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Six-time champion Serena Williams and No. 4-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska will meet in the other women’s semifinal on Thursday.

Two men’s quarterfinals were scheduled for later Wednesday — No. 2 Andy Murray plays David Ferrer and Gael Monfils takes on Milos Raonic.

The independent review announced in a news conference at Melbourne Park, earlier reported by The Associated Press, will be funded by the Tennis Integrity Board, which oversees the anti-corruption unit set up by the sport in 2008 to combat match-fixing.

It will be led by Adam Smith, a London-based lawyer who is an expert in sports law.

Kermode acknowledged that the announcement of the review helped keep the topic of match-fixing prominent in and around the tournament action.

“It has been hard on the Australian Open, no question about it,” Kermode said.

“Obviously the report was timed to hit at this point, try to create as big a story as possible. But (Australian Open organizers) have been unbelievably supportive of the actions we’ve taken.

They agree we had to hit this headon now even though it was during the championships.”

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Pt 69 63 60 51 41

Everett Seattle Portland Spokane Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 46 28 14 2 2 124 46 26 17 3 0 144 48 25 21 2 0 158 46 22 19 3 2 153 47 20 25 2 0 152

GA 99 132 150 158 178

Tyson Baillie, Kel Ivan Nikolishin, RD Reid Gardiner, P.A. Parker Bowles, TC Giorgio Estephan, Let Alex Forsberg, Vic Devante Stephens, Spo Tyler Wong, Let Egor Babenko, Let Jonathon Martin, SC Collin Shirley, Kam Nolan Patrick, Bra Mathew Barzal, Sea Brayden Point, MJ Jesse Gabrielle, PG Matthew Phillips, Vic Chase Witala, PG Andrew Nielsen, Let Brett Pollock, Edm Dominic Turgeon, Por Justin Gutierrez, Let Cameron Hebig, Sas Chad Butcher, MH Keegan Kolesar, Sea Remi Laurencelle, Eve Chase Lang, Van Dillon Dube, Kel Connor Gay, Sas Radel Fazleev, CAL Adam Helewka, RD Tyler Soy, Vic Lane Bauer, Edm Sam Steel, Reg Nick Merkley, Kel

Pt 60 55 52 49 42

Monday’s results Medicine Hat 6 Prince George 4 Friday’s games Prince George at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

WHL Scoring Leaders G 18 27 30

A 56 44 39

Pts 74 71 69

28 27 29 27 27 19 18 27 25 31 27 18 13 21 31 26 28 12 18 24 22 22 16 23 25 17 20 15 14 26 25 21 17 16

41 39 36 36 36 41 42 30 32 23 27 36 41 32 21 26 23 39 32 25 27 27 33 25 22 30 26 31 32 19 20 24 28 29

69 66 65 63 63 60 60 57 57 54 54 54 54 53 52 52 51 51 50 49 49 49 49 48 47 47 46 46 46 45 45 45 45 45

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 49 29 15 5 63 Detroit 49 25 16 8 58 Boston 49 26 18 5 57 Tampa Bay 48 26 18 4 56 Montreal 50 24 22 4 52 Ottawa 50 23 21 6 52 Buffalo 50 20 26 4 44 Toronto 47 17 21 9 43

GF 135 122 147 129 136 139 114 114

GA 108 124 131 117 134 155 136 133

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 46 35 8 3 73 49 27 17 5 59 47 25 16 6 56 48 24 17 7 55 50 25 20 5 55 51 23 20 8 54 46 20 18 8 48 51 19 27 5 43

GF 155 142 130 121 114 123 105 133

GA 100 129 118 120 118 135 124 163

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 53 33 16 4 70 Dallas 50 31 14 5 67 St. Louis 52 28 16 8 64 Minnesota 49 23 17 9 55 Colorado 50 26 21 3 55 Nashville 49 23 18 8 54 Winnipeg 49 22 24 3 47

GF 147 162 129 121 138 127 126

GA 122 133 128 115 133 130 140

Milwaukee Brooklyn Philadelphia

13 20 1/2 25 1/2

Washington N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh New Jersey Carolina Philadelphia Columbus

Saturday, January 30 Prince George at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Lethbridge at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

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

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:30 p.m.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 47 30 13 2 2 180 Prince Albert 47 26 16 4 1 153 Moose Jaw 48 24 17 6 1 163 Regina 48 20 21 3 4 150 Saskatoon 48 17 27 4 0 140 Swift Current 47 15 27 4 1 117

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 48 30 15 3 63 126 109 San Jose 47 25 18 4 54 136 128 Arizona 49 24 20 5 53 131 146 Anaheim 47 22 18 7 51 101 111 Vancouver 50 20 19 11 51 122 139 Calgary 47 21 23 3 45 125 144 Edmonton 50 19 26 5 43 122 149 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Arizona 2, Minnesota 1, SO Detroit 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Columbus 5, Montreal 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 3 Dallas 2, Calgary 1 Tuesday’s Games Anaheim 6, Boston 2 Pittsburgh 2, New Jersey 0 Carolina 5, Chicago 0 Columbus 5, Montreal 2 Buffalo 3, Ottawa 2 Florida 5, Toronto 1 Winnipeg 5, Arizona 2 Nashville 2, Vancouver 1 Colorado at San Jose, late Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Joe Pavelski, SJ Taylor Hall, Edm Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Artemi Panarin, Chi Blake Wheeler, Wpg Patrice Bergeron, Bos Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Alex Ovechkin, Wash Bobby Ryan, Ott Alex Steen, StL Nikita Kucherov, TB Brent Burns, SJ Anze Kopitar, LA Matt Duchene, Col Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Patrick Sharp, Dal Sidney Crosby, Pgh John Klingberg, Dal

G 30 28 25 10 24 18 15 23 25 20 17 13 19 15 21 28 17 15 20 18 13 22 17 16 16 6

A 43 30 28 41 24 30 33 24 21 26 29 32 25 29 22 14 25 27 21 23 28 18 23 24 24 34

Pts 73 58 53 51 48 48 48 47 46 46 46 45 44 44 43 42 42 42 41 41 41 40 40 40 40 40

Basketball Red Deer Women’s League Spartans 62 Triple Threat 49 Spartans — Carla Stewart 22 points, Jaci Hovrath 14; POG: Hovrath.

Pink Panthers 49 Funk 23 PP — Marlene Flatla 12 points; POG: Emma Mantle. Funk — Shalene Rascher 10 points; POG: Mandy Klopstra.

Big Ballers 47 Age Gap 24 BB — Katrina Boulter 17 points; POG: Jamie Vandenberg.

Hoosier Daddy 51 Ball Hawks 43 HD — Mallory Jones 16 points; POG: Alyssa Babe.

BH — Janelle Kaka 19 points; POG: Kaka.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 31 12 .721 — Toronto 30 15 .667 2 Atlanta 27 19 .587 5 Chicago 25 19 .568 6 Boston 25 21 .543 7 Miami 25 21 .543 7 Detroit 24 21 .533 8 Indiana 23 22 .511 9 Charlotte 22 23 .489 10 New York 22 25 .468 11 Washington 20 23 .465 11 Orlando 20 24 .455 11

20 12 7

27 34 39

.426 .261 .152

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 41 4 .911 — San Antonio 38 7 .844 3 Oklahoma City 34 13 .723 8 L.A. Clippers 29 16 .644 12 Memphis 26 20 .565 15 1/2 Dallas 25 21 .543 16 1/2 Houston 25 22 .532 17 Sacramento 20 24 .455 20 1/2 Portland 20 26 .435 21 1/2 Utah 19 25 .432 21 1/2 Denver 17 28 .378 24 New Orleans 16 28 .364 24 1/2 Phoenix 14 32 .304 27 1/2 Minnesota 14 32 .304 27 1/2 L.A. Lakers 9 37 .196 32 1/2

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Golden State 120, San Antonio 90

• College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.

• JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber boys/ girls tournament.

• College basketball: Ambrose University College at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Big Valley.

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

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Okotoks Black at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Stettler, 8 p.m., Castor.

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe.

Saturday • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.

• JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber boys/ girls tournament.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Clippers 91, Indiana 89 Philadelphia 113, Phoenix 103 Toronto 106, Washington 89 Miami 102, Brooklyn 98 Oklahoma City 128, New York 122, OT Milwaukee 107, Orlando 100 Sacramento at Portland, late Dallas at L.A. Lakers, late

• Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Cranbrook at Olds, 3:45 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge White at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.

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

• College volleyball: Ambrose University College at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Strathmore at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 8 p.m.

Sunday • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdire/ Cochrane at Red Deer North Star, noon, Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Lacombe; Bow Valley at Olds, 2:45 p.m.

• Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Okotoks Black at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Football NFL Playoffs Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC Denver 20, New England 18 NFC Carolina 49, Arizona 15

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

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

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

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

Denver vs. Carolina, 4:30 p.m.

Curling

Wednesday’s Games Phoenix at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Denver at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

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

Charlotte at Utah, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cleveland 114, Minnesota 107 Boston 116, Washington 91 Miami 89, Chicago 84 Houston 112, New Orleans 111 Memphis 108, Orlando 102, OT Detroit 95, Utah 92 Atlanta 119, Denver 105 Charlotte 129, Sacramento 128,2OT

Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Denver at Washington, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 6 p.m.

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

21 season.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Esa Lindell to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled F Joakim Andersson from Grand Rapids (AHL). Assigned F Eric Tangradi and D Nick Jensen to Grand Rapids.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed C Aleksander Barkov to a six-year contract extension.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F Sergey Kalinin to Albany (AHL). Recalled D Marc-Andre Gragnani from Albany.

American Hockey League LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Returned F Joe Devin to South Carolina (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Announced G Roman Will was recalled by Colorado (NHL). Signed F Nick Drazenovic.

ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Announced F Matt Leitner was returned by Milwaukee (AHL). Activated D Alex Lintuniemi off injured reserve.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated OF L.J. Hoes for assignment.

BOSTON RED SOX — Extended their player development contract with Greenville (SAL) for four years.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Anaheim F Shawn Horcoff 20 games for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program.

NHLPA — F Craig Adams announced his retirement.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated G Cam Ward from injured reserve. Reassigned F Phil Di Giuseppe and G Daniel Altshuller to Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Signed senior vice-president and general manager Stan Bowman to a three-year contract extension through the 2020-

Thursday

2016 Canadian Junior Curling Championships STRATFORD, Ont. — Standings Tuesday following the ninth draw at the 2016 Canadian junior curling championships, to be held through Sunday at the Stratford Rotary Complex (all times Eastern): MEN ROUND ROBIN Pool A Team (Skip) W L Manitoba (Dunstone) 6 0 Quebec (Asselin) 4 2 Ontario (Kee) 4 2 Alberta (K.Sturmay) 3 3 Nova Scotia (Manuel) 2 4 N.L. (Smith) 2 4 Nunavut (Siksik) 0 6 Pool B Team (Skip) W L B.C. (T.Tardi) 6 0 Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 5 1 New Brunswick (A.Robichaud) 4 2 Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 3 3 P.E.I. (M.MacLean) 2 4 NWT (Mat.Miller) 1 5 Yukon (B.Klassen) 0 6 Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw British Columbia 8 New Brunswick 2 Northern Ontario 7 Saskatchewan 4 Northwest Territories 8 Yukon 4 Nova Scotia 9 Nfld. & Labrador 3 Quebec 8 Alberta 4 Ninth Draw Manitoba 9 Quebec 3 New Brunswick 10 Saskatchewan 6 (extra end) Nfld. & Labrador 14 Nunavut 0 Ontario 7 Nova Scotia 4

P.E.I. 10 Yukon 4 End of Round Robin WOMEN ROUND ROBIN Pool A Team (Skip) New Brunswick (J.Comeau) Manitoba (Ackland) Alberta (S.Sturmay) Quebec (L.St-Georges) Northern Ont. (Smith) Nunavut (Pinksen) NWT (Walsh) Pool B Team (Skip) B.C. (S.Daniels) Nova Scotia (Fay) Saskatchewan (Ko.Kesser) Ontario (Auld) P.E.I. (Fullerton) Yukon (A.Meger) N.L. (Godsland)

W 5 5 4 4 2 1 0

L 1 1 2 2 4 5 6

W 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw British Columbia 7 Nova Scotia 4 New Brunswick 8 Manitoba 6 Northern Ontario 13 Northwest Territories 3 Saskatchewan 7 Ontario 5 Yukon 9 Nfld. & Labrador 8 Ninth Draw British Columbia 8 Ontario 4 Manitoba 9 Alberta 6 Nunavut 7 Northwest Territories 3 P.E.I. 11 Yukon 5 Quebec 11 Northern Ontario 5 End of Round Robin

Shawn Horcoff suspended 20 games for banned treatment ANAHEIM, Calif. — Anaheim Ducks forward Shawn Horcoff was suspended for 20 games Tuesday for violating the terms of the NHL’s performance-enhancing substances program.

The 37-year-old Horcoff acknowledged his mistake in a statement issued by the NHL Players’ Association.

He claimed he tried an unspecified treatment to speed up his recovery from an injury last fall.

“Although I was unaware that this treatment was not permitted under NHL rules, that is no excuse whatsoever,” Horcoff said.

“I should have done my research, and I should have checked with the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program’s doctors. I accept full responsibility for my actions, and I am sorry.”

Horcoff is the third player to be suspended under the program approved by the league and union in the most recent collective bargaining agreement.

Zenon Konopka of the Buffalo Sabres and Carter Ashton of the Toronto Maple Leafs were suspended in 2014.

Horcoff will lose $357,526.88 of his $1.75 million salary during his suspen-

sion. The veteran forward is in his first season with the Ducks after 13 years in Edmonton and two more with Dallas.

Horcoff has six goals and four assists this season while playing in 45 of the Ducks’ 46 games, providing solid veteran depth.

Ducks general manager Bob Murray signed Horcoff to a one-year deal in the off-season during a shakeup of his roster. Anaheim finished one game short of the Stanley Cup Final last season, losing Game 7 of the Western Conference finals at home to eventual champion Chicago.

“The Anaheim Ducks organization fully supports the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program,” Murray said in a statement.

“We will also continue to support Shawn as a player and person throughout this process.”

The Ducks were in Boston on Tuesday for their final game before the AllStar break. Anaheim has made a 9-3-1 run since Christmas to return to playoff contention after a dismal start to the season.

Horcoff was the Oilers’ captain for three years, and he scored a career-high 73 points during the 2005-06 season. He was an All-Star in 2008.

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Young Canadians ready to breakout AUSTRALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Growing up in Quebec City, Felix Auger Aliassime learned to play from his father, a tennis instructor who had emigrated from Togo in West Africa. It wasn’t until he saw Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal play their classic Wimbledon final in 2008, though, that he fell in love with the game.

“I was like, yeah, this is what I want to do, that’s where I want to be — a professional tennis player,” he said.

“That inspired me a lot.”

Auger Aliassime is well on his way.

Now 15, he is playing in his second Grand Slam junior tournament, seeded fourth in the boy’s singles at the Australian Open.

It’s a big moment for him — and his country. Canada, a growing hotbed for tennis, also has several promising juniors in the girl’s draw, the result of a new approach by Tennis Canada to develop talent through a system of national training centres across the country, increased investment and the recruitment of elite coaches.

Eight years after the first — and largest — training centre opened in Montreal, the program is starting to show results. Not only have Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard established themselves in the pro ranks, there’s also a group of talented younger players rising through the ranks.

Two Canadian girls are ranked in the top 10 in juniors — 15-year-old Bianca Andreescu, who is the top seed at Melbourne Park and through to the third round and 17-year-old Charlotte Robillard-Millette, who was seeded third but lost in the first round.

And last year, Auger Aliassime became the youngest player ever to win a match at the Challenger level on the ATP Tour and the first player born in this millennium to hold an ATP ranking (he’s now No. 737 in the world).

“We were known for hosting great tournaments,” Sylvain Bruneau, the Canadian Fed Cup captain, said of his country’s old tennis reputation. “But we were a poor nation at the elite level and in our representation at Davis

Cup, Fed Cup, Grand Slams and stuff like that.”

“So we really wanted to change that and put the structure in place,” he added. “There was a change in philosophy in how we were going to go about things.”

Auger Aliassime, who is 6-foot-2 (1.88 metres) and still growing, is one of the products of the new system.

Formerly coached by his father, Sam, Auger Aliassime now works fulltime with Guillaume Marx, who used to coach at the French Tennis Federation under Louis Borfiga, the man behind the success of top players such as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils and now a top development official at Tennis Canada.

Auger Aliassime idolizes Tsonga and plays a little like him, too. He has a powerful forehand and booming serve that reaches about 180 kmh (112 mph) — or at least, this is the fastest he’s served at the Australian Open, the first time he’s been able to clock it.

He has so much power in his game, in fact, he had trouble keeping the ball in the court against Italy’s Andres Ciurletti in the first round, sending one over the fence on Court 14 into the shrubs. He won the match, though, and plays for a spot in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

“He’s a very intense and complete player overall. Doesn’t have much weakness,” Marx said as he watched Auger Aliassime warm up before the match.

“His attitude and physique and technique sometimes on the serve remind me of Jo Tsonga,” he added. “But more the attitude and the game reminds me a little bit more like (Andre) Agassi. He likes to take the ball early and he’s starting his career with a strong backhand.”

Auger Aliassime, who shares a birthday with Federer (his other favourite player), saw how much he needs to improve when he played in a few lower-level professional tournaments last year.

“It’s a whole different game and you have to be ready for that,” he said.

“These guys are intense from the first point to the last one.”

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Canada’s junior tennis player Felix Auger Aliassime makes a shot during his singles match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne on Wednesday. Growing up in Quebec City, Auger Aliassime learned to play tennis from his father, a tennis instructor who had emigrated from Togo in West Africa. It wasn’t until he saw Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal play their classic Wimbledon final in 2008, though, that he fell in love with the game.

On the girl’s side, both Andreescu and Robillard-Millette have also shown a lot of promise.

Andreescu lived part-time in her parents’ native Romania as a young child before being accepted at the national training centre in Toronto when she was 10. She now works with Nathalie Tauziat, a former French pro who reached the Wimbledon final in 1998.

While she looks up to Bouchard, Andreescu’s favourite player is a Romanian, Simona Halep, whom she met at Wimbledon last year.

“I feel like we have similar game

styles so I really look up to her,” she said.

Robillard-Millette, meanwhile, trains in Montreal under Ralph Platz, who formerly coached Bouchard. A left-handed baseliner with a fiery demeanour on court, she credited the program with giving her everything she needed to develop her game.

For Tennis Canada, the investment could pay off soon because all the young Canadians have big ambitions.

“I want to become No. 1 in the world,” Andreescu said, “And win as many Grand Slams as possible.”

Champ Werdum says he’s pulling out of title fight UFC

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum says he is pulling out of his title fight at UFC 196 on Feb. 6.

Werdum announced his decision Monday, one day after Cain Velasquez pulled out as Werdum’s opponent at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The injured Velasquez was swiftly replaced by Stipe Miocic. After a day to think about it, Werdum decided he couldn’t continue to fight through his own injuries while formulating a game plan against a new opponent.

The UFC didn’t immediately confirm a change or announce a replacement fight for the main event of its traditional Super Bowl weekend show.

“I was already injured,” Werdum told MMAFighting.com. “I have a foot injury and haven’t been able to throw kicks in training for two weeks. I would still fight Cain because I was injured the last time, but I also hurt my back last Friday. I went to the doctor, tried to continue training, but couldn’t spar as I should spar. I decided not to fight

Nunavut earns first-ever win at Canadian junior women’s curling championship STRATFORD, Ont. — Nunavut finally has a win at the Canadian junior women’s curling championship.

Skip Sadie Pinksen snapped a provincial 32-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over Zoey Walsh of the Northwest Territories on Tuesday night. It’s the first victory for Nunavut since joining the national junior championship four years ago.

because I’m not 100 per cent. If Cain was the opponent, I would go on.”

The 38-year-old Werdum (20-5-1) claimed his title in Mexico City last year with a submission victory over the injury-plagued Velasquez (13-2), who has fought just once since October 2013.

Velasquez cited a back injury Sunday when he dropped out of the rematch. Werdum initially agreed to fight Miocic (14-2), a veteran contender who beat Andrei Arlovski by opening-minute knockout last month.

But the Los Angeles-based Werdum changed his mind and left the UFC scrambling for a centerpiece to an important pay-per-view show.

The penultimate fight at UFC 196 matches former welterweight champion Johny Hendricks against Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson — a solid mixed martial arts matchup, but likely not a heavy pay-per-view seller.

Veteran heavyweight Josh Barnett immediately volunteered to fight Miocic for an interim title belt. Barnett is scheduled to take on Ben Rothwell at a UFC show in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday.

“If they want a heavyweight championship main event, I’m your man,” said Barnett, who returned from a 21-month cage absence with a win over Roy NelNunavut finished the preliminary round with a 1-5 record in Pool A, and will play in the seeding pool to determine the final rankings for next year’s Canadian juniors in Victoria.

New Brunswick’s Justine Comeau (5-1) clinched first in Pool A earlier Tuesday with a win over Manitoba’s Abby Ackland. Ackland (5-1) came back in the evening draw to nail down second place with a 9-6 win over Alberta’s Selena Sturmay (4-2), who will also go to the championship round.

Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges (42) grabbed the fourth championship berth.

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son in September. “I’ll go in. I’ll take care of business, and I’ll give them what they want, what they need, which is a healthy, motivated championship fighter.”

Miocic is the No. 2 heavyweight con-

tender in the UFC’s internal rankings, while Barnett is No. 8. But Barnett has a championship pedigree: He held the UFC heavyweight title after beating Randy Couture in March 2002, only to lose it due to a failed drug test.

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MILLS, Berne 1943 - 2016 Mr. Berne Robert Mills of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away following a courageous battle with cancer, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at the age of 72 years. Berne was born on September 7, 1943 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, to Audrey and Bob Mills.

Eventually, the Mills family moved west and finally settled in Red Deer, although Berne and his younger siblings grew up in Camrose, Alberta. Berne was granted a scholarship to play hockey at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a star player playing in the USA during the 1960’s; a considerable accomplishment for a young Prairie Canadian man. After college, Berne became a Geophysicist in the Calgary Area, where he married. Berne was father to three daughters, of whom he was very proud - Michelle, Monique and Yvette. Berne was geographically closest to his youngest brother, Royden; and the duo could be heard discussing art, spirituality, philosophy and the meaning of life. In his younger years, Berne was an avid hiker and mountaineer; and throughout his life, inspired those around him to deeply connect with and appreciate their surroundings.

Berne and his partner, Kathy spent many hours on their garden and also grew great friendships in the community of Red Deer. Berne was an active friend and mentor in a variety of support groups. He will be greatly missed by all the hearts and lives he touched. Berne will be lovingly remembered by his partner, Kathleen Forster and his three daughters; Michelle Parrott and Monique Mills, both of Calgary, Alberta, and Yvette Grygoryev of Kingston, Ontario. He will also be sadly missed by brothers, Blake Mills and Royden Mills, both of Stony Plain, Alberta. Berne was predeceased by his parents, Robert and Audrey Mills and two siblings, Blane Mills and Arlen Bruce (Mills). A Funeral Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Cremation has been entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. 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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MOORE ZINGER Danny William James Zinger, 1925 - 2016 cherished son of David Danny Moore passed away Zinger and Jamie with his loving wife, Isabelle, Hodgkinson passed away and the rest of his family at peacefully in the arms of his his bedside Saturday January mom and dad on January 16, 23, 2016 at the age of 90 2016. He ended his 4 month years. Danny was healthy battle the same way it began; witty and vibrant until the day surrounded by their love. he passed. Danny lived Born September 16, 2015, almost his entire life in Red William was deeply loved by Deer, pouring his heart and his grandparents, Ron and soul into the Moore family car Colleen Zinger, Bill and dealership, Northwest Motors, Kathy Hodgkinson, great Carol Craig, starting work at the age of 15 Grandma and retiring at 80. The car numerous aunts and uncles, business took a backseat to cousin Darwin, friends and World War II when at age 17 nursing staff. He will be Danny joined the Canadian especially missed by his fur Ranger.

William Air Force for 3 years, the last brother 2 of which were spent touched many lives in his overseas. 5 years after short time and his strength returning from the war he and courage remains present met the love of his life, in our hearts and minds. The Isabelle Rowan. They were family is thankful for the care married in 1953 and by staff at the Stollery NICU celebrated their 62nd and the comforts of the wedding anniversary this Ronald McDonald House. A past August. Danny and celebration of Will’s life will Isabelle had 3 children; be held at the Lacombe Centre on Danielle (Bill), Darrell (Sharon) Memorial and Brent, and have 8 Saturday, January 30, 2016 grandchildren;, Rowan and at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers Molly, Carter, Grace and the family has requested that Eric, and Mike, Kristy and remembrances may be made Danny.

Danny traveled in the form desired by friends extensively around the world and family.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL with Isabelle. He was an SERVICES LTD., INNISFAIL accomplished fisherman and had an interest in classic entrusted with arrangements.

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Chrysler vehicles which started with a 1924 Chrysler www.heartlandfuneralservices.com (the first year Chrylsers were manufactured) which found its way into the Moore family dealership where it still remains today. Danny rarely missed his weekly smear card games at Northwest Motors or his Saturday Northwest staff lunches, but what trumped everything else in his life was his devotion to Isabelle, his children and for In Memoriam the last 30 years, his grandchildren. Danny was so quietly and equally proud of all of his grandchildren’s varied activities, sports, and interests and had a special ability to focus on what was important to each and every one of them, just as he had done with his children. Danny was predeceased by his mother and father, Fred and Margaret Moore, and his brothers and partners at Northwest Motors, Bill and Richard Moore. He was also predeceased by Richard’s wife, Joanne Moore along with his sister Ruth Sakofsky and her husband Charlie CHRUNYK Safofsky and his daughter in In loving memory of Corey law, Tracy Moore. Danny is July 31, 1969 - Jan. 27, 2011 survived by his wife Isabelle, We miss you every day. his 3 children, his Life just isn’t the same grandchildren, his sister-insince you passed away. law, Ruth Moore and We will love you forever. numerous loyal and caring Mum, Shan, Calandra and nieces and nephews. A Serenna, and your family. memorial service will be held for Danny at 2 PM on Friday January 29, 2016 at Eventide Funeral Chapel 4820-45 St Red Deer. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to any charity that has touched the lives of the donors or their loved ones.

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TIMBER Gray Wolf/ Alaskan Malamute/PittBull Pups. $400. 403-742-7872

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Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is a land survey company based out of Airdrie, Alberta. We are now hiring for experienced Technologists (Crew Chiefs) and Technicians (Assistants) for work in Central Alberta.

Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program Email your resume to Tanya.dowie@btgi.ca Or fax to 403-948-4924

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PILLOWS, (4) from N/S Homestead Firewood home, good cond. $15. for Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split. all. 403-314-9603 Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 THREE sewing machines, B.C. Birch, Aspen, Kenmore, Elna and Singer, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. all in working order, $25 PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 each; and 2 ironing LOGS boards to give away.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, 403-309-4260 tamarack, poplar, birch.

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5’ MISTRAL Rivet 58 Snowboard with size 9 boots and bindings $125.00 call 403-728-3485 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 GOLF CLUB Travel Case, hard-sided, on wheels.

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LUXURY Condo in Aspen Ridge (Easthill) for mature/retired adults, 2 bdrms, 2 baths, 6 appls., a/c. Heat incld., n/s, no pets, underground heated parking, $1600/mo. 403-357-4141

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1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, c/w 5 appls, dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, July 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds. all utils. 403-782-2007 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. in Red Deer.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house w/1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, single car garage $1395 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 SYLVAN Lake, 3 fully furn. rentals, garage, inclds. all utils., $1100 - $1600. + Private room. $550/ mo. “w/cable” 403-880-0210

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CLEARVIEW 3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $1025. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Feb.1 403-304-5337 LIMITED TIME OFFER: One free year of Telus internet & cable AND 50% off first month’s rent! 1 & 2 Bedroom suites available.

Renovated suites in central location. Cat friendly. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 784-9274 PARKVALE 2 bdrm.

4 plex, 4 appls, n/s, no pets $850 + utils., 403-346-4297 SYLVAN LAKE, 3 bdrm.

4-plex, 4 appl., no pets, n/s, $825 mo. Avail. Feb. 1.

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WELL-MAINT. 2 & 3 bdrm. mobile homes close to Joffre $825 & $850 inclds. water, 5 appl. 403-348-6594

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

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AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

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2 BDRM 4 appl 4plex near 67 St, Dawe, heat, water, 1 bdrm, luxury condo, highrise, Gaetz Ave, $1020 enviro. incl’d. $950. N/S, no pets. 780-220-4527 Paul 403-341-0744.

CITY VIEW APTS. Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $925 S.D. $800. Avail. immed.

Near hospital. No pets.

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LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. PADS $450/mo.

SUITES. 25+, adults only Brand new park in Lacombe.

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Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

MORRISROE MANOR 1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

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homes NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

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Losing the fight against Zika

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s health minister says the country is sending some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects — but he also says the war is already being lost.

Marcelo Castro said that nearly 220,000 members of Brazil’s Armed Forces would go door-to-door to help in mosquito eradication efforts ahead of the country’s Carnival celebrations.

Agency spokesman Nivaldo Coelho said Tuesday details of the deployment are still being worked out.

Castro also said the government would distribute mosquito repellent to some 400,000 pregnant women who receive cash-transfer benefits.

But the minister also said the country has failed in efforts against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.

“The mosquito has been here in Brazil for three decades, and we are badly losing the battle against the mosquito,” the ministers told reporters as a crisis group on Zika was meeting in the capital, Brasilia.

A massive eradication effort eliminated Aedes aegypti from Brazil during the 1950s, but the mosquito slowly returned over the following decades from neighbouring nations, public health experts have said. That led to outbreaks of dengue, which was recorded in record numbers last year.

The arrival of Zika in Brazil last year initially caused little alarm, as the virus’ symptoms are generally much milder than those of dengue. It didn’t become a crisis until late in the year, when researchers made the link with a dramatic increase in reported cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect that sees babies born with unusually small heads and can cause lasting developmental problems.

The World Health Organization repeated Tuesday that the link remains circumstantial and is not yet proven scientifically.

But worry about the rapid spread of Zika has expanded across the nation, and the hemisphere beyond. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised pregnant women to reconsider travel to Brazil and 21 other countries and territories with Zika outbreaks.

One of them, the U.S. territory of

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A municipal worker gestures during an operation to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday. Brazil’s health minister Marcelo Castro says the country is sending some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects, but he also says the war is already being lost.

Puerto Rico, reported 18 new confirmed cases of Zika on Tuesday, though none involve pregnant women.

One case had been reported earlier.

Officials in El Salvador, Colombia and Brazil have suggested women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.

Repellent has disappeared from many Brazilian pharmacies and prices for the product have tripled or even quadrupled where it’s still available in recent weeks since the government announced a suspected link between Zika virus and microcephaly Nearly 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly have been reported in Brazil since October, compared with fewer than 150 cases in the country in all of 2014.

Castro’s remarks have proven con-

troversial, both in and outside Brazil.

World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier said he hadn’t seen the remarks, “but in general terms I think that this would be a bit of a fatalistic approach because this should mean we could lay down all our approaches now and declare the war lost.

“I don’t think this is the case,” he added at WHO headquarters, in Geneva.

In Brazil, some called for Castro to be fired.

“He is incapable of occupying his position,” wrote Helio Gurovitz, a columnist with G1, the internet portal of the Globo television network. “To prove that Castro doesn’t have the capacity to occupy such an important position, at such a delicate moment

with the spread of the epidemic, all that’s needed is a selection of such comments.”

Both Brazil’s Zika outbreak and the spike in microcephaly have been concentrated in the poor and underdeveloped northeast of the country, though the prosperous southeast, where Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are located, are the second hardest-hit region.

Rio de Janeiro will host the Aug. 5-21 Olympic games.

On Tuesday, officials in Rio also ramped up their fight against the Aedes aegypti, dispatching a team of fumigators to the Sambadrome, where the city’s Carnival parades will take place next month, and the region’s governor was distributing mosquito-fighting vehicles for poor suburbs of the city.

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A destroyed tank litters the roadside in Salma, Syria. Syrian government forces relying on Russian air cover have recently seized Salma, located in Syria’s province of Latakia, from militants. The Syrian government offensive has given Syrian President Bashar Assad a stronger hand going into peace talks with the opposition that are planned in Switzerland.

Bombings kill 20 in Syria as peace talks invitations go out

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Multiple bombings struck a government-run checkpoint in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding over a hundred amid intense political jockeying ahead of U.N.-backed peace talks scheduled to begin in Geneva on Friday.

The office of the U.N. envoy for Syria said it sent out invitations for the talks, but with just three days to go, the opposition is still undecided about whether it will attend. One opposition official suggested the Saudi-backed opposition delegation may boycott the talks.

Khawla Mattar, a spokeswoman for Staffan de Mistura, said in Geneva that the envoy would not make public the numbers and identities of the invitees until his office gets “feedback from the invited parties” — a sign of the delicacy of his task.

The talks are meant to start a political process to end the conflict that began 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.

The attack in Homs, which was claimed by the Islamic State group, came as government forces retook a southern town from opposition fighters and other militants.

Homs Governor Talal Barazi told the SANA news agency that the checkpoint was hit “first by a car bomb, which was then followed by a suicide bombing.”

Syrian state television broadcast footage of the aftermath of the attack, showing cars ablaze and extensive damage to shops and apartments around the site of the explosion in the Zahra neighbourhood, which is inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The district has been a frequent target of bombings in recent months.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group which relies on a network of informants across Syria, quoted witnesses at the scene as saying the first bomber attracted a crowd of security agents by shouting curses about the Homs governor, then blew up his vehicle.

Meanwhile, in southern Syria, government forces seized the town of Sheikh Maskin, culminating an offensive that began in late December to retake the town after seizing the nearby Brigade 82 military base.

Sheikh Maskin lies near the highway connecting Damascus and the Jordanian border, and connects the Syrian capital to Daraa, a border town held by opposition fighters. Its fall is the latest in a string of battlefield successes for Assad’s military that have bolstered his hand ahead of the planned peace talks.

STOCKHOLM — A deadly stabbing at a Swedish shelter for teenage asylum-seekers has deepened worries in this Nordic nation over violence at the refugee centres housing more than 100,000 people waiting for their claims to be processed.

Swedish police had barely issued a fresh plea for more resources to deal with the “migrant situation” when reports came Monday that a 15-year-old boy had attacked a female caretaker at a home for unaccompanied minors south of Goteborg.

Alexandra Mezher, 22, died of her stab wounds after being transported to a local hospital. Police said two other teenagers living in the shelter restrained the attacker until officers arrested him on suspicion of murder.

“It’s awful. We are still waiting for her to come back. We’re in shock,” said Lejla Filipovic, a 22-year-old friend of the victim, who was mourning with Mezher’s family on Tuesday.

Exactly what happened early Monday at the shelter in Molndal remains under investigation, but it’s clear that Swedish police are facing mounting pressure to deal with brawls, sexual assaults and other problems at refugee shelters across the country.

About 163,000 Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others applied for asylum in Sweden last year, doubling the previous record from 2014. In Europe, only Germany received higher numbers.

More than 30,000 of those seeking shelter in Sweden were unaccompanied minors, almost all boys.

While most stay out of trouble and just want to start a new life in Europe, the Swedish police authority warned that its resources have been spread thin by stepped-up border controls, the deportations of migrants whose asylum claims are rejected and efforts to maintain order at refugee shelters.

National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson said the force needs 2,500 more uniformed officers and up to 1,600 civilian employees to deal with what he called a “new normal” in the country of 10 million people.

“Many parts of our operations are under great strain,” he said.

Police logs show officers are being called to deal with problems at refu-

gee shelters on a near-daily basis, many times involving boys or men traumatized by war and frustrated by the long and agonizing wait for their asylum claims to be processed.

Deadly attacks are relatively rare, but in August an asylum-seeker from Eritrea killed two people in an IKEA store, reportedly after being denied a residence permit.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven travelled to Molndal after Monday’s attack, and warned it may not be the last one.

“I believe quite a lot of people are very concerned that there could be similar cases when Sweden receives so many children and young people,” he said.

Sweden has long welcomed refugees fleeing war and persecution but never before on a scale seen last year.

Concerns are now growing that the country’s welcome is reaching its limit.

Lofven’s Social Democratic government was long a champion of open borders to refugees but reversed course last year and tightened border controls.

Meanwhile, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, a party with farright roots that was once considered too extreme to be electable in tolerant Sweden, is gaining ground. After grabbing 13 per cent of the vote in the 2014 election, it’s currently polling around 20 per cent.

Elaf Ali, a 28-year-old who used to work at a shelter for unaccompanied minors in Stockholm, said she wasn’t surprised by what happened in Molndal.

Having arrived as a refugee from Iraq in 1991, she wanted to help other new arrivals get settled in Swedish society, but quit after a year and a half after a violent episode in 2011.

“One night one of the guys pulled out a large kitchen knife. And he ran around chasing us with it. I was very scared. I was the only girl there, so I felt vulnerable,” she said. “I locked myself into an office and called the police.”

She said police arrested the boy and no one was injured.

While some say only a sharp drop in immigration can resolve the situation, others are calling for more personnel at the shelters and tougher consequences for offenders.

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A rustic winter tart

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MAKES: 4 to 6 servings PREPARATION: The dough for the galette crust needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.

Mina brand harissa can be found on the hot-sauce aisle at some Harris Teeter stores; Cava Mezze harissa is available in the refrigerated section of some Whole Foods Markets.

Filling recipe adapted from My Darling Lemon Thyme, by Emma Galloway (Roost Books, 2015); crust recipe adapted from Good to the Grain, by Kim Boyce (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2010).

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½ cup dark or light rye flour ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon kosher salt 6 tablespoons chilled vegan shortening (may substitute butter or coconut oil) 4 to 6 tablespoons ice water ½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar For the galette 2 pounds butternut or other winter squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1-inch chunks ½ cup harissa (store-bought or homemade; see related recipe and headnote), or more for serving 3 ounces feta cheese, crumbled 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons whole milk Cilantro leaves, chopped, for garnish STEPS For the crust: Combine the rye flour, all-purpose flour, salt and shortening in a food processor; pulse a few times, until the shortening is mostly the size of peas, with some bigger pieces. Add 4 tablespoons of the ice water and the vinegar; pulse a few times, until the dough mostly comes together as one lump with a few shaggy pieces.

Turn the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap and squeeze it to see if a ball forms. If it is too dry to come together, sprinkle with more ice water, 1 tation to the museum.

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum said in a statement Monday that Prudhomme’s wife, Lori, donated the approximately 600 cookbooks, as well as wine and food documents and books on food science to the museum.

Prudhomme died on Oct. 8 last year.

The chef popularized the food of his Cajun upbringing and became one of the first American chefs to achieve worldwide fame.

The museum said Prudhomme made notes in some of the cookbooks.

The museum said the collection is a testament to Prudhomme’s “love for cuisine of all countries, particularly the regional cuisine upon which he built his career.”

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For the galette: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a rimmed baking sheet with cooking oil spray; have another baking sheet at hand.

Combine the squash and harissa in a large bowl, mixing thoroughly to coat. Turn the squash pieces out onto the greased baking sheet; roast for 30 to 35 minutes, turning them a few times during cooking, until they are tender. Let cool.

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the parchment paper sheets to a round that’s about 12 inches across. Transfer to the second baking sheet (on a piece of the parchment paper) and top with the roasted squash at the center, leaving a 2-inch border. Scatter the feta on top of the squash, then fold the edges of the dough toward the center, loosely pleating it as needed, to form the galette. (There should be a fair amount of squash and feta exposed at the center.)

Lightly whisk together the egg yolk and milk in a small dish, then brush the mixture on the dough. Bake until the crust is crisp and golden and the feta is browned, 40 to 45 minutes.

Garnish with cilantro leaves. Serve hot or at room temperature, with extra harissa on the side, if desired.

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If you like savoury pies and tarts but find the whole crust process to be intimidating, I’ve got one word for you: galette. In case that doesn’t mean anything, I’ll give you two more: free-form.

With a galette, you roll out the crust, sure, but you don’t need to trim it or, really, spend much time shaping it. Go ahead and leave the edges ragged. You don’t even need to get all that close to a reasonable circle, either. Pile the filling in the center, pull the outside edges of the pastry up and over a little bit — letting plenty of the filling stay exposed — and loosely pleat it. The rougher, the better.

That brings us to the fourth word: rustic. Now you’re getting the picture.

I know that people make galettes (crostati in Italian) in the summer, but my preferred time to make them is in the colder months, when the warmth of the oven takes the chill off the kitchen and when seasonal produce is hearty enough to stand the long cooking time.

There are lots of ways to go here. You can use cauliflower or broccoli or a combination with romesco (my favourite) or another sauce, or combine cooked-down greens and canned or home-cooked beans with lots of garlic, onion, celery and Cajun spices.

My new go-to is from Emma Galloway’s beautiful 2015 book, My Darling Lemon Thyme. It features a combination that hadn’t occurred to me before, and it worked beautifully: winter squash tossed in a good amount of harissa, the spicy north African pepper paste, and roasted until tender. You pile it on that pastry, top with feta, do that pleating thing, and bake until crisp. The harissa’s sharpness mellows out a little, the squash gets wonderfully soft, and the feta adds a briny zing.

The filling is a three-ingredient recipe, without the need for even salt and pepper. And if you have dough for a crust awaiting you in the freezer, all the better. But in case you don’t, Galloway used a gluten-free one with hers, and it looks intriguing, made with mashed potato and two GF flours.

I knew I’d instead use one of my favourites: a rye-based dough inspired by a recipe from Good to the Grain author Kim Boyce. It adds another touch of earthiness to the affair, and, in the spirit of a galette, it’s just as simple.

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