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Through the month of February the City of Red Deer is encouraging residents to reduce the amount of solid waste they send to the landfill. Above a heavy equipment operator moves and compacts the trash at the landfill on Monday.

City urged to go garbage free

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Garbage-Free February 2016 is underway in Red Deer to inspire people to start their own journey towards a sustainable future.

On Sunday, ReThink Red Deer held the campaign kick-off at Margaret Parsons Theatre at Red Deer College to mark 10 years for the annual effort in Red Deer.

Rene Michalak, ReThink Red Deer project leader, said the goal is not to have completely empty gar-

bage cans. “Each person is encouraged to take on the challenge, but also to the degree that they’re comfortable,� Michalak said on Monday. “It’s going through the month making the best choices you can with as much forethought as possible. Learn as you go through the month and then from that experience you take forward into the rest of your life better choices.�

A few ways to reduce waste include using reusable coffee mugs and water bottles, taking reusable bags to the grocery store, learning how the city’s blue box recycling system works, shopping at sec-

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ond-hand stores, and participating in green consumption networks like Freecycle.

He said many options are available so it’s a matter of people educating themselves and deciding whether or not to participate.

Michalak said the convenience factor can often outweigh efforts to reduce garbage, but many are making efforts towards a more sustainable future. “It’s happening. With any change, it’s incremental.�

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Jurors picked for sexual assault trial

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Canadian alternative rock band 54-40 played the International Beer Haus and Stage in Red Deer Monday performing an acoustic set promoting their new album. The band says their album, La Difference — A History Unplugged, is an inspired acoustic re-work of their most cherished songs and is dedicated to their beloved fans. On the left is Dave Glenn on piano, acoustic guitars and harmony vocals, and Neil Osborne on vocals and guitars. See Lana Michelin’s review in Wednesday’s Red Deer Advocate.

Jurors have been selected for the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman, who then fled into the wilderness and survived for 12 days before she was found.

Kevin Roy Gladue, 38, is charged with aggravated sex assault, assault and obstruction. His trial started Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench and is scheduled to run until Feb. 12.

Gladue sat in the prisoners box wearing a black, button-down shirt with the top two buttons undone as jury selection occurred.

Defence counsel Jason Snider and Crown Prosecutor Ann MacDonald settled on a jury of eight women and four men, with two alternate jurors a man and a woman respectively.

Jurors were instructed by Justice Kirk Sisson to return on Wednesday for the start of their duties.

The trial resumes today with a voir dire — a trial within a trial to determine if evidence is admissible.

Because it is a jury trial, there is a publication ban on the evidence presented during the voir dire.

The jurors were selected out of a pool of more than 110 potential jurors.

Gladue was arrested by Rocky Mountain House RCMP on July 26, 2013, the evening after the victim had been found wondering on an oilfield road.

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Council approves Waskasoo redevelopment plan

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Proposals for development in Waskasoo must now meet specific attributes within the neighbourhood.

After more than two years in the making, the Waskasoo Area Redevelopment Area Plan was approved on Monday.

Mayor Tara Veer said a couple of years ago it became quite evident that Waskasoo, one of Red Deer’s predominant historic neighbourhoods was in transi-

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tion and in need of a new redevelopment plan. “I am pleased it was unanimously approved,â€? said said. “A plan had come forward a couple years ago that was very divisive in the community‌ We protected public lands, protected some of the sensitive environmental areas and the historic integrity of the neighbourhood and kept options open for the future.â€?

The plan, which addresses identity, land use, environment and movement, uses a new city planning tool called “character statements.�

The statements along with other planning tools

will be used to evaluate any redevelopment applications in the area.

The four character statements include historic core, A-20 Camp, 55th Street and environment. The statements will be reviewed in three years.

Tara Lodewyk, planning director, said the tool will help take out the subjectivity of what “character� means and help save time and money for development applicants.

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Electoral reform 101 Imagine Canada’s current first-past-thepost electoral system is changed so that each party’s share of the popular vote is reflected in the number of seats it wins.

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Trial on gang-related charges set to begin in September 2017 Accused of gang-related charges, a Red Deer man has a months worth of trial and voir dires set for the fall of 2017.

Croft Monroe-Bowes, 36, is charged with conspiracy to sell drugs to benefit a criminal organization.

His counsel, Will Willms appeared on his behalf in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday.

Monroe-Bowes is charged with several different trafficking cocaine offences as well as the careless use or storage of two firearms.

Willms and Crown Prosecutor Dave Inglis set a three week trial, preceded by one week of voir dires starting on Sept. 11, 2017. Voir dires are trials on the admissibility of evidence into the trial proper.

The trial is set to start on Oct. 30, 2017 and run until Nov. 17, 2017 before a Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench judge alone.

Monroe-Bowes has been released from custody on $5,000 cash bail.

Stabbing trial underway Trial has started for a man accused of a summer 2014 stabbing after a street fight near 39th Street and 40th Avenue.

Victor Burt L’Hirondelle, 20, of Red Deer is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public.

His trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Keith Yamauchi started on Monday.

Among the evidence presented was the accused’s statement to police following his arrest shortly after the incident on June 12, 2014.

Red Deer RCMP said the victim was stabbed during a fist fight involving a number of people at about 1:30 a.m. that morning. The victim, who was 16 at the time, made his way to the nearby East 40th Pub for help. The victim was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

Police located the accused at a downtown residence near Ross Street and Gaetz Avenue.

Trial resumes today and is expected to run until Wednesday.

Man accused of attempted murder hires new lawyer A man accused of the attempted murder and robbery of a Sylvan Lake couple now has a lawyer.

Andrew Allan Waunch, 32, of Red Deer faces 15 charges including attempted murder. He appeared in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Kirk Sisson on Monday.

Waunch told the court he had hired a new lawyer, Kevin Sproule. He was scheduled to stand trial starting on Oct. 5, 2015, but fired his previous counsel the morning of the trial. The trial was adjourned and Waunch was tasked with finding new legal counsel.

Waunch is being held in custody. Trial dates have been tentatively scheduled for April 10, 2017, but the matter will return on April 4 to confirm the trial dates are available for the new legal counsel.

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City of Red Deer firefighter Evan Metcalfe hoses off his coworker Matt Ree following a house fire in Red Deer on Monday. Reports of a fire came in at 1 p.m. at 6731 59 Ave. Monday and firefighters responded to the scene from Station 2, just around the corner from the residence. A total of 19 firefighters attended the fire knocking down the blaze quickly, said platoon chief Terry Brew. The fire, which started in the basement and spread to the main floor kitchen and living room, was stubborn, as it continued to smolder in the floor joists and walls. There was no one in the building at the time as tenants of the property moved out on Sunday.

Sylvan Lake RCMP said on June 3, 2013 they were called to a home for a reported firearms incident.

They said a man and woman broke into the home and demanded money and jewelry. Police said the man tried to fire a gun at one of the victims, but the gun did not go off.

Ashley Dawn Chambers, 26, of Sylvan Lake was convicted on May 15, 2014 of armed robbery and forcible confinement and sentenced to four years for her role.

Sex assault trial scheduled to take two days less No more jury means a sex assault trial will only take three days, instead of the scheduled five. ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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GARBAGE: Expand your TRIAL: Victim fled into the bush green knowledge Michalak is taking on the challenge of going plastic free this month. He said it won’t always be easy and he’s looking for ideas from others on how they have reduced the use of plastic.

People can continue to expand their green knowledge by attending the fifth annual EcoLiving Fair and Workshops at Red Deer College’s Cenovus Learning Common on March 12 and 13, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Presented by Peavey Mart and hosted by ReThink Red Deer, activities include a repair cafe, heirloom seed swap, urban homesteading and eco-friendly building ideas, renewable energy, zero-waste practices, and more.

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The identity of the victim is protected by a court-ordered publication ban on sexual assault victims.

Mounties said the female victim and four other people were in a truck that became stuck on the north end of the O’Chiese reserve, just north of Rocky Mountain House on July 14, 2013.

Three people went to go get help leaving the woman alone with the accused. When their friends didn’t return, the two people started walking. That’s when police allege he struck her in the face and attempted to sexually assault her.

The then 25-year-old woman fled into the bush and after the initial panic she became disoriented.

For the next 12 days the woman sipped rain water and foraged for berries deep in the woods.

Police said the woman had a broken jaw, a con-

Justin Chase Mueller, 29, of Red Deer will stand trial from March 14 to 16 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench before a judge alone. He was scheduled to be tried by a judge and jury.

On Monday, defence counsel Norm Clair re-elected on Mueller’s behalf. The change in mode of trial freed up trial dates for other matters.

Mueller was arrested in Edmonton on Dec. 4, 2014.

He is accused of a robbery, abduction and sex assault of a Red Deer woman.

Blackfalds RCMP said the 20-year-old victim left work at 12:20 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2014 from a Gasoline Alley hotel. It is alleged a man approached her, brandishing a knife.

The man forced the woman into a vehicle and then drove to a bank to withdraw cash. Then they drove to a rural location south of Red Deer where the alleged sex assault occurred. cussion, suffered from exposure and had scrapes and cuts.

She was found on July 26, 2013 by an oilfield worker as she walked down a dirt road. He helped her into his truck and called 911, meeting emergency services on a nearby highway. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

WASKASOO: Satisfied with plan Darcy Garrett, president of the Waskasso Community Association Board, said in a letter that the association was generally satisfied with the plans and offer its conditional support. It had some concerns over increase of traffic with the the planned expansion of Gateway School and upgrades to 45th Avenue, north of 59th Street.

The work on the project began in February 2014 with public consultation over the last two years.

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Coroner hunts for avalanche trigger

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The B.C. Coroner’s Service is confident it will pinpoint the cause of an avalanche near the community of McBride that killed five Alberta snowmobilers last week.

Coroner Barb McLintock says investigators have “nearly always” been able to determine what triggered previous slides.

An avalanche technician wrapped up work on the

site in eastern British Columbia on Sunday.

McLintock says in addition to determining the cause of the slide, the investigation will look at contributing factors and whether anything could have been done differently to avoid the deaths.

She says her office will also have to determine whether any recommendations can be made to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future.

McLintock says it’s impossible to predict how long the investigation will take.

The area where Friday’s slide occurred about 20

km east of McBride has been reopened to the public, but the Coroner’s Office is urging any members of the public venturing into B.C.’s back country to check with Avalanche Canada to see what risk levels are.

The five who were killed were among four separate groups of snowmobilers who were in the same area when the slide came down.

The avalanche risk was rated as “considerable” and warning signs were posted.

ASIRT clears officers who wounded man who was firing arrows at them

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Bret Hart (centre) and unidentified family members out of the church following a funeral service for Stu Hart in Calgary. Canadian professional wrestler Bret Hart says he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery “in the next few days.”

Canadian wrestling legend says he has prostate cancer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian professional wrestler Bret Hart says he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery “in the next few days.”

Posting on his verified Instagram account, the Calgary-born grappler known as “The Hitman” said he was about to face his “toughest battle.”

The 58-year-old has had serious health issues before.

He suffered a significant stroke in 2002 that left him partially paralyzed, but made a successful recovery.

Hart was born into a legendary wrestling family led by his father Stu Hart, the founder of Calgary’s Stampede Wrestling promotion.

Monday’s Instagram post had more than 8,000 likes within an hour of it going up.

“With hesitation and fear, I openly declare myself in my fight against prostate cancer,” Hart said.

He made his debut in the WWF (now WWE) in 1984 and rose to fame as a member of the Hart Foundation with tag-team partner Jim (The Anvil) Neidhart.

Hart went on to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship five times before an acrimonious split with the promotion.

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The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says RCMP were called to an apartment in Wetaskiwin, Alta., just before 4 a.m. on March 24, 2015, after receiving reports of a fight between a woman and a man.

The woman fled the apartment and called police, advising them the man had a crossbow and was looking for a fight.

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Peddling fear for politics If you’re out to peddle fear these of a leader with a more positive view days, you’ll find a ready market. Opti- of our potential?

But really, how long did it take bemism, the antidote to fear, is about as hard to find nowadays as a job in the fore we changed course, and “sunny ways” became a punchline?

Alberta oil patch.

Here are three examples Fear, anger and cynicism of how the negative politics are toxic to governments of fear can paralyze governtrying to fill a positive manment, if we let it. date. Thus, they can paraFirst: our reaction to the lyze entire nations.

Syrian refugee crisis. CaEven outside of our nadians widely endorsed economic downturn, you bringing in 25,000 refugees don’t have to look far for to Canada. We still do. But things to be frustrated, anwe missed arbitrary deadgry and cynical about. It’s lines on the speed at which easy enough to say we can’t we intended to do it. trust government — or inIs this a catastrophic vestment bankers or global GREG failure? The people pushcorporations and in some NEIMAN ing negative politics would places even the local police. have us believe so. But an How about counting on your OPINIONS optimist would celebrate next paycheque? that even if late, we will Personally, I’m glad the U.S. primary season is finally set to be- reach our goal, and that thousands of gin. After so many months of the bom- families will find safety and freedom, bast, bullying and BS in the run-up to to help build a better, more inclusive these elections, I’m looking forward to Canada.

Second: Alberta’s review of energy seeing voters pass judgment.

I’m glad because we’re seeing a re- royalties. No doubt, releasing the resurgence of the negative politics that view’s report was a tough moment for so dominates the United States creep- the provincial NDP, which held for so long that Albertans were not getting ing back into Canada.

Doesn’t it seem like a lifetime ago fair return on our non-renewable rethat Donald Trump used to be the set- sources. But the independent review up for a punchline? Doesn’t it seem suggested otherwise, so there will be long ago that we rejected our own neg- no appreciable change in royalties for ative-styled prime minister, in favour the next 10 years.

You could look negatively at this in two ways. One way would hold that current market conditions overshadowed the long-term view of what appears to be a rather low rent on our energy deposits. But if you supported calling a review, you can’t cry foul if you didn’t get the result you thought you deserved.

A second view is the negative politics of the Alberta opposition. “They were wrong all along, we were right all along,” was the immediate message of the Wildrose. By inference, the current government are a bunch of boneheads.

But in both examples, government did something the people widely agreed needed to be done. Both times, outcomes were not entirely as expected. Both times, government admitted the reality of things and moved forward.

How, exactly, is that bad government?

A third example: the emergence of Albertans First movement. Founder George Clark was in Red Deer recently, to gather support for plebiscites against both Bill 6 and the provincial carbon tax.

His talk took a strange turn when he argued against expanding wind power in Alberta — on environmental grounds. He pointed to scientific studies of bird mortality at wind farms.

I did find one good study by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and

Bird Studies Canada that seem to back his position, that a giant windmill would likely kill perhaps 10 birds a year. That same study concluded “population effects are unlikely,” since less than 0.2 per cent of population is lost due to collisions with windmills. That’s less than mortality due to collisions with wires, towers, windows or cars — and far less than mortality due to our household cats.

He said oil and gas companies that have “bent over backwards” to protect natural habitat. Really? Would that be by clear-cutting seismic lines all over the province, driving heavy trucks through trout streams, all the chemical and oil spills that occur, and the poisoning of farmers’ water wells?

Clark says we should fight to save birds, but not farm workers and children on farm families with Bill 6, or to have people realize the full cost of fossil fuels through a carbon tax?

Strange. But we don’t want to be negative, do we?

The Alberta and federal governments did not cause the collapse of the oil and gas industries. Their reactions to current realities have not made things worse; indeed, they’ve had no time to have any effect at all yet.

So don’t buy the fear. Or at least, we should look honestly at what’s causing our frustration, anger and cynicism.

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Albertans First should focus on the real threats to birds

Justice Film Festival successful due to Hearts of Women

George Clark, the founder of Albertans First — the anti-Bill 6 and anti-carbon tax group — wants no more wind turbines in the province, since they kill birds.

Hopefully though, he will divert his attention to those things which kill far, far more birds than wind turbines ever have or ever will. I’m referring to house-cats and feral cats (estimated to kill 200 million birds per year in Canada, as opposed to about 20,000 from wind turbines).

Once he has fixed that problem, he can turn his attention to power lines (another 25 million birds per year), buildings lit up at night (another 25 million), vehicle collisions (14 million), agricultural pesticides (2.7 million) etc.

So, overall — even if we increase wind power by an order of magnitude — the turbines will still be far, far less than 0.1 per cent of the problem. By the way, although our family has a well-loved cat, she is an indoor cat, except for those times in the summer when we let her out on her leash.

Evan Bedford Red Deer

Another successful Justice Film Festival was held at the Margaret Parsons Theatre, Jan. 22 and 23.

Thanks to Hearts of Women (HOW) who have hosted the Justice Film Festival for the past six years.

These women have taken on the task of advocating the understanding of global issues through showing documentary films of powerful stories of injustices around the world.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has, ” women’s rights activist Margaret Mead once said.

Hearts of Women — a huge thanks for inspiring folks to take positive actions.

Shirley Challoner Red Deer

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this insightful column.

In a province where politically speaking liberal/ socialists are popping out of the woodwork, especially in the letters to the editor page, it is refreshing to read Jim Sutherland’s opinion column.

He speaks honestly and he represents — well — the viewpoint of most Albertans, which is still conservative, common sense, and Christian.

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Military battles abuse EIGHT SEX ASSAULT CLAIMS INVESTIGATED AFTER COMPLAINTS TO CRISIS CENTRE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Eight allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces are under investigation by military police, a crackdown Canada’s top general is billing as the leading edge of the battle against harassment and abuse within the ranks.

Chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance released the first of several progress reports Monday as he leads an institution-wide effort to root out what a report last year called an “underlying sexualized culture” that’s hostile to women.

The progress report references six cases that were directed by a newly established crisis centre to the Canadian Forces National Investigative Service between September and December of last year. Two other allegations were received last month, Vance said.

Overall, the centre, part of the response to last year’s scathing indictment of military culture by former Supreme Court of Canada justice Marie Deschamps, received 204 phone calls, emails and texts between September and December.

Of those, 53 involved allegations of sexual offences and another 32 related to claims of sexual harassment.

The report, which details other administrative steps taken by the military, represents merely a first step, Vance said in a prepared statement.

“The Canadian Armed Forces has only just begin this mission,” he said.

Prosecuting criminal behaviour is the most obvious and straightforward response to what Deschamps described as the “endemic culture” of abuse within the military. The more difficult — and arguably more insidious — problem of harassment will likely be harder to root out.

Those types of allegations are dealt with not through criminal proceedings but under the military’s disciplinary

process — a process Vance acknowledged is viewed with “general dissatisfaction.”

A policy review is underway that will hopefully produce results by June, he said.

“The process is not fast enough it doesn’t close the loop enough it’s a difficult process to go through, particularly if you are hurting — or you’re feeling in many ways put upon, particularly if the harasser is a superior in your chain of command,” Vance said.

“So, there’s a lot of work to be done here.”

Expert applauds work on indigenous issues

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s talk of systemic discrimination against Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples lends legitimacy to the issues and those tackling them, a United Nations human rights expert said Monday.

Barbara Bailey, the vice-chair of the UN committee on the elimination of discrimination against women, said the prime minister’s remarks are significant because they come from the “very top.”

A “pervasive culture” in police forces, governments and religious communities has led to indigenous people being less valued, Trudeau said in a CBC forum on Sunday.

“It certainly gives legitimacy to those who are trying to do something about these issues,” Bailey said following a meeting with other human rights experts and Canada’s ministers of Justice, Indigenous Affairs and Status of Women.

“I think somewhere the cycle has to be broken.”

Failures of the justice system were also flagged last March in a report by Bailey’s committee, which revealed that Canada failed to thoroughly investigate why indigenous women are targeted for violence.

After conducting a confidential inquiry in 2013, Bailey’s committee noted officials have failed to protect aboriginal women, hold offenders to account and ensure that victims get redress.

“What we found in our inquiry was that although, for example, the residential school practice had ended, regrettably as late as it did, that whole kind of discrimination was being reproduced in the social welfare policies and the way social welfare is administered in those communities,” Bailey said.

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Firefighters battle a barn fire near St. Thomas, Ont. Monday. Ontario Provincial Police said approximately 90 dairy cows died Monday morning in a barn fire in Elgin County, in southwestern Ontario.

90 cows killed in Ontario barn fire

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. THOMAS, Ont. — Another fire in Ontario has killed a large number of livestock.

Ontario Provincial Police said approximately 90 dairy cows died Monday morning in a barn fire in Elgin County, in southwestern Ontario.

Const. Troy Carlson said 10 or 15 cows escaped the blaze, which caused damage estimated at $1.5 million.

Carlson said it took firefighters several hours to bring the fire under control due to the large amount of stored hay, which is more difficult to extinguish.

Last week, firefighters had to dodge spooked cows as they battled a blaze following a crash on the TransCanada Highway in central Ontario, that left a cattle transport driver and seven or eight cattle dead.

More than 2,000 pigs died in mid-January in a barn fire north of London, Ont., while fires earlier in the

month at two barns in the Guelph, Ont. area killed more than 50 horses, including 43 racehorses.

About 500 goats and 30 cows were

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Rowing club needs new home GROUP OUTGROWS CURRENT PRIVATE LAUNCH, PROPOSES ROAD ALLOWANCE

“IF WE SAY YES HERE, ARE WE SAYING YES THERE? I ALWAYS FIND IT A DANGEROUS ROAD WHEN WE GO OUTSIDE OUR PRECEDENT.” COUN. BRENDA KNIGHT

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Area rowers are looking for a new home.

The Central Alberta Rowing Club made a pitch to Lacombe County council recently to use an unused road right-of-way at Lacombe Lake to launch its boats.

For the past decade, the club has used a lake owner’s property to launch their boats. A boat shelter, portable toilet and floating dock were put in

place by the club.

The club has now outgrown that site with more than two dozen boats potentially hitting the water compared to three when the club first moved to its spot on the northeast corner of the lake between Blackfalds and Lacombe.

Besides being used as a base for learn-to-row classes, local schools have also sent student groups to the lake to try out rowing.

Club president Andrew Nokes said the club is looking for a long-term site

on the lake and believes the road allowance would be a good fit. Little work would need to be done to gain access to the lake other than creating a short gravel incline from the road allowance to the nearby county road.

Other sites were considered, but are unsuitable because of marshes, steep banks, and lack of access and space for boat storage.

The club was once located on Sylvan Lake but the water there is often too rough and the number of power boats has multiplied.

Unfortunately, county regulations do not allow road allowances to be used the way the boat club wants. They are not to be developed and left for walking, horseback or ATV use.

Several councillors questioned whether some sort of short-term lease could be worked out with the club as a compromise.

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Coun. Brenda Knight urged caution with bending the rules for one lake user. There are a number of undeveloped road allowances on Buffalo Lake that people might want to use in a similar fashion.

“If we say yes here, are we saying yes there?” she asked. “I always find it a dangerous road when we go outside our precedent.”

There was also some concern about allowing boat storage on the road allowance.

Council stopped short of rejecting the club’s request. The rowers were told to look into using some provincial land next to the road allowance for its boat storage.

If the province was open to allowing its land to be used, the county would look again at allowing the road allowance as an access point. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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No silencing train whistles ADVOCATE FAILS TO CONVINCE COUNCIL OF HEALTH BENEFITS OF QUIET RAILS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Mark Bough rings in his part during a practice at the HUB on Ross on Monday. Lead by director Kristy Lawrence eight to 10 members of the Ross Street Bell Choir meet each Monday at the HUB on Ross to practice their music.

Clive seeks $1.7M for new hall

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

LACOMBE COUNTY

Clive needs a new community hall and residents are hoping Lacombe County can provide up to $1.7 million towards the project.

The village of 700 wants to build a $2.3-million community hall to replace an aging hall.

“Our current facility is way too small,” Clive Hall funding co-ordinator Lori Oatway told county council recently.

The community has been talking about replacing its cramped facility for about 20 years.

“Our current hall needs a long list

of repairs and renovations,” she added.

Rather than pour fundraising into maintaining a facility well past its prime, the community wants to replace the hall with room to seat 320, double the capacity of the existing building.

A site is available on the north side of Clive and some fundraising has already been done. The Clive Hall Board has about $135,000, the village has promised sewer and water connections worth $350,000 to $450,000 and the local Lions Club has pledged $35,000.

Oatway said they are asking for so

Man pleads guilty to stealing car

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A man accused of stealing a car from a closed garage has pleaded guilty to other charges laid against him when he was arrested.

Aaron James Campbell, was arrested on Jan. 14 by Red Deer RCMP in Clearview at about 2 p.m.

On Friday, in Red Deer provincial court Campbell pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and breach of probation.

He was sentenced to two months jail, 12 months of probation and a $100 fine.

Accused in drugs, weapon bust looking for new lawyer A Penhold man accused in a drug and weapons bust by Innisfail RCMP no longer has a lawyer after his appointed counsel asked to be removed.

Maurice Collard, who was appointed by the Alberta Legal Aid Society, asked to get off the record as counsel for Darren Ray, 33, on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Collard said Ray was not keeping in contact with him and did not feel he could properly represent Ray on the matter. Justice Kirk Sisson granted the request and charged Ray with obtaining new counsel.

Ray is scheduled to appear again in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench on

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April 4.

Ray is charged with drug, firearms and stolen property offences stemming from an Aug. 7, 2015 arrest at a Penhold residence.

Innisfail RCMP along with the Calgary Emergency Response Team, Blackfalds RCMP and Red Deer RCMP General Investigation Section executed a search warrant on a Penhold residence at 1 p.m. that afternoon.

Police said they found cocaine, crystal meth, GHB, morphine, prescription pills, firearms, cash and stolen property.

On Dec. 14, 2015, a court order was granted to close a house located at 52 Heartland Cres. According to a land title search, Ray is the owner of the property.

Derek Bergdal, 30, of Penhold is also charged in connection to the bust.

Warrants issued for two men Red Deer RCMP are asking for the public to be on the lookout for two men wanted on warrants for various alleged offences.

Daniel Richard John Marten is wanted on Alberta-wide warrants for assault and breach of probation

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much county support because the oilpatch companies that could previously be approached for help are weathering the downturn and have less to give.

Federal and provincial grants are usually designed as matching contributions, which means funding commitments from others need to be lined up before applying.

The new facility would become a much-needed space for weddings, funerals and other gatherings. It is expected a bigger facility will mean a lot more bookings.

County council referred the request to staff to come back with a report and recommendation. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com charges. He may also go by the names Christopher Robinson or Chris Martens.

Alberta-wide warrants have also been issued for Brayan Cuervo, who is wanted on 20 charges including flight from police, breach of probation and failing to comply with a court order.

Cuervo is described as Colombian, five-foot-seven (1.7 m) tall, 170 pounds (77 kg), with black hair and brown eyes.

Marten is described as Aboriginal, six-foot-two (1.88 m), 175 pounds (79 kg), with brown hair and brown eyes.

Police advise citizens not to approach either man. Instead, contact RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Trial set in drug, gun case A two-day trial has been set for a man accused of numerous drug and gun offences, stemming from a massive search of a rural property near Markerville.

More than 100 RCMP members scoured the property west of Red Deer on April 15, 2015. They said they found cocaine, steroids, crystal meth, GHB, long guns, handguns and an explosive device.

Michael Alois Schaab, 43, of Markerville faces 26 charges including possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and 15 different firearms charges.

In Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, a two day trial before a judge alone was scheduled for April 27 and 28 of 2017.

The shriek of train whistles in Lacombe won’t be stopping anytime soon despite the efforts of some local residents.

Lacombe’s Stewart Shields is lobbying to have CPR kill its engine warnings whistles at the Wolf Creek Drive crossing on the northeast side of town.

Shields, who lives about three blocks west of the intersection, said the whistles are not only an unnecessary nuisance, they are a health issue, interrupting sleep and causing stress.

He went to council last week looking for support to get CPR to stop whistling ahead of the crossing.

It’s not the first time the issue has come up.

Last sum“RIGHT NOW, WE’RE mer, a 20-name MORE CONCERNED petition ABOUT THE SAFETY supporting OF ALL MOTORISTS an end to train whisIN THAT AREA.” tles in the STEVE CHRISTIE, city went MAYOR OF LACOMBE to council, but nothing came of it.

Council was told at the time that to apply for train whistle cessation, the city would be responsible for a safety assessment, apply for additional liability coverage and pay for improvements, such as additional fencing.

Shields argues $2 million in improvements to the Hwy 2A rail crossings through town that have improved safety allow for whistle cessation.

“We have already paid the price to have cessation, to have a health effect removed from Lacombe,” he said.

No other industry could get away with that kind of racket so close to homes, he said.

Mayor Steve Christie said council reviewed the issue last July and decided then not to put any money into whistle cessation studies.

Council may revisit the issue again, but there are no immediate plans to do anything.

The $2 million to improve the crossings and nearby roadways had made the crossings much safer, he said. That work was mostly funded — 84 per cent — by the province.

“Right now, we’re more concerned about the safety of all motorists in that area. So we will continue the status quo and if it’s brought up again in 2016 we’ll have another look at it,” Christie said.

Silencing the whistles would have to be a joint effort between the city, the rail company and the federal Transportation Department, he said.

Rail companies are reluctant to enter into cessation agreements with communities because whistles are seen as an important safety measure.

Blackfalds and Ponoka have tried, and failed, to have whistles silenced. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 A7

Electoral reform 101 A PRIMER ON ALTERNATIVES TO CANADA’S FIRST-PAST-THE-POST ELECTORAL SYSTEM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Imagine Canada’s current first-pastthe-post electoral system is changed so that each party’s share of the popular vote is more closely reflected in the number of seats it wins in the House of Commons.

Now suppose one party wins 37.3 per cent of the vote, another 28.2 per cent, a third 23.4 per cent and a fourth 11.1 per cent.

How would seats be allocated, based on those fractional percentages? Afficionados of proportional representation will tell you there’s any number of possibilities.

There’s the “largest remainder method,” although that could lead to an “apportionment paradox.” Alternatively, there’s the St. Lague method, the Webster method, the Schepers method or the modified St. Lague. There are pros and cons to each, fully understood possibly only by mathematicians.

This is the type of complication that the soon-to-be-constituted all-party committee on electoral reform will have to grapple with as they strive to deliver on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise that the 2015 federal election be the last conducted under FPTP. That mind-numbing complexity may well account for why Canadians in the three provinces that have held referendums on electoral reform — British Columbia, Ontario and Prince Edward Island — have opted for the devil they know.

Still, Kelly Carmichael, executive director of Fair Vote Canada, says 85 per cent of the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development have adopted some form of proportional representation “because it’s more democratic” than the Canadian system, wherein the governing party has routinely won the majority of Commons seats with less than 40 per cent of the vote.

If citizens in most OECD countries can wrap their heads around the complexities of PR, Carmichael is confident Canadians can too.

Leaving the more arcane complexities for MPs to ponder, here’s an electoral-reform-for-dummies primer on the options the committee — and Canadians — will have to consider:

Majoritarian or Proportional?

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A crane is seen next to centre block during renovations to the parliamentary precinct, Monday, in Ottawa. An all-party committee will soon tackle the thorny issue of electoral reform. feel their votes were wasted.

During the 2013 Liberal leadership race, Trudeau expressed his personal preference for ranked ballots but he promised during last fall’s election campaign to strike a committee to consider other options as well, including proportional representation, or PR. PR systems are characterized by having multiple members representing electoral districts and are designed so that a party’s share of the vote produces a roughly equivalent share of the seats in the legislature.

Critics argue that PR is more likely to produce unstable minority or coalition governments.

Advocates maintain it encourages parties to be more collegial and less adversarial, while making every vote count.

There is a wide variety of different PR systems in use around the globe, including New Zealand, Scotland and Germany.

They can involve an element of ranked balloting.

First-past-the-post, two-round voting and ranked ballot systems are examples of “majoritarian” voting systems, which are characterized by having one winner per electoral district.

In FPTP, the candidate with the most votes wins, often with considerably less than 50 per cent of the vote everyone else loses, leaving supporters of other candidates to feel their votes may have been “wasted.” Critics complain the system produces “false majorities” and unfairly rewards smaller parties, like the Bloc Quebecois, whose support is heavily concentrated in one region, and disadvantages those, like the Greens, whose support may be greater but is more thinly spread across the country.

In the two-round or run-off system, a second round of voting is conducted if no candiMMP was proposed in date receives more than Ontario and P.E.I. and re50 per cent of the vote, jected in referendums in with trailing candidates 2007 and 2005 respectivedropped from the ballot. ly. It is the preferred opIt is the most costly of tion of the federal NDP. electoral systems, accordUnder the Ontario ing to a 2004 Law Commodel, voters would cast mission of Canada study two ballots, one for a loof electoral reform, and cal candidate and one has not been seriously for a party. Each riding advocated in Canada. would continue to elect A cheaper route to the a member using the exsame end is the preferenisting FPTP system but tial or ranked-ballot sysPhoto by THE CANADIAN PRESS those winners would be tem, in which voters rank their choices in order of A member of Parliament walks through the supplemented by mempreference. If no candi- west door as they enter centre block and head bers chosen from province-wide party lists, apdate wins 50 per cent of the vote, the last-place to Question Period in the House of Commons on portioned according to candidate is dropped Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday. The stained glass each party’s share of the from the ballot and the window commemorates the legacy of former Indian popular vote.

For a country-wide second choices of his or Residential School students and their families. electoral system, The her supporters are countLaw Commission recomed. This continues until mended adoption of the one candidate emerges MMP system used in Scotland, where voters cast a with more than 50 per cent.

Ranked balloting would encourage parties to be ballot for one candidate in a single-member conless adversarial as they court second choice support. stituency and another ballot for a party list in a But it would not ensure proportional allocation of multi-member regional riding. seats and supporters of losing candidates could still

Mixed Member Proportional

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Harper wanted to pull out of Europe’s leading security organization: diplomats OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper wanted to pull Canada out of one of Europe’s leading security organizations four years ago, but U.S. President Barack Obama helped convince him to stay.

Three European ambassadors described on Monday what happened in 2012, when Harper suggested Canada would withdraw from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a 57-country alliance that includes NATO and European Union countries.

The diplomats said Harper believed the organization was no longer relevant because Europe was mainly peaceful, a view that was widely shared at the time. The outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine would later change that.

Their account flies in the face of a heated denial issued by former foreign affairs minister John Baird in April 2013 during testimony before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee.

Baird was confronted by New Democrat MP Helene Laverdiere who said she was “flabbergasted” to hear that Canada wanted to withdraw from the organization.

Open List vs. Closed List

The Ontario model involved closed party lists, with candidates chosen strictly by party brass.

Closed lists would allow parties to put members of under-represented groups, like women or ethnic and religious minorities, high on their lists, increasing their chances of winding up in the Commons.

But critics, including Trudeau, object to the potential of party elites rigging the lists to suit themselves and to the notion of list MPs not being directly elected by or accountable to voters in specific constituencies.

That could be addressed by adopting an “open” party list approach, giving voters a chance to endorse one or more candidates on a party list. However, the Law Commission report noted that such a system can encourage unhealthy competition and infighting within a party — a problem that became so acute in Italy that it scrapped the open list concept.

Single Transferable Vote

STV is another PR option that would minimize the influence of party elites. It is used in Ireland and to elect the Australian Senate. It was also proposed — and rejected in two referendums — in B.C. Under the B.C. proposal, the province would have been divvied up into multi-member regions, for each of which a party could nominate multiple candidates. Voters would be invited to rank their favoured candidates in order of preference. A mathematical formula called the “Droop quota” would be used to determine who wins a seat, based on voter turnout and the number of seats available in each district.

Candidates who met that quota would be elected.

The proposal involved a complicated procedure — called the “weighted inclusive Gregory method” —for counting the second preferences of voters whose first choice candidate garnered more votes than necessary to meet the quota.

The biggest drawback of STV, the Law Commission concluded, is its complexity. It would also be a “signficant depature” from the “seemingly cherished principle” of one MP representing one riding.

Custom-made PR System

The all-party committee could develop a unique PR system custom-designed for Canada. Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion has already produced one such model: “P3 — proportional, preferential-personalized.”

Under his proposal, voters would elect up to five MPs per riding (which would be larger and fewer in number). They would cast two ballots: one ranking their party preferences, the second selecting their preferred candidate from the list put forward by their top-choice party.

Parties with the fewest first choice rankings would be eliminated and their supporters’ second choices counted and so on until all the seats in the riding were won by various parties. A party that won one or more seats in a riding would be obliged to fill those seats with the candidates on its list who won the most votes.

Toronto pastor faces sex charges in N.S. Hawkes officiated at Layton’s funeral

becoming the church’s pastor, the charge is not made against MCC Toronto and that the church is not funding Hawkes’ legal defence.

TORONTO — A well-known Toronto pastor who officiated at Jack Layton’s state funeral is denying accusations of sex crimes in Nova Scotia that police allege date back four decades.

“I want to be crystal clear: I am innocent of these allegations,” Rev. Brent Hawkes said in a statement on the website of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.

“The purported events simply did not take place.”

RCMP Staff Sgt. Craig Burnett said Monday that Hawkes has been charged with indecent assault and gross indecency related to allegations of a sexual assault in the 1970s.

Hawkes, 65, and a native of Bath, N.B., officiated over the state funeral for NDP leader Jack Layton in Toronto in August 2011, and has been a senior pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church for decades.

“For 38 years, I have fought, with all that I have, for equality for my community. I have fought to give voice to those without voice. Now I will fight, with all that I have, these accusations,” he said.

None of the allegations has been proven in court.

The church board said in a statement that Hawkes is a man of “high integrity and an inspirational community leader” and has “our steadfast support.”

Hawkes’ lawyer Clayton Ruby said he is confident his client will be vindicated.

“I have known Brent for more than a quarter century. I believe him, completely, when he tells me these accusations are false and that these events did not happen,” Ruby said in a statement.

The statement from church board said the alleged incident purportedly occurred prior to Brent

Defence equipment shopping list short “several tens of billions” Senate told OTTAWA — A Senate committee has been told there is a shortfall of tens of billions of dollars between funding that’s been set aside for military equipment and the actual price tag for what the military says it needs.

Defence analyst Dave Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute testified that the “mismatch” is one of the biggest problems facing the new Liberal government as it seeks to overhaul the country’s defence policy.

“At present, the defence procurement system is trying to buy more equipment that DND can afford,” said Perry. “There is roughly three times more demand for project funding than there are available funds, leaving the capital acquisition budget short by several tens of billions of dollars, even with the planned increase to the defence budget that the government has promised to honour.”

There are at least 100 pieces of equipment that Defence has deemed essential to fulfil its mandate in the coming years and only a portion of that list is funded, he said.

The dysfunctional military procurement system was a bane to the former Harper government, but despite reforms implemented two year ago, roughly 63 per cent the projects listed in the federal government’s defence acquisition guide are late and only 34 per cent are on time.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 2016

Minor, reoccuring seizures keeping adult couped up

Tuesday, Feb. 2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Gemma Arterton, 29; Christie Brinkley, 61; Shakira, 38 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour learning something new.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are very capable, but you can also be tough on yourself — and others. 2016 is the year to let your guard down, lighten up, and have some frivolous fun.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be able to grab lucky opportunities today — especially involving family, work or business. But avoid the temptation to make hasty financial decisions. Think things through carefully.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Moon is in Scorpio, which increases your tendency to get JOANNE MADELINE stuck in a rut. Luckily Jupiter MOORE gives you a gentle nudge that HOROSCOPES helps you view a current situation from a more dynamic perspective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today’s positive aspects boost your spirits and stimulate your study gene.

With the power of positive thinking on your side, you can climb any mountain and sail any stormy sea.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The focus is on relationships — from romantic liaisons to having fun with family and friends. Creativity is highlighted, whether you work on a joint project or enjoy the artistic output of others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Career and money are centre stage, whether you’re enjoying your present job or are looking for employment. Jupiter sends plenty of good luck in your direction, so grab it with both hands.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t limit yourself to the same old peer group. 2016 is the year to add some fresh new faces to your friendship circle. Study and travel are also on the cards for curious and versatile Virgos.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your life is bursting at the seams, as you deftly juggle professional and personal needs. Don’t attempt to do everything yourself.

Make the effort to get friends and family involved too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time to get up close

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This photo provided by Mattel shows a group of new Barbie dolls introduced in January 2016. Mattel, the maker of the famous plastic doll, said it will start selling Barbie’s in three new body types: tall, curvy and petite. She’ll also come in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors and 24 hairstyles.

For the world’s most scrutinized body, Barbie has a new look

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Poor Barbie. She had plastic surgery to become more socially acceptable. But a lot of her critics still don’t like her.

Barbie’s manufacturer, Mattel, announced Thursday that the doll has three new body types — curvy, tall and petite. Barbie will also now come in seven skin tones, 22 eye colours and 24 hairstyles. Mattel spokeswoman Michelle Chidoni said the product is evolving to “offer more choices” to make “the line more reflective of the world girls see around them.”

But Kris Macomber, who teaches sociology at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, says she’s “reluctant to celebrate Barbie’s new strategy because it doesn’t change the fact that Barbie dolls and other kinds of fashion dolls still over-emphasize female beauty. Sure, all body types should be valued.

And, sure, all skin colours should be valued equally.

But why must we keep sending girls the message that being beautiful is so important?”

Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said Barbie’s changes are a testament to activists who for years have challenged her “unrealistic and harmful body type.”

But body type “was only one of the criticisms,” he said. “The other was the brand’s relentless focus on appearance and fashion.”

Kumea Shorter-Gooden, co-author of “Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America,” has said in the past that Barbie has a bigger impact on black girls struggling with messages about skin colour and hair. Shorter-Gooden applauded Mattel “for diversifying the size and look of Barbie,” but noted that “European-American hair still prevails,” and that the dolls’ outfits still “convey a traditional and constraining gender norm about how girls and women should look.”

Aside from whether Barbie’s looks will ever measure up to society’s changing expectations, another question worth asking is whether kids still want to play with Barbies.

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reported quarter, with worldwide sales falling every year since 2012. A study by BAV Consulting found that consumers perceive the Barbie brand as being “less relevant” than 80 per cent of 3,500 brands in 200 categories BAV studied. BAV’s data analysis also found that consumers perceive Barbie as being in the bottom third of all brands when it comes to social responsibility but in the top 2 per cent when it comes to being traditional.

Mattel said it will still sell the original 11.5-inch Barbie. The new versions will begin arriving on U.S. store shelves in March and will roll out globally after that. They are available for preorder at shop.mattel. com, and will ship in February.

Quiana Agbai, an African-American mother of two who has written about “the effects of dolls not looking like my 5-year-old daughter” on her blog, www. harlemlovebirds.com, said Barbie’s new look is “a step in the right direction” but noted that “there are brands already filling this need in greater detail.”

Agbai’s husband’s family is Nigerian, so she found a Nigerian princess doll for her daughter from a line called Queens of Africa. Agbai herself grew up playing with the American Girl doll Addy, whose story line involved escaping from slavery.

Some, however, saluted the new Barbie wholeheartedly.

Trina Finton, a Hispanic mom from Simi Valley, California, who works in tech and once bought herself an engineer Barbie from the doll’s career line, was “thrilled” to hear about Barbie’s new looks, especially the curly hair. In the past, when she’s taken her 3-year-old daughter to Target, “I avoid the Barbie aisle. I just don’t want her to feel bad that she can’t see a doll that looks like her.”

Kelly Brownell was a Yale psychology professor when he concluded in a 1995 study that young girls notice the body shapes of icons such as Barbie and translate them into unhealthy images. Today, as a dean at Duke University, Brownell said the new Barbie “represents real progress, not only by having additional skin tones but by beginning to correct the wildly unrealistic body shapes and sizes of earlier days. to communicate with family members, plus nurture connections with professional colleagues. When it comes to domestic matters, work through tasks in a steady fashion.

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Even though I am over 30, my mother wants me to stay at home unless I have a job interview or one of my parents is with me. She insists someone else drive me wherever I go. She is even fearful of me walking to appointments two blocks from the house.

A sad irony is that my mother has a Ph.D. in sociology and doesn’t hear me when I tell her that the social isolation that she insists on imposing makes me depressed. This is still the case even after I pointed out her highlighting that very issue in her own sociology textbooks. I have attempted to get my father to intervene, but he wants Mom to control the show.

I’ve tried to quietly put up with the idea of “Mom’s house — Mom’s rules.” But I don’t know how much longer I can stand it. Do you have any sugKATHY MITCHELL gestions for dealing with the AND MARCY SUGAR enormous stress I’m under beANNIE’S MAILBOX cause of her need to control my life? — A Frustrated South Dakotan Dear Frustrated: Your mother is being overprotective, but it comes from her fear that you will have a seizure and no one will be around to assist you. Her advanced degree is irrelevant because she is not thinking clinically. This is personal. She especially worries that something will happen when you are driving or walking alone.

She knows it curtails your social life and could increase the odds of depression, but she considers those concerns to be less important than your safety.

Your best bet for finding assistance and support is through the Epilepsy Foundation (epilepsy.com).

Aside from chat rooms and other social networking to help alleviate your isolation, the site may provide ways to reassure your mother and get her to lift the chains. We hope you find a job soon.

Dear Annie: For several years, I have been giving identical amounts of money to my family on Thanksgiving so that they could spend it on Black Friday to purchase their own Christmas gifts. I have 19 people to buy for. These same family members were asked to bring their purchases to me for wrapping so that they could open them on Christmas.

Last year, I asked instead that they wrap their own gifts and bring them to our annual Christmas Eve party. It worked out great! Obviously, there were no returns or exchanges, and for a change, I got a kick out of seeing them open their presents instead of knowing what the gifts were ahead of time. This is easier on everybody. (It also allowed my teenagers to see that money only goes so far because they knew what amount I had given each person.)

I have learned to enjoy the holidays again. — L. Dear L.: You are both generous and smart enough to find enjoyment where you can.

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Sandra Wallace reads with her daughter Camryn, 10, in their home in Carp, Ont. on Jan. 27, 2016. Electronic medical records have helped manage hospital appointments for Camryn, who was born with Down’s Syndrome.

More Canadian doctors embracing electronic medical records

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There was a time, says Sandra Wallace, when taking her daughter Camryn for multiple appointments at Ottawa’s children’s hospital meant having to wait for her paper-based medical chart to follow her from one specialist clinic to another.

Camryn, who was born with Down syndrome, is seen about once a month at five different clinics at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where doctors keep tabs on various aspects of the 10-year-old’s health.

But with the introduction of electronic medical records, or EMRs, physicians in any of the clinics can now quickly access her pertinent information online, said Wallace.

“I used to try to keep a little book, but I don’t need to do that anymore because everything is right there,” she said of her daughter’s electronic medical chart.

“We can pull up when she was last in any of the clinics, what tests she had, what the results were, what medications she’s on or what her dosage is.

“Things go much faster and just seem to be a lot easier.”

A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows an increasing proportion of the country’s doctors are ditching paper files in favour of computer-based records.

In a survey of almost 2,300 Canadian family physicians, 73 per cent said they have gone to an EMR system in their offices, triple the 23 per cent who had adopted online charts in 2006.

EMR use varies significantly by province: Alberta topped the list, with 85 per cent of the surveyed family doctors employing EMRs, while the lowest adoption rate was in Newfoundland and Labrador, where 36 per cent said they store patient data electronically. In Ontario, 78 per cent of the family physicians said they’ve gone that route, joined by about 60 per cent of their Quebec colleagues.

Dr. Mary Pothos, a pediatrician who oversees the care of Camryn and other Down syndrome patients, said CHEO’s electronic record system, called Epic, allows her to keep on top of all of the children’s related health conditions treated by other specialists.

“A benefit for me as a clinician is that I feel I have all the information about my patients just a click away,” she said from Ottawa. “So I could look at their lab results, I could look at tests being done with diagnostic imaging, as well as at their future appointments.

“So when I see a patient like Camryn in my office who’s seen the ENT (ear, nose, and throat) doctor, the audiologist, the respirologist, the cardiologist … I can click up all those reports

Millenials facing fines ahead of health care sign up in U.S. WASHINGTON — Millions of young adults healthy enough to think they don’t need insurance face painful choices this year as the sign-up deadline approaches for President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Fines for being uninsured rise sharply in 2016 — averaging nearly $1,000 per household, according to an independent estimate. It’s forcing those in their 20s and 30s to take a hard look and see if they can squeeze in coverage to avoid penalties. Many are trying to establish careers or just make progress in a still-bumpy economy.

“There’s only so far one can dwindle a ramen-noodle diet,” said Christopher Rael of Los Angeles. In his late 20s, Rael is pursuing a degree in sociology and working at a children’s centre to pay his bills.

With open enrolment over after Jan. 31, Rael is hoping his meagre income will qualify him for Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid. “I cannot afford an additional bill,” he said. He paid a fine of about $150 for being uninsured in 2014.

The minimum penalty rises to $695 in 2016 for someone uninsured a full 12 months and not eligible for one of the law’s exemptions. That’s more than double the corresponding figure of $325 for 2015.

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and verify that the parents have an accurate understanding of what’s going on.”

Despite the benefits of going digital, Canada lags behind other developed countries in EMR adoption.

A 10-nation comparison of EMR use by the U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund, which partnered with CIHI to collect the Canadian survey data, shows that on average, 88 per cent of family doctors in the other countries have traded paper for pixels in their practices.

“What we see so far is that compared to other countries, Canadian family doctors who actually have an EMR are still just trying to realize some of the benefits,” said Kathleen Morris, CIHI’s vice-president of research and analysis.

Such benefits would include using their systems to review which of their diabetic patients need tests how many of those 50 and older should be having screening for colorectal cancer and which of their pediatric patients are due for vaccinations, Morris said.

“That’s really where you get the true value of having the electronic medical records,” she said. “I think what we’re seeing from some of these (survey) results is that the real promise of electronic medical records is using them to improve care.”

That’s the goal of Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded body created 11 years ago to help the provinces and territories implement innovative digital technologies to improve the health of Canadians while reducing costs.

To date, Infoway has invested more than $2 billion towards the digital makeover of health systems across the country.

Infoway CEO Michael Green said now that Canadian hospitals and physicians are well on their way, the next step is to advance the systems to streamline services for patients.

In a few provinces, programs allow patients to access test results online through secure platforms. In Ontario, for instance, LifeLabs provides patients with an individual code so readings from blood tests can be called up online, instead of waiting for an appointment with the doctor to hear the results.

But there are many other aspects of care that surveys have shown are on patients’ wish lists.

“We’ve done a lot of research and the core areas are appointment booking, getting referrals to specialists, getting prescription renewals,” said Green.

“These are focused areas that patients have (interest in) — the ability to do e-referrals, to send the doctor an email, even perhaps having a video referral, rather than having to go to the doctor’s office every time.” for many consumers. That’s because the law sets the penalty as the greater of $695 or 2.5 per cent of taxable income this year. A study by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates the average 2016 penalty at $969 per uninsured household.

Fines are collected through the tax returns of uninsured people and in most cases deducted from their tax refunds. The penalty amounts will be increased by a cost-of-living factor in future years. Penalties are the health care law’s nudge to get healthy people into the insurance pool, helping keep premiums manageable for everyone.

Until now, the administration has mainly stressed the benefits: subsidized premiums and protection from the costs of unanticipated injury or serious illness. But with concerns that many young and healthy people still aren’t sold, officials are invoking the threat of penalties.

“The tax penalty is bringing more young and healthy consumers into the market,” Andy Slavitt, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a recent speech. “We are using a large portion of our marketing resources to make sure that consumers are aware of the increasing fee for people that go without insurance.”

Slavitt’s agency oversees the health care law. The pressure of rising fines is butting up against the economic situations of uninsured people, nearly half of whom said in a recent Kaiser poll that they’ve tried but coverage is still too expensive.

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Jekyll and Hyde GHOMESHI A ‘PERFECT GENTLEMAN’ WHO SUDDENLY TURNED VIOLENT, TRIAL TOLD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Former radio star Jian Ghomeshi came across as a humble, charming and chivalrous gentleman who, without warning, would turn violent, his sexual assault trial heard Monday.

The first witness to testify was a woman who described how Ghomeshi had shocked her by going from sweet and polite to pulling her hair so hard, it hurt.

“It felt almost like a rage that wasn’t there the second before he did it,” said the woman, who can’t be identified.

“It was very confusing.”

The incident, in December 2002, occurred as they sat in his yellow VW Beetle near the CBC building in Toronto, she told court.

The woman, who had met Ghomeshi at a Christmas party where she was working as a server, said he had invited her to a show taping, after which they went for a drink.

Ghomeshi had been flirtatious, but she had no qualms accepting a ride with him back to her nearby car, saying she felt “perfectly safe.”

“I remember thinking: he’s funny, he’s intelligent, he opens doors, he’s a perfect gentleman.”

After the hair-grabbing, he seemed to “switch back” to the charming guy of earlier, she said, leaving her wondering if he simply didn’t know his own strength.

About a month later, she agreed to go with him to his house.

They were standing up kissing when he went behind her, grabbed her hair, and yanked her down to her knees.

“At the same time, he’s punching me in the head. Multiple times. I’m terrified. Then I start to cry,” she testified.

“You should go now, I’ll call you a cab,” she said Ghomeshi told her. “He threw me out like trash.”

Earlier, a clean-shaven Ghomeshi, 48, wearing a black coat, white shirt and black tie, worked his way through a throng of media as he entered the downtown Toronto courthouse.

The former host of CBC Radio’s popular culture show Q has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. He is being tried by judge alone.

Only one of the three complainants in the case can be identified publicly, actress Lucy DeCoutere, best known for her role in the TV series Trailer Park Boys.

“To state the obvious, this trial has attracted an extraordinary amount of media attention,” Ontario court Judge William Horkins said as proceedings got underway with a discussion about allowing media access to exhibits tendered as evidence.

Lawyers for the complainants wanted clarity on how their client’s privacy rights would be respected before sensitive materials such as photographs, video or audio recordings, would be “disseminated to the whole world.”

Gillian Hnatiw, DeCoutere’s lawyer, said the proceedings involved issues that were “deeply personal in nature.”

Ghomeshi’s lead defence lawyer, Marie Henein, wryly noted that DeCoutere and her counsel had given “no less than 24 media interviews.”

The defence had not sought psychological or counselling records and they were “not in play,” Henein told Horkins, adding sufficient safeguards existed to protect the complainants.

“This is not the Wild West,” Henein said.

Horkins said the exhibits would, as a rule, be made available.

The Ghomeshi controversy exploded in October 2014, when the CBC fired its radio star saying it had seen “graphic evidence” he had physically injured a woman.

In court, Ghomeshi listened quietly to the proceedings and with little ob-

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Jian Ghomeshi is escorted by police out of court past members of the media in Toronto. He was a broadcasting star with a wide and loyal following before he became engulfed in a scandal that sparked a nationwide conversation on sexual assault and the issues with reporting it. Now, more than a year since the allegations against Jian Ghomeshi sent shock waves across the country, his highly anticipated trial began on Monday.

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Ontario Court Judge William Horkins

The judge presiding over one of the year’s most high-profile criminal trials is no stranger to hot-button issues.

Three years ago, Ontario judge William Horkins ruled that police street checks — also known as carding — were unconstitutional, a debate that carries on among many police forces to this day.

He nonetheless allowed the gun found during a carding stop to be entered as evidence and found the accused guilty of unauthorized possession of an unauthorized firearm.

Horkins was called to the bar in 1980 and served as both a Crown attorney and a defence lawyer before he was appointed to the bench in 1998.

Crown prosecutor Michael Callaghan

The lawyer tasked with putting Jian Ghomeshi behind bars also led the prosecution against a young man who fatally shot his abusive father with a crossbow at a Toronto public library.

Michael Callaghan, a career Crown lawyer, successfully prosecuted Zhou Fang in the gruesome 2010 slaying, a case the presiding judge deemed “exceptionally difficult,” according to media reports at the time.

He also led the charge against a serial arsonist best known for setting fire to the

vious emotion, at times lowering his head.

However, in a lengthy Facebook post in 2014, he wrote that he engaged in “rough sex” but insisted the encounters were consensual.

Empress Hotel in downtown Toronto, and a volunteer hockey coach who secretly videotaped teenage athletes in the showers of an arena. Both pleaded guilty.

Callaghan, who has recently been working on policy matters, is a fair and competent prosecutor, said Anthony Moustacalis, president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association.

“He’s well-balanced as a prosecutor,” Moustacalis said. “He has a good reputation for good judgment but also trial skills.”

Though the Ghomeshi case has made international headlines, Callaghan himself is unlikely to seek the spotlight.

Crown lawyers tend to keep a low profile because “their professional ethics dictate that they do their talking in the court,” unlike defence lawyers, who have no such constraints, Moustacalis said.

What’s more, he said, Callaghan is “more easy-going” than Marie Henein, the defence lawyer he will face in the courtroom.

Ghomeshi’s defence lawyer Marie Henein

She’s been likened to Hannibal Lecter for her ability to zero in on people’s weaknesses, but the lawyer representing Jian Ghomeshi is also known for fighting for those who can’t defend themselves, one of her peers says.

The former CBC host’s file is the latest in a series of high-profile cases that have earned Marie Henein a reputation as a clever and tireless defence lawyer who leaves no stone unturned in preparing for

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trial, said Jonathan Rosenthal, a Toronto criminal lawyer.

“She’s certainly one of the go-to lawyers in the city Toronto,” said Rosenthal, who has known Henein since she was a law student.

A protegee of the late Edward Greenspan and Marc Rosenberg, Henein is equally comfortable arguing at trial or appeals, and takes on a considerable amount of pro bono work, he said.

Henein, who he described as a “fearless advocate,” helped organize the duty counsel system at the Ontario Court of Appeal so that people could be fairly represented.

“You read about all the high-profile cases Marie does, but she’s someone who does a lot of work for free,” Rosenthal said.

Taking on the case of former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant, who was charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death in 2009, was a turning point in her career, he said.

The charges against Bryant were withdrawn before the case went to trial. In his memoir, Bryant later said his lawyer seemed to “channel Hannibal Lecter” for her ability to “find a person’s deepest frailties and exploit them.”

She has also represented former junior hockey coach David Frost, who was acquitted on sexual exploitation charges, and American rapper Ja Rule, who pleaded guilty to an assault charge over a fight at a Toronto nightclub.

Henein has made Canadian Lawyer magazine’s list of most influential lawyers for several years.

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Raptors’ streak gets snapped

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nuggets 112 Raptors 93 DENVER — The Toronto Raptors were ready for Danilo Gallinari. They didn’t have an answer for Nikola Jokic.

The rookie centre had 27 points and 14 rebounds, and the Denver Nuggets ended Toronto’s 11-game winning streak with a 112-93 victory over the Raptors on Monday night.

Jokic’s totals were season highs. He had 23 points and 12 rebounds against San Antonio on Nov. 28 and now has four double-doubles in his past five games.

The 20-year-old Serbian has surpassed even his own expectations for this season.

“When I came here I didn’t think I would play,” he said. “Now I have trust from the coach.”

His effort Monday eased the burden on Gallinari, Denver’s leading scorer. Gallinari had just 13 points on 4-of-7 shooting and let Jokic dominate Toronto.

“He had a good game. I’m very happy for him,” Gallinari said. “I told him the challenge is for him to do that every night.”

Will Barton scored 20 points and Randy Foye had 16 for the Nuggets, who swept the season series.

They won in Toronto on Dec. 3 to stop an eight-game losing streak.

The Raptors entered with the NBA’s longest current winning streak but couldn’t duplicate the success they had in January. They led by one midway through the second quarter but trailed by double digits for most of the second half.

A frustrated Dwane Casey emerged from the locker room after the game with a crumpled boxscore.

“You can describe it any way you want to,” the Toronto coach said. “That was a stinker. That was one of our worst performances of the year. We played like we were playing in mud. You can blame it on the altitude, whatever it was. We stunk.”

DeMar DeRozan led Toronto with 24 points. His All-Star backcourt mate, Kyle Lowry, scored just nine and went 1 for 6 from the foul line.

Lowry said Casey was angry with the performance and suggested his players use the boxscore as toilet paper.

“That describes this night for us,” he said. “We just didn’t have it tonight and they kicked our (butts).”

Jokic was a problem for the Raptors from the start. He nearly had a double-double in the first half with 15 points and seven rebounds. He started slowly in the second half but scored six straight points late in the third quarter to give the Nuggets a 73-60 lead.

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Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, center, looks to pass the ball as Toronto Raptors guard Cory Joseph, left, and center Bismack Biyombo defend in the second half of an NBA game Monday, in Denver. The Nuggets won 112-93.

His last basket in the sequence came when he cut through the lane and dunked off a pass from Emmanuel Mudiay.

Jokic went 2 of 4 from the line in the final 1:57 of the third to tie his career high. He came in late in the fourth and set new highs for his rookie season.

“What a performance. Every time I think he’s kind of maxed out for his rookie season, he finds a way to keep on impressing me,” Denver coach Michael Malone said.

“You can talk about some of these other young

bigs, who are all talented, and I wouldn’t trade him for anybody in the world. He’s a special young man and a special young talent. He’s only going to get better as he gets stronger.”

The Nuggets put the game away early in the fourth. Barton scored the first eight points of the quarter to make it 88-65. Foye hit a 3-pointer to make it 97-70 with 8:03 left.

UP NEXT Raptors: At Phoenix on Tuesday night.

Nuggets: At Utah on Wednesday night.

Gowsell down Armitage for a spot in provincials

Vipers win sixth straight to take first in division

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The stories have stood the test of time.

The tales will never lose their colour, but are they accurate?

“I guess it depends on which stories,” laughed the subject in question, Paul Gowsell, following his 10-2 defeat of Rob Armitage of Red Deer in the C-event final of the Southern Alberta Curling Association senior men’s playdowns Monday at the Pidherney Centre.

The Calgary native captured two Canadian and world junior men’s titles in the mid to late ’70s, and Gowsell skipped a fun-loving foursome to the 1980 Brier at Calgary, where he finished with an 8-3 record and lost to Al Hackner in a semifinal.

Gowsell, now 58, never got back to the Brier, but he and his ‘mates excelled on the cashspiel circuit, traveling from town to town in a ‘party’ van. In one game, according to legend, his rink ordered and devoured a pizza during a game, and his opponent’s final stone picked on an olive from the pie and cost him the game.

Gowsell, who back in his early competitive years sported long hair and a beard and was seldom without his plaid pants, admitted there’s some truth to the tales.

“Absolutely. We were young and we had fun,” he said.

“Sometimes we’d pay our entry fee after we had qualified,” he added, with a chuckle. “But what the heck, the people in charge knew we weren’t going anywhere.

“We had some fun, you bet, but that’s what curling is all about.

I think the game has lost a bit of that. In the old days, if you didn’t go to a bonspiel and have a few drinks and B.S. with the guys from all over … that was part of it.

“These guys now, they get off the ice and they go to the gym. I wouldn’t have taken up the game if that’s what I was doing.”

Gowsell’s Airdrie-based team, consisting also of third Barry Ralph and front-enders Greg Hill and Don DeLair, was formed earlier this season and didn’t hit their peak until Sunday and Monday.

“We got better as this ‘spiel went along. It was kind of a feeling out process,” said Gowsell, whose squad suffered two losses during the weekend, both to Red Deer’s Lowell Peterman.

“It’s a good thing we didn’t play Peterman again or we wouldn’t have got this far,” added the skip.

Gowsell advanced to the C final

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Keith Glover, left, and teammate Randy Ponich look on as Paul Gowsell of Calgary yells to his teammates to sweep his shot during the C Final of the Southern Alberta Curling Association senior men’s playdowns at the Pidherney Centre in Red Deer on Monday. with a 6-3 victory over Scott Hellwig of Calgary Monday morning.

Armitage, meanwhile, was a 6-2 semifinal winner over Rick Hjertaas of Red Deer, who had Wilf Edgar at skip.

Gowsell cracked a three-ender in the fourth to take control of the final, then stole another point in the fifth and swiped four more in the sixth, at which time the teams shook hands.

The foursome will join A-event winner Ed Lukowich and B-event qualifier Lloyd Hill, both of Calgary, as the SACA representatives in the senior men’s provincials Feb. 17-21 at Coaldale.

Gowsell, who last competed in the senior provincials in 2010 at the Edmonton Thistle Club, has toyed with the idea of retiring from the game sooner than later.

“I think about it all the time.

It’s hard to get all worked up for curling anymore,” he said. “I was pretty successful in my later teens

so I’ve been doing this for a long time. It kind of wears you out after awhile.”

Once he does pack it in, he will miss one particular aspect of the slippery pastime.

“The game is the game. It’s not a bad game but the best thing about curling is all the people you meet and all the fun you have,” he said. ● The SACA senior women’s playdowns were held in conjunction with the men’s competition and Red Deer’s Heather Caseley was the last team eliminated from the six-team field.

Caseley and her supporting cast of Brenda Stickel, Barbara Wilfort and Shelley Bolin, lost 7-2 to Barb McDonald of Calgary in the C-event final Monday morning.

McDonald, Terri Loblaw of Medicine and Michelle Ewanchuk of Calgary qualified for the provincials at Coaldale. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Vipers 7 Lightning 0 The hottest team in the Heritage Junior Hockey League isn’t showing any signs of cooling off.

The Red Deer Vipers racked up their sixth consecutive victory Monday night at the Arena, cruising past the Stettler Lightning 7-0 and moving into first place in the Northern Division, a single point up on the Mountainview Colts.

The Vipers haven’t lost in regulation time in their last nine outings and with just one game remaining on their regular-season schedule, their timing couldn’t be better.

“We’ve been excellent since Christmas,” said head coach JD Morrical. “It’s been really good. The boys had a little refresher over the Christmas break and they’ve really bonded together, even more than they had earlier.”

The Red Deer squad will clinch top spot in the division with a victory over the visiting and sixthplace Ponoka Stampeders Saturday. The Colts ‘WE KIND OF CONTROL also have one game left OUR OWN DESTINY — Friday at Didsbury NOW’ versus the fourth-place Blackfalds Wranglers.

—VIPERS HEAD COACH JD MORRICAL “We kind of control our own destiny now,” said Morrical. “We’ll finish first if we win our last game and that was one of our goals at the start of the season. It’s looking pretty good now.”

The Vipers helped closed the gap between themselves and Mountainview by defeating the Colts in each of their last two meetings.

“It was good to get redemption on them (Colts),” said Morrical. “They play pretty much the exact same style we do. It’s rough hockey but it’s pretty structured. That’s a team we could certainly meet in the (division) final.”

More positive news: The Vipers battled the injury bug earlier in the season but are now 100 per cent healthy.

“Right now we have every single player available,” said Morrical.”We have a 25-man roster and with that many guys it’s tough to decide who’s going to play game by game. It makes our (coaches’) job tough and the players are making it hard on us.”

The Vipers led 5-0 after 40 minutes on two goals from Drew Joslin and singles courtesy of Tye Munro, Dustin Spearing and Nick Glackin. Jon Finnigan, with a slapshot from the point, and Kale Lapointe added third-period power-play goals.

The game erupted into a mini-brawl with 2:20 remaining. Three fights broke out — including a scrap between Marc-Antoine Viens and Lightning netminder Taylor McLaughlin — and suspensions will follow.

“I’m sure we’ll have a few suspensions now,” said Morrical.

Red Deer netminder Cole Sears turned aside 16 shots while recording his third shutout of the season.

McLaughlin made 35 saves before being banished with a fighting major and game misconduct and his replacement — Travis Green — didn’t face a shot the rest of the way. ● Six teams in the seven-team Northern Division will qualify for the playoffs, with the first- and second-place clubs getting an opening-round bye. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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McDavid set to return for Oilers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Connor McDavid’s broken clavicle is healed and his fractured rookie season resumes Tuesday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

“He is ready to go,” Oilers head coach Todd McLellan announced Monday after McDavid skated in practice, centring a line between Jordan Eberle and Benoit Pouliot.

The 19-year-old rookie phenom will play his first game since he piled into the boards against the Philadelphia Flyers on Nov. 3. He has missed 37 games, almost half a season.

McDavid, who spent the last week practising with the Oilers’ Bakersfield Condors AHL team, was asked by reporters if he was nervous heading into just the 14th game of his NHL career.

“Anxious is probably the better word,” he said. “I’m excited. It feels like my first game all over again.”

He said he’s not going to let the injury play on his mind when the puck drops.

“The doctors wouldn’t let me play if I wasn’t 100 per cent,” he said. “They say it’s safe to play, so it’s safe to play.”

McDavid has five goals and 12 points in 13 games, tied for 18th in rookie NHL scoring, and is plus-four with six penalty minutes. His five goals were on 24 shots, for a team leading 20.8 scoring percentage.

He hasn’t even played one shift with Eberle, who was out for the start of the season with a shoulder injury. By the time Eberle came back, McDavid was out.

McDavid believes they’ll mesh well.

“He (Eberle) has got those quick great hands and a deceiving shot that fools goalies a lot of the time,” said McDavid. “If you get him the puck in a good spot, you know he’s going to finish it.”

Eberle says it may be easier for McDavid to get back to game speed given that all NHL players are coming off the all-star break.

“With his speed and the way he thinks the game he’ll be fine,” said Eberle.

McLellan said the plan for McDavid is to “open the door and say go,” but said they’ll be watching his minutes to see how he is doing.

“The way he skated today I’m not as worried about Connor as I am the other 19 that have been off a week,” he said.

McLellan he said he doesn’t know how much penalty kill time McDavid will get immediately.

McDavid began the year averaging between 16 and 18 minutes a night but was above the 20 minute mark in his final three games before he went down against the Flyers.

He returns to a team that is still mathematically in the playoff hunt but is tied with Columbus for last overall in the league, with 43 points. The Oilers are 19-26-5, 10 points behind the Arizona Coyotes for the third and final playoff spot in the Pacific Division.

They have 32 games to play.

The Oilers are on pace to tie the record set by the Florida Panthers for most consecutive seasons out of the playoffs at 10.

McDavid has been the marquee patient on a star-studded Oilers injury list that has included Eberle and Nail

Capitals running away with the East It certainly looks like the Washington Capitals are running away with the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.

The 14-point gap between the Metropolitan Division-leading Capitals and the second-place New York Rangers is almost as big as the one between New York and the last-place Columbus Blue Jackets. The Capitals’ overall conference lead over the Florida Panthers is 11 points. Coach Barry Trotz insists his team won’t be complacent in the second half of the NHL season.

“We’ve had a good grasp of playing in the moment and not worrying what we did,” Trotz said of the 35-8-4 Capitals, who are atop the NHL coming out of the All-Star break. “There’s no arrogance. I think there’s a lot of confidence, but I don’t think there’s any arrogance.”

Confidence is justified as the Caps have only lost two consecutive games once and haven’t lost two in a row in regulation. They have the league’s best power play and fourth-best penalty kill, and goaltender Braden Holtby is among the leaders in wins, goalsagainst average and save percentage.

In front of Holtby, Washington has its deepest blue line in the Alex Ovechkin era and finally has a legitimate No. 2 centre in All-Star Evgeny Kuznetsov. The combination of Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Kuznetsov makes the Caps hard to handle up front.

Even with a history of playoff disappointments, the Caps are the favourites to come out of the East and win the Stanley Cup, but the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning could be their biggest hurdles. Florida has given Washington fits already this season, and Tampa Bay is playoff-tested after a trip to the 2015 final.

Here are story lines to watch in the Eastern Conference in the second half of the NHL season:

CROSBY’S BACK After the slowest start of his career, Sidney Crosby is back to his point-agame self with 31 in his past 28 games and the Pittsburgh Penguins are soaring since firing coach Mike Johnston and promoting Mike Sullivan. Pittsburgh has won three in a row and looks legit once again. Imagine a Capitals-Penguins first-round matchup and a re-ignition of the Crosby-Ovechkin rivalry.

PRICE NOT RIGHT YET Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price has been out since late November with a lower-body injury.

Before he got hurt, Price was 10-2-0 with a 2.06 goals-against average and .934 save percentage, and the Canadiens were leading the Atlantic Di-

vision. Now they’re out of a playoff spot. Montreal needs Price back, and in MVP form, or its season is over.

SEEN STAMKOS Steven Stamkos can become an unrestricted free agent this summer, so Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman has a decision to make.

If a contract can’t be worked out before the Feb. 29 trade deadline, might the Lightning look to trade Stamkos, or will they try for one more Stanley Cup run and take their chances? Stamkos also has a no-movement clause, so he holds the trump card.

COULD’VE BEEN A CONTENDER Five East teams — the New Jersey Devils, Carolina Hurricanes, Canadiens, Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers — are within five points of a playoff spot. The standings can flip over in a night, so expect plenty of fluctuation with 13 teams in the race.

Sorry Toronto, Buffalo and Columbus: There’s always next year.

BOSTON BREWIN’ Changes in Boston were swift after the Bruins missed the playoffs a year ago, but coach Claude Julien remains and his team is built for when the hockey gets tough. If All-Star centre Patrice Bergeron and goaltender Tuukka Rask are on top of their games, the Bruins are a threat to everyone, including the upstart, division-leading Panthers.

PLAYERS TO WATCH ERIK KARLSSON: He is on the ice more than any other NHL player and is scoring unlike any defenceman in the past two decades.

The two-time Norris Trophy winner is on pace for 85 points, which would be the most since Brian Leetch of the New York Rangers in 1995-96.

The electrifying star also is the key to the Ottawa Senators’ push for the playoffs. He is easy to keep an eye on because he plays almost 29 minutes a game. He’s dominant on the power play, where he’s put up 18 of his 52 points, good for fourth in the league.

If coach Dave Cameron continues to let his captain loose, Karlsson could surpass Leetch and challenge for another Norris Trophy.

PATRICK KANE: The NHL’s leading scorer by a mile with 30 goals and 43 assists for 73 points, the Chicago Blackhawks winger has been the best player on the ice so far. A year after Jamie Benn led the league with 87 points, Kane should surpass that by March and shatter the 100-point mark as the Blackhawks eye a fourth Stanley Cup in seven years.

Yakupov. Still waiting to return are defenceman Oscar Klefbom and centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

Edmonton leads the NHL with 241 man-games lost to injury this season.

This is the second major injury of McDavid’s embryonic career. In his

last year of junior with the Erie Otters he broke his hand in a fight.

McDavid was drafted first overall in the 2015 NHL draft. His goal-scoring ability, speed, and hockey sense have led scouts to bill him as the next Sidney Crosby.

Blackhawks reign again in the West, but challengers gaining ground

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Those off-season predictions of the Chicago Blackhawks’ decline were a bit premature.

The Western Conference leaders and defending Stanley Cup champions still face a host of challenges to their reign when the West playoff race resumes Tuesday.

Chicago headed into the break with a conference-high 70 points even after a slew of off-season departures from the Hawks’ third championship team in six years. With a recent 12-game winning streak and seven victories in 10 games heading into the All-Star weekend, they surged atop the Central Division past the slumping Dallas Stars, who lost seven of their last 10 after a fantastic start to the season.

The top of the Central isn’t just a two-team race with St. Louis still lurking, but the Blackhawks could put some distance on the field if the Stars continue to struggle. The Stars must play seven of their next nine games on the road — and their only two home games in that stretch are against Chicago and Washington, likely the NHL’s two best teams.

The Stars aren’t Chicago’s only conference challenge, however. The Los Angeles Kings have spent most of the season atop the Pacific Division, and the two-time Stanley Cup champs appear capable of meeting the Blackhawks in the conference finals for the third time in four years.

Los Angeles has been unusually consistent this season, calmly overBRADEN HOLTBY: The Washington Capitals’ workhorse goaltender already has 30 wins in 39 games, so Martin Brodeur’s single-season record of 48 is in play. Holtby is a throwback, an aggressive goaltender who plays the puck like a skater, so the Capitals’ breakout gets a boost from him, too. It’s only a matter of time until he scores a goal.

TYLER SEGUIN: The best centre on the NHL’s most offensively dynamic team, Seguin is a superstar who just turned 24. The Dallas Stars’ topline combo of Seguin and Benn will keep torturing Central Division rivals down the stretch. Seguin isn’t in the MVP discussion only because he, Benn and defenceman John Klingberg share credit for the Stars’ success.

DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN: Arguably the player most likely to be dealt before the Feb. 29 trade deadline, the Winnipeg Jets defenceman is a one-of-a-kind player. Byfuglien is a 6-foot-5, 260-pound physical force who can hit like a freight train, skate smoothly and contribute offensively.

Whoever adds him will pay a premium rental price but will get a difference-maker.

coming years of regular-season mediocrity to take a sizable lead in the Pacific. But that lead shrank last week with the rise of the San Jose Sharks, whose 10-game point-earning streak closed the gap to seven points at the break.

Here are story lines to watch in the Western Conference in the second half of the NHL season:

COYOTES CHARGE The surprise team of the season has been the Arizona Coyotes, who have overcome years of franchise uncertainty and rebuilding to jump into playoff contention. Coach Dave Tippett’s club played middling hockey leading into the break, and the Coyotes are facing surges from foes with more experience in a playoff race. The bottom could still fall out on the Coyotes, but they’ve already defied almost every prediction.

KING KANE The NHL scoring race isn’t nearly as close as the playoff race. Chicago superstar Patrick Kane scored 73 points in 53 games to open up a 15-point lead on Dallas captain Jamie Benn heading into the break.

FOURTH PLACE CENTRAL While Chicago and Dallas chase the top overall seed, three teams hit the break separated by two points for fourth place in the Central Division.

Colorado, Nashville and Minnesota all have endured rough stretches, with the talented Wild hitting a particular skid before the break. Even if they don’t catch St. Louis, the three teams will be jockeying for both wild-card berths as long as they keep their long-standing lead on the Pacific’s fourth-place contenders.

LURKING DUCKS Anaheim might be the most dangerous team lurking on the edge of playoff contention. The three-time defending Pacific champions got off to a horrific start, and they’re still the NHL’s lowest-scoring team. But coach Bruce Boudreau has coaxed a 10-3-1 post-Christmas surge out of a talented roster that stretched the Blackhawks to the limit in last season’s conference final.

WOE CANADA None of the NHL’s seven Canadian teams is currently in playoff position, and the West’s four Canadian teams also hold the bottom four spots in the standings. The Canucks are the most realistic contenders from their 10thplace tie with the Ducks, who have three games in hand, but Vancouver probably would need a prolonged run of strong play to get back in the game.

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Snedeker waits out win at Torrey Pines

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — With his glove tucked in his back pocket and a putter in his hand, Brandt Snedeker walked off the green pumping his arms to celebrate a six-shot comeback to win the Farmers Insurance Open. That was the only part of his victory that looked normal.

He was on the practice green, not the 18th green.

Snedeker never hit a shot Monday.

Having delivered one of the great closing rounds on the PGA Tour on Sunday, all he could do was wait to see if it was good enough when the windblown tournament concluded before no spectators because of safety concerns for all the debris on the South Course at Torrey Pines.

The jangled nerves came from watching the forecast, and then the telecast. Snedeker finally went to the putting green and figured the crowd’s reaction would let him know if K.J. Choi had made birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. But then he realized there was no crowd.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a champion here again, how unbelievable the last 48 hours have been,” said Snedeker, the first player in more than five years to make the cut on the number and win the tournament.

“Everything worked out perfectly for me. You cannot make up the extreme events that had to happen for me to have this chance, and they all fell in line perfectly.”

It started with Snedeker.

In gusts that consistently topped 40 mph and peaked at over 50 mph, he played the final 17 holes Sunday without a bogey and closed with a 3-under 69, which was nearly nine shots better than the field. The average score (77.9) was the highest for the fourth round at a regular PGA Tour event since the

CALGARY STAMPEDERS

Stamps re-sign linebacker Corbin Sharun CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed national linebacker Corbin Sharun.

Sharun was added to Calgary’s practice roster on July 28, 2015, and played in two regular-season games for the Stampeders. The 27-year-old Edmonton native also played in the

RINGETTE The Central Alberta U19AA Sting struck gold in the Winnipeg Voyageur ringette tournament during the weekend.

The Sting, with Gillian Dreger scoring twice and Kristen Demale netting the winner, edged the Winnipeg Angels 3-2 in overtime in the championship final. Baylee Schulhauser and Grace Romansky, who was credited with the win, shared goaltending duties in the contest.

The Central Alberta crew posted a 3-1 win in round-robin play, opening with a 6-2 win over Regina thanks to a hat-trick performance from Shae-Lyn Baxter, two goals from MacKenzie Lindholm and a

tour began keeping such statistics in 1983.

Snedeker won at 6-under 282, the highest winning scores at Torrey Pines since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.

Shortly after he finished Sunday, play was stopped for the third and final time, and for good reason. The relentless wind toppled more than dozen trees across Torrey Pines, including a 60-foot eucalyptus that fell across the left edge of the 15th fairway some 40 yards short of the green.

The forecast was for 25 mph win out of the opposite direction. That was good for Snedeker.

When he woke up Monday morning to start the waiting game, there was hardly any wind at all. That was bad for Snedeker.

But after another two-hour delay to clean up debris, the wind showed up at just the right time and made the conditions just as tough — maybe even tougher for the final groups — as it was on Sunday.

Snedeker hit a wedge for his second shot on the 15th. Choi couldn’t reach the green with a 3-wood.

With the final five holes playing into the wind, birdies were scarce.

Jimmy Walker, who was leading at 7-under par through 10 holes when play was halted on Sunday, made four bogeys over his eight holes and shot 77. Choi, who was at 6 under (and tied with Snedeker) made only one bogey, and it was enough to cost him. He couldn’t reach the 14th with a fairway metal — another wedge hole on Sunday — and narrowly missed a 6-foot par putt. Choi closed with a 77 and was runner-up.

Kevin Streelman had a 74, with two late bogeys ending his hopes, and finished third.

“The way the wind blew and made those last five holes play so tough on those guys, I feel bad for them,” Snedeker said. “They got the raw end of CFL Western Final and made three special-teams tackles. He was set to become a free agent on Feb. 9.

“Corbin is a proven veteran who has been a solid special-teams player over the years,” Stampeders general manager John Hufnagel said.

“He played well in his limited opportunities for us last year and I look forward to seeing what he can do over a full season.”

In 75 career regular-season contests with Calgary and Edmonton, Sharun has 77 special-teams tackles, three defensive tackles, one punt block and one touchdown.

single from Sydney Cherniak.

From there, the Sting downed the Calgary Blue 5-1, defeated the Edmonton Elite 5-2 and fell 8-5 to the Angels.

Dreger and Baxter each tallied twice and Mckenna Causey also connected against the Blue, and Ashlyn Morrison potted a pair of goals and Demale, Baxter and Hailee Pluister also scored in the win over Edmonton.

Demale fired four goals and Baxter also scored in the round-robin loss to the Angels.

Schulhauser and Romansky split the netminding duties during the round robin.

The Central Alberta Club will host the AA ringette provincials Feb. 25-27 in Lacombe and Red Deer.

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Brandt Snedeker holds the Framers Insurance Open trophy and a ceremonial surfboard after the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Monday, in San Diego. Snedeker finished his final round Sunday before it was suspended because of inclement weather and did not have to play Monday. the stick this morning. But that’s just the way golf goes, and luckily enough, I played good enough yesterday to get the job done. So it’s a special feeling to say the least.”

It was the second time Snedeker has won at Torrey Pines, and he needed help both times. Four years ago, he was in the media centre as the runner-up until Kyle Stanley made a triple bogey from the fairway on the 18th hole, and Snedeker beat him in a playoff to complete a seven-shot comeback.

This time, he needed help from the elements.

Snedeker made the cut on the num-

ber Saturday and was tied for 27th going into the final round. The wicked weather produced 23 rounds in the 80s, including an 87 by Scott Brown, who shared the 54-hole lead with Choi and wound up in a tie for 49th.

“It’s just one of those fluke things,” Snedeker said. “There’s no way you can control the weather, no way you can predict how it’s going to be. Sometimes you get the raw end and sometimes you get the better end, and I obviously got the better end this week.”

He did his part with a great closing round on Sunday. He was rewarded with a trophy on Monday.

RDC ATHLETICS

ACAC qualifying bonspiel and earn a spot in the championship finals with a 6-4 record. The third came up with a clutch shot in the deciding game to clinch a playoff spot for the foursome.

• The hockey Queens host SAIT Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and the RDC volleyball teams are home to Lethbridge College Friday and Saturday. Action gets underway both days with the women’s matches at 6 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Meanwhile, the men’s hockey Kings entertain the SAIT Trojans Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Basketball player Eva Bonde and curler Shayne Copeland are the Boston Pizza RDC female and male athletes of the week.

Bonde played a major role in the Queens’ weekend doubleheader sweep of the Ambrose Lions, scoring 27 points in total while adding 15 rebounds, six assists and four steals, and allowing just turnovers.

Copeland helped the RDC mixed team post a 4-1 record in the second

Baird wins fourth 5-pin zone championship Gary Baird of Blackfalds recorded his fourth Central Alberta 5 Pin Bowlers Association open zone championship at Heritage Lanes during the weekend.

Baird rolled four 300-plus games and with an average of 264, was a mere 105 pins better than runner-up Victor Fobert of Drayton Valley in the 20-game competition.

Holly Harris of Olds captured her second women’s crown in three years. She posted an average of 257, beating runner-up Shauna Pirie-Laisnez of Big Valley by 163 pins.

Both winners received Red Deer Advocate trophies, being presented for the 51st consecutive year.

Harris and Pirie-Laisnez earned berths on the Central women’s team, as did Nan-

cy Gervais of Red Deer, Stacey Miller of Camrose, Jenne Campbell of Olds and Andrea Leavitt of Drumheller.

The men’s team will feature Baird, Fobert, Shelby Chrest of Red Deer, Eric Kjos and Karie Kreutz of Wetaskiwin and Gene Zeibarth of Millet.

The mixed team will be comprised of Bev Gigliuk, Bonnie Clermont, Donna Hort, Casey Robitaille, Harvey Von Hollen, all of Red Deer, along with Vince Chartier.

The first three ladies and men bowl both singles and team events at provincials in Chinook Lanes in Calgary March 23-26. The selected coaches are Darrell Smith, Greg Gigliuk of Red Deer and Gail Versteegt of Edmonton. Donna Smith of Red Deer is the manager.

All-Star MVP John Scott saved hockey, for a day Here’s the problem with sports the league, grudgingly or not, agrees to movies: it’s very rare that it doesn’t leave him as the captain of the Pacific work out. The first Rocky was a ra- Division team. He wouldn’t let them re example of this, and it won Sylves- pressure him, he said. He wanted to go. ter Stallone an Oscar nomination for And then in Nashville, he’s the hescreenwriting. But the art and arc of ro. Not the guys who can skate and the sports film is in the mapping of the shoot and fly, the guys who make the journey, the depth of the puck dance, the guys who suffering, the unlikeliness made hockey look easy. John of the rise, and the way the Scott. Commissioner Gary victory is depicted. Sports Bettman dodges the quesmovies, like a lot of movtion about an NHL employee ies, have to trick us into pressuring Scott. But playcaring. Because the happy ers love him. Fans love him. ending is coming, and evHe gets a standing ovation at erybody knows. the skills competition, and John Scott was the king guffaws uncontrollably when of hockey this weekend.

Patrick Kane gets booed.

It wouldn’t have mattered He scores twice in the allif Sidney Crosby was in star game, a guy with five caNashville, or Alexander BRUCE reer NHL goals. One of them, Ovechkin, or Wayne Gretzhe goes top shelf. He hits ARTHUR ky. He scored twice. He Kane, and he pretend-fights OTHER SIDE was the write-in MVP. He with Kane. His wife says she was carried around on had to stop herself from celthe shoulders of far betebrating his second goal, in ter players. As Elliotte Friedman of case she went into labour. His mom’s Sportsnet reported, Scott’s all-star hel- there. Jeremy Roenick admits in a met is headed for the Hall of Fame. benchside interview that he was wrong “You can’t write this stuff,” Scott to criticize Scott’s inclusion, and told the members of the media assem- Scott shoots back, “It’s not the first bled in the city the NHL sold in part time you’ve been wrong, I’ll just say to Boots Del Biaggio, the place Jim that.” And he adds, “It’s been fantastic.

Balsillie tried to steal back to Canada. Every second I’ve been here has just The NHL kept Nashville in Nashville, been, like, overwhelming.” and rewarded it with an all-star game.

And he still isn’t listed as a candiBut you could write it, if you want- date for the MVP, and the crowd just ed: you just wouldn’t make it this ob- rebels. They didn’t chant “LET THEM viously a happy ending, would you? PLAY” they chanted, “JOHN SCOTT” The aging giant fighter, his wife preg- and “MVP.” And he sweeps the writenant with twins, playing in the desert, in vote, and the commissioner has to his career nearly done. A prank all- hand him a giant novelty cheque for a star voting campaign, the NHL fight- million dollars, and his bearded buding against it, trying to shame him out dy Brent Burns helps hoist that sixof going by bringing up his kids and foot-eight, 270-pound body up on their whether they would be proud of him. shoulders, like he’s some kind of colosA suspicious trade to Montreal, where sal Rudy. Which, in a way, he is. the general manager says “I made a You could write that, if you wanted. trade that, at the time, I had to make Maybe somebody will. But whoever that trade. I have a reason that I can’t read the script would say, come on. really tell you why, but if I could, you This is a little over the top, right? I would probably understand.” mean, I guess his pregnant wife could And then he gets exiled to New- have gone into labour during the game foundland, as far away from the NHL and given birth at centre ice, but othas you can get without dropping him erwise, maybe tone it down a little. in the actual ocean. The revulsion toBut it all happened, and everyone wards the trade grows, though, and but the league was happy as hell for

him, and even the NHL had to pretend they loved him, too. In what was probably his final appearance at the NHL level, John Scott saved the all-star game. He saved the league from itself.

This hockey season has been relatively joyless. Not enough scoring, not enough fun. The all-star game usually has too much of one, and forces the other. This didn’t feel forced; it just felt like joy. John Scott, all-star, toast of the underdogs. How about that?

Paul Bissonnette, the former enforcer, skated with Scott a little in Phoenix once, and heard nothing but good things about him. He thought, you could tell Scott just loved being around the guys.

Bissonnette watched Sunday’s game, and like just about every hockey player you could find, he loved it,

loved it. I asked Bissonnette: What does it mean that Scott, one of the last heavyweights, one of the last true fighters, was the guy who became the king of hockey, for a day?

“I think for a guy that had to get to the level we all dreamed about — doing it with that role takes a toll on you mentally,” said Bissonnette. “I’m happy for him, because it’s probably the first time in a long time he can remember why he fell in love with hockey in the first place. Today was a good day.”

There you go. That’s what it felt like.

That’s it.

Bruce Arthur is a sports columnist for the Toronto Star. He was named the 2012 sportswriter of the year by Sports Media Canada, and he has been named to Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 people to follow on Twitter four times.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today • Senior high basketball: Ponoka at Lacombe, Camrose at Innisfail, Hunting Hills at Sylvan Lake, Lindsay Thurber at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday • JV basketball: Ponoka at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Rocky Mountain House, Hunting Hills at Lacombe, Notre Dame at Stettler, Sylvan Lake at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Thursday • College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament.

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

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe; • WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. (The Drive).

• AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Strata Energy at Red Deer North Star, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m.; Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe.

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 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

Saturday • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament.

• College volleyball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 1:45 p.m., Lacombe.

• Midget AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Red Deer Elks, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Blazers at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Airdrie at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

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

• College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Ponoka at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Coaldale at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday • Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Collicutt Centre.

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

• Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta, 1:45 p.m., Stettler; Airdrie at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

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

• Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Oktoks Green at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe; Olds at Red Deer Elks, 5 p.m., Arena.

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC Denver 20, New England 18 NFC Carolina 49, Arizona 15 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

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

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 50 31 15 2 2 188 Prince Albert 50 27 17 5 1 161 Moose Jaw 51 25 19 6 1 175 Regina 50 21 22 3 4 157 Saskatoon 50 18 28 4 0 147 Swift Current 49 17 27 4 1 124 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Lethbridge 50 36 14 0 0 210 Red Deer 51 32 16 1 2 191 Calgary 50 30 18 1 1 170 Edmonton 51 21 23 6 1 139 Medicine Hat 51 20 27 3 1 164 Kootenay 50 8 38 4 0 104

Bowling Monday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Bill Black, 273 high single; Black, 674 high triple.

Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Skyler Silbernagel, 298; Silbernagel, 711.

Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Harvey Von Hollen, 373; Von Hollen, 839.

Wednesday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Kathy Jackson, 256; Don Knowler, 652.

Wednesday 7 p.m. mixed: Les Boot, 320; Boot, 754.

Thursday morning ladies: Debbie Ellinson, 267; Bernie LeBlanc, 638.

Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed: Dan Critchley, 245; Matt Mundorf, 400.

Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Mike Sabbe, 316; Sabbe, 804.

Monday scratch league: Darrell Smith, 330; Erik Kjos, 1,119 (four games).

Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Brodie Ehret, 101.

Bowlasaurus: Rogan Clark, 131.

Peewees: Jonathan Holford, 119; Holford, 234 (two games).

Bantams: Blake Stanley, 182; Stanley, 493 (three games).

Juniors: Kennedy Chrest, 284; Chrest, 710.

Seniors: Cody Pratt, 265; Pratt, 672.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Claimed INF Ronald Torreyes off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.

Designated OF Lane Adams for assignment.

National League NEW YORK METS — Announced RHP Carlos Torres cleared outright waivers and elected free agency. Agreed to terms with C Raywilly Gomez on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with RHP George Kontos on a one-year contract.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Acquired RHP Dan Sattler from Somerset for a player to be named.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed OF Leandro Castro LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released LHP Ryan Strufing and OF Matt Forgatch.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released INF Brock Kjeldgaard and C Dillon Usiak.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Traded OF Brian Humphries to Fargo-Moorhead for cash.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Traded C Luis Alen and OF Logan Vick to Lincoln for LHP Conor Spink, LHP Kevin McGovern and a player to be named. Signed LHP Conor Spink, LHP Kevin McGovern and C Carlton Tanabe.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP-C Robert Stock, C Tony Caldwell and C Richard Stock.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Acquired C Gaby Juarbe from Florence (FL) for future considerations.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Acquired C Max Ayoub from Lincoln (AA) for future considerations. Signed OF Blake Brown to a contract extension.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed RHP Ben Allison.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Brett Mabry to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Named Brad Seymour president of the team’s NBA D-League team, effective on Feb. 22. Assigned F Mike Dunleavy to Santa Cruz (NBADL).

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled G-F K.J. McDaniels and F-C Donatas Motiejunas from Rio

Grande Valley (NBADL).

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed C Ryan Hollins to a second 10-day contract.

PHOENIX SUNS — Fired coach Jeff Hornacek.

Named Earl Watson interim coach.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Signed G Shavonte Zellous to a multiyear contract. Re-signed C Carolyn Swords.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed TE Darren Fells to a one-year contract. Signed CB Shaun Prater to a future contract.

DETROIT LIONS — Promoted Kelly Kozole to senior vice-president of business development.

Named Al Golden tight ends coach.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Announced the retirement of DE Justin Tuck.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Named Roy Anderson defensive backs coach.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Keith Willis assistant defensive line coach and Brandon Blaney defensive assistant.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Placed G Jonas Gustavsson on injured reserve. Recalled G Malcolm Subban and F David Pastrnak from Providence (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Placed D Niklas Kronwall on injured reserve.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Viktor Arvidsson from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled Fs Joseph Blandisi and Reid Boucher and D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). Placed F Michael Cammalleri on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 26.

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

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled D Justin Hamonic from Fort Wayne (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Acquired M Marcelo Sarvas from Colorado for targeted allocation Money and a conditional 2018 SuperDraft pick.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Signed MF Xavier Kouassi as a designated player.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Craig Johnston and Paul Mendonca each netted 11 points Sunday as the Subaru Kingsmen posted a 74-43 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over Lacombe All Sports Cresting.

Jay Johnson poured in 19 points in a losing cause, while teammate Amin Attmed added nine.

GA 143 158 163 180 205 164

Pt 66 60 57 49 40 39

GA 142 145 157 158 206 219

Pt 72 67 62 49 44 20

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 50 34 13 3 0 180 Victoria 51 31 15 2 3 179 Prince George 51 30 18 2 1 185 Kamloops 49 23 18 5 3 164 Vancouver 52 20 27 3 2 152

GA 141 121 156 159 185

Pt 71 67 63 54 45

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 49 29 16 2 2 128 49 27 19 3 0 151 49 24 20 3 2 165 50 25 23 2 0 163 49 22 25 2 0 161

GA 106 139 170 159 182

Pt 62 57 53 52 46

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

Sunday’s results Moose Jaw 9 Medicine Hat 3 Swift Current 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Calgary 6 Brandon 3 Edmonton 6 Kootenay 2 Spokane 4 Everett 1 Seattle 2 Kelowna 0 Tuesday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Red Deer Rebels Scoring Nikolishin Helewka DeBrusk Spacek Bleackley Hagel Bobyk Philp Pawlenchuk Fleury Musil

GP 51 32 40 40 47 51 51 22 50 36 45

G 27 28 16 13 13 9 14 13 18 9 14

A Pts 41 68 20 48 26 42 28 41 28 41 25 34 19 33 16 29 10 28 19 28 13 27

Polei de Wit Nogier Strand Pratt Doetzel Johnson Purtill Shmoorkoff Mahura Rattie Martin Toth Goaltenders Toth Martin

PIM 14 41 28 14 37 29 65 30 12 33 31

+/19 26 1 8 12 17 11 -7 13 15 8

42 50 49 51 37 37 35 30 47 2 9 22 40

12 6 3 2 6 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0

11 14 14 8 3 9 3 3 3 1 0 0 0

23 20 17 10 9 9 6 4 3 1 0 0 0

56 21 47 41 7 35 24 8 16 0 19 0 0

11 6 18 7 5 21 -2 6 11 1 0 — —

GP MP GA SO GAA Sv% 40 2166 96 5 2.66 .912 21 898 43 0 2.87 .901

WHL Scoring Leaders G 18 31 27 29 31 28 27 27 21 18 25 31 27 24 14 33 31 28 19 28 19 12 19 25 24 17 16

Brayden Burke, Let Dryden Hunt, MJ Adam Brooks, Reg Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Parker Bowles, TC Ivan Nikolishin, RD Giorgio Estephan, Let Alex Forsberg, Vic Devante Stephens, Spo Egor Babenko, Let Chase Witala, PG Tyler Wong, Let Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Jonathon Martin, SC Jesse Gabrielle, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Nolan Patrick, Bra Matthew Phillips, Vic Brett Pollock, Edm Andrew Nielsen, Let Chase Lang, Van Dominic Turgeon, Por Keegan Kolesar, Sea Chad Butcher, MH Connor Gay, Sas

A 57 43 47 41 37 39 40 36 42 44 33 26 30 33 43 23 25 28 37 27 35 40 32 25 26 33 34

Pts 75 74 74 70 68 67 67 63 63 62 58 57 57 57 57 56 56 56 56 55 54 52 51 50 50 50 50

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 49 29 15 5 135 49 27 18 4 130 49 25 16 8 122

GA 108 117 124

Pt 63 58 58

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF Washington 47 35 8 4 158 NY Rangers 49 27 17 5 142 NY Islanders 47 25 16 6 130

GA 104 129 118

Pt 74 59 56

GA 131 120 118 135 134 155 127 136 134 163

Pt 57 55 55 54 52 52 50 44 43 43

Florida Tampa Bay Detroit

Wednesday’s games Prince George at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Spokane at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Boston Pittsburgh New Jersey Carolina Montreal Ottawa Philadelphia Buffalo Toronto Columbus

GP 49 48 50 51 50 50 47 50 48 51

WILD CARD W L OL 26 18 5 24 17 7 25 20 5 23 20 8 24 22 4 23 21 6 21 18 8 20 26 4 17 22 9 19 27 5

GF 147 121 114 123 136 139 109 114 114 133

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 53 33 16 4 147 50 31 14 5 162 52 28 16 8 129

GA 122 133 128

Pt 70 67 64

Los Angeles San Jose Arizona

Pacific Division GP W L OL 49 30 16 3 48 26 18 4 49 24 20 5

GF 129 142 131

GA 113 129 146

Pt 63 56 53

Colorado Nashville Minnesota Anaheim Vancouver Winnipeg Calgary Edmonton

GP 52 50 49 47 50 49 48 50

WILD CARD W L OL 27 22 3 24 18 8 23 17 9 22 18 7 20 19 11 22 24 3 21 24 3 19 26 5

GF 143 129 121 101 122 126 126 122

GA 142 131 115 111 139 140 146 149

Pt 57 56 55 51 51 47 45 43

Tuesday’s games Minnesota at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m.

NY Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Joe Pavelski, SJ Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Artemi Panarin, Chi Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Patrice Bergeron, Bos Brent Burns, SJ Bobby Ryan, Ott Alex Ovechkin, Wash Matt Duchene, Col Alex Steen, StL Anze Kopitar, LA Nikita Kucherov, TB Nathan MacKinnon, Col Sidney Crosby, Pgh Joe Thornton, SJ Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Patrick Sharp, Dal

G 30 28 25 11 25 15 18 13 23 20 25 17 16 21 19 18 18 28 23 15 13 20 18 17 9 17 16

A 43 30 28 41 24 34 30 35 24 27 21 29 29 23 25 25 25 14 19 27 29 21 23 24 32 23 24

Pts 73 58 53 52 49 49 48 48 47 47 46 46 45 44 44 43 43 42 42 42 42 41 41 41 41 40 40

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 32 16 .667 — Boston 27 22 .551 5 1/2 New York 23 27 .460 10 Brooklyn 12 37 .245 20 1/2 Philadelphia 7 41 .146 25

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando

Heritage Lanes High scores Jan. 25-31

TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 2016

Hockey

Football NFL Playoffs 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

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Cleveland Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 27 21 .563 28 22 .560 23 25 .479 21 25 .457 21 26 .447

GB — — 4 5 5 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 35 12 .745 26 21 .553 26 23 .531 25 23 .521 20 30 .400

GB — 9 10 10 1/2 16 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 40 8 .833 —

Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

Oklahoma Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

29 28 25 18

.592 .549 .500 .383

11 1/2 13 1/2 16 21 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct City 37 13 23 26 .469 22 25 .468 19 30 .388 14 35 .286

GB .740 — 13 1/2 13 1/2 17 1/2 22 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 44 4 .917 32 16 .667 21 27 .438 14 35 .286 9 41 .180

GB — 12 23 30 1/2 36

Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 120, Chicago 93 Miami 105, Atlanta 87 Orlando 119, Boston 114 Dallas 91, Phoenix 78 Golden State 116, New York 95 Portland 96, Minnesota 93 Charlotte 101, L.A. Lakers 82

GYMNASTICS Presley Zinger of the host club finished first in the all-around category of Level 4 during the women’s artistic stage of the Exelta Cup gymnastics meet during the weekend.

Zinger took top honours on the uneven bars and was second in each of the vault and beam exercises and fifth on the floor.

Sydney Galenza was the top competitor in the beam exercise of Level 6.

Other Exelta Gymnastics top-10 results: Level 4: Paige Zinger, fourth in vault, seventh on uneven bars and floor, tie for seventh all around; Emma McGonigal, fifth in vault, fifth on floor, sixth on uneven bars and beam,

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Cannone scores 3, Central wins AHL All-Star Challenge

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Chicago Wolves forward Pat Cannone scored three goals and Rockford IceHogs goalie Michael Leighton posted a shutout in the championship game as the Central Division beat the Atlantic Division 4-0 to win the AHL All-Star Challenge on Monday night at the Syracuse War Memorial.

Cannone, who also netted a shootout winner in the round-robin portion of the Challenge, was named the most valuable player.

It was the culmination of an impressive weekend for Cannone, who won the accuracy shooting event in the skills competition on Sunday.

Both teams went 2-1-0 in the round-robin

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20 23 25 29

Monday’s Games Cleveland 111, Indiana 106, OT Detroit 105, Brooklyn 100 Memphis 110, New Orleans 95 Oklahoma City 114, Washington 98 Atlanta 112, Dallas 97 San Antonio 107, Orlando 92 Utah 105, Chicago 96, OT Denver 112, Toronto 93 Sacramento 111, Milwaukee 104 Tuesday’s Games Boston at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Houston, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Washington, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Utah, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

fifth all around; Grace Hitchcock, sixth on beam and floor, eighth in vault, ninth on uneven bars, ninth all around; Ailish Fowler, ninth in vault, ninth on beam, 10th on uneven bars and floor, 10th all around.

Level 6: Karis Wygeria, fourth in vault, fifth on uneven bars, tie for fifth on beam, ninth on floor, fourth all around; Sydney Galenza, fifth in vault and all around, seventh on uneven bars, 10th on floor; Stephanie Hoppins, second on beam, fourth in vault, seventh on floor, ninth uneven bars, sixth all around.

Level 7: Katherine Stuber, third on beam, sixth in vault, eighth on floor, eighth all around; Kayla Holliday, seventh in vault, eight on beam and floor, ninth all around. Level 8: Casey Patsula, fifth in vault, fifth on uneven bars, ninth on beam, sixth all around. played among All-Stars from the league’s four divisions round-robin games were nine minutes in length split into halves of 4-on-4 and 3-on-3.

The North Division and Pacific Division both finished 1-2-0.

Cannone and Rockford’s Jake Dowell each had three goals and an assist. Grand Rapids Griffins defenceman Xavier Ouellet collected two goals and two assists, and T.J. Tynan of the Lake Erie Monsters finished with five assists for the Central Division.

Leighton led all goaltenders with a .929 save percentage, turning aside 13 of 14 shots in his two appearances.

Chris Bourque of the Hershey Bears and Rob Schremp of the Portland Pirates finished with two goals and two assists each for the Atlantic Division.

Derek Grant of the Stockton Heat and Nick Ritchie of the San Diego Gulls notched two goals and an assist each for the Pacific Division, while Josh Leivo of the Toronto Marlies had two goals and an assist for the North Division.

In place of a traditional 60-minute game, the league’s All-Stars were divided into four teams, each representing one of the league’s four divisions. The championship was a six-minute, 3-on-3 game.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 2016

Print journalism, not on typewriters anymore I began my career in journalism with a certain amount of surprise and a great deal of trepidation.

I, a housewife with three kids, whose expertise had revolved around making melt in your mouth delicious cinnamon buns, stepped tentatively past the threshold of the newspaper world, not quite able to believe I had made it past the interview stage.

But, somehow, it seemed the paper gods were smiling down on me, and before I knew it, there I was.

A reporter.

My first assignment was to cover a town council meeting, actually understand what they were talking about and then write about it so it made sense not only to me, but also to my readers.

I was so nervous my pen was vibrating, but I wrote copious notes, not understanding too much of anything I wrote. I agonized over my notes later.

“What?” I mused. “What was I trying to say? What were they trying to say?

Oh my goodness, I should have stayed in the kitchen.

Whatever was I doing trying to be a reporter? What if I wrote the wrong thing? What if I misquoted somebody?

Actually, for about three decades

now those questions have continued to plague me.

When I first began my career as a journalist, I was given an old typewriter to work on. It did not return the carriage all the TREENA way, but I was told to improMIELKE vise, so I did.

LIFE I banged stories out on that old typewriter probably with more determination than skill, but my stories ran every week and every week I banged out more.

Editors tore my stuff apart and I wrote and re-wrote and I was completely happy.

I also worked in the darkroom, rolling negatives, developing negatives, and finally making prints.

I was not happy in the darkroom, but no one knew, because, it was, after all, dark in there. But, it was part

of the job so I learned it and I did it and was even a tiny bit impressed with myself until the day I accidentally dropped the negs into the wrong solution and they came out blank.

That was the week I learned who my true friends were. A true friend helps you avoid the wrath of an editor and allows you to stage a picture with them in it, even if it is midnight.

On deadline day we cut and pasted all our stories and pictures into strips and somehow we fit them all into these huge pages laid out on giant light tables. After the pages were done, they were taken to the camera in the back where the negatives were shot. Then the negatives were taken somewhere, but by this time, I did not care. I was done.

I was terrible at cutting and pasting.

Someone from production who was much better at it was always redoing my pages and I would go around muttering ‘sorry’ and feeling very inadequate.

Finally, after I cut and pasted for what seemed like forever and people went behind me and re-did all my work, we would order Kentucky Fried Chicken and laugh and talk and be all happy.

Deadline day was over. The paper was done.

Finally, one day the little independent newspaper I worked for was sold to a big newspaper chain.

It wasn’t awful. It wasn’t the end of the world. We all kept our jobs. It was simply change.

As it turned out change included no more cutting and pasting. We had to learn to lay out the pages on the computer.

I was terrified. I remembered fondly the days of my typewriter with the carriage that routinely jammed. Sometimes when I struggle to figure out the three remotes we have in our house now, I feel the same way about an old television set we had with a dial that worked only on channels six and eight.

But, of course, change is inevitable and, in the long run, usually good.

Apparently now we are supposed to ‘tweet’ people.

My goodness. What next?

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

Distance tough, but family bond holds strong His voice cracks as he says goodbye to me. If he was some other person or if I didn’t know him better than I know myself I could have mistaken it for a bad connection. However that’s not the case. Hushed tears are now dribbling down my face but I try to keep my composure. I have two children in the basement who I can hear sobbing because talking to Dad reminds them that they still have another five days before he comes home. I have to be strong for them. I have to be strong for my husband, who is silently struggling.

He is too proud to admit that all he wants to do is drop every last obligation and run as fast as he can towards his family. I have to remain steady for the humans I love.

This move has taught us a lot about ourselves as a family. What we can endure together and what we must suffer by apart. To give ourselves the best shot at this new future Jamie will have to stay working in Sylvan Lake on a rotational schedule until we establish our new business prospects here in the city of Lethbridge.

The first week wasn’t bad. We had some moments of doubt and a few minor meltdowns but nothing that doesn’t happen on the regular any-

ways. It was once the tough stuff started getting thrown at me, like troubles at school and “fix-it” jobs that I had no idea how to fix; I realized what I had gotten myself in to.

Ever since I became pregLINDSAY nant with a litBROWN tle lad named ME PLUS THREE Lars Jamie and I have always been in it together. We do everything together.

We cook together. We make financial decisions together. We raise children together. We will soon be building an entire business together. I colour coordinate our outfits on date night for the love of God! And many might feel the need to criticize our ridiculously codependent existence—perhaps with valid points. But it seems to work for us so I say, “do what makes you feel right.”

But right now, at this very moment, as I sit in our new home typing on this

laptop that holds so many stories of our family I feel at a loss. It has been fifteen days since all four of us have been under the same roof. Typing it makes me feel vaguely silly since it doesn’t really sound like that long. It sure as hell didn’t sound like it would be that long a month ago when we were hashing out this master plan.

It is long though. It is too long for kids who are used to having their Dad tuck them in nightly. It feels so very long for a wife who hasn’t slept a full night in fifteen days because every creek and crack of this new house startles her awake. And when she sleepily moves to hold her husband all she finds is a cold pillow. It is devastatingly long for a man who has just been told by his five year old daughter that she doesn’t want to talk to him on the phone anymore because it makes her miss him too much. It is just so damn long.

The children have now settled and Jamie and I have set in to a rather racy thread of text messaging (which I will spare you of). I find myself constantly giddy over the thought of my husband coming home to us. I daydream about the grin he will be wearing and how tight he will hug us as he walks in the

door. I think of him asking Lars about his new schoolmates and getting Sophie to show him all of her new drawings that are fastened to the refrigerator. It makes me smile to think of how whole I will feel once he is here with us. And I wonder how other families do this on a regular basis.

Then it dawns on me. Nobody chooses this type of a lifestyle. There is no family unit that wishes to be separated from each other. But we all do what we must to survive in this world.

We work away. We distance ourselves from our loved ones. We make sacrifices and go without to achieve what it is we truly desire.

Family is our most important entity and we will forever journey to the ends of the universe for their wellbeing. So once the tough stuff has been conquered and we are reunited with the people who mean the most all of the heartache and strife will have been worth it. And one day when we look back on these moments we will realize that it was the “tough stuff” that made this beautiful life that much sweeter.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

A sense of humour key to long-lasting marriage Q: My husband and I have been married nearly 20 years, and frankly, the relationship has become somewhat stale and even boring. It seems like we’re basically just going through the motions. We don’t want a long checklist, but do you have one suggestion for something we can do to help?

Jim: I once asked author Ted Cunningham, “What’s the best advice you ever got on marriage?” His reply was short and to the point: “That’s easy — lighten up and laugh!”

Why do you suppose Ted’s thoughts jumped immediately to the importance of humor and lightheartedness?

It’s because life in this world can be a grind.

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indispensable to life’s journey. And I firmly believe that marriage ought to be one of them.

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking at this point: “My marriage?

An oasis?” But this is precisely what it can be if you take the time to grease the skids with healthy doses of laughter. A couple’s role is not to squash all the good moments, but to share them with each other. Remember, the two of you got married because once upon a time you actually looked forward to being together!

So if you feel like you’ve lost that spark, make an effort to recapture it.

Fan the flames again. If you can do that — if you can lighten up, laugh and enjoy the journey together — you’re halfway toward achieving genuine marital success. And, in the process, I predict you’ll eliminate much of the monotony and boredom that have characterized your daily grind in the first place.

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

Practice and reflection, build habits that improve self-esteem “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Without courage, we cannot practise any other virtue with consistency.”

– Maya Angelou, American author, poet and civil rights activist “I’ll tell you one thing about this self-esteem stuff,” he said. “It’s a lot of hard work.”

I was speaking with a colleague about some significant changes he wanted to make in his life – in particular, letting go of some disempowering patterns of thought and behaviour.

“Do you still play the piano?” I asked. “I saw you perform once at a piano bar.”

“Oh my goodness,” he replied with a chuckle. “That was a long time ago.”

“Did it take you long to learn?” I inquired. “As I recall, you were pretty good.”

“Took years of practice,” he replied. “Every day I’d sit down at the keyboard and play, even when I didn’t want to do it. And it wasn’t just the old ‘butt in the seat’ physical practising.

I’d go over and over the music in my mind and visualize playing each piece perfectly.”

At this point, he stopped and smiled. He knew what I was getting at with my questioning. I can’t emphasize enough the power of consistent practice. In this case, I’m speaking of a commitment to continuous, daily mental and practical rehearsals along with a regular review of behaviours and interactions that lead to improved self-esteem. It’s the only way to ensure a successful transformation from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow.

We know it’s easy to talk the talk

but to walk the walk? That takes considerably more effort in both time and energy. Outside of personal development, people seem to understand the importance of practice, reflection and visualization.

MURRAY Athletes do it FUHRER all the time. I EXTREME ESTEEM think most people who want to perform at peak efficiency and improve consistently utilize the process.

Before you start practising, you’ll need to cross a few bridges. You’ll need to check your readiness. And by this I mean, are you ready to do the heavy lifting that will be involved in bringing about significant changes in your life? Do you have the energy and the commitment necessary to forge on when things get tough and old patterns begin to assert themselves? Some horses are fast out of the starting gate but it’s perseverance that will win this race.

Before you start “walking the walk” you’ll need to have a crystal clear vision of what you hope to accomplish and a game plan to move you successfully through the process. It’s not enough to simply stumble out into the world wishing and hoping. If you want to improve your self-esteem, you’ll need to do a lot of preliminary work. A carpenter doesn’t just show up one day a build a house. He has a blueprint to

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Your preliminary work might take the form of listening, reading and watching and, most certainly, creating awareness of non-productive beliefs and patterns of behaviour. This is where a coach or mentor can be invaluable. A good mentor is a role model who already possesses the skills and expertise you wish to acquire. A coach can provide you with tools for transformation – specific strategies to bring about change.

You’ll need to decide which small steps can lead to great strides. In other words, you’ll need to break each goal into smaller chunks. Let’s say your goal is to be more assertive. You might try speaking up more often in meetings or joining conversations by pushing yourself to speak within the first few minutes. At first, it’s going to feel uncomfortable wearing these new skills – not unlike walking in a new pair of shoes. And at first, you might feel that you’re just faking it – saying and doing things that seem contrary to what you’re used to saying and doing. That’s completely natural. With persistence, you’ll become more comfortable and confident.

Now, here are two steps that are often missed but vital to the process of change: reflection and rehearsal.

That may sound a little cerebral, but it doesn’t take a lot of time and the rewards are worth the effort. I recommend 15 minutes a day in a quiet setting, free of distractions.

Take some time to review events from the day and make plans for the day to come. Now keep in mind, this is not meant as a means to punish yourself. No “Why didn’t I do this?” and “I should have done that.” It’s an

open and honest assessment of your actions and thoughts over the course of the day. You’re looking for ways to improve but you’re also looking for small successes: those times when you really stepped up to the plate and hit a home run or, if not, at least swung with passion. It’s also a chance to plan for tomorrow and the week ahead.

Rehearsal is simply that – visualizing yourself moving successfully through the challenges of the day.

Speaking up when you would typically have remained silent. Asserting yourself when your tendency is to run away and hide. Taking ownership when your preferred method is to defer to others.

The exciting part is that the unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between and real and imagined successes. It builds upon both wins in the same positive manner.

I love the whimsical words of British author and poet C.S. Lewis who, on the theme of change, wrote, “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird.

It would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.

We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must [all] be hatched or go bad.”

With practice and a little help along the way, we can build and nurture habits that will eventually lead to improved self-esteem and bring us to that place of confident empowerment.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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HAIRE Lester (Les) Sherman Mar. 31, 1940 - Jan. 29, 2016 Les was born in Turner Valley, Alberta. As a boy, Les enjoyed playing hockey and later as a young man, he served proudly in the Royal Canadian Navy. He began his lengthy oilfield career at a very young age in Alberta.

The Rigs took Les to Weyburn, SK where he met his wife, Myrna.

This is where they started their family and welcomed the first 3 of their 4 children. At the same time, he began his longtime career with Schlumberger of Canada.

Schlumberger then transferred Les, Myrna and the children to Red Deer, AB in 1969, which they have made their home for the past 47 years.

Red Deer is also where they welcomed a fourth child to the family. Les was extremely proud of his 44 year career with Schlumberger.

His devotion to his family and the sacrifices made for his family will forever remain his legacy. Dad’s strong work ethic has always been respected by many and has been passed down to his children, grandchildren and all who knew him. Les is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Myrna; children, Renita (Todd), Brendalyn (Patrick), Darcy (Bev) and Dallis (Robin); grandchildren, Tony (Nikki), Danielle (Paul), Taryn, Shane (Stacy), Brendan (Haley), Conner, Madisyn, Dalyn, Mckenzie and Keenan; and by great grandchildren, Ethan, Mila, Keiran and Mateo. He is also survived by his beloved sister, Churyl Shaffer and family; brother, Eugene Haire and family; brother-in-law, Victor Lund & family; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Les was predeceased by his parents Lee and Alice; infant brother, Darrell; mother-in-law, Eda; sister, Joice; brother-in-law, Ross; uncle, Jack; and aunt, Beulah. Dad will be sadly missed by his family and all who knew him. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Les’ honour may be made directly to Red Deer Minor Hockey Youth Assistance Program, D1 4725 - 43 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z3 or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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SOLOWAY Brent Lyndon It is with much sadness that we, the family of Brent Soloway, have to announce his passing on January 27, 2016 at the age of 58 years old. Brent was surrounded by his family at the Red Deer Hospice after an 8 month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Brent was born on June 16, 1957 in Winnipegosis, Manitoba to Andrew and Eva Soloway. Brent is survived by his wife Shirley, his sons Ryan Biddles, Mitchell (Jill), Kyle, Christopher (Samantha Magas) and daughter Michelle (Peter) Zelenitsky; Grandchildren Darius, Jaylynne, Akilah, Blake, Aria, Brady, Abby, Kelly; Brothers Larry, Alvin (Loretta), Ivan, Harvey (Kim) and Ken; Sisters Maryann (Paul) Duern and Gail Himpe; numerous nieces and nephews as well as his Finning family in Fort McMurray. Brent will always be remembered as a devoted father, brother, friend and a mentor to all his co-workers throughout the years; his love for golf, good food, candy and cognac, as well as his passions and commitment to his lifelong career as a Heavy Duty Mechanic. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe with interment to follow at the Lacombe Fairview Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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ROTH H. John Roth of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully, with his family at his side, on Monday, January 25, 2016, at the age of 60 years old. John was born on January 18, 1956 in Dawson Creek, BC and moved shortly afterwards to Southern Alberta where he was raised by his parents, Jack and Norma.

John grew up the oldest of six, with his siblings Debra, Curtis, Sandra, Roseann and Kathy always looking up to their ‘big bro’. As a young adult, he made the move to Edmonton, where he met the love of his life, Lisa. Together with Lisa, John had three children of his own, Vincent (Julia), Katherine (Matthew) and Daniel. Having children would eventually lead to his ultimate joy in life, his three beautiful granddaughters, Annika, Elaina and Juniper.

John and his family made the move to Red Deer in 1987 and decided to stay. It was here that he started Roth Radiography and Inspection Services, a career move that would put him in a position to touch many lives. John will always be remembered for his sense of humour, his genuine care, his honesty, integrity and his magnificent blue eyes. In his passing, this world loses a man who knew the value of a hard day’s work, and who never forgot why the work needed to be done. A man who was always happy to lend a hand up to anyone who needed it.

A man who put family before everything.

An intimate Memorial Service for family and close friends will be held at Unity Baptist Church, 139 Northey Ave, Red Deer, AB on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7 to help show appreciation for the wonderful staff on Unit 32.

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Card Of Thanks MOORE Thank you for the overwhelming friendship, love, and support you have shown our family as we mourn the loss of Danny: loving husband, father, and grandfather. A special thank you to Dr. Lim and nurse Jessica for their compassionate care in the Intensive Care Unit. ~ Wife Isabelle, children Danielle, Darrell, Brent and their families.

Obituaries CHOWN Margaret Freda (nee Montgomery) June 25, 1928 - Jan. 27, 2016 Margaret (Marg) Chown, beloved aunt, cousin, friend, of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 87 years. Marg was born at Elk Point, Alberta. Her father owned a road construction company and her mother, aunt, and uncle all worked there. Marg had high scholastic achievements in High School and at Henderson’s Business College where she graduated. She met an airforce pilot, Kink, and they married on May 26, 1952. They have lived across Canada with their many pets. Marg was a very social person and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion for over 40 years. She was known as a story-teller with a knack for details, dates, and names right up to her last day. She didn’t mind the spotlight and would share her adventures until the wee hours with anyone. She loved camping, hunting, fishing, gardening, cooking, canning, and investing.

Despite significant health challenges, she persevered and continued to live in her home and even travelled to Europe in 2012 as a double-amputee. Marg took numerous trips with her mother, and sometimes her sister to Comox. Marg was very close with her Northern Ireland cousins. They came several times in the last 15 years and she travelled there twice and longed to go back. Marg purchased and ran Pinky Laundry in Red Deer and continued to run it after her husband’s passing. Marg will be lovingly remembered by cousins; June Wutzke, Dorothy Montgomery, and Donald Zelasek, numerous nieces, nephews, friends, and extended relatives and loved ones in Northern Ireland. She was predeceased by her husband, Clinton (Kink) Chown, parents; William (Bill) and Annie Montgomery, brothers; Edward (Eddie) and John (Jack) Montgomery, and sister, Jean (Jeannie) Warren. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2016 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer. A service will be held on Thursday, January 4th, 2016 at 1:00 pm at Gaetz United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta, with time to pay your respects prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Margaret’s honour may be made directly to the Kidney Foundation of Canada - Southern Alberta, 6007 1A Street SW, Calgary, Alberta T2H 0G5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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Obituaries RAMAGE William 1943 - 2016 Mr. William ‘Bill’ Ramage of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away suddenly on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the age of 72 years. Bill was employed by the City of Red Deer, Electric, Light and Power Department for thirtyseven years. He dedicated forty years of his life to Red Deer Minor Hockey. Bill will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Carolyn, two sons; Dean (Michele) and Dan (Debbie) and his grandchildren; Cody, Kyle, Quinn and also Nikolai and Olivia. A Celebration of Bill’s Life will be held at the Poplar Ridge Community Hall, Hwy 11 or 11A and Range Road 283, Red Deer County, Alberta on Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Bill’s honor may be made directly to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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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DES MOINES, Iowa — Billionaire real estate magnate Donald Trump faced the first big test of his stunning presidential campaign as he looked to defeat Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in Monday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, the leadoff contest in the U.S. presidential race. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton sought to fend off an unexpectedly strong challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.

The caucuses — meetings held simultaneously across the state — got under way Monday evening in a political environment few could have foreseen a year ago. The brash, controversial Trump has become the Republican front-runner by tapping into anxiety about terrorism, immigration and the economy.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, once seen as the likely front-runner, is near the bottom of polls.

Clinton, the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, had been expected to cruise to victory in Iowa and beyond. But Sanders has appealed to the Democrats’ liberal base, especially the young, who are concerned about growing income inequality and the shrinking of the middle class.

Interviews with voters who arrived early to the caucuses confirmed that Clinton and Sanders are in a tight race and that Trump, Cruz and Rubio are in a three-way contest. The interviews were conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.

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PARIS — Five months ago, a 3-yearold Syrian boy’s corpse on a Turkish beach galvanized public action for refugees. Now, strikingly similar images are generating little more than a collective shrug.

It’s partly about timing, circumstance and the exceptional power of last September’s photos of Aylan Kurdi.

But it’s also because sensitivities are growing dull. Boats arrive on Europe’s shores daily, or sink on the way — like the one that capsized off Turkey’s coast on Saturday, killing at least 37 people including babies and other young children.

Images from the latest tragedy, including the bodies of children, failed to generate the same level of shock.

Fears — that refugees will stage extremist attacks or molest women — threaten to displace compassion. And Europe has yet to find the magic solution to its migrant dilemma.

“The public seems to be kind of immunized. They don’t want to see it anymore,” said Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

Some are rebelling against the numbness. Greek soccer players held a sit-in solidarity protest after the latest refugee drownings. Artist Ai Weiwei, wanting kinder migrant policies, re-enacted Aylan’s death.

The photos of Aylan weren’t the first or last to document the fatal risk that families take to flee Syria’s war for something better in Europe. But his lifeless, tidily-dressed body — first face-down on the sand, later in the arms of a police officer — captured the collective imagination like no other.

In an era when images are ubiquitous and fleeting, it stood out. Unusually, he was quickly identified and found to have relatives in Canada, which helped his story go global.

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stay competitive in Iowa in order to maintain his viability.

In the state’s Democratic race, polls showed Clinton and Sanders in a tight race, reviving memories of the former secretary of state’s disappointing showing eight years ago when Obama won the caucuses and, ultimately, the Democratic nomination and presidency.

Clinton has campaigned as a progressive who could get things done in a Washington split by an intense partisan divide. But her familiar name and long resume aren’t necessarily advantages in an election year dominated by anti-establishment candidates.

Clinton has also been on the defensive over her use of a personal email account for official business as secretary of state, raising questions about whether she mishandled government secrets and her overall trustworthiness.

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a candidate momentum and media attention, while a poor showing can end a candidacy.

Monday’s contest offers the first hard evidence of whether Trump, a reality TV star, can turn the legion of fans drawn to his plainspoken populism into voters. He has intensified his campaign schedule during the final sprint, including a pair of rallies Monday. He appears to have a slim edge over Cruz, a Texas senator whose uncompromising and sometimes abrasive anti-Washington approach has antagonized establishment Republicans, but excited conservatives who see politicians as unprincipled and ineffective.

Cruz has spent the closing days of the Iowa campaign focused intensely on Rubio, trying to ensure the Florida senator doesn’t inch into second place.

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February 2 2001 — Canada begins banning imports of beef and beef products from Brazil due to concerns of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BES or Mad Cow Disease).

1996 — Canadian Football League champion Baltimore Stallions announce they are leaving Baltimore for Montréal, bringing to an end a failed American experiment; CFL’s other U.S.-based teams in San Antonio, Shreve-

port, Memphis and Birmingham had folded.

1904 — Ernest Cashel, American desperado, hanged for the murder of an Alberta rancher and is first man to be hanged in Calgary.

1897 — Clara Brett Martin admitted to the profession of law after the Law Society of Upper Canada changes its admission standards. The Trinity College graduate is the first woman barrister in the British Empire.

1807 — Upper Canada Legislature passes bill setting up provincial grammar schools in all districts.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 2016

Overall outlook still bleak

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MANUFACTURING

TORONTO — A monthly survey of purchasing managers suggests the outlook for Canada’s manufacturing sector remains negative but is not quite as dire as in December because of a pickup in export demand.

The RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI registered 49.3 in January, just below the 50-point mark that indicates a neutral outlook.

Royal Bank noted in its commentary that the December reading of 47.5 was a record low for the fiveyear-old index. Any measure below 50 is considered a negative outlook for the coming months.

January also marked the sixth negative month in a row, the longest stretch since the RBC index began in late 2010.

Similar indexes published in the United States

and China also showed negative readings Monday.

The Canadian manufacturing index showed the overall business conditions deteriorated, reflecting lower output, new business and employment in January.

The one area of improvement was a rebound in export sales, which offset some of the downturn in domestic demand.

“Ontario manufacturing continues to be the bright spot, while the sharp drop in performance in Alberta and B.C. suggests that heightened economic uncertainty and ongoing declines in capital spending are weighing on the economy,” RBC chief economist Craig Wright said in a statement.

RBC publishes the index in conjunction with Can-

ada’s Supply Chain Management Association and Markit, a global financial information company that compiles similar indexes for several countries and regions.

“After December’s record low, Canada’s manufacturing sector was close to stabilizing in January, with improving exports a key ingredient at the start of 2016,” said Cheryl Paradowski, SCMA’s president and chief executive officer.

“Manufacturers saw a solid upturn in new work from abroad, which helped support production levels but didn’t quite offset sustained weak domestic sales.”

“The figure for Canada as a whole continued to mask diverging fortunes provincially, notably between the export-led manufacturing rebound in Ontario and the oil-related downturn faced by a large proportion of manufacturers in Alberta and British Columbia,” Paradowski said in the statement.

FORESTRY

Landmark deal protects B.C. coast from logging

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A jewel in the crown of British Columbia’s magnificent landscape — the Great Bear Rainforest — has been largely protected from logging in a landmark agreement between First Nations, forest companies, environmental groups and the government, Premier Christy Clark said Monday.

The land-sharing deal 20 years in the making will protect 85 per cent of the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, located on B.C.’s central coast about 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.

The Great Bear Rainforest, stretching from the Discovery Islands northwards to Alaska, is 6.4 million hectares, and more than half the region is covered by ancient forests. The agreement ensures 85 per cent of the forests — 3.1 million hectares — are permanently off limits to logging.

“This is what Vancouver used to look like,” said Clark as images of vast forests were displayed on screens during a news conference at the University of B.C. “It is proof of what we can do if we decide to find common purpose,” she said.

Clark’s government will introduce legislation this spring that enshrines the deal and includes benefits-sharing agreements with area First Nations.

Twenty six First Nations, environmental groups, coastal forest companies and the government reached the agreement after more than a decade of negotiations.

The agreement also ends the commercial grizzly bear hunt and protects habitat for the marbled murrelet, northern goshawk, mountain goat and tailed frog.

Coastal First Nations spokeswoman Chief Marilyn Slett said reaching the pact was not an easy task but the eco-based management pact is the “modern term to describe what we’ve always done. Our leaders understand our well-being is connected to the well-being of our lands and waters.”

Coast Forest Products Association chief executive officer Rick Jeffery said the deal involved complex talks between groups with opposing points of view, but compromise and success was achieved over time.

“It’s unprecedented in the history of our province,” said Jeffery. “It’s a unique solution for a unique area.”

Environmentalist Richard Brooks said 95 per cent of the area was open to logging 20 years ago, but protests, blockades and ensuing negotiations resulted in Monday’s agreement that ensures most of the forests will not be logged.

“Each of us took tremendous risks to step into the unknown and bridge the huge divide,” said Brooks, describing the collaboration. Three environmental groups, Greenpeace, Forest Ethics and Sierra Club of B.C., are part of the deal.

Jens Wieting of the Sierra Club said logging in the remaining part of the forest will be tightly controlled.

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Signs for Burger King and Tim Hortons locations in Ottawa. The parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King is committing to serving cage-free eggs at all Canadian, American and Mexican locations by 2025.

Tim Hortons, Burger King promise to serve cage-free eggs by 2025

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King announced Monday it is committed to serving cage-free eggs at all locations in Canada, the United States and Mexico by 2025.

Restaurant Brands International (TSX:QSR) joins a growing list of restaurants that have promised to dish up eggs only from hens that have not been confined to cages as pressure from customers for ethically-sourced food ramps up.

“Canadians and consumers around the world aren’t OK with hens being crammed into tiny cages for their entire lives,” said Sayara Thurston, campaign manager with the Canadian wing of Humane Society International.

“A flood of companies” are wanting to serve more cage-free eggs, she said, adding that Humane Society International has worked with dozens of brands to help them create similar goals.

Denny’s, for example, has promised its U.S. restaurants will serve only cage-free eggs by 2026, McDonald’s has committed to doing the same at its Canadian and American locations by 2025, and Starbucks plans to meet that goal by 2020.

Thurston said it takes so long to meet these targets because the farmers who supply the eggs need time to implement cage-free systems.

“We understand that change can’t happen overnight,” she said.

Enough farmers have to shift to the more animal-friendly practice to supply the roughly 4,800 Tim Hortons locations in Canada and the U.S., and the roughly 7,800 Burger King stores in those countries and Mexico.

‘CANADIANS AND CONSUMERS AROUND THE WORLD AREN’T OK WITH HENS BEING CRAMMED INTO TINY CAGES FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.’ — SAYARA THURSTON, CAMPAIGN MANAGER, HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL Millions of egg-laying hens, which in Canada are nearly all kept in small cages, will eventually be able to walk more than a few steps and flap their wings as the industry adapts, said Thurston.

The company’s move may even prompt the National Farm Animal Care Council, which is currently updating its code of practice for poultry layers, to make cage-free egg production the new standard in Canada, she said.

Despite the nine-year timeline, Humane Society International hopes Tim Hortons and Burger King will be able to achieve their goal before 2025, Thurston said.

But already, Burger King is poised to miss one of its previous goals. The fast-food chain announced in 2012 that it would be using only cage-free eggs in the United States by 2017. That goal has now been extended to 2025, said Thurston, lumped in with the company’s Canadian and Mexican locations.

“We understand it takes longer to turn a regional commitment for one brand into a global commitment across all brands,” she said.

RBI also plans to eventually move all its restaurants in other countries outside of North America to cage-free eggs, but it did not provide a timeline.

RBI said it will release a new sustainability framework later this year.

Uber drivers in NYC protest company’s fare cut

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Uber drivers in New York City called Monday for a strike to protest the company’s decision to cut fares by 15 per cent, as several hundred rallied at the ride-sharing app’s New York headquarters.

Several hundred drivers attended the protest, but it’s not clear how many would heed the call for a shutdown. The company has roughly 30,000 registered vehicles.

Mohammed Rahman, a driver from the Bronx who’s been in the business for two decades said the cost cut is too deep. Drivers cover their own insurance, payments on vehicles and gas.

“Before, we made little, not much — but enough to feed the family,” said the father of two. “But this is really, really bad.”

The drivers behind the work stoppage were trying to get the word out to colleagues with fliers and social media. But thousands of cars still were on the road, many because they had not heard about the labour action. Uber drivers aren’t unionized in New

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“In order to change something with the low rates that Uber imposed on the drivers, we should cripple the city, so New Yorkers know what’s happening to us,” said Rajko Ljutica, a longtime driver who has worked for other limo companies he says are now being choked by Uber. “Uber is like a spreading cancer, killing the yellow cab industry and other car services.”

The popular ride-sharing app announced the price reduction Friday. A company spokesman said its data shows the fare reductions are actually helping drivers earn more money by drumming up business. The spokesman said if the lower prices don’t work, they’ll be rolled back.

“Every city has busy months and slow times. In New York things tend to be quieter after the holidays. So we lowered prices to get more people using Uber, which is good for drivers because it means less time waiting around for trips,” said spokesman Matt Wing. “As we have always said, price cuts need to work for drivers.”

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Uber drivers and their supporters hold signs and chant during a rally at an Uber office in New York, Monday. Some Uber drivers in New York City say they are going on strike to protest the company’s decision to cut fares in the city by 15 per cent.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.24 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.51 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.78 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.85 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 0.960 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.52 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.45 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 166.80 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.09 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.72 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.01 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 42.58 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.97 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 17.84 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.61 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.11 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.98 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.03 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.23 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.15 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.96 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 4.91 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.91 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.76 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.22 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.89 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.06 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — February began on a sour note for North American stock markets amid a sharp drop in oil prices and disappointing reports on manufacturing at home and abroad.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index fell 147.76 points to end the day at 12,674.37, reversing direction on a big rally that closed out trading last week.

New York markets were narrowly mixed, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing 17.12 points to 16,449.18, while the S&P 500 declined 0.86 of a point to 1,939.38 and the Nasdaq added 6.42 points to 4,620.37.

In commodities, the March contract for benchmark crude oil fell $2 to end trading at US$31.62 a barrel, while March natural gas plummeted 14.6 cents to US$2.152 per mmBtu and April gold rose $11.60 to US$1,128.00 a troy ounce.

Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, said three related factors that drove driven market weakness in early January — sliding oil prices, volatility in Chinese and stumbling global growth — were all on display Monday.

Oil took another hit after a survey of Chinese purchasing managers showing the outlook for the country’s manufacturing industry fell to its lowest level in more than three years.

“The deceleration that we’re seeing in China does not and should not come as a surprise to the markets because we’ve been seeing this play out over the past several years,” Fehr said.

“I think the other story is in developed markets, where growth in the U.S. has been disappointingly slow and (yet) it’s still the best house in the neighbourhood.”

Fehr said concerns about North American growth, as well as economic performance in Ja-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.14 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.26 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.50 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 18.70 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.03 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.88 First Quantum Minerals . . 3.05 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 16.06 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 2.69 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.39 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.82 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.13 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.700 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.07 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.11 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.54 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.29 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.86 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 15.89 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.10 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.91 Canyon Services Group. . 3.78 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.62 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1100 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.04 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.540 pan and the European Union, are adding to the fears about China.

A report on U.S. manufacturing by the Institute for Supply Management also came in below expectations on Monday, indicating that U.S. factory production is still contracting.

A similar survey by RBC of Canadian purchasing managers suggested the outlook for manufacturing north of the border also remains negative, although not quite as dire as in December because of a pickup in export demand.

“All that is adding on to the market’s existing worries today,” Fehr said.

The disappointing U.S. manufacturing data pushed down the greenback and helped the loonie defy its close ties to oil and add value on the day, rising 0.39 of a U.S. cent to 71.79 cents US. One of the drivers for the increasing spread between the American dollar and its Canadian counterpart is the diverging actions of the two countries’ central banks, with the Bank of Canada looking to cut rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve looks to raise them again after a December 2015 hike.

“Today was less about what was occurring in Canada and more about the expectation that, if economic data comes in a little bit softer than expected, that the Fed is perhaps likely to hike fewer times in 2016 than was previous baked in to a 71-cent loonie,” Fehr said.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,674.37, down 147.76 points Dow — 16,449.18, down 17.12 points S&P 500 — 1,939.38, down

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US Steel Canada begins sale, solicitation process under creditor protection HAMILTON — Insolvent US Steel Canada Inc. says it is starting a sales and investment solicitation process under a court order obtained earlier this month.

The company, which is operating under protection of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, says the move is intended to solicit interest in

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.30 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.34 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.38 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.85 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.77 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.69 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 83.44 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.21 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 39.62 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.150 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.27 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.46 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.27 Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

0.86 of a point Nasdaq — 4,620.37, up 6.42 points Currencies: Cdn — 71.79 cents US, up 0.39 of a cent Pound — C$2.0119, up 1.60 cents Euro — C$1.5175, up 0.02 of a cent Euro — US$1.0894, up 0.61 of a cent Oil futures: US$31.62 per barrel, down two dollars (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,128 per oz., up $11.60 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.885 oz., up nine cents $671.45 kg., up $2.89 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $4.30 lower $471.10 May ‘16 $4.30 lower $480.70 July ‘16 $3.90 lower $486.70 Nov. ‘16 $2.20 lower $487.50 Jan. ‘17 $2.30 lower $488.90 March ‘17 $2.30 lower $489.10 May ‘17 $2.30 lower $487.80 July ‘17 $2.30 lower $487.80 Nov. ‘17 $2.30 lower $487.80 Jan. ‘18 $2.30 lower $487.80 March ‘18 $2.30 lower $487.80.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 603,940 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 603,940.

either the sale of its assets or the restructuring or recapitalization of the business as a going concern.

Those assets include 329 hectares of property on Hamilton Harbour and 2,670 hectares of property Nanticoke, Ont., along with coke ovens and ironmaking, steelmaking and finishing equipment and other assets.

In addition to currently operating assets, it also has idled production equipment which could be restarted, the company said Monday in announcing the sale and solicitation process.

Full details of the SISP are available on the website of Ernst & Young Inc., the company’s court-appointed monitor.

US Steel Canada’s operations at its Lake Erie and Hamilton Works are capable of producing some 2.6 million tons of steel annually and employ about 2,000 workers.

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Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 76.29 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 31.62 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.27 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.46 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.83 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.130 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.990 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.31 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.83 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.520 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.78 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.58 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1050

Lexington Fire Department Interim Fire Chief Harold Hoskins shows Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, center, and Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles fire damage to the Blue Grass Stockyards, a 70-yearold cattle auction business in Lexington, Ky., Monday. Kentucky’s top agriculture official says the state’s beef cattle industry will not be hindered by a fire that destroyed a seven-acre auction house on Saturday.

ENERGY

Oil-by-rail facility shelved

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A company that was proposing to expand the size of a rail facility to double the number of trains it can load with Alberta oil has shelved the project.

USD Terminals Canada announced in November that it wanted to construct new tracks and loading buildings at its rail terminal in Hardisty, southeast of Edmonton.

“USD Group has presently withdrawn its Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) application and is reviewing its options,” Meg Martin, a spokeswoman for the company wrote in an email Monday.

“The company is not prepared to comment further at this time.”

The federal agency told the company on Dec. 23 that its project would require an environmental review.

The agency now lists the status of the USD proposal as “cancelled” on its website.

Reeve Allan Murray of the Municipal District of Provost said the company’s decision is disappointing, adding

the expansion would have bolstered the tax base of the sparsely populated community.

Murray wonders if a combination of low oil prices and the agency’s decision to require an environmental review made the project unattractive.

“It is hard to justify when another thing is thrown at you to go ahead,” Murray said. “I wouldn’t doubt that this environmental study was part of that.”

He said USD has been a good corporate citizen and hopes the company reconsiders.

Hardisty Mayor Anita Miller called the company’s decision unfortunate.

“But with the economy it isn’t a shock,” she wrote in an email. “Any time a project gets cancelled it will affect the economy of the towns/village around it.”

Under the proposal the expanded terminal would be able to load four trains each with 120 rail cars per day.

Last fall the CEAA said it was seeking public input on whether to review the proposal, which it said had potential for causing adverse environmental effects.

Wall says Trudeau should champion energy sector, Energy East

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should take a stand and support the Energy East pipeline.

Trudeau said last week that his role as prime minister in thorny issues such as pipelines is to bring people together and secure a better future for Canadians. Wall disagrees.

“We have a referee. It’s the National Energy Board and it’s the regulatory bodies and they should do their job, to be sure,” Wall said Monday after a speech to the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention.

“But in the national government and in the Prime Minister’s Office, we need a champion for the energy sector,

especially for a project that’s basically two-thirds conversion.”

Trudeau made his comment after meeting with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre. Coderre and the organization that represents Montreal-area municipalities have come out against Energy East. They argue the environmental risks associated with it far outweigh the economic benefits.

Wall said he’s looked at the objections.

“If you sift through some of the rhetoric, they just don’t like oil, and I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to hold up a pipeline that will benefit all of the country.”

Energy East would transport about one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in Eastern Canada.

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