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Positivity reigns 97% OF RED DEER RESIDENTS SAY THE CITY’S QUALITY OF LIFE IS GOOD

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Life is good and getting even better in Red Deer.

Ninety-seven per cent of citizens say Red Deer’s qualify of life is good or very good and 28 per cent said the quality of life has improved in the past three years according to the 2015 Citizen Satisfaction Survey.

The survey conducted in December 2015 delves into resident’s opinions on everything from quality of life and important issues facing the city to priorities.

Mayor Tara Veer said it is always

good news when citizens are satisfied with the qualify of life and city services. The survey helps build council’s work plan and agenda because citizens identify the areas where improvement are needed, said Veer.

The three priorities of transportation (37 per cent), municipal services (33 per cent), and community safety continue (32 per cent) to top the list of hot button issues for residents. The city began conducting the survey in 2006. “We now have a decade of trending to compare to,� said Veer. “When you look at this year’s survey results compared to 2008 and 2009, it becomes very clear that (citizens take a more

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Transportation has been identified as one of the three hot button issue priorities in a City of Red Deer Citizen Satisfaction Survey along with municipal services and community safety. cautious approach to cost of living) and request that of the city.�

City manager Craig Curtis said it is good to see the overall satisfaction for the level of service and the overall the taxation level seems to be accepted in the community. “We have seen a slight shift in peo-

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ple’s view in tax increases and that reflects the economy,� said Curtis. “I am particularly pleased with some of the results with an improved quality of life and the work we are doing on roads and the snow removal.�

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STREET FIGHT

Stabbing a form of selfdefence: lawyer

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Gerald Frizzley of Red Deer slides out of the hack and delivers a shot during the opening game of the Farmers Bonspiel in Red Deer on Tuesday. Frizzley along with teammates Bob Robinson Jay Chahley, Vern Lowe and spare Lonnie Staples along with 47 other teams are taking in the annual event that also includes a number of ladies teams. The Farmers/Farmerettes ‘spiel resumes today and concludes Saturday with the five men’s event finals at 1 p.m. and the women’s four event finals at 10 a.m.

Cabinet changes may delay initiatives: Veer

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Tuesday’s provincial cabinet shuffle may delay some key city initiatives.

Mayor Tara Veer said while the city has significant outstanding issues with Municipal Affairs, Transportation and Justice, the ministers did not change portfolios.

However there was shuffling that may affect a decision on the city’s push to reinstate grants in lieu for municipalities, the affordable housing issue and Red Deer’s proposed polytechnic

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university status. “In looking at the cabinet shuffle, there are three key areas that we will need to work in the coming weeks to build new relationships in order to carry through on a few things that we have on our agenda,� said Veer.

Veer said cabinet shuffles are a regular occurrence that present both challenges and opportunities. She said the city will have to brief the new ministers on all the issues and concerns in Red Deer.

The biggest impact is a delay in the

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decision making, said Veer.

A Red Deer issue summary will be forwarded to the new cabinet by the week’s end. “We hope to meet in the next coming weeks and months as well,� said Veer. “But it can also present an opportunity as well in terms of the new minister can bring a new perspective to a file and sometimes you can get traction on issues that have been waiting resolution.�

Veer said she is optimistic because in the past when they have met with provincial officials, they have been responsive to Red Deer issues.

A Red Deer man said he was left with no option but to stab a teen after the teen landed 18 to 20 punches to the man’s head.

Victor Bert L’Hirondelle, 20, was a teen when he stabbed another male youth on the grounds of Eastview Middle School. L’Hirondelle had been arguing on Facebook with two male teens on the evening of June 12, 2014.

As the arguing escalated, the three consented to meet at the school near 39th Street and 40th Avenue for a fight.

L’Hirondelle is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public.

Crown Prosecutor Katie Clarey maintains L’Hirondelle was insistent on fighting that night. During the Facebook argument the two teens made a comment that the fight could wait until the morning, but L’Hirondelle wanted the fight to happen that night. Clarey said L’Hirondelle was the aggressor in the situation and had only stabbed one teen because he was losing the fight.

Defence counsel Rick Wyrozub said L’Hirondelle wasn’t the aggressor as all parties travelled to get to the fight and all three had the option to not show up. Wyrozub called the stabbing a reasonable act as L’Hirondelle was getting badly beaten and couldn’t have gotten away because his shirt was held over his face.

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STEPPING OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE

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Red Deer Advocate entertainment reporter Lana Michelin stepped out of what she described as her comfort zone Tuesday and stood at the lectern at the Red Deer Public Library as a guest speaker at the Let’s Talk About the Arts Series. Michelin’s topic, ‘Scrambling for an Audience in a Hockey Town,’ centered on the difficulty that artists, musicians and actors have finding appropriate and affordable venues, and sizable audiences, in a city geared towards sports. The next lecture in the series will take place in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library on April 13, 2016, when Rosemary Griebel gives her reasons for ‘Why Poetry Matters.’

Utility rates to rise in March

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deerians can expect to pay slightly more for water, wastewater, garbage, recycling and power as the rates are set to jump in March.

The owner of a typical household using 17,000 litres of water per month will pay 61 cents or .5 per cent more on utility bills after council approved the utility bylaw amendment on Monday.

The cost increases for the water, wastewater, garbage and recycling utilities are primarily related to cost of capital and depreciation. The rates are reviewed annually following the budget approvals.

Tim Ainsough, Environmental Services manager, said the city is moving to that incentive to use less

took part in the independent Ipsos phone survey between Dec. 3 and Dec. 15, 2015.

Full survey results are available online at www. reddeer.ca crhyno@reddeeradvoccate.com

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SURVEY: Random sample of 300 people Ninety-five per cent of respondents were satisfied with the overall level of city services and 88 per cent felt they received good value for tax dollars.

Curtis said the city attempts to react to particular negative results including in the area of snow removal in 2014 and potholes in 2013.

“Since then we have moved to shore up the service in both those areas with some increased budget resources and in both areas the ranking seems to show a significant improvement service level improvements across the organization in recognition of the economic recession,” said Curtis.

The second 2015 survey was conducted in December, six months after the May survey.

Several factors including measuring seasonal differences, changes in the economy, new programs and growth in the city drove the second survey.

“We wanted to do one in the winter to see if that changed what our citizens indicated for us,” said Veer. “Citizens were consistent regardless of the season. They continued to identify those top three areas around public safety, transportation and core municipal services.”

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water. He said the bill for a small water user (about five cubic metres) will decrease by 9.5 per cent while for a larger user (35 cubic metres), the bill will increase by 5.9 per cent.

The water rate will go up to $1.40 fee per cubic metre from $1.30 in 2015.

The 2016 South Regional Wastewater rate for regional customers is 92 cents per cubic metre compared to 80 cents in 2015, a 15 per cent increase.

Council approved a transition period over the next three to five years to keep the rate below 15 per cent.

On the electricity front, the typical user using 600 kilowatt per hour per month will pay $1.35 more on his monthly bill.

The increase is due to the city’s requirement for the provincial transmission upgrades and construction and the city operations.

STABBING: Carried knife with five-inch blade This left L’Hirondelle with one option, stabbing as a form of self-defence.

Crown and defence counsels closed their cases in the trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench before Justice Keith Yamauchi on Tuesday.

L’Hirondelle took the stand on Tuesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench. The Crown closed its case on Monday after calling three witnesses.

L’Hirondelle said he knew of the two teens from a short time the three attended Lindsay Thurber High School and had observed them beating on another student. The three had only ever interacted through Facebook.

He said for his own safety and to intimidate the two teens, both under the age of 18, he brought a knife with a five-inch blade tucked into his pants.

When he arrived he saw four people waiting for him and he changed his tactics.

L’Hirondelle ran into the street and yelled at the four, said he was crazy and on drugs and showed them the knife. His attempt to scare off the four did

CARROT RIVER, Sask. — A family from Carrot River, Sask., and an Edmonton firefighter are being called heroes after saving a father and son from drowning in Mexico.

Liz Haley-Armstrong, her son Bob ‘IT’S KIND OF A TESTAHaley and firefighter MENT TO CANADIANS Drew Pearson were AND HOW QUICKLY WE relaxing on a beach in Puerto Vallarta CAN WORK TOGETHER when they noticed a NO MATTER WHAT THE young boy struggling in a rip tide just off CIRCUMSTANCE.’ the beach.

Despite having on— DREW PEARSON, FIREFIGHTER ly met each other 10 minutes before, the trio leaped into action.

Pearson dove into the water and swam for the child, and was bringing him back toward shore when he noticed the boy’s father, who had swum out trying to get to the boy, was now also in distress.

Haley-Armstrong went into the water and took the boy from Pearson, freeing him to rescue the husband.

Pearson says he was exhausted and near the point of collapse, and might not have made it back to shore himself without the help of Bob Haley, who dragged him and the father both to shore.

Pearson, who is also a military reservist, says he was only doing what he was trained to do and gives all the credit to the mother and son.

“It was amazing to see how quickly they helped up and there was no hesitation or questioning,” he says.

Without their help, Pearson says the happy ending could have easily been a tragedy.

“It’s amazing that there was three Canadians on a beach in Mexico, in a sea of 100 locals, that were able to do something like this,” Pearson says. “It’s kind of a testament to Canadians and how quickly we can work together no matter what the circumstance.” not work, so he got them somewhere dark and that’s where the first teen approached L’Hirondelle.

The teen landed the first punch, but the two only briefly exchanged blows. Both striking each other twice, L’Hirondelle won that fight when the teen dropped to the ground.

L’Hirondelle then turned to the other three and asked where the other teen who had agreed to the fight was. The teen raised his hand and then came out in a boxing stance. L’Hirondelle said the teen hit him about nine to 10 times in the face with “fists of fury.” Then the teen grabbed L’Hirondelle’s shirt collar and lifted it to cover his face. The teen then landed about eight or nine uppercuts.

The accused told the other teen he “was done” after the first five uppercuts, but they did not stop.

So he pulled the knife out of his shirt and swung it across the teen’s body in a slashing motion. The Crown said the knife punctured the teen’s lung.

L’Hirondelle testified that he just wanted the teen to back off and he was scared he could get seriously injured and rendered helpless as three other people could have continued to beat him.

L’Hirondelle ran and threw the knife away. Clarey pointed out that L’Hirondelle thought to pick the knife back up and wash his fingerprints off of the knife despite his claims of being in shock at the time and throwing the knife away in the heat of the moment.

Yamauchi adjourned his decision until today at 2 p.m. in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench with a qualifier that he may not have his sentence completed by then. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Notley expands cabinet

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has expanded her inner circle by almost half, carved up responsibilities and titles and appointed an openly gay cabinet minister.

Ricardo Miranda, who represents the constituency of Calgary Cross, now heads Culture and Tourism.

“I guess it’s historic in some ways, but to me it’s just a reflection of how far we’ve come in this province,” Miranda said Tuesday.

Kristopher Wells, director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies at the University of Alberta, used Twitter to congratulate the former flight attendant on becoming the “first publicly out LGBTQ cabinet minister in Alberta’s history!”

“It’s important to know our history and our past — this is a province that was very hostile and unfriendly to LGBT people until very recent times,” Wells said in an interview, citing past opposition to same-sex marriage.

“Diversity does not happen on its own — it takes thought and intentionality to ensure that Albertans are appropriately represented and also the diversity of ideas and backgrounds and lived experiences is critical.

“I don’t underestimate what this means to the LGBT community and particularly to young people who may strive to hold office.”

Also new to cabinet are Calgary backbenchers Stephanie McLean and Brandy Payne, both of whom are pregnant.

McLean, who is due Sunday, is the new minister for Service Alberta, which is in charge of provincial registries. She will also be responsible for the status of women, a duty formerly held by Environment Minister Shannon Phillips.

Payne becomes the associate minister for health.

Notley said the cabinet ministers who previously ran those portfolios will take over responsibilities as necessary while McLean and Payne are on maternity leave.

“We’re going to accommodate that and ensure that we are a place where women can engage fully in the opportunities for leadership that all Albertans want and need to see them

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks to media after the swearing in of new cabinet ministers in Edmonton on Tuesday. adopt,” Notley said.

McLean said she plans to be briefed on the issues and be as active as possible.

“I envision perhaps being in the hospital shortly after giving birth, on a conference call,” she said. “Having never had a child before and having never been a cabinet minister before, these are things that will just sort of sort out as we go.”

Lori Sigurdson was moved from Advanced Education and Labour to Seniors and Housing. Former whip Marlin Schmidt from Edmonton takes over Advanced Education as a stand-alone portfolio.

Richard Feehan, also an Edmonton member of the legislature, is the

Province failing aboriginals in the oilsands area: report

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soon as possible, it said. A baseline human-health study should also be conducted.

As well, Alberta should stop examining development on a project-by-project basis.

“The regulatory regime must look at the overall proliferation of resource development projects and the impact of such major developments on the people living in that area,” the panel said.

The report should raise questions about the oilsands projects that have been approved since the plan came into force, said Eriel Deranger, spokeswoman for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

“The government knew very well that the First Nations were in the process of challenging (the plan) and yet it was still used as a piece of policy to justify projects. It puts into question any projects now that may be given more leeway because they fall into a region designated as a resource priority zone.”

Martin Olszynski, a University of Calgary professor of resource law, said the report “validates almost entirely First Nations concerns.”

He said it also demonstrates critics were right that the government’s plan was poorly implemented and almost entirely opaque.

“When there are exceedances in air or whatever, it’s not clear at all what’s going on in government. We still don’t have that transparency around how the ambient environment is being managed.”

EDMONTON — The Alberta government’s attempt to balance competing interests in the oilsands region has failed to protect aboriginal rights, lands and health from industrial development, says an unreleased report.

Instead, the document concludes the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, which came into force in 2012, has been used by both industry and government to erode traditional land use in favour of economic interests.

“What Alberta said it would do and what it actually did are very different things,” says the review panel report, obtained by The Canadian Press.

A government-appointed panel was struck in 2014 under a provision in provincial law after six area First Nations complained that the land use plan violated their treaty rights.

The inquiry report has been complete since July, but has never been released. Its findings are damning.

The panel agrees with the Athabasca Chipewyan that the plan doesn’t protect aboriginal culture. It concurred with the Mikisew Cree that business was given priority over their constitutional rights.

The report says the Cold Lake First Nation is right that the plan creates new conservation areas without reference to traditional use. It finds justified Fort McKay’s concerns that the plan has few protection measures and no thresholds for action.

It upheld the Onion Lake Cree’s contention that the plan has no measures to manage traditional land use.

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The panel discarded government arguments — made by the previous Progressive Conservative adare holding sessions for ministration — that such issues were beyond the anyone 24 years of age review’s jurisdiction. and under.

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new minister for Indigenous Relations, which used to be part of the Justice Ministry.

Christina Gray takes over the Labour Ministry and will also look after the new portfolio of Democratic Renewal. Gray is currently chairing an all-party committee looking at ways to make the democratic process more transparent and accountable.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman takes on the added responsibility of deputy premier.

This is the second change to a 12-member cabinet Notley appointed when her NDP government assumed power last May. She added the Economic Development Department in October and named Deron Bilous as

its minister. Danielle Larivee, a backbencher at the time, was elevated to Bilous’s old job as municipal affairs minister.

Notley said the original cabinet worked well, but as her government implements changes, more responsibility needs to be shared.

“It was never our plan to keep the cabinet that size (at 12),” she said. “It was our plan to focus on our priorities and get a lay of the land and establish a key overarching framework.

“Now we’re in the position where we’re going to get more of that work done.”

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to be at fault when a worker was paralyzed in a fall at a job site in 2012.

In the decision from the province, a corporate representative of Needoba Construction Ltd. will serve 200 hours of community service for the company’s role in failing to ensure the health and safety of a worker.

The suggestion for community service was made by the Crown, on the understanding that the owner of Needoba had retired and the company was no longer in business as a result.

BRIEF Freedom denied to suspect in Christmas Day homicide RED DEER — A Central Alberta man charged in a Christmas Day homicide last year has been denied bail.

Chad Alexander Kulba, who is 33, is charged with second-degree murder and committing an indignity to a body in the death of Thomas Patrick Braconnier.

The body of the 46-year-old man was found inside the front doors of a downtown business in Red Deer.

Police have said the two men were known to each other.

Kulba was denied bail on charges of attempting to disarm a police officer and assault and remanded into custody on the other charges.

He will return to court Feb. 18 in Red Deer.

Company gets community service sentence for workplace accident CALGARY — For the first time in Alberta’s history, the government has given a sentence of community service to a Calgary company which was found

CALGARY — A vice-president at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has lashed out at opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline review process, calling much of the criticism “shameful” and “abusive.”

Nick Schultz was first up Tuesday as a three-member panel weighing the multibillion-dollar project began hearing oral arguments from interveners in Calgary.

“In the course of this long process, you have been subjected to unfair criticism — systematic abuse, in fact — from some who simply want no oil pipeline ever anywhere,” said Schultz, vice-president and general counsel at CAPP. “We should not shy away from calling this abusive behaviour what it is: it is shameful.”

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Trudeau’s Alberta trip critical Justin Trudeau makes his most im- line is to be built to get Alberta’s oil portant domestic trip in his short life to market, Notley needs Trudeau. And as prime minister this week when he Trudeau needs Notley.

Trudeau needs New Democrat Notheads to Alberta.

Prime ministerial visits are usual- ley and the cover of her climate plan, a progressive plan for a ly of the in-and-out variety. resource jurisdiction that Trudeau will spend two looks more progressive days in Edmonton and Calthan it actually is when gary, meeting with the oil compared with what had industry and those providgone before in Alberta. ing social services in the Notley needs Trudeau province, then sit down with to rebuild the trust in enviPremier Rachel Notley. ronmental regulations lost He must bring a lifeline. during the Stephen HarpHe must do so to deal er years when pro-pipeline with the immediate ecocheerleading and denigranomic imperative in the tion of opponents resulted oilpatch, but he must also in one failure after another. ensure that he is dealing TIM Under so-called interim with a strengthened, not a HARPER regulations last week by wounded, Notley, because the Trudeau Liberals, that the two need each other.

OPINION means waiting a little lonTrudeau has to help a ger for Notley. But it might province which shed more jobs last year than any time since the be the price for success.

Ottawa has added another layer of early 1980s and is enduring its highest unemployment rate in 20 years. scrutiny to pipeline projects over and There is more pain in store in 2016 for above the hearings by the National Ena province which drove better econom- ergy Board, adding consultations with indigenous peoples along any route ic times in this country.

Trudeau can also show he is a lead- and assessing project on the greener for the entire country by reaching house gas emissions produced in the out to a province which was one of extraction and processing of the oil only two to give the back of its hand to they propose to carry.

Final decisions will rest with the the Liberals in last autumn’s election, sending only four MPs to Ottawa as federal cabinet.

There are substantial hurdles part of a caucus of 184.

But just as importantly, if a pipe- ahead, however. The gap between

global emissions goals Canada committed to in Paris and the reality in this country remains huge, even with an Alberta plan that does not really bend the carbon curve until 2030.

Trudeau has made climate change a priority, but the country is not on track to meet even the goals set by the previous Harper government which the Liberals had called their “floor.”

But the trust game works both ways, and Trudeau has to convince Albertans to trust him.

In the short term, Finance Minister Bill Morneau is dangling a $250-million stabilization fund for provinces enduring “extraordinarily difficult economic situations,” a figure that would be more symbolic than substantive given the size of the Alberta economy. He also could expedite infrastructure funding for projects in Alberta.

Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci has suggested Ottawa financial aid should arrive “in armoured cars.”

Conservative Alberta MPs here have unhelpfully painted Trudeau and his team as opponents of resource extraction — a perception Trudeau played to in Davos when he urged the world to look at the “resourcefulness” of Canadians, not just our resources — mocking him for choosing selfies over pipelines and demonizing him as deaf to Alberta’s needs.

One suspects Trudeau would like to get the Energy East pipeline built,

after winning buy-in from aboriginals, environmentalists and communities along the route, a tall order to be sure — particularly in Quebec.

Notley acted responsibly by essentially leaving the status quo in a long-anticipated royalty review for the provincial oil industry, even if it repudiates years of party policy.

She says her Alberta message will be the same, whether she is talking to environmentalists in Toronto or a prime minister in Calgary.

“We won’t shout at or threaten Canadians in our principal markets,” she said.

But she said Alberta will clean up its own act and act as a good partner with Trudeau.

As long as Trudeau can point to her as an example of 2016 resource stewardship that looks forward, it will make it easier for the prime minister to build the trust he needs to approve Energy East.

A year ago, this would have fallen to Jim Prentice and Stephen Harper.

We know their track record. If Energy East succeeds, it will be because Canadians see Notley and Trudeau as our future, two leaders who know resource extraction and the environment are inextricably intertwined.

They just might pull it off.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by theTorStar.

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Refugee crisis may end Europe’s Schengen Treaty “Europe has forgotten that history is fundamen- declaring emergency controls on its borders after tally tragic,” said Manuel Valls, the French prime the terrorist massacre in Paris in November. So now minister. “If Europe can’t protect its own borders, fully half of the EU’s citizens (counting the UK and it’s the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into Ireland) live behind real borders again. doubt. It could disappear — not Europe itself, not The new border controls are alleged to be tempoour values, but the European project, the concept rary measures, which the Schengen Treaty permits we have of Europe, that the founding fathers had of for a maximum of six months in the face of some Europe.” unspecified emergency. But the refugee The European Union — 28 countries emergency is not going to fade away by and 500 million people — is not really next July, and the threat of terrorism will going to disappear just because it cannot persist for the foreseeable future. agree on how to deal with one or two milThat’s why the European Commission lon refugees. But one of the great symbols is now examining how the legal frameof its unity, the Schengen Treaty that alwork of Schengen can be fiddled to allowed its citizens to move around without low a further two years of controls on the passports or border checks, is being susEU’s internal borders. Nobody doubts pended, perhaps forever. that they will find a way to do that – but Schengen doesn’t cover every single a great many people doubt that the passEU country. The United Kingdom and port-free zone, once suspended for that Ireland remain outside the Schengen long, will ever come back.

Zone, and Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and This is happening not because GerGWYNNE Cyprus, all new EU members, are still mans fear French travellers or Swedes waiting to join. Switzerland, Norway and DYER fear Danes. It’s happening because none Iceland are part of the Schengen Zone of them believe that the EXTERNAL borOPINION although they are not EU members. But it ders of the Schengen Zone are properly does include over 400 million people. controlled.

It is a remarkable achievement. You Even in freeezing January weather could get into your car in Portugal and drive all the 35,000 refugees entered the EU last month, and it way to Finland via Spain, France, Germany, Poland, looks set to be another million-refugee year. And two Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia without ever once hav- of the men who carried out the Paris attacks crossed ing to show a passport or identity card. There would from Turkey to Greece (a Schengen member) as refnot even be anybody in uniform standing at the fron- ugees. You can’t call that a secure external frontier tier to wave you past, just a sign by the side of the The three countries that took in 90 per cent of road saying “Welcome to (Country X)”. last year’s refugees, Germany, Austria and Sweden, Or rather, that was the situation until last month, have all blamed Greece for letting so many refugees when Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Austria in and failing to document them properly. “Greece re-imposed passport checks at their borders, ports has one of the biggest navies in Europe,” said the and airports even for travellers arriving from other Austrian interior minister, Johana Mikl-Leitner. “It’s Schengen Zone countries. France acted even earlier, a myth that the Greek-Turkish border cannot be pro-

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The Greeks quite reasonably ask what their big navy is supposed to do. Sink the refugee boats? As for the failure to register all the refugees properly, they point out that at peak flow last autumn more than 10,000 were arriving each day. They didn’t have enough officials and equipment to cope with such numbers: 40 fingerprint machines running non-stop around the clock can only deal with about 4,000 people a day.

There is even talk of suspending Greece from the Schengen Treaty for two years, but a better solution would be to give it the people and resources needed to document everybody who comes in — and to turn back those who have no right to come in.

It’s not just a question of screening out possible terrorists, although that must be done better if confidence in Schengen is to be restored. In practice, Greece (or EU officials operating in Greece) would also have to decide at the border who is really a genuine refugee they are obliged to admit, and who should be returned immediately to Turkey.

The brutal truth is that most of the people crossing from Turkey into Greece, including the Syrians and Afghans who come from war-torn countries, are “asylum-shoppers.” They were already safe in Turkey, which is sheltering almost 2 million Syrian refugees and spending billions of dollars a year on them.

But life in the camps in Turkey is hard, so they are moving on to seek asylum in richer countries with better facilities.

There is no obligation for Europe to take them all, and the Schengen Treaty will die if it does. But the European Union itself will soldier on without it, at least until and unless the euro currency collapses when the next recession hits.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

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Auditor slams disability appeals process

Tax agency doesn’t even know extent of privacy breech

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal revenue agency says it doesn’t know what sort of taxpayer information a rogue employee improperly shared with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service because CSIS has wiped the files from its database.

The Canada Revenue Agency told The Canadian Press that the employee who handed over the sensitive data — doing so even though CSIS lacked a judicial warrant — is no longer with the department.

The agency refused to disclose whether the person was fired or left voluntarily, citing privacy reasons.

And it is not clear if the taxpayers whose information was compromised were ever notified of the improper sharing.

The Security Intelligence Review Committee, the watchdog that keeps an eye on CSIS, revealed last week in its annual report that the spy and revenue agencies repeatedly breached the rules.

Questions were first raised by the Federal Court, prompting CSIS to ask the review committee to look into the matter.

After concerns emerged, there were assurances the sensitive revenue agency information had been purged from a CSIS database when, in fact, it was still there, the review committee’s report says.

CSIS spokeswoman Tahera Mufti says the information is now “deleted from CSIS databases.”

“It should be noted that none of the information received from the CRA was shared beyond CSIS,” she added.

As a result, revenue agency spokesman Philippe Brideau said, it is unclear what was passed to the spy agency in the first place. “The CRA is unable to determine the details of the information that was shared with CSIS as it was removed permanently and in its entirety from CSIS systems.”

Brideau suggested the deletion also made it impossible to notify taxpayers.

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The 63-year-old Alberta man has terminal lung cancer — he says he’s lucky to still be alive — and waited about two years for a decision on his appeal of the government’s denial of his Canada Pension Plan disability benefits.

The appeals tribunal accidentally missed his request for a speedier hearing, a situation that prolonged McClure’s time in the system, which auditor general Michael Ferguson said on Tues- MICHAEL FERGUSON day was “longer than necessary for a decision.”

McClure is one of thousands of people with terminal illnesses or grave conditions who applied for CPP disability payments in recent years and found themselves waiting too long for benefits, or being snowed under by paperwork, or caught in a system where applicants could be twice denied benefits, only to find out later the denials were wrong.

While the audit found no documented cases of patients dying while awaiting benefits, it did find that time limits were often missed. Only seven per cent of dying people who sought disability payments got a decision on their application within the government’s 48-hour guideline, while just over half of those with chronic conditions had their cases decided within the established 30-day window.

And the appeals body established to streamline the process was set up without a proper transition plan and enough resources, leaving it unable to deal with the volume of cases it inherited from the four bodies that had handled benefits appeals. As a result, the tribunal didn’t meet expectations, allowing the 6,500 cases it inherited to swell to a backlog of 10,871 cases by December 2014.

The tribunal has said it expects to be through the backlog by the end of March.

The auditor also questioned how decisions were made and how average wait times for a decision rocketed up to 884 days.

“It gives validation to, I would say, hundreds if not thousands of Canadians who quietly have struggled and continue to struggle with this very complex system,” said Michael Prince, a public policy professor at the University of Victoria who has been a critic of how the previous government set up the tribunal.

Many of the findings in Ferguson’s report come as little news to those in the system who have had their concerns documented extensively by The Canadian Press, including McClure.

In his latest twice-annual assessment of various federal government departments, agencies and programs, Ferguson’s most eyebrow-raising findings came from his examination of CPP disability benefits, but he found shortcomings in other areas: ● An audit of the government’s central IT department, known as Shared Services Canada, found the four-year-old agency couldn’t show whether it was saving the government any money, nor whether systems and data were secure. ● Auditors found the Canada Border Services Agency was not keeping a close enough eye on exports, allowing high-risk shipments — including illegal drugs and possibly illicit weapons technology

— to leave the country undetected. cation that can take months to fill out, a burden that ● Ferguson also found that 20 years after vow- could be handled online, as is already the case with ing to assess how legislation and programs affect employment insurance. men and women, the federal government had made Auditors found the department had little in the limited progress on that front. Auditors found gen- way of a quality assurance system to ensure decider-based analyses were not always complete or con- sions were consistent. The audit found that one-third sistent across departments. of applicants originally denied benefits were later ● An audit of the management of military housing found to be eligible based on the original evidence.

by National Defence unveiled disarray, with as many Two-thirds of those who went to the tribunal ended as 1,500 units sitting vacant and not enough consider- up winning their appeals, the audit said, raising ation given to allowing soldiers to rent in local mar- questions about why any were denied benefits in the kets off base. first place.

The theme across every chapter of Ferguson’s “The inconsistencies in the decisions — I see that report to Parliament was that departments do some all the time in my job,” said Allison Schmidt, a Reactivities very well, but they just don’t seem to see gina-based, pension-disability case manager who’s the big picture and don’t try to learn how to make been a vocal critic of the tribunal. the whole system better, with the $4 billion disability The government has accepted all of Ferguson’s benefits system a prime example. recommendations to fix the disability benefits sys“These are people who have worked in the Cana- tem, with measures already in place to speed up prodian workforce and they’ve made their contributions cessing of applications on the most urgent of files, to the CPP and this is one of the benefits that they Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said. expect to be there when they need it,” Ferguson told reporters at a news conference.

“The department needs to treat this as a service for people and make that whole system better.”

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Naloxone program expanded FENTANYL OVERDOSE KITS NOW AVAILABLE IN 29WALK-IN CLINICS ACROSS THE PROVINCE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Twenty-nine walk-in clinics across Alberta, including one in Red Deer and one in Maskwacis, can now prescribe and supply Naloxone as part of a provincial response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Naloxone is a drug that can temporarily reverse opiod overdose to give people time to seek medical treatment.

Alberta Health Services (AHS), with funding from Alberta Health, is distributing 4,000 take-home Naloxone kits and providing Naloxone training.

Until now in Red Deer, Naloxone has only been available through Turning Point, formerly Central Alberta AIDS Network.

Turning Point was one of eight agencies across Alberta that started distributing free Naloxone kits last year as part of a one-year pilot program funded by Alberta Health.

Turning Point recently expanded its Naloxone program to other Central Alberta communities.

And now Naloxone is available from Red Deer Primary Care Network’s Street Clinic, at 160-5017 49th

St., and Maskwacis Health Services.

Albertans at risk of opioid overdose can get a kit at any take-home Naloxone kit dispensing site, where they can also obtain the required prescription and take a mandatory 10 to 15-minute training session.

Naloxone kits contain instructions on how and when to administer the drug, two vials of Naloxone, syringes, alcohol swab, latex gloves and a one-way rescue breathing mask. Training provides instruction on mouth-tomouth breathing and how to administer Naloxone.

Naloxone, in combination with mouth-to-mouth breathing, is safe and effective in temporarily reversing the effects of a fentanyl overdose, providing it is administered immediately.

Users then need to call 911 for further medical treatment.

Last year in Alberta, there were 272 overdose deaths involving fentanyl, up from 120 in 2014.

Illicit fentanyl is highly toxic and a small amount can be deadly.

For more information, people can call Health Link at 811 for more information on fentanyl or Naloxone. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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A close up look of the naloxone kits for the drug fentanyl Turning Point (formerly the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society) hands out in case of an overdose. The program has been expanded to 29 walk-in clinics in Alberta.

Crown seeks 6-8 years for armed robbery

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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The Crown is seeking a sentence of six to eight years in prison for a woman convicted of three armed robberies, including one candy store, and one attempted robbery last spring.

Jennifer Maychak, 34, of Brooks pleaded guilty to the charges on June 3, 2015, but her sentencing has been delayed since for various reasons.

A further adjournment was granted on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court by judge Gordon Yake.

Yake cited a recently filed Gladue report, which had just been delivered to the Crown, defence and judge on Monday. He wanted to give all parties time to review it and make submis-

sions on its contents.

Gladue reports are developed specifically for aboriginal offenders and takes into consideration their circumstances, including cultural and spiritual considerations.

Defence counsel Paul Morigeau also requested the adjournment to give him further time to get more information on his client. Morigeau took over the file in November of 2015.

Before Morigeau was counsel, Maychak had sought treatment from the Henwood Centre in Edmonton.

Morigeau wants to obtain a report from the centre to better understand the treatment his client received.

Yake pointed out the pre-sentence report made references to Maychak’s time at Henwood.

Crown Prosecutor Brittany Ashmore said she was ready to proceed with her sentencing submissions on Tuesday, noting it had taken a long time for the matter to get to this point.

Maychak admitted to robbing the Candy Bag Sweet Shop, a Mac’s Convenience Store and an Express 24 Food Mart between April 18 and April 28 in 2015. She also admitted to an attempted, but failed, robbery of Fas Gas. During the robberies she was either armed with a screwdriver or a can of bear spray.

Sentencing was adjourned to March 15 in Red Deer provincial court. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

MAKING PROGRESS ON NEW SCHOOL

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Chris McGivery, a machine operator on the site of the new field house and Catholic high school being built in Red Deer walks through the field house on Tuesday. Work on the building just east of Clearview Market Square is progressing and is scheduled to open September of 2017. The field house will be the new home of the Red Deer Royals Marching Band while the school will be a Grade 10-12 school named St. Joseph High School.

Samson Cree Nation man convicted of manslaughter A Samson Cree Nation man has been convicted of manslaughter for the 2013 death on the Montana reserve.

Troy Crier, 30, of Maskwacis was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the death of Winston Crier, 51. He was convicted on Tuesday in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench.

Winston Crier was found dead in his Maskwacis home on May 6, 2013.

Troy Crier was charged with first degree murder, but convicted of manslaughter. He was given credit for 48 months and three weeks of preconviction custody, leaving him with just less than 11 years to serve on his sentence.

Defendant opts for trial in stolen truck, RV trailer case One of three people police arrested in late January while investigating a stolen truck and RV trailer will go to trial.

Glen Wesley Primrose, 24, of Rumsey pleaded not guilty to eight charges on Tuesday in Red Deer

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provincial court. Those charges include resisting arrest, possession of property obtained by crime, theft over $5,000, dangerous driving and four charges of breaching a recognizance.

His counsel, Maurice Collard, entered the pleas on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court before judge Gordon Yake.

Crown Prosecutor Brittany Ashmore estimated the trial would take a half day.

The trial was not scheduled in open court and a bail hearing was set for Feb. 8.

Primrose was arrested with two others on Jan. 27 north of Red Deer.

Blackfalds and Red Deer RCMP were investigating a reported theft of two snowmobiles when a truck and trailer came into the area. The police followed the truck and arrested three people, two after a police dog services search.

Tracy Lynn Ozon, 25, and Bryce Charles Bjerstedt, 23, both of Red Deer were also arrested.

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Winter Walk Day at RDC Get out your winter walking gear.

Albertans will be stepping up across the province and enjoying a winter walk to celebrate Winter Walk Day today.

Newly appointed Minister of Culture and Tourism Ricardo Miranda will be at Red Deer College around 12:20 p.m. The college event begins at noon.

Winter Walk Day is an annual event created to combat the idea that winter weather is a barrier to outdoor active recreation. It began in 2007 through a partnership between Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere (SHAPE) and Be Fit for Life.

Last year more than 140,000 Albertans participated in Winter Walk Day. To register visit www. winterwalkday.com

Correction A story about Red Deer & District Community Foundation that appeared in Saturday’s Advocate had incorrect information. It was the general endowment fund that was renamed the Smart and Caring Communities Fund.

County rejects plans for subdivision

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Water concerns scuttled a proposed 39-lot subdivision in Red Deer County.

Council voted 4-2 on Tuesday not to proceed to second reading on a bylaw to adopt an area structure plan for developer Reg Whyte’s proposed Poplar Pointe Estates project, about five km west of Red Deer.

More than two dozen residents, mostly from nearby Poplar Ridge, Westridge Estates, Mountain View Estates and Harvey Heights subdivisions, spoke against the development at a public hearing in county council chambers.

Many voiced fears that already vulnerable water supplies could be depleted by adding a new subdivision.

Some were also concerned about sewage treatment, additional road traffic, depletion of natural areas, lower property values and the potential for increased crime.

Several area residents also told councillors the local school was already at capacity.

Whyte argued that groundwater, stormwater, traffic and water availability studies done for a similar application in the area in 2005 had raised no concerns. Before subdivision, much of that work would be updated to ensure nothing had changed.

A water licence to supply enough water for the development, which will have a communal water system, has already been approved by the province.

Sewage will also be treated in a communal system, that has no lagoons and will not leak or produce smell or noise.

Revised plans means more than half of the 130-acre site will remain green space.

Despite those assurances, Coun.

Christine Moore said she still had too many questions to support moving the project along.

“In my opinion, there are too many concerns and unknown factors in this application,” said Moore. “I believe it is premature.”

Moore suggested a moratorium on similar proposals should be considered until regional water and sewage systems reach the area.

Coun. Connie Huelsman agreed regional services are needed before more subdivisions take root in the area.

She was concerned that a number of residents complained of poor water supply now, even before any new homes are built.

Mayor Jim Wood also expressed doubts about water supplies and told residents that he didn’t “want to make a choice that would possibly impact you.”

Coun. Philip Massier was in favour of going ahead with an area structure plan for the project. Communal systems along the lines of those proposed by the developer have worked in Gasoline Alley, he noted.

Massier said the concerns raised by residents could be addressed at later stages of the planning process before any final approval was given.

Coun. Richard Lorenz also supported approving second reading.

After the meeting, the developer had little comment other than to say he was disappointed.

Coun. Don Church was absent. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Flirtatious emails were bait: woman

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A woman who testified going to great lengths to avoid any contact with Jian Ghomeshi after he allegedly attacked her acknowledged during intense cross-examination on Tuesday that she sent him flirtatious emails after their encounters.

In a dramatic development that set the courtroom on edge, Ghomeshi’s lawyer produced two emails that appeared to contradict the woman’s statements that she had been so traumatized by what happened, she’d turn off the TV or radio when he came on.

The first email was written in January 2004, about a year after she said he had yanked her to the floor by the hair during a “sensuous” kiss in his living room, and punched her in the head.

“Good to see you again! Your show is still great,” it says.

She goes on to provide a website address for him to watch a video of her “when you take a break from plowing snow naked,” and asks him to email or call her.

Marie Henein, known for her noholds-barred cross-examinations, pounced.

“You’re now inviting the man who traumatized you to get in touch with you?” she asked incredulously.

“The email was bait,” the witness responded. “It was bait to call me so I could get an explanation as to why he would violently punch me in the head.

I had no interest in him.”

Six months later, she sent a second email, also shown to the court. In it, she writes she had been watching a show of his. Attached to the note was a revealing bikini photo of her on the beach.

“I wanted him to call me,” she explained. “I sent a photograph, again, as bait.”

The emails were the climax of a relentless cross-examination that Henein began Monday as the lawyer poked holes in the woman’s testimony and exposed inconsistencies in her various statements to police, the media and court.

In one example, the woman told police Ghomeshi had “smashed” her head against a car window. She backtracked in court.

She also said she had been nervous when she spoke to two detectives in

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In this artist’s sketch (left to right), Jian Ghomeshi, lawyer’s assistant Danielle Robitaille, defence lawyer Marie Henein, Justice William Horkins and a witness appear in court on the second day of Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial in Toronto, Tuesday.

November 2014.

“There was nothing wrong in that police interview that would cause you not to tell them the truth,” Henein said at one point.

“I told them the truth that day through my nerves,” the witness answered.

“And your truth keeps changing?”

“I don’t agree with that.”

At times, the witness appeared flustered as Henein grilled her, but continued to insist she had not lied — that she had only gradually come to remember things.

Ghomeshi, 48, who used to host CBC Radio’s popular culture show Q, betrayed no emotion as he closely watched Henein pace the floor during the questioning.

He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault — two of which relate to the woman — and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.

On Monday, the witness — the first to testify — told Ghomeshi’s judgealone trial that he seemed like a charming gentleman who would turn violent without warning.

She also testified that in late 2002, Ghomeshi pulled hard on her hair while they were kissing in his car.

A few weeks later, as they stood in his living room, she testified that he grabbed her hair and punched her in the head, leaving her dazed, upset and confused.

At different times, Henein noted, she said Ghomeshi pushed her to the

floor or pulled her to the floor.

“It wasn’t like he was saying ‘here, have a seat,”’ the woman testified.

In a statement released after she ended her testimony, the woman said going to court and facing Ghomeshi had been “extraordinarily difficult” but worth it.

“I want to encourage other victims of abuse to come forward, and not be afraid,” she said. “I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders now that I have had a chance to tell my story openly.”

Ghomeshi faces two other counts of sexual assault, which carry a maximum 18 months in jail, and a choking charge that has a potential maximum of life in prison.

understanding of UN procedures and past peacekeeping missions,” said the report.

“Particularly important is learning effective co-operation with the non-military components of modern peacekeeping operations, including police, civil affairs personnel and humanitarians, as well as UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the local actors engaged in building a viable peace.”

Lobbying commissioner Karen Shepherd last month startled the government relations world — and organizers of some charitable events — when she posted new guidance on the section of the lobbyists’ code of conduct that deals with gifts.

The main message was to go Dutch, whether it’s attending a fundraising gala or having lunch.

“If a lobbyist is actively lobbying or will lobby a public office holder, gifts, including meals and tickets to events… are most likely unacceptable,” Shepherd wrote in the guidance.

“Lobbyists are cautioned against providing public office holders whom they are lobbying or will lobby with tickets to charitable or other events, when these tickets are at a reduced cost or no cost.”

Syrian civil war.

The request from the British, German and Norwegian governments comes ahead of a major donors conference the three are hosting in London on Thursday. It is on the table as the Liberal government considers what role Canada will play in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, now part of the Syrian war as well.

Humanitarian and development support will be key to this plan and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will be on hand in London to stress that point, following visits to Lebanon and Jordan this week to assess existing efforts.

Asked whether Bibeau will take a cheque to the meeting, a spokesperson for the Global Affairs Department said Canada is still determining how available funding can be invested and what an appropriate contribution looks like.

“Minister Bibeau is exploring ways that we can reposition our support to address the serious needs of the region in a more strategic and effective manner, including long-term, bilateral development assistance,” Michelle Saucier said in an email.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has promised to get Canada back into the peacekeeping business, but a new report from two independent think tanks says the military is ill-preOTTAWA — A change in governpared for the task. ment brings with it a wave of invitaThe study by the Rideau Institute tions — companies, associations and and the Centre for Policy Alternatives not-for-profits all want to get to know was penned by Walter Dorn, a prothe new guard and figure out where fessor at the Canadian Forces Staff they stand on key issues.

College and one of Canada’s leading But how they meet the players in experts in peacekeeping.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHUA, N.H. — Hillary Clinton tried to turn a narrow victory in Iowa into a bit of momentum for her battered Democratic campaign, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz sought to lock in his spot at the top of the Republican field as the presidential candidates packed up Tuesday and sped to New Hampshire.

The contenders arrived in the northeastern state and quickly scattered for a blitz of campaign rallies and television interviews. Some sought to capitalize on the results of the leadoff Iowa caucuses, while others looked to put the best face on poor showings as they settled in for the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary — the second in the state-by-state nominating contests to decide who will be each party’s candidate for president in November.

Clinton celebrated her narrow win in Iowa and said she expected a tough fight in New Hampshire, noting she’ll be campaigning in the “backyard” of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, where he has been running strong for weeks. Rallying supporters in Nashua, Clinton cast herself as the At a Sanders celebrated his stronger-than-expected showing in Iowa, landing at dawn in Bow and addressing a hardy group of supporters who met him.

He said the results proved he was a viable candidate. “We’re in this for the long haul,” he told reporters as his plane flew through the night to New Hampshire.

Indeed, the once-unthinkably-small margin the former first lady, senator and secretary of state held over the self-declared democratic socialist suggested the Democratic contest is headed toward a protracted fight between the party’s pragmatic and progressive wings.

Clinton defeated Sanders by less than threetenths of 1 per cent, the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history, the state party said. Sanders said his campaign was still reviewing the results and did not concede.

On the Republican side, businessman Donald Trump is looking to rebound after a second-place finish in Iowa that marked a humbling blow to the boastful real estate mogul. Still, he has been leading the polls in New Hampshire.

Cruz’s win provided a twist worthy of the topsy-turvy race. The Texas senator proved to be beloved by evangelicals, even if maligned by many others in his party, and adept at mounting a powerful grass-roots operation. Coming in a close third, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was catapulted to the top

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at an event in Hampton, N.H., Tuesday. Clinton’s first day in New Hampshire after winning the Iowa Caucus. of the heap of establishment candidates vying to be the party’s preferred alternative to Trump or Cruz.

For Republicans, the pivot to New Hampshire meant the still-crowded cast of candidates has turned toward a less religious and mostly undecided electorate.

New Hampshire has historically favoured more moderate candidates than Iowa, and more than 40 per cent of the state’s voters are not registered in any political party, giving them the power to choose which party’s’ primary to vote in. Polls show well over half of Republican voters have yet to make up their minds.

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Syria allows aid into rebel-held area as peace talks stall

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — The Syrian government allowed aid into a rebel-held area near Damascus on Tuesday in what appeared to be a goodwill gesture after U.N.-mediated indirect peace talks got off to a rocky start in Geneva.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered 14 trucks of aid provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the al-Tal suburb, said Damascus-based ICRC spokesman Pawel Krzysiek. He told The Associated Press the delivery included food and hygiene kits for some 3,500 families as well as 25 metric tons of bulk food.

The Syrian opposition had demanded that aid be allowed into 18 besieged areas throughout the country and that Syrian and Russian forces halt the bombardment of rebel-held areas ahead of the talks, which officially began Monday.

But as UN envoy Staffan de Mistura has shuttled between the government and opposition delegations in Geneva, Syrian troops backed by Russian air-

to avoid the conservatives’ Iowa curse. Unlike past candidates who found love in Iowa but fizzled fast, Cruz argued Tuesday that his campaign has staying power, resources and broad appeal.

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And then there is Trump, who may be the candidate most in need of a comeback after Iowa. Despite stealing the spotlight and driving the debate for months, he appears to have been out-organized by Cruz in Iowa.

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strikes have captured three villages north of the city of Aleppo.

The military offensive and the continuing blockade of rebel areas has infuriated the opposition and thrown the future of the talks into question.

Opposition official Ahmad Ramadan dismissed the aid shipment to al-Tal as an empty gesture, saying “the only way” to save the negotiations is for “the United Nations and the United States to force an end to bombardment and the targeting of civilians.”

The delivery to al-Tal came a day after the Syrian government approved a UN request for new aid deliveries to the besieged towns of Madaya, Foua and Kfarya, where hundreds of civilians are facing severe malnutrition and some have starved to death.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — In a landmark decision that some ethicists warned is a step down the path toward “designer babies,” Britain gave scientists approval Monday to conduct gene-editing experiments on human embryos.

The researchers won’t be creating babies — the modified embryos will be destroyed after seven days. Instead, they said, the goal is to better understand human development so as to improve fertility treatments and prevent miscarriages.

The decision by Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority marks the first time a county’s national regulator has approved the technique. Permission isn’t explicitly required in many other countries, including the U.S. and China. The U.S. does not allow the use of federal funds for embryo modification, but there is no outright ban on gene editing.

Gene editing involves deleting, repairing or replacing bits of DNA inside living cells in a biological cutand-paste technique that scientists say could one day lead to treatments for conditions like HIV or inherited disorders such as muscular dystrophy and sickle cell disease.

A team led by Kathy Niakan, an embryo and stem cell specialist at London’s new Francis Crick Institute, received the OK to use gene editing to analyze the first week of an embryo’s growth.

The research will “enhance our understanding of IVF (in vitro fertilization) success rates by looking at the very earliest stage of human development,” said Paul Nurse, director of the institute.

None of the embryos will be transferred into women. They will be allowed to develop from a single cell to around 250 cells, after which they will be destroyed.

Peter Braude, a retired professor of obstetrics and gynecology at King’s College London, said the mechanisms being investigated by Niakan and her colleagues “are crucial in ensuring healthy, normal development and implantation” and could help doctors refine fertility treatments. Braude is not connected to Niakan’s research.

There are a few methods of gene editing, but the technique Niakan’s team plans to use is known as CRISPR-Cas9, a relatively fast, cheap and simple approach that many researchers are keen to try.

Some critics warn that tweaking the genetic code this way could be a slippery slope that eventually leads to designer babies, where parents not only aim to avoid inherited diseases but also seek taller, stronger, smarter or better-looking children.

Many religious groups, including the Catholic Church, argue that manipulating embryos amounts to “playing God.” Some scientists have voiced concern that tinkering with genes might have unintended consequences not apparent until after the babies are born

Facts about gene editing WASHINGTON — Britain’s decision to allow researchers to edit the genes of human embryos — not to create babies but to start unraveling the earliest stages of development — is raising new questions about the ethics of this hot new technology.

Genome editing is a technique that lets scientists alter the DNA of plants, animals or humans more precisely than ever before, much like a biological cut-and-paste program. Scientists say one day the technique might help treat devastating inherited diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, or wipe out malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

But one concern is that gene editing also might eventually lead to socalled designer babies. Here’s a look at the science and controversy:

WHAT IS GENE EDITING While scientists have long been able to find defective genes, fixing them has been so cumbersome that it’s slowed development of genetic therapies. With gene editing, scientists home in on a piece of DNA and use molecular tools that act as scissors to snip that spot — deleting a defective gene, repairing it or replacing it.

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This 2008 photo shows embryos being placed onto a CryoLeaf ready for instant freezing using the vitrification process.

In a statement Monday, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Britain’s fertility regulator, has approved a scientist’s application to edit the human genetic code using a new technique that some fear crosses too many ethical boundaries.

— or generations later. And some fear such practices will only widen the gap between rich and poor by enabling the wealthy to create superbabies.

“This is the first step on a path that scientists have carefully mapped out towards the legalization” of genetically modified babies, David King of the advocacy group Human Genetics Alert said last month when British regulators took up the issue.

Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a non-profit advocacy group in the U.S., warned that tampering with human genetics carries “dire safety and societal risks.”

“Now is the time to ensure that gene editing is not used to create GM babies and that we stay off the high-tech road to new forms of inequality and to a consumer-driven form of eugenics,” she said in a statement.

Around the world, laws and guidelines vary widely about what kind of research is allowed on embryos, since such experiments could change the genes of future generations. Countries such as Japan, China, India and Ireland have unenforceable guidelines that restrict editing of the human genome. Germany and other countries in Europe limit research on human There are some older methods but a new tool called CRISPR-Cas9 has been adopted by laboratories worldwide because it’s faster, cheaper, simple enough to use with minimal training and allows altering of multiple genes simultaneously.

WHAT IT MIGHT TREAT The biggest use so far is to rapidly engineer animals with human-like disorders for basic research, but promising gene-editing experiments make regular headlines.

Much like a bone marrow transplant, researchers hope to use CRISPR for diseases like sickle cell, correcting the faulty gene in someone’s own blood-producing cells rather than implanting donated ones.

Similarly, doctors in Britain recently treated a 1-year-old with leukemia using donated immune cells that had been experimentally altered with an older editing method to target her cancer. A California company is testing a non-CRISPR way to make HIV patients’ immune cells better resist the virus.

The University of Massachusetts just reported using a CRISPR technique to switch off, rather than cut and repair, a gene in muscle cells that causes one form of muscular dystrophy.

And Harvard researchers recently edited 62 spots in pig DNA, part of work to use the animals to grow organs for human transplant.

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Last year, Chinese researchers made the first attempt at modifying genes in human embryos. Their laboratory experiment didn’t work.

In any case, the embryos they used were never viable, or capable of developing properly in the womb.

The CRISPR-Cas9 technique was developed partly in the U.S., and scientists there have experimented with it in animals and in human cells in the laboratory. It has not been used for any patient therapies, though Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, California, is trying to develop an HIV treatment.

At an international meeting in Washington last year, scientists agreed that attempts to alter early embryos as part of laboratory research should be allowed but that the technique was nowhere near ready for use in pregnant women.

Last year, British lawmakers voted to allow scientists to create babies from the DNA of three people to prevent children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers. In doing so, Britain became the first country to allow genetically modified embryos to be transferred into women.

THE BIGGEST HURDLE Safety is a key question because gene editing isn’t always precise enough there’s the possibility of accidentally cutting DNA that’s similar to the real target. Out-of-body treatments like altering blood cells get around the fear of fixing one problem only to spark another, and efforts to improve precision are underway.

What we know about geneediting experiments in Britain Britain has given a group of scientists the OK to conduct gene-editing experiments on human embryos. Here’s what we know: ● Scientists say deleting, repairing or replacing faulty DNA at the embryonic stage could someday be used to treat or prevent certain diseases. ● Some ethicists warn that such experiments are a step toward “designer babies,” created by their parents to be smarter, stronger or better-looking.

Some critics also warn that tinkering could have unfortunate consequences generations from now. ● The scientists who won approval say they will not try to create babies — the modified embryos will be destroyed after seven days. The goal, they say, is to understand human embryonic development better so as to improve fertility treatments. ● This marks the first time that a country’s national regulator has approved such research. The U.S. has no ban on gene-editing of embryos but does not allow the use of federal funds for such work. nancy, altering early embryos as part of careful laboratory research should be allowed even as society grapples with the ethical questions.

And on Monday, Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority announced it was granting permission for that kind of laboratory research at the Francis Crick Institute, a study of the genes human embryos need to develop properly in the first seven days.

THE ETHICS CONTROVERSY Altering genes in sperm, eggs or embryos can spread those changes to future generations, so-called germline engineering that might one day stop parents from passing inherited diseases to their children.

Chinese scientists reported the first-known attempt to edit human embryos last spring, working with leftovers from fertility clinics that never could have developed into fetuses.

They aimed to correct a deadly inherited gene, but uncovered problems that will require more research.

Among the ethical concerns are that future generations couldn’t consent, and any long-term negative effects might not become apparent for years. There’s also concern about babies designed for better intellect, athleticism or appearance rather than to prevent disease.

In December, international scientists and ethicists gathered at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences declared that while gene-editing is nowhere near ready to use for preg-

IS IT LEGAL Where you live determines if, or what kind of, research can be performed on embryos. Some countries, especially in Europe, ban germline research. Others, such as China, have guidelines described as unenforceable. Britain allows basic lab research only.

In the U.S., the NIH won’t fund research involving germline editing but private funding is allowed.

BEYOND MEDICINE Human gene editing aside, there are environmental concerns, too.

Experiments are underway to force genetic changes to spread rapidly through populations of animals and plants — changes that could wipe out invasive species or disease-carrying insects. A California team recently reported a first step, hatching malaria-resistant mosquitoes that could easily spread their new protective gene to their offspring.

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Husband wants to know why wife hates him Dear Annie: I know I have my faults, but I can’t figure out why my wife suddenly hates me. She has said so.

We have been married for 25 years and it’s like a light switch flicked. At first, I didn’t quite get it and didn’t respond well (arguing and shouting at her). But when the cold shoulder turned icier and she began distancing herself, I figured the appropriate response was to load up on MITCHELL the patience and understand& SUGAR ing.

ANNIE But the crazy thing is, the nicer I am, the angrier she gets. She has even said that she never loved me.

That can’t be true. I remember that we would hug and kiss daily and hold hands all the time. We have shared many laughs and many travels, and sex was regularly fulfilling for us both. I thought we were happy.

The only thing I can think of is that our kids are now in college and I think my wife is struggling with being an empty nester. She was a stay-at-home mom and school volunteer, so this is a major adjustment.

But my wife refuses to consider this possibility.

She brings up arguments we had 10 years ago. I can’t get her to recall the good times. She is fixated on how “horrible” I am and thinks marriages are supposed to be minute-by-minute bliss. She won’t go to counseling together. She won’t even go to church

with me or out to dinner.

She has been working out a lot and has changed most of her eating habits, following whatever is the latest fad.

I’m pretty certain there is no other person involved, and I’m definitely not cheating on her. Do you have any advice? — I’d Like My Wife Back Please Dear Like: There are a few possibilities here.

Your wife could have met someone she wants to impress, someone who makes her feel young and desirable, while your marriage has gone a little stale. If so, kicking up the romance could help.

Or now that the kids are out of the house, she could have realized that you have little in common.

(She may have felt like this for years, but waited until the kids were gone.)

Another likely culprit is menopause. Some women go through major emotional upheaval along with the hormonal changes.

Tell your wife you love her and are worried about her health, and suggest she see her doctor. But you cannot force her to be more willing to work on this, so please get counseling for yourself and find the best way to cope with your current situation.

Dear Annie: Here is another gift for older parents: A phone call or a visit at regular intervals.

I regret that I didn’t phone my parents more often, and when I visited, there didn’t seem to be a lot to talk about. But I realized that just being there was meaningful. Sometimes I took my needlework, and always asked whether there was anything I could do to be helpful. That included some mending, picking up hearing aid batteries, driving their rarely used car, and buying three pairs of slippers for a parent who was unable to go to the store, and returning the

Wednesday, Feb. 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Nathan Lane, 59; Isla Fisher, 39; Amal Clooney, 37 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: When the Moon is in Sagittarius it favours study, sport, exercise and travel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a real perfectionist streak. 2016 is the year to show others just how kind, caring and compassionate you can be.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): JOANNE MADELINE With the Moon moving through MOORE spontaneous Sagittarius, you’re HOROSCOPE keen to make some smart and snappy decisions today. Work, travel, adventure and fun group activities are also favoured.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The focus is on improving partnerships Bulls — whether of the romantic, platonic or business variety. And is it time to freshen up your friendships with an international new crowd?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Shake up your usual routine.

With Mars moving through your well being zone, it’s time to dust down your running shoes and get physical, whether at the gym or in the great outdoors.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mars and Pluto help you view a current partnership problem in a deeper and more compelling way. With a few strategic tweaks, the relationship can be turned around and transformed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your fiery temper — or an impulsive outburst — could set the Cat amongst the pigeons today.

The current situation is complex so calm down and try to keep your sense of perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Close relationships look confusing today, as you misunderstand each other’s motives.

The more proactive you are about sorting out communication problems, the better the day will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Impulsive money moves could land you in a heap of debt over the next few weeks. So avoid window shopping and internet stores, which could lead to a spontaneous spending spree.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mars and Pluto fire up your emotions and intensify your need to communicate with others.

So it’s a good day to express your feelings in person or via a timely post, text or tweet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll feel buoyant and enthusiastic today, as the Moon moves through your sign.

But, if you jump to hasty conclusions, you could find yourself with egg on your Sagittarian face.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All types of community projects, group activities and social networking are highlighted today Capricorn, as you broaden your local contacts and nurture your circle of friends.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in the public spotlight in some way today Aquarius, so do your best to put on a good show. But avoid making confusing financial decisions — take the time to think things through.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Complicated emotions and a complex work situation could lead to a very confusing day.

So avoid making important decisions or commitments until you are feeling much more settled.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Researchers confirm lion population in remote Ethiopian park

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG — Conservationists confirmed the existence of lions in a remote national park in Ethiopia, a rare piece of good news for a threatened species whose numbers have plunged in many parts of Africa, a wildlife charity said Monday.

The discovery was made in Alatash National Park in northwest Ethiopia, on the border with Sudan, the Britain-based Born Free Foundation said in a statement.

Conservationists obtained camera trap images of lions and also identified

lion tracks, confirming reports from local residents that lions were in the area, it said.

Born Free funded the research, which was carried out by a team led by Hans Bauer. He works for the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University in Britain.

Ethiopian conservationists were also involved.

In a report, Bauer also concluded there are lions in the adjacent Dinder National Park in Sudan. He estimated a population of 100 to 200 lions in the “entire ecosystem,” of which between 27 and 54 are in Alatash park, according to the report.

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Dear Dr. D: I've got an issue with an infected molar tooth. I went to a dentist expecting him to pull it. He sent me to a specialist to 'save' the tooth with a root canal. That seemed to be an odd term, as gutting the inside of a tooth makes it a dead tooth, hardly 'saving' anything except the shell. It had too many canals and the GP wouldn't touch it, so a specialist did it. It flared up again, and now my dentist says it has to come out and we should look at a dental implant to replace it. I feel abused here. I will pay out a fortune when the implant might have been suggested in the first place.

A: Firstly – all dental treatment is unique and individual to that patient's oral health and overall health. Some things just 'happen' and are not anticipated. For decades, root canals have been the treatment of choice when a tooth is too riddled with decay to simply fill it. If the decay has penetrated too far into the chamber of the tooth, a simple crown or a filling cannot achieve an ideal result.

The pulp must be removed, and each canal must be cleaned of all infected material and back filled with medical cement. Various factors affect longevity. One is how early treatment was initiated. In most cases a crown is recommend on a root canaled tooth. People are often in denial with their teeth – if it doesn't hurt they may ignore it. Some root canals have hidden problems that the dentist is unable to diagnose. For example, the tooth can be microscopically cracked down the whole long axis, undetectable to the conventional x ray. It could, however, be diagnosed by a CT image, but these machines are costly and many offices do not have them.

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Trudeau to visit Alberta OIL SECTOR SEEKS SUPPORT FOR PIPELINES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels Wednesday to Alberta, where the battered oil sector will be looking for strong signals that Ottawa is serious about helping deliver its controversial commodity to tidewater.

The president of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors said Tuesday the industry isn’t looking for a handout — just federal support on the contentious issue of building pipelines.

Mark Scholz warned if the industry can’t get its product to market, then businesses are going to fail.

“What I would be looking for is a real strong indication from the federal government that they’re serious about pipelines, they’re serious about getting market access for us and that they’re willing to put some political capital on the line,” Scholz said in Ottawa, where he participated in a conference.

Trudeau’s visit to Alberta comes as low commodity prices decimate business and government revenues in the resource-dependent province, forcing companies to lay off workers.

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau declined Tuesday to answer several questions about whether Ottawa would provide targeted assistance for Alberta.

Instead, Morneau said the federal government’s upcoming budget will include spending plans to invest in Canada’s entire economy, which he argued will help struggling provinces like Saskatchewan

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and Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Alberta.

Morneau confirmed that Alberta is working on an application for up to $250 million in federal cash under the fiscal stabilization program, a plan designed to help provinces struck by big year-to-year declines in revenues.

The Newfoundland government, which has also lost revenues in the oil-price slump, indicated Tuesday that it intends to make a claim under the stabilization program this spring. The province could be eligible for a maximum of about $32 million under the program.

Morneau said he’s unsure whether Newfoundland and Saskatchewan would qualify for the program, although they could apply.

A senior government source, who wasn’t authorized to disclose details publicly, recently said Ottawa was looking at potential solutions for Alberta, including speeding up already promised infrastructure spending and adjusting the typical, per-capita infrastructure funding disbursement formula to reflect economic need.

Trudeau has pledged to pump an additional $60 billion over 10 years into infrastructure projects, but only $17.4 billion was earmarked to flow during the Liberals’ first four-year mandate.

Ottawa is also said to be considering whether to increase direct transfers to individuals, perhaps through modifications to the employment insurance program.

OTTAWA — Alberta’s economy took a nosedive with the downturn in oil prices. Growth and employment have both taken a hit.

Here are some facts, including forecasts from BMO Capital Markets.

THE GOOD OL’ DAYS Growth: In 2014, the Canadian economy as a whole grew 2.5 per cent, while Alberta expanded 4.8 per cent.

Unemployment: That same year, the national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent, while it was 4.7 per cent in Alberta.

Debt and deficits: In the 2014-15 fiscal year, Canadian governments as a whole had a surplus that measured about 0.1 per cent of gross domestic product. Alberta had a surplus of 0.3 per cent of provincial GDP.

AND NOW? Growth: Canada is expected to grow slowly — 1.2 per cent in 2015 and 1.0 per cent in 2016. The Alberta economy, on the other hand, is expected to contract 2.8 per cent in 2015 and shrink again by 2.5 per cent in 2016.

Unemployment: The unemployment rate for the country is projected to hit 7.3 per cent in 2016. Alberta’s jobless rate is expected to climb in 2016 to 7.6 per cent.

Debts and deficits: For 2015-16, Canadian governments are expected to show a collective deficit of 0.2 per cent of GDP. Alberta will be deeper in the hole, with an expected deficit worth 1.8 per cent of its recoiling GDP.

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Newfoundland and Labrador expected to seek financial help

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The government of Newfoundland and Labrador plans to apply for federal money through a program designed to help provinces struck by a sudden, steep drop in revenues.

Newfoundland government spokeswoman Jennifer Tulk says the province will apply under the fiscal stabilization program this spring when it releases its projected revenues for 2015-16.

The province could be eligible for a maximum of about $32 million under the plan, because payments are capped at $60 for every provincial resident — an amount set in the late 1980s.

Alberta is expected to request as much as $250 million through Ottawa’s little-known program — and federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said the Prairie province could meet the eligibility requirements.

The public treasuries in Alberta, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan have all sustained financial blows from the steep drop in commodity prices.

Provinces can make claims under the program when economic shifts cause their revenues to fall by more than five per cent from one year to the next.

Declines in resource revenues above 50 per cent are also accounted for.

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“The program, the stabilization fund, has some explicit criteria to it and if they meet the criteria, then they would apply to us,” Morneau said Tuesday.

“And I can’t determine yet whether they meet the criteria.”

Last week, Saskatchewan Finance Minister Kevin Doherty said his province doesn’t quite meet the criteria to receive cash through the fiscal stabilization program. At least not yet.

Doherty suggested the formula behind fiscal stabilization could be ready for an update because of the severity of the resource-related shock in several provinces.

On Tuesday, Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale, a Saskatchewan MP, was asked whether his province might receive federal help through the fiscal stabilization fund and other measures.

“Saskatchewan’s very much part of this consideration,” Goodale said without specifying whether he was referring directly to fiscal stabilization.

“And the government has been very actively engaged with the provinces particularly affected, like Alberta and Saskatchewan, to work out the kinds of measures that will provide the appropriate degree of relief and support here in terms of the immediate dislocation of employment, the more medium-term challenges and opportunities in relation to infrastructure.”

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The employee owned and operated company announced recently it bought the assets of Phoenix Oilfield Rentals Ltd. and Allstar Hauling Ltd. Started in 2006, Accede has steadily grown over the years and with Phoenix’s $10 million worth of assets Accede now has about $60 million in assets.

Accede has locations throughout Western Canada and services energy and industrial clients through its equipment rentals, fire and safety services, fabrication facilities and valve repair and maintenance businesses.

The Phoenix acquisition gives Accede a presence in the Grande Prairie area. Accede also has operations in Blackfalds, Calmar, Brooks, Edson, Fort McMurray; and Esteven and Kindersley in Saskatchewan.

Accede president Gord Fritz said Phoenix will be a good fit.

“This is a positive move for both companies as our people, facilities and rental fleets are highly complementary,” says Fritz, in a statement accompanying notice of the acquisitions.

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Low loonie brings Americans north

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WestJet Airlines says the low loonie is prompting a role reversal in cross-border travel with more Americans heading north to catch flights and fewer Canadian travellers heading south to U.S. airports.

Officials at Bellingham airport in Washington state say traffic from nearby Vancouver was down 14 per cent last year, while activity at Vancouver International Airport grew five per cent.

And while the Calgary-based airline doesn’t have national figures, it believes the number of Canadians boarding flights at airports in Plattsburgh and Buffalo, N.Y., along with Burlington, Vt., are also down.

“We’re told that we have licence plates coming the other way now to fly out of Canadian airports, which is quite ironic,” said Bob Cummings, executive vice-president, marketing, sales and guest experience.

About 5.5 million Canadians have crossed the U.S. border annually in recent years until a 40 per cent drop in the Canadian dollar wiped out the much of the financial advantage.

“It’s great to see Canadians flying from home and WestJet is benefiting from that,” CEO Gregg Saretsky said during a conference call about the airline’s fourth-quarter and 2015 results.

WestJet (TSX:WJA) is also taking advantage of the low loonie to offer fares that are encouraging Americans to fly through Canada next summer when it introduces wide-body service to London’s Gatwick airport.

While demand for transatlantic service is strong, it has tempered overall earnings expectations for the start of 2016 amid ongoing economic weakness in Alberta.

“It’s not clear that we’ve found the

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WESTJET RESULTS bottom yet of the current downturn at this point,” Saretsky told analysts.

Expecting the Alberta and Prairie markets to be soft all year, the airline is shifting capacity starting in mid-February to stronger markets in B.C., Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

Despite the economic weakness in its core market, Saretsky said the fundamentals of its business are strong.

“If the rest of Canada starts to catch the cold from Alberta we’ll clearly have to revisit our capacity plan, but from where we sit today and the regional strengths we see we think we’re in relatively good shape.”

WestJet posted record results in 2015 despite a 30 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profits to $63.4 million on a 3.6 per cent decrease in revenues to $958.7 million.

For the full year, it earned $367.5 million on $4.03 billion of revenues, up

29 per cent from $284 million on $3.98 billion of revenues in 2014.

It was helped by a 55 per cent increase to $336.3 million in ancillary revenues, mainly from the addition of first checked bag fees for economy fare passengers and a 25 per cent drop in fuel costs.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, WestJet’s shares hit a more than threeyear low before recovering slightly.

They were down $1.73 or 9.25 per cent at $16.97 in early afternoon trading.

Cracking the yolk on sourcing cage-free eggs BATTERY CAGES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A decision by Tim Hortons and Burger King to serve only cage-free eggs by 2025 is shining a spotlight on how the breakfast staple makes it from farm to plate.

While the transition is nearly a decade away, Egg Farmers Canada says that’s because it will take time.

More than 90 per cent of the country’s roughly 1,000 registered commercial egg-producing farms keep their hens in conventional housing, said Peter Clarke, the chairman of Egg Farmers Canada.

“It isn’t just like turning a light switch on and off,” he said. “It takes a significant amount of time to be able to do that.”

The average farm has between 10,000 and 20,000 hens. Some only house several hundred and others as many as 400,000 hens.

Here’s a more in-depth look at how eggs are sourced in Canada:

The wire-floor cages house about four to seven hens, said Debra Probert, the Vancouver Humane Society’s executive director. They give each chicken the living space of about a standard piece of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Probert estimates 95 per cent of Canada’s egg producers operate use battery cages.

Battery cages are “more convenient for the farmer than it is, obviously, for the hens,” she said.

ENRICHED CAGES

These cages are larger, housing dozens of hens, said Tina Widowski, an animal and poultry science professor at the University of Guelph who holds the research chair in poultry welfare at Egg Farmers of Canada. The cages provide perches and somewhat private nesting areas.

She said enriched cages give chickens more space, allowing them to

exhibit natural behaviours like dust bathing, perching and laying eggs in private.

Clarke said he prefers this type of hen housing because it also protects the health of farmers, as it exposes them to less dust and ammonia.

A&W, a notable standout from its competitors, has committed to source all its eggs from hens in enriched cages by the close of the year, much to the dismay of animal rights groups pushing for a cage-free industry.

CAGE-FREE/FREE-RUN

Farmers are under growing pressure to shift to this type of housing as more companies promise to provide eggs from hens that don’t live in cages.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that hens will suddenly be meandering outside as they please.

“We’re not saying that definitely that cage-free is cruelty-free,” Probert said. “It’s not.”

Cage-free hens may live in a freerun system, housed in an aviary in a

barn without access to the outside world, she said.

Clarke and Widowski say cage-free living conditions have some trade-offs.

They can poorly impact chicken and farmer health by exposing them to irritants and can cost more to operate.

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The other option — what Probert calls “the ideal” — is free-range hens, which are allowed to roam outside. All certified organic eggs in Canada must come from free-range hens.

It’s unclear which cage-free option Tim Hortons, Burger King and other restaurants making such public declarations will source their eggs from.

Cage-free never means chickens will go outside, said Widowski, unless they’re producing free-range or certified organic eggs.

Still, Probert calls the incremental change to move hens out of cages a positive step.

“Once they’re out of cages, that makes a huge difference.

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The March contract for benchmark U.S. crude fell US$1.74 to US$29.88 a barrel.

Crude has lost nearly US$4 over two days, roiling markets worldwide.

“Everything is correlated to oil these days,” said Michael Greenberg, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions.

“Markets that shouldn’t be correlated to oil are correlated to oil.”

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX index fell 232.11 points to 12,442.26, adding to a weak start to the month’s trading. It has lost nearly 380 points over the first two days of February, a decline of close to three per cent.

New York indexes were also in full retreat, with the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 295.64 points at 16,153.54, while the S&P 500 fell 36.35 points to 1,903.03 and the Nasdaq lost 103.42 points to 4,516.95.

The renewed downswing in the price of oil also dragged down the loonie, which dropped exactly half a cent to 71.29 cents US. The slide in oil prices also brought down markets outside North America.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX finished 1.8 per cent lower, while France’s CAC-40 fell 2.5 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 2.7 per cent.

In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 earlier closed 0.6 per cent lower, South Korea’s Kospi index fell

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China’s man index, the Shanghai composite, was an outlier, gaining 2.26 per cent.

“It seems, these days, as oil goes, so do broad markets,” Greenberg said.

The price of oil last closed below US$30 a barrel on Jan. 21 when it settled at US$29.53 a barrel. It rallied back, hovering above US$33 late last week.

Those gains were spurred by rumours that Russia and OPEC would co-operate on a co-ordinated cut to production, Greenberg said.

“It’s looking like that’s maybe not as likely,” he said.

Still, Greenberg expects the recent fall in oil prices will diminish production later this year, balancing out the current glut of crude on the market. That will “lead to a more sustainable rally in energy prices,” he said.

As a result, the Canadian dollar could get a lift, he added.

“Potentially the worst is behind us for the decline in the loonie.”

Elsewhere in commodities, March natural gas fell 12.7 cents to US$2.025 per mmBtu, while April gold dropped 80 cents to US$1,127.20 a troy ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,442.26, down 232.11 points Dow — 16,153.54, down 295.64 points S&P 500 — 1,903.03, down 36.35 points Nasdaq — 4,516.95, down 103.42 points

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TRUDEAU: Key concern pipelines The Liberals promised during the fall election campaign to enhance EI by, for example, reducing the waiting time for benefits to kick in.

But Alberta’s workers might have to wait a little longer for EI changes, federal Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk said Tuesday.

She said she didn’t foresee any EI adjustments before the federal budget, expected next month at the earliest.

But when pressed on the issue, she said she wasn’t sure if something on EI reform would be unveiled before the budget.

Mihychuk added the government is looking at “every avenue” to try and help Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland in a “meaningful way.”

For the Prairie provinces, however, the pipelines are a key concern for governments and the oil and gas sector.

Trudeau’s trip takes place as the regional battle over pipelines heats up.

Earlier this month, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan expressed dismay after Montreal-area municipal leaders publicly voiced their opposition to the proposed Energy East project, which would transport Prairie oil through their territory to tidewater in New Brunswick. They argued that potential threats to the environment

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Currencies: Cdn — 71.29 cents US, down 0.50 of a cent Pound — C$2.0221, up 1.02 cents Euro — C$1.5308, up 1.33 cents Euro — US$1.0913, up 0.19 of a cent Oil futures: US$29.88 per barrel, down $1.74 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,127.20 per oz., down 80 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.923 oz., up 3.8 cents $672.67 kg., up $1.22 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $2.70 higher $473.80 May ‘16 $2.60 higher $483.30 July ‘16 $2.40 higher $489.10 Nov. ‘16 $2.30 higher $489.80 Jan. ‘17 $2.70 higher $491.60 March ‘17 $2.70 higher $491.80 May ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.50 July ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.50 Nov. ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.50 Jan. ‘18 $2.70 higher $490.50 March ‘18 $2.70 higher $490.50.

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

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 574,720 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 574,720.

outweigh any economic benefits.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has questioned whether Quebecers should continue to expect billions in equalization payments if they won’t support the export of resources that help drive those payments.

On Monday, he challenged Trudeau to take a stand and support the project.

“We need a champion for the energy sector,” Wall said after delivering a speech in Regina.

Pipeline politics have also dominated debate in Parliament, where the Conservatives have accused the Liberal government of causing more harm to Alberta workers.

Last week, the federal government announced additional environmental reviews to bolster public confidence in the pipeline assessment process, including more consultations with indigenous communities.

ACCEDE: Better efficiencies Accede’s chief financial officer Kris Fleckenstein says in a depressed industry, consolidation “makes a lot of sense.

“Getting overhead spread over a larger revenue base sets Accede up for better efficiencies today while dramatically enhancing our growth prospects when oil starts to recover.

Accede continues to look for opportunities that present themselves for acquisitions.”

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A money changer counts Nigerian naira currency at a bureau de change, in Lagos, Nigeria. These are sobering times for Africa’s two biggest oil producers. Oil previously provided 80 per cent of government revenue in Nigeria and 70 per cent in Angola. Nigeria’s 2016 budget is double that of 2015 and based on $38 oil, so the government plans to borrow heavily. Angola’s budget is based on a price of $40, down from an earlier benchmark of $81. Both countries’ currencies have plunged against the dollar.

Whiskey producers toast more strong sales

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT, Ky. — Producers of Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey are toasting another year of strong sales and revenue growth, led by consumers increasingly ordering high-priced, super-premium brands.

Combined U.S. revenues for bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey shot up 7.8 per cent to $2.9 billion in 2015, up $210 million from the prior year, the Distilled Spirits Council said Tuesday.

Domestic volume rose 5.2 per cent last year to 20.4 million cases, the distilled spirits trade group said.

“We’re living the dream,” Chris Morris, master distiller at Brown-Forman Corp., producer of Woodford Reserve and Old Forester bourbons, said in an interview. “We’re hitting our numbers as we had predicted.”

Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey revenues and volumes outpaced the overall distilled spirits sector, the council said in its annual report. Rye whiskey amounts to a sliver of those overall revenue and volume figures, but it’s a fast-growing part of the segment.

The popularity of top-tier products spread across the whiskey category, with double-digit gains for super-premium Scotch, Canadian and Irish whiskeys as well, the council said.

The domestic numbers reflect sales from producers or suppliers to wholesalers.

Meanwhile, bourbon and Tennessee whiskey exports topped $1 billion for the third straight year, despite challenges caused by a strong dollar, the trade group said. A strong dollar makes U.S. goods less competitive.

Overall U.S. spirits exports have more than doubled in the past decade, from $743 million in 2005 to a projected $1.56 billion last year, the council said.

Top export markets are the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia and Japan, it said.

In the U.S., consumers increasingly are reaching for high-end premium and super-premium bourbons and Tennessee whiskeys. Those super-premium volumes rose 25.2 per cent in 2015 and revenues were up 26.5 per cent. Super-premium brands include Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek and Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel.

In the next category, volumes for high-end premium products rose 6.8 per cent and revenues were up 7.7 per cent. Products include Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey and Jim Beam Black.

“Consumer tastes have changed significantly,” said Distilled Spirits Council spokesman Frank Coleman. “Whiskey in particular, the highest-priced products are flying off the shelves the fastest.”

Meanwhile, demand was slower among lower and moderately priced brands. Volumes for value products

Top beer drinkers may get even cheaper brew PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The Czechs, the biggest beer consumers in the world, could soon have a reason to drink even more after the finance minister proposed lowering tax on the drink by more than half.

Finance Minister Andrej Babis is proposing to cut the value added tax on draft beer to 10 per cent from 21 per cent. Babis says the measure is meant to soften the opposition to another plan currently debated by Parliament for a mandatory electronic registration of all sales.

Babis said Tuesday: “It’s not a populist proposal. It makes sense.”

Not everyone in the three-party government agrees with the proposal, though.

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says it goes against his government’s strategy to lower the consumption of alcohol. His Social Democrats would prefer to lower the tax on basic food. rose 4.8 per cent and were down 2.6 per cent for premium brands, the council said.

The cocktail resurgence has spurred growth in the super-premium category, as bartenders increasingly mix in top-tier brands, Morris said.

The cocktail trend is catching on in overseas markets, which should be another boost for super-premium whiskeys, he said.

Clarkson Hine, a spokesman for Beam Suntory Inc., whose brands include Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, said demand for high-premium whiskeys was the “mega-trend” in the spirits industry last year. The bourbon sector is still catching up to other whiskeys in the category.

“Premiumization is a relatively young trend in bourbon compared to other categories like Scotch,” he said.

“So we see plenty of headroom for future growth.”

In the heart of Kentucky bourbon country, liquor store owner Guthrie McKay said he can’t get enough bottles of super-premium whiskeys to keep up with demand.

“Right now, they just have to catch up with demand someway, somehow,” he said.

Kentucky bourbon makers have been stashing away their largest stockpiles in more than a generation to meet that demand.

The state’s bourbon sector is in the midst of a $1.5 billion investment boom that could grow as demand increases, said Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. The expansion includes new and expanded distilleries, warehouses, bottling operations and tourism centres.

“The golden age of bourbon is upon us, and Kentucky is reaping the benefits,” he said.

Yahoo to cut 1,700 workers as CEO tries to save her own job

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is laying off about 1,700 employees and shedding some of its excess baggage in a shake-up likely to determine whether CEO Marissa Mayer can save her own job.

The long-anticipated purge, announced Tuesday, will jettison about 15 per cent of Yahoo’s workforce along with an assortment of services that

Mayer decided aren’t worth the time and money that the Internet company has been putting into them.

Mayer hopes to sell some of Yahoo’s unwanted services for about $1 billion, though she didn’t identify which ones.

In an apparent concession to some shareholders, Mayer also said Yahoo’s board will mull “strategic alternatives” that could result in the sale of all the company’s Internet operations.

Analysts have speculated that Verizon, AT&T and Comcast might be interest-

ed in buying Yahoo’s main business, despite years of deterioration.

Mayer expressed confidence that her plan to run Yahoo as a smaller, more focused company “will dramatically brighten our future and improve our competitiveness, and attractiveness to users, advertisers, and partners.”

This cost-cutting overhaul might be Mayer’s last chance to persuade restless shareholders that she has figured out how to revive the Internet compa-

ny’s growth after three-and-half years of futility.

Some of Yahoo’s most outspoken shareholders, such as SpringOwl Asset Management, already have concluded that Mayer should be laid off, too. Mayer, a former rising star at Google who helped Google eclipse Yahoo, has given no indication she intends to leave.

Even after the mass firings are completed by the end of March, Yahoo will still have about 9,000 workers.

FOOD

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3, 2016

SUPER BOWL

SUB SMACKDOWN TWO FOODIES COMPOSE SUBS FOR A PANEL OF CHEFS

BY JIM WEBSTER AND ALEX BALDINGER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES For Super Bowl Smackdown X, the subs are in the starting lineup.

Party subs, that is.

For 10 years, members of the Washington Post food team have squared off in a head-to-head showdown to see who can conceive of and build the superior Super Bowl spread. Last year’s battleground was stuffed potatoes.

This year, the stakes are considerably higher. Because we’re building threefoot sandwiches.

It’s the Super Bowl, after all, and nothing about this runner-up to Thanksgiving on the calorie-ingestion scale need be of reasonable size. Not the rucksacks of Doritos nor the seven hours of pregame coverage. Plus, who wants to make a dozen or more regular-size subs to feed a crowd when one massive centerpiece sandwich can do the job with ease?

The Cam Newton and Peyton Manning of Smackdown X are two Post editors.

Alex Baldinger is the digital editor for the Food section and a lover of bread. He tries to live by the wise words of the late, great Warren Zevon: “Enjoy every sandwich.”

Jim Webster is a multiplatform editor. He spent a year copy editing Food and remains a frequent contributor to the section as a writer and recipe tester. He also has a side gig working on cookbooks with chefs.

A three-foot Italian cold-cut sub wasn’t going to win this competition, so Baldinger and Webster knew they needed to come up with recipes that were creative yet achievable given their backgrounds as enthusiastic but untrained home cooks. So they turned to chef Mike Isabella to serve as a sounding board and recipe tutor.

Isabella knows sandwiches. He runs the popular G Sandwich in Washington and serves as the de-facto commissioner of the shop’s annual Sandwich Madness contest, in which his chef buddies from around town dream up crazy ideas for sandwiches that will then run on the G menu; the one that sells the most gets a donation to the charity of its creator’s choice. (Also, the winner gets to talk smack all year. That is gold in chef currency.)

Isabella listened to the competitors’ plans.

Baldinger wanted to translate the Korean feast known as bo ssam into sandwich form. Bo ssam has gone mainstream thanks to chef David Chang, who serves a version of the crowd-pleasing dish at his Momofuku restaurants, with a huge roast pork shoulder, lettuce wraps and an assortment of pungent condiments and toppings, served with a dozen raw oysters.

Baldinger’s vision included shredded Asian roast pork, kimchi, ginger-scallion sauce, crisp bibb lettuce, pickled carrots and a blend of Korean gochujang paste and creamy Japanese mayonnaise.

Isabella needed a minute to collect himself. Accustomed to hearing fellow chefs reel off spectacular concepts, he apparently had initially underestimated what he was going to hear from a couple of desk jockeys. Then he went into mentor mode.

Photo by DIXIE D. VEREEN/The Washington Post

Two Super Bowl subs compete in The Washington Post annual Super Bowl Smackdown: Bo Ssamwich, left, and Chicken ‘BLT.’ “What about the oysters?” he asked.

The oyster question had initially caused Baldinger some trepidation.

They can be a chore to source, and they require additional preparation.

Isabella’s reaction reshaped Baldinger’s internal dialogue from “Do I add oysters?” to “How am I going to prepare the oysters that I’m going to need?” He decided to fry them and toss them across the sub like some obscenely hedonistic garnish.

In any game there are always turning points that, after the final whistle blows, stand out as the moment everything changed, even if it didn’t seem like that big a deal at the time. Remember those oysters.

Webster planned to completely reinvent the BLT with a sandwich that would bear no resemblance to the classic bacon-lettuce-tomato. He wanted to make a bacon-and-onion jam; a spread based on chicken liver pâté; and chicken thighs. (Bacon. Liver.

Thighs.) A crisp giardiniera starring fennel and cherries would freshen it up.

Isabella pointed out that it’s hard to grill enough chicken thighs to fill such a large measure of bread; perhaps whole roasted chickens and a mix of white and dark meat was a better way to go? Webster hadn’t considered using anything but thighs; breast meat, however, begins with the letter

B, which gave him the idea to use roast chicken breasts instead, while incorporating the thighs into the onion jam.

Game day was fast approaching.

The two opponents would enter the so-called arena at Isabella’s Kapnos restaurant, where Isabella and two other chefs - Amy Brandwein of Centrolina in CityCenterDC and Kwame Onwuachi of the forthcoming Shaw Bijou and a contestant in the current season of “Top Chef” - would taste and evaluate the Bo Ssamwich and Chicken “BLT.” Baldinger built his sandwich, as planned, to overflowing. A cross-section revealed the roast pork surrounded by vibrant colors: green scallion sauce and lettuce, gochujang mayo the color of a parking cone and an orange layer of pickled carrots. And, of course, those golden fried oysters. It was a little wobbly, but show-stoppingly stunning.

The judges were wowed by the look, and although Baldinger’s worst fears were confirmed - the hinge of his bread had severed, leaving the sandwich slices virtually impossible to manipulate without creating a huge mess - the panel was willing to overlook the Bo Ssamwich’s structural shortcomings. The oysters got everyone’s attention, as did the boldness of the gochujang mayo and gingery scallion sauce.

Webster piled on his ingredients, too, ending with the cherry-fennel giardiniera. Its dressing could make a mess of the sandwich, so he laid the giardiniera on cautiously until he felt there might be just a little too much.

He then spread it out, closed the sandwich and cut cross-sections of the bread that held together firmly but didn’t have much color. He was concerned by how little giardiniera there appeared to be; a three-foot loaf of bread has a way of making everything that’s put on it seem insufficient.

The judges opened with enthusiasm. The concept was fun, they said.

Brandwein and Onwuachi loved the chicken liver pâté. Then Onwuachi asked about the giardiniera, and said that everything about it sounded good, but that he didn’t get much of it. Isabella found the sandwich’s overall flavor too sweet and suggested that some cherry peppers might have made the salad more assertive. (Webster debated telling him there were cherry peppers in there, but clearly there weren’t enough of them.)

The judges filled out ballots that asked them to score the sandwiches for appearance, taste, creativity and “overall” appeal, the last of which would count for half of the sandwich’s point total.

The judges deemed the minuscule winning margin of less than a tenth of a point appropriate. One by one, they reiterated how much they liked both sandwiches. The implication: Everyone’s a winner!

Baldinger’s reaction: Nope, I’m the winner!

Webster agreed, and opted against calling Al Gore for advice on what to do next. Webster and Baldinger shook hands and Webster sulked off, mumbling, “See you next year, yeah?”

Or did he say, “Stupid giardiniera”?

Jim Webster is the co-author, with chef Mario Batali, of ‘America: Farm to Table.’

Photo by DIXIE D. VEREEN/The Washington Post

Photo by DIXIE D. VEREEN/The Washington Post

The Bo Ssamwich is one of the subs in The Washington Post annual Super Bowl Smackdown.

The “Chicken BLT” is one of the subs in The Washington Post annual Super Bowl Smackdown.

SPORTS

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3, 2016

Not seeing enough commitment SUTTER WANTS PLAYERS TO HIT A HIGHER LEVEL IN STRETCH RUN

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR When the will doesn’t match the skill, all too often the end result isn’t favourable.

The Red Deer Rebels are a talented group, no doubt, but there have been nights when GM/head coach Brent Sutter hasn’t seen enough commitment from his charges, most notably his go-to players.

Saturday’s Western Hockey League contest versus the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings is one such example. The Rebels were 2-1 losers but the score greatly flattered the home team, whose best performer was netminder Rylan Toth.

When the players and coaches convened on Monday, the Rebels boss had a message for his charges … a message they’ve heard before but struck a little closer to home considering how Saturday’s game went down.

“The important thing is at this time of the year you have to take your game to a different level, to a higher level,” Sutter said Tuesday, relaying the tone of his talk. “You can’t have certain guys have their game drop off, we have to make sure everyone is on the same program.

“I thought the one line really struggled the other night. They didn’t play enough straight-line hockey, there was too much circling and too many turnovers.

Your best players can’t play that way.”

Sutter stressed that he wasn’t placing all the blame on the Michael Spacek/Ivan Nikolishin/Adam Helewka forward unit.

“There were other guys who didn’t play that well either, and we can’t be that way,” he said. “The thing is there was no excuse for it. It’s not like we were playing our fourth game in five nights. It was our sec-

ond game in seven nights.

“The coaching staff certainly wasn’t happy about that. We have to keep our emotion level up to where it needs to be and we have to understand that there’s a certain way we have to play to have success. The other night we didn’t have enough guys who wanted to play that way.”

If the Rebels are aiming to chase down the Central Division and Eastern Conference leading Lethbridge Hurricanes or simply stay clear of the Brandon Wheat Kings and Calgary Hitmen — both of whom are within easy striking range — a more consistent work ethic will be needed over the final seven weeks.

“It’s going to be tit-for-tat for the rest of the year, it’s going to go back and forth,” said Sutter of the divisional and conference races. “But we can’t worry

about what other teams are doing, we have to just try and get our game to the level that’s acceptable, to the point where we can say, ‘OK, we’re taking steps’.”

The Rebels, as the 2016 Memorial Cup hosts, are a moving target this season.

“I know we’re still in a great position but the reality of it all is that every team that plays us is going to try and bring their A game, just because of our situation,” said Sutter.

“We have to understand that and we have to be able to match their intensity and work ethic. The other night we didn’t do that and to me that’s unacceptable.

“At the end of the day we know we have a good team, that we’re very talented. I’m not worried about that, it’s the commitment to team play and work ethic — those are the things we have to keep at a high level. It’s been somewhat inconsistent at times and the other night it dropped off on us.”

Sutter has reminded his players more than once that skill and size has to be paired with passion and resolve.

“It you’re not willing to work extremely hard then a hard-working team will always beat you,” he said.

“The other night we cheated in a lot of ways.

“We’re a big team, to be honest the biggest team we’ve had since I came on (as owner) in ‘99. We’re bigger than our Memorial Cup (winning) team (in 2001) and we have to play that way … we have to play a heavy game. But if we want to take short cuts and take the easy way out, then we’ll struggle.

“Brandon’s best players were better than ours the other night, their team as a whole was better. Do I think we’re as skilled as Brandon? Absolutely, but if your ethic isn’t going to match that of the other team, then 99 per cent of the time you’re probably not going to win.”

The Rebels return to action Friday against the Kootenay Ice at Cranbrook. The Moose Jaw Warriors visit the Centrium the following evening. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

McDavid marvels for Oilers in return GETS THREE POINTS TO LEAD OILERS OVER BLUE JACKETS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 5 Blue Jackets 1 EDMONTON — The Oilers looked like a different team with rookie Connor McDavid back in the lineup.

McDavid had a goal and two assists in his return as Edmonton snapped a three-game losing skid with a 5-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday.

Benoit Pouliot, Eric Gryba, Leon Draisaitl and Jordan Eberle also scored for the Oilers (20-26-5), who saw 2015 first-overall draft pick McDavid back in uniform after missing the last 37 games with a broken clavicle. “(Connor) set the tone for our team and our team followed,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan. “He had a hell of a night and we certainly missed him.

“Our group also responded to him. He was the catalyst.”

Matt Calvert replied for the Blue Jackets (19-28-5), who had a two-game winning streak come to an end.

“We need to be ready to start the game on time because we were a little behind for the first 20,” said Columbus forward Brandon Dubinsky.

“We were a little rusty but both teams were coming off the same all-star break and they had even more time off than we did. We can’t use that as an excuse. We need to be ready to play from the drop of the puck.”

Despite Edmonton outshooting Columbus 13-1 in the early going, the Blue Jackets managed to get on the board first when Scott Hartnell fed it to Calvert on a two-on-one break and he bounced a shot off of Oilers goalie Came Talbot and in.

Edmonton tied it up three minutes into the second period as Gryba directed a hopeful shot on net that eluded Jackets goalie Joonas Korpisalo for his first goal of the season.

McDavid showed just what Edmonton fans had been missing midway through the second as he scored an unbelievable highlight-reel goal, dancing through a pair of defenders before undressing Korpisalo for his sixth goal of the season.

“It was a heck of an individual effort and you don’t see that from many guys in the league,” said Oilers veteran Matt Hendricks. “There might be a few players that skate as fast as him, but to have the hands to be able to do that and then to have the touch and finish like he did, it’s pretty amazing.”

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Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid celebrates his goal against the Columbus Blue Jackets during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Tuesday. McDavid had a goal and two assists to lead the Oilers over the Blue Jackets 5-1.

McDavid himself was his usual low key about the goal, but admitted it felt good after his lengthy absence.

“It was a nice goal, I guess,” he said. “Three months of waiting around, lot of grumpy days and all that. It definitely felt really good to get that one.”

The Oilers went up 3-1 on the power play with 3:28 remaining in the second as Pouliot tipped in an Andrej Sekera shot, and then scored again 29 seconds later when Taylor Hall stole a puck behind the net and fed it in front to Draisaitl for the goal.

McDavid picked up his second assist of the night on the power play with five minutes left, fishing out a puck to set up Eberle at the side of the net.

Both teams return to action on Thursday, as the Jackets are in Vancouver and the Oilers begin a four-game trip in Ottawa.

Notes: The Oilers were still without the services of Oscar Klefbom (leg), Andrew Ference (hip), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (hand), Brandon Davidson (undisclosed) and Justin Schultz (illness). Shultz’s absence made room on the blue line for Adam Clendening to make his Edmonton debut after being claimed off of waivers last Wednesday from Anaheim… Out with injuries for the Blue Jackets were Sergei Bobrovsky (lower body) and Curtis McElhinney (ankle), in addition to skaters David Savard (oblique) and David Clarkson (upper body).

Lowry, Raptors eclipse Suns to spoil Watson’s debut

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 104 Suns 97 PHOENIX — The Toronto Raptors expected a spirited effort from the Phoenix Suns. That happens when a team changes coaches.

However, the Raptors had enough to hold on for a 104-97 victory Tuesday night, spoiling the debut of Suns interim coach Earl Watson.

Kyle Lowry scored 26 points, including five 3-pointers, and DeMar DeRozan added 22 for the Raptors, whose franchise-record 11-game winning streak ended Monday in Denver, “We knew they would come out and play extremely hard and try to do their thing” Lowry said.

“We kind of weathered the storm, paced ourselves though the whole game and found a way to win the game.”

The Raptors led the entire second half but had to hold on at the finish.

“The energy was there,” Watson said. “It’s not really physical with our team, it’s more mental and mental toughness is a fragile, unique path that you have to take.”

Markieff Morris had 30 points and 11 rebounds, both season highs, for the Suns, who fired coach Jeff Hornacek on Monday and promoted the 36-year-old Watson to the interim job.

Morris has had a difficult season, his playing time diminished after he said in the off-season he wanted

traded after the Suns dealt his twin brother Marcus to Detroit.

But Watson considers Morris a major part of the team.

“I had a feeling if I gave him positive encouragement and let him know that no matter what, we love him no matter what happened beyond basketball,” Watson said, “and give him an opportunity to play and let him know he is going to play, he is going to get big minutes.”

Morris praised Hornacek.

“Jeff was my guy,” Morris said. “Me and him were was here for three years together and he was a great coach. I really liked him a whole lot. It is just how the league goes. we are definitely going to miss him but coach told me before the game I was going to get my shots and I just got hot.”

Phoenix rookie Devin Booker added 27 points, matching his career best with six 3s. Archie Goodwin had 18 points and a career-best 12 assists for the Suns, who have lost five in a row and 20 of their last 22.

Terrence Ross scored 16 and Jonas Valanciunas 14 for Toronto in the Raptors’ second stop on a sixgame road trip.

Morris scored 14 in the first quarter and Goodwin banked in a 35-footer at the buzzer to give Phoenix a 32-28 lead after one. It didn’t last long.

Ross scored five and Bismack Biyombo four in a 15-1 run that put the Raptors up 46-35 with 4:23 left in the half, and they never trailed again. The Suns

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scored the next eight to cut the lead to 46-43 but two late baskets by DeRozan gave Toronto a 52-45 lead at the break.

Phoenix almost caught the Raptors with an 8-0 spurt in the third quarter, Mirza Teletovic’s 3-pointer cutting Toronto’s lead to 71-70 with 2:50 left in the period. But the Raptors outscored the Suns 7-1 the rest of the quarter.

Phoenix made it interesting late when Booker’s driving layup cut Toronto’s lead to 99-94 with 1:59 to play but DeRozan sank his only 3-pointer of the night with 51.9 seconds to play and the Raptors held on from there.

“They came out with a lot of enthusiasm, juice, energy, which we felt usually happens and comes after a coaching change,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said.

“They played as well as they played for a while but we kept at it. We grinded it. (There were) some of the mental mistakes down the stretch we have to clean up. “ TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto improved to 7-8 in the second of back-to-back games. … James Johnson sat out the game after spraining his left ankle Monday night in Denver. … On Tuesday, Lowry and DeRozan were named Eastern Conference co-players of the month for January. … Lowry made four of his first five 3-point tries.

UP NEXT Raptors: At Portland on Thursday.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

Today Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, first draw at noon, last draw at 8:30p.m., Pidherney Centre. • 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 • Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, first draw at noon, last draw at 8:30p.m., Pidherney Centre. • College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday • Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, first draw at noon, last draw at 7:30p.m., Pidherney Centre. • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament, first games at 3:30 p.m. • 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.

Saturday • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament, first games at

8:30 a.m., finals at 7 and 8:45 p.m. • Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel; Farmerettes event finals at 10 a.m., Farmers event finals at 1 p.m., Pidherney Centre. • 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.

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

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

Basketball Red Deer Women’s League Xpress 50 Shooting Stars 30 Xpress — Robyn Bonnar, 13 points; Player of game: Bonnar. SS — Cheryl Chase, 12 points; POG: Chase.

Hoosier Daddy 57 Triple Threat 29 HD — Mallory Jones, 14 points; POG: Shelby Hauck. TT — Tamara Mckelvic, Jessie Charchuk, 8 points; POG: Mckelvie.

Pink Panthers 46 Dynamo 41 PP — Amy Archibald, 12 points; POG: Ginny Chapman. Dynamo — Kacey Blancett, 16 points; POG: Tori Adolf.

Ball Hawks 65 Funk 51 BH — Amber Smith, Paola Viveros, 18 points; POG: Smith. Funk — Alison Lundall, 13 points; POG: Shalene Rascher.

Spartans 60 Storm 53 Spartans — Carissa Laver, 10 points; POG: Laver.

Storm — Taya Strawberry, 13 points, Rebecca Girvan, 10; POG: Girvan.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 35 12 .745 — Toronto 33 16 .673 3 Atlanta 28 22 .560 8 1/2 Boston 28 22 .560 8 1/2 Chicago 26 21 .553 9 Miami 27 22 .551 9 Detroit 26 23 .531 10 Indiana 25 23 .521 10 1/2 Charlotte 23 25 .479 12 1/2 Washington 21 25 .457 13 1/2 New York 23 28 .451 14 Orlando 21 26 .447 14 Milwaukee 20 31 .392 17 Brooklyn 12 37 .245 24 Philadelphia 7 41 .146 28 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB 44 4 .917 — 40 8 .833 4 37 13 .740 8 32 16 .667 12

Memphis Dallas Houston Portland Utah Sacramento Denver New Orleans Minnesota Phoenix L.A. Lakers

29 28 26 24 22 21 19 18 14 14 9

20 23 25 26 25 27 30 29 35 36 41

.592 .549 .510 .480 .468 .438 .388 .383 .286 .280 .180

15 1/2 17 1/2 19 1/2 21 21 1/2 23 25 1/2 25 1/2 30 1/2 31 36

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 97, New York 89 Houston 115, Miami 102 Toronto 104, Phoenix 97 Portland 107, Milwaukee 95 Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, late 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.

Thursday’s Games New York at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 8 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled LW Harry Zolnierczyk from San Diego (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Viktor Svedberg from Rockford (AHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Alaska’s Garet Hunt three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in Jan. 31 game at Colorado. Suspended Fort Wayne’s Garrett Meurs two games

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Brandon 51 32 15 2 2 194 Prince Albert 50 27 17 5 1 161 Moose Jaw 52 25 20 6 1 177 Regina 50 21 22 3 4 157 Swift Current 50 18 27 4 1 126 Saskatoon 51 18 29 4 0 147

GA 145 158 169 180 165 212

Pt 68 60 57 49 41 40

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF 51 36 15 0 0 211 51 32 16 1 2 191 50 30 18 1 1 170 52 22 23 6 1 145 52 20 28 3 1 165 51 8 39 4 0 107

GA 144 145 157 161 208 225

Pt 72 67 62 51 44 20

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 51 35 13 3 0 182 Victoria 51 31 15 2 3 179 Prince George 52 31 18 2 1 192 Kamloops 49 23 18 5 3 164 Vancouver 52 20 27 3 2 152

GA 142 121 156 159 185

Pt 73 67 65 54 45

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 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

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Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

Tuesday’s results Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 2 Prince George 7 Saskatoon 0 Edmonton 6 Kootenay 3 Swift Current 2 Medicine Hat 1 Kelowna 2 Lethbridge 1 Kamloops at Tri-City, late Wednesday, Feb. 3 Prince George at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 5 Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Victoria at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders before Tuesday’s games G 18

Brayden Burke, Let

A 57

Pts 75

Dryden Hunt, MJ Adam Brooks, Reg Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Ivan Nikolishin, RD Parker Bowles, TC 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

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43 47 41 37 41 39 36 42 45 33 26 30 33 43 23 25 28 37 27 35 40 32 25 26 33 34

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 50 30 15 5 65 Tampa Bay 49 27 18 4 58 Detroit 49 25 16 8 58 Boston 50 26 18 6 58 Montreal 51 24 23 4 52 Ottawa 51 23 22 6 52 Toronto 49 18 22 9 45 Buffalo 50 20 26 4 44

Vancouver 50 20 19 11 51 122 139 Calgary 48 21 24 3 45 126 146 Edmonton 51 20 26 5 45 127 150 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

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

GF 140 130 122 150 138 144 118 114

Tuesday’s Games Toronto 4, Boston 3, OT New Jersey 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Minnesota 3 Philadelphia 4, Montreal 2 Pittsburgh 6, Ottawa 5 Florida 5, Washington 2 St. Louis 1, Nashville 0 Dallas 5, Winnipeg 3 Chicago 2, Colorado 1 Edmonton 5, Columbus 1 Los Angeles 6, Arizona 2 San Jose at Anaheim, late Wednesday’s Games Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

GA 110 117 124 135 138 161 137 136

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 48 35 9 4 74 N.Y. Rangers 50 27 18 5 59 N.Y. Islanders 48 26 16 6 58 Pittsburgh 49 25 17 7 57 New Jersey 51 26 20 5 57 Carolina 51 23 20 8 54 Philadelphia 48 22 18 8 52 Columbus 52 19 28 5 43

GF 160 144 135 127 117 123 113 134

GA 109 132 121 125 120 135 129 168

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 54 34 16 4 72 Dallas 51 32 14 5 69 St. Louis 53 29 16 8 66 Colorado 53 27 23 3 57 Nashville 51 24 19 8 56 Minnesota 50 23 18 9 55 Winnipeg 50 22 25 3 47

GF 149 167 130 144 129 124 129

GA 123 136 128 144 132 120 145

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts 50 31 16 3 65 48 26 18 4 56 50 24 21 5 53 47 22 18 7 51

GF 135 142 133 101

GA 115 129 152 111

Los Angeles San Jose Arizona Anaheim

Thursday’s Games Boston at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Oilers 5 Blue Jackets 1 First Period 1, Columbus, Calvert 7 (Hartnell), 11:37.

Penalties—Murray, Clm (tripping), :26 Foligno, Clm (roughing), 15:15 Reinhart, Edm (roughing), 15:15 Hendricks, Edm (interference), 17:51.

Second Period 2, Edmonton, Gryba 1 (Kassian, Letestu), 3:01. 3, Edmonton, McDavid 6 (Pouliot, Eberle), 9:58. 4, Edmonton, Pouliot 11 (Sekera, McDavid), 16:32 (pp).

5, Edmonton, Draisaitl 13 (Hall, Clendening), 17:01.

Penalties—Reinhart, Edm (interference), 6:22 S. Jones, Clm (interference), 15:37.

Third Period 6, Edmonton, Eberle 12 (McDavid, Sekera), 14:41 (pp).

Penalties—Clendening, Edm (interference), 3:47 Falk, Clm (roughing), 12:09 Gryba, Edm (roughing), 12:09 Hall, Edm (roughing), 12:09 Atkinson, Clm (tripping), 14:07 Clendening, Edm (holding), 17:08.

Shots on Goal Columbus 8-13-16—37 Edmonton 18-10-7—35 Power-play—Columbus 0 of 5 Edmonton 2 of 3.

Goalies—Columbus, Korpisalo 5-6-2 (35 shots-30 saves). Edmonton, Talbot 10-15-3 (37-36).

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Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

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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

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Drew Doughty constantly thinks about winning the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman. If he keeps up this pace, that will become a reality in less than five months.

Doughty doesn’t blow away the competition statistically like Erik Karlsson of the Ottawa Senators or John Klingberg of the Dallas Stars, but the Los Angeles Kings star is dominant at both ends of the rink. He controls the puck more than anyone at his position and raises his game in the biggest spots — the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Olympics.

Maybe that’s why Doughty has fallen short in Norris voting in the past — the regular season isn’t his peak time to shine. But Doughty has been on the ice for the highest percentage of shot attempts for his team of any defenceman in the league, a good way of measuring just how much of an impact he has for the Pacific Division-leading Kings.

Karlsson and Klingberg will warrant consideration, and so should the Montreal Canadiens’ P.K. Subban.

Here are the midseason projections for the other major NHL trophies: HART: If Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks continues to lead the scoring race by double digits,

and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 31 at Kalamazoo.

BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Peter Moylan on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with INF Sherman Johnson, LHP Tyler DeLoach, C Stephen McGee, C Michael Strentz, INF Alex Yarbrough, LHP Greg Mahle, C Taylor Ward, OF Chad Hinshaw, RHP Yunesky Maya, C Wade Wass, RHP Kyle McGowin and LHP Nate Smith to minor league contracts.

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Drew Doughty celebrates his goal against the Montreal Canadiens during NHL action, in Montreal. he’s the MVP. Even with Jonathan Toews in the picture, Kane has been outstandingly terrific and productive all season. Also in the mix: Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby and Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn.

VEZINA: Holtby is automatic if he breaks Martin Brodeur’s single-season wins record and remains among the goals-against average and save percentage leaders as the Capitals cruise toward the Presidents’ Trophy. Also in the mix: Cory Schneider of the New Jersey Devils and Roberto Luongo of the Florida Panthers.

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Smith turns weakness into strength to make biathlon history CANMORE — If you drive from Banff up to Norquay Ski Resort in the summer, you may see biathlete Nathan Smith doing a full-out climb on his roller skis.

Smith will blitz a 300-metre elevation gain over four kilometres in about 20 minutes. It’s the most gruelling part of Smith’s off-season training, and also the most rewarding for the Calgarian.

That lung-buster helped elevate Smith from an athlete who almost quit to one who made Canadian biathlon history. The 30-year-old became the first Canadian man to win a world championship biathlon medal when he took silver in the 10k pursuit last year.

A few weeks after the world championships, Smith became the second Canadian man to win a World Cup race after Jean-Philippe Le Guellec in 2012.

Smith was at a crossroads after a rough 2012-13 season. If he was going to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Smith decided he needed to train differently.

Smith is an efficient shooter, but he wasn’t a strong climber then.

“A lot of people don’t like to work on what they’re not good at because it’s not fun not being good at something,” Smith said. “I had to kind of take my medicine and do stuff that’s really hard for me.

“I decided to make myself hurt and work on the stuff I wasn’t so good at, uphill training.”

So Smith started hammering the paved switchbacks up Norquay Drive.

“It’s one of my favourite, but my least favourite training sessions,” Smith said. “You definitely feel glad when you’re finished.

“Some times you’re feeling terrible and you’re halfway up feeling ‘I just can’t do it today.’ You’ve just got to put your head down and find a way.”

Smith’s suffer-fests yielded results in 2013-14.

He went from outside the top 50 to top-20 in some races, including a pair of top-15 finishes in Sochi.

“I was like ‘Wow, I didn’t think I could do that. Let’s see what else I can do,”’ Smith said.

Smith and Canada’s biathlon team will compete in World Cup races at home for the first time in over two decades Thursday to Sunday at Canmore Nordic Centre.

“It’s really exciting because most of the time the biathlon circuit visits the same eight sites,” Smith said. “This is the first time I’ll get to race here at a World Cup level. I’ve been training here since I was 10.”

Racing starts with the men’s 10k Thursday followed by Friday’s women’s sprint at the Nordic Centre. The men’s and women’s mass starts are Saturday and racing concludes with Sunday’s mixed relays.

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Canada’s Nathan Smith in action during the single mixed relay event at the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden. If you drive from Banff up to Norquay Ski Resort in the summer, you may see biathlete Nathan Smith doing a full-out climb on his roller skis. said. “It’s a good one when you hear the guys next to you doing that. Not when it’s you.”

Smith is a details man. He likes to

take things apart and put them back together again. When he’s not skiing or training, you’ll find him in his garage tinkering on his motorcycle.

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Rebecca Smith of the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club took top honours in five events and was runner-up in another during the Speedo Alberta Open at Edmonton during the weekend.

Smith, 15, was golden in the 400-metre individual medley — setting a provincial record in the process — as well as the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events, and 50m butterfly. She finished second in the 50m backstroke.

Meanwhile, Josh Young was the top swimmer in the 400m I.M. and placed third in the 50m breaststroke, Elizabeth Moore was first in the 200m breast and third in the 100m breast, Kristen Trepanier was second in the 200m ‘fly and Tammy Cunnington turned in the Para Top Points swim of the meet in the 50m ‘fly.

Catalina new qualifiers: Kyra McMurray: 400m I.M. (13-year-old A), 100m ‘fly (13 AGN), 200m fly (13 A), 50m back (13 AGN); Moore: Olympics Trials QT 200m breast, 100m back (15-year-old AGN), 100m and 200m breast (Canadian summer championship); KylaLeibel: 400m free (Western National 14-yearold AGN), 200m ‘fly (14 AGN, Western National); Tanille Collicutt, 50m ‘fly (Western National).

and Macx Davies of Canmore, Calgary brothers Christian and Scott Gow, Brendan Green of Hay River, N.W.T., Julia Ransom of Kelowna, B.C., threetime Olympian Zina Kocher of Red Deer, Alta., and Sarah Beaudry and Megan Tandy of Prince George, B.C., join Smith on the host squad.

Smith is ranked 18th in the world with his best result so far this season a sixth in Ruhpolding, Germany, in January. He and Crawford won a mixed relay silver medal in November’s season-opening World Cup in Sweden.

Smith’s recent success is a confluence of hard work, physical maturation and his natural ability to shoot fast, according to head coach Matthias Ahrens.

“It’s been said it takes 10,000 hours of training to become excellent,” Ahrens said. “Looking back, when I took over the junior team 10 years ago, Nathan was on that team and he put a lot of effort and training into all those years.

“His skiing has improved over the years tremendously. First and foremost, it’s important that the targets are hit. He is a good shooter in the way of getting a good shooting score, but he is also very quick getting and out of the shooting lane and back onto the skis.”

There is a distinct sound that signals success and failure in biathlon racing, when lead ammunition either hits or misses the target.

“The sound when you miss, it’s a lot more blunt sound because it just hits a plate and stops the bullet dead,” Smith

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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.

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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.

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BURKINSHAW Earl Arthur Nov. 19, 1932 - Jan. 30, 2016 Earl was born in Czar, Alberta to John Burkinshaw and Lillian Peters. He grew up in a family of six boys Keith (deceased), Alex, Bill (deceased), Howard (deceased) Earl (deceased) and Walter and one girl Clara. After moving to Red Deer, Earl drove taxi while waiting to be hired by Alpha Milk. Through his taxi driving, Earl met Marion Fisher and on September 4, 1954, they were married. Together they had six children: Phillip married Lois and have Rob (Naomi) and Tracy (Joe); Deb has Killa and Erin (Brook); Dan (deceased) married Darleen and have Michael; David; Laura married Ed and have Nicole, Victoria and Alexandra; Michelle married Wade and have Kaitlyn and Steven.

He also has five greatgrandchildren: Parker, Spenser, Fiarra, Pheonix and Key. Earl started at Alpha Milk delivering milk by horse and carriage. Through his 43 years at Alpha Milk, Earl delivered milk and other dairy treats to many of Red Deer residents and restaurants.

He was also responsible for safe transportation of many students during his 30 years of driving for Prairie Bus Lines. Earl managed to find time to be an active volunteer. He was a Cub Leader, President of the Community Band Society, Executive of the Burns Club, Director of Central Alberta Pioneer Old Timers, member of the Knights of Columbus, a member of the Scottish Country Dance, a member of the Silver Blade Skaters, a member of the Golden Circle Singers and a member of the Sacred Heart Parish. Earl enjoyed gardening and fixing things. He was also bitten by a travel bug. Earl has driven from coast to coast across Canada and through several states. Additionally, he has visited England, Scotland and Australia.

Cruises include the Panama Canal, the Caribbean, South America and several ports in the U.S. Earl passed away at the Palliative Care Unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.

The family wants to thank Dr. Thain and Dr. Odendaal, the staff in emergency, the staff of the Palliative Care Unit and the staff at Villa Marie. A Funeral Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Parish, 5508 48A Avenue, Red Deer on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to Parkinson’s Alberta, Palliative Care or to the charity of your choice.

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CHIPLEY LaVerne Winnifred Nov. 7, 1938 - Jan. 29, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mrs. LaVerne Chipley of Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Friday January 29, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 77. At her passing, she was surrounded by her loving family. LaVerne was born in Odessa, SK. on November 7, 1938 and married the love of her life Elmer Chipley, on July 8, 1955. LaVerne enjoyed crafts, sewing and was a fantastic cook and baker.

She was affectionately known as Bubba. Most of all, she loved her family with all her heart. LaVerne leaves to mourn her loving husband of 60 years Elmer, daughter Debra Sveinson-Flynn (Mike) of Grande Prairie, sons Daryle (Joy) of Calgary and Darren (Tracy) of Sylvan Lake, grandchildren Erika Sveinson, Kristin Ouellette (Gannon) and Kerri-Ann Gillett (Drew) of Grande Prairie, Myana and Tynan Chipley of Calgary and Jeffrey and Joseph Chipley of Sylvan Lake, great grandchildren Tyler-Ann, Ryder, Colton, Beau, Oakley and Emberleigh of Grande Prairie, brother Cliff Lennie of Red Deer and sister Trena Hamilton of Saskatoon, SK. Cousin Ernie Gerry (Sandra) of Creelman, SK. and numerous nieces and nephews.

LaVerne was predeceased by baby sister Fay, brother, Ron Gerry and parents William & Pearl Gerry. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at the Sylvan Lake Legion between 2 and 5 p.m. A funeral and burial will be held in Creelman, Saskatchewan at a later date. Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations can be made in LaVerne’s name to the Canadian Cancer Society. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

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WICKENS LOYIE Janice Janice Wickens Loyie of Red Deer passed away on Friday, January 29, 2016 at the age of 55 years. Janice is lovingly remembered by her family. A Celebration of Janice’s Life will be held at The Word of Life Church, #1 England Way (south end of Taylor Drive on England Way), Red Deer, AB on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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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, February 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, February 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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TAYLOR (nee Brown) Dorothy Ethel September 19, 1923 Peaslake, Surrey, England January 31, 2016 Red Deer, AB, Canada It is with great sadness that the family of Dorothy Ethel Taylor, widow of the late L/Col James Wm. Taylor, passed away peacefully on January 31, 2016 at the age of 92. She is survived by her children: Patricia WilliamsOrosz (Albert Orosz) of Airdrie, AB, Raymond Taylor (Judith) of Moose Jaw, SK, Marion Holman (James) of Hanna, AB and John Taylor (Caroline) of Red Deer, AB. Also nine grandchildren: Debbie TaylorFrench (Patrick French), Paul Holman (Ruth Atherley), Elisabeth (Lisa) Schmidt (Ross), Reece Williams (Dineen), Scott Holman (Karla), Dean Taylor (Jennifer), Leanne Taylor, Kimberley Wong (Herb) and Brian Taylor (Nita), as well as 20 great-grandchildren ranging in age from four months to 27 years. Mom joined the Royal Air Force during WWII, serving her country as a Barrage Balloon Operator, stationed in Glasgow, Scotland; Swansea, Wales; and in Regent’s Park, London, England. At a weekend dance at Rowland’s Castle, Hants, England, she met the love of her life, Jim Taylor, and married him on December 19, 1942. She remained in England until 1946 when she came to Canada as a war bride with her daughter Patricia, settling in Woodhouse, AB, near Claresholm. Dad re-enlisted Card Of Thanks in the Army in 1947 and our In Memoriam family moved many times MOORE across Canada and to Thank you for the Germany. They retired to overwhelming friendship, Vernon, BC. in the fall of love, and support you have 1968. After 16 years, the shown our family as we prairies called them back to mourn the loss of Danny: be closer to their family. They loving husband, father, and resided in Calgary, then grandfather. A special thank finally settled in Cochrane, you to Dr. Lim and nurse AB. They enjoyed 67 years Jessica for their together until Dad’s death in compassionate care in the 2010. Two years ago Mom Intensive Care Unit. moved to a senior’s ~ Wife Isabelle, children residence in Red Deer. A Danielle, Darrell, Brent Funeral Service will be held and their families. at Eden Brook Funeral Home on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. A Tea Celebrating Dorothy’s life will be held at Revera Inglewood MARGARET ALLEN (FISKE) Celebrations Retirement Residence (10 Sept. 4, 1933 - Feb. 3, 2012 Inglewood Drive, Red Deer, Memories have a lovely way AB) on Monday, February 8, of bringing back our yesterdays 2016 at 2:00 p.m. If so Each of us in our own way desired, memorial donations have special thoughts of you today may be made in Dorothy’s Always remembered, always name directly to the Royal loved, Jack, Chris, Shelley, Todd, Canadian Legion Poppy Sharon, Doug and families Fund (Dominion Command, 86 Aird Place, Ottawa ON, K2L 0A1). Condolences may be forwarded to the family by Anniversaries visiting www.edenbrookcemetery.ca.

Arrangements entrusted to EDEN BROOK FUNERAL HOME AND RECEPTION CENTRE, 24223 Twp Rd 242, Calgary, AB, T3Z 3K2.

KEN BURDEN ANTIQUE VINTAGE 1936 MODEL Approximately 702,946 hours on original body. Warranty has expired but has been Over 2,000,000 maintained regularly.

No hours missing parts, some rust and some creases. Needs a paint St. John Ambulance job - lots of white and grey TERRY and VERLA showing. Headlights are out volunteers provide (Thompson) McCOLM of focus. Traction is good. In on Feb 3, 2016 winter months takes longer to Canadians with more That magical number 60 reach medium speed. Gear Is special to both of you. than 2 million hours shift needs an overhauling It shows the love and muffler is getting louder. of community service and commitment, Radiator does leak and That sparkles loud and true! exhaust backfires occasionally. each year.

We wish you a very Happy Diamond Anniversary NOT FOR SALE. Love from your four children, PRICELESS!! fourteen grandchildren and Happy 80th birthday Ken!! six great grandchildren!

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Obituaries RUBRECHT Günter ‘Opa’ Erich Bruno 1929 - 2016 Our Opa passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 28, 2016. He was predeceased by his parents, Adolf and Gertrud Rubrecht, parents-in-law, Kurt and Elsbeth Schuller, and son, Andrew in infancy. Opa was born in Brunswick, Germany on August 19, 1929. He served in the second world war at age 15. In July 1956, he immigrated to Canada and established a foundation for a new life before he brought his wife and young son over to join him. Opa worked hard to build a good life for himself and his ever growing family. Now his 21 descendants and in-laws greatly respect and admire him. Opa settled in Calgary.

Job requirements saw him move to Medicine Hat and eventually to Red Deer. He was an avid sports fan all his life, with the Toronto Maple Leafs; as well as the Calgary Flames and many German soccer teams being amongst his favourites. Above all, he was the ultimate Calgary Stampeders fan. But his family always came first and he was totally devoted to them. He will be lovingly remembered by Hanne-Lore, his wife of 64 years; son, Eckhard (Darlene) Rubrecht, daughters, Margaret (Robert) Stroh and Marlis (Bob Belzerowski) Rose; grandchildren, Matthew (Terra) Stroh, Kristine (Joel Douglas) Rubrecht, Richard (Whitney) Rubrecht, Erin (Kelly) Eresman, Tyler (Chelsea) Rose, Janice (Lee) Worrall, Jennifer Stroh, Brooklyn Belzerowski, Vanessa Belzerowski, and Katrina Belzerowski; as well as eight great grandchildren.

A Celebration of Opa’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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HUNTLEY Glen 1961 - 2016 Mr. Glen Ian Huntley of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Edmonton, Alberta on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 54 years. Glen was a wonderful man who loved everything about his life. He was dedicated, hardworking and loved his grandchildren more than anything in the world. Glen took care of all those around him, and treated them as family. He will be forever and greatly missed. We will take comfort in knowing that he will continue to watch over us and be with us in our life’s journeys. He will be forever in our hearts. Glen will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Kathy and his faithful dog, Hurley, daughter, Katherine Huntley of Claresholm, son, James (Pheap) Huntley of Airdrie, daughter, Danielle (Greg) Vanderford of Calgary, stepson, Mike (Trish) Snell of Red Deer, stepdaughters; Chandra (Ron) Dickson of Edmonton, Sarah (Jesse) Keeling of Blackfalds, and Melissa (Rob) London of Leduc, as well as grandchildren; Tyrrell, Mason, Serene, Soriya, Caelen, Lochlan, Emily and Elizabeth.

Glen was predeceased by his parents; Robert and Marion Joyce Huntley of Portland, Ontario and a sister, Lori Townsend of Elgin, Ontario. A Celebration of Glen’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive) Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Glen’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

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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Hentgen, Martinez top list of inductees

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CANADIAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

ST. MARYS ONTARIO, Canada — Pat Hentgen, the first Toronto Blue Jay to win the Cy Young Award, and Dennis Martinez, who pitched a perfect game while with the Montreal Expos, headline the 2016 class named for induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Joining the former pitchers will be scout Wayne Norton, longtime Jays executive Howard Starkman and former Jays television analyst Tony Kubek.

William Shuttleworth will be enshrined posthumously.

He put together Canada’s first formal baseball team, Young Canadians of Hamilton.

The induction ceremony will be held June 18.

The six-foot-two Hentgen spent 26 seasons with Toronto as a player, coach, ambassador and special assistant. In 10 seasons on the mound for the Jays, the 47-year-old Detroit native registered 107 wins, fifth-most in club history.

Hentgen helped Toronto win consecutive World Series titles in 1992-93 then in ‘96 was named the American League Cy Young award winner after post-

ing a 20-10 record with a 3.22 earned-run average and 177 strikeouts. Hentgen also pitched for St. Louis (2000) and Baltimore (2001-03) during his 14-year major league career.

Martinez, 60, a native of Granada, Nicaragua, registered 100 wins over parts of eight seasons with Montreal (1986-93) — he’s one of only 10 players to win at least 100 games in both the National and American Leagues. The first Nicaraguan to play in the major leagues, Martinez pitched the only perfect game in Expos history in July 1991.

He compiled a 245-193 career record with Baltimore, Montreal, Cleveland, Seattle and Atlanta from 1976 to 1998.

Norton played 1,206 minor-league games — including five seasons at the triple-A level — before becoming a baseball executive and scout in Canada.

He founded and established the Canadian junior national team in the 1970s, managed Canada’s Pan Am Games team and established the National Baseball Institute in Vancouver.

He also served as a scout with Montreal, Balti-

more and Seattle.

Starkman spent four decades as an executive with the Blue Jays. In 2014 the franchise established an award in Starkman’s name to be given annually to the organization’s employee of the year. Starkman was the first recipient.

Kubek won three World Series as an infielder with the New York Yankees before spending 25 seasons broadcasting games with NBC. Kubek then worked 13 seasons as an analyst on Toronto’s broadcasts, starting in 1977.

He captured the National Baseball of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence in 2009.

Shuttleworth served as vice-president of the first Canadian baseball organization in 1864.

He was also a member of the Ontario team (Hamilton and Guelph players) that finished third in a major Detroit baseball tournament in 1867. He worked as an umpire throughout the 1860s.

Shuttleworth died March 31, 1903 and was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.

Veteran Ryder Hesjedal looks ahead to big year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS After finishing the demanding 151.5-kilometre fifth stage of the Santos Tour Down Under last month, Ryder Hesjedal kept going.

Looking to build up his fitness, the 35-year-old from Victoria put in another 40-50 kilometres.

“Just getting the rhythm going,” Hesjedal said from Australia after placing 67th overall in the season-opening UCI World Tour race.

“It seems the older I get the more I need to train,” he added. “I need to race to get my good condition.

This is a perfect opportunity to kind of combine that.”

Hesjedal is old-school, believing that “racing’s the best training.”

“You don’t really have the luxury too often to go to a race without really trying to get a result for the team. But it’s January and there was space.” he said.

“The team allowed me to come here and not have to worry about being in top shape. It’s too early in January when my objectives are later.”

It’s a big year for Hesjedal. Now a member of the Trek-Segafredo racing team, he has his eye on the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the Rio Olympics.

Hesjedal used the three weeks in Australia — he also placed 66th in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race — to build a base. Next up is a month training in Hawaii ahead of a return to racing in March in Spain.

“Once that starts, it’s only racing and going into the Giro full gas (in May),” he said.

“You recover, keep the rhythm in June and then go again in July (the Tour de France). I know that routine. So when you have that peace of mind, it’s easy to work for.”

Hesjedal, who left Cannondale-Garmin to join Trek last August, won the Giro in 2012. He also raced the Tour Down Under that year, so has good memories of the race.

Hesjedal will lead the Trek GC charge at this year’s Giro.

“I’m excited to do that and take that opportunity.

The team’s really backing me for that as the main

objective. That’s what I know. I was able to do a good ride again last year (he was fifth). I felt I had podium legs. That keeps you hungry. I want to go there and try and do that again.”

He also wants to race the Tour de France, calling it “the best way to prepare for Rio.” Looking ahead to the Olympics, Hesjedal is heartened that Canada has qualified for three spots in the road race. In London, he was on his own.

“It’s great for Canadian cycling,” said Hesjedal.

The 145-man field will race a demanding 256-kilometre road course, complete with climbs and cobble sections.

“It’s clear the course will probably be the hardest circuit we’ll have ever seen for a Games or a world championship,” said Hesjedal.

Canada earned the three spots as a result of its runner-up finish in the UCI America Tour.

In the meantime, Hesjedal is enjoying being at Trek-Segafredo.

“Happy to be here and see how far we can go.”

His next race is the Volta a Catalunya, which starts March 21 in Spain.

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This August 2015 photo portion of this image by Ana Slika provided by Rafael Mantesso shows Mantesso and his dog, Jimmy Choo, with thought bubble added Mantesso at his studio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The dog was all Mantesso had left after a divorce. But it’s become an Internet sensation, the subject of a book and the inspiration for a line of Jimmy Choo handbags and purses designed by Mantesso.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Rafael Mantesso turned 30 in an empty New York apartment after divorce left every wall, floor, closet and shelf bare. The only things he had left were his cellphone and a pit bull named Jimmy Choo that his neighbours went out of their way to avoid.

When he turned 33 on Jan. 14, Mantesso still owned that apartment and it’s still vacant. But it’s for sale now.

And people can’t get enough of his 6-year-old bull terrier — from the Instagram sketches-plus-photos of Jimmy that went viral, the book “A Dog Named Jimmy” and a collection of Jimmy-inspired bags and purses for the high-end fashion brand Jimmy Choo. (Mantesso’s ex-wife had named the dog for her favourite shoes.)

There are future plans too: a calendar, endorsements and launching the charitable Jimmy Foundation. Meanwhile, Mantesso is working at an advertising agency in Sao Paulo in his native Brazil, and doing the occasional photo shoot.

The first night they were alone in the “naked” apartment three years ago, Jimmy did a happy dance through all the rooms. Mantesso picked up his phone and started shooting photos of Jimmy’s contagious dance of joy.

“When I sat in my empty living room, Jimmy was happy, running from one side to the other side, in circles, crazy. The apartment was a playground to him. He was loving that empty place. That energy was amazing. I looked at him and said to myself, ‘Oh my God, I was thinking everything was lost and I had the most important thing in the house — Jimmy,”’ Mantesso said in his Portuguese accented-English.

Jimmy is a white dog but his ginger and red ears contrasted with the white walls, floors and ceilings. At some point, Mantesso picked up a piece of white cardboard, drew a skeleton with a red heart on it, put it in front of Jimmy and took a photo.

He liked it, put it on Instagram (.jimmythebull) and they were in business.

The ideas came fast. Mantesso would put Jimmy in a pose and the dog would freeze while he took photos.

“Everyone ask, ‘How do you make a crazy dog freeze in position you want?’

I think Jimmy knows that I want him in that position and he just stay,” Mantesso said.

Mantesso credits a tweet by actor Ashton Kutcher for putting focus on his early Jimmy art. Kutcher retweeted a drawing depicting the spaghetti scene from “Lady and the Tramp,” where the dogs are slurping strands of spaghetti. Views went from 10,000 to 100,000 that night, Mantesso said.

Jimmy also kept Mantesso going at a time when he was feeling down. Because of Jimmy, Mantesso had to take a walk twice a day.

Because he had to buy Jimmy food, he bought food for himself. And because of Jimmy, he was motivated to keep taking pictures. He liked what he was doing so much that they worked side by side for 90 uninterrupted days, he said.

Eventually A Dog Named Jimmy was ready for the publisher, and there is also a Jimmy deck of cards. Some of Mantesso’s images show the dog’s paws or his pink-and-black spotted mouth.

Others show him posed with a human hand, while others feature Jimmy with black-and-white sketches of simple objects or scenes — a piano keyboard, antlers, cartoon characters.

They’ve come a long way since people demanded that Mantesso muzzle the pit bull. “People still cross the street when they see Jimmy, but now it’s to ask if they can take pictures with him,” he said, adding that Jimmy’s received fan mail from over 100 countries.

His planned Jimmy Foundation will fund pet food drives, spay and neuter clinics and adoption campaigns at shelters throughout Brazil.

He doesn’t accept every endorsement offer, but he did say yes to Netflix, the Jimmy Choo fashion house and Porsche.

“They want my dog to drive a Porsche convertible. I said, ‘Come on, I want to drive it too.”’

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Iconic band gets crowd dancing If the live music scene is under threat, as 54-40 frontman Neil Osborne suggests, then a small but devoted fan base managed to keep it thriving for another night in Red Deer.

The near iconic B.C. band 54-40 got an older crowd dancing, foot stomping and singing along to I Go Blind, Ocean Pearl, Baby Ran and many other hits on Monday night at an unplugged concert at the InterLANA national Beer MICHELIN Haus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks for REVIEW supporting a live act,â&#x20AC;? said Osborne during the encore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live music is struggling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like in the movie, The NeverEnding Story, The Nothing is taking overâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think a band that was a hit machine for much of the 1980s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s would have been able to fill the Memorial Centre, where 54-40 was originally booked, instead of having to be moved to a smaller venueâ&#x20AC;Ś Yes, the music industry is changing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with many musicians touring less and their fans vegetating at home more. But judging by the enthusiastic reaction to 54-40 at the smaller Beer Haus, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;human apathy, cynicism, and denial of childish dreamsâ&#x20AC;? that summons The Nothing hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t settled in Red Deer. Not yet, anyway.

After playing an extended video clip of everyone from Rick Mercer to Jim Cuddy, Dan Aykroyd and Jann Arden introducing 54-40, Osborne took the audience to the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beginnings in 1980, when the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was taken from the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; coined for an unsuccessful U.S. expansionist campaign.

Much storytelling unfolded during the concert â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about Osborneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsuccessful attempts to get zen with a Buddhist monk in Boulder, Coâ&#x20AC;Ś about his dealings with a drunk, belligerent fan in Kingston, Ont.â&#x20AC;Ś about his first date with his high-school crush (he snuck her into a Trooper concert at a Vancouver bar before she was of legal drinking age. After she was lured away briefly by a Trooper musician.

The Weeknd leads Juno nominees with six TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After dominating the Billboard charts for many months and landing an Oscar nomination and seven Grammy nods, the Weeknd is being recognized on home turf with a leading six Juno Award nominations.

The internationally acclaimed Toronto native, born Abel Tesfaye, is up for Junos including best album for the moody Beauty Behind the Madness as well as artist of the year, songwriter of the year and the fan choice award.

Next with five nominations apiece are Justin Bieber of Stratford, Ont., and Toronto rapper Drake. Both are also up for album of the year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bieber

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Canadian alternative rock band 54-40 played the International Beer Haus and Stage in Red Deer Monday.

Osborne remembers thinking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m forming a band!â&#x20AC;?)

I could have used more music and less chatter at times. But Osborne did give us some interesting back-stories.

On the origins of the tune Lost and Lazy: The singer/songwriter and guitarist recalled â&#x20AC;&#x153;lying on my bed, smoking a doobie and listening to Genesis,â&#x20AC;? when he heard his mother describe him as â&#x20AC;&#x153;kind of lost and definitely lazy.â&#x20AC;?

Osborne spoke movingly about his father during the introduction to Crossing a Canyon. When his dad was losing his battle with cancer, the singer had trouble expressing his feelings, so he rolled his unmoored emotions into this song. Given the acoustic ballad treat-

ment, it was one of the most powerful of the evening.

In between Osborneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banter (and virtually none from the other band members), many other familiar 5440 tunes were heard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; She La, Since When, a cabaret-like performance of Casual Viewinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Lies to Me, a hypnotic East Indian-sounding One Gun, and a fast, countrified version of Baby Ran (with banjo).

These were balanced by newer and lesser known songs, including The Waiting (which could have been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Bradâ&#x20AC;? because of all the waiting group members regularly do for bassist Brad Merritt, joked Osborne.)

There was a rollicking, version of the inspiring Keep on Walking, and melodic

for Purpose and Drake with If Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Reading This Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Too Late.

Breakout vocalist Alessia Cara of Brampton, Ont., and pop star Shawn Mendes of Pickering, Ont., each have four nominations.

Pop powerhouse Carly Rae Jepsen of Mission, B.C., who received critical kudos for her album Emotion and just made a splash in Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live TV production of Grease, only landed one nomination, for the fan choice award.

The Weeknd, Cara, Mendes, Bryan Adams and Dean Brody will be among the performers at the Juno Awards, which will air live from Calgary on CTV on April 3.

The best album of the year field includes Bieber, Drake, Mendes, the Weeknd and francophone Jean Leloup.

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Dressed in matching dark suits, the musicians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including multi-instrumentalist Dave Genn (formerly of the Matthew Good band) and drummer Matt Johnson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; looked more like dads these days than rockers. But then, 5440 was always more about the music than the attitude.

After playing together for so many years, the engaging group members proved consummate entertainers, who deserved the standing ovation they got from 100-plus fans.

But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heed Osborneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warning: We can only keep The Nothing at bay by supporting our live music scene. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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