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Beetle battle IT’S NOT JUST PINE BEETLES ATTACKING TREES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE FOREST AREA. ADVOCATE REPORTER MARY-ANN BARR EXAMINES THE LATEST THREATS TO THE REGION’S FORESTS

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Alberta Forestry Forest Health Officer Pam Melnick out in the woods last spring examining bark from a spruce tree in the Rocky Mountain House Forest Protection Area.

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TOP: An aerial view of spruce trees in the Rocky Forest showing the effects of the spruce beetle.

ABOVE: The effects of the spruce beetle on a tree .

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When beetles attack TAMARACK BEETLES, SPRUCE BEETLES MAKING THEIR PRESENCE FELT NEAR ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE

Rocky Mountain House forest health officer Pam Melnick knew something was amiss during an aerial survey of the forest in 2013.

Instead of bright healthy green, the tops of some stands of tamarack trees were unusually discoloured.

This could not have been the golden colour these pretty, and remarkable “coniferous deciduous” MARY-ANN trees turn in the BARR fall. It was summertime and BARRSIDE the trees were dying.

A year later, in another aerial survey in the summer of 2014, Melnick noticed spruce stands with an odd reddish appearance — also troubling signs these trees were dying.

Having just spent several years on the front lines working in the Northern Alberta Grande Prairie area dealing with the destructive tree-killing mountain pine beetle, Melnick was of course concerned.

In both instances after those aerial surveys, she soon drove out to the affected areas to see what was going on.

She examined the bark of the affected trees to learn what might be killing them.

In the tamarack stand she found tamarack beetles, also known as the eastern larch beetle; in the spruce trees, she found spruce beetles. Tree beetles are specific to the type of tree they like to dine on — tamarack beetles don’t eat spruce trees for example.

The notorious mountain pine beetle has not done much to the Rocky forest.

It’s not certain why the region escaped their invasion.

Melnick thinks it might be because they have to get past the Rockies west of Rocky Mountain House, whereas they did not have that obstacle in the Grande Prairie area.

While there are precautions being taken to map and monitor the spruce and tamarack beetles, at the same time the impact of tree-munching bugs isn’t all bad. Like wildfire, they actually help create a more diverse, healthier forest.

Melnick said she has now mapped 1,400 hectares of trees in the Rocky forest affected by the spruce beetle. Of that, 950 hectares have low infestation rates of less than 15 per cent and 450 hectares are around 25 per cent.

Spruce beetles hit 300,000 hectares in central British Columbia last summer, a 15 per cent increase over the previous year, she said. And to the south, 200,000 hectares have been affected in Colorado. In the Yukon and Alaska, spruce beetle populations that took out a total of 1.85 million hectares appears to be on the decline.

Eighty per cent of the infestations are in low-lying areas mainly in the Nordegg, Baptiste and Wawa river drainage areas. Trying to accurately map and predict the spruce beetle expansion, and trying to determine how long the trees have been under attack, has been difficult, Melnick said.

Beetles are trapped to figure out when and where they are flying. A chemical bait is used and the traps are checked weekly. They do not have a really good spruce beetle bait. A uni-

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ABOVE: Tamarack beetles in a piece of bark removed from a tamarack tree.

BELOW: The top of a tamarack tree in the Rocky Mountain House forest area shows the affect of the tamarack beetle.

INSET: An adult tamarack beetle (also known as the eastern larch beetle) in the Rocky Mountain House forest area.

versity student is now trying to develop a better one, said Melnick.

There is a greater concern about the impact on spruce trees because they are harvested commercially and losing stands could have an economic impact.

For every harvested tree taken, the same species must be replanted in the same area. Very few tamarack trees are harvested because they grow in swampy areas and it’s too difficult to replant them.

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Melnick said. “We don’t understand what it’s doing. Is the population getting bigger, staying the same, and which direction it is headed?

At this point, she’s not alarmed.

“I’m more curious.” They haven’t seem much of the insect in Alberta so there’s not a lot of experience with it, Melnick said.

The last recorded infestation of spruce beetle was in 1992 in the Peace River forest area. Some trees were harvested, while others were “baited” so the beetles would be attracted to them, and then burned.

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“It seemed to have worked,” said Melnick. In one of the Rocky stands she discovered, the trees were already slated for commercial harvest and have since been felled.

Melnick is seeing the larger populations of the spruce beetle northwest of Rocky Mountain House. The tamarack beetle population is greater just east of Rocky and north to Drayton Valley.

Warmer winters and hotter summers may be taking their toll of the forest. When the air is warm in the winter, evergreens need more water but the ground water is frozen. Tamaracks are sensitive to water table fluctuations.

When trees are stressed they emit chemical signatures. Beetles have evolved so they pick up on that stress and off they fly to attack those trees.

She advises people who gather spruce or tamarack for firewood to check under the tree bark first. If there are beetles, people could be transferring them into their own yards and woodsheds. The beetles could fly into nearby trees as they seek food.

“Be careful about what trees you choose.”

Beetles are always present in the forest, but generally they don’t build up to kill that many trees. The mountain pine beetle may have given other beetles a bad rap.

When beetles do kill trees, it creates a gap in the forest, allowing in sunlight. New trees and plants pop up, creating greater plant and animal diversity. Dead trees provide bird and secondary insect habitat, and soil nutrients for other plants.

“When you have a diverse forest you will have diverse everything. That’s good,” said Melnick. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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MEDICINE HAT — A southern Alberta MP is taking a short medical leave so he can recover from surgery.

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LETHBRIDGE — A judge has ruled that a trial will go ahead for a couple in southern Alberta charged in the death of their toddler.

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Trudeau promotes spending EXPERTS WARN OF WEAK OUTLOOK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is talking up the need for more federal spending to help the economy — even as the experts warn his government of an ever-gloomier outlook.

Speaking in Toronto to mark his 100th day in office, Trudeau said it’s more important than ever for the Liberal government to spend on growth-generating projects, such as the party’s promised infrastructure plan.

The prime minister made the comments shortly after a group of private-sector economists shared their latest economic forecasts with Finance Minister Bill Morneau at a meeting just across town.

For decades, federal finance ministers have used an average of private-sector economic forecasts as the foundation of their fiscal plans.

The projections can have significant impacts on just how much wiggle room is available for governments to spend.

That fiscal flexibility is poised to be considerably tighter than it was in the fall, the last time the group was convened.

For example, Conference Board of Canada chief economist Glen Hodgson said he gave Morneau a 2016 growth forecast Friday of just 1.7 per cent — one of the most optimistic predictions in the room.

But Trudeau said a struggling economy provides an even stronger argument in favour of the Liberal government’s job-creation plan: running deficits in the coming years in order to spend billions on stimulus like infrastructure projects.

Many experts, including Hodgson, say infrastructure investment is one of the best ways to stimulate an economy.

Trudeau also highlighted the other Liberal measures he said will help the economy, such as boosting child-benefit payments and providing some income-tax relief for middle earners while hiking rates for top earners.

He said Canadians voted for the Liberal plan instead of the platforms presented by the Conservatives and New Democrats, both of which argued it was more important to balance the budget at all costs.

“We said, ‘No, we need to invest at all costs,”’ Trudeau said.

In a recent interview published

by Montreal’s La Presse newspaper, Trudeau said his government would not fulfil its promise to keep the 201617 deficit under $10 billion. He did not indicate how high the shortfall could go.

In that same interview, Trudeau also shied away from an earlier vow to balance the federal books before the end of his government’s four-year mandate, a pledge that was central to the Liberal election platform.

Instead, the government has been emphasizing its other, more flexible “fiscal anchor,” which is to continue lowering Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio during its mandate.

While Trudeau has acknowledged government finances were even tighter than they were a couple of months ago, he has not indicated what will become of the Liberals’ many non-economic spending vows.

LA LOCHE, Sask. — Teachers are to return to a school in northern Saskatchewan one month after a shooting that killed four people.

The Northern Lights School Division said in a release that teachers are to be back at the La Loche Community School on Feb. 22. Classes are to resume shortly after that for elementary students.

No date has been set for the return of high school students, but the division said staff are looking at options for how to make up lost class time.

PM boosts Canada Summer Jobs program

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Justin Trudeau marked his 100th day in office Friday with news of a big-ticket boost to a program that helps students get summer jobs, spending the prime minister billed as an investment in Canada’s flagging economy.

Trudeau announced plans to double the resources behind Canada Summer Jobs Program during a visit to Toronto’s Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club.

The federal government spent $106 million on the program last year to help create more than 34,000 summer jobs. New funding of up to $113 million each year for the next three years will allow the program to offer nearly 70,000 summer jobs to students from now until 2018.

“Not only is this good for them, it’s good for the broader economy, now and in the years to come,” Trudeau said.

“Yes we’re building a stronger fuMorneau is facing fiscal pressure as he prepares his first budget, expected late next month. His department last consulted private-sector economists ahead of the November fiscal update.

At the time, the average 2016 projections for Canada’s real GDP was two per cent and US$54 per barrel of oil, which has a big impact on Ottawa’s bottom line.

On Friday, Hodgson said he told Morneau that the Conference Board’s growth projection for real GDP was 1.7 per cent for 2016, while it predicted oil

ture for them, but we’re also building a stronger present for everyone that they work for and touch with their experiences and hard work. That’s why investing in young people is so important.”

Summer jobs, Trudeau noted, help youth get the experience they need to start their careers, pay for ongoing education, and build self-reliance.

“The needs that our young people are facing in terms of unemployment, in terms of the need to develop work experience, the need to get good summer jobs is massive right now,” he said. “We needed to take seriously our responsibility to give young people the tools and the capacity to succeed.”

At least one economist said Trudeau’s announcement is one more likely to yield economic benefits down the road rather than any time soon.

“In terms of providing greater financial support for students, I would argue that yes, it’s a good thing in the to average about US$38.

“The economy is in not as good a shape as when the Liberals got elected,” said Hodgson, who also noted that uncertain global economic conditions have created a “very turbulent environment” for budget planning.

Ted Mallett, chief economist for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said he provided Morneau with a 2016 prediction of 1.5 per cent growth for real GDP. In the fall, he said the lobby group projected 2.1 per cent.

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That number was dropped to US$33 for Friday’s meeting with Morneau.

“And that’s still well above where we are today,” he said, referring to prices that fell below US$30 in recent days.

“I think everybody (at the meeting) realized the kinds of challenges that the minister is facing… Nobody was underestimating the kinds of issues that one would have to deal with in his shoes.”

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“I think this is another example, a much smaller example, but it fits in within the theme that the government is trying to think about ways in which it can support the longer term economic outlook.”

Under the Canada Summer Jobs program, the government subsidizes summer wages paid to young people between the ages of 15 and 30, who were full-time students during the past academic year and intend to return to school full-time in the coming academic year.

The subsidy, based on minimum provincial wage rates, ranges from 100 per cent for not-for-profit sector employers to 50 per cent for public sector employers and for private sector employers who employ no more than 50 employees.

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On the 100 day anniversary of his time in office, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plays foosball with local youth at the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club before making an announcement to the media about the expansion of the Canada Summer Jobs Program in Toronto on Friday.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis is an example of compassionate leadership, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday as he praised the country’s “huge solidarity� with the international community.

Ban, who on a visit to Ottawa on Thursday applauded the country’s decision to re-engage with the United Nations, told reporters in Montreal, “I’m back (on Canadian soil) because Canada’s back.�

He said the 25,000 Syrian refugees who are coming to Canada may represent a small number, “but it’s a huge (international) solidarity.� “I deeply appreciate and highly commend such a compassionate leadership and generosity as shown by the Canadian government in accommodating 25,000 refugees.�

Ban called on other developed countries to alleviate some of the burden on poorer nations by doing more to help the millions of Syrians who have either fled the country or been internally displaced by civil war.

He added he met about 40 Syrian refugees during his state visit to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. “They were very relieved knowing that their lives have been assured and protected and promoted,� he said while on a visit to Montreal’s city hall. “Their human dignity has been supported and I think this is what the international community should show.�

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The Vancouver Island woman, who cannot be identified, said the ministry has told her the girl will not be allowed to attend a fundraiser and potluck hosted by the B.C. MĂŠtis Federation on Saturday. “It made no sense,â€? she said. “Here they are saying that cultural identity is important and yet at the same time, they’re not allowing her to take part in this cultural activity and not allowing her to be in a culturally sensitive home.â€?

She and her husband have launched a court petition to adopt the two-anda-half-year-old girl. The ministry is fighting the adoption because it plans to move her to Ontario to live with her older siblings, who she has never met.

The foster mother is MĂŠtis, while the caregivers in Ontario are not, pitting the importance of indigenous culture against blood relatives.

The ministry said the gathering was advertised as an opportunity to meet the toddler, which is a violation of legislation that protects the identity of children in government care.

Ban Ki-moon calls for dialogue in Syria

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The international community must continue to facilitate dialogue between warring factions in Syria, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.

Ban said the UN must also get “life-saving humanitarian aid� to the millions of people affected by the fighting and focus on defeating terrorist groups in the region. “All these three dimensions must go in parallel and there is no such time to wait until one dimension is resolved,� he told reporters while on a visit to Montreal’s city hall. “We have to continue to address all three at the same time. It’s not that easy but we are working very hard.�

Ban was commenting after reports that diplomats have agreed to work toward a temporary cease-fire in Syrian’s civil war by next week.

The deal between diplomats appeared to be the result of a compromise between the United States, which had wanted an immediate cease-fire, and Russia, which proposed one that would start March 1.

Ban said the most important factor for peace in the region is for all sides to “sit down together and discuss all pending issues. That’s what the UN has been doing since 2012.�

That is proving to be difficult, however, he added.

Indigenous affairs minister hears familiar story from murdered women’s families CALGARY — Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said she heard a familiar message Friday in her final meeting outside Ottawa with families of missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Bennett said many victims’ families in Calgary believe their concerns have been ignored by police.

“The upset was throughout the room,� she said after the meeting. “What can happen is these cases are not deemed a homicide, and very early on it can be called a suicide or an accident or an overdose, and then there’s no investigation,� Bennett told a news conference with Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu.

Bennett has been on a cross-country tour to meet with families and other interested parties so parameters can be set for an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women that is expected to begin by summer.

Only one meeting remains — in Ottawa on Monday.

First Nations basketball player excluded from games, native identity questioned VANCOUVER — Tattooed on Josiah Wilson’s chest is a fine line of writing that combines two significant dates:

his birth and the death of his biological mother four days after he was born.

The 20-year-old, who was adopted as a baby from Haiti, also carries a status Indian card.

He is African by race — but legally, culturally and ethnically he identifies as a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation.

The mix is not common, but Wilson says he’s “never really had a problem with it� until earlier this week, when he was expelled from a popular First Nations basketball competition in northern British Columbia.

His father says the tournament committee claims he lacks sufficient aboriginal bloodlines to participate in the All Native Basketball Tournament.

Tournament organizers could not be reached for comment.

It’s a decision that has not only upset Wilson, his family and community, but has raised questions about what parameters are used to define identity and membership in a group.

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Conservatives suffered from myopia On a week that marks the passing of Justin Trudeau’s 100th day in power, key Conservative and NDP insiders have been delivering some preliminary conclusions as to the causes of their October defeats.

Their findings are strikingly interchangeable — with the popular momentum for change somewhat conveniently fingered as a root cause of electoral failure.

In an op-ed piece published on Monday in the Globe and Mail, former Conservative campaign manager Jenni Byrne states: “The Liberals won because Canadians had an overwhelming desire for CHANTAL change, the exHEBERT tent to which wasn’t fully apOPINION preciated until after the campaign had started.”

In a memo summarizing the party’s campaign review to date, NDP president Rebecca Blaikie reports: “Our campaign presented us as cautious change, which was out of sync with Canadians’ desire for a dramatic break from the decade of Harper’s rule, a desire we contributed to building.”

Those who have kept their ear to the opposition ground since the election will find the refrain familiar. On the right, as on the left, there is no lack of party loyalists looking for solace in the notion that, in four years, the appeal of Trudeau’s change agenda will have faded, with the pendulum swinging back their way.

Indeed, Byrne does not exclude the possibility that her party could be back in power as early as 2019. Over on the NDP side, Thomas Mulcair is counting on his prime ministerial gravitas to see him through a leadership review this year.

Fatigue with the ruling Liberals will eventually set in, although history suggests that could take more than a single mandate. But meanwhile, the Conservatives and the New Democrats, as they look back on their failed campaigns, should take care not to miss the forest for the trees.

I will come back in a future column to the NDP’s contention that it offered “cautious change,” but first, the myopic inside view from the Conservative backroom.

How is it possible that the party brain trust underestimated the potential force of the tide for change? It was a current running through public opinion polls for most of the life of the last Parliament.

Harper was seeking to win a fourth consecutive mandate, a feat for which-

there was no modern precedent at the federal level.

In provinces such as Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba, the incumbent parties that had recently beaten the odds and stayed in power beyond a third mandate had all changed leaders along the way.

Not only was Harper staying put for a fifth campaign, there was no compensatory injection of new blood in his team. On the contrary, there was a pre-election bloodletting of government talent.

Byrne credits a strong ground game for the party raking in almost as many votes (5.6 million) in October as at the time of its 2011 majority victory (5.8 million).But almost three million new-

er lapsed voters turned out in October, with the Conservatives ending up with a smaller share of an expanded election pie. Together the Reform/Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties lost to Jean Chrétien in 1993, 1997 and 2000 with a larger percentage of the vote than the unified party Harper led to defeat against Trudeau last fall.

The Liberals campaigned to the left of the NDP under a leader with none of the business or political credentials that had made Paul Martin and Chrétien appealing to many soft conservatives. It would be presumptuous for the Conservatives to assume the 2015 contingent of new voters is made up of people who lean to the right.

Byrne also asserts her party shot

itself in the foot by tripping the NDP with the niqab issue in Quebec. (She makes it clear it was not her idea.) To win, she contends, Harper needed the NDP to do better.

Fair enough, but isn’t the absolute dependency of the Conservatives on a favourable Liberal/NDP split to win an admission that the party has been and is content to fail to thrive on its own policy merits with as much as twothirds of the electorate? If that were the case, the Conservatives would — absurdly enough — have a bigger stake in a successful recast of the NDP than in their own post-election makeover.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

Education key to surviving hard times Two-thirds of survey respondents worked while If difficult times inspire change, then Alberta is they studied, and averaged almost 23 hours a week in ripe for transformation.

Post-secondary institutions should be at the top of their final year (71 per cent of women worked, and 60 the list of innovators, imagining new ways to reach per cent of men). Overall, students graduated with an students, who in turn will reshape the world. If we average of $20,000 in debt ($25,000 for university students and $14,000 for those in trades and don’t get smarter, hone our skills, imtechnologies programs). prove our processes and re-imagine our Four in 10 respondents had governfutures, our prospects grow dim. ment-sponsored student loans (57 per cent So right behind the academic world, of academic students and 36 per cent of with money and encouragement, should those in polytechnical programs). Another be politicians and the corporate world.

20 per cent got loans from banks and othAlberta unemployment is at a 20-year er private institutions. Another unspechigh and there’s no end in sight this parified number of grads borrowed money ticular cycle of misery. from family (on average $6,400).

Alberta post-secondary registrations Overall, one-third of grads owed are on the rise. It is common in Alberta $25,000 or more to all sources. And just for post-secondary registrations to jump 17 per cent of those survey owed less than when the economy sours. People look for $5,000. stable professions away from the energy JOHN Getting a degree or a diploma is supsector. Institutions can’t keep up with the STEWART posed to be a ticket to a better life. But rising demand for seats in classrooms and graduating with a mountain of debt is a spots in trade programs. And the governOPINION serious impediment to being a contributment support to cope doesn’t come close. ing member of an economy. No wonder so It starts, as most things do today, with many young Albertans in the last 30 years money.

A study conducted for the province on the have swerved away from ever-more-costly education post-secondary class of 2012 found that the major- and toward high wages for little skill in the oil indusity of grads either agreed (55 per cent) or strongly try.

Ironically, just six in 10 grads of the programs said agreed (31 per cent) that the “benefits they received from their program were worth the financial cost.” their job was related to their subject area and oneThose who strongly agreed that their program was third said they were overqualified for the job they worth the cost were more likely to have graduated held.

What a tremendous waste of potential. with little debt (less than $5,000). Those who graduSo what’s the solution? ated with $25,000 or more debt were far less likely to The current issue of New Trail, the University of strongly agree on the benefits of their program. The more money they made after graduation the more Alberta alumni magazine, is devoted to the Future of Everything —100 years from now. Included is a secvalue they placed on their program.

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tion on what post-secondary education will look like a century out.

Some of what is projected makes sense right now.

And all of it needs to be in play long before a century has passed. The forecast looks like this: • A technologically intensive learning environment • Experiential curricula that features internships for all and, in general, a strong international flavour to programs • A requirement that every undergrad publish research • Expanded credit that embraces a wide variety of previous student experiences • Continued movement away from traditional classrooms toward virtual classrooms that are tailored to each student’s needs Not all of this makes sense for every student — some hands-on instruction will always be necessary (think the medical sciences, or trades, for example).

But much of that kind of instruction need not take place in a traditional classroom, either.

In general, then, an evolving model will mean less expensive delivery of education, lowering one of the significant roadblocks for many students: cost.

It also means a more practical learning environment, plus greater emphasis on discovery and innovation.

Those seem like the kind of changes that could inspire us all to learn more and allow Alberta to thrive. They might also spare us some of the cyclical lows in the future.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.

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Jesus will take me to the other side “Where would I lead town where they would conthem to?” This was the sume whatever it was they question he asked me when were drinking that day. But I told him that he had the when he would come to qualities of a leader among church, his ‘brothers’ would his own people. wait outside for him.

I had given him a ride What they often drank, home after a Tuesday supin all likelihood, led to his per, which I did probably current malady. He has teronce a month or so, and it minal stomach cancer and was during these rides that has been living with his we often had a good one to mother in Edmonton for the one conversation on a varilast nine or 10 months so ety of subjects. Only thing that he could be close to the CHRIS was that he was usually cancer clinic. So to see him SALOMONS under the influence of the walk into the kitchen with STREET TALK alcohol he had consumed his ‘brothers’ last night was with his ‘brothers.’ a very pleasant surprise.

For about a year he came As per usual, he was with to church. He would tap his foot during a group of his people; he was inebrithe music and would listen very care- ated and tried to eat some, but after a fully to the speaker. Once in a while mouthful or two he had had enough. he would ask a question or two, but he It was starting to slow down after a never wasted words so the conversa- very busy meal, so I grabbed a plate tions would be very short and pointed. of food and sat down with him. During It was at one of these times that we saw our conversation, I noticed that one of the leadership qualities in him. his companions — a large burley faced He is a gentle and a soft spoken man — had his face constantly contortman, and he never walks alone; he al- ed into that expression of holding back ways has a retinue of followers, and tears, but it was not working too well it was not uncommon to see a group as he was constantly wiping his eyes. of them shuffling along the street or It was at this time that my five-footholed up in a niche somewhere down- five, 100-pound native friend who has

become like a brother to me, asked for a ride to his former home which is near where I live. I consented and then he and his ‘brothers’ went outside for a smoke and to wait till I was ready to go.

This was one ride I was really not looking forward to. I already had heard from his landlady that his cancer was terminal, so I somehow had the thought that this would be his last ride with me, and it was this that I was dreading.

I wrapped up at the kitchen and I then proceeded to give him his ride.

I already knew that I could ask any question of him and I would get a truthful answer; I never knew him to speak an untruth. So I asked the standard questions about the cancer and its spread; the treatment he was receiving and amount of time left.

Although the cancer is mainly in his stomach, he does not really pay attention to its progression. All treatment has stopped because it was doing no good. And his life expectancy?

Probably about two months. He also mentioned that he could be angry or grouchy, but he has chosen to be pleasant and as cheerful as possible.

When we pulled up in front of his residence, I shut the van off and

turned to face a friend who in all likelihood I would not see again. There I received probably the greatest compliment that I have received since starting at the kitchen.

Even though I had a choir practice to get to, I felt it was important that for once I not be busy, but just sit and listen. Which I did.

One of the questions I had asked him, was he scared to die, really made an impact on me. “No,” he replied. “I know Jesus will take me to the other side.” He then proceeded to talk about his ‘brothers’ and how he would miss them, and that was when he made the following statement.

“Take care of my brothers,” he said in a slightly slurred voice, “take care of them because they know that you care about them and they all love you.”

I asked him if I could pray with him which he consented to and we did. Then he asked for a hug, said “I love you” and he left. He never looked back.

The only reason he had come to Red Deer was to visit his friends and acquaintances one last time, and to say “Good bye.”

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

Do predictions trump prudence in politics?

BY TREVOR SHELLEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE An old tradition argues that if those with genuine knowledge, rather than mere opinion, ruled, the political order would be truly good and just.

The most famous example is Plato’s Republic, which introduces the “philosopher-king.” However, as the interlocutors in Plato’s dialogue demonstrate, there are serious challenges to bringing wisdom and power together.

Moreover, history abounds with examples of intellectuals entering politics with disastrous consequences.

Theoretical knowledge is far less important than practical knowledge in politics: all the theories and ideas in the world fall short of experience and cultivated judgment. In short, politics requires statesmanship, and the best statesmen exemplify the virtue of prudence, which can only come from experience.

But that has never stopped politicians from turning to the alleged wise, to the so-called “experts,” for the wisdom they seek. And while philosophers may be largely out of favour, science, including social science, has become the new promised land.

Social scientists of all kinds are now in great demand by governments, especially those who profess an ability to make predictions. Thus, governments today hire “superforecasters” or prophets, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government did recently with the addition of Dan Gardner to its payroll.

In his 2015 book Superforecasting: The Art of Science Prediction, co-authored with Philip Tetlock, Gardner goes beyond making predictions and offers “evidence” in defence of a predictive science. The technique the authors discuss, through a combination of facts, anecdotes and instruction, is what they call “foresight.”

If hindsight is 20/20, foresight is invariably much less. Social scientists have longed to replicate the successes of natural scientists. The latter’s discoveries of nature’s laws substantiate a degree of predictability in the natural world. By comparison, social science has rarely foreseen major human events, having altogether missed, for example, the collapse of communism.

Part of the difficulty is that social or political reality is full of messy contingencies, competing interests, and ethical ambiguities — it consists of human beings, who have the freedom to act in unforeseeable ways, not reducible to the calculations or formulae of any observer.

Consequently, there is no recipe to foresight, nor is there a handbook to good judgment; least of all can such things be developed in abstraction from politics itself.

Neglecting this overarching fact, some experts, armed with an inflated sense of human reason and the power of science, profess more certainty than political reality allows. While it indubitably pays to gather as much information as possible, to consider all likely scenarios, and to reflect on the potential consequences of any decision, there is no ultimate method, or formal decision process, to either guarantee certainty or to discover determinative solutions to political problems.

Decisions must be made in the midst of uncertainty, and action must be taken with incomplete knowledge.

With time and experience, those practised in the art of politics will like-

ly have developed a feel for things — their sense of judgment about facts and details will have been honed.

As Aristotle once said about prudence, it is “concerned with particulars as well as with universals, and knowledge of particulars comes from experience.” Any number of individuals may have theories of politics, but only those with long and deep involvement genuinely grasp the particulars.

Inexperienced politicians may be more inclined to turn to the offerings of experts, many of whom are equally bereft of experience in the art of governing. Just as an individual without actual knowledge of cooking resorts to cookbook recipes, so some politicians may consult theoreticians of politics or scientists of decision-making in search of greater assurance.

Is it any wonder then that Canadians have been left waiting for decisive

action and coherent strategies from the present government? Columnist Michael Den Tandt has noted Trudeau risks being labelled “Mr. Dithers” for his inability to take a coherent stand on any number of issues, including on such matters as national pipelines, national defence and defeating ISIS, and assistance to provincial economies in crisis.

The Liberal government should devote itself to prudential decisions rather than seeking an ever-elusive decision-making formula, the quest for which is arguably hindering and delaying – if not clouding – its judgment on important political questions.

Troy Media Columnist Trevor Shelley completed his PhD in political science at Louisiana State University. His book, “Liberalism and Globalization,” will be published in 2016 with St. Augustine Press.

No matter where you go there you are “No matter where you go, there you I had a good chuckle about this little are.” I’ve heard this said before, and I’ve story and think of it every once in a while actually said this out loud several times and suddenly burst out laughing. Like before, but a little while back, I found when I’m sitting in the doctor’s public out the inherent truth in this rather provery quiet and very awkward waiting found statement. Except that where I was, room. Or at a funeral. wasn’t where I thought I was. Maybe I It also gets me thinking about a while should explain. ago. A lovely lady contacted me and asked First, a little true story. A friend of me if I would sign one of my books that mine, who, just to keep it anonymous I she was giving to a loved one for Christshall call Bob (but whose name is actumas. She lived in a seniors’ complex and ally Kevin) told me about a visit he had wondered if it would be too much bother with his brother a while back. Seems they if I could drop around and scribble in the hadn’t seen each other in a while, and book for her. “Sure,” I said, never one to HARLEY when his brother arrived, being a brothturn down an excuse to avoid actually HAY er, he just let himself into the house and working.

HAY’S DAZE since nobody was home yet, he plunked So I arrive at the address, and it’s a himself on the couch to wait until Bob very nice and quite large home and, with and his better half got home from doing my special signing pen in hand, I ring the errands. doorbell. A dog barks and the nice lady opens the Thing is, when Bob and his better half finally got door. home, Bob’s cell phone was ringing. “Where are you She is in her housecoat, trying to say ‘hello’ and guys?” Bob’s brother said. “At home,” says Bob. “No attempting to hold the dog back at the same time. you aren’t,” says Bob’s brother. “Pardon?” says Bob. “I’m Harley,” I say, smiling and putting out my “Nice house,” says Bob’s brother, “but you aren’t in hand. “Don’t mind the dog. I really like dogs.” it.”

“That’s good,” she says, shaking my hand. “This You see, Bob’s brother had written the address of is Spot.” (The dog’s name, like Kevin’s, has been Bob’s new house down wrong and he was currently changed to protect the innocent). sitting in a stranger’s house about three blocks away.

I pet Spot who is a very excited and happy dog There are a lot of things that could have gone ter- who is glad to see me and I step into the house and ribly wrong in that true tale. As it turned out Bob’s get out my pen. brother sheepishly slunk out of the wrong house and “Lovely home you have here,” I say, making small found Bob’s correct house and by all accounts had a talk. good chuckle and nice visit with his sibling who was “Thank you,” she says. And we stand there for a no doubt repeatedly peeking out of the curtains to while. I’m looking around and I don’t see a book anysee if the police were pulling up to his place. where.

So, as I alluded to, the idiom here is: “No matter “Nice weather we are having,” I say. And then: where you go, there you are.” And also: “Make sure “So, are you all ready for Christmas?” you lock the doors to your house.”

The lady starts telling me about the weather and

Christmas and I notice a large older man coming down the hall towards us. He looks a little grumpy, even though it was close to Christmas.

“Can I help you?” he says.

I say my name and put out my hand to shake and he shakes my hand and Spot is whirling around my feet and I’m wondering if it would be inappropriate if I just picked him up for a quick cuddle. (The dog, I mean.)

Finally, in the midst of the growing discomfort I ask the right question: “So, heh heh, do you have a book for me?”

“Do we have a book for you?” the man repeats back at me.

“I don’t think so,” says the nice lady in the housecoat.

It dawns on me, the way a brick to the face dawns on you. “Are you Mrs. Parson’s?” I say.

“Mrs. Parsons lives next door!” They both say it, pretty much in unison. “She’s a lovely lady, and a wonderful neighbour!”

Turns out, I was at a duplex and went to the door on the right hand side instead of the left. Yikes.

But there’s another saying: “All’s well that ends well.” And that was the case in that I got to meet two lovely families, and when I finally went to the right door the very nice Mrs. P. presented me with some completely awesome homemade goodies as a ‘thank you.’ And we had a nice chat and I may have even spelled my name right in the book this time.

So, remember: no matter where you go, there you are – even if it’s the wrong place. And also, as the late great baseball legend and master malapropist Yogi Berra once said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!”

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

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016

U.S. deploys more missiles SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The United States temporarily deployed an additional Patriot missile battery in South Korea in response to North Korea’s nuclear test and a long-range rocket launch, ahead of talks next week to set up an even more sophisticated U.S. missile defence in a move that has worried China and Russia.

The new tough stance follows South Korea’s decision to shut down an inter-Korean factory park that had been the rival Koreas’ last major symbol of co-operation, but that Seoul said had been used

by North Korea to fund its nuclear and missile programs. North Korea responded by deporting South Korean citizens, seizing South Korean assets and vowing to militarize the park.

South Korea on Friday cut off power and water supplies to the industrial park and announced that its planned talks with the United States on deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence, or THAAD, one of the most advanced missile defence systems in the world, could start next week. Officials say they have yet to set a specific starting date for the talks.

In the meantime, the U.S. military command in South Korea said Saturday that an air defence battery unit from Ft. Bliss, Texas, has been conducting ballistic missile training using the Patriot system at Osan Air Base near Seoul.

‘NORTH KOREA’S CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF BALLISTIC MISSILES AGAINST THE EXPRESSED WILL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REQUIRES THE ALLIANCE TO MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE AND READY BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCES.’ — LT. GEN. THOMAS VANDAL, COMMANDER OF THE U.S. EIGHTH ARMY Lt. Gen. Thomas Vandal, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, said “exercises like this ensure we are always ready to defend against an attack from North Korea.”

“North Korea’s continued development of ballistic missiles against the expressed will of the international community requires the alliance to maintain effective and ready ballistic missile defences,” he said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Forces Korea couldn’t confirm how long the Patriot missile battery from Texas would be deployed in South Korea. The U.S. military already has an operating Patriot missile defence system in South Korea to counter the threat of North Korea’s shorter-range arsenal and medium-range missiles.

South Korean media have long speculated that the two countries are working on a THAAD deployment in South Korea, but it took the North’s rocket

Hammers, shivs WORLD BRIEFS used in Mexico Egyptian doctors revolt against prison riot escalating abuses MONTERREY, Mexico — Mexico’s deadliest prison brawl in many years was a bloodbath in which inmates attacked each other with hammers, cudgels and makeshift blades, authorities said Friday, underlining yet again the power that drug cartels wield inside many of the country’s lockups.

Jaime Rodriguez, governor of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, said 60 hammers, 86 knives and 120 shivs were used in the previous day’s fighting at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, where 49 inmates were hacked, beaten or burned to death, and a dozen more injured.

At least 40 of the victims “died from wounds from stabbing and cutting weapons, blows from hammers and clubs,” Rodriguez said at a news conference.

Authorities also seized various kinds of contraband items from marijuana and cocaine to televisions and USB memory sticks.

A dispute between rival factions of the Zetas cartel was believed to be behind the violence.

“What we have to see as a reality in the entire penitentiary system is that there is self-rule” by the inmates, Rodriguez said. “All this corruption inside the prison creates the conditions we have today.”

He acknowledged that prisoners effectively lord over the facility and that there were not enough guards watching them: “Nobody wants to be a guard,” he said, because of the meagre pay.

Before flying from Cuba to Mexico Friday afternoon, Pope Francis sent a message to Monterrey’s archbishop expressing his profound sorrow for the victims. He also asked that his condolences be conveyed to the victims’ families and wished a speedy recovery of those injured in the melee.

About half the inmates at Topo Chico have been sentenced for minor offences or are suspects still awaiting trial. Nevertheless they are housed in the prison’s overcrowded general population alongside many of the country’s most hardened killers.

One of them was Raymundo Gonzalez Hernandez, a 23-year-old who is accused of kidnapping but whose trial is still pending. He was not among those listed as wounded during the riot, but his cousin said he was covered by bruises and welts when she was allowed inside to see him.

“Both his eyes were practically closed from all the hits they gave him,” Cynthia Hernandez said.

“He couldn’t even speak, he just went like this,” she added, moving her head from side to side.

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CAIRO — When a doctor at a Cairo hospital told a police officer that his cut didn’t require stitches, the response was startling and brutal. Police beat up the doctor and a colleague and dragged them off into custody.

The incident spiraled into protests by thousands of doctors in the Egyptian capital on Friday, a rare show of public outrage over police abuses that rights groups say have escalated in the country.

Such public demonstrations have become unusual in Egypt, where tens of thousands of political dissidents have been arrested and street protests without prior police permits have been banned since 2013.

While protesters gathered outside the building of the doctors’ union, known as the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, inside members called for the resignation of the health minister.

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launch last Sunday, which outsiders see as a test of banned ballistic missile technology, for the allies to formally announce they will begin the missile defence talks.

Beijing and Moscow are sensitive to the possibility of THAAD in South Korea critics say the system could help U.S. radar spot missiles in other countries.

China’s state media quickly made the country’s displeasure known, while Russia also expressed worries about the deployment. North Korea has previously warned of a nuclear war in the region and threatened to bolster its armed forces if the THAAD deployment occurs.

In Munich, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts to discuss the response to North Korea’s actions, including the missile system. In talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, Kerry expressed support for Seoul’s decision to shut down the factory park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong and discussed a broad range of potential sanctions against the North, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said.

Seoul and Washington want to deploy the system at an early date and the upcoming talks will discuss where and exactly when the deployment can be made, a South Korean defence official said, requesting anonymity because of department rules.

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Five killed in UN base attack in Mali

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAMAKO, Mali — Militants attacked a UN base in northern Mali on Friday, killing at least 5 peacekeepers and wounding 30 others, a UN official said.

Armed men also attacked a Malian army convoy carrying civilians near Timbuktu, killing three people, according to a Malian army official.

Shelling hit the UN mission camp in Kidal early Friday, said Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN mission in Mali. The UN mission is investigating the attack.

Ibrahim Ag Mohamed, a resident, said after the explosions UN helicopters were seen in the sky and he could hear the exchange of fire outside the city.

Guinea’s defence ministry said the attack targeted a Guinea position in Kidal but said its soldiers remained committed to the peacekeeping mission there.

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All but two of the dead were found at the ruins of the Weiguan Golden Dragon complex, which toppled when the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck last Saturday during the Lunar New Year holiday.

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Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/Freelance

MORE THAN SELFIES

CELLPHONES AND THE ART OF TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

Have you ever gone to the airport and left something important behind?

As I stood at the counter checking in for a redeye flight, I realized I was missing something.

My son had dropped me off, and I had left my camera equipment in the backseat of his car.

Since his cellphone was dead, there was no way to contact him. I was visiting three tropical islands on one press trip and the only camera I DEBBIE had was the one on my OLSEN lousy smartphone.

Nobody ever buys TRAVEL that particular model of smartphone for its camera capabilities. To be honest, nobody really buys that phone ever — it’s an antique in the smartphone world.

Everybody takes photos with their cellphones these days, and some modern smartphones have incredible capabilities. But like every piece of equipment, the camera is only as good as the person operating it. It’s definitely easier to take professional-calibre images using high-quality camera equipment, but it is possible to take good pictures using a cellphone — even a lousy one. Here are a few tips if you want to get the best possible shots from your phone.

UPDATE YOUR PHONE

Make sure your phone’s operating system and your apps are updated. While the native camera app on your phone might be good, some photographers like to download a replacement camera app that is more user-friendly. There are thousands of photo apps out there and it’s a good idea to read reviews before downloading one.

KNOW YOUR DEVICE

Look up the specs for your smartphone and see if there are any tips or online forums that offer suggestions for getting better images. For my particular smartphone, I discovered there was a manual exposure setting that is hidden by default. Turning on the manual exposure setting allowed me to better control the exposure and avoid overexposed images with a white sky instead of a blue one.

CLEAN THE LENS

Pockets are dirty places and grime can glom onto your camera lens and make your photos hazy or dark. Use a clean soft cloth to gently clean the lens. A T-shirt can work in a pinch, though a proper lens cloth is better. Break out the lens cleaning solution and give it a deep clean every once in a while.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Basics still apply THE BASICS STILL APPLY

Basic photography considerations like focus, light and composition still apply when you’re using a cell phone camera. Many cameras have a tap-tofocus feature that helps you focus the key elements. Light is also really important in photography. Early morning or evening is typically better for shooting outdoor landscape shots than midday when the sun is at its brightest.

You should also consider the position of the light source. If you’re taking a picture of a person, it’s usually better to have the light behind you rather than shooting into the sun. Artistic composition makes a photo more interesting. It’s not always best to put the most important element of a scene in the middle of the photograph. The “rule of thirds” says you should break the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically and align the most important elements of a scene along the lines of 9 equal segments or at the points where the lines intersect. Most

cell phones offer the option to display a grid that allows you to perfectly align the key elements of your photograph.

All of that said, breaking the rules doesn’t mean your images will be unbalanced or uninteresting. Rules are made to be broken — in photography anyways.

GET CLOSE

Many cellphone cameras have a small sensor and they do better when you bring them in close to the subject. Moving in close also gives you more control over the light. If the background is bright, it can throw off the camera’s light sensor and make your subject dark. This problem can be eliminated simply by moving closer.

Moving closer can also help you pick up the fine details in an image and is usually better than using the camera’s zoom feature.

HDR CAN BE YOUR FRIEND

Shooting in High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode can make up for shortcomings in your camera. Basically, HDR mode takes multiple images (typically 3-5) at a variety of exposures and combines them to produce a single image with a greater range of colours and brightness levels. For scenery shots, it can help you get a shot with a

darker sky and a brighter foreground, but it isn’t a solution for all situations.

Sometimes it can make an image look over processed and it certainly slows up the speed of your camera and uses more battery power. If you’re trying to take pictures of moving objects, pets or small children, auto mode is usually a better option.

PREVIEW AT MAXIMUM BRIGHTNESS

It’s always a good idea to preview images on a cell phone screen set to maximum brightness level. You tend to lose details and darker tones when you are viewing an image on a darker screen. Some phones automatically display images at the maximum brightness level, but others (like my old smartphone) do not and you have to manually adjust the screen brightness level when you preview photos. Just remember to turn your screen brightness back down when you’re finished to conserve battery power.

TWEAK IT

Use an image editing app like Snapseed, Photoshop Express or iPhoto to adjust the contrast, sharpness and colour of your cell phone images. If you don’t want to post your images online right away, you can transfer your images to a computer and use desktop

imaging software to edit them.

PRACTICE

Just like everything else, practice helps. Take a little time to get to know your cell phone camera and get used to using it. Know how to turn the flash off and on, focus, adjust the exposure and shoot in HDR. When you look at your pictures, you’ll be glad you did.

PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES IN RED DEER

If you want to seriously improve your photography skills, consider taking a photography class. In Red Deer, Photek (www.photek.ca/training/courses/) offers a wide selection of courses that cover such topics as essential camera skills, artistic composition, night photography and image editing.

Most courses are relatively short and are offered in the evenings, so it works well for people with day jobs. Dwight Arthur, an excellent professional photographer, teaches the courses and class sizes are small.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

U.S., Cuba ink deal to restart flights

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — The United States and Cuba will sign an agreement next week to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, starting the clock on dozens of new flights operating daily by next fall, U.S. officials said Friday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is scheduled to fly to Havana on Tuesday to cement the deal.

Barring other major announcements, it would be the most significant development in U.S.-Cuba trade since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties after a half-century of Cold War opposition.

The Obama administration is eager to make rapid progress on building trade and diplomatic ties with Cuba before the president leaves office. The coming weeks are seen as particularly crucial to building momentum ahead of a trip he hopes to make to Havana by the end of March.

“This (agreement) provides for a very important, sizeable increase in travel between the two countries, and that reinforces the president’s objective” of building ties, said Thomas Engle, deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation affairs.

Under the deal U.S. airlines can start bidding on routes for as many as 110 U.S.-Cuba flights a day — more than five times the current number.

All flights operating are charters.

Officials hope to parcel the routes

out among carriers by this summer, allowing flights to begin by the time Obama leaves office.

The agreement allows 20 regular daily U.S. flights to Havana, in addition to the current 10-15 charter flights a day. The rest would be to other Cuban airports, most of which have far less demand than the capital.

Nearly 160,000 U.S. leisure travellers flew to Cuba last year, along with hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans visiting family, mostly on expensive, frequently chaotic charter flights out of Florida.

Commercial flights could bring hundreds of thousands more U.S. travellers a year and make the travel process far easier, with features like online booking and 24-hour customer service that are largely absent in the charter industry.

U.S. visitors to Cuba will still have to qualify under one of the travel categories legally authorized by the U.S. government. Tourism is still barred by law, but the number of legal reasons to go to Cuba — from organizing professional meetings to distributing information to Cubans — has grown so large and loosely enforced that the distinction from tourism has blurred significantly.

Commercial travel will give travellers the ability to simply check an online box on a long list of authorized categories.

The deal does not contemplate flights by Cuba’s national airline to the United States, where lawyers for families and businesses that have sued Ha-

vana over decades-old property confiscations are eager to freeze any of its assets that they can get their hands on.

Tuesday’s announcement will open a 15-day window for U.S. airlines to

request rights to the new Cuba routes.

U.S. carriers would then have to strike deals with Cuban aviation officials, a process the U.S. hopes will be complete by the fall.

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Rebels get shot down by Hitmen

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Hitmen 4 Rebels 1 CALGARY — Netminder Rylan Toth was a bright spot for the Red Deer Rebels Friday night at the Saddledome.

Make that the only bright spot in a 4-1 Western Hockey League loss to the Calgary Hitmen.

“Our goalie was outstanding, but outside of him and (Michael) Spacek, we had a lot of bad hockey players here tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who didn’t include Luke Philp in the conversation since the overage centre made his team debut after being out nearly three months following ankle injury.

“We didn’t play hard enough, we didn’t battle hard enough and the volume of our turnovers was terrible. It’s the same old story — teams are geared up to play us and if we’re not willing to match their intensity and their emotion level, then the result will be the

same.

“We’ve beaten Calgary once this season and we haven’t beaten Lethbridge because of that … because we don’t play at the emotional level that you need to be at to be successful.”

Carson Twarynski scored his first of three goals on the evening before 9,809 fans to give the hosts a lead 4:23 into

the contest, a goal that was matched by Rebels overage winger Adam Helewka — his 33rd of the season — at 3:52 of the second period.

But that was it for the Rebels, who watched Jake Bean notch the eventual winner midway through the third period with Rebels rearguard Haydn Fleury serving a cross-checking penalty.

“Haydn Fleury’s penalty was a joke,” Sutter fumed.

“You can’t do that stuff in a 1-1 game. Until we learn how to win, how to play the game the right way, this is going to be the result.”

Twarynski rounded out his hat-trick performance with a goal at 17:52 and another at 19:11, the latter with Toth on the Red Deer bench.

The Rebels forward unit of Helewka, Adam Musil and Jake DeBrusk, impressive in a 4-1 win over visiting Medicine Hat Wednesday, was a basic no-show two nights later.

“Those guys were terrible and that’s unacceptable … just not good enough,” said Sutter.

“You can’t expect to be successful if you’re going to play like that.

“It’s hugely disappointing and it makes the coaching staff sick. We’re tired of it because it’s stuff we’ve harped on for 50-some games now. We bring more talent to the team, but instead of our work ethic going to another level we accept it to be average because we think we get can through on skill. “(Assistant coach) Steve O’Rourke said it best. He said it’s not that other teams are better than us, it’s just that other teams do a better job of playing the game the right way.”

Toth, selected as the game’s third star, turned aside 37 shots in defeat.

The Rebels directed 28 at Calgary stopper Cody Porter.

The Rebels host the Tri-City Americans tonight before heading west on a four-game road trip starting Tuesday at Kelowna. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames fizzle in desert on Doan’s record night

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coyotes 4 Flames 1 GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes needed their top players to guide them out of a recent funk, and franchise cornerstone Shane Doan came through with a record-breaking performance.

Doan had two goals and an assist to become the Coyotes’ leader with 931 career points and Arizona beat the weary Calgary Flames 4-1 on Friday night to snap a season-worst five-game losing streak.

Doan’s 4-on-4 goal 3:31 in tied him with Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk on the team list. Near the end of the game, a scoring change gave Doan an assist on Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s second-period goal.

The 39-year-old Doan broke another of Hawerchuk’s franchise records late in the third when he got his 123rd career power-play goal. During a 5-on-3, he sharply one-timed a cross-slot pass from Mikkel Boedker for the 21st goal of his 20th season with the franchise.

“What he’s done for this organization is phenomenal,” coach Dave Tippett said. “The commitment he has to the organization, to the city, to his teammates, it’s just amazing to watch every day.”

Doan passed Hawerchuk for the franchise goals record on Dec. 31. Doan debuted with the then-Winnipeg Jets in 1995-96 and has been with the franchise since it moved to Arizona a year later.

For a boy from Alberta, setting the record against a team he grew up watching wasn’t lost on Doan.

“They were in the Smythe Division, not that a lot of people know the Smythe,” Doan said, smiling.

That was before 20-year-old teammate Anthony Duclair’s time. Duclair was born two months before Doan’s rookie season.

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Calgary Flames’ Matt Stajan (18) tries to get a shot off as he is shoved to the ice by Arizona Coyotes’ Michael Stone (26) as Coyotes goalie Louis Domingue, left, protects the net during an NHL game Friday, in Glendale, Ariz.

“One day I’m going to tell my kids I played with Shane Doan,” Duclair said.

Ekman-Larsson assisted on Duclair’s second-period power-play goal, and Louis Domingue stopped 26 shots in the Coyotes’ third win over Calgary this season.

Joe Colborne scored in the third for the Flames, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Jonas Hiller filled in for the injured Karri Ramo and made 32 saves in his first regulation loss to Arizona since 2011.

A night after a wild 6-5 shootout win in San Jose, the Flames had little energy without their No. 1 goaltender, wasting a chance to move past Arizona into fifth in the Pacific Division.

“They were the better team,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said. “We just had no answers for them.”

Ramo was helped off the ice with an apparent leg injury late in the game Thursday night. He was placed on injured reserve Friday, and the Flames called up Joni Ortio from Stockton (AHL) to be Hiller’s backup.

Ramo stayed with the team in Arizona and was scheduled to be evaluated by doctors Saturday in Calgary.

Hartley planned to start Hiller against Arizona even before Ramo’s injury. Hiller was 11-0-1 against the Coyotes in the past five seasons, with the last regulation loss coming when he was with Anaheim.

But Hiller got off to a slow start on his 34th birthday when Doan’s shot went through his legs. And the Flames kept putting pressure on him by taking 10 penalties.

Queens can’t keep up with strong Lightning team KINGS USE SOLID DEFENCE TO RUN THEIR RECORD TO 12-4

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Lethbridge and St. Mary’s twice each.

Montana Romeril had 24 points for the Lightning.

Lightning 69 Queens 52 Looking at the standings there’s a large gap between the St. Mary’s University Lightning and the RDC Queens.

On the floor, if the Queens play up to their capabilities for a full 40 minutes there isn’t a large gap.

However, they didn’t play a full 40 minutes Friday at RDC and the final score - 69-52 – was indicative of that.

The Lightning pulled away late in the game, after the teams were tied 44-44 early in the final quarter, to run their record to 14-3. The Queens, who are still in a battle for a playoff spot, slipped to 7-9.

“Our defence let us down … we didn’t compete hard enough … we had some people who need to be better for us on the defensive end,” said Queens head coach Ken King, who was anything but happy following the game.

“At times we looked tired which isn’t OK. We need to come back tomorrow (tonight at St. Mary’s) and play better defence.”

The Queens also didn’t get the offence they needed, especially early in the first quarter as they missed a number of shots inside 15 feet. As a result they trailed 11-4 early and 18-13 at the end of the first 10 minutes. They were even with the Lightning 11-11 and 15-15 in the second and third quarters before letting down in the final quarter.

“We feel we can compete with teams like that, but we didn’t deserve to win tonight with the way we played in the fourth quarter,” said King.

There were still some positives with Cassidy Hollingsworth coming in off the bench and finishing with 15 points and two rebounds while Emily White was once again solid inside with nine points, 12 rebounds, five assists and five blocks.

“That may have been Cassidy’s best game since I’ve been here,” said King. “And Emily helps us a tonne inside. She is a difference maker.”

The Queens remain tied for fifth place with Olds, who lost to fourth-place SAIT, 9-8. The Queens still face St. Mary’s today and Olds and Briercrest twice each. SAIT has to face Olds today and undefeated

Kings 99 Lightning 73 The Kings went into the game wanting to work on their defence as they prepare for the final stretch to the regular season. And despite the final score of 9973 the Lightning forced the Kings to do just that.

“That’s a lot of parity in this league and St. Mary’s is one of those teams that keeps the pressure on you,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“They take a lot of shots and they make a lot of shots.

We have to play hard to win these games.”

Outside of the third quarter when they were outscored 26-24 Pottinger was pleased with the defence.

“We did a good job defensively except in the third quarter when we gave up 26. We want to keep teams under 20 per quarter.”

However, Michael Guinto got hot in the third quarter, hitting everything he threw up. He finished the game with 24 points.

The Kings got a solid effort from a number of players, especially their inside men as Shayne Stumpf had 16 points and 16 rebounds, Matt Matear 14 points and 14 boards and Anthony Ottley 21 points and 10 rebounds. JP LeBlanc had 15 points and Matt Johnson 14 points and five assists.

Stumpf, who joined the team at Christmas is beginning to look comfortable in the team’s system.

“He had a good two solid weeks of practice and tonight 16 and 16 he’s finally doing the stuff we knew he could do,” said Pottinger. “He gives us a different looks as he can hit the three and also hits his free throws.”

The Kings are still missing six-foot-eight Dallas Hancox because of a bad back.

“Once we get Dallas back we’ll have four big men to rotate,” added Pottinger, who wants to see a weekend sweep.

“We haven’t swept a series so far in 2016,” he said.

“We’re poised to do that, but we need to go into their gym to do it.”

The Kings ran their record to 12-4 the same as Olds while Medicine Hat is 12-5.

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

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer College Queen Dedra Janvier forces past St. Mary’s University player Laura Belisle during first half action at Red Deer College, Friday.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Sunday

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

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Gold at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Cranbrook at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Medicine Hat at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Olds at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

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

• WHL: Tri-City at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, third game of best-of-three Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer, noon, Arena.

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

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer North Star, 2:45 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Rangers at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, third game of best-ofthree Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 3:30 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45p.m.,Kinsmen A; Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Taber at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe.

Monday • Senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, second game of best-of-seven league and provincial quarter-final, 2 p.m., Lacombe.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 35 17 .673 — Boston 32 23 .582 4 1/2 New York 23 32 .418 13 1/2 Brooklyn 14 40 .259 22 Philadelphia 8 45 .151 27 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct 31 24 .564 29 24 .547 27 26 .509 23 28 .451 23 29 .442

GB — 1 3 6 6 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 38 14 .731 28 25 .528 27 25 .519 27 27 .500 22 32 .407

GB — 10 1/2 11 12 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 45 8 .849 — Memphis 31 22 .585 14 Dallas 29 26 .527 17 Houston 27 28 .491 19 New Orleans 20 33 .377 25 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 40 14 .741 Portland 27 27 .500 Utah 26 26 .500 Denver 22 32 .407 Minnesota 17 37 .315

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 48 4 .923 35 18 .660 22 31 .415 14 40 .259 11 44 .200

GB — 13 13 18 23 GB — 13 1/2 26 1/2 35 38 1/2

Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 99, Washington 92 Oklahoma City 121, New Orleans 95 Friday’s Games No games scheduled

Saturday’s Games NBA All-star skills competition 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games West vs. East, 6 p.m.

NBA All-Star Game Roster All-Star Game: Feb. 14 At Air Canada Centre Toronto i-injured, will not play r-replacement EASTERN CONFERENCE Starters No. Player Pos Ht Wt A-S 3 Dwyane Wade, Heat G 6-4 220 12 7 Carmelo Anthony, Knicks F 6-8 240 9 7 Kyle Lowry, Raptors G 6-0 205 2 13 Paul George, Pacers F 6-9 220 3 23 LeBron James, Cavaliers F 6-8 250 12 Reserves 0 Andre Drummond, Pistons C 6-11 279 1 1 i-Chris Bosh, Heat F 6-11 235 11 2 John Wall, Wizards G 6-4 195 3 4 Paul Millsap, Hawks F 6-8 246 3 4 Isaiah Thomas, Celtics G 5-9 185 1 10 DeMar DeRozan, Raptors G 6-7 220 2 16 r-Pau Gasol, Bulls C-F 7-0 250 6 21 i-Jimmy Butler, Bulls G-F 6-7 220 2 15 r-Al Horford, Atlanta C-F 6-10 245 4 Head Coach: Tyronn Lue, Cavaliers Assistant Coaches: Jim Boylan Bret Brielmaier Larry Drew James Posey Phil Handy Mike Longabardi.

Athletic Trainers: Scott McCullough and Ray Chow.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Starters No. Player Pos Ht Wt A-S 0 Russell Westbrook, Thunder G 6-3 200 5 2 Kawhi Leonard, Spurs F 6-7 230 1 24 Kobe Bryant, Lakers F-G 6-6 212 18 30 Stephen Curry, Warriors G 6-3 190 3 35 Kevin Durant, Thunder F 6-9 240 7 Reserves 3 Chris Paul, Clippers G 6-0 175 9 11 Klay Thompson, Warriors G 6-7 215 2 12 LaMarcus Aldridge, Spurs F 6-11 240 5 13 James Harden, Rockets G 6-5 220 4 15 DeMarcus Cousins, Kings C-F 6-11 270 2 23 Draymond Green, Warriors F 6-7 230 1 23 Anthony Davis, Pelicans F-C 6-10 253 3 Head Coach: Gregg Popovich, Spurs Assistant Coaches: Ime Udoka Chip Engelland Chad Forcier Ettore Messina James Borrego Becky Hammon.

Athletic Trainer: Will Sevening and Paul West.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 5 3 2 .600 61 Buffalo 5 3 2 .600 59 Georgia 5 3 3 .500 77 Rochester 4 2 2 .500 47 Toronto 5 0 5 .000 42

Colorado Saskatchewan Calgary Vancouver

West Division GP W L Pct. 7 5 2 .714 5 3 2 .600 6 3 3 .500 5 2 3 .400

GF 87 59 65 53

GA GB 45 — 55 — 72 .5 41 .5 68 3 GA GB 82 — 52 1 71 1.5 64 2

WEEK SEVEN Thursday’s result Colorado 9 Saskatchewan 7 Saturday’s games Vancouver at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s games Buffalo at Georgia, 12:05 p.m.

Toronto at New England, 1 p.m.

WEEK EIGHT Friday, Feb. 19 Buffalo at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Rochester at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 20 Georgia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK NINE Friday, Feb. 26 Buffalo at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27 Vancouver at Colorado, 3 p.m.

Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 28 Georgia at New England, 1 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Calgary, 2 p.m.

GA 157 169 184 187 174 231

PT 74 68 62 53 44 42

GF 228 205 182 151 170 114

GA 154 155 170 170 230 234

PT 78 73 67 53 44 24

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTL SL GF Kelowna 55 37 15 3 0 195 Victoria 56 36 15 2 3 205 Prince George 55 31 21 2 1 199 Kamloops 54 24 22 5 3 174 Vancouver 55 21 28 4 2 157

GA 160 133 172 177 194

PT 77 77 65 56 48

GA 118 153 185 168 196

PT 68 61 58 56 53

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTL SL 55 39 16 0 0 55 35 17 1 2 55 32 20 1 2 55 23 25 6 1 56 20 32 3 1 55 10 41 4 0

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTL SL 53 32 17 2 2 54 29 22 3 0 54 26 22 4 2 54 27 25 2 0 54 25 26 2 1

GF 143 166 182 171 179

Friday’s results Lethbridge 5 Tri-City 3 Moose Jaw 6 Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 3 Regina 2 Brandon 7 Saskatoon 1 Calgary 4 Red Deer 1 Kootenay 3 Spokane 2 Everett at Portland, late Kelowna at Prince George, late Kamloops at Vancouver, late

Penalties-Hagel RD (roughing), 9:50.

Third Period 3, Calgary, Bean 21 (Tr. Sanheim, Gennaro), 11:16 (PP). 4, Calgary, Twarynski 12 (Houck, Harmsworth), 17:52. 5, Calgary, Twarynski 13 (Houck, Kanzig), 19:11 (EN).

Penalties-Strand RD (checking to the head), 1:53 Fleury RD (cross checking), 10:31.

Shots on Goal Red Deer 14 88—30 Calgary 13 1315—41 Goalies-Red Deer, Toth 26-14-0-1 (40 shots-37 saves). Calgary, Porter 20-8-1-1 (30 shots-29 saves).

Power Play-Red Deer 0 of 1 Calgary 1 of 4.

Florida Detroit Tampa Bay

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts Washington 53 40 9 4 178 121 84 NY Rangers 55 31 18 6 160 142 68 NY Islanders 53 29 18 6 154 134 64

Boston Pittsburgh New Jersey Carolina Montreal Philadelphia Ottawa Columbus Buffalo Toronto

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

Saturday’s games Lethbridge at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Tri-City at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Spokane 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 6:05 p.m.

Friday’s summary Hitmen 4, Rebels 1 First Period 1, Calgary, Twarynski 11 (LaPointe, Gennaro), 4:23.

Penalties-de Wit RD (roughing), 11:23 Rattie RD (roughing, inter. on goaltender), 11:23 LaPointe Cal (roughing), 11:23 Platt Cal (roughing), 11:23 Fazleev Cal (slashing), 11:50.

Second Period 2, Red Deer, Helewka 33 (Musil), 3:52.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 55 32 17 6 158 128 70 55 28 18 9 139 138 65 54 30 20 4 146 133 64

WILD CARD GP W L OL 54 29 19 6 54 28 19 7 55 27 21 7 55 24 21 10 56 27 25 4 53 24 20 9 56 25 25 6 56 22 28 6 56 22 28 6 53 19 25 9

GF 163 141 124 131 155 129 161 144 132 127

GA Pts 149 64 139 63 129 61 146 58 152 58 143 57 177 56 176 50 159 50 154 47

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 58 36 18 4 161 134 76 55 35 15 5 180 149 75 57 31 17 9 141 137 71

Los Angeles San Jose Anaheim

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts 54 33 18 3 153 130 69 53 28 20 5 156 145 61 53 26 19 8 122 128 60

Colorado Nashville Arizona Minnesota Vancouver Calgary Winnipeg Edmonton

WILD CARD GP W L OL 58 29 25 4 55 25 21 9 54 25 23 6 54 23 21 10 54 22 20 12 54 25 26 3 54 24 27 3 56 22 29 5

GF 157 144 144 133 129 146 140 142

GA Pts 160 62 149 59 165 56 136 56 147 56 162 53 159 51 169 49

Thursday’s results Columbus 4 Anaheim 3 (SO) Philadelphia 5 Buffalo 1 N.Y. Islanders 5 Los Angeles 2 Colorado 4 Ottawa 3 Boston 6 Winnipeg 2 Washington 4 Minnesota 3 Dallas 4 Chicago 2

Edmonton 5 Toronto 2 Calgary 6 San Jose 5 (SO) Friday’s results Buffalo 6 Montreal 4 Pittsburgh 2 Carolina 1 (SO) Los Angeles 5 N.Y. Rangers 4 (OT) St. Louis 5 Florida 3 Tampa Bay 4 Nashville 3 (OT) Colorado 3 Detroit 2 (SO) Arizona 4 Calgary 1 Saturday’s games New Jersey at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Boston at Minnesota, noon Toronto at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Columbus, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Florida, 5 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Arizona at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Los Angeles at New Jersey, 10:30 a.m.

Colorado at Buffalo, 10:30 a.m.

Boston at Detroit, 1:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Monday’s games Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday’s summary Coyotes 4, Flames 1 First Period 1, Arizona, Doan 20 (Connauton, Stone), 3:31.

Penalties—Ferland, Cal (unsportsmanlike conduct), 1:55 Hanzal, Ari (roughing), 1:55 Russell, Cal (high-sticking), 3:52 Backlund, Cal (hooking), 13:03 Chipchura, Ari (holding), 13:03 Arizona bench, served by Hanzal (too many men), 15:49 Connauton, Ari (slashing), 19:40.

Second Period 2, Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 16 (Stone, Doan), 6:51 (pp). 3, Arizona, Duclair 15 (Ekman-Larsson), 8:44 (pp).

Penalties—Stajan, Cal (tripping), 5:27 Duclair, Ari (interference), 6:07 Gaudreau, Cal (tripping), 6:47 Jooris, Cal (goaltender interference), 11:28 Richardson, Ari (roughing), 11:28 Boedker, Ari (tripping), 13:45.

Third Period 4, Calgary, Colborne 8 (Brodie, Giordano), 10:43.

5, Arizona, Doan 21 (Boedker, Ekman-Larsson), 17:32 (pp).

Penalties—Hanzal, Ari (tripping), 9:26 Bennett, Cal (boarding), 10:25 Giordano, Cal (hooking), 13:52 Stone, Ari (boarding), 14:07 Calgary bench, served

by Ferland (too many men), 16:35 Stajan, Cal (slashing), 16:54.

Shots on Goal Calgary 11 115—27 Arizona 7 1613—36 Goalies—Calgary, Hiller 8-6-1 (36 shots-32 saves).

Arizona, Domingue 10-7-4 (27-26).

Power-play—Calgary 0 of 5 Arizona 3 of 7.

Golf PGA-Pebble Beach Friday p-Pebble Beach Golf Links, Yardage: 6,816 Par: 72 m-Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Shore Course, 6,914 71 s-Spyglass Hill Golf Club, 6,953 72 Pebble Beach, Calif.

Purse: $7 million Second Round Sung Kang 72s-60m—132 -11 Hiroshi Iwata 66m-66p—132 -11 Phil Mickelson 68s-65m—133 -10 Freddie Jacobson 65p-69s—134 -10 Chez Reavie 63m-70p—133 -10 Justin Rose 66s-68m—134 -9 Roberto Castro 66p-70s—136 -8 Mark Hubbard 70p-66s—136 -8 Ricky Barnes 65m-70p—135 -8 Jonas Blixt 67m-69p—136 -7 Ryan Ruffels 67p-70s—137 -7 Jim Herman 69m-67p—136 -7 David Hearn 67m-70p—137 -6 Patrick Reed 72s-65m—137 -6 Danny Lee 71s-66m—137 -6 Stewart Cink 70p-68s—138 -6 Bill Haas 69s-68m—137 -6 Jason Day 71s-66m—137 -6 Matt Jones 68p-70s—138 -6 Vaughn Taylor 70p-68s—138 -6 Troy Merritt 67m-71p—138 -5 Lucas Glover 73p-66s—139 -5 Jonathan Byrd 70m-68p—138 -5 Brooks Koepka 68s-70m—138 -5 J.B. Holmes 66s-72m—138 -5 Spencer Levin 66p-73s—139 -5 Aaron Baddeley 69s-70m—139 -4 Luke Donald 70s-69m—139 -4 Billy Hurley III 68m-71p—139 -4 Cameron Smith 64m-75p—139 -4 Padraig Harrington 68m-71p—139 -4 Steven Bowditch 68p-72s—140 -4 Si Woo Kim 70p-70s—140 -4 Nick Taylor 71s-68m—139 -4 Sean O’Hair 67m-72p—139 -4 Jordan Spieth 71s-69m—140 -3 Bud Cauley 68s-72m—140 -3

Marc Turnesa John Rollins Jason Gore Pat Perez Shane Bertsch Ryan Palmer Andrew Loupe Jerry Kelly Bronson Burgoon Miguel Angel Carballo Rhein Gibson Kevin Na Wes Roach Dawie van der Walt Hunter Stewart Alex Cejka Greg Chalmers Kevin Streelman Bubba Watson Geoff Ogilvy Thomas Aiken Brendon Todd Hunter Mahan J.J. Henry Luke Guthrie Tom Hoge Alex Prugh Scott Langley Jhonattan Vegas Zac Blair Davis Love III Austin Connelly Tim Wilkinson Blake Adams Steve Marino Tyler Aldridge Derek Fathauer Steve Stricker Scott Brown Jon Curran Dustin Johnson Rory Sabbatini Colt Knost Brian Stuard Will Wilcox Kyle Stanley Paul Dunne

70s-70m—140 72m-68p—140 66m-74p—140 69m-71p—140 66p-75s—141 72p-69s—141 68m-72p—140 71s-69m—140 64m-76p—140 69m-71p—140 67s-73m—140 67m-74p—141 72m-69p—141 66p-76s—142 72s-69m—141 70s-71m—141 68m-73p—141 70s-71m—141 73s-68m—141 74s-67m—141 68s-73m—141 71m-71p—142 70p-73s—143 70p-73s—143 72m-70p—142 69m-73p—142 70p-73s—143 69m-73p—142 71s-71m—142 70p-73s—143 74s-68m—142 70p-73s—143 69p-74s—143 71m-71p—142 71p-72s—143 70s-72m—142 76p-67s—143 72s-71m—143 73s-70m—143 74p-70s—144 70s-73m—143 72s-71m—143 72p-72s—144 68m-75p—143 71p-73s—144 71p-73s—144 67m-76p—143

-3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 E E E E E E E E E E

Andres Gonzales Shane Lowry Jimmy Walker Chris Stroud Brandt Snedeker Jarrod Lyle Andrew Landry Tom Gillis D.A. Points

69s-74m—143 71m-72p—143 72s-71m—143 71s-72m—143 72s-71m—143 72s-71m—143 70m-73p—143 67m-76p—143 74s-69m—143

E E E E E E E E E

PGA Tour Champions-Chubb Classic Friday At TwinEagles Golf Club (Talon Course) Naples, Fla. Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 7,176 Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Bernhard Langer 30-32—62 Jay Haas 32-34—66 Jeff Maggert 35-32—67 Kevin Sutherland 34-34—68 Steve Lowery 34-34—68 Scott Hoch 35-33—68 Fred Couples 32-36—68 Michael Allen 35-33—68 Kenny Perry 33-35—68 Jesper Parnevik 35-34—69 Jeff Sluman 35-34—69 Billy Andrade 35-34—69 Scott Dunlap 34-35—69 Loren Roberts 33-36—69 Lee Janzen 37-32—69 Tom Pernice Jr. 35-34—69 Mark O’Meara 33-36—69 Dick Mast 35-34—69 Doug Garwood 35-34—69 Stephen Ames 37-33—70 Todd Hamilton 35-35—70 Brad Bryant 35-35—70 Brandt Jobe 36-34—70 Colin Montgomerie 35-35—70 Joe Durant 35-35—70 Wes Short, Jr. 34-36—70 Bart Bryant 33-37—70 Woody Austin 36-34—70 Tom Kite 36-34—70 Grant Waite 37-33—70

MEN’S CURLING PROVINCIALS

Transactions Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Announced New York Mets RHP Jenrry Mejia has received a permanent suspension from major league and minor league baseball after testing positive for boldenone, his third performance-enhancing substance violation under Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Joe McIlvaine senior adviser of player personnel.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Tommy Hunter on a one-year contract and C Guillermo Quiroz on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agrees to terms with LHP Aroldis Chapman on a one-year contract. Designated C Tony Wolters for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Acquired OF Khris Davis from Milwaukee for RHP Bubby Derby and C Jacob Nottingham. Designated LHP Sean Nolin for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Claimed LHP C.J. Riefenhauser off waivers from Baltimore. Designated LHP Edgar Olmos for assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Denver CB Aqib Talib $26,044 for taunting and face mask fouls, Denver DE Malik Jackson $8,681 for unnecessary roughness and Carolina QB Joe Webb $8,681 for unnecessary roughness during the Super Bowl.

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

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Re-signed DT Letroy Guion.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed CB Josh Johnson.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Daronte Jones assistant defensive backs coach. Announced Eric Stokes senior personnel executive and assistant general manager have mutually agreed to part ways. Terminated the contracts of DE Quinton Coples and CB Brice McCain.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed LS Greg War-

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTL SL GF Brandon 55 35 16 2 2 218 Prince Albert 55 31 18 5 1 177 Moose Jaw 56 27 21 7 1 191 Regina 53 23 23 3 4 169 Swift Current 53 19 28 4 2 135 Saskatoon 55 19 32 4 0 160

ren to a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Placed F Daniel Catenacci on injured reserve. Recalled F Philip Varone from Rochester (AHL).

CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled G Joni Ortio from Stockton (AHL). Placed G Karri Ramo on injured reserve.

American Hockey League SAN DIEGO GULLS — Signed LW Zac Larraza to a professional tryout.

STOCKTON HEAT — Recalled G Kent Simpson from Adirondack (ECHL).

ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Announced C Steven Hodges was assigned to the team by Portland (AHL). Traded F Austin Block to Orlando for future considerations. Loaned G, Doug Carr to Ontario (AHL).

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced F Caleb Herbert was reassigned to the team by Hershey (AHL).

SOCCER Federation Internationale de Football Association FIFA — Suspended former secretary general Jerome Valcke from all soccer-related activity for 12 years for misconduct.

Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW SC — Promoted Avin Assomull to senior director, ticket sales Clark Beacom to senior vice-president, sales & marketing Andrew Flynn to senior manager, ticket sales Sara Frank to human resources director Harrison Kim to database & analytics manager Arica Kress to vice-president, marketing & communications J.P. Lococo to senior manager, season sales Lori McKirnan to senior vice-president, finance & administration and Nick White to senior manager, group sales.

FC DALLAS — Acquired F-M Carlos Lizarazo on loan from Cruz Azul (Liga MX).

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived D Shawn McLaws.

North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA FC — Signed G Sean Lewis and D Patrick Otte.

CAMROSE – Jeff Erickson and his Red Deer supporting cast were eliminated from the Alberta men’s curling championship Friday.

Erickson’s Sedgewick-based crew dropped a 6-4 C-event decision to Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher in the evening draw.

Also curling with Erickson were third Dustin Eckstrand, second Shaun Planaden and lead Scott Cruickshank.

Mick Lizmore of Edmonton and Kevin Koe of Calgary hooked up in the B-event final, with Koe prevailing 6-1. In the B semifinals earlier in the day, Lizmore slipped past Glen Hansen of St. Albert 8-7 and Koe was an 8-3 winner over Bottcher.

The provincials conclude with Sunday’s 2 p.m. championship final.

RDC VOLLEYBALL

of the game. Miranda Dawe had 10 kills and 14 digs, McKenna Barthel four kills, seven digs, three blocks and two aces, Hanna Delemont three kills and four blocks and Olivia Barnes 14 digs. Ashley Fehr had 15 assists and Meagan Kuzyk 14.

Lacombe native Naomi Jardine had eight kills, 17 digs and two aces for Olds.

Kings 3 Broncos 0 Kings head coach Aaron Schulha wasn’t at all pleased with the effort, despite a 25-23, 2517, 25-17 victory.

“It was an ugly 3-0 win,” he said. “After getting out to a 9-2 lead in the first set and Kings let off the gas and played just well enough to win. That level is not going to be nearly good enough in the coming weeks.”

Riley Friesen was the RDC player of the game with nine kills, six digs and four blocks.

Nic Dubinsky had 13 kills and Michael Sumner nine digs.

Dylan White had 10 kills and Joel Auger nine kills, seven digs and three aces for Olds.

Queens 3 Broncos 0 OLDS – The RDC Queens still have a good opportunity to finish second in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League’s South Division, but it will mean winning their final four games of the season.

They took the first step in that direction Friday with a 26-24, 25-18, 25-16 victory over the Olds Broncos. The teams meet again tonight at 6 p.m. at RDC. The third-place Queens ran their record to 14-7 with Olds slipping to 12-9. The Queens also received some help from Medicine Hat who downed the second-place SAIT Trojans 3-0 Friday. The Trojans sit at 15-6. RDC and SAIT meet in a home-and-home series to finish off the regular season next weekend.

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Kang flirts with 59 at Pebble Beach

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Sung Kang didn’t know anything about his amateur partner until he went on the Internet and looked up actor Ray Romano. He didn’t realize the par at Monterey Peninsula was 71 until he scrambled for par on his final hole and realized while signing his card Friday that he set the course record with a career-low 60.

It added to a memorable day at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where Kang and Hiroshi Iwata of Japan wound up tied for the lead.

“I feel like I’m living a dream right now,” Kang said.

Kang and Phil Mickelson each brought the possibility of 59 into the conversation — one early in his round, the other late.

Mickelson took only 11 putts on the front nine at Monterey Peninsula.

When he made a 40-foot eagle putt on the 10th hole, he was 7 under for the round and had a pair of par 5s remaining over his last eight holes.

He made bogey on one of the par 5s, hooking his fairway metal into shrubs and having to reach into the thick plants with a hybrid to punch out the ball and make sure it only went about 6 feet so that it wouldn’t go up the slope and roll back into the bushes. Lefty usually doesn’t hit great shots that go 6 feet unless he has a putter.

Then, he nearly lost his tee shot on the final hole and made another bogey for a 65, leaving him one shot behind.

“I thought I was going to shoot a lot lower than I did,” Mickelson said.

“I didn’t expect to play 1 over coming in. But I’m not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front.”

He goes to Pebble Beach on Saturday as he goes after a record-tying fifth win in this event.

Kang and Iwata were at 11-under 132.

Iwata, who tied a major championship record with a 63 at the PGA Cham-

pionship last year at Whistling Straits, had a 66 at Pebble Beach.

Mickelson, Freddie Jacobson (69 at Spyglass Hill) and Chez Reavie (70 at Pebble Beach) were one shot to par behind at 10 under, while Justin Rose had a 68 at Monterey Peninsula and was at 9 under.

Jordan Spieth failed to birdie any of the par 5s at Monterey Peninsula — he is 1 under on the par 5s this week even though he could reach all of them in two shots — and his round of two birdies and 16 pars put him at 3-under 140 and eight shots out of the lead.

“I’m 1 under on the par 5s, and from where I’ve been, they have pretty much all been par 4s for me,” Spieth said. “So it almost feels like I’m playing them 7 over.”

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., shot a 70 to sit five shots back after two rounds. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., is seven strokes behind.

Rose thought Monterey Peninsula was difficult because the greens are not as pure as the other courses. Then he was told that Kang was at 11 under and playing his final hole and Rose smiled and said, “The greens are obviously perfect.”

Kang couldn’t agree more. He lost track of the number of birdie putts he made in the 15-foot range, saying they were “too many to count.” Some of them he read on his own. Other times he brought in the experience of his caddie, Mike “Fluff” Cowan, who is working for Kang while Jim Furyk recovers from wrist surgery.

And the 28-year-old South Korean had an actor at his side cheering him along.

Romano, who has become a regular at this event, wasn’t sure the name of his partner earlier in the week. No offence taken. Kang didn’t know him, either.

“One of my buddies came up and said, ‘Oh, you’re with Ray. He’s very famous,”’ Kang said. “I did some research on it. I Googled Ray and he was like on a really famous TV show for six or seven years. He gets like almost

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Phil Mickelson follows his shot out of a bunker on the sixth fairway of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Friday, in Pebble Beach, Calif. a third more earnings from TV drama show.”

Asked if Romano knew him, Kang smiled and said, “I think he’ll remember me after today.”

Kang had three birdies and an eagle on the back nine to start his round, picked up a pair of birdies early on the front nine and then poured it on with three straight birdies that brought him to 11 under with only the par-3 ninth remaining.

“I still thought the par was 72,” he

said.

He hit what he called his worst shot of the day, a big cut that came up short and in the rough. He chipped to 15 feet and saved par.

“It was just going in every single time,” he said.

Jason Day had a 66 at Monterey Peninsula to get within five shots of the lead. Patrick Reed, playing alongside Mickelson, had six birdies in a seven-hole stretch on the back nine and also was at 6 under.

CHINOOK LEAGGUE HOCKEY DeRozan, Lowry cherish chance to suit up for East Generals draw first blood in together in all-star game playoff opener against Eagles

TORONTO — Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan sat some 20 feet apart in the ballroom of a downtown hotel Friday afternoon, each holding court with dozens of reporters.

Lowry paused at one point and hollered over at his teammate “DeRo! What’s up dawg? Y’all right? DeMar DeRozan over there, the official host of the 2016 all-star game!”

It was just as its been for the past couple of seasons. Where one of the Toronto Raptors stars is, the other is never very far away.

Lowry and DeRozan will suit up for the Eastern Conference team Sunday when the Air Canada Centre hosts the first-ever NBA all-star game to be played outside of the United States.

It’s also the first time the two Raptors have been named to the team together, and they took the opportunity to reflect on the bond they’ve built that extends beyond the basketball court.

“I have no clue how we became cool or how we got cool or anything. It just came about genuinely,” DeRozan said.

“That’s my man. There’s no egos at all, no hidden agendas at all. I want to see him do well and he wants to see me do well, as well. When you’ve got that going it’s perfect.”

The two, who shared Eastern Conference player of the month honours for January, are in their fourth season together, leaders of a Raptors team that is the midst of its best season yet.

Toronto (35-17) sits just three games

back of Cleveland for second in the Eastern Conference.

They make for an odd couple. They come from different sides of the country. DeRozan’s easy going, Lowry has a surly side. DeRozan is half a foot taller.

“I think basketball is one of the reasons we are friends, but the paths we have taken have been different.

Our backgrounds are friends and family and how hard you have to work to be special. I think that is one of the things that keeps our relationship great,” said Lowry, whose son Karter is friends with DeRozan’s daughter Diar.

“I think it’s very unique. It’s a different bond. Us being teammates first and then friendship growing out of that, it has been special.”

The two were keen to play host to the NBA’s biggest stars this weekend.

“The whole city’s loving it, the country’s deserving it, I think it gives the world a chance now to really recognize Toronto,” DeRozan said.

An American reporter asked DeRozan what it meant to not just Toronto, but Canada.

“I think we’re spoiled in a sense that we’re the only team here. If you look at Texas, they’ve’e got three teams in Texas, they’ve got to share Texas.

We have all of Canada,” DeRozan said.

“Everywhere we go in Canada, it’s ‘We the North.’ We’ve got to appreciate that when we’ve got something like that going on.

“We’ve got a whole country to ourselves, it don’t get no better than that.”

Ooks 3 Queens 1 EDMONTON – The way the NAIT Ooks are playing of late they may not meet the RDC Queens in the first round of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League playoffs and that may be good for RDC. The Queens lost for the second time in 24 hours to the Ooks when they dropped a 3-1 decision at NAIT Friday.

They lost 5-4 in a shootout to the Edmonton squad Thursday at the Arena.

The Queens still have first place wrapped up with a 16-3-3 record while NAIT moved in front of SAIT into third place with an 11-8-3 mark. SAIT, who lost 2-1 to Grant MacEwan, sits at 10-9-4 while GMU is second at 13-8-0.

The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period Friday as Kendra Hanson scored for NAIT and Julia Murrell for RDC on the power play. NAIT took a 2-1 lead in the second period on a goal

by Jordyn Tibbatts and Erika Iglesias completed the scoring with another power play marker in the final period.

Alex Frisk made 25 saves for RDC and Tehnille Gard 26 for NAIT. The Queens finish the home portion of their regular season Thursday when they host the Olds Broncos at 7 p.m. It’s the team’s final regular-season game in the Red Deer Arena.

• In men’s action, the visiting RDC Kings opened the scoring on a goal by Riley Simpson but fell 5-1 to the Grant MacEwan Griffins.

The teams meet again today at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

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Kingsmen down Vikings

RDC HOCKEY

Hosts open with win at JV girl’s Cougar Classic Host Notre Dame opened the Cougar Classic junior varsity girls basketball tournament Friday with a 69-43 win over Edmonton Archbishop MacDonald.

Kenia Evora paced the Cougars with 16 points, while Beth Bergeron added 15. Lindsay Thurber slipped past Hunting Hills 49-48 in a second contest.

The four-team tournament wraps up today.

The Subaru Kingsmen, with Enrique Vizcarra draining 21 points, rolled over the Vikings 88-50 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association action Thursday.

Edriel Fonseca added 14 points for the winners. Nathan Klasse paced the Vikings with 16 points, while teammate Les Winchester scored 11.

In another contest, Kay Kronerbusch poured in 20 points and Will Hara netted 16 as Bulldog Scrap Metal recorded a 93-53 thumping of Lacombe All Sports Cresting, who got 21 points from Jeremy Parviance and 20 from Mitch Keenan.

Generals 3 Eagles 0 INNISFAIL — The Bentley Generals inflicted all of their damage in the opening 20 minutes of Friday’s 3-0 win over the Innisfail Eagles.

The Generals got first-period goals from Chance Lund, Nathan Deck and Graeme Craig (power play) and then held off the hosts to grab a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Chinook Hockey League/provincial senior AAA semifinal.

Thomas Heemskerk, who posted the shutout, and Eagles netminder Dan Dunn each made 27 saves.

The Generals were one-for-10 on

the power play while the Eagles shot blanks during their six man-advantage opportunities.

The series continues with Game 2 Monday at 2 p.m. at Lacombe, the site of Game 3 Friday at 8:30 p.m.

The fourth game of the series will go Feb.21 at Innisfail and the fifth, sixth and seventh, games, if necessary, will be played Feb. 28 at Lacombe, March 5 at Innisfail and March 6 at Lacombe.

The other semifinal, between the Stony Plain Eagles and Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs, opens tonight.

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riod, Ryan McKinnon potted an empty-net marker for the visitors at 18:51 of the final frame.

Calgary netminder Logan Drackett made 30 saves, while Olds goaltender Ben Giesbrecht kicked out 36 of 37 shots after replacing starter Kurtis Chapman, who was beaten on three of six shots. The Canucks were zero-forthree on the power play; the Grizzlys zero-for-two.

The Grizzlys were 7-6 losers to the host Calgary Mustangs Thursday, their goals coming off the sticks of Wyatt Noskey, with two, James Miller, Chase Olsen and Jack Goranson while being outshot 38-34.

The Grizzlys are at Sherwood Park Monday for an afternoon meeting with the Crusaders.

Canucks 5 Grizzlys 1 OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys are slip, sliding away.

The Grizzlys suffered their 10th consecutive Alberta Junior Hockey League loss Friday in front of 497 fans at the Sportsplex, surrendering four first-period goals and falling 5-1 to the Calgary Canucks.

James Gaume opened the scoring for Olds two minutes into the contest, but the Canucks replied with goals from Parker Ward, Austin Ehret, Mitchell Scott and Josh Giacomin before the first intermission.

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1995 — Richard Weber of Chelsea, Québec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov start 1500 km ski trek from Canada’s northernmost point of land to the North Pole in a bid to become the first to ski to the Pole and back without support teams or outside help.

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1947 — Vern Hunter strikes oil, as Imperial Oil’s Leduc No.1 well blows in at 4:10 pm, and starts producing 155 cubic meters of oil a day. The find sparks a new Alberta oil boom..

1932 — The Winnipeg Hockey Club and the U.S. play to a 2-2 draw in the Olympic Gold medal game. After two scoreless overtime periods, the gold is awarded to Canada by virtue of an earlier round-robin victory.

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Oil price pain spills to other sectors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — From airlines to beer-makers to wireless providers, withering crude prices have been a drag on businesses seemingly far removed from the oilpatch.

“Sometimes — outside of Alberta, particularly — there’s some skepticism or even some derision against the petroleum sector,” said Todd Hirsch, chief economist at ATB Financial.

“Some people actually feel it’s getting its comeuppance. … But they need to realize that it has broader implications for the whole economy.”

WestJet Airlines (TSX:WJA), based in Calgary, is shuffling around its schedules to reflect lower demand for flights to and from energy-focused destinations in Western Canada. On a recent quarterly conference call, there was also talk of potentially deferring the delivery of new planes and returning leased aircraft that are up for renewal next year.

“It’s had a dramatic impact on West- pany added just 4,400 postpaid wireJet,” aviation consultant Rick Erickson less customers in Alberta during the said of the crude downturn. “Demand second half of last year, a sharp drop is down across the country but no- from the net 50,000 it added in the where near as much as it is in Western same period a year earlier.

Canada.”

Insurer Manulife (TSX:MFC) took a Traditionally, a big portion of air- $250-million charge in the fourth quarline traffic had ter and a $876-milbeen oil workers lion charge for 2015 ‘ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE commuting to and a result of a deTRIED, TESTED AND TRUE as from site from elsecline in its energy where in the coun- GUARANTEED SALES ARE NOT investments. try, said Erickson.

Data compiled With projects on SO GUARANTEED ANYMORE.’ by NPD Group, a rehold, those volumes search firm, paints a —NPD CANADIAN RETAIL ANALYST SANDY SILVA picture of how retail have tapered off.

The crude downtraffic has fared in turn was even cited different parts of the as cause for concern in the latest earn- country in 2014 versus 2015. ings for Molson Coors Brewing Co., Purchasing visits were down two which said on its quarterly call Thurs- per cent in Alberta and Atlantic Canday that beer drinkers — particularly ada, while in the country as a whole, in Alberta — are choosing economy they were up three per cent. brews over premium brands.

The U.S. crude benchmark hit a The oilpatch pain was also evident high of around US$108 a barrel in midin the latest financial report from Van- 2014 and finished off 2015 below US$40 couver based Telus (TSX:T). The com- a barrel. It’s since depreciated further.

Scotiabank CEO backs Energy East

Tough economic times cause consumers to scrutinize their discretionary purchases, said NPD Canadian retail analyst Sandy Silva.

“Can we have that extra meal out or can I have that new dress or new pair of shoes?” she said. “I think it’s just going to cause consumers to think twice.”

The retailers that are in for the most pain are ones that sell workwear, like steel-toed boots or flame-retardant coveralls, said Silva.

“All of a sudden those tried, tested and true guaranteed sales are not so guaranteed anymore.”

Low oil prices do benefit the economy in some ways, said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld. Lower fuel costs are welcome, for instance. But the bad outweighs the good, he said.

“Make no mistake — Canada is a major oil exporting economy and on balance it’s a negative for the Canadian economy,” said Shenfeld. “That’s made up for a deep negative from the oil-producing provinces and a modest positive for the rest of Canada.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The CEO of one of Canada’s big banks is urging Ottawa to boost its spending on infrastructure projects and says the Energy East Pipeline should qualify for federal investment.

Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter told the Canadian Club of Toronto on Friday that Energy East is a development that could help stimulate the country’s sluggish economy.

“Look, we’ve got an industry that’s core to this country that’s on its back,” Porter said.

“Energy East would be a quick solution to get Canada’s energy to global markets and reduce that discount that Canadian producers face today.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to spend an additional $60 billion on infrastructure projects over the coming decade, on top of what the previous Conservative government had planned to spend. That would bring total infrastructure spending to $125 billion by the end of the 10-year Liberal plan.

More details are expected to be revealed in the federal budget late next month.

On the subject of Energy East, Trudeau has been more circumspect, saying he won’t prejudge the outcome of any regulatory reviews.

The controversial pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) would ship 1.1 million barrels of Alberta oil per day to refineries in Eastern Canada.

The aim of the 4,600-kilometre pipeline is to get Canadian crude to domestic refineries and international markets, therefore reducing the discount that Canadian crude fetches relative to U.S. oil.

But the project faces opposition, including from Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who said recently that potential environmental risks associated with the pipeline outweigh any economic benefits for the city.

During his remarks Friday, Porter said the government must be thoughtful in deciding which infrastructure projects are worthy of investment.

“The government should prioritize projects that will safely move people, ideas and our abundant natural resources — projects that are environmentally and socially responsible,” Porter said. “One such project is the Energy East Pipeline.”

He said the pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs and be a boon for both the national economy and federal coffers.

“At a time when the price of oil is low, conversations about pipelines might seem counter-intuitive,” he said. “But, in fact, these conversations are long overdue, and as timely now as ever.”

Porter’s comments are not the first time he has used his platform as a business leader to call for government action on pipelines.

During the bank’s annual general meeting last April, he called on federal leaders to end the “inter-provincial bickering” and “political indecision” that he said has hampered the development of energy projects.

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A Liberian men sells mobile phones on the back of a car on a street corner in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday. The country relies on mobile phones for telecommunications as years of civil war has left the country without any fixed-line telephone infrastructure.

Deal to bring cutting-edge facility to Lacombe

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The company behind a plant that would turn organic waste into fertilizer and power has finalized a land deal with City of Lacombe.

It’s a long-awaited step forward for both BioRefinex Canada Inc. and the city, which first entered into a conditional sale and development agreement with the company in 2011.

“It’s terrific to see this major milestone being reached, and we’re looking forward to working with BioRefinex representatives to bring this project to fruition,” says Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie in a statement accompanying an announcement of the deal on Friday.

“Once complete, this cutting-edge facility will be a great asset to Lacombe.”

BioRefinex’s patented technology includes a “thermal hydrolysis reactor,” which uses high pressure and saturated steam to break down all organic material and

livestock byproducts, destroying all pathogens while retaining nutrients. It uses animal byproducts and carcasses that would otherwise be sent to landfills or incinerated.

The output is then further refined to produce streams of organic fertilizer and nutrient feedstock for biogas production. Dry and liquid organic fertilizers are produced and a co-generation plant will produce electricity and industrial hot water.

BioRefinex plans to use its 12-acre site in southeast La-

combe for its first full commercial demonstration plant.

Lacombe was picked for its location in the heart of Alberta’s livestock region and its proximity to Lacombe Research Centre, major transportation and two international airports.

BioRefinex president and CEO Chris Thrall says all of the regulatory and environmental permits are in place and “we are focused on completing the final development activities so that we may break ground as soon as possible.”

Understanding how tips in the workplace should be distributed Dear Working Wise; We have a tip jar at the cash register where I work, but the coffee shop owner splits the tips with us. Is the store owner allowed to do that? Aren’t tips supposed to be for the staff who provide good service? — Tipped Off Dear Tipped Off; Tips are not considered to be wages under Alberta’s Employment Standards Code.

How tips are handled in your workplace is a decision between you and your emCHARLES ployer.

STRACHEY That’s why it’s important to discuss all the terms of emWORKING WISE ployment—including tips—before you accept a new job.

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Employers have a vested interest in seeing that you are happy and satisfied at work because they trust you to handle their cash and keep their customers coming back.

Links have been drawn between employee engagement and customer engagement by articles in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines: ● Happy Employees Equals Happy Customers (onforb.es/1PFNlsn) ● Why Making Your Employees Happy Will Help Your Bottom Line (entm.ag/1qj2P8E) Although tips are not considered to be wages under the Employment Standards Code, they are still considered earnings and must be claimed as income on your income tax return—this includes your employer. For more information on tips and their tax implications, visit cra-arc.gc.ca.

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stand all the terms and conditions of employment before you take a new job.

If you are still not satisfied with your job after talking to your employer, you might want to consider looking for a new job.

You can drop by your nearest Alberta Works Centre and get help looking for a new job or get information on upgrading your skills so that you can get a better-paying job. To find the centre nearest you, visit humanservices.alberta.ca/offices.

For more tips and questions to ask when negotiating job offers, visit the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site at alis.alberta.ca and search the tip sheets for Handling Job Offers.

Good luck negotiating your next job offer.

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov.ab. ca. Charles Strachey is a regional manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

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Energy ministers sign agreement to share data on clean energy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Canada, the United States and Mexico have agreed to share information, maps and clean-energy innovations — a step toward a continental energy strategy that would include lower emissions and greater energy security.

Energy ministers from the three countries met for a day in Winnipeg and said they are making progress toward greater co-operation. U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz cited the new Liberal government in Canada, along with energy reforms in Mexico, as part of a “revived relationship.”

“The trilateral relationship certainly is not missing a beat. If anything, I think it is accelerating even more with the very strong Canadian commitment in the areas of energy, environment and innovation,” he said Friday.

Moniz, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr and Mexican Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquin Coldwell signed a memorandum of understanding that commits the three countries to share information on climate-change

adaptation, clean-energy technologies, low-carbon electricity and more.

The three ministers also announced that an earlier plan to map out the energy infrastructure across North America and include it in one place — a web platform — has been completed.

Carr said the three countries have a common understanding of what constitutes clean energy and share a commitment to sustainability.

“North America is truly on the same page on all of these issues. I think that it’s a happy alignment,” he said.

As the ministers were signing the agreement, a young man protesting the Energy East pipeline stood up and unfurled a small banner that read “Keep It In The Ground.” He was allowed to say his piece before he was escorted out by security.

The pipeline would move more than one million barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta through Central Canada to refineries in New Brunswick.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said a continental energy strategy will be up for discussion when he meets with President Barack Obama next month.

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets rallied Friday to close a week of losses with big gains, propelled by a more than 12 per cent jump in crude oil prices.

The March contract for crude oil shot up US$3.23 a barrel to US$29.44.

Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 293.87 points or 2.4 per cent at 12,381.24.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 313.66 points at 15,973.84, while the broader S&P 500 advanced 35.7 points to 1,864.78 and the Nasdaq gained 70.67 points to 4,337.51.

The increase in oil prices also helped the commodity-sensitive loonie, which added 0.31 of a US cent to 72.14 cents US. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen’s recent remarks that some global growth appears weaker than initially anticipated also boosted the loonie, said Stephen Carlin, head of equities for CIBC Asset Management. It signals the Fed may not move interest rates as quickly as previously thought.

Friday’s rebound was also partly due to a recent easing of concerns over the liquidity measures that might exist in some European banks, specifically Germany’s Deutsche Bank, he said.

The bank offered to buy back more than $5 billion worth of its own bonds Friday in a show of financial strength. Investors sold off the bank’s stock after it reported a yearly loss of 6.8 billion euros in late January. The slide continued after concerns arose about whether the bank could make payments on complex financial instruments due April 30.

Carlin partly attributes to

strength in oil prices to recent dividend cuts by a number of energy companies, comforting investors that they are starting to better align operating costs and cash flows with the current price environment.

Carlin also pointed to rumours that OPEC is prepared to discuss a co-ordinated supply cut as helping the day’s oil rally.

Earlier in February, rumours that OPEC and Russia would co-ordinate a supply cut helped fuel higher crude oil prices.

However, as low prices continue to place considerable strain on North American oil companies, many continue to make capital expenditure cuts. By the end of this year, that should result in an improved balance between supply and demand, Carlin said.

Elsewhere in commodities, the March contract for natural gas slipped 2.8 cents to US$1.966 per mmBtu. However, gold bullion, which has enjoyed a big run-up in recent days amid a general flight to safety, saw the April contract give back $8.40 to US$1,239.40 a troy ounce.

Markets in China and Taiwan, which have been closed all week for the Lunar New Year holidays, reopen Monday. However, American markets will be closed Monday for Presidents’ Day, while the TSX is closed for Family Day. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,381.24, up 293.87 points Dow — 15,973.84, up 313.66 points S&P 500 — 1,864.78, up 35.70 points Nasdaq — 4,337.51, up

70.67 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.14 cents US, up 0.31 of a cent Pound — C$2.0111, down 0.40 of a cent Euro — C$1.5600, down 1.67 cents Euro — US$1.1255, down 0.71 of a cent Oil futures: US$29.44 per barrel, up $3.23 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,239.40 per oz., down $8.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.867 oz., down 25.1 cents $735.17 kg., down $8.07 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $1.40 lower $467.40 May ‘16 $1.10 lower $476.20 July ‘16 $1.90 lower $480.70 Nov. ‘16 $2.20 lower $483.30 Jan. ‘17 $1.90 lower $486.10 March ‘17 $1.80 lower $486.40 May ‘17 $1.80 lower $485.10 July ‘17 $1.80 lower $484.60 Nov. ‘17 $1.80 lower $484.60 Jan. ‘18 $1.80 lower $484.60 March ‘18 $1.80 lower $484.60.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $188.00 May ‘16 unchanged $192.00 July ‘16 unchanged $194.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $194.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $194.00 March ‘17 unchanged $194.00 May ‘17 unchanged $194.00 July ‘17 unchanged $194.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $194.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $194.00 March ‘18 unchanged $194.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 603,200 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 603,200.

What to consider when deciding whether to buy or lease NEW VEHICLES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The shiny chrome and new car smell can be tempting lures for anyone who needs to replace their car.

But if people don’t have the money to buy one with cash and they still have their heart set on a brand new set of wheels, they’re faced with the decision to finance or lease the new ride.

The choice between the two will depend much on how much the customer drives, how long they expect to keep the car and their own priorities.

Josh Bailey, vice-president of research for Canadian Black Book, says how much someone drives is key because leases come with kilometre-limits before extra charges kick in.

“It is always good to really be honest as well with yourself and say how much are we driving,” he said.

“In reality, most people aren’t able to cut back because they still have to go to three hockey practices a week and five ballet classes and those kinds of things.”

As automakers show up their latest offerings at the Canadian International Autoshow in Toronto this week, the desire for a new car may be strong.

Canadians bought a record number of new cars and trucks last year as they drove away with nearly 1.9 million vehicles.

When leasing a car, customers are agreeing to make regular payments for a set period of time, often three or four years. At the end, they return the car to the dealer and walk away.

Compared with financing the purchase of a new car, it will likely mean lower monthly payments for the same vehicle. A smaller or no down payment is also possible.

But leasing carries plenty of conditions.

In addition to the mileage limit, drivers may also be dinged for damage when the lease is up and they have to return it to the dealer. A lease agreement will generally allow for normal wear and tear, but customers may face a steep bill if the damage is more than that.

Amy Orfanakos of CAA North and East Ontario says the decision between buying and leasing is a personal choice driven by circumstances.

She chose to finance even though others in her family have gone with the lease option.

Having the cash to make a down payment to lower her monthly payments and the prospect of owning the car once the loan is paid off were key for her.

“That was for me why I did it,” she said.

However, even if the car is paid for, there are still regular maintenance and repair costs. And as the car gets

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Japan says it wasn’t excluding Mexico and Canada side talks that were conducted,” he said through a translator.

“They have reached a conclusion OTTAWA — Japanese officials say that everybody’s comfortable with.” they believed they were also negotiatMatthew McAlvanah, a spokesman ing with Canada and Mexico when they for the United States Trade Represtruck a controversial side agreement sentative, said Friday his government with the United States on automobiles “played a leadership role in the TPP, last year during the Trans-Pacific Part- working diligently with the other parnership talks. ties to develop strong rules of origin.”

They discussed that The Liberal governagreement with U.S., ‘(U.S.) PLAYED A LEADERSHIP ment signed the TPP which angered Canada ROLE IN THE TPP, WORKING earlier this month in and Mexico, in a brief- DILIGENTLY WITH THE OTHER New Zealand, but says ing ahead of a Friday it will not formally ratmeeting between For- PARTIES TO DEVELOP STRONG ify the deal it inhereign Affairs Minister ited from the Harper RULES OF ORIGIN.’ Stephane Dion and his government until it Japanese counterpart, — MATTHEW MCALVANAH, consults Canadians Fumio Kishida.

UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE and puts it to a vote in The Japan-U.S. deal Parliament. on rules of origin in The Japanese offithe auto sector would have allowed a cials said their country has no official higher percentage of Japanese parts timetable for ratification, but there in cars in North America’s highly in- is hope that might occur by the end of tegrated industry. The fallout stalled June. completion of the 12-country Pacific Japan hosts this year’s G7 summit, Rim deal by at least two months. and Dion and Kishida have a broad The Japanese officials say they agenda that also includes combating were surprised to learn that they had terrorism, nuclear proliferation and negotiated a deal with only the United climate change.

States.

Kishida’s visit is the first visit to Mexico’s former ambassador to Can- Canada by a Japanese foreign minister ada has said the side deal angered the in 20 years.

Canadians and Mexicans and nearly Dion and Kishida met in November drove the two countries from the bar- at the APEC summit in Manila and gaining table. struck up a good rapport, said the JapBut the Japanese officials, who anese officials. briefed journalists on the condition Japan is interested in the Trudeau they not be named, said their govern- government’s desire to return Canada ment didn’t think they were doing any- to United Nations peacekeeping misthing to snub Canada and Mexico. sions.

“We thought that the U.S. representJapan currently has more than ed Canada and Mexico,” said one.

350 engineers deployed to mission in They did not explain why they South Sudan and would like to discuss thought the United States was nego- partnerships with Canada “to build catiating on behalf of Canada and the pacity” of UN operations in the future.

Mexico. “We were very surprised” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has learn “Canada had not been consulted said he wants Canada to make speby the U.S.,” said one official. cialized contributions to future peaceKishida, during a joint news confer- keeping missions by supplying experts ence with Dion, deflected a question such as engineers and medical personon the issue. nel as well as French speakers, but not “There was very tough negotiations infantry.

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A man looks over vehicles at the 2016 Canadian International Autoshow in Toronto on Thursday. older, those bills can add up.

So if driving a newer car is something that is important, leasing may be the option.

For Bailey, the lure of a new car is strong, and that’s why he leases.

“If you’re perpetually paying for a car, it is probably better to pay for the 40 per cent or 50 per cent of the car

that you’re going to be using in terms of how they calculate a lease, rather than paying for 100 per cent of the car,” he said.

“If you’re more inclined to buy the car and drive it until the last bit of life is left in it, then probably leasing isn’t the right way to go.”

Canaccord Genuity cuts workforce, writes down assets, posts $346.4 million loss

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The weakness experienced in stock markets around the world has taken a toll on one of Canada’s largest brokerage firms, Canaccord Genuity, which is cutting seven per cent of its workforce and writing down the value of its business assets.

As a result, Canaccord (TSX:CF) is recording a $346.4 million net loss for its fiscal third quarter, or $3.91 per share.

The company — which has its principle offices in Vancouver and Toronto — says the staff reduction affects 125 people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company also closed an office in Barbados during the quarter.

The workforce cuts are part of $4.3 million in restructuring expenses during the third quarter that ended

Dec. 31. An additional $14 million of restructuring costs will be recorded in Canaccord’s fourth quarter, which ends March 31.

Canaccord also took a $4 million writedown of its investment in Canadian First Financial, which offers mortgage and other financial services to retail customers.

The biggest portion of Canaccord’s third quarter loss is a $321 million writedown of the value of its capital markets division, which provides research, advisory, trading and corporate finance services to institutional and corporate clients.

“Due to the combined effect of weak equity market conditions globally and in each of our principal operating regions, these reporting units have experienced declines in business activity, revenue and profitability,” Canaccord said.

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Time to rosin up, warm up, tune up and get ready to take the stage, because the crowd is anticipating a great show.

Spruce View & District Lions support STARS, and host a great evening of old-time music The Spruce View & District Lions Club hosted their 11th Annual Old Time Fiddle Jamboree and Dance on Jan. 30 at the Spruce View Community Hall.

Kicking off the evening, 220 guests and volunteers enjoyed a beef-on-a-bun dinner, with beans, coleslaw, sweet treats, coffee and tea while anxiously awaiting the commencement of the evening program.

Twenty-one fiddlers from across Alberta, along with piano accompanist Blaine Lutwick, bass guitarist Russ Howard, and guitarist Kurt Kure entertained the crowd. Warmup commenced at 6:45 p.m. with program startup at 7 p.m. The warmup and grande finale were led by Lacombe resident Laurie Maetche with much clapping, foot stomping and dancing sandwiched in between.

From past experience, one could expect to appreciate the talents of the mature participants, but the crowd was blown away by the talent and enthusiasm displayed by the younger generation of fiddlers — the youngest was a seven-year-old girl.

Their ability to perform well in front of an audience is both admirable and impressive.

Appreciation is extended to Central Alberta Co-op and Gleniffer Lake Resort and Country Club for door prizes.

Our 50/50 draw was managed by Al Manship and Anna Stanton.

Congratulations to winner, Emily Fulkerk, who walked away with a big smile and $222.

Chairperson Darwin Young Estelle Kure shows she’s not afraid to show off Baker and co-chair Neil when she takes her turn on stage.

Gano promoted and organized this popular event and wish to thank all volunteers for their efforts, which resulted once again in making for a very successful endeavor.

This year we welcomed the assistance of three Spruce View School Students from Grades 11 and 12 who, through leadership and volunteerism, are giving back to their community. The photos supplied for this article were taken by a couple of these students.

The net proceeds from this event have been allocated to STARS..

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Winter Games three years away

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer is not quite ready.

But when February 2019 rolls around the city will be up for the challenge to host the Canada Winter Games, says Lyn Radford, the chair of the 2019 Canada Winter Games Host Society.

It was September 2014 when Red Deer was named the hosting city, news that has been long time coming since Red Deer was trumped by Grande Prairie to host the 1995 games.

Radford said it seems like only yesterday when the hard fought honour was awarded.

Three years may be plenty of time to get all the pieces of the puzzle together but Radford said there is still a lot of work ahead.

“It is exciting,” added Scott Robinson, Canada Winter Games 2019 CEO. “It seems three years is not that far away but we have a long way to go. We are excited about every step we are taking.”

Over the next four or five months, the group will hammer out its business plan.

Securing the venues, developing a brand and finding additional sponsorships are also on the agenda for the

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City of Red Deer mayor Tara Veer and Red Deer’s 2019 Canada Winter Games CEO Lyn Radford celebrated being awarded the games in September 2014. The clock is ticking down to opening day, now three years away coming months.

Radford said where all the sports will be played is not completely set in stone. Most will stay the same but a

couple may vary from the original bid.

“Right now there are one or two that we are looking at changing but otherwise we might just change the

week,” she said. “For instance there has never been a community that has been able to host the curling at one time — the men and the women. We have that opportunity.”

The city will break ground at Great Chief Park for the new short speed track this spring. It will be a two-year project.

It’s not a construction year at River Bend or Canyon for the Games. Detailed designs for the projects will begin in the fall and tendered in 2017.

The Red Deer Arena, one of the venues for the games, will be torn down in April, and a replacement arena will go up in its place.

The planned Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport will host several sporting competitions.

The college will also host the athletes and coaches in its the athletes village and the food centre among other activities.

The estimated $88-million recently received a $1 million boost from Nova Chemicals, which donated $2-million in total to the games.

For two weeks in February 2019, some 25,000 visitors will come to Red Deer and area to watch 3,600 athletes compete in 19 sports in everything from synchronized swimming to alpine skiing and biathlon. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Preliminary hearing for stabbing pushed to August A preliminary hearing will be held in August for a Red Deer man accused in a fatal stabbing last November.

Daniel Boyd Sawyer, 31, is facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of Alan Beach, 31, in the Village Mall parking lot on Nov. 18.

Sawyer turned himself into Red Deer RCMP on Nov. 27 and has been in custody since.

On Friday, he appeared briefly in Red Deer provincial court by closed-circuit television from Red Deer Remand Centre.

A preliminary hearing has been set for Aug. 29 to 31.

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and Anders on the Lake natural ice surfaces over the next few weeks.

The city is interested in how often citizens visit the outdoor rinks; how they travel to rinks and what would improve their overall enjoyment.

The outdoor ice survey is just one component of an overall plan for ice facilities that is now underway.

When completed, it will assess current indoor and outdoor ice facility use, consider the state of existing infrastructure, and provide recommendations for when and where the city should focus future facility development and service delivery.

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The province announced more than $10 million as part of the Community Grants programs on Thursday.

Projects include facility upgrades and construction, playground development and support for the delivery of social, cultural and recreational programs and activities.

Loaves and Fishes will receive $50,000 to help with operations and staffing costs for its front-line programs such as its school lunch program, hot dinner program, pastoral counselling and outreach services.

The John Howard Society of Red Deer Park will receive a $50,000 boost to renovate its building.

The Red Deer City Soccer Association will receive $50,000 for its indoor turf upgrades.

In Stettler, the Kinette Club will receive $60,000 to build a playground in the west park playground.

The Lions Club of Rimbey will receive $50,000 to develop trails in the town.

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Wildrose Harmonizers, from the left, Jeff Challoner, David Croziel-Smith, Keith Bohlken and Fran Lavoie surprised Valerie Poskus at work Friday at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with a singing Valentine. The quartet and other members of the Wildrose Harmonizers were delivering their singing Valentines Friday and will be out again today trying to add a little romance to the Red Deer area. Poskus’ husband Vytas arranged for the quartet to surprise his wife Friday afternoon.

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U.K. Christians are giving up fossil fuels for Lent

BY CHELSEA HARVEY SPEIAL TO THE ADVOCATE A new initiative in the United Kingdom is not only calling for Christian communities to band together in support of clean energy, but actually helping them get electricity that way.

The Big Church Switch, which launched Wednesday, aims to inspire both individuals and churches to make the switch to renewable energy sources — and they’re already gaining support from church leaders in the country.

The project is a collaborative initiative spearheaded by U.K.-based international development charities Christian Aid and Tearfund, both of which concern themselves largely with addressing issues related to poverty.

The project’s goal is to convince Christian communities in the U.K . to register for renewable energy by switching their energy suppliers. The project’s organizers will negotiate with suppliers on behalf of interested individuals or churches and provide quotes on the best deal.

It also reflects the growing interest of faith communities around the world in promoting clean energy and combating climate change, and similar organizations and initiatives have cropped up in other places.

San Francisco-based Interfaith Power and Light, for example, refers to itself as a “religious response to global warming” and also helps congregations reduce their carbon footprints and adopt renewable energy sources.

On a broader note, many Catholics

“LENT IS A TIME PEOPLE ARE LOOKING TO GIVE SOMETHING UP, TAKE STOCK, THINKING HOW DO I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE BETTER. WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO THINK: HOW CAN I DO GOOD WITH MY ENERGY?” TIM GEE, CRISTIAN AID around the world have embraced Pope Francis’ call last year to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

But the Big Church Switch may be one of the first initiatives that actually facilitates the transition to renewables by making an organized call for a switch and working out group deals for participants.

“Part of what we’re interested in is tackling the root causes of poverty, one of which is climate change,” said Tim Gee, campaign strategy lead at Christian Aid. “Ultimately, the reason (for the project) is that climate change is hitting the world’s poorest people hardest,” said Ben Niblett, a senior campaigner at Tearfund. “These are the people who did the least to cause it, but they’re the people who are feeling it already.”

In the United Kingdom, as in many other developed nations, energy supply remains the biggest national source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for more than 30 per cent of all the country’s emissions in 2014.

Making personal changes in their consumption of electricity is one of the biggest ways citizens in the U.K. can start to tackle the issue of global climate change, Niblett said.

Gee noted that the climate negotia-

tions at the UN’s climate conference in December were another major catalyst for the project. While world leaders hope to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees above their pre-industrial levels, Gee acknowledged that there’s still “a significant gap between what governments have acknowledged to be the need of a 1.5-degree world and what has been pledged so far. So what we want to do is to show what needs to happen.”

The organizers deliberately chose to launch the campaign on Wednesday.

Known as Ash Wednesday, the Christian holy day marks the beginning of Lent, the season in the church calendar leading up to Easter. Traditionally, it’s a season of self-reflection and self-sacrifice.

“Lent is a time people are looking to give something up, take stock, thinking how do I want to live my life better,” Niblett said. “We want to encourage people to think, ‘How can I do good with my energy?’”

According to Gee, the project’s organizers hope to make an announcement some time around Easter, at the conclusion of Lent, about how many individuals and churches have made the switch so far. But he noted that the project is also celebrating those who have made the commitment already.

Both offices of the Lutheran Church and Quakers in Britain have switched to renewable energy ahead of the campaign’s launch. Additionally, the initiative has been endorsed by several notable church leaders, including the Church of England’s Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Guildford and Bishop of Manchester, among others.

One of the initiative’s selling points is that it negotiates an easier and cheaper transition to clean energy than might otherwise be possible for individuals looking to make the switch alone, Niblett said. The initiative has partnered with The Big Deal, a switching site that helps individuals in the U.K. get better deals on changing their energy provider, and buying groups 2buy2 and Parish Buying, to negotiate the best group deal through the Big Church Switch campaign.

“If you live in the U.K. you can get a better tariff (through Big Church Switch) than you could get for yourself, and that’s the power of buying together,” Niblett said. There are a number of renewable energy suppliers that participants can use to make the switch, and the energy may come from a variety of renewable sources — mostly wind and solar, according to Niblett.

“We want to show government and businesses that the church is doing this and we want that change,” Niblett said.

And he later added, “We hope in the U.S. and the U.K. and all around the world people will make the switch to renewables. Tearfund can only do that in the U.K., but we hope people will find their own ways to do it in every country that they’re in.”

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‘Finally’: Pope join us this meets Russian Orthodox leader

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — With an exclamation of “Finally,” Pope Francis embraced Patriarch Kirill on Friday in the first meeting between a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a brief but historic encounter held during a stopover in Cuba before the pope flew on to Mexico.

The meeting in the small, wood-paneled VIP room of Havana’s airport was a landmark development in the 1,000-year schism that has divided Christianity.

“We are brothers,” Francis said as he embraced Kirill. The men exchanged three kisses on the cheek.

“Now things are easier,” Kirill agreed. “This is the will of God,” the pope said.

Later Friday, Francis flew into Mexico City’s airport to begin a five-day visit during which he plans to bring a message of solidarity with the victims of drug violence, human trafficking and discrimination to some of that country’s most violent and poverty-stricken regions.

A smiling Francis was greeted with a rock concert-like show with blue floodlights illuminating a stage and bandstands and crowds waving yellow handkerchiefs. Mariachis serenaded as his chartered plane pulled to a stop and people shouted “Brother Francis, you’re already Mexican.”

President Enrique Pena Nieto and his wife met Francis on a red carpet. The pontiff made no public remarks before beginning a 22-kilometre (13 ½-mile) trip to the papal envoy’s residence for the night.

In Havana, the two church leaders’ meeting and signing of a joint declaration was decades in the making and cemented Francis’ reputation as a risk-taking statesman who values dialogue, bridge-building and rapprochement at almost any cost.

In the 30-point statement, the pope and patriarch declared themselves ready to take all necessary measures to overcome their historical differences, saying “we are not competitors, but brothers.”

Francis and Kirill also called for political leaders to act on the single most important issue of shared concern between the Catholic and Orthodox churches today: the plight of Christians in Iraq and Syria who are being killed and driven from their homes by the Islamic State group.

“In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, entire families of our brothers and sisters in Christ are being exterminated, entire villages and cities,” the declaration said.

While the meeting has been hailed by many as an important ecumenical breakthrough, Francis has also come under criticism for essentially allowing himself to be used by a Russia eager to assert itself among Orthodox Christians and on the world stage at a time when the country is increasingly isolated from the West.

The declaration was signed in the uniquely ideal location of Cuba: far removed from the Catholic-Orthodox turf battles in Europe, a country that is Catholic and familiar to Latin America’s first pope, but equally familiar to the Russian church given its anti-American and Soviet legacy. The pope helped mediate the declaration of detente between the U.S. and Cuba in 2014.

“If this continues, Cuba will become the capital of unity,” the pope said.

Calling the talks “very substantive,” Kirill said: “The results make it possible to say that today the two churches can actively work together to protect Christians around the world.”

The Vatican is hoping the meeting will improve relations with other Orthodox churches and spur progress in dialogue over theological differences that have divided East from West ever since the Great Schism of 1054 split Christianity.

But Orthodox observers say Kirill’s willingness to finally meet with a pope has less to do with any new ecumenical impulse than grandstanding at a time when Russia is increasingly under fire from the West over its military actions in Syria and Ukraine.

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We invite you to join us on Sundays at 9am, 11am or 6pm Living Stones Church, 2020 40th Avenue, RD To find us, turn into the Southbrook subdivision off of 40th Ave and take the next two immediate left hand turns.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. 2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings noon Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

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Bahá’í Faith “And among the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is that although material civilization is one of the means for the progress of the world of mankind, yet until it becomes combined with Divine civilization, the desired result, which is the felicity of mankind, will not be attained.”

Abdu’l-Bahá A 3 day Winter School is in progress this weekend on “Attracting Spiritual Forces into our Lives” See www.bahai.org in multiple languages, or call Mavis 403-343-0091 for more information on the Bahá’i Faith.

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Divine Service 10:00 a.m.

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George Canyon is releasing his first album of original country tunes since 2012’s ‘Better Be Home Soon.’ Aside from making a CD of gospel standards in 2013 and producing for other artists, Canyon had been taking a break from recording for the last couple years.

Canyon has nothing to hide COUNTRY ARTIST BACK WITH NEW ALBUM, 40-DATE TOUR

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF George Canyon is breaking a fairly long musical silence with the release of his new album I Got This.

It’s the singer/songwriter’s first album of original country tunes since 2012’s Better Be Home Soon. Aside from making a CD of gospel standards in 2013 and producing for other artists, Canyon had been taking a break from recording for the last couple years.

But that doesn’t mean he was cooling his artistic jets — in fact, portraying a jet pilot was one of the acting roles he took on in the interim.

While Canyon was slowly “letting the juices flow,” in terms of his song-

writing, he was acting in several movies — most notably the 2014 Superman film Man of Steel, in which he played a F-35 pilot fighting off an alien attack

his new album.

The singer admitted it’s been a while since he performed in Red Deer, so he’s excited about the concert

‘IT’S ABOUT REMEMBERING TO DATE MY WIFE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I CAN TALK (MY WIFE) OUT OF THAT!’ — GEORGE CANYON ON THE FIRST SINGLE FROM HIS NEW ALBUM, I GOT THIS on Earth.

“I was being creative in different ways,” said Canyon.

But he’s now looking forward to putting his cowboy hat back on as he heads out on a 40-date “Jekyll and Nothing to Hide Tour” in support of

on Friday, Feb. 19, at Cowboys Bar and Nightclub. “It’s going to be a real up-energy show.”

It will reflect the tone of many songs on the new album. Canyon said he was aiming to make I Got This a fun record.

What he didn’t count on was the cur-

Cow Patti hits pay dirt with witty script, heavy-duty talent There should be an expiry date on wifely duties, as far as Lucille is concerned in Cow Patti’s uproarious comedy The Cemetery Club.

After months of joining fellow widows, Ida and Doris, in visits to their spouses’ graves, Lucille explodes: “I refuse to belong to a club where half the members are dead!”

This sets the riotous tone of this boisterous, LANA life-affirming MICHELIN play by Ivan Menchell. It REVIEW opened Thursday as a professional dinner theatre production at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club.

It’s been a rough few years for the three Jewish friends, who replaced joint couples cruises with regular trips to the cemetery as their husbands dropped off one by one. But their story line is the opposite of maudlin.

It plays out like a live-action, laugha-minute sitcom. In fact, if this was an episode of the Golden Girls, Lucille (played with over-the-top zeal by Lacombe’s AnnaMarie Lea), would be sexpot Blanche.

Mink-clad minx Lucille is tired of cemetery trips, but not too weary to seize the opportunity to pick up grieving widowers.

Her pal Doris is scandalized. It’s been four years since her husband, Abe, went to meet his maker, but Doris (played with Bea Arthur-like tartness

by Patti Kazmer), doesn’t want to move on — and she resents any suggestion they curtail the grave-side visits.

Ida, sensitively portrayed by award-winning actor Linda Goranson, is the most relatable character of the three friends. Although she misses her dearly departed husband, Murray, Ida is drawn to Sam the butcher after he

rent of nostalgia that some listeners have been hearing on it. But after 26 years in the business, Canyon can understand why it’s there: “I’m at that stage in life …”

He’s been married for 22 years and his son and daughter are respectively 17 and 16 years old. “My son graduates this year,” he said — so that could explain a subliminal urge to look back at many happy experiences.

The first single off the new album is the title track. “It’s about remembering to date my wife,” said Canyon, who noticed some couples break up just as their kids leave home. “I want to make sure I can talk (my wife) out of that!” he joked.

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DREAMING WITH MY GREAT MOTHER

Honouring past generations through art

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Cow Patti’s uproarious comedy ‘The Cemetery Club’ plays out like a live-action, laugh-a-minute sitcom. re-awakens feelings Ida thought she was long-past feeling.

Cow Patti hits pay dirt with this production by combining Menchell’s wickedly witty script with some heavy-duty talent — including director Donnie Bowes, artistic director of the Upper Canadian Playhouse in Ontario.

Bowes is helming what’s actually a reunion show (Lea, Kazmer and Goranson are reprising roles they first tackled in a 2013 production of The Cemetery Club in Ontario), and he keeps the action moving and jokes a-coming.

When the three friends get glammed up to attend a wedding, Lucille tells Ida she’ll “knock ‘em dead.”

“Dead, I got,” Ida responds without missing a beat.

Aside from the funny banter, The

Cemetery Club works because it’s true to life — with bittersweet moments mixed in with the humour.

On the subject of grandchildren, Ida tells Sam (played by Shaw Festival veteran Rod Campbell), “You just sit back and smile, and watch them do everything to their parents that your children did to you …”

This talented cast of mostly Ontario-based veteran actors (including Susan Greenfield as Mildred) will leave you laughing one moment and tearing up the next. In short, they will knock your socks off.

Catch The Cemetery Club, if you can.

It will reaffirm that we are never too old to live life to the fullest.

It runs to March 6. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Connections to ancestors and the spirit world imbue the captivating Dreaming With My Great Mother art exhibit at Lacombe’s Memorial Centre.

Bold and symbolic images of plants, animal spirits and ceremonies were created by three female indigenous artists — Camille Louis, from Maskwacis, Heather Shillinglaw of Daysland, and Carla Rae Taylor of Yellowknife, N.W.T. “We are each on a journey of seeking and receiving knowledge from our Grandmothers,” the artists write in their joint statement. “At times they come to us in dreams, giving us direction. For this we are grateful. We search for ways of honouring the knowledge of past generations” through art.

The most naturalistic, yet ethereal, works in the Alberta Foundation for the Arts travelling exhibition were rendered by Louis, a Cree member of the Montana Band, who was raised on a Ponoka-area ranch.

The 28-year-old graduate of the University of Alberta’s Fine Arts program was inspired to paint visual narratives by dreams and traditions.

“Much of the artwork I have done is a reflection of my search for what it means to be an aboriginal woman,” said Louis.

In Wapiskikihew Iskwewak (White Eagle Women), two large eagles soar above two sitting females. Louis explained this work was inspired by a couple of ceremonies. In one, the sister she is closest to was given the Cree name of White Eagle Woman by an Elder.

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BRIEF Springbrook Multiplex hosting Youth Jams Calling all budding young musicians under age 18.

There will be chances for you to hone your skills in front of a live audience on Sunday afternoons in the theatre room of the Springbrook Multiplex.

“Youth jams” are being started in the 200-seat facility south of Red Deer starting on Sunday, Feb. 21, when seven talented vocalists have already committed to take the stage from 1 to 5 p.m. Each will perform 25-minute sets.

Anyone with an instrumental or singing skill can come and perform — from individuals to bands.

“We are focused on providing an opportunity for youth to perfect their performances and grow their musical careers,” said organizer Sam Rattai, who noted the multiplex’s theatre room has a stage and dance floor, as well as food service.

There’s no charge for the entertainers or the audience.

For more information, please call her at 587-876-6887, or email samrattaireddeer@gmail.com.

Charlie A’Court to perform house concert on Feb. 19 Award-winning East Coast musician Charlie A’Court will perform music from his latest album, Come on Over, at a Feb. 19 house concert in Red Deer.

The singer/guitarist has an international following and a host of awards for his five solo albums, including Come On Over, winner of the 2015 East Coast Music Award for Blues Recording and 2015 Music Nova Scotia Award for Blues Recording of the Year.

It features eight new songs, and a fresh take on two previous releases – Broken Man and I’m Sorry, co-written with former Red Deer College music student Kim Wempe.

Tickets to his 8 p.m. house concert are $25 by calling 403-302-7428. (Instructions to the residence will be provided to ticket holders.)

Musical offers twist on Ugly Duckling fairytale Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s celebrates being different with its upcoming musical Honk!

This twist on the Ugly Duckling fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen will run Feb. 26 to March 5 at the New Life Fellowship, 20 Kelloway Close in Red Deer.

Honk! is the winner of multiple awards, including the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical. This musical adaptation by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe takes place in a 1950s farm yard where one duckling is not like the others.

The family-friendly show runs at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26, 27, and March 4 and 5.

There are also 3 p.m. matinees on Feb. 27 and March 5.

Tickets are $12 in advance ($10 children/$11 seniors) from www.CornerstoneYouthTheatre.org or by calling 403-986-2981. Otherwise, admission is $14 at the door.

Musicians have until Monday to submit songs to city Local artists have a few days left to get their music in to the City of Red Deer for possible use in a promotional video.

Any musicians who want their original songs to be considered for a series of promotional videos of the community have until Monday, Feb. 15 at 4:30 p.m. to submit them to the city.

This can be done by email at communications@reddeer.ca, or by dropping them off at city hall, Attention: Communications.

To be eligible for the contest, entrants must live, or have once lived, in Central Alberta for at least a year. The submitted music doesn’t have to be professionally recorded.

But the contest winner can have the selected song professionally recorded at a local studio.

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In painting, ‘Mastakasa ekwa Pihko (Hair and Ashes),’ a female is seen bending over a fire. Camille Louis said the figure is burning hair that fell from her scalp during brushing. ‘Hair is important to First Nations people. We are told to grow it long and that it’s a reflection of character.’

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GREAT MOTHER: Shares name A year later, in another ceremony performed at a different location, Louis was given the same Cree name by another Elder — who didn’t know her sister had also been so titled.

Louis feels it’s telling that she now shares a name with her kindred-spirit sibling.

In another painting, Mastakasa ekwa Pihko (Hair and Ashes), a female is seen bending over a fire. Louis said the figure is burning hair that fell from her scalp during brushing. “Hair is important to First Nations people. We are told to grow it long and that it’s a reflection of character.”

Louis and her sister once burned their collected hair at the top of a mountain near Nordegg. Since part of a person’s spirit is said to remain in hair even after it leaves the body, Louis said, “I keep it in a safe place until I can burn it.” The ritual is one of renewal, of “starting fresh.”

Water is another important element — especially in relation to women. Females are considered water carriers, because they bear life in a fluid womb, said Louis. Although her oil painting Samina Nipiy (Touching the Water) bears a resemblance to European artworks of Narcissus observing his own reflection, her painting relates to connection and gratitude.

Louis, now an Edmonton resident,

CANYON: Went to Bill 6 rally

grew up in an artistic family, included her painter father and creative siblings. While her artwork has been compared to that of Saskatchewan First Nations painter Allen Sapp, she said she looked more to the works of Alex Janvier, Rebecca Belmore and Lana Only the Radio Knows is a nostalgic Whiskey Jack. song about a young couple who drive Other art in the Dreaming With My out into the country with the windows Great Mother exhibit is more graphic down and the radio playing. and symbolic — particularly Taylor’s Footprints is a bonus track about series of six acrylic and spray-paint Canyon’s grandfather, who lost his works that explore indigenous teachfarm to the bank. The Calgary resident ings, through imagery from dreams recently attended a rally about the and legends. proposed farm Bill 6 and left with a lot Taylor, a Dene artist with a fine arts of empathy for farmers. “There’s a lot degree from the University of Victoria, of fear” about the bill, said the singer, grapples with the destructive legacy of who hopes more consultations can residential schools: “Many of us have happen before it’s passed. been disconnected, left without Elders Canyon, who was a runner-up in the to teach us the traditional ways, but Nashville Star 2 competition in 2004, when we quiet our minds and connect has won Juno and Canadian Country deeply with nature, we can hear the Music Awards for his tunes. His hits whispers in the wind, the knowledge in include When Love’s All You Got, I Want our hearts.”

You To Live, Drinkin’ Thinkin’ My Name, Nature is the focus of Shillinglaw’s Somebody Wrote Love and Just Like You. mixed-media works Sweetgrass Sway In 2014, he was named the official (Miyahkasikewahchi) and Woodland anthem singer for the Calgary Flames.

Rose (Sakaw Okiniwaktik). The Cree Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are and Dene artist, who graduated from $21.95 in advance from the venue, the Alberta College of Art and Design, Wei’s Western Wear, or the Black is the descendant of a medicine womKnight Ticket Centre. an. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com She said she creates art to tell the story of how GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER wildflowers and herbs 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 help people heal and form a connection to Mother SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2016 Earth.

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St. Martin de Porres students to stage Narnia

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Aslan the Lion, his evil foe the White Witch, and other fantastical inhabitants of Narnia will the stage at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre on Feb. 24 and 25.

The students of St. Martin de Porres School will stage the play based on the popular Christian children’s book by C.S. Lewis.

Audience members will follow the Pevensie siblings through the wardrobe and into the magical land of Narnia, where the cold-hearted White Witch hopes to prevail against the forces of Good, led by noble and selfless Aslan.

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Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. performances are $12 from the school office. For more information, please call 403-347-5650.

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A child reacts as a zoo employee shows an armadillo in Kiev’s zoo, Ukraine, on Friday.

Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum becomes dad NASHVILLE — Singer Charles Kelley of the country group Lady Antebellum and his wife, Cassie, announced the birth of their first child, Ward Charles Kelley.

The birth announcement was posted Thursday on Womanista.com, a website Cassie Kelley founded. The baby boy was born Thursday at 9:20 a.m. Central, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and measuring 20 inches long.

The Kelleys said in a statement that he had “his momma’s nose and daddy’s eyes and vocal chords and a head full of blond hair.”

Saturday, Feb. 13 fortable, as your ruler VeARIES (March 21-April nus moves through your do19): Born on the zodiac’s mestic zone. Beautiful fresh Day of Liveliness, you are flowers are a must! great fun to be around. 2016 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. is the year to bring more 21): With Mars moving discipline and focus to your through your sign until chaotic creativity.

March 6, it’s time to be bold TAURUS (April 20-May and beautiful. Confidence 20): The spotlight’s on your is in, and complacency is reputation, so make sure out as you go after what you you’re being the best Ram want with passion and pizyou can possibly be! The zazz. more you network with SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22JOANNE MADELINE work colleagues, the more Dec. 21): What you want and satisfying your job will be. what you need are two very MOORE GEMINI (May 21-June different things today SagHOROSCOPE 20): Creative Twins will enittarius, so think carefully joy turning abstract ideas before you make a personal into practical projects. The decision that you later reMoon is moving through your seclusion gret. Love and work are linked. zone, so focus on spending some relaxCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a ing quality time on your own. fabulous day to focus on fun, friends CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll and family. Your stars highlight comfeel best if you tackle domestic duties panionship, plus utilizing your Capor professional projects that require ricorn communication skills within a close attention to detail in the morn- group situation. ing. You’ll become more settled and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Getrelaxed as the day develops. ting in touch with your considerate LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Playful Cats side sees you being cooperative with are in the mood to communicate, cir- loved ones. If you approach others culate and party. But a pressing family with charm and tact, your efforts will matter could divert your attention and be generously rewarded. send you off in a totally different diPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re rection, so stay flexible. at your creative, compassionate and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): All types charismatic best today as super asof study, research, reading, movies and pects see you shine. If you communimusic are favoured today Virgo. So put cate creatively and proactively with aside time in your busy schedule to sit others, you’ll make real progress. down and delve into a topic that really excites you. L Joanne Madeline Moore is an internaLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This week- tionally syndicated astrologer and colend is the ideal time to spruce up your umnist. Her column appears daily in the living space and make it more com- Advocate.

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Dear Annie: I’m writing about the be uncomfortable. But I would never letter from “The Husband,” whose tell her that she had to stop. I would wife is an art class model for a neigh- simply make sure she understood bor. He is making more out of this than that I did not approve, and that I was it deserves. Many years ago when I changing jobs and moving out of town. was an art student in college, I had It would be up to her whether she to take life-drawing classes, but I was wanted to go with me or not. — Ken also a model. My wife was OK with Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy the idea. We both knew several of the students. As you pointed out, Annie, it Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edis not a sexual situation. The students itors of the Ann Landers column. Please are more interested in honing their email your questions to anniesmailbox@ drawing skills. The instructor is more creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailfocused on the students’ drawings than box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd the model, and the model is concen- Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You trating on holding the pose without can also find Annie on Facebook at Faceshifting or moving. book.com/AskAnnies.

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A one-man show — a small contractor not tied to particular suppliers — may be able to quote you a lower price on your kitchen reno, but should things go wrong, who will have your back, and make sure you get what you thought you were paying for?

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Did you know the single biggest hurdle to homeowners choosing to move forward with a much needed renovation? It is fear.

If you’re over 40 years of age and own a home, chances are you’ve had at least one bad experience with a renovation project. Whether it’s a project you took on yourself — or more importantly one you contracted out to a company — its likely to have ended badly at least once.

Typically, this happens as a result of being uninformed, and that can be broken down to people not informing themselves of what’s involved or (and this happens more frequently) not being given all the facts up front from your chosen renovator. Or it could just be some bad advice from the staff down at the big box store.

So, how does one go about protecting themselves from the pitfalls of a bad renovation experience?

Well, the best advice is to do your homework and check references.

These would be references of projects actually completed by the company you are courting to do your project.

You should ask for two or three and you might consider spreading them out over a year or so time span, too.

This will help assess the company’s

ability to provide good service over the long haul. Many companies suffer from turnover and retraining staff is one of the most difficult challenges any company can deal with.

Even if ownership is driven by great customer service, getting your employees to eat, sleep and breath that same mantra can be difficult.

One of the avenues people turn to is much less reliable, but all-too-often considered these days: web sites that offer reviews.

If you’ve ever looked to book a trip, you’ve likely checked out the world’s biggest review web site: Trip Advisor.

If you’re like me and have ever booked a vacation or a room at a location where the review was less than stellar, you, like me, probably thought, “Hey, that wasn’t so bad, I wonder what all the fuss was about.”

But very often review results are skewed based on an individual’s expectation. I mean, seriously, giving a rating of 1 (out of 5) to a 3-star resort in Mexico because the 100-item buffet didn’t change much? You get what I mean.

Like Trip Advisor, you need to look for themes. That said, it’s a well known fact that few people who are satisfied with the service will post and those who like to complain (often about the

smallest things) will post till they get what they think they are entitled to.

In the end, stick to the facts not the fiction.

Another thing to consider is who will be standing behind the people you are dealing with. Is it a one-man show?

If your man gets hit by a bus you’re on the hook?

Or are you dealing with a large company with people who can step in if needed? Better yet, is it a conglomerate like a franchise organization or dealer network that in the worst case scenario has independent people outside of the particular shop you’re dealing with? This ensures their name is protected and the services being offered are exactly what people signed up for.

In any case, do your homework and decide for yourself what’s important to you.

Lastly, cost. As with most of us, we want (and deserve) the most value for our hard-earned dollars.

Don’t mistake value for the least expensive option. That will all-too-often get you into a spot you really don’t want to be in.

Many things go into the cost of a project. Typically, a quote for a similar service shouldn’t be hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars apart from

business to business.

If it is, question why. A one-man show can do it for less than the company who employees 25 people. Materials that originate in China cost much less than those manufactured in North America.

Ask yourself what’s important to you: getting an inferior product for cheap or paying a fair price and supporting your community?

Remember, Ben Franklin once said “The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”

It was once asked of me at one of dozens of training opportunities I have been on throughout North America: “What is the most expensive renovation you have to do?”.

Well after guessing things like kitchen and bathroom and developing a basement I tell people that I was taught that the most expensive renovation one has to do is the one you have to do twice!

Consider the long-term cost to things not just the short-term costs.

If you can’t afford to do it right, save yourself the hassle and hold off until you can afford to do it right.

You will thank yourself in the long run.

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I’m looking to build a new home this spring and I’m getting contradictory advice on PWFs. A: Using wood as a foundation for a house seems risky and prone to failure from rot, but I’ve never heard of any problems with it.

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Eliminating Musty Basement Air Q: What should I do about the musty smell in my basement?

My wife has developed asthma since we moved in. There are no water leaks. The walls are finished with wood studs and batt insulation and there’s carpet on the floor.

My plan is to replace the bottom four feet of musty drywall and get rid of the carpet.

A: Your wife is among the unsuspecting multitude of Canadians who experience health problems because of low indoor air quality, especially during winter.

But simply replacing drywall and getting rid of carpet isnít going to do much to stop the mustiness alone.

Starting from scratch is a better option. It means you can use a mold-resistant approach to the walls that will work better long term. My current favourite basement wall system is a Canadian panel-type product called Smartwall.

Any approach that eliminates organic material on or near masonry walls will be a big improvement over what you have now.

Any of the major subfloor products on the market will create a warm, comfortable surface for a new floor. Most only take up an inch or so of height. DRIcore makes a nice product, so does Barricade and Subflor.

As for flooring itself, laminate is excellent for basements. You’re wise to get rid of the carpet.

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ADVANTAGE.............. 391-3583..... $213,900....... Clearview Meadows 18 Chalmers Close ........... 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Wing ....................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 391-3583..... $214,900....... Clearview Meadows #50, 6300 Orr Drive ......... 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ....Cam .... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 352-9302............................... Oriole Park West 133 Crawford Street........ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Gerald .... Gerald Doré .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 872-4505..... $329,900....... Clearview Meadows 18 Depalme Street .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. .... Steve Cormack ............ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 391-1672..... $419,900....... Deer Park Estates 372 Timothy Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jan .... Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-1200..... $369,900....... Timberlands 168 Andrews Close ......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Gummow ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 598-7913..... $339,900....... Anders Park East 236 Illingworth Close ..... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984............................... Ironstone 15 Almer Close..................

Close.................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Alex .... Alex Wilkinson ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 318-3627............................... Anders Park East 124 Valentine Crescent .. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Beata .... Beata Wojtasiewicz .... SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 304-3845..... $549,900....... Vanier Woods 132 Kemp Avenue ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Simona .... Simona Tantas ............. REALTY EXECUTIVES ........................ 396-5192..... $314,900....... Anders South 20 Kensington Close....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. .... .......................................... BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE .. 307-3737............................... Kentwood East 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 22 Tindale Place ............... 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. .Aaron . Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... The Timbers

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 - OUT OF TOWN 2017 Minto Street............ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Charlotte .... Charlotte Renschler ... REMAX .................................................. 506-3141 .... $296,700....... Penhold 9 Falcon Ridge Drive....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Darlis .... Darlis Dreveny ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 358-4981............................... Sylvan Lake 56 Henderson Crescent . 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919..... $487,500....... Penhold 63 Crestview Boulevard 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764..... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 33 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315..... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 - RED DEER 348 Lancaster Drive ........ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Rick .... Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 350-6023..... $324,900....... Lonsdale 19 Webb Close .................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Wagar ................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 304-2747..... $729,900....... Westlake 113 Gilbert Crescent ....... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Gerald .... Gerald Doré .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 872-4505..... $329,900....... Glendale Park Estates 176 Allwright Close......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....George .... George Smith .............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 350-7038..... $539,900....... Aspen Ridge 372 Timothy Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jan .... Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-1200..... $369,900....... Timberlands 236 Illingworth Close ..... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984............................... Ironstone 98 Timberstone Way ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Gummow ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 598-7913..... $549,900....... Timberstone 7 96 Holmes Street .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Henrietta .... Henrietta Thompson . SUTTON LANDMARK REALTY ....... 347-0751..... $164,900....... Highland Green Estates 1 Lowden Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Beata .... Beata Wojtasiewicz .... SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 304-3845..... $429,900....... Laredo 50 Denovan Crescent ..... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Milena .... Milena Toncheva ........ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 304-5265............................... Deer Park Village 22 Caribou Crescent ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bett .... Bett Portelance ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 307-5581..... $485,900....... Clearview Ridge 92 Ayers Avenue .............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Carol .... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER ON TRACK ... 350-4919..... $429,900....... Anders Park #326, 260 Duston St........

St........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Len .... Len Parsons .................. REMAX .................................................. 350-9227..... $164,900....... Deer Park Estates 83 Aldrich Close ............... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Ivan .... Ivan Busenius............... REMAX .................................................. 350-8102..... $579,900....... Anders South 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 22 Tindale Place ............... 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. .Aaron . Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... The Timbers

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 - OUT OF TOWN 56 Henderson Crescent . 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Chris .... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 391-8141..... $487,500....... Penhold 63 Crestview Boulevard 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764..... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 33 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315..... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919..... $399,900....... Lacombe 4 Johnson Close ............... 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. ....Dale .... Dale Stuart .................... COLDWELL BANKER ON TRACK ... 302-3107............................... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 - RED DEER 50 Jenner Crescent..........

Crescent.......... 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. ....Robert .... Robert Annable .......... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 587-876-8339.. $439,900....... Johnstone Crossing

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A stripe of a different colour To develop the medieval theme we looked up ancestral shields, simplified them and made our own stencils cut from Mylar. The stencils were placed at intervals alternating between stripes.

Use grey and black acrylic paint or silver metallic paint to fill in the stencils.

To finish the walls neatly, a solid green stripe was painted along the upper wall overlapping onto the ceiling. An orange stripe defines the top of the wall.

Decide how far you want to go with a theme.

You can stop at the wall finish, or add photos and accessories that continue to build on the mood. The wide range of colours and patterns available in bed sheets, duvets and curtains always makes a statement. Wood shutters suited this room, along with a cork floor that is comfortable to play on and looks

Stripes are marked off with low tack tape, and a green glaze is washed over the yellow basecoat. great. An old steamer trunk holds toys and books and doubles as a seat.

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Stencils of ancestral shields decorate the stripes in this medieval themed bedroom.

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green stripes. The yellow is the base coat. The wall was then divided into 12î vertical stripes, marked off with a pencil, low-tack painterís tape was used to mask off the outside edges of each of the stripes to be painted green.

These stripes will look fatter than the other stripes.

It’s helpful to mark and X with tape on the stripes not to be painted. The green stripes are applied as a glaze, one part paint to one part glazing liquid.

Apply the glaze with a kitchen sponge and wash the colour onto the stripes creating a cloudy effect.

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Decorating a child’s room is so much fun.

Here you find the freedom to play with whimsical themes and colours, and create an imaginative space that your child will be happy to call his or her DEBBIE own. Although TRAVIS it’s tempting to HOUSE TO HOME think back to what you would have wanted when you were that age, perhaps your child has different interests.

Pay attention to what sparks their imagination, what characters they relate to in books or on TV, what themes they return to when playing solo or with friends.

Paint is such a versatile medium that you can reproduce any theme, any mood, simply by rolling colour onto a wall. And there are many easy-to-apply paint finishes that will boost the roomís character even more.

Stripes can be any size and provide a variety of looks whether you apply them vertically or horizontally.

Two crayon coloured stripes touching each other placed one or two feet apart over a quiet background is youthful and full of energy.

For a peaceful mood appropriate for a nursery, try wide horizontal stripes in soft shades of green or violet. A single horizontal stripe set at about three feet above the floor is the perfect height for a young child to line up favourite motifs with stickers or stamps.

A 9-year-old with a fascination for medieval knights was the inspiration for the bedroom shown here.

Stripes are useful for lining up other patterns or placing motifs as added decoration. Here we chose yellow and

2016

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MARCH 4, 5, 6, 2016 2016 Celebrity Speaker

If you watch HGTV, then chances are, you’ve seen the work of Kate Campbell. We’re excited to have Kate join us at the 2016 Red Deer Home Show for the first time! Her advocacy for women in the skilled trades, combined with her expertise in the industry ensure it will be worth stopping by the main stage to hear what she has to share!

Kate was born and raised in Georgetown, Ontario. She has been working in television and the renovation industry for over seven years and can be seen on HGTV’s “Holmes on Homes”, Holmes in New Orleans”, Handyman Superstar Challenge” and “Holmes Inspection”. Most recently Kate has been featured as one of the crew on HGTV’s hot shows, “Decked Out”, Disaster Decks”, “Deck Wars” and “Custom Built”.

Kate’s Schedule: Friday March 4 - 5:3-pm; Saturday 5 - 12:3-pm

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For more information call 1.403.346.5321 or visit www.RedDeerHomeShow.ca Playhouse Raffle:

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Tickets $5 each available through Women’s Outreach at the Red Deer Home Show.

Thank you to our 2016 playhouse sponsor!

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENMARK, S.C. — 2016 Democratic presidential hopefuls fighting for black voters looked for an edge in South Carolina on Friday as Republicans crisscrossed the state in search of a path out of Donald Trump’s long shadow.

Democrat Hillary Clinton stepped up her hammering of rival Bernie Sanders for what she said are his false claims on President Barack Obama’s legacy. Prominent black leaders echoed the theme — an effort to use the first African-American president as a wedge between Sanders and black voters.

“He has called the president weak, a disappointment,” Clinton said of Sanders at a forum on Friday. “He does not support, the way I do, building on the progress the president has made.”

Coming off a bruising rout in New Hampshire, the former secretary of state hopes the first-in-the-south primary will showcase her strength with at least one core segment of the Democratic coalition. A Democrat cannot win the nomination, much less the White House, without significant backing and enthusiasm from black communities.

For Republicans, South Carolina is another chance to emerge as the viable alternative to Trump, the billionaire reality-TV star who snatched the race away from the Republican establishment. Although Trump appears to have a solid lead in the polls in the state, the rest of the field is hoping to peel off support from the large and influential evangelical community.

As his rivals hustled through rare snowfall Friday, Trump showed he won’t make it easy.

He was able to steal the spotlight with a Twitter threat to sue his closest competitor.

“If TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen,” Trump wrote.

Another tweet questioned Cruz’s faith: “How can Ted Cruz be an evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?”

Trump’s broadside was a response to cutting

new ads the Cruz campaign is airing in South Carolina.

Jeb Bush and his allies also are aiming attacks on the bomb-throwing front-runner — hoping his coarse style and record on social issues will turn voters off.

Right To Rise USA, the super political action committee backing Bush, released an attack ad blasting Trump for supporting partial-birth abortion, allegedly defrauding students of Trump University and trying “to seize private property to line his own pockets.”

On Friday, Bush campaigned at a faith forum at conservative Bob Jones University in Greenville, where he mused about what his famous father, former President George H.W. Bush, would think of Trump’s cursing.

“I can’t imagine my dad … ,” Jeb Bush said, trailing off as the audience laughed.

Bush has embraced his family’s network in the state. He’s inviting his brother, former President George W. Bush, to campaign with him. On Friday, he picked up the endorsement of South Carolina’s former first lady Iris Campbell, a longtime Bush family ally.

Trump was the only Republican to bypass South Carolina on Friday, redirecting his typically unconventional campaign to Florida, where he planned to hold a rally in Tampa.

On the Democratic side, Clinton’s slams on Sanders were backed up by the Congressional Black Caucus PAC. Sanders wants to “undo” Obama’s accomplishments, said PAC chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks, pointing to Sanders’ past criticism of Obama and his 2011 suggestion that Democrats should mount a primary challenge to the president.

“I believe Senator Sanders’ disparaging comments towards the president are misplaced, misguided, and do not give credit where credit is due,” the New York Democrat said.

Sanders says he’s been largely supportive of Obama, despite his occasional critique.

“Last I heard, a United States senator had the right to disagree with the president, including a president who has done such an extraordinary job,” Sanders said in Thursday night’s debate.

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Students embrace after leaving campus, Friday, in Glendale, Ariz. after two teens were shot at Independence High School in the Phoenix suburb. Two 15-year-old girls were shot once at the school, but it was not clear what led up to their deaths, Glendale Officer Tracey Breeden told reporters. Authorities were not looking for anyone else, and a gun was found near the bodies, she said.

Two 15-year-old girls killed in Phoenix-area school shooting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLENDALE, Ariz. — Two 15-year-old girls died Friday in a shooting at a suburban Phoenix high school that initially caused panic among parents who could not reach their children but later emerged as a murder-suicide.

Police announced that a suicide note was found at the shooting scene near the cafeteria area of Independence High School in Glendale.

They said the girls each were shot once, were declared dead at the scene and a weapon was found near the bodies.

“Information gathered by detectives reveal the two girls were very close friends, appeared to also be in a relationship,” Glendale police spokeswoman Tracey Breeden said in a statement Friday afternoon.

Breeden said it is believed nobody witnessed the shooting.

Both teens have been identified, but Breeden said “their names will not be confirmed or released at this time by the police department due to their juvenile status.”

Hours before the lockdown of the school was lifted, hundreds of worried parents crowded the parking lots of nearby discount and convenience stores.

One woman gnawed on her fingernails as she spoke on a cellphone, while another had tears streaming down her face.

Other parents chain-smoked as they waited for news.

Cheryl Rice said she went to a store after a friend called about the shooting and asked

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Militants shoot down Libyan fighter jet

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s air force chief of staff says a fighter jet was shot down while carrying out airstrikes against Islamic militants, the third jet to be downed in nearly 40 days.

Brig. Gen. Saqr al-Jaroushi told The Associ-

about Rice’s 15-year-old daughter. But the girl called to say she was safe as Rice arrived at the store.

She said it was horrible waiting for word about her child.

“You don’t know if it’s your daughter or not.

You don’t know who’s being bullied. You don’t know who is being picked on. You don’t know anything. It could be anybody,” Rice said.

Lanie Walter, who is a senior at the school, heard ambulances on her way to campus but didn’t think much of it until her first class was locked down.

When she called her parents to tell them she was safe, “my mom was actually really relieved because she was watching it on the news,” she said.

Parents were bused to the school to be reunited with their children. Some cut through a nearby field as they rushed toward their kids in emotional reunions. Other students who got permission from their parents left campus on their own.

The Glendale Union High School District alerted parents to the shooting through emails and automatic phone calls and released information on social media, Superintendent Brian Capistran said.

Students typically are not allowed to use their cellphones during lockdowns, but as calls from parents flooded the district, officials asked teachers to have students call family, Capistran said.

Social workers and counsellors will be available to students and staff when school resumes Tuesday, the superintendent said. ated Press that a Libyan MIG32 came under fire by militants’ anti-aircraft guns in the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday.

He says the pilot ejected and landed safely.

The pilot has been rescued before in a similar incident on Jan. 4.

Al-Jaroushi said army is investigating whether “terrorists have acquired new weapons capable of shooting down our planes.”

The air force answers to the internationally-recognized government in eastern Libya, where forces have been fighting Islamic militants since 2014. I n western Libya a rival parliament, backed

by Islamist-allied militias, is in control.

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Making new friends can be hard Dear Harlan; I’ve recently moved to it. Think of this as YOU time. Get good a new city. I graduated from college at doing something. Become a better last year and started a new job. version of yourself. Use the people at I’ve met people at work, but every- work to suggest places of interest. Do one is in a different stage things you love to do, share of life. I’m the youngest. experiences with people who It feels like I have tons of love the same things, and be acquaintances and zero patient. real friends. It gets deThis change thing takes pressing at times. Any adtime. No one tells you that. vice?— Paving a New Path Dear Harlan; I’m a 22-yearDear Paving a New old male student from India.

Path; Participate in ZumI am really afraid to talk to ba and yoga classes, Big girls I meet on campus beBrothers and Big Sisters cause I am an international programs, volunteering, student. teaching Sunday school I feel they will not take and anything else that inme seriously. I trust there HARLAN terests you. are some amazing women to This is how you do it. meet here, but I don’t know COHEN My mother-in-law has what they will think. Help me, HELP ME HARLAN a framed picture in the please. — International Stubathroom with the quote dent “Friends take time to Dear International Student; grow.” No one tells you how to grow You’re interesting, dynamic and an infriends. Making new friends in new ternational man of intrigue. places takes time.

You speak several languages and It’s very hard to go from a world have lived in a place few people have where you know everyone to a place experienced. You are adventurous and where you know no one. Transition is have stories. a life skill. It’s all starts with facing the On top of this, you’re smart, driven, uncomfortable. Change is naturally un- handsome, kind, attractive and have comfortable. an incredible personality. If someone Don’t fight it. gets to go on a date with you, they get Once you can face the uncomfort- the complete package. And as a boable with the uncomfortable, think nus, they might even get a trip to India “people, places and patience.” It during breaks. doesn’t have to be in that order. It can You are a seriously amazing opporbe patience, places and people. Start tunity. That’s attractive, right? Dating with places where you can find people in the States works the same way it with similar interests. works around the world. Some people Use places where people will wel- will want you and some people will come you. Find places where you can not. share experiences doing things you All that matters is that you know love to do. Look for young profession- who you are and what you have to ofal groups, spiritual places, religious fer. If you’re worried about people groups and organizations. Spend your jumping to conclusions, put yourself in time in a cool place around cool peo- situations where you can build a relaple. Find a support group or meetup tionship. group. Get on a team sport or take on a Get involved in organizations where physical challenge. people can get to know you over time.

Start with one place and stick with Use your international base of stu-

dents to give you a home base. Then branch out in more places where you can meet more people. Give women permission to want you or not want you. It’s all about your intention. International students have the IT factor if you believe you have it.

Dear Harlan; I always feel like I get too close to girls I’m attracted to.

I feel like I inadvertently friendzone myself. I tend to keep my feelings private. How can I overcome this problem? — Quiet Dear Quiet; It’s intentional. It’s safer to be a friend than to be honest, because being honest means these girls might not want to hang out with you.

Rejection is painful.

So instead of being honest, you keep your feelings a secret. But it’s not safe, because by the time you’re ready to share your feelings, you’ve already started a secret relationship.

While the friend sees you as a friend, you see the friend as a girlfriend. When you do share your feelings, if the friend doesn’t feel the same way, it’s equivalent to breaking up.

That’s when things get weird.

Want to change this? Find women who are looking to go on dates. Try dating sites, apps, set ups and places where women are looking for a date.

Then go on a date.

Practice taking risks. Get great at dating. Learn how to date. Then, when you find yourself in a friendship and get that feeling, you can express it.

Then you don’t have to hide in the friend zone.

Hey Harlan; I am going to be a freshman in college this year, and I am a little bit worried.

I applied for colleges as an undeclared major because I have no idea what I want to do. I’ve thought about majoring in computer science, but to be honest, I really suck at math and computer science requires calculus and other advanced math classes. I’ve thought about majoring in psychology, English

and other things, but I have a reason why none of those would work. I thought I had finally found the perfect major - cognitive science!

However, it’s only offered as a bachelor’s of science, and I want at least a master’s degree. Can you give me some advice on what to do? — Undecided Dear Undecided; What do you want?

That’s where you start.

Forget what other people want.

Start with what you want. The reason you don’t know what you want is because you aren’t good at asking and answering this question.

Here’s how it works. Think it, believe it and try it. We do an awful job at the believing and the trying it part.

If you think you want to work in cognitive science, believe you can do it, talk to people who have earned degrees, find out the jobs people get and work in the field.

You can work one day a week. Get a part-time job or even volunteer. When you think something, instead of only taking classes in the subject, get a taste for it. Then decide if you want to continue doing what you’re doing or experiment with something else. The BIGGEST mistake you can make is to spend more time thinking about it.

Most students change their majors in college. Before you can decide if you need a master’s degree, you need to talk to the people doing what you think you want to do.

Talk to an adviser in the career center, and your academic adviser. This will help you find direction. As for picking a program, start by talking to the people doing it and the advisers who can help you.

Where you do your undergraduate studies might not matter as much as you think.

Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657

Firewatch a refreshing change of pace DROPS GAMER INTO WYOMING WILDERNESS WITH A RADIO AND MANY QUESTIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

“This is probably the most Wyoming-est game that has ever been produced,” joked Anderson.

He came to Vancouver for grad school and never left, marrying a Canadian along the way. He worked for Vancouver game developer Klei (pronounced Clay) Entertainment before joining Campo Santo.

“We set out to make games about interesting people in fascinating places,”says the company website.

Soon the small band was producing a game and building a company at the same time.

“I think it helped that even though we had never worked together before, this was not anyone’s first rodeo,” said Anderson.

Still they were plenty of challenges.

“Games hate to be made,” Anderson said with a laugh. “Any chance

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — In a video game world This video game image released by Campo Santo shows a scene from full of shooters and sequels, “Firewatch” offers a refreshing change of ‘Firewatch.’ pace. they have to not do what “Firewatch,” available for PC and they’re supposed to, they PlayStation 4 for $19.99, drops the gamwill take.” er into the Wyoming wilderness in The goal was to focus 1989. You play Henry, a man who has the game on narrative Powered by retreated from his complicated life Central Alberta’s and exploration. Having for a stint as a fire lookout. Your only players test it out, helped career site connection to the outside world is the expand the world of possivoice of your supervisor, Delilah, over of choice. bilities. a handheld radio.

The lush look of the Any hopes for a simple summer game comes in larger part soon disappear, however. You have to from Moss, who is known sort out the past and the present. for his poster and book art The game’s visuals are beautiful RED DEER LIP including “Star Wars” and and the story-telling is smart right “Harry Potter.” from the get-go, with an introduction PROGRAM that is compelling and quite poignant.

COORDINATOR Game play is simple but satisfying.

Be part of a new exciting initiative that will change the Equally impressive is way newcomers settle and integrate in our community. the fact that “Firewatch” Powered Powe e red by The Red Deer Local Immigration Partnership (RDLIP) is the debut title from Campo Santo, a small stuis a community-based partnership aiming to create Central Alberta’s dio co-founded by Jake a community which openly receives newcomers and Rodkin and Sean Vanacreates an inclusive environment, strives to understand career site of choice. man, who worked on Tellthe needs of newcomers and provides access to tale Games’ acclaimed a full range of services and programs, and ensures “The Walking Dead” epinewcomers are able to participate fully in all aspects Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest sodic game. of community life and Canadian society. disability based service providers in Alberta.

Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve “Firewatch,” two years the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through Main duties include organizational support to the in the making, was proindividual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, duced with the help of RDLIP, facilitation of the RDLIP Council’s work, reaching measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

Panic, a Portland-based out to community stakeholders, research suggestions Mac/iOS developer. on community needs and assets, development While Campo Santo and implementation of a communications strategy, has seven staffers in San consultation with partner organizations to ensure Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry Francisco, it draws on that set targets are met, and liaison with other LIPs employees in other coun- We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with around the country for further enhancement of the tries. Nels Anderson, a developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the partnership.

Canadian-U.S. dual citi- opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Full Time zen, is based in Vancou- Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and Required Qualifications and Experience: ver while acclaimed artist dependable routines. Respite (part time) Proprietors offer support and care, working one • Post-secondary degree in social sciences, Olly Moss and animator/ to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/ community development or other related field designer James Benson adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where Respite can • Experience with non-profit management and service live in England. be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home. providing organization It works thanks to a vid• Excellent organizational and project management Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the eo conferencing. skills “When our day starts individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental • A minimum of 5 years with proven track record we just jump on that vid- disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postof working with multiple stakeholders to catalyze eo conference and then secondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a collaboration we’re just kind of there as non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

• Ability to foster partnerships and build community a big disembodied head Full time Proprietors receive a (tax free) monthly remuneration and Relief Proprietors are consensus floating in the back of the paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all office,” Anderson said of Proprietors are required to take.

Resumes will be accepted by email to the foreign contingent. admin@care2centre.ca until the position is filled.

Anderson was born and Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested raised in Jackson, WyoThank you for your application and interest in in either children or adult Proprietorship to: ming. Vanaman moved to our organization. We will be in touch with those HR Fax: (403) 986-2404R or e-mail: hr@pclass.org Cody, Wyoming, as a child. candidates demonstrating the best fit. For more Shoshone National Forest information, please check our website If you would like to inquire more information please contact was essentially slap in the www.immigrant-centre.ca.

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