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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Crown believes it’s a case of lust gone horribly wrong, but the defence wants the jury to truly consider if the Crown had enough evidence to prove the charge against the accused.

Kevin Roy Gladue, 38, is charged with aggravated sexual assault. It is alleged he tried to pull down the pants of a woman and when she tried to get away, he struck her in the face breaking her jaw. He is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before a judge and jury.

The woman, who can’t be named because of a court ordered publication ban protecting the identity of sexual assault victims, fled into the woods and went missing for 12 days.

Gladue took the stand Thursday as the only witness to present evidence on behalf of the defence. He said he wasn’t the person who assaulted the woman and didn’t know who did. After his testimony the Crown and defence gave their closing arguments to the jury.

Defence counsel Jason Snider called Gladue’s testimony reliable and consistent. He told jurors that even if they didn’t agree with him that Gladue was a good witness, the Crown had not presented enough evidence to convict his client. He said of the evidence presented by the Crown “that’s it?” saying there was no physical evidence, weapon, blood or evidence from the truck presented at trial.

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Liam Funk, 9, hangs on as he attempts to climb through the overhanging section of the bouldering room at the Collicutt Centre on Thursday evening. The Collicutt Centre offers a variety of rock climbing options, including the field-house wall, a two-storey simulated rock buttress in the main foyer of the centre and the bouldering room in the field-house.

Country turfs mementoes from memorial park

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Family members are upset they have been told to remove mementoes of their loved ones from a Gasoline Alley memorial park.

Frank Begg’s wife died in 2004 and the family chose to remember her by buying a tree from Parkland Funeral Home for the tree park.

The funeral home supplied a small plaque and the family also installed its own stone with Karen Begg’s name on it.

But now the family has been told the park has been turned over to Red Deer County, which has given families until April 15 to remove anything above ground level to allow for maintenance.

“I guess we’re just upset that they’re

telling us we can’t even lay claim to a tree anymore,” said Frank, who lives in Lacombe. “It’s not individualized anymore, it’s just going to be a tree park and we have to remove everything.

“I’m assuming most people have their loved ones’ ashes there, I know we do.”

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Trudeau sticks to guns on Energy East pipeline

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre left, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley at a roundtable with oil and gas industry goods and services providers in Calgary on Thursday. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr is at top left.

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The province’s oil sector is looking for signals that Trudeau is serious about seeing pipelines built that will move its commodity to where it can be shipped to foreign markets.

The Energy East project is seen as a key plank, but the controversial pipeline has drawn the ire of many along its route through Central Canada to the Atlantic coast.

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Red Deer man convicted of stabbing teen

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man has been convicted of using a knife when he was losing a street fight.

Victor Bert L’Hirondelle, 20, was convicted of aggravated assault for stabbing a teen during the summer of 2014. L’Hirondelle, 18 at the time of the fight, had been arguing with two teens through Facebook

on the evening of June 12, 2014. The three agreed to meet up at Eastview Middle School, near the intersection of 39th Street and 40th Avenue, for a fight.

L’Hirondelle tucked a five-inch blade knife into the front of his pants and went to meet the other boys.

On Wednesday, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Keith Yamauchi convicted L’Hirondelle of the single count, ending a three-day trial on the allegation.

A pre-sentence report was ordered and sentenc-

ing was adjourned to April 13 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

When L’Hirondelle arrived at the school he saw four people waiting for him. In an attempt to scare them off, he ran into the street and said he was crazy, on drugs and waved the knife. At trial, L’Hirondelle said he was sober.

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TRIAL: Jury anticipated to start deliberations Snider went on to characterize the complainant’s testimony as inconsistent and troubling.

Crown Prosecutor Ann MacDonald called it a simple case, saying who better to tell the jurors what happened to the victim than the victim. She called the woman an attentive, honest witness who listened and provided careful answers.

MacDonald said at an important part of the investigation, Gladue was not truthful.

Gladue was interviewed twice by police after the day the woman went missing. At first, while she was still missing, police spoke with Gladue and he gave a full statement.

When the woman was found, police approached and then arrested Gladue. In his second statement to police Gladue said he had blacked out for part of the day when the truck became stuck and the woman went missing.

In his testimony, Gladue said he was nervous and didn’t know what to say to police after being arrested. This and being hungover led him to say he blacked out.

Gladue had joined up with the woman and her family and friends to join in the off-roading fun. He went with them to Lodgepole, north of the O’Chiese reserve, to get alcohol. He said he saw everybody consuming alcohol, noting that some had appeared to be staggering.

The woman said she couldn’t keep alcohol down on July 14 and threw it up twice. She said she was hungover from the night before. Gladue said he saw the woman consume alcohol with the rest of the group.

When the truck became stuck, he tried to call for help. He phoned a friend of his, but they were out quadding somewhere. He tried calling his wife, but did not have consistent enough cellphone reception to facilitate a phone call.

Gladue texted a little bit, but then walked until he had a solid reception on his cellphone that he called and asked his common-law wife to come and pick him up.

He then walked out to the O’Chiese Road to meet up with his wife. He said the last time he saw the woman was when she was walking back towards the stuck truck. The two walked in opposite directions and didn’t talk to each other.

The wife was not called as a witness as their relationship had broken down after Gladue was arrested and she wanted to cut off contact with him.

The woman said she was sleeping in the truck as she stayed with the truck while four people went for help. She and Gladue were the only ones still at the truck. She said she woke up to Gladue pulling down her pants, exposing her buttocks.

She got up out of the car and walked away. When Gladue pursued, she told him to stop. She was hit in the face with an object that broke her jaw in two places. She did not see who hit her, but she ran into the woods and was lost for 12 days.

She was found alive, wandering an oil lease road about 10 kms from where she went missing.

The trial resumes today in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench with Justice Kirk Sisson giving his charge to the jury. The jury is then anticiapted to go into deliberations. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

MEMORIAL: Site visited regularly Frank and the couple’s three children have visited the site regularly to remember Karen.

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Formerly a memorial park operated by the Parkland Funeral Home, The Leva Ave Natural Area contains hundreds of trees and shrubs planted in memorial of clients of the Parkland Funeral Home. The County of Red Deer is requesting that all above ground items placed in the park to be removed before April 15.

Shelly Steenhart is Karen’s sister and is also upset about what is happening. In 2013, she paid Parkland $300 for a tree for her mother in the same park.

Removing the markers or other identifiers defeats the purpose of the memorial trees, she said.

“Even though the letter is saying it can still be enjoyed as a place of memorial, that’s really misleading because you can’t even leave an angel on a tree,” said Steenhart, who lives in Crossfield.

“There was no indication this memorial park was going to have an expiry date.”

Cody McIntosh, the county’s assistant agricultural manager, sympathizes with the families whose trees have sentimental value.

Parkland Funeral Home decided not to renew its lease because of the “high-level maintenance required,” McIntosh said.

The county was left to oversee a site dotted with about 1,000 trees on four acres. It is a job that ties up a pair of county crews for two days twice a month.

“We’ve kind of been handed the bag here and we need to line up the maintenance with something we’re able to handle and is consistent with other areas of the county,” said McIntosh.

The county does not operate or maintain anything similar elsewhere, he said. Cemeteries in the county are maintained by volunteers with financial support available from the county.

To make it practical for crews to maintain, the county has asked people to remove any memorial items above ground level. The county also wants to get away from using specific trees as individual memorials.

“The idea was to bring it back to a more naturalized state, and something that could still be used as a place of memory,” he said, of the site now renamed the Leva Avenue Natural Area.

As it stands, many trees are dead or diseased, but the county has been reluctant to cut down trees that also serve as someone’s memorial.

Last October, letters were sent out to hundreds of tree owners to explain the county’s plans. The funeral home was able to provide contact information for about 700 families from B.C. to Saskatchewan, although some letters came back returned.

Many contacted were not happy, he acknowledges, adding he has taken dozens of calls on the issue.

“Some people have been really extremely irate.

We realize it was sensitive and it was not a good message (but) we still have to send it still.”

Parkland Funeral Home owner Gordon Mathers doesn’t agree with the county’s suggestion that a decision not to renew the lease was behind all of the changes.

When the lease expired in 2013, Parkland continued to work with the county for two years in overseeing the park. But Mathers said he and the county did not share the same view of how the park should evolve.

“To be perfectly honest, it really didn’t have anything to do with the cost,” said Mathers, who bought Parkland in 2010 and inherited the lease from previous owners.

“I just couldn’t sign on with them (and) with their direction. They wanted to make it natural and I didn’t want that,” he said, adding he didn’t agree with removing the mementoes either.

Parkland was a sponsor of the memorial park but did not own the land and there was no understanding that the funeral home would lease it indefinitely, he added.

“Our intent was never to keep it anyway. It was always going to be returned to the county. That’s not a surprise.”

When Mathers took over Parkland, he posted a sign at the entrance that alerted families that any memorabilia could be removed at any time and Parkland reserves the right to turn the park over to the county without notice. It also reminded visitors that the site was not a cemetery and should not contain human remains or ashes.

Mathers said the last trees were sold in 2013 and Parkland told those who bought trees from May 2010on to let them know about the changes coming.

“We’ve been very, very respectful to the families we’ve served,” he said. “I wanted to make sure people weren’t told it was a tree forever because that’s not the case.”

Frank Begg understands that the county may have issues with maintaining the site but believes they should have sat down with families to consider other options, such as charging a yearly maintenance rate or allowing families to do their own upkeep.

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OTTAWA — Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says it’s up to the federal government to make the final call on pipeline approvals — not mayors or provincial premiers.

The ongoing debate over getting western Canada’s oil and gas to ocean ports continues to churn as Canada’s big city mayors meet for two days of talks in the national capital.

A group of Montreal-area mayors, fronted by former Liberal cabinet minister Denis Coderre, sparked a minor

national unity furor last month when they came out against the proposed Energy East pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark has also placed a set of conditions on a westward pipeline route through her province to the Pacific, raising questions about whether there are effectively regional vetoes over national energy infrastructure projects.

Nenshi says politicians are free to voice their opinions — just as they are

on their preference in dinner vegetables or their thoughts on NHL disciplinary suspensions.

But he says ultimately the federal government is responsible for pipeline approvals, based on the best assessment by the National Energy Board.

“Fundamentally this is a federal government responsibility, so those of us at the municipal order of government or provinces can talk about conditions or whatever we want — ultimately, it’s not our say,” Nenshi said.

The Calgary mayor offered that he doesn’t much like Brussels sprouts, but that doesn’t mean no one else

should eat them.

As for his Montreal mayoral counterpart Coderre, “he’s welcome to take a position” on Energy East, said Nenshi.

“I’d love to know what he thinks about (Calgary Flames defenceman Dennis) Wideman’s 20-game suspension, too.”

Coderre met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following his very public critique of the proposed $15.7-billion TransCanada line and toned down his rhetoric. But he bristled Thursday at questions about his right to question the pipeline proposal.

Fentanyl-related deaths doubled in 2015

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer had 15 fentanyl-related deaths last year and Central Alberta saw a total of 35.

Earlier this week, the province released 2105 fentanyl statistics showing the number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl climbed to 272, more than double the 120 deaths in 2014.

In the first six months of 2015, a total of 145 people in Alberta died from taking drugs in which fentanyl was detected.

Since July, Turning Point, formerly known as Central Alberta AIDS Network, has been one of eight agencies across Alberta giving out take-home

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TRUDEAU: Won’t prejudge NEB The prime minister was asked after the meeting if he told the industry that the federal government would approve Energy East if approved by the National Energy Board.

Trudeau repeated his criticism of the previous Conservative government and its politicization of pipelines. He said he would not do the same.

“I’m not going to prejudge or shortcut the NEB process as it goes

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STABBING: Punctured lung The four people did not back down, so L’Hirondelle got them somewhere dark and engaged with one of the teens. The fight lasted four punches, each person exchanging two blows.

The teen went down, and L’Hirondelle called for the other teen.

The second teen came out in a “boxing stance,” and landed several quick punches on L’Hirondelle.

Naloxone kits as part of the province’s response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

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

Tammy Rogers, Turning Point program manager, said her agency has distributed 189 kits in Red Deer and 59 lives were saved.

This week, 14 kits were given out as of Thursday.

“We can honestly say we’re doing work that’s saving lives and that’s what’s most important,” Rogers said on Thursday.

In January, Turning Point received funding to expand its Naloxone across Central Alberta.

“We already started community conversations in Caroline, Rocky Mountain House, with O’Chiese, and we’re in the process of doing some work in Blackfalds and Stettler.”

On Tuesday, Alberta Health Services announced 29 walk-in clinics around the province would also be prescribing and supplying Naloxone, including Red Deer Primary Care Network’s Street Clinic, at 160-5017 49th St., and Maskwacis Health Services.

“I think it’s great that Alberta Health Services has been able to have it available in other areas and it’s getting into the hands of people who need it,” Rogers said.

She said Turning Point was involved in local and provincial Naloxone discussions.

Fentanyl is about 100 times stronger than morphine and has been unexpectedly mixed into other street drugs.

But Naloxone is not just for fentanyl overdoses, she said.

“Naloxone will reverse any opiate overdose. It’s everything from heroin to morphine and OxyContin.”

Rogers said anyone who has access to opiates, whether it’s by prescription or not, and has the potential to overdose can access Naloxone.

Naloxone, which is injected intramuscularly, keeps people breathing until paramedics arrive. It’s possible for a person to lapse into an overdose again once Naloxone wears off so medical attention is required. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

forward,” Trudeau said. “It’s important that we have confidence in our regulators. It’s important they do their job and we’re going to allow them to do their job without political interference.”

The president and CEO of Suncor Energy (TSX:SU), Steve Williams, said the meeting with Trudeau was encouraging, but there were no guarantees about pipeline approvals.

“I think assurances is too strong a word. I think what we agreed was that we understood the need for them and we’re all going to go away and work towards that end,” Williams said.

Mark Salkeld, president of Petroleum Services Association of Canada, also found a reason for optimism after the meeting. He said industry players asked Trudeau to “be our champion”

because energy is Canada’s economic engine.

“We weren’t looking for handouts.

We weren’t looking for incentives to get us through to the next stage. We’re looking for things that will put our employees back to work,” said Salkeld.

Action is needed quickly, Salkeld added.

“It’s critical. I mean this industry is essentially on its knees right now in Canada. If we don’t get things moving relatively quickly there’s going to be a generational loss,” he said.

Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Trudeau was paying close attention.

“We just had a great conversation that talked about the urgency of some

of the challenges we’re facing,” she said. “There was no particular ask (from the participants).”

As he did in Edmonton on Wednesday, the prime minister continued to signal that changes are coming to make employment insurance easier to get for laid-off Albertans.

“We are working very hard, the minister of Employment is looking into it,” he said.

“As you know this was a commitment we made through the election campaign to strengthen EI to make it more responsive to people who actually need it … and now Alberta is facing some real challenges in needing it and we’re going to make sure that it’s there for them.”

L’Hirondelle attempted to back away, but the second teen grabbed L’Hirondelle’s shirt collar and lifted it over his face. The second teen the landed eight to 10 uppercuts.

Losing the fight, L’Hirondelle grabbed the knife out of his pants and swung it across the second teen’s body in a slashing motion. He cut the second teen across his body, puncturing his lung.

L’Hirondelle ran away as the four other people called the RCMP. L’Hirondelle threw the knife away, but then picked it back up and cleaned off his fingerprints.

He was arrested early the next morning in downtown Red Deer. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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A4 Think before panicking about Zika

Zika, the mosquito-borne virus tury, or the Black Death of the 14th spreading through the Americas that century, each of which killed between has been linked to thousands of babies a quarter and a half of the populations born with underdeveloped affected. brains (microcephaly), is The worst pandemic of just the latest new disease relatively modern times to spread panic around the was the “Spanish Flu” outworld. And wait! News just break of 1918-19, which in that it can be sexually killed between three and transmitted too! five per cent of the world’s There is real cause for people. It was bad, but it concern here. The virus is hardly compares with the almost bound to spread to older plagues. the rest of the world, except The slow-moving AIDS those parts with winters seepidemic has killed about vere enough to kill off the 30 million people since the two species of mosquito 1980s, or less than half of GWYNNE that bear it, Aedes aegypti one per cent of the world’s DYER and Aedes albopicti. And current population. Two these mosquitos are active million people died of OPINION during the day (unlike the AIDS in the peak year of Anopheles mosquitos that 2005, but the number of spread the malaria parasite), so in- deaths in 2015 was only 1.2 million. secticide-treated bed nets don’t offer New infections are also falling. much protection.

And Zika? So far as we know, it The World Health Organization has doesn’t kill anybody — apart from declared a global public health emer- some of the microcephalic babies, gency, and the media panic is building: about a quarter of whom die because first AIDS, now this. We are too many, their brains are too small to control we travel too much, and new pandem- their bodily functions. The majority, ics are Nature’s retaliation for our ma- who do survive, face intellectual disny sins. Clearly the apocalypse is upon ability and development delays us.

Four-fifths of the adults who are inWell, no, actually. New diseases fected experience no symptoms whathave been devastating human popu- ever, and the fever in those who do lations for at least 3,000 years, but no usually burns out in less than a week. modern pandemic compares with the Nor does the Zika virus remain in the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century body permanently: women who have CE, the Justinian Plague of the 6th cen- been infected are advised to wait six

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month before becoming pregnant (although many will probably choose to wait longer).

Zika has been around for quite a while. It was first identified in monkeys in Uganda in 1947, and the first human case was detected in Nigeria in 1954. It gradually spread east across Asia, and started crossing the Pacific early in this century. But by the time it reached Brazil last year, it had suddenly mutated into a form that causes microcephaly in some of the babies of infected mothers.

The link between Zika and microcephaly is only statistical for the moment, but it is pretty convincing. Brazil had only 150 cases of microcephaly in 2014, but it has had more than 4,000 cases in the past four months, and the Zika virus has been found in the brains of some of the afflicted babies.

This recent mutation in the Zika virus is not part of the endless seesaw battle between viruses and human immune systems. It is just a random event. It doesn’t even make Zika more infectious and thereby serve the “purposes,” so to speak, of the virus. It just has this deeply unfortunate side-effect of damaging the development of human embryos. And these days we have ways of dealing with it.

Infectious diseases were probably not a problem for our pre-civilized distant ancestors, but since we began living in dense populations highly infectious diseases have been civilization’s constant companions. And for most

of our history we had no way of controlling these diseases except quarantine.

In the past century, however, science has begun to get on top of the problem. Killer flu epidemics are still possible because the highly unstable influenza virus can mutate faster than we can create and mass-produce the appropriate vaccine, but smallpox has been eradicated and polio is on the brink of extinction: new polio cases have fallen 99 per cent in the past 25 years, and Africa is now entirely polio-free.

Even the ancient scourge of malaria (not a viral disease) is in retreat.

Deaths from malaria have halved in the past 15 years, and the new “genedrive” technology opens up the prospect of eventual eradication of the disease Now that Zika has become a problem researchers have started working on a vaccine, and in due course one will almost certainly become available. Another approach may be to target the species that propagate it by releasing genetically modified sterile mosquitos to reduce the size of the insect population. It will take time, and it may be necessary to use both approaches, but we are not facing a permanent global threat.

The glass is not half-empty. It is half-full, and still filling up.

Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Deciding on proper infrastructure will take all three levels of government As a resident in Alberta I am blessed with two new governments, provincial and federal. Both are seen as centre-left and controversial.

Red Deer, the city where I reside elected a new mayor and three new city councilors two years ago, and they did have the deer-in-the-headlights look about them for awhile, and I commented about invisible politicians. Not surprisingly they have found their footings and are starting to question the status quo, but that took time.

Federally, we have long term politicians who seem quite content with obscurity both, while previously in government and now in opposition.

Provincially, we have first-term politicians, who seemed surprised at winning their seat, and still have the deer-in-the-headlights look about them.

They seldom question the status quo, and are not informed enough in local politics to offer much input.

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ment is up, and infrastructure spending would be much appreciated. Who decides on what is to be built?

The Prime Minister or a Cabinet Minister cannot be expected to know, what is needed everywhere.

Premiers have a more provincial awareness of needs but as to riding specifics that would require local input.

Local politicians may have some ideas but they may not be thinking outside their bubble.

Perhaps a bridge is thought to be needed, but not necessarily needed. If traffic was rerouted or a school built, or a swimming pool built on this side of the river, that would negate the need for a bridge?

Perhaps a regional school or recreational centre instead of many smaller ones?

Immediate needs like roads and bridges may mean greater needs in the future. Traffic may mean expensive environmental issues in a few years. Expediency and convenience may compound the errors of the past and make remedial solutions impossible.

The need for immediate infrastructure spending is there and I whole-heartedly applaud the federal and provincial governments for acknowledging it.

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PM’s promises get lukewarm reception CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promises of fast-tracked infrastructure spending and employment insurance reform in Alberta have received a lukewarm reception among some oilpatch workers.

“It’s just a drop in the bucket of the billions that we’ve sent out east,” said pipeline contractor Chad Miller, 35, of $700 million to come for construction projects and another $250 million for Alberta from a federal fiscal stabilization fund.

Miller had been hoping to see some help for small-business owners and contractors and doesn’t see the infrastructure cash, or the promises of EI reform, helping him as he struggles to find work.

“I’m a small-business owner., I don’t pay into it, so them extending EI benefits is great for these employees, they need it, but what about the small entrepreneurs? That’s what Alberta’s driving on.”

Chase Scoville, 19, of Red Deer, said the money is a good start, but he worries about how it will be spent.

“That’s a lot of money, of course,” said Scoville.

“I just hope it doesn’t get spent too fast on the wrong things.”

He said EI reforms wouldn’t help him either since he’s still working to find an apprenticeship, but he thought Trudeau showed concern for what’s happening in the province.

“I do think he has quite a bit of concern about what’s going on over here, because he does realize how much Alberta means to Canadian resources and … how much Alberta puts out in Canada’s GDP every year.”

But he said he wasn’t confident Trudeau would push through pipeline approvals.

“I hope that it happens, but I just think it’s one of his backburner things.”

Jason Lawrence, 35, a pipefitter from Calgary, said he was frustrated with Trudeau’s noncommittal answer after being asked point-blank about supporting the Energy East pipeline. He would have liked to see the government take a clear stand either way.

“You can’t please everybody,” said Lawrence. “As soon as the government can make a decision, then in-

Building trades hopeful of federal help after meeting with Trudeau EDMONTON — The organization that represents the army of skilled tradespeople who work in Alberta’s hard-hit resource sector is hopeful after what it calls its “historic” meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Warren Fraleigh, executive director of the Building Trades of Alberta, spoke with Trudeau on Monday night about what Ottawa can do to help the 75,000 members of 16 unions weather the economic downturn.

“I think he gets it. We walked out of that meeting believing the prime minister meaningfully understands what our issues are and he is looking for ways to help us,” Fraleigh said Tuesday.

“They are truly interested and concerned about the challenges here in Alberta.”

Thousands of skilled workers from other provinces who were flying in and out of Alberta to work have been laid off and have gone home.

There are enough construction and facility maintenance projects to keep many of the workers who remain in the province on the job over the next few months, but they are expected to feel the crunch later this year and in 2017, Fraleigh said.

The unions want the federal government to do what it can to keep its members working, including those who are trying to complete their apprenticeships.

Fraleigh said they have asked Trudeau to

vestors can decide what they’re going to do. But right now it’s a whole lot of living in limbo.”

He said investor certainty is going to help the oil and gas sector, not infrastructure spending.

“This isn’t a problem that you’re going to solve by throwing money at it. The oilpatch has all kinds of money and if they were going to invest in this industry, they’d be doing it. There’s just not enough investor confidence right now.”

broaden the definition of projects that could receive federal infrastructure money beyond roads, schools and public buildings.

Part of the goal is to ensure that this force of skilled tradespeople such as pipefitters, boilermakers, electricians and welders doesn’t melt away before the economy picks up again.

Fraleigh said Trudeau didn’t make any promises, but appreciates that these people will be needed when the price of oil rebounds.

The federal government has been saying it wants to expedite $13 billion in existing national infrastructure cash allocated in 2014-15 by the previous Conservative government, but never spent. Of that sum, $704 million is earmarked for Alberta.

The building trades also want the federal government to improve and simplify the Employment Insurance system.

Skilled workers in other provinces hurting from the downturn also stand to benefit if Trudeau delivers, said Robert Blakely, spokesman for Canada’s Building Trades.

Blakely said there is hope that a measured response from Ottawa, with input from the labour movement, will lead to better programs.

He said since the Liberals took office in the fall there is a new spirit that things are going to happen.

“When was the last time a prime minister of Canada when going through Edmonton went and met with the business managers of the construction unions and said, ‘How’s it going and what can I do to help you?,”’ Blakely said from Ottawa.

“If nothing else, at least he is listening.”

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The study released by Alberta Health Services suggests about 6,700 cancer cases could be avoided each year if people took better care of themselves.

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LETHBRIDGE — A man has been sentenced to four months in jail for bringing a hatchet and small knife into an elementary school in southern Alberta.

Godfrey Shouting, who is 37, pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon dangerous to the public in Lethbridge provincial court.

Court heard that Shouting entered Mike Mountain Horse School saying someone was chasing him.

A staff member quickly ushered him to an empty room and the school was locked down for a short period.

He was given credit for pretrial custody, leaving him with 43 days to serve on his sentence.

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Anti-ISIL plan will include aid funding

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The next phase of Canada’s engagement in the global effort to root out Islamic militants will be unveiled within days and will include new aid funding, the federal international development minister said Thursday.

That was Marie-Claude Bibeau’s rationale for holding back on contributing new money at an international donors meeting in London that saw $10 billion committed between now and 2020 to help the victims of Syria’s civil war.

“We will be making our announcement in Canada with Prime Minister

(Justin) Trudeau, the minister of external affairs and the minister of national defence in a couple of days or so,” Bibeau told a conference call.

“Canada will remain a significant donor in terms of humanitarian assistance, and we will increase our contribution for development and resilience projects.”

Bibeau said it’s important for the government to announce a holistic approach that incorporates all of the military, diplomatic and humanitarian contributions.

Canada took a similar approach during the war in Afghanistan.

An evaluation of that $2-billion aid program by the former Canadian International Development Agency lat-

er found that “the ‘blurring’ of lines related to the politicization and militarization of humanitarian assistance” caused limitations on where humanitarian agencies could operate, among other problems.

Access for aid agencies is one the key challenges within Syria at present.

“We learned from our past experience,” Bibeau said of what lessons could be drawn from Afghanistan, but she declined to discuss it further until the formal announcement is made.

To date, Canada has committed $650 million in humanitarian aid for people affected by the Syrian civil war and $233 million for longer-term development.

In addition to the urgent humani-

tarian needs in Syria, the surrounding countries are struggling to deal with the influx of millions of refugees putting pressure on everything from schools to sewers.

In London on Thursday, Jordan’s King Abdullah said his country could not sustain unaided the burden of what he said was almost 1.3 million Syrian refugees — one-fifth of Jordan’s population.

The Jordanian figure includes all Syrians in the country, even those who came before 2011 the UN refugee agency says it has registered 630,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan.

“We are doing our best against very difficult odds,” the king said, but added: “We have reached our limit.”

Child care on agenda for Man pleads guilty in crash social services ministers that killed four, gets bail

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal families minister is heading west to meet his provincial and territorial counterparts to talk about the path forward on a national child-care system.

The meeting comes more than 10 years after former Liberal minister Ken Dryden and nine provinces agreed to create a national daycare program, only to watch the Conservatives end those agreements when they took office in 2006.

Social Development Minister JeanYves Duclos says the two-day meeting in Edmonton, which starts today, is a chance to talk anew about a national early learning and child-care framework and how it might look.

Duclos says provincial situations have changed over the last 10 years, with some offering early learning and child-care services that they didn’t offer a decade ago.

There are also financial pressures on provinces that could play into how far they are willing to go on a national child-care system.

“We’ll have to discuss quite frankly the type of ambitions we have in moving forward,” Duclos said. “So the

Prison workers brought kids to work: watchdog

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEWMARKET, Ont. — A driver who caused a horrific crash that killed three young children and their grandfather last year was returning from his bachelor party and was so drunk that he urinated on himself and needed help standing.

Marco Muzzo, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two of impaired driving causing bodily harm, before he was released on bail until his sentencing later this month.

Muzzo had faced a dozen counts of impaired driving and six more charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle related to the related to the Sept.

27 crash.

Anyone who pleads guilty without having a bail hearing is allowed to seek bail before sentencing, Judge Michelle Fuerst told the packed courtroom.

“This is not some sort of special privilege” granted to Muzzo, whose family is one of the wealthiest in the country, she said.

Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison,

The commissioner’s report, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, concluded the practice put the children in jeopardy.

He recommended the prison service ensure it is “aware of and actively monitoring” local practices in its institutions to ensure safety and consistency with policies.

The service’s regional and national headquarters were unaware of the practice, correctional commissioner Don Head said in a statement. The service takes the findings “extremely seriously” and has already moved to address the issues, he added.

their two-year-old sister Milly, and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, died after the van they were in was T-boned by an SUV in Vaughan, Ont. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously injured in the crash.

“A drunk driver killed my family and he admitted to it,” the children’s mother, Jennifer Neville-Lake, said outside court.

Neville-Lake said having the names of her children and father read out in court and associated with the charges was an emotional moment.

“Impaired operation of a motor vehicle resulting in the death of Gary Neville, resulting in the death of — those are my babies,” she said, choking back tears.

“I can’t think of anything he would have to say that might remotely, even possibly, make me feel any better,” she said when asked about Muzzo’s expected address to the family at the sentencing hearing.

The conditions of Muzzo’s $1-million bail, which his lawyer Brian Greenspan called “virtual house arrest,” include a curfew, a driving ban, a ban on drinking, and a no-contact order.

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OTTAWA — Many employees of a federal prison in Saskatchewan frequently brought their children to work, even though the institution housed child-sex offenders.

An investigation by public sector integrity commissioner Joe Friday found 21 people who worked at the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge — a Correctional Service of Canada facility — brought children to the penal institution at least 73 times since 2011.

listening aspect on my part will be extremely important.”

It isn’t the only item on the agenda.

The group will have to discuss how to implement the Liberals’ promised Canada child benefit that will replace the universal child-care benefit, but won’t be in place until July 1. Duclos said the group is also going to discuss ways to tackle the issue of aboriginal children in foster care.

Child care will be “an important element of our agenda,” Duclos said.

Child care is provincial responsibility with the federal government indirectly providing about $20 billion annually in provincial transfers, child and family benefits and tax breaks.

The federal government directly spends about $55 million annually on First National and Inuit child care, funding about 8,500 spaces nationwide.

It’s that spending power that gives the federal government a hand in the child-care system.

The Liberals promised a child-care framework in their election platform, but didn’t put firm numbers and details on what they wanted to see, as the NDP did in promising a $15-a-day program modelled on the government-funded system in Quebec.

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Judge grants bail to five men accused in child porn case MONTREAL — Five of 14 men accused in an alleged juvenile pornography ring in Quebec will be released while awaiting trial.

Three of the five appeared in front of a judge today and were given strict bail conditions, including having to hand in their passport and electronic devices. They are also prohibited from

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Jian Ghomeshi walks in front of protesters as he arrives at a Toronto courthouse with his lawyer Marie Henein (left) for the third day of his trial on Thursday.

Ghomeshi at a conference in Alberta in the summer of 2003, where they had friendly and slightly flirtatious conversations that ended with Ghomeshi giving her his business card.

The two emailed and phoned each other over the next month until DeCoutere, who lived in Halifax, made a trip to Toronto.

DeCoutere recalled they went out for dinner together — at one point Ghomeshi said he wanted to take her back to his home and hold her — and then walked to his house, though, she noted, she had no intention of having sex with him.

Shortly after they arrived, DeCoutere said Ghomeshi suddenly started kissing her, then grabbed her by the throat, pushed her up against a wall

and hit her repeatedly across the face with an open hand. “It just started, there was no buildup,� she said. “He started kissing me quite suddenly, and then it was interrupted when he pushed me up against the wall and the way I remember it, he hit me a couple of times and was looking at me and then he hit me again and then he stopped.�

DeCoutere testified that she did not consent to being choked or slapped, and that Ghomeshi initiated the kissing.

She added that being hit “didn’t feel sexual.�

The entire incident, which lasted about 10 seconds, left her stunned, court heard. “I remember not being able to

breathe shock and surprise,� she said. “I had never had an adult hit me before. We weren’t having an argument.

I was just completely bewildered by what happened, therefore I tried to brush it off.�

DeCoutere testified she didn’t leave Ghomeshi’s house right away because she didn’t want to be rude, didn’t want to anger Ghomeshi and “wanted to placate the situation.â€? “As I say this now it’s outrageous that I stayed and I didn’t just leave, but that was my reaction,â€? she said. “I was thinking that maybe this assault was a one-off. I was thinking everyone makes gaffes‌I had no framework for where to file it.â€?

Ghomeshi, meanwhile, didn’t seem to acknowledge the incident.

going to places frequented by children such as daycare and community centres.

The two others are expected to be released later in the day after appearing in front of Judge Silvie Kovacevich.

Vincent Rodrigue, 39, renounced his bail hearing as he was already in jail for an unrelated criminal offence at the time of his arrest in connection with the alleged porn ring.

The other eight accused are scheduled for a bail hearing next Tuesday.

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TORONTO — Jian Ghomeshi’s defence lawyer is challenging the memory and the conduct of the second woman to take the stand at his sexual assault trial.

Marie Henein is asking Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy DeCoutere why she never mentioned a kiss goodbye between her and the former CBC star to police after an alleged attack in 2003.

The lawyer said Coutere had detailed memories while giving a series of media interviews shortly after Ghomeshi was fired by the CBC in late 2014.

She asked why DeCoutere didn’t mention to investigators that she and Ghomeshi had kissed goodbye after an alleged assault in his home in the summer of 2003.

The actress and Royal Canadian Air Force captain has testified that the former broadcaster suddenly choked and slapped her while they were kissing at his home, and a year later joined her in a karaoke version of the Britney Spears song “(Hit Me) Baby One More Time.�

DeCoutere is one of three women behind five charges against Ghomeshi — four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. He’s pleaded not guilty.

The actress pushed back against Henein’s questions about why she spent time with Ghomeshi and his friends after the alleged assault. Henein presented photos of DeCoutere and the disgraced broadcaster together at a barbecue.

DeCoutere testified that kissing him after the alleged assault didn’t take away from the fact that Ghomeshi had assaulted her.

As in her cross-examination of the previous complainant, Henein hasn’t challeged DeCoutere’s allegation that Ghomeshi hit her, but has concentrated on other details of the time the two spent together.

DeCoutere is the second woman to testify at the 48-year-old’s trial, and positioned herself away from Ghomeshi as she took the witness stand.

DeCoutere — the only woman in the case who has waived her right to a publication ban — said she first met

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Oilers put up seven on Senators

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 7 Senators 2 OTTAWA — Thankfully the Ottawa Senators only have to face the Edmonton Oilers one more time this season.

Rookie sensation Connor McDavid and the Oilers embarrassed Ottawa in front of its home crowd with an ugly 7-2 beating on Thursday at Canadian Tire Centre.

Not surprisingly, the Senators held a closed-door meeting following the game to try and decipher just why things are falling apart.

“We definitely expected a little more than that (Thursday),” said Ottawa’s Zack Smith. “They’re playing with confidence over there and we knew that. I think they’re playing better than their record, for sure, but we were playing from behind all night and I think we’re struggling with that and changing our game.”

Jordan Eberle scored twice and added an assist to lead the Oilers (21-26-5), while McDavid, playing just his second game since returning from a broken clavicle, had two assists on the night.

Mark Fayne, Zack Kassian, Andrej Sekera, Leon Draisaitl and Brandon Davidson also scored for the Oilers. Cam Talbot made 26 saves for the win.

It was much of the same for struggling Ottawa (2323-6), which has now lost three straight and seven of its last ten.

Craig Anderson allowed three goals on ten shots before Andrew Hammond came in and allowed four goals on 18 shots.

Mike Hoffman and Mark Stone were the lone Senators to beat Talbot.

Ottawa gave up three early goals in the first and never recovered from its dreadful start. The Senators have allowed the first goal in 35 of 52 games this season. After the Senators performance it wouldn’t seem out of place for head coach Dave Cameron to want to rip into his players, but he says quite the opposite is needed.

“Am I going to go in there and embarrass them — no,” said Cameron. “I’m going to give them some solutions. I’ll suggest on what we work on and we’ll work on it. I’m not going to yell and scream. Those days are gone.

“Am I close to losing my patience? No, not at all.

They need me now.”

Fayne opened the scoring at the four-minute mark of the game as his shot from inside the blue-line beat Anderson after it was deflected by Ottawa’s Max Mc-

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Just 41 seconds later Eberle made it 2-0 as he used McDavid as a decoy on a two-on-one to beat Anderson. McDavid then got in on the action making a great pass to Eberle on the power play to make it 3-0.

“I don’t know why we’re playing the way we are, I don’t know why we’re giving up the number of chances that we are,” said Marc Methot, who returned to

the lineup for the first time after missing six games with a lower body injury. “It’s not going to win you any hockey games.”

Shortly after Anderson’s night came to an end as Hammond came in. Ottawa got out of the period with a goal as Hoffman scored on the power play.

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Bautista says he’d like to be Queens happy to have a Toronto Blue Jay for life Barthel home

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto slugger Jose Bautista would like to be a Blue Jay for life. It appears to be up to the team’s new front office to make the next move.

Bautista, who is entering the final year of his contract, is coming off one of his best seasons and helped the Blue Jays end their long playoff drought last year. He made it clear in a phone interview Thursday that he would like to finish his career with Toronto.

“It would be an honour if I had the opportunity to do so,” Bautista told The Canadian Press from Tampa, Fla. Now the question is when — or if — general manager Ross Atkins and/or team president Mark Shapiro will be willing to spend the big dollars needed to get him signed to another multi-year extension.

“I have to have something to consider at some point if I’m going to make that decision, which hasn’t happened yet,” Bautista said.

“So I’m going to continue to go about my business just like any other year and any other day because I don’t really have a decision to make right now.”

Bautista, who has been a top power hitter for several years, posted big numbers again last season with 40 homers and 114 RBIs. Teammate Edwin Encarnacion, who hit 39 homers and had 111 RBIs, is also entering the final year of his deal and their longterm status will be a key talking point with spring training set to begin this month.

Bautista said he recently had a positive meeting with Atkins and Shapiro at his Florida home.

“I think it well,” he said.

“They’ve spoken about how they want to get to know us, at least referring to myself and Edwin.

They’ve been the ones vocal about the fact that they’re considering extending us, which would be an honour for us if we get considered.

“They felt like they had the need to get to know us a little bit and I feel the same way. They’re new to the team, I don’t really know them personally or their style of management per se other than what I’ve seen or heard in the press from their previous jobs, which was to be conservative because you’re in a small market type of thing.

“That doesn’t mean necessarily that they’re going to come in with the same mindset if they’re handed a different set of tools or resources. So that’s what I’m trying to get to know and understand —

ers’ Association of America last December, Shapiro was asked whether contract extensions would be a top priority in the off-season.

“As I’ve said before, at some point they’ll be a priority,” he said. “We still have arbitration to deal with and roster construction, at some point, that will be a discussion.”

Bautista powered the Blue Jays to victory with a key homer — complete with epic bat flip — in the decisive fifth game of Toronto’s first-round playoff series win over the Texas Rangers. The Blue Jays went on to lose the American League Championship Series to the Kansas City Royals.

“Fans-wise, city-wise, having the country behind us and every other aspect of being a Toronto Blue Jay player is something that I love,” Bautista said. “Now hopefully that matches up with the new front office desire to win now, kind of like myself.

“So we’ll see. Only time will tell if that’s going to be synchronized.”

Coming out of high school McKenna Barthel liked the idea she was headed to the U.S. to play volleyball.

“My sister had some friends who played in the States and they said it was a good experience,” she explained. “They helped get my name out there plus I had a recruiting video made to show to coaches. I had several coaches call me and I went on a couple of visits to Texas and DANNY Iowa.”

RODE She settled on a full ride LOCAL SPORT scholarship to Iowa Western, which was the top Division I junior college in the nation for most of the season, finishing fifth at the nationals.

Six months later the Lindsay Thurber grad returned home to Red Deer.

“I wasn’t a fan of being so far from home,” she said. “I thought I’d like it and I didn’t. Still I’m glad I went. If I wouldn’t have I would have regretted it.”

Barthel returned home and committed to the RDC Queens this season, although she couldn’t play the second half of last year.

“Their season down there is from August to November, so when I returned home I already played the year so I wasn’t eligible to play until this year,” explained the 19-year-old, who talked with Queens head coach Talbot Walton prior to going south.

“You’re always interested in the elite local athletes,” he said. “She grew up in the Queens club system, who are players we like to target. I discussed her future with her and she was committed to going to the States. Fortunately for us she decided to return.”

Barthel practised with the Queens at the end of last season, which was a major step in feeling comfortable this season.

“It was like I was a veteran in that I knew the system and knew what Talbot expected rather than just coming in as a freshman.”

The six-foot native of Red Deer took over as starter on the right side right off the bat.

She feels the volleyball is McKenna Barthel similar in calibre she played at Iowa Western, except she plays both the front and back row at RDC. “They are much more position specific down there. I would play the front row and then they’d use a defensive specialist in the back row for me. I did miss playing the back row.”

Barthel is solid in both the front and back row and understands when she needs to work on.

“Last weekend my passing wasn’t where it needs to be, but other than that I need to stay consistent and making sure I get the big blocks.”

“McKenna understands the game and although she didn’t play with us last year she is like a veteran and is one of our leaders,” said Walton.

Playing on the right side she’s up against power hitters. So far this season she has 10 stuff blocks, tied with left side Kelsey Tymkow for the most on the team behind the middle blockers.

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Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista flips his bat after hitting a three-run homer during the seventh inning in Game 5 of the American League Division Series in Toronto on Oct. 14, 2015. Toronto slugger Bautista says he would like to be a Blue Jay for life. It appears to be up to the team’s new front office to make the next move. what kind of adjustments, if any, they’re going to make from their managerial style to now be in with a different team with a different set of circumstances like us.”

Atkins and Shapiro both previously worked in the Cleveland Indians’ front office. At a recent media availability in Vancouver, Atkins described the meeting with Bautista as “a great interaction.”

Bautista enjoyed a breakout season in 2010 when he hit 54 homers and drove in 124 runs.

The Blue Jays rewarded him the following off-season with a fiveyear contract worth a guaranteed US$65 million and his 2016 option was picked up at $14 million.

The team will likely have to pony up much more than that to keep him for 2017 and beyond.

Given the big-dollar free agent deals that were completed this off-season, a top-flight talent like Bautista would likely command an annual salary somewhere in the neighbourhood of $25 million.

Bautista added that his agent has not given the team any kind of deadline.

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THE ICE This week in Rebels history Rookie forward Ryan NugentHopkins fired three goals Ryan and also Nugent-Hopkins added three assists as the Red Deer Rebels whipped the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors 8-1 on Feb.4 of 2011. The Rebels, who got a 26-save performance from netminder Darcy Kuemper while being outshot 34-27, took advantage of a long series of undisciplined Moose Jaw penalties to score five power-play goals.

“They came out and tried to intimidate us, but we’re not really a team that backs down,” said Nugent-Hopkins. “They really helped us out. They got a lot of penalties against them and we really capitalized on the power play.” The Rebels super sophomore said he was just starting to find his scoring groove. “Honestly, I think I’m just shooting the puck more,”said Nugent-Hopkins. John Persson scored twice for the Rebels, while single goals were contributed

by Andrej Kudrna, who also collected five helpers, Brett Ferguson and Locke Muller.

Who’s a thief Prince George Cougars LW Jesse Gabrielle has sniped a Jesse leagueGabrielle best six shorthanded goals this season.

The 18-year-old native of Moosomin, Sask., acquired from the Regina Pats in August, is also enjoying a breakout season with 32 goals and 58 points in 53 games.

He said it “This is the lowest I’ve felt all year.

After being Luke really Pierce enthused about our efforts, we were really calm in between periods, talked about all the right things. To see that happen, it still hasn’t even really sunk in that that just happened. There is no explanation, there are no words, it’s inconceivable.”

— Kootenay Ice head coach Luke Pierce, to the Cranbrook Daily Townsman, following a 6-3 loss to the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings in which his club surrendered five unanswered thirdperiod goals.

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Making of a defensive deal

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter and forward Ivan Nikolishin are involved in an ongoing game of ‘Let’s Make a Deal’.

Coming off his finest WHL season in which he scored 16 goals and collected 62 points in 72 games with the defensive-minded Everett Silvertips, Nikolishin has already recorded 68 points — including 27 goals — in 51 contests with the Rebels this winter.

“It’s definitely different here, every coach has his own way of seeing the game,” the Moscow native said this week.

“Back in Everett we played more of a defensive game where we thought we could score one or two goals and then just play defence.

“Here, Brent gives me more freedom offensively, which I’d like to thank him (for). “But we still made a deal that in the D (defensive) zone and neutral zone I play his way but in the O (offensive) zone I can play my way.”

Sutter confirmed that the two have an agreement.

“I have a one-third, twothirds rule with him,”said the Rebels boss. “One-third of the ice he can do what he wants, yet two-thirds, in the neutral and defensive zones, he has to play the way we want him to play.

“He’s getting better at it.”

Sutter was confident that the off-season acquisition of Nikolishin would give the Rebels an offensive boost in a season that will culminate with the team hosting the Memorial Cup tournament. The 19-year-old has clearly lived up to expectations in that department, although he claimed that his individual numbers — which have him in seventh place in WHL scoring — are secondary in importance to team stats.

“I am really enjoying the year, but I don’t really pay any attention to how many points I have because it doesn’t matter,” said Nikolishin, who played two seasons in Everett before landing in Red Deer.

“I’d rather check the standings and see where we are as a team. That’s what matters to me.”

Accordingly, the importance of maintaining defensive responsibility is not lost on the five-foot-nine centre.

“For sure, defence wins you championships. Defence is really important,” he said.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Ivan Nikolishin of the Red Deer Rebels is hooked by Kobe Mohr of the Edmonton Oil Kings on a breakaway during WHL action at the Centrium on Dec. 28, 2015. Nikolishin has a deal in place with GM/head coach Brent Sutter, that Nikolishin can play the way he want in the offensive zone and play the game Sutter wants in the neutral and defensive zones.

Nikolishin is one of several skilled forwards on a team that should be capable of excelling down the regular-season stretch despite the absence of injured centre Conner Bleackley for roughly the next five weeks. But as the Russian pivot noted, onice expertise has to be coupled with commitment in order to achieve success.

“We have a lot of talent in that room but it only matters if we can work … if we can work with that talent,” he stated. “Talent doesn’t win you anything, only hard work wins.

We’re just going to try and work hard and play our best every day and from there on just see how it goes.”

Sutter would prefer to see his top players — Nikolishin included — pay more attention to detail on a consistent basis.

Certainly, he didn’t see that in last Saturday’s 2-1 home-ice loss

to the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings.

“I would like them to play a better five-on-five game on both sides of the puck,” he said.

“They’re great when they have the puck, yet at times they get to where they’re too creative with it, which leads to turnovers.

“They try to make things happen when there’s nothing there to be made. They have to be smarter players. They have to understand when the plays are there and when pucks have to be chipped in. When they don’t have the puck they have to be better players five-on-five by competing hard, backchecking hard and defending better.”

Sutter insisted there’s no need to enroll the likes of Nikolishin, Michael Spacek and Adam Helewka in a crash course in playing a 200-foot game.

“When they want to do it, they do it,” said Sutter. “It’s not

an issue … they know how to do it when they want to do it.

It’s just that skilled players like that like to pick and choose. For a winning team to have continued success you need everyone playing the right way.”

Naturally, Nikolishin has his long-term sights set on playing at a professional level. For now, though, he’s focused on the task at hand.

“Of course I would love to play pro, but I didn’t really think of where I was going to go next year,” he said.

“I am just trying to concentrate on this year because it’s a really big year for us. I will just play my best and see what happens.”

• The Rebels are in Cranbrook today to face the Kootenay Ice, then host the Moose Jaw Warriors Saturday at 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Herringer holding down the fort for Rockets Call it the 1/1A rule, in that the value of “Absolutely not,” he said. “I think I’ve goaltending depth can not be measured in said it a million times, my job is to stop anything but wins and losses. the pucks one day at a time and Quite simply, a WHL team that’s just what I’m going to try that does not possess two capato do. Jackson is a really good ble stoppers will experience goalie and if he comes back, more setbacks than victories then that’ll be good for the team, in the event that the No.1 goes but if he doesn’t, my job is just to down with an injury. play day-to-day and do the best The Kelowna Rockets have I can.” the luxury of two proven ‘ten● On the road for a two-game ders and they just happen to jaunt that opens tonight in Lethspell relief H-E-R-R-I-N-G-E-R. bridge and concludes with a SatWith veteran netminder Jackurday evening engagement with son Whistle — hands-down the the Red Deer Rebels, Dryden club’s MVP through the first Hunt and his Moose Jaw WarGREG half of the season — on the shelf riors teammates realize that it’s MEACHEM since just after Christmas, Mihigh time to apply the brakes. chael Herringer has taken the “This has to stop,” Hunt told INSIDER reins and helped the Rockets Matthew Gourlie of the Moose maintain their hold on top spot Jaw Times-Herald, following a in the Western Conference.

6-2 home-ice loss to the BranThe 20-year-old made his 13th consecu- don Wheat Kings Tuesday, a setback that tive start Tuesday and played a major role dropped the Warriors’ record to 2-5-1-0 rein the Rockets’ 2-1 win over the visiting Le- cord in their last eight games. thbridge Hurricanes, making 30 saves in a “We’ve lost six of the last eight. These first-star performance. last 20 games are huge to determine your “Herry was great. He gives us a chance fate. If we want to get ourselves into a good to win and that’s all you can ask, but he position we have to figure it out.” made some big saves down the stretch,” The Warriors are still comfortably in Rockets head coach Brad Ralph told Larry a playoff position, five points behind the Fisher of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “Men- second-place Prince Albert Raiders in the tally, he’s accepting the challenge of being East Division. But if they have any designs the starting goaltender, and his game has on moving up the ladder, they have to start definitely elevated, so it’s a real good sign winning on a consistent basis, and soon. for us.”

There’s no time like the present, alHerringer, in his second season with the though Hunt and his crew are facing a maRockets, insisted he’s not feeling any heat jor challenge with visits to the top two Cenwhile holding down the fort. tral Division teams.

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“We need to compete and see how hard we’re going to have to work to win these games,” said the overage forward. “Lethbridge is a great team. Red Deer is a great team. They’re where they are for a reason.

We can’t be intimidated and I’m excited for these two games. I’m excited to see how we regroup and the effort we put forth in these next two games.” ● Just notes: During a two-game audition with the Regina Pats, Robbie Holmes resembled one of those rare players who produce at a higher rate at a higher level.

The 16-year-old prospect appeared in two games with the Pats last weekend and potted a goal in each outing and also recorded an assist before rejoining the midget AAA Sherwood Park Kings. Impressive, considering he was an 11th-round selection of the Pats in the 2014 WHL bantam draft and has just nine points (5g,4a) in 23 games with his midget squad this season. “He looks like he’s going to be a real good player,” Regina head coach/GM John Paddock told Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post. “It was nice to see a young guy come into your lineup and play like that.” … Lethbridge Hurricanes sophomore Stuart Skinner has been named the Vaughn WHL goaltender of the month for January. The 17-year-old Edmonton native posted a record of 5-1-0-0 over six appearances in January. He also recorded a 1.50 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage to go along with two shutouts. In the six games he started, Skinner held the opposition to two goals or fewer in five of those contests. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Queens edge Trojans in overtime Queens 2 Trojans 1 (OT) Ten seconds into the RDC Queens meeting with the SAIT Trojans at the Arena Thursday it appeared as if the home team could be in for a long night.

SAIT defenceman Tashel Scantlebury scored from centre ice when her shot hit RDC netminder Jen West’s blocker and deflected back into the net.

But instead of letting it bother them the Queens showed their maturity as they shook it off and pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory.

“One of the best things about our team is the perseverance and ability to dig deep,” said Queens forward Julia Murrell, who’s power play goal at 2:32 of the third period tied the game. “Every team overcomes some adversity and that’s one thing we really do well as a team. We battle through it.”

Queens head coach Kelly Coulter stayed with West for the first two periods then switched to Alex Frisk in the third.

“Our goalies have been there all season for us and it’s our job to pick them up when a goal goes in that maybe shouldn’t,” he said. “They’ve bailed us out many times. It takes a team to win and a team to lose. The girls did a good job of not getting worked up about it and battling back.”

West also didn’t let the unfortunate goal affect her as she kept the game within striking distance over the first 40 minutes, finishing with 10 saves.

Frisk wasn’t tested that much, facing three shots in the third and none in the overtime.

Jade Petrie notched her fifth goal

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BARTHEL: Enjoys blocking “Blocking is something I really enjoy, especially against good players.”

Barthel learned the game in school and with the Queens Club program.

She always played power hitter until she joined the U16 provincial team.

“They played me some on the right side and it went from there,” explained Barthel, who also played on the provincial U17 team.

“I didn’t play U18 because I had to leave for the States in July,” she said.

Barthel, who has 77 kills, 13 assists, 13 aces, 104 digs and 10 blocks in 56 sets this season, is in business and

of the season at 3:22 of the five-minute four-on-four overtime period on a great individual effort. She took a pass from Ashley Graf, went around a defenceman on an excellent cross-over move and beat SAIT netminder Laticia Castillo with a quick low shot.

“She did a great job,” said Coulter.

“Peti is a goal scorer and did what she does. She was the right person out there at the right time.”

Murrell was also the right person as she got the Queens rolling with her fourth marker of the season.

“The coaches have been telling me to shoot more and I took their advise and it worked,” said Murrell, who has scored in each of the last two games.

“It’s picking up and I have to credit my linemates. We talked on the shift before about creating momentum, about having a good shift and working together.”

Coulter made several changes to his lines throughout the evening in an effort to find some offence, but kept Murrell’s line intact.

“He was trying to find who was working well together, find some chemistry,” said Murrell, who played two seasons with Grant MacEwan prior to joining the Queens. “Our line has played well together, We’re connecting … talking on the bench. Communication is a big thing.”

Coulter likes the way Murrell is performing.

“Megan (assistant coach Abt) has been talking with Julia about shooting more as she has a great shot and vision around the net. It’s nice to see her rewarded, but even in tryouts you could see how well she manages the puck and does the little things. She makes us successful as a team and when she chips in offensively that’s even more of could be around for some time.

“I will be back next year for sure,” she said. “I can finish my degree here if I want to so I could keep playing for several years.”

Which will be fine with Walton.

“She has good skill … an elite level athlete,” he said. “She has the opportunity to be a top player in the league.”

The two-time defending national champion Queens have been inconsistent this season, something they need to correct before the ACAC playoffs, set for Feb. 25-27 at RDC. “I think we haven’t had the confidence we need at all times,” said Barthel. “When things start going against us we let mistakes bother us instead of shaking them off. No one is perfect and we just need to be consistent.”

That’s been obvious of late as the Queens split a weekend doubleheader with the Briercrest Bible College Clippers, who came in ranked No. 4 in

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RDC Queens Hockey Red Deer College Queen Kaely McMurty makes a pass as she is covered by SAIT Trojan player Lindsey Rose during college hockey action at the Arena in Red Deer, Thursday. a bonus.”

The win gave the Queens a 15-2-2 record and wrapped up first place, which is secondary to the team’s ultimate goal.

“First place means nothing, the playoffs are a different story,” said Murrell. “We’re just trying to keep up the pace the whole season and not let the other teams have an edge.”

Coulter agrees. “(First place) is a milestone, but not our ultimate goal,” he said. “We worked hard for home ice advantage in the playoffs, which is important, but

we have to continue working hard.”

The Queens finished with 39 shots on Castillo. The teams meet again at SAIT on Saturday. The Queens face NAIT and Olds in home-and-home series to finish their regular season. Olds lost 3-1 to NAIT Thursday to be eliminated from the playoffs. The Queens face NAIT Thursday at the Arena. As of now the two would meet in the first round of the playoffs.

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

Canada, then the next weekend split a doubleheader with the Ambrose Lions, who were last in the South Division.

Barthel feels they can play with anyone in the league and having home court in the playoffs will help.

“Hosting is good for us, especially with a good fan base.”

The Queens need to show their consistency this weekend as they host Lethbridge Friday (6 p.m.) and Saturday (1 p.m.). RDC has an 11-7 record and tied with Olds for third place in the South back of BBC (16-4) and SAIT (144). Lethbridge is 3-17.

The Kings have wrapped up first place in the South with a 17-1 record with Lethbridge, the only team to defeat them this season, at 12-8. Medicine Hat is at 11-7 and SAIT at 9-9.

The men’s ACAC finals are set for Feb. 25-27 at NAIT. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@ reddeeradvocate.com.-

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“The thing that impresses me most about (McDavid’s) game is he always makes the simple play,” said Eberle.

“I know he’s got all this skill and speed, but if he doesn’t feel comfortable in beating guys he’ll make the safe play.”

Considering this was just McDavid’s second game back, one can only imagine what he’ll create in a couple of weeks.

“I felt pretty good about it,” said McDavid.

“It was a better team game than anything else. Any time you can put up seven in the NHL it’s a good night for the team.”

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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 145 159 169 180 165 212

Pt 68 62 57 49 41 40

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 51 36 15 0 0 211 51 32 16 1 2 191 51 30 19 1 1 171 52 22 23 6 1 145 52 20 28 3 1 165 51 8 39 4 0 107

GA 144 145 161 161 208 225

Pt 72 67 62 51 44 20

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Kelowna 51 35 13 3 0 182 Victoria 52 32 15 2 3 183 Prince George 53 31 19 2 1 193 Kamloops 51 23 20 5 3 168 Vancouver 53 20 28 3 2 154

GA 142 122 159 167 191

Pt 73 69 65 54 45

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 50 30 16 2 2 131 50 28 19 3 0 154 50 25 20 3 2 171 51 25 24 2 0 165 50 23 25 2 0 166

GA 108 140 172 162 185

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Brandon 51 32 15 2 2 194 Prince Albert 51 28 17 5 1 164 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

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Wednesday’s results Prince Albert 3 Prince George 1 Spokane 6 Vancouver 2 Everett 3 Portland 2 Seattle 3 Kamloops 1 Victoria 4 Calgary 1 Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

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

Medicine Hat at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Calgary at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Kamloops, 5 p.m.

Prince George at Regina, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Brandon, 6:30 P.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

Calgary at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games No Games Scheduled.

WHL Scoring Leaders

Dryden Hunt Brayden Burke Adam Brooks Tyson Baillie Parker Bowles Reid Gardiner Ivan Nikolishin Giorgio Estephan Alex Forsberg Kailer Yamamoto Jesse Gabrielle Tyler Wong Egor Babenko Nolan Patrick Chase Witala Collin Shirley Brayden Point Mathew Barzal Jon Martin Brett Pollock

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A 44 57 47 41 40 37 41 36 42 45 26 31 33 37 26 28 33 43 23 37

Pts 76 75 74 70 69 68 68 63 63 63 58 58 58 58 57 57 57 57 56 56

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NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 51 31 15 5 146 113 67 50 28 18 4 133 118 60 51 27 18 6 153 137 60

Washington NY Rangers NY Islanders

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 49 36 9 4 163 111 76 51 28 18 5 148 134 61 49 26 17 6 137 124 58

Detroit New Jersey Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carolina Montreal Ottawa Toronto Buffalo Columbus

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

WILD CARD GP W L OL 51 25 18 8 52 26 20 6 49 25 17 7 49 23 18 8 52 23 21 8 52 24 24 4 52 23 23 6 50 19 22 9 52 21 26 5 53 20 28 5

GF 126 119 127 119 124 140 146 121 120 136

GA Pts 133 58 123 58 125 57 132 54 139 54 142 52 168 52 139 47 141 47 169 45

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 55 35 16 4 154 127 74 52 33 14 5 171 139 71 54 29 17 8 131 131 66

Los Angeles San Jose Anaheim

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 51 31 17 3 137 119 65 50 27 19 4 147 133 58 49 24 18 7 108 115 55

Colorado Nashville Minnesota Arizona Vancouver Calgary Winnipeg Edmonton

WILD CARD GP W L OL 54 27 23 4 52 24 20 8 51 23 19 9 51 24 21 6 51 20 19 12 49 22 24 3 50 22 25 3 52 21 26 5

GF 147 132 126 137 123 130 129 134

GA Pts 148 58 138 56 124 55 157 54 141 52 147 47 145 47 152 47

Wednesday’s results Buffalo 4 Montreal 2

Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 1 Calgary 4 Carolina 1

Today

Thursday’s results N.Y. Rangers 4 Minnesota 2 Boston 3 Buffalo 2 (SO) Washington 3 N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 6 Detroit 3 Edmonton 7 Ottawa 2 Toronto 3 New Jersey 2 (SO) Philadelphia 6 Nashville 3 San Jose 3 St. Louis 1 Dallas 4 Colorado 3 (OT) Chicago 5 Arizona 4 (OT) Anaheim 4 Los Angeles 2 Columbus 2 Vancouver 1 (SO) Friday’s games Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Washington at New Jersey, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Detroit, noon Edmonton at Montreal, noon Pittsburgh at Florida, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Boston, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s games Philadelphia at Washington, 12 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 2:30 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 2:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Oilers 7 Senators 2 First Period 1, Edmonton, Fayne 2 (Hendricks, Korpikoski), 4:29. 2, Edmonton, Eberle 13 (McDavid, Pouliot), 5:10. 3, Edmonton, Eberle 14 (McDavid, Pouliot), 11:16 (pp). 4, Ottawa, Hoffman 23 (Karlsson, Ryan), 14:23 (pp).

Penalties—Gryba, Edm, major (fighting), 9:25 McCormick, Ott, major (fighting), 9:25 Neil, Ott (interference), 10:53 Pouliot, Edm (hooking), 14:06.

Second Period 5, Ottawa, Stone 13 (Karlsson, Pageau), 6:46. 6, Edmonton, Kassian 2 (Draisaitl, Gryba), 12:58.

Penalties—Fayne, Edm (hooking), 7:02 Gryba, Edm, major (fighting), 14:57 Smith, Ott, major (fighting), 14:57 Nurse, Edm (interference), 18:06.

Third Period 7, Edmonton, Sekera 6 (Eberle, Letestu), 2:24 (pp).

8, Edmonton, Draisaitl 14 (Hall, Purcell), 5:53. 9, Edmonton, Davidson 3 (Pakarinen, Korpikoski), 16:56 (pp).

Penalties—Prince, Ott (tripping), 2:06 Nurse, Edm, major (fighting), 6:25 McCormick, Ott, major (fighting), 6:25 Nurse, Edm (high-sticking), 12:43 C.Wideman, Ott (roughing), 15:21.

Shots on Goal Edmonton 13-10-5—28.

Ottawa 13-10-15—38.

Power-play—Edmonton 3 of 3 Ottawa 1 of 4.

Goalies—Edmonton, Talbot 11-15-3 (38 shots-36 saves). Ottawa, Anderson 20-17-4 (10-7), Hammond (11:41 first, 18-14).

Golf PGA-Phoenix Open Thursday At TPC Scottsdale, Stadium Course Scottsdale, Ariz.

Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,266 Par: 71 (35-36) Partial First Round Rickie Fowler 33-32—65 Shane Lowry 34-31—65 Hideki Matsuyama 33-32—65 Anirban Lahiri 34-32—66 Danny Lee 34-33—67 James Hahn 34-33—67 Greg Owen 32-35—67 Brooks Koepka 34-33—67 Brandt Snedeker 32-35—67 Tyrone Van Aswegen 33-35—68 Blayne Barber 33-35—68 Daniel Berger 35-33—68 Ryan Moore 33-35—68 Webb Simpson 34-34—68 Keegan Bradley 33-35—68 Ben Crane 34-34—68 Harris English 34-34—68 Will Wilcox 35-33—68 Daniel Summerhays 35-33—68 Kevin Na 33-35—68 Chad Campbell 36-32—68 Bo Van Pelt 34-34—68 Kevin Chappell 34-34—68 Brett Stegmaier 33-35—68 Aaron Baddeley 36-32—68 Martin Laird 34-35—69 Jon Curran 36-33—69 Colt Knost 37-32—69 Charlie Beljan 33-36—69 Phil Mickelson 38-31—69 Chesson Hadley 33-36—69 Matt Jones 34-35—69 John Huh 34-35—69 Patton Kizzire 34-35—69 William McGirt 34-35—69 Steve Wheatcroft 34-35—69 Scott Brown 34-35—69 Kyle Stanley 34-35—69 Bubba Watson 34-35—69 Steve Stricker 35-34—69

Charles Howell III Si Woo Kim Harold Varner III Ryan Palmer Matt Every Robert Streb Camilo Villegas Alex Cejka Ben Martin Michael Kim Mark Hubbard Chez Reavie Scott Stallings Tony Finau Kevin Kisner Jason Dufner Geoff Ogilvy Patrick Rodgers Whee Kim Brendon de Jonge Jeff Overton Peter Malnati Hunter Mahan Retief Goosen

34-36—70 34-36—70 34-36—70 35-35—70 35-35—70 34-36—70 35-35—70 34-36—70 37-33—70 34-36—70 34-36—70 35-35—70 35-35—70 35-36—71 37-34—71 35-36—71 33-38—71 36-35—71 35-36—71 34-37—71 36-35—71 34-37—71 35-36—71 36-35—71

LPGA-Coates Championship Friday At Golden Ocala Golf Club Ocala, Fla. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,541 Par: 72 Partial Second Round Play was suspended by bad weather Haru Nomura 72-66—138 Austin Ernst 73-68—141 Julie Yang 71-70—141 Amy Yang 70-71—141 Brianna Do 70-72—142 Charley Hull 70-73—143 Caroline Masson 70-73—143 Tiffany Joh 73-71—144 Daniela Iacobelli 72-72—144 Min Lee 71-73—144 Ai Miyazato 77-68—145 Catriona Matthew 75-70—145 Katie Burnett 73-72—145 Hee Young Park 72-74—146

Christina Kim Sarah Kemp Jacqui Concolino

75-72—147 74-74—148 73-75—148

Leaderboard Lydia Ko Ha Na Jang Haru Nomura Kelly Tan Xiyu Lin Lizette Salas Suzann Pettersen Jessica Korda Hyo-Joo Kim Sakura Yokomine Michelle Wie Brooke Henderson Juli Inkster Chella Choi Lexi Thompson Candie Kung In Gee Chun Sei-Young Kim Kim Kaufman Jodi Ewart Shadoff

SCORETHROUGH -7 17 -7 -6 18 -6 3 -5 16 -5 16 -4 17 -4 15 -4 15 -4 15 -4 14 -4 15 -4 1 -4 2 -4 15 -4 2 -4 16 -4 -4 -4 -

Omega Dubai Desert Classic Thursday At Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course) Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $2.65 million Yardage: 7,327 Par: 72 (35-37) First Round a-amateur Alex Noren, Sweden 31-35—66 Brett Rumsford, Australia 34-33—67 Trevor Fisher Jr., South Africa 35-32—67 Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain 34-33—67 Peter Hanson, Sweden 35-32—67 David Lipsky, United States 34-34—68 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 33-35—68 Simon Dyson, England 33-35—68 Alvaro Quiros, Spain 34-34—68 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 35-33—68 Ernie Els, South Africa 33-35—68 Chris Wood, England 36-32—68

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended San Diego RHP Ryan Butler (Lake Elsinore-Cal) and Oakland RHP Sean Murphy (Midland-TL) 50 games for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated LHP C.J. Riefenhauser for assignment. Agreed to terms with LHP Brian Matusz on a one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Released RHP Louis Coleman.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Miller Diaz on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with INF Howie Kendrick on a two-year contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with 3B Don Kelly on a minor league contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated RHP A.J. Schugel for assignment.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with RHP Fernando Rodney on a one-year contract. Traded RHP Odrisamer Despaigne to Baltimore for RHP Jean Cosme. Named Mark Rogow trainer, Casey Myers staff co-ordinator and Matt Klotsche director of baseball information services. Promoted Pete DeYoung to director of professional scouting, Ben Sestanovich to assistant director of player development and Brian McBurney to director of baseball research and development.

American Association

STORY FROM B1

BAUTISTA: Second chance Bautista, who made his bigleague debut in 2004, played 142 games with Pittsburgh in 2007 and was dealt to the Blue Jays the following year.

“I’d be a fool not to consider being extended by the franchise that gave me a second chance to be an everyday player in the big leagues and then experience a ton of success,” he said.

The right-fielder is still very much in his prime at 35 and feels he can play at a high level for several years to come.

“I have to go by how I feel and I feel great,” Bautista said.

“I feel like I could play for another 10 (years). Whether that’s realistic or not, again time will tell. But I have no set number of years that I would like to play

• 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

from injured reserve.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Aaron Ness from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Lake Erie D Jaime Sifers two game.

LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled G Martin Ouellette from Reading (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned F Alex Belzile and Troy Bourke to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Returned F Zac Larraza to Manchester (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES — Assigned F Eric Faille to Orlando (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Alaska LW Collin Valcourt two games.

BRAMPTON BEAST — Signed F Tyler Henry.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLORADO RAPIDS — Signed D Mekeil Williams.

COLUMBUS CREW — Signed M Rodrigo Saravia and F Ola Kamara.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Extended their affiliation agreement with Wilmington (USL).

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Named Paul Greig and Jill Loyden assistant coaches.

United Soccer League LOUISVILLE CITY FC — Agreed to terms with F Matt Fondy.

SAN ANTONIO FC — Signed MFs Rafael Castillo and Victor Araujo, G Matt Cardone and D Max Gunderson.

moving forward.

“I’ll play until they tell me that I can’t or they kick me out or they just send me home.”

The Blue Jays were eliminated in six games by the Royals, who went on to win the World Series. It was Toronto’s first playoff appearance since winning a second straight World Series in 1993.

If Bautista tested the market in the next off-season, he would be a headliner in what is expected to be a weak crop of freeagent outfielders.

“When spring training comes I’ll worry about spring training.

When the season comes I’ll worry about that and if I become a free agent, I’ll worry about it when I come a free agent,” Bautista said. “I don’t think that far ahead.”

Bautista will return to Toronto next week to serve as a coach at the NBA all-star celebrity game on Feb. 12 at the Ricoh Coliseum. The NBA allstar game is set for Feb. 14 at Air Canada Centre.

Chiefs struggle on penalty kill, get buried by Avalanche MIDGET AAA HOCKEY The Red Deer North Star Chiefs surrendered three power-play goals Wednesday and dropped a 4-2 Alberta Minor Midget AAA Hockey League decision to the visiting Airdrie/Cochrane Avalanche.

Braydon McLaughlin and Jordan Adams scored for the Chiefs, who got a 22-save outing from Justin Verveda. North Star held a 36-26 edge in shots.

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

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

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

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 34 16 .680 — Boston 29 22 .569 5 1/2 New York 23 29 .442 12 Brooklyn 12 38 .240 22 Philadelphia 7 42 .143 26 1/2

Atlanta Miami Charlotte Washington Orlando

Cleveland Chicago Indiana Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 29 22 .569 28 22 .560 24 25 .490 21 26 .447 21 27 .438 Central Division W L Pct 35 13 .729 27 21 .563 26 23 .531 27 24 .529 20 31 .392

GB — 1/2 4 6 6 1/2 GB — 8 9 1/2 9 1/2 16 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 41 8 .837 — Memphis 29 20 .592 12 Dallas 28 24 .538 14 1/2 Houston 27 25 .519 15 1/2 New Orleans 18 31 .367 23

Oklahoma City Utah Portland Denver Minnesota

Golden State L.A. Clippers KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed INFs Starlin Rodriguez and Vladimir Frias.

Can-Am League SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Connor Hofmann and INF Jalen Harris.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Released RHP Carlos Mirabal.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F/C Donatas Motiejunas from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

Women’s National Basketball Association ATLANTA DREAM — Signed G Carla Cortijo.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Named Josh Schuler assistant strength and conditioning coach.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WRs Issac Blakeney and Tobais Palkmer and CBs Montell Garner and CB Al-hajj Shabazz to reserve/future contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Winnipeg F Alexander Burmistrov $2,000 for diving/embellishment.

DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Branden Troock from Idaho (ECHL) to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Jakub Kindl from Grand Rapids (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Assigned LW Luke Gazdic to Bakersfield (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled G Steve Michalek from Quad City (ECHL) to Iowa (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated D John Moore

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.

Northwest Division W L Pct 38 13 .745 23 25 .479 24 27 .471 19 31 .380 15 36 .294 Pacific Division W L Pct 45 4 .918 32 17 .653

GB — 13 1/2 14 18 1/2 23 GB — 13

Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

21 14 11

28 37 41

.429 .275 .212

24 32 35 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 124, Philadelphia 86 Charlotte 106, Cleveland 97 Indiana 114, Brooklyn 100 Boston 102, Detroit 95 Oklahoma City 117, Orlando 114 Golden State 134, Washington 121 San Antonio 110, New Orleans 97 Miami 93, Dallas 90 Utah 85, Denver 81 Chicago 107, Sacramento 102 Minnesota 108, L.A. Clippers 102 Thursday’s Games Detroit 111, New York 105 Houston 111, Phoenix 105 L.A. Lakers 99, New Orleans 96 Toronto 110, Portland 103 Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

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

Chicago at Denver, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Utah, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Portland at Houston, 3 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 4 3 1 .750 51 Georgia 5 3 2 .600 66 Rochester 4 2 2 .500 47 Buffalo 4 2 2 .500 47 Toronto 5 0 5 .000 42

Colorado

GP 5

West Division W L Pct. 4 1 .800

GA GB 33 — 60 .5 41 1 45 1 68 3.5

GF 71

GA GB 60 —

GF 44 46 44 37 31 38 32 30 27 24 43 25 32 23 29 23 28 25 28 18

GA Pts 26 50 23 47 19 45 22 45 21 40 28 39 24 34 34 34 26 33 28 33 34 32 29 31 34 29 31 29 39 28 32 26 46 23 44 21 47 19 40 13

Saskatchewan Calgary Vancouver

3 4 4

2 2 1

1 2 3

.667 .500 .250

33 41 38

31 1 41 1.5 57 2.5

WEEK SIX Friday, Feb. 5 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 6 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Georgia at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Soccer English Premier League GP W D Leicester City 24 14 8 Manchester City 24 14 5 Tottenham 24 12 9 Arsenal 24 13 6 Man United 24 11 7 West Ham 24 10 9 Southampton 24 9 7 Liverpool 24 9 7 Watford 24 9 6 Stoke 24 9 6 Everton 24 7 11 Crystal Palace 24 9 4 Chelsea 24 7 8 West Brom 24 7 8 Bournemouth 24 7 7 Swansea 24 6 8 Norwich 24 6 5 Newcastle 24 5 6 Sunderland 24 5 4 Aston Villa 24 2 7

L 2 5 3 5 6 5 8 8 9 9 6 11 9 9 10 10 13 13 15 15

Tuesday, Feb. 2 Arsenal 0, Southampton 0 Leicester City 2, Liverpool 0 Norwich 0, Tottenham 3 Sunderland 0, Manchester City 1 West Ham 2, Aston Villa 0 Crystal Palace 1, Bournemouth 2 Manchester United 3, Stoke 0 West Brom 1, Swansea 1

Wednesday, Feb. 3 Everton 3, Newcastle 0 Watford 0, Chelsea 0 Saturday, Feb. 6 Manchester City vs. Leicester City, 1245 GMT Aston Villa vs. Norwich, 1500 GMT Liverpool vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Everton, 1500 GMT Swansea vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Tottenham vs. Watford, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. West Ham, 1730 GMT Sunday, Feb. 7 Bournemouth vs. Arsenal, 1330 GMT Chelsea vs. Manchester United, 1600 GMT England League Cup FINAL Sunday, Feb. 28 Liverpool vs. Manchester City in London, 1630 GMT England FA Cup FOURTH ROUND Tuesday, Feb. 9 West Ham vs. Liverpool, 1945 GMT Wednesday, Feb. 10 Peterborough United vs. West Bromwich Albion, 1945 GMT

TORONTO RAPTORS PORTLAND, Ore. — Kyle Lowry had 30 points, DeMar DeRozan added 29 and the Toronto Raptors snapped Portland’s five-game winning streak with a 110-103 victory over the Trail Blazers on Thursday night.

Damian Lillard had 27 points and 11 assists, while CJ McCollum added 21 points for Portland in the matchup between two of the league’s dynamic backcourts.

The Raptors, who have lost only one of their last 14 games, led by as many as 16 points in the first half. After a road loss to the Denver Nuggets on Monday that snapped their franchise-best 11-game winning streak, the Raptors rebounded with a 104-97 victory over the Suns. The Raptors’ game against the Blazers was the third of a six-game road trip.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 B5

Trio tied for lead at Phoenix Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rickie Fowler overcame some bad shots for a share of the lead Thursday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Phil Mickelson compounded his mistakes and fell back.

After an hour-long frost delay at chilly TPC Scottsdale, Fowler played the first six holes in 5 under. A group behind, Mickelson took the lead at 5 under with a birdie on his eighth hole.

While Fowler finished with a 6-under 65 to tie Shane Lowry and Hideki Matsuyama for the lead in the suspended first round, Mickelson had a 69 after dropping four strokes in a twohole stretch.

“I made some good putts to start,” Fowler said. “Just kind of got everything going. Made a couple of bad swings. Cost me a little bit, but other than that, nice way to get off to a good start.”

Mickelson bogeyed the par-3 fourth after hitting short and right and failing to reach the green with his second, and unraveled with a triple bogey on the par-4 fifth. He drove out of bounds to the right, hit his second tee shot into the right bunker and three-putted from 50 feet.

“I hit a bad shot at the wrong time,” Mickelson said. “It’s the tightest hole out there. You miss the fairway 5 yards left, you’re in the wash, in the hazard.

You miss it right of the bunker, you’re out of bounds. … I’m not going to dwell on the one bad one because there were really a lot of good ones.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rickie Fowler tees off on the fifth hole during the first round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament, Thursday, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The best one was on the par-5 13th — his fourth hole of the day — when he hit a 252-yard hybrid approach to 2 ½ feet to set up an eagle.

Winless in 48 events since the 2013 British Open, the 45-year-old former Arizona State player is working with swing coach Andrew Getson after splitting with Butch Harmon. Lefty tied for third two weeks ago at La Quinta in his season debut and missed the cut last week at Torrey Pines.

“When you don’t score as low as you

feel like you’re playing, it can be frustrating, but for me, I find it to be more encouraging that I’m making a lot of birdies,” said Mickelson, the tournament winner in 1996, 2005 and 2013.

Fowler also missed the cut at Torrey Pines after winning the European Tour event in Abu Dhabi the previous week. He has four worldwide victories in the last nine months.

“I know I have been swinging well and playing well,” Fowler said. “I just didn’t make anything last week.”

Fowler opened with a birdie on the par-4 10th as the temperature crawled into the 40s, holing a 16-foot putt. He made a 35-footer on the 12th, two-putted for birdie on the 13th and made a 28-foot eagle putt on the par-5 15th after hitting a 258-yard shot over the water.

“I had a good number in there,” Fowler said. “Actually, put a 5-wood in play last week, a new one.”

The top-ranked player in the field at No. 4, Fowler bogeyed the par-3 16th after drawing an awkward lie in the right bunker. He birdied the short par4 17th, and bogeyed the par-4 18th after driving left into the water. On his back nine, he got up-and-down for birdie from a greenside bunker on the par-5 third and closed with a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-4 ninth.

Lowry birdied seven of his first 13 holes, then bogeyed the next two.

“I got to 7 under and just became a little bit tense there,” the Irishman said. “That’s something that I need to work on. … It’s a bad mistake if you don’t learn from it.”

Matsuyama was in one of the last groups to finish before play was stopped because of darkness.

India’s Anirban Lahiri was a stroke back at 66, and Bryce Molder also was 5 under with two holes left. He was one of 33 players who failed to finish.

Bubba Watson opened with a 69, finishing in fading light a day after saying he doesn’t like the renovated course and is only playing the tournament out of loyalty to his sponsors. The two-time Masters champion tied for second the last two seasons.

Will Peyton’s dream scenario come true?

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — It’s the perfect scenario, a Hollywood-type script: Peyton Manning emulates John Elway and rides off into the sunset with the Lombardi Trophy in his grip.

Will it really happen?

For Manning to take the Denver Broncos to their first NFL title since the team’s current general manager, Elway, did in 1999 before retiring, seems the sentimental choice across the nation.

Like Elway, Manning has had a taste of losing in the big game, going 1-2, including a lopsided loss to Seattle two years ago. Elway dropped his first three Super Bowls, then won his final two.

“I am very grateful for the opportunity,” the 39-year-old Manning said. “I keep probably repeating myself but I’m honoured to be a part of it, and the other three that I played in, I was honoured to be a part of those as well.”

Should this be Manning’s final game, he will leave as the most accomplished regular-season quarterback, owning five league MVP awards. He’s had a difficult past few seasons, sidelined for 2011 entirely because of neck surgeries, then struggling in last year’s playoffs and missing six games in 2015 with a foot injury.

But he also earned that fifth MVP in 2013 before

falling to Seattle.

Receiver Demaryius Thomas can envision the proper ending to this drama for Denver.

“It’s amazing to play for Peyton,” Thomas says.

“He’s one of the best to have ever done it, a future Hall of Famer, and he has done so much for me. I’m excited about it, and hopefully we can get this win, and if he decides to retire then he can go out with a bang.”

Standing in their way, though, is simply the best team in football.

This is the third straight season the top seeds have won conference titles. The Panthers are 171, have the league’s most prolific offence behind All-Pro quarterback Cam Newton, and a big-play defence. That D might not match the stats of the Broncos (14-4), who ranked first overall, but it’s just as impactful.

“I sound like a broken record, but yet for a dream to play out as it has through the ups and downs, it just means the world for us to get what you prepare for,” says Newton, finishing off his fifth and, by far, best pro season.

“For us, the ultimate goal for this sport is to win a Super Bowl. You win national championships in college and … you try to get drafted to a team that’s going to put you in the right position to win a Super Bowl.”

That’s where the Panthers have arrived. Carolina is a 5 1-2 point favourite to become only the third team to go 18-1 and win the Super Bowl.

Both defences will have their moments Sunday.

Denver’s is just too good to be dominated for very long, producing a dynamic pass rush led by Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware, and with superb coverage backs. Carolina’s Luke Kuechly, Josh Norman, Thomas Davis (if he can go after needing surgery on a broken right arm) and Kawann Short are game changers.

Carolina is far more likely to find balance on its offence Jonathan Stewart is the best running back on either roster, and Newton’s power and breakaway ability toting the ball are unmatched for the quarterback position.

One area the Panthers are superior, perhaps vastly so, is on the offensive line. So the Broncos’ relentless pursuit of the quarterback doesn’t figure to be as fruitful as vs it was against New England’s Tom Brady in the AFC championship game.

It all adds up to Cam and Company spoiling anth other Super Bowl for the Broncos, leaving Manning to ponder if he wants to 7:00 pm leave football after losing his final game.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most hockey fans remember Michael Leighton as the goaltender who gave up Patrick Kane’s Stanley Cup-winning goal in 2010. Now he’s one shutout away from a much more favourable place in history.

Leighton is on the verge of breaking the all-time American Hockey League shutout record that Hockey Hall of Famer Johnny Bower has held since 1957. The Rockford IceHogs goalie can pick up his 46th AHL shutout as soon as Friday, which would

break one of the oldest records on the books. Like Kevin Costner’s Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Leighton has been near the pinnacle of his sport in the show and done well enough in the minors to challenge a record. But the Crash Davis of hockey knows Bower’s background from his grandfather’s stories and his own research and appreciates this achievement.

“I want to be the best in whatever league I play in,” Leighton said. “I think this is the 80th year of the AHL: That’s a long road of hockey. To be at the top in any category is definitely an honour.”

It’s even more of an honour because it’s Bower’s mark. After a stellar AHL career, Bower won three Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs, two Vezina Trophies as the NHL’s best goaltender and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1976.

Leighton is a journeyman who has played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes and spent time in eight different organizations plus Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League. The 34-yearold Leighton reached 45 shutouts in 428 games to Bower’s 592.

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Macx Davies of Canmore, competes in the men’s 10-kilometre sprint at the biathlon World Cup in Canmore on Thursday.

Davies was the top Canadian in the race finishing 25th. am,” Davies said.

“You don’t really get that over in Europe.”

Two-time Olympian Brendan Green of Hay River, N.W.T., works with a sport psychologist to develop mental cues that help him transition from skiing to shooting.

“In my head I’m thinking ‘black, centre, trigger’ little cues like that,” Green explained. “Little things like that take your mind off ‘I’m breathing too hard or my heart is beating too fast.’

“A lot of people are under the impression we try to slow our breathing and drop our heart rate, but to be competitive, you have to shoot really fast on the range as well. You’re actually practising to do it with a high heart rate. They’re actually still beating really hard.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OCALA, Fla. — Lydia Ko played enough golf Thursday to catch up to the lead. She just didn’t play enough to finish the rain-delayed second round of the Coates Golf Championship.

Ko, the No. 1 player in golf making her 2016 debut, was 4-under par for her round and had a 15-foot birdie putt on her final hole at the par-4 ninth hole at Golden Ocala when the horn sounded to stop play because of thunderstorms in the area.

Ko was 7 under for the tournament, tied with Ha Na Jang.

Jang, who opened with a 65, didn’t hit a shot Thursday. She was to tee off in the afternoon, but within an hour of play being stopped, several greens already were flooded. Play was suspended for the rest of the day and will resume on Friday.

The 72-hole tournament is scheduled to end Saturday.

Haru Nomura made seven birdies for a 66 and finished two rounds at 6-under 136.

Brooke Henderson of Simths Falls, Ont., was in a large group at 4-under that included Michelle Wie, Suzann Pettersen, U.S. Women’s Open champion In Gee Chun, Lexi Thompson and Juli Inkster, who birdied her opening hole of the second round before the storms arrived.

Ko started quickly Thursday by opening with two birdies. But she birdied only one of the par 5s, though she never missed a fairway.

“I felt more comfortable today. I was pretty pleased to see all my balls finish in the fairway,” Ko said.

Ko played with Morgan Pressel, who was 3 under, and Paula Creamer, who was even. They could tell storm clouds approaching and Creamer jokingly said that play would be stopped right before they finished. All they could do was laugh when they reached the ninth green to mark their golf balls.

“At least we don’t have to go back to the range,” Pressel said.

Ko, the 18-year-old from New Zealand, is coming off a five-victory season that included her first major (Evian Championship in France) and LPGA player of the year. She conceded to having some rust during her start on Wednesday, though she was dialed in for much of her second round until the rain arrived.

“Last year was an awesome year, so much better than I ever expected,” Ko said. “Things I only dreamt of happened. But you have to forget about it.

It’s a whole new year. Obviously, you come into the year with a bit of confidence, but you never know what’s going to happen.”

Pettersen started with a 73. After making the turn, she birdied five of the next six holes — the exception was the par-5 fifth hole — to get within range.

Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke was at 2 over and Alena Sharp of Hamilton at 5 over. The projected cut is at 1 over.

Gow’s brother Christian was 61st.

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CANMORE, Alta. — It’s hard to hold a gun still when your heart is racing and your lungs are heaving.

But biathletes can’t waste precious seconds catching their breath and lowering their heart rate when they ski up to shooting range with their rifles.

Canada’s biathletes learn over the years to manage a thumping heart and hit a target about the size of a golf ball from 50 metres.

“I’ve always said there’s two ways you can manage it: you can either ski slow and not have a high heart rate and shoot well, or you can ski fast and just try to get through it,” Canmore’s Macx Davies said.

“A lot of it is shooting in rhythm.

You use your breath as the beat to that. You’ll breathe in, breathe out most of the way and then you’ll pull the trigger.”

The Canadian team kicked off the BMW World Cup Biathlon on home snow Thursday at the Canmore Nordic Centre with the men’s sprint.

With 230 athletes representing 26 countries, the World Cup is the largest biathlon event at the Nordic Centre since the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Current World Cup leader Martin Fourcade of France hit all 10 targets and blitzed the 10-kilometre course in a time of 23 minutes 51 seconds for the win.

Russia’s Anton Shipulin and Germany’s Simon Schepp also shot clean rounds for silver and bronze respectively. Shipulin was 15.7 seconds back of Fourcade and Schepp 18.7 behind the Frenchman.

“I shot clean and skied fast enough to be in front of these two good guys,” Fourcade said. “I’m also really satisfied to compete in North America. It’s been five years since we’ve come to North America for biathlon competition.”

Davies, 22, was the top Canadian finishing 25th in a field of 88 men.

He was also 10-for-10 in shooting and crossed the line 1:45 back of Fourcade.

Racing continues Friday with the women’s sprint followed by Saturday’s mass start races for both genders and Sunday’s mixed relays.

Calgary’s Nathan Smith, the first Canadian man to win a world championship biathlon medal last year with silver, was 31st on Thursday. He skied a penalty lap for missing one target.

“I knew it was going to be a tough ski day on the first lap,” Smith said.

“My legs were kind of heavy, which is unfortunate. I always hope to have good legs in races that are really important.”

At 1,400 metres, the Canmore Nordic Centre is one of the highest altitudes on the World Cup. The Canadian mens’ hearts may have beat a little faster Thursday as it marked the first time they’ve raced a World Cup at home in their lives.

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And they paid less attention to their balls) go?”

New research from the Universi- children.

Mindful change: You’ll eat healthty of Utah reveals that most of you ier in a quiet setting, so now spend 50 per cent of be a role model for good your eating time focused eating and connect more on something other than with your family. These the food in front of you! factors will help you and Researchers identified your kids make healthier stealthy distractions that food choices and avoid lead to food choices and weight gain in the future. weight gain that you’ll reAllow ample time to eat. gret.

Slow down when you dine So here’s a better idea: in mixed company!

Adopt mindful eating habIn a recent study from its that’ll help you turn our friends at Cornell Unigood intentions (“I’ll eat DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN versity’s Food & Brand healthy tomorrow!” “I’ll AND DR. MEHMET OZ Lab, guys devoured 92 start losing weight next percent more pizza when week!”) into reality today.

YOU DOCS their lunch partners inYou’ll savor every bite, sip cluded women. And womand spoonful guilt-free, en who lunched with men said they and love the results.

Create a peaceful environment. felt rushed and overate as a result. The guys also ate 86 percent more salad — Turn off the TV. Turn down the music!

In a recent University of Illinois a great choice provided you go with study, families that ate dinner while a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and a loud vacuum cleaner roared in the balsamic vinegar.

Mindful change: Slow eating gives next room made loads of mealtime mistakes. Parents ate more cookies your brain and body time to register

that you’re full. You’ll feel more satisfied with fewer calories.

Avoid being influenced by where you eat or your dining companion’s appearance. Remind yourself about your eating goals before you order in a restaurant or serve yourself at home.

In another revealing study, people who had a meal with an overweight dining partner overate high-calorie foods and skimped on healthy foods even when their dining partner made healthy choices. Other studies have found that folks who are overweight (that’s almost 70 percent of you) tend to overeat when dining away from home.

Mindful change: Stick with your eating plan! Easy system: Fill half your plate with produce (largely veggies other than potatoes), one-fourth with whole grains and the rest with lean protein.

Don’t drive and dine. Pull over!

Yup, 86 percent of drivers in one national survey admitted to noshing while driving. That doubles your odds for a crash and increases the chances that you’ll dig into, and scarcely notice, that large order of fries, burger and a shake you just picked up. You’ll feel less satisfied, and that drivethrough doughnut shop up ahead will

start lookin’ real good.

Mindful change: If you’ve gotta eat on the road, order a healthy sandwich or salad from a deli or convenience store. Pair it with fruit and a bottle of water, tea or coffee. Find a safe and attractive place to stop (like a local park or the parking lot of a church or library), turn off the car and focus on your meal. Add a 10-15 minute stroll, then continue your drive refreshed and full.

Keep your counters clear of temptations. Out of sight, out of mouth. It’s no surprise that people who keep soda and snacks out on the kitchen counter weigh more than those whose easy-tograb snack is fruit. But did you know breakfast cereal can be a weight-gain culprit, too? Munching handfuls when you’re bored or hungry can add up!

Mindful change: Set yourself up for healthy-eating success by limiting counter foods to delicious, ready-to-eat fruit and nuts.

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com. (c) 2016 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Companies begin testing potential diabetes cure ly. Meanwhile, the number with Type 2 diabetes, whose bodies make some insulin but don’t use it efficiently, is Johnson & Johnson, continuing its increasing exponentially due to the long quest for a Type 1 diabetes cure, global epidemic of obesity and sedenis joining forces with biotech company tary lifestyles.

ViaCyte to speed development of the Many patients can’t control it well first stem cell treatment that could fix because treatment is exhausting, rethe life-threatening hormonal disor- quiring a strict diet, frequent exerder. cise, multiple daily insulin injections They’ve already begun testing it in or other medicines and several finger a small number of diabetic patients. pricks a day to test blood sugar. Also, If it works as well in patients as it has some patients can’t afford the expenin animals, it would amount to a cure, sive medicines. ending the need for frequent insulin ViaCyte Inc., based in San Diego, injections and blood sugar testing. has been researching its treatment for ViaCyte and Johnson & Johnson’s a decade, partly with funding from the Janssen BetaLogics group said Thurs- Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund and day they’ve agreed to combine their the California Institute for Regeneraknowledge and hundreds of patents on tive Medicine. their research under ViaCyte, a longJohnson & Johnson, based in New time J&J partner focused on regenera- Brunswick, New Jersey, is a major Viative medicine.

Cyte investor and has been conducting The therapy involves inducing parallel research for about 13 years, embryonic stem said Diego Micells in a lab dish ‘THIS ONE IS POTENTIALLY THE ralles, J&J’s head to turn into inof global innovas u l i n - p r o d u c i n g REAL DEAL. IT’S LIKE MAKING tion. cells, then putting A NEW PANCREAS THAT MAKES “We wanted them inside a small to hedge our bets ALL THE HORMONES.’ capsule that is imto make sure we planted under the would win in this skin. The capsule —DR. TOM DONNER, DIRECTOR OF THE DIABETES CENTRE AT JOHNS space … that is so HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE transformational,” protects the cells from the immune Miralles said. system, which otherwise would attack He wouldn’t disclose financial them as invaders — a roadblock that terms of the deal with ViaCyte. has stymied other research projects.

The privately held company began Researchers at universities and oth- the first round of patient testing a year er drug companies also are working ago, implanting its product, dubbed toward a diabetes cure, using various VC-01, in a dozen people with Type 1 strategies. But according to ViaCyte diabetes, said Paul Laikind, ViaCyte’s and others, this treatment is the first CEO and president. They received a tested in patients. small dose of insulin-producing cells If the project succeeds, the product inside their devices and are being could be available in several years closely monitored for two years to see for Type 1 diabetes patients and down insulin production and other effects. the road could also treat insulin-using After 12 weeks, the device had propType 2 diabetics. erly attached to nearby blood vessels, “This one is potentially the real their new insulin-producing cells were deal,” said Dr. Tom Donner, director still multiplying and no side effects of the diabetes centre at Johns Hop- were seen. kins University School of Medicine.

Another dozen planned patients “It’s like making a new pancreas that will soon get the same cell dose in capmakes all the hormones” needed to sules to be implanted in them. control blood sugar.

If that goes well, in the next round Donner, who is not involved in the of testing a few dozen patients will get research, said if the device gives pa- devices holding a full dose of the cells tients normal insulin levels, “it’s going implanted, likely in the second half of to prevent millions of diabetics from this year. Further testing may be needgetting dangerous complications.” ed before the product can be approved People with Type 1 diabetes no by regulators. longer produce insulin, the hormone “We do believe that it will need to that converts sugar in the blood in- be replaced periodically,” Laikind to energy, because their immune sys- said. tem has killed off the beta cells in the Earlier testing in thousands of pancreas. Those cells make insulin in mice over years showed the lab-creresponse to rising blood sugar levels ated insulin-producing cells matured after a meal. and produced the needed hormone inOver years, excess sugar in the side the mice for as long as they lived, bloodstream damages blood vessels about a year, noted Laikind. and organs. Without effective treatBecause of the protective capsule, ment, diabetics suffer severe com- which is flattish and smaller than a plications: blindness, kidney failure, business card, if something goes awry, heart disease, amputations, even pre- the capsule can be removed immedimature death. ately to prevent patient harm.

On the other hand, too much insulin Dr. Betul Hatipoglu, an endocrinolcan cause very low blood sugar, which ogist at Cleveland Clinic, wrote in an can kill patients, particularly young email that preliminary results on the children. device are promising.

According to the American Dia“More research is needed to conbetes Association, about 29.1 million tinue to understand its impact,” she Americans have diabetes, including wrote, adding that researchers must 1.25 million with type 1 diabetes. The fine tune the device and determine number with Type 1, or insulin-de- whether there are any unforeseen pendent, diabetes is growing steadi- safety issues.

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This photo provided by ViaCyte shows the Encaptra delivery system, placed next to a quarter to give a size perspective. Johnson & Johnson, continuing its long quest for a Type 1 diabetes cure, has agreed that biotech company ViaCyte can acquire BetaLogics’ assets to speed development of the first cell treatment that could fix the life-threatening disorder. The Encaptra delivery system contains precursor pancreatic cells that are implanted under the skin and mature into insulin-producing cells.

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Crown ‘fulfilled its obligations’: review ALBERTA JUSTICE INVESTIGATION SATISFIED WITH DISCLOSURE PROVIDED IN DISMISSED ARMED ROBBERY CASE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Responding to accusations of negligence by a Red Deer judge, the Crown Prosecution service conducted a review of the circumstances from their end, concluding the Crown had “fulfilled its obligations.”

Judge Jim Hunter said the Crown had failed in its duty to provide the proper disclosure to defence counsel in a case of two youths charged with armed robbery. The two were scheduled to stand trial on Jan. 26 in Red Deer youth court.

Hunter dismissed the charges against the youth after the Crown called no evidence. Factoring into the decisions made was the absence of witnesses and a disclosure issue.

In an emailed statement from Alberta Justice, Eric Tolppanen, assistant deputy minister, Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, said the Red

“THAT SAID, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. AS THE JUDGE URGED, AS KEY PARTICIPANTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, THE CROWN AND DEFENCE SHOULD WORK TOGETHER TO ARRIVE AT BEST PRACTICES.” ERIC TOLPPANEN, ASSISTANT DEPUTY MINISTER, ALBERTA CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICES Deer office reviewed its handling of the case.

“Although the information was not available when the issue initially arose in court, the subsequent review revealed that disclosure had been provided. Accordingly, I am satisfied that the Crown fulfilled its obligations,” said Tolppanen in the statement.

“That said, there is always room for improvement. As the judge urged, as key participants in the criminal justice

system, the Crown and defence should work together to arrive at best practices.”

Defence counsels Paul Morigeau and Michael Scrase had outlined their issues with disclosure for seven months and said they had not received proper disclosure.

Morigeau said the video of his client’s statement did not work, while Scrase said he had only his client’s statement and did not have statements

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from the co-accused people. Scrase also noted they were not provided with copies of the surveillance video from the incident.

The robbery occurred at Mia’s Pizzeria in Blackfalds on Feb. 22, 2015.

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

Tolppanen went on to write the Crown had fulfilled its duty to end a prosecution if there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove the allegations.

“The Crown has an ongoing duty to assess whether the available evidence supports continuing with a prosecution. In this case, the trial Crown determined there was not a reasonable likelihood of conviction and brought the case to an end, which was a fair and proper exercise of discretion by the prosecutor.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

ENVIRONMENT

Invasive species forum set

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

St. Martin de Porres Grade 4 students, from the left, Kyra Bearden, Josh George, Nevaeh Landry and Annette Johanson do a presentation for Mervyn Stein and Laurien McFarlane at West Park Lodge on Thursday. The students shared their Google slide presentation, social studies projects with residents of the lodge showing what they have learned about Alberta communities, animals, vegetation, land forms and climate. Their projects also highlighted various geographic regions of the province including the boreal forest, Canadian shield and the foothills.

Extension cord warning issued by emergency services Red Deer Emergency Services are warning residents of overloading extension cords following a minor fire at the Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday.

A café at the hotel had many appliances plugged into an extension cord which overloaded the cord and caused a fire.

Damage was estimated at $500.

Fire crews were called around 3:45 p.m. to the hotel. The fire caused minor smoke and scorched a nearby wall. The hotel did not require evacuation.

Fire prevention officers say some businesses wrongly treat extension cords as permanent wiring, when they are not intended to be, and run the risk of major property damage and injury. Red Deer Emergency Services recommends businesses remove any extension cords acting as permanent wiring, and restrict such cords to short-term uses.

Businesses should also ensure they’re using the right kind of cord for the job, and consider hiring a qualified electrician to add additional circuits or outlets if needed.

Red Deer accepting musical submission for Arena sendoff Calling all musicians for the Red Deer Arena Commemorative Celebration in April.

The city is now accepting submissions to celebrate the old arena on April 8. The deadline for submissions is Feb, 19 at 4:30 p.m.

“This is a great opportunity for exposure in the community,” said Peter McGee, the city’s Special Events Programmer. “We’re looking for a variety of genres to entertain guests of all ages as we celebrate an important piece of Red Deer’s history.”

Artists are encouraged to apply by completing a Call for Artists package available at Culture Services or online at www.reddeer.ca/rdarena.

Submissions will be assessed on quality and originality of performance as well as audience interaction and engagement. This call is open to all,

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although preference will be given to residents of Red Deer and Red Deer County. Artists not included in the Red Deer Arena Commemorative Celebration will be considered for inclusion in The City of Red Deer’s Arts Directory and may be contacted for future opportunities.

More information on the event can be found at www.reddeer.ca/rdarena.

Central Alberta students earn U of A scholarships Two Central Albertans were among 320 University of Alberta Augustana Campus students to receive scholarships and awards for the 20152016 academic year.

Second-year Bachelor of Science student M i c h a e l a Douglas, of Red Deer County, was awarded $1,250 for Academic Achievement, funded by T h e L o r e n e MICHAELA DOUGLAS (Fabrizius) Pinno Memorial Award, and an Augustana F a c u l t y T r a n s f e r Student Award.

S e c o n d year Bachelor of Science/ Bachelor of Education (secondary) student Brittany Shaw, of BRITTANY SHAW Springbrook, was awarded $1,500 for Academic Achievement funded by an Augustana Faculty Transfer Student Award.

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Over $528,000 was provided by the University of Alberta and Augustana Campus in recognition of excellence in academics, fine arts, athletics, and leadership. Support comes from generous donors, investment earnings on endowments, and from facultyfunded awards.

RCMP look for armed thief Police are looking for a suspect who wielded a hand gun while robbing the Cheers Pub at on 6017 54 Ave in Riverside Meadows on Wednesday afternoon.

Red Deer RCMP say a man demanded cash from the staff while waving a firearm around 4:15 p.m.

The suspect was seen getting into the passenger side of a white Astro van that was waiting outside with the passenger door open.

The van was later found abandoned in the alley behind 59 Avenue in the Highland Green neighbourhood.

Police learned it had been stolen from a parking lot in Gasoline Alley on Jan. 30. The suspect is described as Caucasian man with a slim build between 1.78 m (five-foot-10) and 1.8 metres (five-foot-11). He was wearing a dark hoodie, dark mask and dark sunglasses and carrying a black leather bag with a long strap.

The investigation is ongoing.

RCMP ask anyone with information about this incident to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

A group that tries to make people aware of the impact of invasive species will hold its third annual conference and general meeting in Lacombe next month.

There’s only one animal, but there are dozens of plants, and some aquatic creatures, on Alberta’s invasive species list.

Invasive species can harm the environment, economy, and society.

The nonprofit Alberta Invasive Species Council tries to inform the public about invasive species through communication, education and awareness.

Invasive species include the one animal, the Norway rat, zebra mussels, Prussian carp, and a host of plants ranging from giant hogweed to Canada thistle.

Under the Alberta Weed Control Act, prohibited noxious weeds are restricted in order to prevent them from being establishment in Alberta and must be destroyed. There are almost 50 of them.

The other category — noxious weeds — spread rapidly, cause severe crop losses and economic hardship, and must be controlled to prevent further establishment. There are about 30 of them.

Among the concerns about invasive species is the fact that they can reduce the province’s biodiversity.

Some of the topics at the annual meeting include forest management, climate change impacts, sniffing out mussels, and biocontrol agents.

The meeting, which includes opportunities to network, learn and share new ideas, will be held on March 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, at the Lacombe Memorial Centre.

Pre-registration is required as there is no registration at the door.

For details about registering, and the cost including discounts for registering early, go online to www.abinvasives.ca

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Prosecution of hotel robbery put on hold

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Fabric fundraiser set for April The fifth annual Fabulous Fabric Sale to raise funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother Campaign is now accepting donations.

The sale, presented by GrammaLink-Africa, will take place on April 23 at Gaetz United Church in Red Deer from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Donations of fabric one metre or more in length, and yarn and notions are being accepted until April 15.

For pick-up of donations or more information contact Shirley at 403-3475958 or Mary Ellen at 403-340-1365.

The prosecution of a Red Deer woman accused of the armed robbery of the Eckville Hotel has ended.

The Crown Prosecutor requested a stay in proceedings, saying their wasn’t a reasonable likelihood of a conviction based on the evidence they had. The stay was requested on Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court.

Krista Marie Rix, 32, was charged with 10 offences stemming from a Feb. 22, 2015 gun-point robbery of the Eckville Hotel Bar. The Crown can recommence prosecution within a year.

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C2 World pledges $10B for Syrians

FRIDAY, FEB. 5, 2016

BUT PEACE PROSPECTS BLEAK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — World leaders pledged more than $10 billion Thursday to help fund schools, shelter and jobs for refugees from Syria’s civil war, money that British Prime Minister David Cameron said “will save lives, will give hope, will give people the chance of a future.”

But participants at the aid conference in London acknowledged that prospects for ending the conflict have rarely been worse: Peace talks are suspended, fighting is intensifying, Russia and the West are at odds, and millions of Syrians are suffering from bombardment, homelessness and hunger.

“The situation in Syria is as close to hell as we are likely to find on this Earth,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was no more upbeat.

“After almost five years of fighting, it’s pretty incredible that as we come here in London in 2016, the situation on the ground is actually worse,” he said.

The one-day meeting, held under tight security at a conference centre near Parliament, aspired to bring new urgency to the effort to help the 4.6 million Syrians who have sought refuge in neighbouring countries including Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

Another 6 million people or more are displaced within Syria, and a quarter of a million have been killed.

Previous calls for international donations have come up short, and the five-year war has driven a chaotic exodus of hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees to Europe. Thursday’s pledges are intended to slow that migration, by creating school places and secure jobs for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, and economic support for the overburdened host nations.

Cameron said participants had pledged almost $6 billion for 2016, and another $5 billion by 2020.

The British leader called the conference — hosted by Britain, Germany, Norway, Kuwait and the UN — “a real breakthrough, not just in terms of money but in terms of how we handle these refugee crises.”

The tally falls short of the $9 billion the UN and

regional countries said was needed for 2016 alone, but it was a significant improvement on half-hearted previous fundraising efforts. Last year’s conference, in Kuwait, raised just half its $7 billion target, forcing cuts to programs such as refugee food aid.

Aid groups welcomed the money, but slammed the international community for allowing the war to go on. Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the world had shown a “lack of political action and ambition to resolve the crisis.”

“Humanitarian aid is always just a quick fix, and never enough,” he said.

Cameron told reporters that the international community would stand with Syrians for “as long as it takes to secure peace,” acknowledging that the goals of a cease-fire followed by a transitional government remained distant.

Thursday’s meeting opened hours after the latest UN-led bid to start peace talks in Geneva was suspended for three weeks — a sign of major difficulties.

Two suspects arrested in German raids

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Protesters throw a petrol bomb at riot policemen during a 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens, Greece on Thursday. Clashes have broken out between Greek police and youths throwing fire bombs and stones, as tens of thousands of people march through central Athens to protest planned pension reforms.

Protests add pressure on Tsipras

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ATHENS, Greece — Tens of thousands joined anti-government protests across Greece Thursday as the country was crippled by a general strike against painful pension reforms demanded by bailout lenders.

In Athens, police said some 40,000 people joined rallies that ended with a brief outbreak of violence when anarchist protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police outside Parliament.

The general strike presented the most widespread opposition to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ government so far, shutting down everything from schools to funeral homes, and uniting a disparate group of professions, including artists, taxi drivers, lawyers, doctors, vets, engineers and seamen.

Coffee shop owners closed their stores in protest in the central city of Larissa, while farmers maintained highway blockades and drove tractors through the centre of Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki.

Protests occurred in at least a dozen cities, amid mounting union anger at Tsipras’ left-wing government which has promised to spare pensioners further cuts in the short term but hike income contributions to bolster the ailing system.

Despite the pledge, Athens retiree Yannis Kouvalakis said he felt let down by Tsipras’ year-old

government.

“They said they’d help pensioners and the unemployed and look what happened: Things got worse,” he said. “They’re fooling us.”

The pension overhaul is part of Greece’s a latest 80 billion euro ($89 billion) international bailout and is currently being negotiated in Athens between the government and inspectors from Eurozone lenders and the International Monetary Fund.

Adding pressure on Tsipras, a report released by the European Commission Thursday warned that pension reforms and new tax hikes would still not be enough to meet bailout targets.

“Further measures will be needed in 2016 and 2017 in order to reach the program’s primary (budget) surplus targets,” it said, predicting that Greece will slip back into mild recession this year and that the national debt will climb to 185 per cent of gross domestic product.

The disruption from the strike was wide-ranging.

Schools and many private businesses were closed while transport, including flights and ferry services, faced delays and cancellation. The strike also stopped the flow of thousands of migrants and refugees travelling from the Greek islands where they make landfall.

BERLIN — German police conducted raids and arrested two suspects on Thursday in an investigation of four Algerian men who are suspected of planning an attack in Germany and having ties to the Islamic State group.

The arrests were ‘WE HOPE FOR FURTHER made in Berlin and INFORMATION FROM at a refugee home in the western town of THE EVALUATION OF Attendorn, Berlin THE EVIDENCE AS TO police spokesman Stefan Redlich said.

WHETHER THIS PLAN They were based on EXISTED, HOW FAR existing warrants in other cases.

ALONG IT WAS AND HOW The other two suspects, one of whom CONCRETE, WITH WHAT was at a refugee TARGET.’ home in the central city of Hannover, — STEFAN REDLICH, BERLIN POLICE SPOKESMAN weren’t arrested.

Authorities suspect that the four men had contacts with the IS group and say that one of them — the man arrested in Attendorn — is sought by Algerian authorities for belonging to the extremist group. He is believed to have received military training in Syria.

His wife is also wanted by Algerian authorities and was arrested, though she isn’t a suspect in the German case, Berlin prosecutors’ spokesman Martin Steltner said.

Redlich said the probe started in December and there was no specific trigger for staging the raids on Thursday, noting that searches in multiple locations require preparation. Investigators seized computers, cellphones and other material.

“We hope for further information from the evaluation of the evidence as to whether this plan existed, how far along it was and how concrete, with what target,” Redlich said. Steltner said the suspicion is that an attack in Berlin was planned.

The men arrested on Thursday have used aliases, claiming to be Syrian and French, Redlich said.

Steltner said the suspects had been in Germany for varying lengths of time, from late last year in the case of the man arrested in Attendorn to as much as 15 years.

Germany so far has been spared mass-casualty attacks by Islamic extremists such as the Nov. 13 Paris attacks but security officials say it is also a target.

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C3 Suncor ‘overachieved’ on cuts

FRIDAY, FEB. 5, 2016

COMPANY AXED 1,700 JOBS IN 2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The CEO of Canada’s biggest oilsands player says about 1,700 jobs were shed over the past year or so — far surpassing its original target.

Just over a year ago, Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) announced it would be cutting 1,000 jobs because of the sharp downturn in crude prices.

“We significantly overachieved,” CEO Steve Williams said on a conference call with analysts on Thursday to discuss Suncor’s fourth-quarter results.

About 1,900 contractor and full-time employee positions were cut. But Suncor was able to move about 200 to 250 of those to work on projects under construction, mainly the Fort Hills oilsands project

north of Fort McMurray, Alta., to bring the net reduction to about 1,700.

Williams said no more job cuts are anticipated this year, with further cost cuts coming from improving processes and leaning on suppliers.

Suncor posted a $2-billion net loss for the final three months of 2015, due to the crude price collapse, writedowns and a foreign-exchange loss related to debt denominated in U.S. dollars.

A year earlier, it posted a net profit of $84 million.

West Texas Intermediate crude prices averaged US$41.15 for the fourth quarter of 2015 versus US$73.15 in the prior-year quarter. The picture has since worsened, with WTI at around US$33 a barrel on Thursday.

Suncor had a quarterly operating loss — removing the impacts of unusual items — of $26 million, versus

an operating profit of profits of $386 million a year earlier.

It’s lowering its spending plans for 2016, with a capital budget of between $6 billion and $6.5 billion compared with the $6.7 billion to $7.3 billion range it set in November.

Despite the fact that virtually all oilsands projects are losing money at current oil prices, Williams said Suncor is not ruling out more acquisitions.

Suncor launched a hostile takeover for Canadian Oil Sands in October in a battle that became nasty at times. But the two companies reached a friendly deal in January that’s worth $6.6 billion, including the target company’s debt.

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Plunging profits prompt Shell to delay decision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Royal Dutch Shell is postponing a final investment decision on its proposed liquefied natural gas mega-project in British Columbia as it grapples with plummeting earnings due to low energy prices.

Chief executive Ben van Beurden said Thursday that the company was delaying a final commitment on the LNG Canada project in northwestern B.C. as it makes “substantial changes in the company” that will likely include further spending cuts on top of the $12.5 billion it cut last year.

A final decision on the CHRISTY CLARK LNG Canada project had been expected in the spring, but Shell Canada spokeswoman Tara Lemay says the joint venture behind the project will now make a decision by the end of the year.

“The LNG Canada joint venture partners have agreed that due to market conditions, it makes sense to shift the final investment decision to late 2016. In the meantime, the joint venture will continue to work on the competitiveness of the project,” Lemay said in a statement.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark, speaking at an energy conference in Ottawa, said she was reassured to see the 2016 commitment.

“What I was pleased to see was Shell reconfirm its intention to make a final investment decision this year,” said Clark.

“Even in these very uncertain times, which I acknowledge, that’s affected their timeline …. they’ve reconfirmed the fact they want to go ahead with this project, which is going to mean tremendous growth for all of Canada.”

Andy Calitz, chief executive of the LNG Canada joint venture, said he was pleased that a decision would be made this year given the turmoil in global energy markets, but he left open the possibility of further delays.

“Can you and I conjure up a set of conditions that could make a positive decision difficult? Yes. But could I also see that they are working to take that decision in the fourth quarter, absolutely,” Calitz said from Ottawa.

Shell reported a 44 per cent drop in fourth-quarter earnings to $1.8 billion as low oil and gas prices hit its bottom line. The company has responded by delaying projects in Canada and Nigeria and withdrawing from a project in the United Arab Emirates.

Dirk Lever, an analyst at Altacorp Capital, says the delay by Shell because of capital costs and other headwinds increases the likelihood that Petronas could delay an investment decision on the Pacific Northwest LNG project as well.

“Let’s just say the odds are higher today than they were yesterday that they will postpone,” said Lever.

The LNG Canada project already has conditional federal and provincial environmental approvals and was awarded a 40-year export licence in January.

The project is expected to cost upwards of US$40 billion and involve hiring between 4,500 and 7,500 workers.

Shell owns a 50 per cent stake in the project, which is being developed with partners Korea Gas Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., and PetroChina Co. Ltd.

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A woman checks out a Danier store in Montreal, Thursday. Danier Leather Inc. said it has entered insolvency proceedings to protect itself from creditor lawsuits as it seeks a buyer. The well-known retailer of leatherwear and accessories said the move was necessary because of ongoing financial problems, including more than $27 million in financial losses over the last two years despite its best efforts to cut costs and turn the business around. The company lost nearly $20 million in its 2015 fiscal year as sales fell 14 per cent after contracting by 10 per cent the previous year. Danier said it expects to lose even more money in 2016 as operating losses have continued.

Low dollar signals pricier smartphones in the future, BCE CEO says

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Consumers can expect to pay more for their smartphones soon, the CEO of the parent company of Bell Canada suggested on Thursday as the loonie continues to hover below the 75 cent US mark.

“The Canadian dollar weakness — it does probably foreshadow some price increases from our manufacturers at some point,” said George Cope on a conference call with analysts after BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) released its fourth-quarter results.

Those higher device costs “obviously, in the end, get passed through to the consumer,” said Cope.

The loonie rose above 73 cents US for the first time this year on Thursday morning after closing at 72.61 cents US Wednesday.

It’s likely BCE has already tried to account for creeping costs as it pays for devices in US dollars, said Dave Heger, a senior equity analyst at Edward Jones.

Bell recently hiked prices on monthly contracts by $5 for new customers, and lowered savings for those signing new contracts who already own their own device.

Cope said the company implemented those increases mostly to help it make capital investments.

He downplayed any further impact from the lower loonie, saying the company has some foreign exchange hedging programs in place and continues to enjoy strong consumer demand in Ontario, Quebec and Eastern Canada.

There was some good news for investors. BCE announced it will be raising its dividend to shareholders by five per cent, starting with the next pay-

ment on April 15. The annualized dividend will rise to $0.6825 per share each quarter, up from $0.65 a quarter.

The company is projecting its adjusted earnings per share in 2016 will be in a range from $3.45 to $3.55, up from with $3.36 in 2015. Revenue is expected to grow by one to three per cent this year, in line with the 2015 growth rate.

BCE stock moved up .87 per cent on the TSX/S&P index mid-morning.

BCE reported $496 million of net income for the fourth quarter — down 8.5 per cent from $542 million a year before. The company attributed the lower profit to higher severance and other costs during the three months ended Dec. 31, totalling $152 million.

The adjusted net earnings — which are one of BCE’s key meaures of financial performance — met analyst estimates at 72 cents per share. But the net income fell short at 58 cents per common share, down from 64 cents a year earlier.

BCE’s revenue was $5.6 billion, in line with estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters and up 1.4 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2014.

Most of the revenue came from BCE’s telecom business, including Bell Canada, with Bell Media contributing only $816 million.

In a time of many media companies, including BCE, implementing cost-cutting measures, it was a pleasant surprise to see the media division post a profit, said Heger.

Despite the company’s strong economic outlook, Cope still said BCE could benefit from an increase in the exchange rate.

“Clearly, we’d prefer a little stronger dollar going forward,” Cope said.

Tax bracket, saving goals key in choosing between TFSA or RRSP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In a perfect world, people would have enough money to top up both their RRSP and TFSA accounts. But that’s probably not the case.

Investment advisers say deciding where to put savings depends on what people are saving for and where they fall within tax brackets.

Angela Dzinas, regional director for Alterna Savings in Ottawa, says investors may not know their exact marginal tax rate, but they need to understand where they are today and where they expect to be in the future.

“RRSPs tend to be beneficial in your peak earning years, especially if you believe at retirement your income will come down so that you’ll be in a lower tax bracket,” she said.

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When people put money into an RRSP account they are able to deduct their contributions from their income, a move that allows them to defer the tax they would otherwise have to pay. The higher the tax bracket, the higher the tax refund.

But the government eventually takes its share.

When retirees start withdrawing their nest egg, the money is taxed as income.

In contrast, when money is put into a TFSA, there’s no deduction on an income tax return. But when the money is withdrawn, any investment gains that may have been earned are tax-free.

For someone lucky enough to hit a home run by picking a stock that soars from pennies per share to hundreds of dollars, they do not pay any tax on the gains if it is held within a TFSA. For those in the lowest tax bracket, contributing to an RRSP may offer little advantage over a TFSA.

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Chris Buttigieg, senior manager for wealth planning strategy at BMO Wealth Management, said if people are in a low tax bracket now and expect to be in a higher one in the future, they might want to favour a TFSA over an RRSP until they are in a higher tax bracket and would receive a bigger tax refund.

“I think the important thing about the TFSA or the RRSP is really the timing,” he said.

In addition to the tax bracket, what investors are saving for is important.

RRSPS are designed to help save for retirement.

Money can be withdrawn under certain circumstances — to help buy a home for the first time or pay for education later in life — but they are primarily to help in retirement.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.35 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.51 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.17 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 0.870 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.58 Cdn. National Railway . . 75.72 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 169.80 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.78 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.57 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.53 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.39 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.64 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 17.63 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.32 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.64 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.20 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.11 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.18 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.02 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.28 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.02 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 117.19 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.24 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.52 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.98 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market and the loonie both rose for a second consecutive session Thursday as metal prices continued to trend higher in the face of a weakening U.S. dollar.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 181.48 points to 12,774.50, its second triple-digit increase in as many days.

The Canadian dollar was also higher for a second day, up 0.14 of a U.S. cent at 72.75 cents US after having soared 1.32 cents Wednesday in its biggest one-day gain in almost four years.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 79.92 points to 16,416.58, while the broader S&P 500 gained 2.92 points to 1,915.45 and the Nasdaq closed 5.32 points higher at 4,509.56.

In commodities, the April gold bullion contract rose $16.20 to US$1,157.50 a troy ounce, while the March copper contract added four cents to US$2.13 a pound.

Meanwhile the March oil contract, which enjoyed a big runup of $2.40 a barrel Wednesday, gave back 56 cents to US$31.72, while March natural gas fell seven cents to US$1.97 per mmBtu. Andrew Pyle, senior adviser and portfolio manager at Scotia Wealth Management, said the markets are beginning to stabilize following a tumultuous start to the year.

“Investors are looking at some of the more recent declines as perhaps being overdone in the context of what the fundamentals are, so we’re seeing a little bit more positive sentiment,” said Pyle.

Some of the strength in commodity prices in recent days can be attributed to declines in the greenback, said Pyle.

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.57 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.35 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.42 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.09 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.41 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.05 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.05 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.99 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.08 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.81 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.79 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 23.09 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.730 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.29 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.36 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.24 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.86 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 16.45 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.30 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.86 Canyon Services Group. . 3.76 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.53 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.120 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 5.99 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.590 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 79.83 makes commodities such as metals and oil more affordable to holders of other currencies.

“During the last few years, when the U.S. dollar has been very strong, it’s been extremely difficult for commodity prices to do better, even if their fundamentals were OK,” said Pyle.

The U.S. dollar has weakened recently against many other major currencies amid indications of a slowdown in the American economy and growing expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will decide against further interest rate increases later this year.

There was some more bad news on the U.S. economic front Thursday as the U.S. Commerce Department reported factory orders fell 2.9 per cent in December. It was the fourth such contraction in the last five months and closed out a year in which demand for American manufactured goods retreated for the first time in six years.

Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that U.S. productivity fell three per cent in the fourth quarter, the biggest such quarterly decline in nearly two years.

—With files from Brian McKenna FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,774.50, up 181.48 points Dow — 16,416.58, up 79.92 points S&P 500 — 1,915.45, up 2.92 points Nasdaq — 4,509.56, up 5.32 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.75 cents US, up 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$2.0047, down 0.66 of a cent Euro — C$1.5403, up 0.95 of a cent Euro — US$1.1206, up 0.92

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.43 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.34 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.59 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.66 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.060 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.060 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.49 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.82 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.570 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.72 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.71 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.130 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.51 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.86 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.83 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.03 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.29 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.88 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 83.08 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.66 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 40.14 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.99 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.32 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.63

of a cent Oil futures: US$31.72 per barrel, down 56 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,157.50 per oz., up $16.20 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.158 oz., down 2.4 cents $680.23 kg., down 77 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $3.60 lower $468.30 May ‘16 $3.90 lower $477.40 July ‘16 $3.90 lower $483.40 Nov. ‘16 $3.30 lower $485.00 Jan. ‘17 $3.30 lower $487.50 March ‘17 $3.30 lower $487.70 May ‘17 $3.30 lower $486.40 July ‘17 $3.30 lower $486.40 Nov. ‘17 $3.30 lower $486.40 Jan. ‘18 $3.30 lower $486.40 March ‘18 $3.30 lower $486.40.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 560,900 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 560,900.

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SUNCOR: No specific plans An analyst asked Williams whether Suncor would stop at COS, or look to buy out other oilsands players like MEG Energy (TSX:MEG) or Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) He said there are no specific plans in the works, but that Suncor would weigh any opportunities that may arise. The crude rout has battered the share prices of energy firms, making them available at bargain prices.

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C5 Solar: A brilliant way to get energy

Except for nuclear and geothermal, all energy we use comes from the sun in one form or another. As sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface, it powers heat transfers that move air and ocean currents, used for wind and tidal power. The sun evaporates water, contributing to the hydrologic cycle that fills reservoirs for hydroelectricity.

Even fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — are forms of solar DAVID energy, created when, hunSUZUKI dreds of millions of years ago, plants absorbed and convert- SCIE3NCE MATTERS ed sunlight through photosynthesis, then retained that energy when they died, decayed and became compacted and buried deep in the Earth, along with the animals that ate them. Wood, peat, dung and other plant-based fuels are a less concentrated form.

Most people think of solar energy in its direct form, harnessed in a variety of ways from the sun’s rays as they hit Earth.

Technologies range from windows and water tanks placed strategically to make use of the sun’s energy, to photovoltaic cells (or solar panels), to large mirrors that concentrate solar heat to boil water and drive turbines.

Unlike fossil fuels, or uranium-dependent nuclear power, the energy source is free, inexhaustible and non-polluting, with no troublesome byproducts like radioisotopes or carbon dioxide. It can be used for a variety of applications, from providing power for a single streetlight to generating electricity for a home to keeping satellites and factories going.

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Solar also has disadvantages. Without energy-storage systems, it only works when the sun shines, and it can be costly. Solar installations to provide power for large areas can take up a lot of space, and some technologies rely on rare materials that must be mined, with environmental consequences.

Because of rapid technological advances, falling prices and the many advantages of solar power, it’s become one of the fastest-growing sources of renewable energy worldwide, with installed capacity growing on average 43 per cent a year since 2000, according to the World Economic Forum. Still, as an MIT reports points out, solar was only generating about one per cent of global electricity in 2015. With costs dropping by about 10 per cent a year, and technologies for harnessing and storing the sun’s energy improving, that could climb to 20 per cent by 2027, an Oxford University study found.

About 90 per cent of currently installed solar capacity uses crystalline silicon wafer-based photovoltaic cells. As Phys.org notes, they’re non-toxic, abundant and reliable, but the wafers are thick and rigid and somewhat expensive to manufacture. Many newer-technology cells are smaller, less rigid and often more affordable, but they can come with other problems. Some use materials that “involve rare and/or toxic metals.”

The website notes that promising “third generation” developments include “thin-film solar photovoltaic employing dye-sensitized, organic, quantum dot or perovskite solar cells and novel combinations of semiconductor materials, as well as concentrators.” Technology is also being developed to mimic photosynthesis, converting sunlight to electrons with nanotechnology and light-absorbing compounds and delivering the electrical energy “to customized catalysts that convert water and CO2 into oxygen and chemical fuels.” Artificial photosynthesis is also

Can Alberta step up and find solutions to the world’s energy needs?

With the focus on the econven with the threads of hydrocarbon. omy being front and centre Fact: We are facing environmental issues which over the last year we are givare as threatening to our way of life and coastal popen to thinking about our inulations, as the solutions are contentious. extricable tie to natural reFact: Albertans are interested in finding solusources. tions.

I do not believe you will get Case in point the advances in CO2 extraction bemuch argument about things ing delved into by a Calgary company called Carbon having to change, however Engineering. With technology advancing at such a when the direction for that rapid pace it is almost impossible to keep abreast change is broached, then the of new developments, surely we can forge solutions cumulative uproar of a billion that utilize this expertise, and find ways to encourvoices rises to an crescendo. age industries to adopt them.

It seems everybody, academThe latest energizing example comes from reLORNE ic and layperson alike has an searchers at the University of Southern California OJA idea on the best route to take. who have come up with a technique to use captured ENERGY Innovation is Alberta’s CO2 and convert it directly into methanol. Methanol forte; the particular innovais what we are familiar with as a gasoline additive tion which has allowed the used to reduce harmful emissions. It can also be oil industry to produce from formations previously used as a replacement for gasoline, and this dithought uneconomical, was invented rect conversion technology could proand developed here.

INNOVATION IS ALBERTA’S vide for an “anthropogenic carbon As well, the province produced where carbon is “exchanged, FORTE; THE PARTICULAR cycle” businesses that were among the first recycled, and reused” keeping atmoin the world to implement computer- INNOVATION WHICH HAS spheric CO2 in balance. ized sensing, to monitor all parame- ALLOWED THE OIL INDUSThis new technology was prediters of drilling, completions and procated on the development of a hoTRY TO PRODUCE FROM mogenous catalyst which can reduce duction, while using satellite up links for the “real time” transfer of data.

FORMATIONS PREVIOUSLY carbamates or alkylammonium bicarNo stranger to technological innobonates directly to methanol. After vation, the Canadian oil patch uses THOUGHT UNECONOMICAL, years of work they have succeed in alternate energy to run their remote converting 79% of the carbon, capWAS INVENTED AND well SCADA systems for control and tured from the air, being converted to DEVELOPED HERE. monitoring of production. methanol.

In short, these industries are So the challenge is this, can we quick to embrace any advantage that will give them step up to the plate and find solutions to the world’s an edge. The service sector for the Canadian oil in- energy needs, driven by industries with the experdustry contributes 22% of the country’s GDP, add to tise, and aided by government policy, to transition to that, the sale of coal, oil, natural gas, gas liquids, and an environmentally sustainable future? refined petroleum products and it is easy to see why Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer the latest “oil Crisis” is wreaking such havoc on our and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, province. wind turbines and energy control products in Central Fact: Canadians are net exporters of refined pe- Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His coltroleum products, fuels, and oils. umn appears every second Friday in the Advocate. ConFact: The fabric of civilization is inextricable wo- tact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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Solar cell placement raises interesting possibilities as well, including paving roads, parking lots and bike lanes with durable panels that not only generate power but also melt ice and snow. Some experts predict solar technology could make the need for baseload power and even transmission grids obsolete. As Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, which operates gas and power transmission networks in the U.K. and northeastern U.S., said, “From a consumer’s point of view, baseload is what I am producing myself. The solar on my rooftop, my heat pump — that’s the baseload.”

Solar is viable and affordable enough (especially with tax credits in jurisdictions including the U.S.) that it can be easily installed on rooftops to generate electricity for homes, public institutions and businesses. It’s becoming an increasingly important part of the energy mix, especially as transmission-grid and storage-system technologies become more sophisticated and efficient.

Every hour, the sun bathes the Earth with enough energy to supply our needs for more than a year.

There’s no reason we can’t harness more of it to cut back on polluting, climate-altering fossil fuels.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Development Officer Approvals On February 2, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use South Gaetz Commercial 1. Kubik Developments Corp. – a 19 parking stall variance to the approved parking requirements to accommodate a proposed 603.1 m2 outdoor storage for an existing merchandise sales and rental facility, to be located at 2030 50 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Highland Green Estates 2. Liza Consulting & Taxation – an approval of use for a home-based consulting and taxation business, to be located at #1, 6515 – 59 Avenue.

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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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DIEWOLD (nee Sherbino) Lynn Lynn died peacefully on February 2, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 72 years. She is survived by her loving husband, Bob and their son, Matt. She was predeceased by her sister, Mary Sherbino.

Lynn was born August 3, 1943 in Dawson City, Yukon.

She was proud of her Yukon heritage and had many stories of life in the North.

After moving to and completing her education in Red Deer, she graduated as a Registered Nurse from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton.

Her nursing career was mainly at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. Lynn was a private and quiet person who loved the simpler things in life, such as the natural world, dogs, and horses. However she was also interested in following politics, social issues, and daily news both local and afar. Above all she was devoted to her family. We will miss her a great deal but also know that she would want the family to move on as quickly as possible. At Lynn’s request no funeral or memorial service is planned.

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DAVIDSON 1951 - 2016 Bette Lynn Davidson of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, January 30, 2016 at the age of 65 years. Bette is survived by her loving husband Doug Hough; son Doug (Amanda) Davidson, their children Josh and Wylde; stepsons Ron (Lynda) Hough, Chris (Karen) Hough, their children Vaughn, Ailsa and Tamsin and Ryan (Elizabeth) Hough. Also to cherish Bette memory is her mother Isabel Holt; brothers Ron (Linda) Holt, Jim (Darlene) Holt and David Holt; sisters Sharon (Phil), Wilma (Eugene), Marion (Dennis) as well as numerous nieces nephews, family members and friends.

A Celebration of Bette’s life will be held at the Pine Lake Hub Centre on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Bette’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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HUNTLEY Glen 1961 - 2016 Glen Ian Huntley of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Mazankowski Heart Institute of Alberta in Edmonton on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 54 years. . Glen leaves behind his loving wife Kathy and his faithful dog Hurley.

Glen will be lovingly remembered by his 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 along with grandchildren; Tyrrell, Mason, Serene, Soriya, Caelen, Lochlan, Emily and Elizabeth. Glen is also survived by his brothers; Doug of Calgary, Del (Belinda) of Calgary, and sister Sue Rae Joyce of Kinston.

Glen was predeceased by his parents; Robert and Marion Joyce Huntley of Portland, Ontario and his sister Laurie Townsend of Elgin, Ontario.

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. A celebration of Glen’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive) Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Donations can be made to the Heart & Stroke Fund 202 - 5913 50 Ave., Red Deer, AB T4N 4C4. 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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HAIRE Lester (Les) Sherman Mar. 31, 1940 - Jan. 29, 2016 Les was born in Turner Valley, Alberta. As a boy, Les enjoyed playing hockey and later as a young man, he served proudly in the Royal Canadian Navy. He began his lengthy oilfield career at a very young age in Alberta.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Obituaries DEIBERT Richard “Dick” Joseph Dear friends, since you are reading this you’ll know that I have taken my last flight. I was born June 3, 1937 and died February 3, 2016. I want you to know that you have been part of the great ride I have had through my life, and part of the legacy I leave behind. The greater part of which is my wife, Carey; my children Sarah Richards (Mike), Matthew (Nicole), Erin (Shelli), Luke (Sandy), Andy (Nicky) and my 12 beautiful grandchildren! The family wishes to invite you to a reception and farewell at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150-67 Street, Red Deer on Monday, February 8, 2016 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

My family will also be hosting a celebration of life on Friday, June 3, 2016 the location will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers or gifts, please donate to the Lending Cupboard, 5406C 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1C9 or to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6. Both are there to serve those who have need of them. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com “Until we meet again” - Dick Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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GRIEMAN Keith 1964 - 2016 Mr. Keith Joseph Grieman, beloved husband of Mrs. Annette Grieman of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at the age of 51 years.

Prayers will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Les Drewicki celebrant.

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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RHODES James William Dec. 22, 1949 - Jan. 10, 2016 It is with heartfelt sadness that our family announces the sudden passing of Jim Rhodes. He is survived by his siblings; Beatrice Stefanyk, Janet (Don) Lowry, Aileen Rhodes, Bob (Wendy) Rhodes, and Ed Rhodes Jr. Jim was predeceased by his parents, Edmund and Aileen Rhodes. Memorial Service to be held at 12 noon on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at the Royal Canadian Legion #25, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta.

Luncheon to follow.

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Drug exec takes the Fifth on Capitol Hill

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on Twitter and insulted his questioners as “imbeciles.”

The brash, 32-year-old entrepreneur who has been vilified as the new face of pharmaceutical-industry greed was summoned by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is investigating soaring prices for critical medicines.

Four times, he intoned: “On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question.”

Lawmakers erupted. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, all but told Shkreli to wipe the smile off his face.

“I call this money blood money … coming out of the pockets of hardworking Americans,” he said as Shkreli sat through the lecture.

“I know you are smiling, but I am very serious, sir,” Cummings said. “I

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“He meant no disrespect, but in truth, statements made by some of the members of the committee were wrong, unfair and difficult to listen to without responding.”

Shkreli calls himself “the world’s most eligible bachelor” and “the most successful Albanian to ever walk the face of this Earth.”

He strums his guitar on YouTube and paid a reported $2 million for the only known copy of an album by the Wu-Tang Clan.

After Shkreli’s departure, Turing’s chief commercial officer and the interim CEO of Canada’s largest drugmaker, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, received a bipartisan lashing from the lawmakers.

Internal documents released by the committee show that Valeant and Turing have made a practice of buying and then dramatically raising prices for low-cost drugs given to patients with life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, AIDS and cancer.

Chaffetz, an admitted “conservative guy” who accepts that companies need to make profits, said he was disgusted.

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With Shkreli mum, it was up to Turing’s Nancy Retzlaff to defend the Daraprim price rise.

She said the company invests in research and development, as well as programs that help patients afford drugs. Turing tries to strike the right balance between those needs and rewarding shareholders, Retzlaff testified.

“I don’t believe my company has done anything wrong,” she said.

As early as last May, Turing planned to turn Daraprim into a $200-million-a-year drug by dramatically increasing its price, according to documents obtained by the committee.

Turing bought the 60-year-old drug in August for $55 million.

Shkreli said in an email to one contact: “We raised the price from $1,700 per bottle to $75,000. Should be a very handsome investment for all of us.”

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truly believe you can become a force of tremendous good. All I ask is that you reflect on it. No, I don’t ask, I beg that you reflect on it. “ The former hedge fund manager with a frat-boy swagger has been reviled in recent months for buying Daraprim, the only approved drug for a rare and sometimes deadly parasitic infection, and unapologetically raising its price more than fiftyfold.

Shkreli is out on $5 million bail after being arrested in New York in December on securities-fraud charges unrelated to the price increase.

Shkreli, wearing a sport jacket and open-collar shirt, was dismissed less than an hour into the hearing, but not before chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, shouted down a request by Shkreli’s attorney to speak. Lawmakers instead took turns denouncing his conduct and attitude.

Minutes after he left — and even before the hearing had ended — Shkreli thumbed his nose at the committee.

“Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government,” the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals tweeted.

Shkreli’s attorney Benjamin Brafman later said in his defence:

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO — With no hope for a vaccine to prevent Zika in the near future, authorities are focusing on the most effective way to combat the virus: killing the mosquito that carries it.

Fumigation is one method another is seeking out and draining standing water where the insect lays its eggs.

Other strategies are possible, including larvae-devouring fish, genetically modified insects and even lasers.

But officials agree that it won’t be easy.

The battle is focused on Aedes aegypti, a formidable foe. It carries not only Zika, but other diseases like dengue, yellow fever and chikunguya. Well adapted to humans, it lives largely inside homes and can lay eggs in even a bottle-cap’s worth of stagnant water.

The dishes beneath potted plants are a favourite spot, as are abandoned tires, bird feeders and even the little puddles of rainwater that collect in the folds of plastic tarps.

“This mosquito really is a bear to deal with,” said Thomas Scott, professor of entomology and epidemiology at the University of California, Davis.

“It’s almost like a cockroach of the mosquito world.”

Scientists are also trying to determine if, and how easily, Zika could be spread by sex or by blood transfusions.

But the virus is usually transmitted through mosquito bites.

Brazil’s first case of Zika — a virus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 and subsequently spread to parts of Asia — was recorded in the middle of last year. Researchers don’t know exactly how it made the jump, but two theories suggest it may have arrived with tourists visiting the country for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament or an international canoeing competition the same year.

Thanks to Aedes aegypti, the disease quickly spread across Brazil and to more than 20 countries in the region, the Caribbean and beyond, leading the World Health Organization this week to declare an international emergency.

The concern is not the disease itself — Zika’s immediate effects are mild, consisting mostly of a moderate fever and a rash, and only a fifth of those afflicted notice any symptoms.

But Brazilian authorities say also they have detected a spike in cases of microcephaly, which leaves infants with unusually small heads and can result in brain damage and a host of developmental and health problems. The link between Zika and microcephaly is as yet unproven.

Brazil is pouring money into the development of a vaccine against Zika.

But a viable vaccine is years away,

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A city worker fumigates for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at a school playground in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Thursday. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is vector for the spread of the Zika virus which has suspected links to microcephaly in newborn children.

However, the link between Zika and birth defects is as yet unproven. and public health experts say for now, slashing the mosquito population is key.

“The most important thing,” said Jayme Souza-Neto, a researcher at Sao Paulo State University who studies interactions between viruses and mosquitoes, is to “try to prevent mosquitoes from reaching adulthood.”

The country had success against Aedes once before, when a nationwide campaign to drain standing waters and spray the insecticide DDT led to a steep fall in dengue and yellow fever in the late 1950s. But as the crusade faded, the insect drifted back in from neighbouring countries.

While DDT has been shown to harm the environment, new insecticides “really are pretty safe environmentally,” said Charles Apperson, a professor emeritus of entomology at North Carolina State University. But as with DDT, there’s still the issue of insects developing resistance, so new insecticides must continually be developed, he said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to send some 220,000 members of the armed forces door-to-door to help ferret out the spots of standing water. But Scott said while campaigns aimed at eliminating stagnant water can help, they’re not enough.

Pesticides are needed too, he said.

This week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in four of his state’s counties in response to reports of nine cases of Zika, all believed to be travellers who contracted the disease outside of the country. The order allows Florida’s agriculture department to use mosquito spray more in those areas.

Oxitec, a British biotech firm, says its genetically modified mosquitoes could be another part of the solution.

It raises male mosquitoes that have been modified to produce offspring that do not live. These males are released into the target area, where they compete with wild males to mate with the wild females.

The company said tests begun last April as part of a dengue-fighting program in the small southeastern city of Piracicaba suggested the release of the GM males reduced the wild Aedes larvae population in the target neighbourhood by more than 80 per cent.

Oxitec officials insist the company — which has also done projects in Panama and the Caiman Islands — has the capacity to scale up the program to tackle large cities such as Recife, a sprawling seaside metropolis of 1.5 million that’s the epicenter of Brazil’s Zika outbreak.

Still, with Zika already recorded in 19 Brazilian states and widely ex-

pected to continue spreading, some experts doubt that Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes offer a realistic solution.

“I’m worried that it’s not feasible at the country or regional scale,” said Scott.

Jeff Powell, a mosquito geneticist at Yale University, says such a program would be expensive, and “as soon as you stop, the mosquito population is going right back up” to its initial level.

“I don’t think that is a long-term solution,” he said.

A small project with a different strategy in the El Salvador’s coastal community of Playa San Diego offers a glimmer of hope, using an approach that has shown success elsewhere.

Under a program developed in 2012 by community health worker Marielos Sosa to combat dengue, small fry fish are introduced into the barrels or tanks in which families store potable water. The fish — tilapia and a brownand-white local species called sambo — eat the mosquito larvae in the tanks.

“The result is that to date we have not had any cases of dengue, nor chikunguya or now Zika,” said Sosa, whose project has expanded to six coastal townships beset by mosquitoes.

And with 7,138 suspected cases of Zika nationwide, the mayors of San Salvador and surrounding suburbs have also voiced interest in the project.

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U.S. struggling to build antiIslamic State strategy in Libya

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is struggling to find the right mix of military and diplomatic moves to stop the Islamic State in Libya, where the extremist group has taken advantage of the political chaos in the country to gain a foothold with worrying implications for the U.S. and Europe — particularly Italy, just 300 miles (500 kilometres) away.

U.S. officials have publicly warned of the risks of Libya becoming the next Syria, where the Islamic State flourished amid civil war and spread into Iraq.

No large-scale U.S. military action is contemplated in Libya, senior administration officials said, but Obama last week directed his national security team to bolster counterterrorism efforts there while also pursuing diplomatic possibilities for solving Libya’s political crisis and forming a government of national unity. While the Islamic State has emerged in other places, including Afghanistan, Libya is seen as its key focus outside of Syria and Iraq.

“We’ve been mindful of this risk for more than a year and a half now,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “We’re going to continue to watch how the threat in Libya evolves, and we’re going to continue to be prepared to take action.”

Other administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said

military options under consideration include raids and advisory missions

by U.S. special operations forces and narrowly targeted airstrikes like the November hit on a command centre near the port city of Darnah that killed Abu Nabil, a longtime al-Qaida operative believed by U.S. officials to have been the senior Islamic State leader in Libya.

Since 2014, Libya has been split between two rival authorities, each backed by different militias and tribes.

At a conference earlier this week in Rome, U.S., European and Arab officials resolved to “stand ready” to support Libya once it establishes a long-awaited government of national unity. Italy has said it will take the international lead in providing security support to a Libyan government, with the U.S. and others chipping in.

For Obama, the growth of the Islamic State in Libya is the result, in part, of his decision in 2011 to join a European-led air campaign to topple dictator Moammar Gadhafi. By contemplating a return to some form of military action in Libya, the administration is acknowledging how little progress has been made in restoring security in a country with major oil resources.

“The last thing in the world you want,” Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, “is a false caliphate with access to billions of dollars of oil revenue.”

That could haunt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who advocated for the intervention as secretary of state.

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United States Secretary of State John Kerry walks during his visit to Rome, Italy, Wednesday. Kerry called for no let up in international efforts against Islamic State militias in Syria and Iraq, amid concerns that a third battlefront against the terrorist group may open in Libya.

Chicago police on Thursday found the bodies of four men, one woman and a child inside a home on the city’s South Side in what police said was being investigated as an apparent multiple homicide.

Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said it appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no wider threat to the community, but police added extra patrols in the neighbourhood as a precaution.

Asked whether it could have been a murder-suicide, he said it was “a possibility.”

Standing in the street in the Gage Park neighbourhood, Escalante told reporters that police checked the house Thursday afternoon after receiving a call from a co-worker worried about someone who lived there. The

person had missed two days of work, which was “highly unusual and very suspicious,” Escalante said.

Police arrived at the single-family brick home just after 1 p.m. They looked inside and saw one body, entered and found five more bodies. The bodies had signs of trauma, but authorities have not determined the cause of death. mAuthorities were still working to identify the dead. Escalante said it’s probable they were all family members and police were trying to locate relatives. The child is thought to be 10 to 12 years old.

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Windows 10 whether you like it or not

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — If you’re running an older version of Windows, you might suddenly find Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade already downloaded on your machine.

You never requested it, so why are you getting it?

The automatic download is part of Microsoft’s aggressive push to get Windows 10 on as many devices as possible. Since last July, Microsoft has distributed the free upgrade on request.

But starting this week, it’s also pushing it out to those who haven’t requested it — and who might not want it.

Microsoft isn’t actually installing Windows 10 automatically, but installation is just a click or two away. If you’re not careful, you might suddenly find the new system on your old machine.

Is this good for you?

THE BENEFITS OF WINDOWS 10 Windows 10 has many improvements over its predecessors — especially Windows 8. It’s much easier to use than Windows 8, and it offers more modern controls — akin to mobile devices — than Windows 7. (There is no Windows 9.) Windows 10 also paves the way for multiple devices to work together. You might be able to buy an app once to run on your PC, phone and Xbox game machine, for instance. The app’s layout would automatically reconfigure to the given screen size.

New apps are being designed for Windows 10, so if you have an older system, you might find yourself shut out.

BENEFITS FOR MICROSOFT Microsoft is reducing reliance on software sales in favour of services such as the Bing search engine, OneDrive storage and Skype for communications. Windows 10 was designed to steer users to those services. Microsoft makes money from ads and premium features that cost money — such as additional OneDrive storage.

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In this Jan. 21 photo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event demonstrating the new features of Windows 10 at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. If you’re running an older version of Windows, you might suddenly find Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade already downloaded on your machine. The automatic download, beginning the first week of February 2016, is part of Microsoft’s aggressive push to get Windows 10 on as many devices as possible. makers to write more software for Windows 10 if a lot of people are using it.

It’s similar to how Apple pushes its users to upgrade to the latest iPhone and Mac systems. App developers know they can enable the latest features without worrying about abandoning too many users of older devices.

WHY HOLD OUT? System upgrades aren’t always smooth, especially on older machines with slower processors, less memory and less storage space available.

Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 app will

verify that you meet minimum system requirements — but minimum doesn’t mean speedy.

Older machines also might have software that won’t work on Windows 10, so you’d have to spend money upgrading those programs, if upgrades are available at all. Printers, scanners and other accessories also might need new controlling software, called drivers. If a driver update isn’t available, you might find yourself with a dead accessory.

And once you upgrade to Windows

10, you might be ceding control over future upgrades to Microsoft. The company is offering incremental updates to Windows 10 on a regular basis, and it won’t always give you a choice on whether to accept.

HOW TO KEEP THE OLDER WINDOWS Microsoft is treating Windows 10 as a type of security update it regularly pushes to users. Microsoft is now reclassifying Windows 10 as “recommended” rather than “optional.” In doing so, those who have set their machine to automatically get important updates will get Windows 10, too. You can avoid this by turning off automatic updates in the settings under Windows Update. That’s not recommended, though, because you might miss important security fixes.

If you work for a large company, your system administrators are likely monitoring these updates, so Windows 10 won’t automatically download without their OK. Plus, Microsoft isn’t offering Windows 10 for free to larger companies.

Microsoft will support Windows 7 until 2020 and Windows 8 until 2023, after which time it will stop fixing any security problems. By then, it might be time for a new computer anyway.

IF YOU’RE READY To install Windows 10, all you need to do is accept it when prompted. Getting Windows 10 shouldn’t affect your photos and other documents, though there’s always a risk of a meltdown with any major upgrade. Back up your files first. You can use an online storage service such as OneDrive or DropBox to keep a backup online.

WHAT IF YOU DON’T LIKE WINDOWS 10?

Microsoft keeps a backup of your system for a month. In the settings, go to “Update & security” and then “Recovery.” You’ll find the option to return to Windows 7 or 8. Your files should be OK, but you’ll lose any apps installed after upgrading to Windows 10. Remember, you have only 31 days to change your mind.

Microsoft shows off possible future of football viewing ties. With 3-D capable cameras spread around the entire stadium, plays were able to be brought to your coffee taSAN FRANCISCO — Imagine being ble with the press of a button on your able to watch all 22 players at the snap phone or the movement of your hands. with video that expands from your livAll 3-D forms of the 22 players ing room television set to the entire were lined up and viewers could walk wall. around the table to see Curious about how ‘IF YOU COULD EVER PUT A different angles, pause big Terrence “Pot FAN IN THAT POSITION IT the video or zoom in Roast” Knighton realto certain parts of the ly is, or how 5-foot-11 WOULD COMPLETELY OPEN field. On one play in THEIR EYES TO A WHOLE particular you could quarterback Russell Wilson is able to use see 49ers cornerback NEW REALM OF WHAT his high release point Tramaine Brock eyeing to avoid getting pass- PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL IS.’ Wilson from his outside es batted down? Try zone coverage spot. standing next to a holo- — NEW ORLEANS SAINTS QUARTERBACK DREW BREES Wilson thought he had gram of Knighton right a streaking Doug Baldin your den on an NFL Sunday, or win open for a touchdown but couldn’t watching a hologram of Wilson release see Brock, who broke on the ball and the ball right over your outstretched made an interception in the end zone. arm.

“If you could ever put a fan in that Wonder why your favourite quar- position it would completely open terback just threw an interception, or their eyes to a whole new realm of how a big hole opened for a running what professional football is,” New back on a touchdown run? Just load up Orleans quarterback Drew Brees said a 3-D version of the play on your coffee after seeing the technology. “It’s really table and zoom it, pause it and rotate cool watching on TV, it’s really cool it around 360 degrees to see how the watching in the stadium. I’m sure we cornerback baited the quarterback in- will get to the point where they are to a bad throw, or a pulling guard help able to experience it that way and it spring a long run. will be like a lightbulb went on.”

The designers at Microsoft believe Microsoft wants to show it off now those seemingly far-fetched dreams to developers and content providers could one day be a reality in living such as the NFL to see what creations rooms around the country. Microsoft can best use the HoloLens, which costs showed off its HoloLens technology at about $3,000 right now. But the designthe Super Bowl this week as the com- ers at Microsoft believe perhaps some pany tries to redefine the experience time in the next decade it could be of watching NFL football at home. available for consumers.

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Daughter-in-law not happy with mom’s decor Dear Annie: My motherin-law has a decor that was personalized for her by my husband’s long-term ex-girlfriend.

Every time I go to her house, it’s the first thing I see and it really bothers me. The problem is, I don’t feel I can say anything to her because after all, it’s her house and the decorating was a gift. It’s not like I can tell her, “Hey, get rid of it.”

MITCHELL The second problem is that & SUGAR my mother-in-law already ANNIE feels that I’m a “jealous wife” due to our past conversations (which turned into arguments) when she told me about all of the things she caught her son doing with the ex and what a “cute girl” she was. It made me angry, and I said so.

Any suggestions about the house decor? — Bothered Wife Dear Bothered: Yes. Control your reaction and leave it alone.

You are right that this is not your house and you have no decision-making control over what’s inside.

Until Mom wants to redecorate, which can be pricey, speaking up about it will only confirm her opinion that you are jealous. And she won’t change anything.

She might, in fact, enjoy your negative reaction. So don’t give her the satisfaction.

Your mother-in-law may have made an emotional investment in the ex and isn’t ready to move on and accept that her son chose differently. Instead of silently fuming, try to win her over. Admire some of the decor (it will make her less attached to it as a knife to twist).

Tell her how lovely her home is and that the ex did a good job. Ask Mom to help you out the next time you are shopping for a new lamp or arranging pictures on your walls. You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

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First of all, she should use panty liners made for this problem and change them when necessary.

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I no longer have the odor in my house or on my person. I was also embarrassed, but thankful my daughter told me. — Anonymous Dear Anonymous: We heard from hundreds of incontinent readers and those who love them. Here’s a sample: From New York: I have a similar problem, and I wear the newer adult diapers that are thin and look like regular underpants. No one can tell. If she’s too embarrassed to buy them, her husband can do it for her.

California: “Embarrassed” complained about the smell because his wife doesn’t launder her undies fast enough. How about if HE does the laundry?

Coping With Aging: “Embarrassed” can use a deodorizing spray like Lysol. It’s not an accusation, he’s just taking care of it.

She may appreciate his efforts, and begin to feel more comfortable coping with her situation. He can express his love (in sickness and in health) by giving her a little practical TLC. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Most Canadians drink alcohol but may not know health risks

Friday, Feb. 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Charlotte Rampling, 69; Bobby Brown, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect some people to be emotionally reserved today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are a quiet achiever, but can suffer from

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS too much worry and stress. 2016 is the year to work a little less and play a lot more.

TORONTO — Drinking alcohol has become a ARIES (March 21-April 19): “normalized” part of life for the majority of CanadiThe stars favour making connecJOANNE MADELINE ans, yet many don’t realize the potential health risks tions with others, especially involvMOORE of downing wine, beer or spirits — even at low levels, ing work projects. But don’t be too says Canada’s top doctor.

HOROSCOPE blunt about saying exactly what’s In a report released Wednesday, Dr. Gregory Tayon your mind. Take the time to lor said an estimated 22 million Canadians aged 15 think things through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Expect frustration regarding and older — almost 80 per cent of the population — shared resources or a joint financial situation, as reality brings imbibed in 2012, the most recent year for which stayou down to earth with a thud. Saturn demands that you con- tistics are available.

At least 3.1 million Canadians drank enough to be sider the current situation very carefully.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have a strong desire to at risk for immediate injury and harm, with at least communicate your complicated emotions today — but can 4.4 million at risk for chronic health effects, such as anyone decipher what you’re saying? Take your time Twins, liver cirrhosis and some cancers, his annual report on the state of public health shows. as your feelings are in a state of flux.

“If there’s one key message that I’d like to get CANCER (June 21-July 22): Saturn is moving through your work zone so the focus is on professional matters, as across, it’s that (alcohol) is not harmless,” Taylor, you communicate your ideas. Be tactful though, because a the country’s chief public health officer, said from Ottawa. colleague may not like what you have to say.

“Canada has low-risk drinking guidelines, but LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you bored to bits with your domestic situation? Has your home life become too rigid and they’re low-risk, not no-risk.”

Taylor said he chose to focus on alcohol in this routine? Mars is charging through Villa Leo so get ready for year’s report because of its widespread use, easy changes and hold on tight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many Virgos feel bombarded availability and potential harms, which include an with extra family responsibilities, as Saturn saunters through elevated risk of breast, colorectal, head and neck, your domestic zone. If you pace yourself then you’ll get and liver cancers.

Alcohol is a known carcinogen, and the Canadian through tasks one step at a time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With the Sun shining in your Cancer Society says there is no safe limit when it creativity zone, it’s time to express yourself. But, when com- comes to cancer prevention.

Heavy drinking increases the risk for oral, phamunicating with others — verbally plus via social media — ryngeal and esophageal cancers by five times, for make sure you are clear and precise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you have to make an im- laryngeal cancer by 2 ½ times, and colorectal and portant financial move, a combination of logic and intuition will breast cancers by 50 per cent, the report notes. Men help you come up with the best possible decision. And there have a higher risk for alcohol-related colorectal canis no substitute for thorough research. cer than women, while reSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re keen to com- cent research shows that municate your ideas, but in a quieter and more personal way even one daily drink may than usual. So activities like journal writing are suitable, where increase the risk of breast you transcribe what’s really on your mind. cancer in women.

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Calling it “a very strong report,” Norman Giesbrecht of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health said Ontario surveys conducted by the Toronto institution have suggested that less than half the population is aware that alcohol is carcinogenic.

As well, the highest levels of awareness were among abstainers and light drinkers, not heavy drinkers, said Giesbrecht, a senior scientist emeritus at CAMH. Taylor’s report, which was tabled in Parliament before being made public, suggests drinking was related to almost 4,300 deaths, representing almost two per cent of all fatalities in 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available. Most deaths were due to alcoholic liver disease, motor vehicle accidents and alcohol-related suicides.

However, the figures are likely vastly underestimated due to outdated statistics. More current figures show 230 of booze-related deaths in 2009 to 2011 were directly caused by alcohol poisoning.

“The one that I find personally quite distressing is that every year in Canada there are approximately 3,000 babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder and there are approximately 330,000 Canadians living with FASD today,” Taylor said of the disorder caused by often excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

“That’s quite astounding in terms of some of the impact.”

Other facts in the report include: • Costs related to alcohol in Canada were about $14.6 billion in 2002, a figure that would be much higher in 2015.

• In fiscal year 2013-2014, $20.5 billion worth of alcohol was sold in Canada.

• In 2008, impaired driving was the leading cause of criminal death in the country.

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