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Driver jailed for role in crash RED DEER TEEN LEFT IN COMA FOR A MONTH

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Convicted for his role in a collision that left a Red Deer teen with a brain injury and a long road to recovery, Eric William Petty was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Petty was sentenced Wednesday morning in Red Deer provincial court.

He pleaded guilty on Dec. 8, 2015, to one count of refusing a breath demand causing injury. Charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and criminal negligence causing bodily harm

were withdrawn.

Dery Wang, 18, was found injured on the side of the road near the intersection of 32nd Street and Mitchell Avenue on July 4, 2015.

He was riding his bike early that morning to the Greyhound bus station. He was going to catch a bus to the Calgary Stampede.

Wang was badly injured in the crash. He suffered broken bones and head trauma, as blood had been cut off from his brain be-

cause of the crash.

He was taken to the Red Deer Regional Hospital, where he was stabilized. He was then flown by Stars Air Ambulance to Edmonton.

Wang was in a coma for a month, but has slowly recovered.

At the time of the crash, Wang was enrolled in the University of Alberta engineering program. Since then he has worked on regaining many basic functions and is still dealing

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with his speaking abilities.

A report submitted as part of the sentencing hearing said Wang suffered from numerous deficits including communication, a balance impairment and post-traumatic amnesia.

Petty waved down another driver to call 911, as he did not have his phone at the time. Petty was driving from a friend’s house, where he had a couple of drinks.

On top of the one-year prison sentence, Petty is subject to a three-year driving prohibition. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Medical marijuana advocate cheers court decision

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Medical marijuana user Robert Koteles was jubilant after a federal judge’s decision to strike down legislation that prevented patients growing their own cannabis.

“I am very excited Judge strikes down A6 for myself and most- pot law ly for all patients having the rights to make their own medicine,” he said.

“This is amazing. This is a gigantic step forward in Canada law and I’m very proud of our court system,” said the 52-year-old, who has been splitting his time between Canada and the Philippines, where he has a wife and baby.

Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan found that the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations violated charter rights by requiring patients to buy from licensed producers.

In his written decision released on Wednesday, the judge suspended the decision to strike down the law for six months.

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Teddy Anderson, formerly of Red Deer, brought his Hoop Dancing performance to West Park Middle School Wednesday. Anderson is an internationally recognized performer, motivational speaker and children’s book author. Anderson uses First Nation’s Hoop Dancing as a way of connecting with his audience and as his vessel to teach the important message of unity and inclusion. Dancing with up to 30 hoops at a time, Teddy captivates and inspires audiences of all ages to bring about greater levels of community. See video slide show at www. reddeeradvocate.com.

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Low oil prices put Alberta on track for $10B deficit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the prolonged cratering of world oil prices is expected to saddle his province with a $10.4-billion deficit in the next budget.

“It’s a lot. It’s a helluva lot of money,” Ceci admitted at a legislature news conference Wednesday.

“That is simply the reality of our circumstances.”

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mainspring of Alberta’s economy, delivering multibillion-dollar surpluses earlier this decade.

But the benchmark price for oil has fallen from a high of more than $US100 a barrel in June 2014 to around US$30 today.

Every $1 drop in the average price of oil over the course of a year drains $170 million from Alberta’s coffers.

Ceci also said he can no longer promise to balance the books by 2020 and added he can’t set a new target

date for when that might happen.

He emphasized the province will stick to its plans to avoid cuts in frontline jobs and critical services, to find savings where possible and to take on debt to create jobs in the construction of roads, schools, and hospitals.

“We won’t respond with knee-jerk cuts to make a bad situation even worse.”

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Living the dream of life on the road A Red Deer couple who helped to create a vibrant yoga community is trading tradition for life on the road.

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In last fall’s budget, the province projected a $5.4-billion deficit for the 2016-17 fiscal year. Ceci said the new $5-billion figure would be on top of that.

“This is the steepest and most prolonged slide in oil prices in recent history, dropping more than 70 per cent in the last year and half,” he said.

“Projections for a quick recovery have proven wrong. This is a once-in-a-generation challenge.”

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Crown calls psychiatrist to rebut defence

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Mark Damien Lindsay’s story of how and why he killed an Edmonton mother has stayed the same over the years, a consistency a forensic psychiatrist said was usually absent in schizophrenic patients.

Dr. Peter Rodd, a forensic psychiatrist, said Lindsay, 29, was consistent in his story that a group of serial killers called Healers was intent on killing him.

Rodd said this consistency was not common for people he interviewed.

Lindsay was interviewed for two hours by Rodd on May 20, 2013, at the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. At the time Lindsay was held in custody for the murder of Dana Turner.

Lindsay is charged with second-degree murder and is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench.

Defence counsel has admitted to Lindsay committing the murder. But Lindsay’s criminal responsibility for the act is the focus of the trial. A diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, Lindsay has been observed by a multitude of doctors.

After two defence expert witnesses spoke to Lindsay’s mental state and the nature of his psychosis, the Crown called their own forensic psychiatrist as a rebuttal witness.

A veteran of 59 fitness and not criminally responsible assessments, Rodd was asked in 2013 to examine Lindsay.

Rodd noted a number of similarities between his interview with Lindsay and Lindsay’s police interview.

In the interview, Rodd said Lindsay was quite focused on the notes he took. Lindsay wanted to ensure the notes were accurate. Rodd said Lindsay was not motivated by paranoia, but wanted to control how his story was told.

Lindsay has claimed Turner was a member of the Healers and was sent specifically to kill him.

Defence expert witness Dr. Marc Nesca said it was this delusional belief that led Lindsay to kill Turner as a matter of self preservation. Lindsay stabbed Turner in the eyes with a pencil, strangled her and then ran over her head with a car in August 2011. He left her body on an oil lease road west of Innisfail. Turner’s body wasn’t found until October 2011. Lindsay was charged with the murder in March 2012.

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MARIJUANA: New regulations possible That gives the government a window to create new medical marijuana regulations.

Those who have permission to grow their own marijuana under a previous injunction will be allowed to continue cultivating.

Koteles has been using medical marijuana for pain and sleep relief connected with his osteoarthritis. Allergic to most medications available for his symptoms, which also caused many side effects including heart palpitations and insomnia, he turned to medical marijuana.

“My hope is that other patients can grow for themselves as well. Now, we’re not going to be under the thumb of legislation that’s against our constitution and personal privacy and rights.

“They’ve over-legislated this and they have wrongfully classified this plant as dangerous and without medical benefit,” he added.

“Now, our courts have proven that the patients do believe it has a benefit and it’s safe for them to grow at home.”

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Students at G.H. Dawe School in Red Deer started out the day Wednesday with a rally against bullying. About 50 students and staff lined the sidewalk outside the school decked out in pink T-Shirts rallying against bullying and encouraging motorists to honk if they were against bullies.

Here Grade 6 students Conrad Weatherby, left, and Rylan Halladay leave an assembly wearing the same T-shirt along with Grade 4 student Caden Broomfield, who supported the Pink Shirt Day effort.

Catholic school board seeks input on LGBTQ policy

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Regional Catholic Schools is now seeking feedback from schools and parents on its policies to provide an inclusive environment for LGBTQ students.

Trustees reviewed the division’s safe and caring policy and administrative procedures at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.

Superintendent Paul Mason said no major changes were required to comply with provincial law other than some minor wording changes, like inserting ‘family’ in place of ‘parents.’

The former Ponoka resident has already been licensed to grow medical marijuana. He was cultivating 44 plants in a sea container he moved to the lot of a home he was renting in Ponoka.

In 2013, that turned into a legal dispute with the town, when it ordered the sea container removed.

Koteles filed a statement of claim last June seeking compensation for losses and medical distress.

His statement of claim says his Charter rights have been breached because the town’s order was to remove a federally authorized medical marijuana grow operation. Also, he alleged the town has compromised his health, safety and finances.

The Town of Ponoka denies all of the allegations.

In its statement of defence, the town states the placement and use of the sea can as a greenhouse was in contravention of the municipality’s land use bylaw.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. That case is still winding its way through the court system.

BUDGET: Most money used for capital projects The government won’t create new taxes, increase existing ones or introduce a provincial sales tax, he said. Nor are there plans to use any of the $19-billion

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“We have had a safe and caring policy in place for a number of years and associated administration procedures so it was just some slight revision that needed to take place,” Mason said.

“We’re not sure what rubric our policy guidelines will be gauged against because that has not been shared with us by government. We are quite confident that we are onside with what the minister is asking for as related to a safe and caring environment for students.”

Last year Alberta Education released policy guidelines for school boards to meet the needs of LGBTQ students.

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Alberta is now almost $19 billion in debt. Most of that money is being used for capital projects. The plan is to continue borrowing in the coming years to pay for capital and, if necessary, operating costs.

The debt by decade’s end had already been projected to hit almost $48 billion, but that was before Ceci’s $5-billion bombshell Wednesday.

Ceci said the 2016-17 budget is to be introduced in early April, but he wouldn’t give a date.

Opposition Wildrose critic Prasad Panda said no one blames the NDP for the collapse in oil prices, but the government is not dealing with it.

“Their plan is not working,” said Panda. “How they’ve responded to the situation is hurting Alberta’s economy.”

Ceci’s third-quarter update Wednesday for 2015-16 shows the government expects to run a $6.3-billion deficit this fiscal year, which ends March 31. That’s almost $200 million more than was forecast in the fall.

The update shows that the cash crunch is burrowing deeper into Alberta’s economy. Personal income tax revenue is down, while housing starts and car and truck sales are expected to continue to drop.

Oil and gas investment is expected to slow by 20 per cent in 2016.

Alberta also expects to see a net population outflow of 6,000 to other parts of Canada this year — the first such decline since 2010.

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Alberta won’t be rebuilt in 9 months Governments are like investments Premier Rachel Notley’s declining ap— if you’re not in it for the long haul, proval rating.

We have similarly heard plenty of you’re wasting your time, your money rumblings about yet anothor both. er push to unite the right, Only a confirmed, unreand how a merger of Propentant gambler would ingressive Conservative and discriminately pump money Wildrose forces, again acinto get-rich-quick investcording to pollsters, would ments and expect instant emerge victorious if a proand significant profits. The vincial election were held truth is, that kind of specutoday. lative perspective more ofNever mind that polls ten than not leads to harsh are nothing more than a separation — your money placebo for the politicalends up in someone else’s ly desperate. Anyone who pocket. touts the veracity of polls Similarly, only a blithely JOHN need look no further into blind voter should expect STEWART the past than last fall’s fedquick dividends from a new eral election surprise, or government. It took the forOPINION the astounding spring promer Progressive Conservavincial election. tive government years to So the kind of fantasy recent Albermake a mess of Alberta, despite the best of circumstances. And a succes- ta poll results represent might appeal sion of weak premiers in recent years to the politically whimsical, or the descouldn’t fix the problems, despite am- perate, but it really is just speculative bunk. ple time and resources.

The simple fact is a provincial elecSo why would we expect, let alone hope, that a government made up tion will not be held today, nor next largely of political neophytes could year, nor the year after that. The legturn around the province’s fortunes in islation is clear. Unless Notley has a huge cranial collapse, or her governless than nine months?

We have heard a great deal from ment suffers some exceptionally catapollsters in recent days about NDP clysmic scandal that brings on a fit of

equally exceptional good conscience, we won’t see a provincial election until 2019.

That’s a long time — and that’s a good thing, because it will take a good while to restore Alberta’s infrastructure, and similarly rebuild Albertans’ confidence in the institutions and leadership of this province.

And it could take almost as long for the economy to establish an equilibrium that doesn’t rely primarily on a single commodity. Never mind that the oil industry remains morosely at the mercy of forces well beyond this province (despite those myopic Albertans who ludicrously blame the energy industry collapse on Notley).

So those Albertans who are chomping at the bit for change might want to take a deep breath and consider how they are more likely to effect that change. Certainly they won’t bring about change by gazing longingly into the distant future through a murky crystal ball. They would be far better off proposing positive policy initiatives, and by investing imagination and hard work.

Dissent is an essential part of the democratic process. But being a sore loser is not dissent, it’s whining. And trying to foment unrest by focusing solely on a potential election outcome

years in the future is fruitless. If that election is to be contested in a fashion that serves Albertans, then the dissenters better put their time and thought toward improving this province now. That requires concrete solutions, not indiscriminate sniping.

This NDP government is not perfect, and mistakes have been made. But we have seen progress, and honest effort.

Certainly the performance of the opposition has rarely been on point in the last nine months, so it’s not like real choices abound even if this was an election year.

And the critics outside the government process who snipe without perspective are serving no purpose other than to distract Albertans from what should be everyone’s focus: getting this province back on track.

Because we should all be in this for the long haul. Albertans have too much invested in this great province, and there is too much work to do, to waste time on gambles and random speculation.

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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Trudeau and Morneau need long-term plan It was merely a matter of time before someone in (CF-18s out of the anti-ISIS effort), malleable (Syrian Justin Trudeau’s picture-perfect, properly balanced refugee targets), and breakable ($10-billion deficits cabinet - a collection of the celebrated, the cerebral and a balanced budget this mandate). Morneau is doand the politically untested - was going to have to ing everything he can on the fiscal front because he show their mettle with their finger stuck in a light has been handed a pile of dirt and is trying to grow socket. something green.

Bill Morneau, c’mon down.

But he has a habit of relying too heavMorneau, the Bay Street veteran, ily on talking points and we’ve heard two carries with him a very hefty, very imdays of prudence, volatility, investments, pressive resumé, but when handed the not spending, growing the economy, transfinance portfolio the resumé was light parency and accountability. on two categories: experience in politics Monday, he likened the deficit to a huge and at the casino. snowfall in which the help of a couple of From town hall meeting to parliamenaltruistic teens down the road would be tary committee this week, Morneau has needed to push the Liberal bus out of the made it clear he is going to roll the dice. snowbank.

He and his boss are all in, deficits be Tuesday, at committee, when chaldamned. They will double down on the lenged by Conservative critic Lisa Raitt, 10th race even if their horse hadn’t come he lapsed into a story of a two-income TIM in for the first nine. family in which one works 12 months, the HARPER From tripling his initial budgetary other six months, and … well, it had everyOPINION deficit to promising to balance that budone at the media table shaking their heads get — somewhere, perhaps, over the rainwhen he finished. bow — but not by the end of the initial But, here’s the thing. Maybe this mandate, Morneau is now being circled by Conserva- hand-wringing and chest-beating about deficits is an tive opponents who smell blood.

Ottawa thing and an old Ottawa thing at that.

It’s a month before his first budget and he’s beMaybe all the noise over this doesn’t go much coming a question period pinata and is learning beyond the Commons chamber, committee meeting quickly that bad days in politics will find you even rooms and pundits on deadline. if you honestly believe that black cloud has no busiMaybe the voters who shrugged at the Liberal ness hovering over you. There are two very different pledge to run deficits during the campaign, don’t things at play here: the fiscal and the political. care about the size of the first deficit and maybe There’s a broken campaign promise and we’ve it’s a generational thing and they never bought in already seen that Trudeau promises can be ironclad to the old orthodoxy and the phoney Conservative

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balanced budget bill because if they are young, with children, and in the housing market in a large Canadian city they already know about running deficits.

Maybe, just maybe, voters just want this new government to do whatever it can to fix some bridges, improve their daily transit commutes and help them find jobs. They’ll worry about government deficits later.

“The first and right priority for Canadians is to invest in our economy,” Morneau said Tuesday.

He may be right and he may have the backing of voters, but he and Trudeau must also cobble together a plan beyond doubling down on the first budget when they have the political capital.

Without that plan, Conservatives are going to continue to swarm the minister. And Canadians will rightly demand more.

This may look like a rough patch for Morneau right now but there were always questions about handing the key economic portfolio to someone who had never stood in a legislature before. It has been a century since a job of such magnitude had been given to a political rookie. As one MP reminded me Tuesday: “He’s had to learn to be an MP and a finance minister at the same time.”

Trudeau took a chance on Morneau and now both are taking a chance on the economy.

Here’s their bet — when it looks like you’re down, you’ve got to spend more to get up. It might sound like a risky economic wager, but they may quite properly be betting that Canadians get it.

For now.

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MDs grappling with assisted death that a sufficient number of physicians will be available … without any need to override an individual physician’s conscience,” Nohr wrote in a letter sent to association members Wednesday.

“Respecting the choice of physicians who do not wish to participate will not hinder patient access.”

Nohr said the March meeting is to include presentations by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, the Canadian Medical Association, Alberta Health Services and the Alberta government.

The meeting is not intended to re-

open the debate over whether physicians should be involved with assisted dying, he said.

“The principle of physician autonomy is not served by forcing all to one side or the other. Regardless of personal opinion, we must all support the right of choice — either way.”

Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman has said the province will consult with the public about assisted death.

The province is expected to announce details of the consultation in the coming days.

Levant wants to quit law society if behaviour citations dropped

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The president of the Alberta Medical Association says it’s time for physicians in the province to focus on how they will deal with patients who want help to die.

Dr. Carl Nohr says the Supreme Court has ruled that assisted death is a patient’s right by law, regardless of individual opinions.

Nohr says some may want to continue debating the morality of the law, but physicians must look at how they will treat patients compassionately.

The Supreme Court has given the federal government until June 6 to come up with a new law that recognizes the right of consenting adults enduring intolerable suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives.

The Alberta Medical Association is to hold meetings next month to discuss practical ways on how physicians are going to meet such requests.

Nohr says he believes there will be enough doctors in Alberta who will be willing to help, so that no doctors will have to do so against their will.

“With respect to the objections of individual physicians, I am confident

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CALGARY — Outspoken political columnist Ezra Levant says he wants the Law Society of Alberta to allow him to resign without any blemishes or findings of inappropriate behaviour on his record.

Levant was scheduled to face a weeklong disciplinary hearing in front of the Law Society beginning next week. But Levant says he will now be represented by his own lawyers at EZRA LEVANT a resignation hearing instead.

The case centres on a March, 2014 column headlined, “Next stop, crazy town,” in which Levant criticized the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s handling of a case involving a

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BRIEF PCs appoint candidate for Calgary provincial byelection CALGARY — The Progressive Conservatives have appointed a candidate to run in the Calgary Greenway provincial byelection.

They selected Prabhdeep Singh to represent the party in the vote scheduled for March 22.

Three other candidates were in the running to represent the Tories in the riding and a nomination meeting was scheduled for Saturday.

But the party says it decided to fasttrack their selection after Premier Rachel Notley dropped the writ for the

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TRIAL: Drugs or schizophrenia?

Lindsay had just been released from serving a 50-day sentence for assaulting Turner in August 2011 when he killed her. He had previously stabbed her in the face with a knife.

Crown Prosecutor Bina Border guided Rodd through a selection of reports, pointing to numerous references to Lindsay’s continued drug abuse.

Several reports indicate Lindsay may have experienced drug induced psychosis.

Defence expert witnesses instead believe Lindsay’s psychosis originated from his schizophrenia.

Trial resumes today in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench.

which is a little quirk in our law,” he added.

“I am not going to resign if there’s still a complaint pending.”

A law society official who initially reviewed the complaint dismissed the allegations stemming from the column, ruling that Levant wasn’t acting in his capacity as a lawyer at the time. He said Levant was acting as a journalist and it was his view there was no reasonable prospect that a hearing panel would find his conduct breached the code of conduct.

That position was overturned seven months later after the complainant, an Edmonton lawyer who worked for the Human Rights Commission, appealed.

“If they really want to prosecute me for that column OK, but they’re not going to win under our Constitution and if they did I would appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court,” Levant said.

“There’s no way in hell I will ever apologize for my political journalism.

I would literally go to jail before I retracted a political opinion and I’m not saying that to be dramatic.”

EDMONTON — Two men have been charged with defrauding eight men in Calgary and Edmonton out of more than $80,000 and police believe there may be alleged victims in Vancouver and area.

Edmonton police say the accused would befriend men on a popular online dating site for older gay men, then watch them use their debit and credit cards.

Cpl. Chris Liew says the accused would set up a meeting with the men at a movie theatre, and see the pin code when the tickets were purchased.

Then the accused would ask the men to refund the tickets, which gave them another chance to see the pin code.

Four of the alleged victims are from Edmonton, four are from Calgary, and police believe there may be more in Vancouver.

Maurad Aytour, 42, and Saed Teeti, 36, are facing eight counts each of fraud and theft.

byelection on Tuesday.

Interim PC Leader Ric McIver said in a statement on the party’s Facebook page that he respects the decision by the board and will support it.

A byelection is needed in the riding to replace PC MLA Manmeet Bhullar who was killed in a traffic crash last November.

The NDP have nominated former radio host Roop Rai, while the Greens have nominated Thana Boonlert as their candidate.

The Liberals are slated to pick a candidate on Feb. 29. So far, there is no Alberta Party candidate.

any future open houses to talk about a rapid transit plan because city staff were physically assaulted and threatened at a public meeting this week.

Naheed Nenshi says there was yelling, swearing, pushing, shoving and even a death threat at the gathering to talk about the Southwest Bus Rapid Transit plan.

He says the behaviour is “inappropriate, it’s wrong, it’s unCalgarian” and says he will not stand for it.

The project, which was approved years ago by city council, is moving into its final design and the city has been looking for and providing feedback on the plan.

A group which is angry with the project has been formed and the city says it is spreading misinformation about the project, which has riled up residents even more.

Nenshi says online consultation will continue.

Calgary mayor says staff, councillors threatened at public meeting

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Muslim man who claimed discrimination when he was fired from his job as an electrician in Edmonton. The column ran in the Calgary Sun and its sister Sun newspapers across the country.

The law society citations allege comments Levant made in the column were “inappropriate and unbecoming” for a lawyer and violate the Law Society of Alberta’s code of conduct.

Levant said in a telephone interview from Stockholm on Wednesday that he will not attend next week’s hearing but would like the case to go away once and for all.

“Twenty-six nuisance complaints have been filed against me over the past eight years, 26, and every one of them that has been considered has been dismissed. So that’s 24 out of the 26 and there are two more that are outstanding and they’re junk complaints,” said Levant, who no longer lives in Alberta and hasn’t practised law in 13 years.

“We are applying to have these thrown out and then I’m going to resign. You can’t actually resign from the law society without their permission,

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Judge strikes down pot law

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The federal government will have to mull a new system to distribute medical marijuana and Canada’s multi-million dollar cannabis industry was thrown into flux Wednesday after a judge ruled patients can grow their pot at home.

Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan struck down a law introduced by the former Conservative government that required patients to buy cannabis through the mail from licensed producers, writing it was an “arbitrary and overbroad” violation of charter rights.

He suspended his decision for six months to allow the Liberal government time to craft new legislation. The federal government has 30 days to appeal.

“It’s a victory for not just medical cannabis patients, but really all Canadians,” said Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer who represented the four British Columbia plaintiffs in the constitutional challenge.

Canadians who use cannabis for illness or pain have faced regulatory upheaval in recent years. The old Medical Marijuana Access Regulations allowed licence-holders to grow pot themselves or find designated growers.

The former Conservative government nixed those rules in 2013 when it introduced the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, which required patients to order cannabis from commercial producers.

A court injunction has kept the old program alive for about 28,000 licence holders. Phelan extended that injunction on Wednesday until a further

court order.

The system created by the Tory regulations has grown into a booming industry with more than 20 licensed producers. While Phelan’s decision changes nothing in the short-term, it breeds uncertainty about the future of the fledgling medical-pot business.

Shares of leading cannabis producer Canopy Growth Corp. dropped six per cent on the TSX Venture Exchange Wednesday, while Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares dropped nine per cent.

Mark Zekulin, president of Tweed Marijuana Inc., a subsidiary of Canopy, said the company is valued at $250 million to $300 million and employs more than 200 people. He said he doesn’t expect the Liberal government to scrap the licensed-producer system entirely.

“We’ve built a world-class facility … and are producing very high-quality product that you can’t get anywhere else,” he said. “I don’t think six months from now it’s just going to get shuttered and people are going to be out of jobs.”

Peace Naturals CEO Mark Gobuty said personal growth can coexist with licensed producers in a regulatory regime.

“We’re all allowed to grow tomatoes and cucumbers at home, but how many of us do?” he asked.

Health Minister Jane Philpott said she was reviewing the decision with the Justice Department and it’s too early to say whether the government would appeal.

“We are obliged to ensure that Canadians who need access to medical marijuana can do so,” she told reporters in Ottawa. “We’re going to have to completely review the regulations.”

Marijuana laws should be upheld, enforced: Blair

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Criminal Code provisions on marijuana must be upheld and enforced even as the government considers a legalized regime, says former Toronto police chief and Liberal MP Bill Blair.

Blair who has been tapped by the Trudeau government as the pot frontman, was among a group who spoke at an open Senate Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday focused on the legalization of marijuana.

Earlier this month, members of the police community — which Blair belonged to before starting his political career — said the discussion surrounding legalization had created confusion, especially for front line enforcement officers.

Blair, parliamentary secretary to the Justice minister, seemed to make a concerted effort to nip that in the bud.

Laws remain on the books, he said.

“The laws that currently exist, exist in this country and we are a … nation of laws,” Blair said. “Quite frankly, until those laws are repealed by Parliament through the appropriate processes, they should be upheld, they should be obeyed.”

Criminal sanctions should be eventually be replaced by a regulatory framework, Blair added.

The Liberal government has been under fire from critics, including outspoken marijuana activists like Jodie Emery, on the need to explore amnesty for those facing simple possession charges.

Sen. Jim Munson also raised the issue Wednesday, saying the government’s timing on legalization gives him pause, considering the Senate studied and recommended it some 14 years ago.

“In the interim, as everybody works on these issues, is that a possibility — that amnesty could be granted during this four-year term?” Munson asked.

Blair did not answer the question directly.

“We are going to take the time to do it right. … This is a complex issue,” Blair said. “In order to get this right, the government is undertaking a number of initial steps.”

The first step will be establishing a provincial, territorial and federal task force to hear from public health, substance abuse and public safety experts.

The details of the task force should be announced in the coming weeks, Blair said.

Pharmacies best positioned to dispense medical pot, national group says TORONTO — Pharmacies are best equipped to dispense medical marijuana given their expertise in prescription drug management, says a national group that represents some of the country’s biggest drugstores. “(Our) members are really in the right position to manage the distribution and patient access,” Allan Austin, a spokesman for the Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada, said Wednesday.

“Pharmacists are experts in medication and medication management.

Our members have the systems and processes in place to manage medications including monitoring, tracking usage, being aware of drug interac-

FIVE THINGS TO DO OTTAWA — Here are five key issues the federal government faces on the marijuana file: 1. Laws are already changing: On Wednesday, a Federal Court judge struck down legislation that barred medical marijuana patients from growing their own cannabis. Health Minister Jane Philpott said the government is reviewing the ruling, adding that it recognizes ill Canadians need access to medicinal marijuana if it is prescribed.

2. A joint federal-provincial-territorial task force on legalizing marijuana will have to be assembled: The first step to legalization will be to establish a joint federal-provincial-territorial task force to bring together experts in public health, substance abuse and law enforcement to help design a new system for marijuana sales and distribution. Bill Blair, a former Toronto police chief now parliamentary secretary to the justice minister, is taking a leading role on the pot file for the government and says the task force will be set up soon.

3. Canada’s experience with tobacco and alcohol will have to be considered: Public health experts including Mark Haden, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, believe changes to marijuana regulation will require a detailed analysis rooted in the experience Canada already has with tobacco and alcohol. He wants to see the government look at legalization from a public health standpoint.

4. Amnesty for those charged with pot possession is a consideration: The government has been pressured by critics, including marijuana activists like Jodie Emery, on the need to explore amnesty for those facing simple possession charges. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair believes the government should decriminalize marijuana immediately by removing criminal sanctions on the books. Blair says the law is the law until it is changed.

5. The impact of marijuana use on driving is a factor: Blair told a Senate forum on Wednesday that marijuana use and driving is already an issue and this will need close examination as the government considers a regulated regime. tions.”

The association’s members include London Drugs, I.D.A. and Rexall.

Shoppers Drug Mart also weighed in on the issue Wednesday with a similarly phrased statement.

“Pharmacists are medication experts and play a significant role in the dispensing and monitoring of medication to ensure safe and optimal use,” company spokeswoman Tammy Smitham said in an email. “We believe that dispensing medical marijuana through pharmacy, like other medications, is the safest option.”

Canada’s largest drugstore chain made the comments after the Globe and Mail, citing unnamed sources, reported that Shoppers is looking at the possibility of selling medical marijuana.

The Globe reported that Shoppers has held several meetings with medical marijuana producers and suppliers over the past year.

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Hitting the home stretch TEAMS JOCKEY FOR PLAYOFF SPOTS IN WIDE OPEN TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE — The race for playoff berths at the Canadian women’s curling championship remained wide open Wednesday as the preliminary round’s finish line appeared on the horizon.

Alberta’s Chelsea Carey stayed atop the standings at 7-2 despite an afternoon loss, but the host province was among nine teams still chasing four playoff berths. The round robin concludes Friday morning. Ties for fourth get solved by tiebreaker games.

Both Jennifer Jones and Val Sweeting were each at eight wins by Wednesday night in last year’s tournament in Moose Jaw, Sask. Eventual champion Rachel Homan had eight wins at the same point in 2014.

Carey’s team from Calgary opened the Scotties Tournament of Hearts at a torrid 6-0 pace before losing two of three. So Alberta still has work to do to secure a playoff berth in their final two games Thursday against Nova Scotia and Ontario.

“I said at the start it’s the most wide-open Scotties field I’ve seen in a long time so it makes perfect sense it would be as tight as it is,” Carey said.

“Round robins are never over, so it doesn’t matter how many games you win, you still aren’t done.

“Every time you think you have something locked or you think there won’t be tiebreakers there always is.

It’s incredible that way. You have to just stay in it, try and keep winning and not let a bad game or a loss upset you and just keep playing.”

Defending champion Jones was right behind the leaders at 6-2. Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson pulled into a tie at 5-3 with Northern Ontario’s Krista

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Alberta skip Chelsea Carey makes a shot during the 12th draw against Manitoba at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Grande Prairie, Wednesday.

McCarville with a 9-6 victory over the Thunder Bay foursome.

Einarson’s East St. Paul squad pulled the leaders back into the pack Wednesday as they beat Carey 11-7 earlier in the day.

“I know we’ve brought up our game and I know we had to, to play these top teams,” Einarson said. “We have to bring them down to where we are.

These two games were huge today.”

Jones and her second Jill Officer have won five Canadian championships together. If their Winnipeg teams prevails again in Grande Prairie, Alta., the women will tie the record of six held by Colleen Jones. Jones wasn’t thinking that far ahead.

“You just really want to get into the playoffs. That’s all you want,” Jones

said. “We’ve gotten in through a tiebreaker, we’ve won the round robin.

You just need to get your foot in the door and see what you can do after that.”

Quebec’ Marie-France Larouche fell 10-3 to Jones and into a pile of four-loss teams. Quebec, Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt, Nova Scotia’s Jill Brothers, Saskatchewan’s Jolene Campbell and Ontario’s Jenn Hanna were all still in contention. “”We’re still alive,” Hanna said.

“You have to keep plugging away and hope that four is going to sneak you in somewhere.”

Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador was 3-6. B.C.’s Karla Thompson and New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud were both 1-7.

Carey was relieved to have Wednesday evening off four games in 24 hours.

“That’s been a grind,” the skip said.

“Four draws straight. Not really awesome.”

The top two teams in the preliminary round meet in Friday evening’s playoff between the top two seeds with the victor getting a bye to Sunday’s final.

The loser drops to Saturday’s semifinal to meet the winner of the playoff game between the third and fourth seeds earlier in the day.

This year’s champion represents Canada at the women’s world championship March 19-27 in Swift Current, Sask., and wears the Maple Leaf at next year’s Tournament of Hearts in St. Catharines, Ont.

Raptors ruin Wiggins return, extend home streak

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 114 Timberwolves 105 TORONTO — The victories at the Air Canada Centre keep coming for the Toronto Raptors.

DeMar DeRozan poured in 31 points to lift the Raptors to a 114-105 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday, tying a franchise record with their ninth consecutive win at home.

But there no was no pause for celebration for a team focused on a strong showing in the post-season. Coach Dwane Casey’s mantra all season has been: we haven’t done anything yet.

“Just like tonight, we’ve got to move on from it, understand that we’ve got a bigger task each day that we do get closer to the playoffs,” DeRozan said.

“It’s about us continuing to get better, figuring out ways to win games, when things aren’t going our way, stay composed and keep learning, never be satisfied with anything.”

According to Elias, the Raptors have won 17 games in a 20-game span for the first time in franchise history, and have the best record in the Eastern Conference during the stretch.

Kyle Lowry scored 21 points, while Cory Joseph had 18 points off the bench. Jonas Valanciunas chipped in with 14 points and seven rebounds for Toronto (38-18).

The Raptors victory spoiled Andrew Wiggins’ homecoming. The reigning NBA rookie of the year from Vaughan, Ont., who had celebrated his

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Minnesota Timberwolves guard Andrew Wiggins weaves through Toronto Raptors guards Cory Joseph (6) and DeMar DeRozan (10) and forward Patrick Patterson (54) during second half NBA action in Toronto on Wednesday.

21st birthday a night earlier with family and friends in Toronto, led the T’Wolves (18-40) with 26 points. Gorgui Dieng added 21.

The last time the Raptors had won nine in a row at home was way back in 1999 (March 7- April 4).

The Timberwolves seemed like they were ripe for the picking, having lost their previous 13 of 14 games on the road, and 11 straight in Toron-

to. They’ve only won four of their 21 games in Toronto.

The last time these teams met, however, in their last game before the NBA all-star break, the Raptors coughed up an 18-point lead en route to a 117-112 loss.

Toronto was looking for payback, and led by as many as many 12 points in the first half, but couldn’t shake the young T’Wolves.

The game got heated in the

second half, and when Terrence Ross was called for an offensive foul on Tyus Jones, his angry reaction earned him two technical fouls and he was ejected from the game with 1:48 to play in the third.

“The game was really emotional, it’s going to happen to the best of us,” DeRozan said of Ross.

“Everybody’s going to have that: wake up on the wrong side of their bed, whatever it

may be. That’s not him, but we all have our days.”

The Raptors went into the fourth quarter with a slim 8786 lead.

A put-back dunk by reigning NBA slam dunk champion Zack LaVine tied the game with 3:48 to play, but Toronto’s all-stars Lowry and DeRozan drilled consecutive three-pointers, putting the Raptors ahead 107-101 with just under two minutes to play.

Lowry and DeRozan would sink another pair of threes in the final minute to seal the deal for Toronto, and send the capacity crowd of 19,800 fans home happy.

“We just keep competing and we stick with our principles, making sure at the end of the day we stick with the things we know how to do defensively. Our defence will always start our offence and for the time being we continue to grow defensively and get better.”

The Raptors’ bench was solid in the victory, outscoring Minnesota’s 40-25.

Wiggins scored Minnesota’s first five points of the game as the T’Wolves raced out to a nine-point lead. The Raptors ended the first quarter on a 27-9 run to take a 37-28 lead into the second.

Toronto stretched its lead to 12 points early in the third, but the Timberwolves responded and a step-back jumper by Wiggins tied it up at 58-58 with just under a minute to go before halftime. Joseph hit a three with seven seconds on the clock to send the Raptors into the dressing room at halftime up 61-58.

Thunder take down Vipers to force decisive seventh game

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Thunder 4 Vipers 2 The Red Deer Vipers did everything in their power to get the jump on the Airdrie Thunder in the first period of Wednesday’s Heritage Junior Hockey League playoff game at the Arena.

Everything but score.

The Vipers carried the play through most of the opening 20 minutes, outshooting their guests 18-9. But Thunder forward Dylan McCuaig scored the lone goal of the period, one-timing a rebound off the end boards past Red Deer netminder Cole Sears and the visitors went on to a post a 4-2 victory and knot the best-of-seven Northern

Division semifinal 3-3.

Game 7 goes Friday at 8 p.m. at Airdrie.

“For some reason we can’t seem the get the bounces in the first period,” said Vipers head coach JD Morrical.

“This was the best start we’ve had at home the whole series, but we just couldn’t find the net.

“The bounces weren’t going our way and they get a … I shouldn’t say a lucky goal, they worked hard for it. But a bounce off the back boards and they’re up 1-0. It was a tough first. If a couple of things would have went our way it would have been a different game.”

Instead, Clay Murray potted a power-play marker to up the count to 2-0 at 12:28 of the middle frame and Mark Kunitz — just seconds after Red Deer’s

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Dustin Spearing broke in alone and was denied by Thunder netminder Kade Tappin — broke down the right wing and beat Sears high to the glove side at 19:43.

The Vipers battled back in the third period when Spencer Yeats buried his own rebound at 10:05 and drew within a single goal when Tye Munro deflected Jon Finnigan’s power play point shot past Tappin at 18:10.

With Sears pulled in favour of an extra attacker, the Vipers pressed for the equalizer. But Parker Georgsen sealed the deal with an empty-net goal at 18:36, just seconds after the hosts rang a shot off the post.

“This is kind of the way it’s been going the whole series. We’ve been up, they’ve tied it, we’ve gone up and

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they’ve tied it … and now it’s Game 7,” said Morrical. “If the trend continues we should win on the road.

“The teams are very, very close. The second game was the biggest spread, it was 7-4 with two empty-netters. Then we beat them 6-4 and we had an empty-netter. It’s been back and forth, we’ve had leads, they’ve had leads. For some reason neither team can put it together at home and hopefully we can keep that going.”

Tappin made 36 saves for the win, while Sears turned aside 29 shots. The Vipers netminder came up with a series of timely saves in the second period, including a breakaway stop on Chase O’Bray and a save on a deflected point shot. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Queens honoured at ACAC volleyball awards

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE For two members of the RDC Queens the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference women’s volleyball championships kicked off a little early.

Miranda Dawe and Whitney Zylstra were among those honoured at the ACAC women’s volleyball awards banquet at RDC Wednesday.

Dawe, a third-year left side hitter from Grande Prairie, was selected to the South Division All-Conference team for the second year in a row.

“It’s definitely an honour,” said Dawe, who finished the season with 172 kills, 27 aces, 211 digs and eight blocks in 19 matches.

Dawe felt the second half of the season went better than the first.

“It took a little adjusting to the different setters (Ashley Fehr and Meagan Kuzyk), but I though I improved second semester as we all got used to different players on the court,” she said.

Dawe also shared the left side with Kelsey Tymkow and Jessica Jones.

“It was awesome having depth so that we had someone to step in if we needed a rest or to come in when someone wasn’t having a great day.”

Dawe will be looked at to carry a large portion of the load this weekend as the two-time defending national champion Queens look to win their third straight ACAC title.

“It will be tough,” said Dawe. “There are a lot of good teams here and it will be exciting to see who comes out on top. I know for MIRANDA DAWE ourselves we’re looking forward to playing good teams and of course we want to win.”

The Queens meet Grande Prairie in their first game at 6 p.m. tonight.

Zylstra, a fourth-year middle blocker from Chilliwack, B.C., is in her first season with the Queens was also named to the South Division All-Conference team. She played the first three with Briercrest.

“This was obviously a different culture and a different group of girls, but it was something I was looking forward to,” she said. “It was more than I imagined. Getting to know the girls and the

coaching of Talbot (Walton) has been great.”

Zylstra, who finished with 116 kills, 25 aces, 101 digs and 44 blocks, was pleased with her season.

“I think I’ve grown as a player. In my fourth year I have more experience and was lucky enough to gain that playing in Briercrest and seeing the court. I also know my second semester here was better than the first. I’m happy the way it went.”

The five-foot-nine Zylstra is one of the premier blockers in the ACAC. “It was something I worked hard at,” she said. “My first two years it was a goal of mine to work extra had because I was smaller. I worked at being faster, at being quicker and to be able to read the setter so that I have an advantage.”

Meanwhile three players from firstplace Briercrest – Mikayla Reinhardt, Samantha Zacharias and Kathleen Bruce - and three from fourth-place Olds – Brooklyn Gathercole, Jamie Craig and Kassandra Menzies - were on the South All-Conference team.

Others were Megan Brennan and Kayla Nixon of SAIT. The North Division All-Conference team included Ahnika Kuse, Michelle Laing and Laura Popplestone of Lakeland, Keri Alcorn, Jocelyn Van Rik

and Niki Friesen of The Kings University, Kathy Cordingley and Jamie Strauss of Grande Prairie and Candice Hughes and Megan Smith of NAIT. Ashley Zacharias of Briecrest was the rookie of the year for the South and Morgan Rigelhof of Augustana for the North. Samantha Zacharias, who was the player of the year in Canada last season, was the South player of the year with Friesen the player of the year in the North.

Art O’Dwyer of SAIT was the South’s coach of the year and Lakeland’s Austin Dyer for the north.

Meanwhile three members of the RDC Kings – Like Brisbane, Nic Dubinsky and Tom Lyon – were named to the men’s South All-Conference team at the awards banquet at NAIT. The Kings face the host NAIT Ooks in their opening match today at 8 p.m.

Other action today at RDC sees Olds taking on The Kings University at 1 p.m., Lakeland and SAIT meeting at 3 p.m. and Briercrest and Keyano clashing at 8 p.m.

The semifinals go Friday at 6 and 8 p.m. with the bronze medal match Saturday at 1 p.m. and the gold at 3:30 p.m.

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.

Canada’s short-track team looks to turn strong season into world gold SPEEDSKATING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada’s short-track speed-skating team wants to turn a superb World Cup season into world championship gold.

Led by veteran Charles Hamelin and a resurgent Marianne St-Gelais, Canada picked up 44 medals at six World Cup meets this season, it’s best haul since earning 47 in 2003.

Now the squad is looking for world championship hardware.

“Overall this year, with 44 medals, we were really strong,” Charle Cournoyer of Boucherville, Que. said Wednesday.

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Chiefs drop opener in South Division semifinal STRATHMORE — Josh Tarzwell notched the lone goal for the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs Wednesday in a 4-1 Alberta Midget Hockey League playoff loss to the CFR Bisons.

The Bisons grabbed a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five South Division semifinal.

Game 2 is Friday at the Arena, with an

The team of five men and five women leaves March 4 for Seoul for the March 11-13 world championships.

Hamelin, a three-time Olympic gold medallist who has been among the world’s best for more than a decade, is aiming for the world championship overall title that has thus far eluded him.

St-Gelais, who had 11 medals in individual distances in 12 races this season, is gunning for a first world championship title at any distance.

“She has a pretty good chance this year,” said women’s team coach Frederic Blackburn. “She needs to keep the same focus she’s had since the beginning of the year.

“She competed against good skaters this year and she knows how they race, but she will need to be at her best.”

St-Gelais has always been best in

the 500- and 1,000-metre events, but at Blackburn’s urging, the 26-year-old became a 1,500-metre threat as well. She won gold over that distance at World Cups in Montreal and Dordrecht, Netherlands.

“She didn’t like the 1,500 because she didn’t know how to skate it but I think she’s starting to like it better,” said Blackburn.

Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Que., and Kasandra Bradette, who like St-Gelais is from St-Felicien, Que., will also race individual distances while Audrey Phaneuf of St-Hyacinthe, Que. and Montreal’s Namasthee Harris-Gauthier are on the relay squad.

The men will only have two running individual distances this year because they didn’t place at least two in the top-16 overall at last year’s event in Moscow.

The coaches picked Hamelin and 19-year-old Samuel Girard of Ferland-et-Boilleau, Que., while Cournoyer, Sasha Fathoullin of Calgary and Francois Hamelin of Ste-Julie, Que., will go in the relay.

It was a close call between Girard and Cournoyer, a 2014 Olympic bronze medallist who had his best World Cup season with three gold medals, all in 1,000-metre races. The coaches felt Hamelin and the more versatile Girard gave them the best chance to have two in the top-16.

“They both made strong cases to get that spot,” said men’s team coach Derrick Campbell. “They were both great at World Cups.”

Added Cournoyer: “For sure, I’m disappointed, but I’m not disappointed with the decision. Sam Girard’s a really good pick too.

8 p.m. puck drop.

Justin Travis turned aside 31 shots in the Red Deer net, while Bisons netminder Hunter Virostek made 23 saves. The hosts led 1-0 after one period and 4-1 after 40 minutes.

The Bisons were assessed 11 of 20 minor penalties.

Tuesday.

Reece Lehman contributed 12 points and veteran Jonathan Goulet added 11 for the Raiders, who take on the host Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers tonight to decide top spot in the Central Alberta League.

In another senior boys outing, the visiting Notre Dame Cougars closed out their regular-season schedule with a 63-58 victory over the Hunting Hills Lightning. Rudy Soffo led the Cougars with 16 points and 12 rebounds, while Cody White added 14 points and six assists.

In senior girls play, Hayley Lalor drained 20 points and Kiera Fujimoto netted 18 as Lindsay Thurber crushed Camrose 91-24.

Meanwhile, Hunting Hills rolled

over Notre Dame 79-27 as Jessie Handley scored 14 points, Gabby Spenst, Kaylee Lukawiecki and Sarah Stahl each had 12 and Leah Hagel added 10.

Gemma Davis led the Cougars with 12.

Kunaka leads Raiders past Trojans in senior high boys basketball action TK Kunaka netted 14 points to lead the host Lindsay Thurber Raiders to a 70-61 win over the Camrose Trojans in senior high boys basketball action

Dean Sanders poured in 13 points for the Maple Jordans in a 54-51 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Silver Spurs Tuesday.

Ryan Grutterink added 10 points for the winners, while the Silver Spurs got 14 from Adam Bullock and 11 from Brian Miller.

RINGETTE PROVINCIALS

CATALINA SWIM CLUB Rebecca Smith of the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club captured eight gold medals and established a provincial record during the Speedo Western Canadian Championships at Winnipeg.

Smith was golden in the 50-, 100and 200-metre freestyle events, as well as the 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley. She set a provincial record in the 200m free.

Catalina teammates Josh Young and Elizabeth Moore also excelled. Young garnered gold in the 50m breaststroke, silver in the 100m breast and bronze in the 200m breast and set a provincial record in the 50m breast, and Moore earned a silver medal in the 200m breast and a bronze in the 100m breast.

New Catalina qualifiers included Tanille Collicutt (14-year-old Age Group Nationals in 100m ‘fly); Moore (Olympic Trials in 100m breast, Canadian Summer Championship in 50m breast, 200m I.M.); Young (CSC in 100m breast); Madalyn Smith (CSC in 50m breast, 16-18 AGN in 50m ‘f’ly); Justin Valentine (14 AGN in 1,500m free); Kyra McMurray (14 AGN in 50m back).

• Catalina swimmers posted numerous top-three times in the Alberta Age Group Trials at Sherwood Park.

Sanders scores 13 as Maple Jordans edge Silver Spurs

Claire Halford led the way with a first-place result in the 400m free and 50m and 100m back events, and was third in the 200m free.

Madison Young finished first in the 200m and 800m free, Ocean Roos topped the field in the 400m and 800m free and was runner-up in the 100m ‘fly and 200m free, and Jayden Vale was first in the 200m ‘fly, second in the 100m ‘fly and third in the 50m ‘fly and 100m and 200m free.

Also recording top-three times were Cooper Waddle (second in 50m free, third in 100m breast), Jaden DeBruijn (second in 200m breast, third in 50m free), Logan Lopaschuk (second in 200m free, third in 50m free), Hayden Bettenson (third in 50m breast) and Delaney Lehman (second in 50m breast).

The following swimmers qualified for the provincial age group championships in March: Roos (winning an event in her age group, 400m and 800m free); Young (13-year-old A time in 200m and 800m free); Vale (13 A time in 200m ‘fly); Waddle (11 and under A time in 50m free); Lehman (11 A time in 50m breast).

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The provincial under-14, under-16 and under-19 AA ringette championships are set for Lacombe’s Barnett Arena and Red Deer’s G.H. Dawe Arena Thursday to Sunday, with the host Central Alberta Sting competing in all three divisions.

The U19 Sting open Friday at 7:30 a.m. versus the Zone 5 Grit at Lacombe, then face the Edmonton Elite at 6 p.m. at G.H. Dawe. Other teams competing for the Alberta title are the Calgary Blue, St. Albert Mission and Calgary Red. The U19 consolation game goes at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in Lacombe and will be followed by the bronze-medal contest at G.H. Dawe and the gold-medal game at Lacombe, both at 11 a.m.

The U14 division will feature eight teams — the Sting, Calgary Blue, Ed-

monton Elite, Sherwood Park Surge, Calgary Red, St. Mission, Calgary White and the Zone 5 Edge.

The Sting will meet St. Albert in their opener Friday at 12:15 p.m. and will take on Calgary White at 7:45 p.m.

Both games are in Lacombe. The goldand bronze-medal games are scheduled for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Lacombe and G.H. Dawe, respectively.

In the U16 category, the Central Alberta Sting will be joined by the Calgary Apex, Zone 5 Pack, Calgary Blue, St. Albert Mission, Edmonton Elite and Zone 2 Inception.

The Sting open Friday at 1:45 p.m. versus the Elite and tangle with the Calgary Blue at 6 p.m., both in Lacombe. The gold- and bronze-medal finals go Sunday at 12:45 p.m. at Lacombe and G.H. Dawe, respectively.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports • College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • High school senior basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Sylvan Lake, girls at 6 p.m., followed by boys.

• College hockey: RDC Queens vs. SAIT Trojans, first game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, 7 p.m., Arena • Senior men’s basketball: Vikings vs. D Leaguers, 7:15 p.m.; Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Subaru Kingsmen, 8:30 p.m.; LTCHS.

Friday • College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • College hockey: RDC Queens at SAIT Trojans, second game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, at SAIT • College hockey: RDC King vs.

Augustana Vikings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Portland Winterhawks, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS vs.

Central Alberta Selects, 7:15 p.m., Kin City.

Saturday • College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland cvs, West Central Tigers, 12:30 p.m., Kin City.

• College hockey: RDC Queens vs. SAIT Trojans, third game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, if necessary, 1:30 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Calgary Rangers,

2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada vs.

Bow Valley, 2:30 p.m., Kinex.

• Minor Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 7 p.m., men to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Victoria Royals, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs. Calgary Mustangs, 7 p.;m., Olds Sportsplex.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy v s. Central Alberta Selects,. 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday • Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland vs. Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, noon, Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 1 p.m. men to follow.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings v s. Foothills, 1:45 p.m., Kin City.

• Senior men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Chillibongs Orangemen, Monstars vs. Wells Furniture, Aiken Basin Drillers vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Washed Up Warriors, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. NWS Axemen, Triple A Batteries vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 5:30 p.m.; LTCHS. • Chinook hockey: Bentley Generals vs.

Innisfail Eagles, fifth game of best-ofseven CHL semifinal, 5 p.m., Lacombe Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks vs.

Bow Valley. 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball Red Deer Women’s League Playoffs

Minnesota

Pool A Funk 44 Big Ballers 36 Funk — Lindsay Grimbly, Allison Lundall, Nicole Fischer, 10 points; POG: Tess Rooykerrs. BB — Morgan Richardson, 13; POG: Michelle Lawton, 6.

Spartans 57 Rampage 36 Spartans — Carla Stewart, 23 points; POG: Stewart.

Pool B Pink Panthers 68 Xpress 39 PP — Rebecca Daly, 16 points; POG: Daly. Xpress — Robyn Bannor, 12 points; POG: Bannor.

Age Gap 61 Dynamo 43 AG —Misha Labesque, 14 points; POG: Taylor Delaire, 10. Dynamo — Tori Adolf, 1 6points; POG: Adolf.

Triple Threat def. Shooting Stars National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 38 18 .679 — Boston 33 25 .569 6 New York 24 35 .407 15 1/2 Brooklyn 15 42 .263 23 1/2 Philadelphia 8 49 .140 30 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct 32 25 .561 31 27 .534 29 27 .518 26 30 .464 25 30 .455

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 5 1/2 6

Central Division W L Pct 41 15 .732 31 26 .544 30 26 .536 29 29 .500 24 33 .421

GB — 10 1/2 11 13 17 1/2

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 47 9 .839 — Memphis 33 23 .589 14 Dallas 30 28 .517 18 Houston 28 29 .491 19 1/2 New Orleans 22 34 .393 25

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver

Northwest Division W L Pct 41 16 .719 30 27 .526 28 28 .500 22 35 .386

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Pacific Division W L Pct 51 5 .911 37 19 .661 24 31 .436 14 43 .246 11 48 .186

GB — 14 26 1/2 37 1/2 41 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Orlando 124, Philadelphia 115 Washington 109, New Orleans 89 Sacramento 114, Denver 110 Utah 117, Houston 114, OT Portland 112, Brooklyn 104 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 114, Charlotte 103 Indiana 108, New York 105 Toronto 114, Minnesota 105 Golden State 118, Miami 112 Detroit 111, Philadelphia 91 Chicago 109, Washington 104 Memphis 128, L.A. Lakers 119 Oklahoma City 116, Dallas 103 San Antonio at Sacramento, late Denver at L.A. Clippers, late

NBA Leaders Scoring FG 529 471 468 427 424 511 476 458 415 432

FT 261 511 302 346 256 259 326 259 324 385

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 61 40 19 1 1 60 36 21 1 2 61 35 22 2 2 6 26 28 6 1 61 22 34 3 2 60 10 45 5 0

GF 249 214 203 168 182 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 61 42 16 3 0 222 Victoria 62 40 16 3 3 226 Prince George 61 32 25 3 1 211 Kamloops 60 27 24 5 4 195 Vancouver 62 23 32 5 2 178

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 60 35 20 3 2 59 33 23 3 0 60 29 23 5 3 61 31 27 3 0 59 29 27 2 1

GF 161 186 195 196 195

GA 177 188 195 212 253 205

Pt 81 74 70 67 50 50

GA 182 172 186 190 251 264

Pt 82 75 74 59 49 25

GA 182 145 190 197 224

Pt 87 86 68 63 53

GA 138 168 199 191 204

Pt 75 69 66 65 61

Wednesday’s results Brandon 4 Kootenay 2 Edmonton 5 Portland 1 Prince Albert 3 Swift Current 2 (OT) Regina 9 Lethbridge 8 (SO) Spokane 1 Prince George 0 Kelowna 6 Everett 5 (OT) Tuesday’s results Calgary 6 Portland 2 Regina 5 Medicine Hat 4 (SO) Seattle 5 Vancouver 3 Tri-City 4 Prince George 1 Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Portland at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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

Prince George at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

PTS 1579 1611 1359 1255 1257 1337 1344 1200 1309 1284

AVG 29.8 28.3 27.7 27.3 25.1 24.8 24.0 24.0 23.4 23.3

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Wednesday’s Games Colorado 4, San Jose 3, SO Montreal 4, Washington 3 Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1 Anaheim 1, Buffalo 0

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 59 34 18 7 75 Tampa Bay 60 34 22 4 72 Boston 61 33 22 6 72 Detroit 61 30 20 11 71 Ottawa 61 29 26 6 64 Montreal 61 29 27 5 63 Buffalo 61 24 30 7 55 Toronto 58 20 28 10 50

GF 164 165 190 153 176 167 144 142

GA 137 149 170 158 187 168 167 175

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 59 44 11 4 92 N.Y. Rangers 60 34 20 6 74 N.Y. Islanders 58 32 19 7 71 Pittsburgh 59 30 21 8 68 New Jersey 61 30 24 7 67 Carolina 61 28 23 10 66 Philadelphia 59 26 22 11 63 Columbus 61 24 29 8 56

GF 197 173 168 155 138 151 145 156

GA 137 155 145 156 143 161 161 190

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 61 38 17 6 82 Chicago 62 38 19 5 81 St. Louis 62 35 18 9 79 Nashville 61 29 21 11 69 Colorado 63 32 27 4 68 Minnesota 60 27 23 10 64 Winnipeg 59 25 30 4 54

GF 199 176 156 159 169 157 152

GA 172 148 150 157 176 152 176

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Tuesday’s Games Detroit 2, Columbus 1, SO New Jersey 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Carolina 3, Philadelphia 1 Nashville 3, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 2, Arizona 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Minnesota 1 Dallas 5, Winnipeg 3 Ottawa 4, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 2, Calgary 1

Saturday’s games Calgary at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Portland at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 59 35 20 4 74 159 138 59 32 19 8 72 147 141 59 32 21 6 70 177 161 60 27 27 6 60 164 185 59 23 24 12 58 142 168 59 26 30 3 55 161 182

Thursday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Arizona at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

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

NHL SCORING LEADERS Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Artemi Panarin, Chi Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Sidney Crosby, Pgh Alex Ovechkin, Wash Joe Pavelski, SJ Blake Wheeler, Wpg Joe Thornton, SJ Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Taylor Hall, Edm Anze Kopitar, LA John Klingberg, Dal Patrice Bergeron, Bos Brent Burns, SJ

G 35 32 31 11 18 22 22 25 39 26 16 14 29 17 22 20 17 10 22 19

A 49 37 35 54 44 35 35 31 16 29 39 41 25 37 30 32 34 41 28 31

PT 84 69 66 65 62 57 57 56 55 55 55 55 54 54 52 52 51 51 50 50

Curling ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) Alberta (Carey) Canada (Jones) Manitoba (Einarson) Northern Ont. (McCarville) Saskatchewan (Campbell) Nova Scotia (Brothers) Quebec (Larouche) P.E.I. (Burt) Ontario (Hanna) Nfld. & Labrador (Curtis) B.C. (Thompson) New Brunswick (Robichaud)

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Ontario 6 New Brunswick 4 P.E.I. 6 B.C. 4

2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts L 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 6 7 7

Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw Canada 9 New Brunswick 6 Northern Ontario 10 P.E.I. 8 Ontario 6 B.C. 5 Quebec 6 Manitoba 5 Ninth Draw Alberta 6 New Brunswick 4 Northern Ontario 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Quebec 5 Nova Scotia 4 Saskatchewan 8 B.C. 7 Draw 10 Canada 11 Saskatchewan 5 Manitoba 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 5 Nova Scotia 7 P.E.I. 5 Ontario 7 Alberta 5 Thursday’s games Draw 14, 8:30 a.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Alberta vs. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick vs. Quebec, Northern Ontario vs. B.C. Draw 15, 1:30 p.m.

Northern Ontario vs. Quebec, New Brunswick vs.

B.C., P.E.I. vs. Ontario, Manitoba vs. Canada.

Draw 16, 6:30 p.m.

Ontario vs. Canada, P.E.I. vs. Manitoba, Alberta vs. Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador vs.

Canadiens apologize after racial slurs end up on their Twitter feed

Friday’s Games Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

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

Chicago at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

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x-Lethbridge x-Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Wednesday’s results Draw 11 Alberta 6 Quebec 4 Newfoundland & Labrador 10 B.C. 7 Nova Scotia 8 New Brunswick 7 Saskatchewan 6 Northern Ontario 5 Draw 12 Canada 7 Nova Scotia 5 P.E.I. 7 Saskatchewan 6 Manitoba 11 Alberta 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 5 Ontario 4 Draw 13 Canada 10 Quebec 3 Manitoba 9 Northern Ontario 6

Thursday’s Games Golden State at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Curry, GOL Harden, HOU Durant, OKC Cousins, SAC Lillard, POR James, CLE Westbrook, OKC Davis, NOR George, IND DeRozan, TOR

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Brandon 61 38 18 3 2 250 Prince Albert 61 33 20 7 1 189 Moose Jaw 61 31 22 7 1 214 Regina 60 30 23 3 4 206 Saskatoon 60 23 33 4 9 188 Swift Current 60 21 31 5 3 158

MONTREAL — Saying thank you has never been so tough for the Montreal Canadiens.

After a souvenir puck tossed to kids at an open practice Sunday hit a baby on the head, the team had to apologize when tweets containing racial slurs ended up on its Twitter feed.

To thank fans for reaching one million Twitter followers Tuesday night, the NHL team encouraged users to reply to a tweet with the hashtag .CanadiensMTL1M, and they’d then receive a surprise.

Friday’s games Draw 17, 8:30 a.m.

New Brunswick vs. Manitoba, Ontario vs. Northern Ontario, Canada vs. B.C., P.E.I. vs. Quebec.

End of Round Robin Tiebreakers (if necessary) Friday, Feb. 26 One Draw — 1:30 p.m.

Two Draws — 1:30 and 6:30 p.m.

Three Draws — 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. (Friday), 8:30 a.m. (Saturday, Feb. 27) PLAYOFFS Friday, Feb. 26 Page Playoffs One vs. Two, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27 Page Playoffs Three vs. Four, 1:30 p.m.

Semifinal One-Two Loser vs.. Three-Four Winner, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 28 Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 1:30 p.m.

Championship One-Two Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 6:30 p.m.

Some responses to the hashtag featured pictures of a customized jersey bearing Twitter handles where a player’s name would normally appear while others contained a thank you video from Habs players.

However, some pictures of the customized jerseys portrayed Twitter handles with racial slurs and other vile comments.

The Habs later posted a message on their feed, saying they apologize for the “offensive messages” and they’ve “fixed the issue so it won’t happen in the future.”

On Wednesday, the club issued another apology and placed blame for the mishap on the company that ran the direct response service for them.

RDC hockey players sweep players of the week honours

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Hockey dominated the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week voting.

Second-year winger Kaely McMurtry received the top female award while first-year forward Dylan Thudium took the male award.

McMurtry, a native of Port Coquitlam, B.C., scored four times as the Queens finished their regular season with a pair of wins over the Olds Broncos. She scored three times in a 9-2 victory Thursday at home, then added a goal and an assist in a 4-1 win in Olds Saturday. She finished the season with eight goals and three assists in 20 games.

Thudium played a major role in the Kings 3-2 win over the Portage Voyageurs Saturday, which clinched a playoff berth for the RDC squad. Thudium, who was born in Red Deer and raised in Sylvan Lake, scored twice, including the game winner. He also received the team’s ‘King of the Ring’ award presented to the centre with the highest faceoff win percentage in the game.

Thudium has six goals and 12 assists as the Kings head into their final two league games. They face the Augustana Vikings Friday at the Penhold

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The RDC basketball teams put the finishing touches on their regular schedule at home this weekend. The women tip off Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. followed by the men.

The Kings go into the final weekend tied with Olds and Medicine Hat for first in the South Division. Olds hosts Medicine Hat in a weekend twin bill. RDC will finish first if they sweep Briercrest and the other teams split or Olds sweeps.

Four ACAC championships will take place this weekend, including the women’s volleyball finals, set to run from Thursday to Saturday at RDC. The volleyball Kings, who are ranked No. 1 in Canada, go to the men’s finals at NAIT with the curling championships being hosted by Portage College and the indoor track finals hosted by SAIT. The women’s volleyball championships open at 1 p.m. Thursday with Olds clashing with The Kings University. Lakeland takes on SAIT at 3 p.m. with the RDC Queens facing Grande Prairie at 6 p.m. Briercrest and Keyano meet at 8 p.m. The semifinals go Friday at 6 and 8 p.m. with the bronze medal match Saturday at 1 p.m. and

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the final at 3:30 p.m.

The volleyball Kings clash with the host NAIT Ooks at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Other opening day games sees The King University meeting Medicine Hat at 1 p.m., SAIT and Keyano clashing at 3 p.m. and Lethbridge taking on Augustana at 6 p.,m.

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p.m. with the bronze medal game at 3 p.m. Saturday and the gold medal contest at 5:30 p.m.

All three RDC curling teams — men’s, women’s and mixed — will compete in the championships, which run Friday to Sunday.

The indoor track meet goes Friday and Saturday.

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RED DEER SPORTSMAN AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SHOW

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Roger “Bear” Murray, of the Alberta Black Powder Association dressed in fur trader-esque clothes during the Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show last year at the Westerner. The association promotes black-powder shooting and encourages interest in the early history and old skills of Alberta. This weekend Westerner Park will again come alive with all things outdoor adventure as the 50th Annual Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show takes place. The show runs Friday, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Friday, Feb. 26 ● Red Deer Legion presents Drew Carver on Feb. 26 and 27, 8 p.m. to midnight, for the weekend dance. For more information , call 403-342-0035. Legion members are required to show their valid membership card. Cover charge for non-members is $5. ● Rummage sale on Friday, Feb. 26, 11 a.m.; Saturday, Feb. 27, 2 p.m.; and March 4, 11 a.m.; at Mirror United Church. For more information, call Gale 403-788-3835. ● The Vancouver Chamber Choir will perform with the Red Deer College Chamber Choir on Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. At the mainstage arts centre. Tickets available online at www.blackknightinn.ca. ● Cronquist House upcoming events: A St. David’s Day tea from 2 to 4 p.m. featuring a traditions Welsh tea for $12. For more information, call 403-3460055.

Saturday, Feb. 27 ● The Norwegian Laft Hus Society is offering hardanger embroidery classes for beginners on Feb. 27 and March 12, and a rosemaling painting class for beginners on March 19. Email norwegianlafthus@gmail.Com or phone 403347-2055 to register. ● Heart month national campaign in support of Heart and Stroke Foundation has several local events. Rebels game night on Feb. 27. Bridging Hearts on Feb. 29 is offering sales of paper hearts for $5 to stretch across the Red Deer River Bridge. Paper hearts are available at Go Auto locations, Uncle Ben’s RV, Big 105 and the Heart and Stroke Foundation office. At least 455 hearts are needed to reach across the entire bridge.

Throughout the month of February, businesses and individuals are invited to be creative and put on events. Door-to-door canvassers are needed also. Please register events at heartandstroke.Ca/help or call 403-342-4435.

Sunday, Feb. 28

● Botha old-time dances are held on the last sunday of each month at Botha Community Hall from September through June. Dances take place from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $12.50.

Different old-time bands each dance.

Please contribute to and enjoy a pooled luncheon of buns/sandwiches and desserts to be shared by all, served at 5 p.m. All ages and families welcome. For more information, call Doug 403-7423994.

Monday, Feb. 29 ● The annual meeting for the Lincoln Community Hall Society is Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. All welcome! ● Join Hearts of Harmony on Monday nights and experience the joyful sound of four-part harmony with a group of wonderful women. Hearts of Harmony, a chapter of Sweet Adeline International, is an acapella chorus for women of all ages who love to sing and harmonize.

Rehersals are Monday nights from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ: #68 Donlevy ave., Red Deer. For more info, call Nancy at 403-357-8240, or our director, Sheryl, at 403-742-4218 or check out our website at www.heartsofharmony.ca.

Tuesday, March 1 ● Heartland Cowboy Church takes place on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Agriplex in Stettler. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 403-742-4273. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta, located at 4811 48 Street, holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month.

The next meeting is March 1. Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary.com.

Wednesday, March 2 ● Stettler art group — Church Mice — meet every Wednesday at Stettler

United Church, Christian Education Wing, at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Artists are asked to bring their own art supplies and lunch. Coffee supplied. The cost is $2 per session. Sessions cease at the end May and resume September. Contact Donna Lea at 403-742-5690. ● Red Deer Legion old-time dance with Purt’near Country on March 2 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Sylvan Lake Legion potluck and jam session is held the first Wednesday of each month, noon to 4 p.m. Come to play, sing, dance or listen. Admission is $2, including coffee and lunch at 2:30 p.m. Potluck begins at noon, followed by the jam session at 1 p.m. Contact Margie at 403-746-3153.

Thursday, March 3 ● The Red Deer Public Library presents First Thursday in the Snell Auditorium on March 3, 12:15 to 1:00 p.m.

Violinists Cristian Neacsu and Gian Yin and pianist Debra Bakland will perform music from Bach and Mozart. Admission is free. A free-will donation will be accepted at the door. Coffee and tea provided by Café Noir. ● Stettler Genealogy Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at Paragorn Place in Stettler. All are welcome to learn about where various ancestors came from. For more information, call Chris at 403-740-3636.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Operation Welcome to Canada is a local group putting together shoe boxes for Syrian immigrant children.

To contribute, cheques may be deposited to Servus Credit Union account 12942710, or contributing shoe boxes filled with items for children or donating items for children at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools. Contact opwelcome2can@gmail.com. ● Big — The Musical — will be presented by Hunting Hills High School on March 11, 12, 17 to 19, 7 p.m. nightly at Red Deer Memorial Centre.

Cost is $15 for students, children and seniors, $20 for adults, and $40 for dinner theatre optional event on March 11 and 12, or $12 on March 17 — Cheap Night.

Tickets on sale at huntinghills.rdpsd.ab. ca. Tickets will be available at the door only if not sold out. Based on Tom Hanks motion picture. Contact trevor. pikkert@ rdpsd.ab.ca, or 403-342-6655, ext. 1115. ● GrammaLink-Africa Fabric Sale in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother to Grandmother Campaign will be held on April 23 at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Donations of fabric, one metre or more, wool, yarns, notions and patterns are all accepted for this sale until April 15. Call Mary Ellen at 403-3401365 or Shirley at 403-347-5958. ● Alberta Invasive Species Council

Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held at Lacombe Memorial Centre on March 10, 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. Register in advance at abinvasives.ca prior to March 4. ● Duane Steele Concert at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre will be featured on March 5. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the concert starting at 7 p.m. Advance tickets cost $20 from the senior centre front desk. See goldencircle.ca, or phone 403-343-6074. ● Special Olympics Red Deer is looking for volunteers interested in coaching individuals with an intellectual disability for its upcoming programs. Coaches are required in track and field, soccer and other programs.

Commitment is one to two hours one day a week. Contact Jerry Tennant, 587-2734672, jerry@specialolympicsreddeer.ca. ● Child Safety Seat Information Sessions are available the third Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John Ambulance, next Feb. 17. Volunteers and participants sought.

Call 1-800-665-7114, ext. 3103. ● Canadian Diabetes Association fundraising event — Igloos to Insulin — on March 18 from 1 to 6 p.m. Volunteers are needed for event set up and take down, registration, judging, serving refreshments and planning. Contact Jackie.Morrison@diabetes.ca..

Listings open to cultural/non-profit groups. Fax: 341-6560; phone: 314-4325; e-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com by noon Tuesday for insertion following Thursday.

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Russia pushes truce deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Wednesday with key players in the Syria conflict, including President Bashar Assad, ahead of a U.S.-Russia-engineered cease-fire, as the opposition voiced concerns that the truce due to begin later this week will only benefit the Syrian government.

Government troops backed by Russian warplanes waged fierce battles to regain control of a strategic road southeast of Aleppo from the Islamic State group. The extremist group seized the town of Khanaser and surrounding hills on Tuesday, cutting the main land route to Aleppo.

The state-run news agency said 18 people were killed in IS shelling of government-held neighbourhoods in the city over the past 24 hours.

The truce agreement, which is set to take effect at midnight Friday local time, does not cover the Islamic State group, Syria’s al-Qaida branch known as the Nusra Front, or any other militia designated as a terrorist group by the U.N. Security Council.

It’s not clear exactly where along Syria’s complicated front lines the fighting would stop and for how long — or where counterterrorism operations could continue. Also unresolved are how breaches in the truce would be dealt with.

It remains shaky at best and major questions over enforcement are still unresolved.

In a further reflection of the complicated terrain, Turkey’s president said Wednesday that a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia group — which Turkey regards as a terror organization — should also be kept outside of the scope of the agreement.

Turkey has in the past few weeks been shelling the group known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, in northern Syria.

The comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested Turkey may not stop bombarding the group, which has been a key fighting force against IS. Addressing dozens of local administrators in Ankara, Erdogan also voiced serious concern that the proposed truce will strengthen Assad and lead to “new tragedies.”

Although it has committed in principle to the truce, the main Syrian opposition umbrella group is deeply skeptical and has kept its meetings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, open while it seeks clarifications from the U.S. about the mechanism for the implementation of the agreement.

Salem Al Meslet, spokesman for the alliance known as the High Negotiations Committee which groups political and rebel factions, said his group has “major concerns” that Russia and Assad’s forces will continue to strike at mainstream rebels under the pretext of hitting “terrorist groups” during the truce.

However, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, he reiterated that the opposition wants to stop the bloodshed and would abide by the truce in principle.

“The Americans are taking note of our concerns and we are waiting for their replies,” Al Meslet said.

The U.S. is hoping that a cessation of hostilities would reduce the violence in Syria enough to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table in Geneva to discuss a roadmap for a political transition that was unanimously adopted by the U.N. Security Council in December.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told American lawmakers on Tuesday that he would not vouch for

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian shopkeepers pose for a picture as they wait for customers at the popular Souk Tawil old market in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke Wednesday with key players in the Syrian conflict including President Assad, ahead of a U.S.-Russia-engineered cease-fire, as the opposition and its backers voiced concerns about the proposed truce.

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Radio ads in primary states mention his name.

Republican rallies observe moments of silence for him. The country’s political parties are preparing an epic showdown over his replacement.

Republicans in Congress announced Tuesday that they would not confirm, vote on, or even meet any nominee put forward by the current president, with the all-important balance of the Supreme Court of the United States at stake.

“This vacancy should not be filled by this lameduck president,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican. “The nomination should be made by the president the people elect in the election that’s underway right now.”

He said it had been 130 years since a president nominated a justice in an election year and had it approved by a Congress controlled by the other party.

The current stakes could not be higher.

On the campaign trail, Ted Cruz reminded his conservative audiences that cases dear to them were won in 5-4 votes that could easily go the other way now: on gun rights, religious monuments in public places and on certain abortion restrictions.

It’s a message promoted in radio ads by different campaigns, including Cruz’s super-PAC. Cruz wants to reframe the Republican nomination race as a battle over who’s likeliest to appoint a conservative judge.

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VIENNA — Overwhelmed by a wave of refugees and what they call indecision in the European Union, Austria and its southern neighbours along the Balkan migrant route agreed to tighter border controls at a meeting Wednesday — and warned that sooner or later they will have to shut their doors entirely.

Greece, the first point of landing for most of the migrants arriving by boat from Turkey, was not invited to the meeting and responded angrily by threatening to block decisions at a forthcoming EU migration summit if sharing of the refugee burden is not made obligatory for member states.

The EU has set up a scheme to share 160,000 migrants arriving in Greece and Italy. Even that would be only a fraction of the total numbers, but so far, barely 600 people have been relocated, and only some EU partners have offered places for them fewer than 5,000 spots in all.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that from now on Greece “will not assent to agreements” unless all its partners in the EU are forced to participate proportionately in the relocation and resettlement of refugees. A senior government official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, clarified that Tsipras was specifically referring to a March 7 summit on immigration.

Tsipras lashed out at EU member states that “not only erect fences on their borders but at the same time do not accept to take in a single refugee.”

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THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 2016

RED DEER FAMILY SELLS STUDIO, HOUSE TO LIVE IN A 105-SQUARE-FOOT RV AND TEACH YOGA AS THEY GO

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ANDREA WISEMAN

Josh Biro, Jenna Rosene and their two kids — son Arjuna, 5, and two-month old daughter Lux — are about to set out on a trip of a life time, travelling the world and teaching yoga.

that happiness than I think a lot of us realize.”

He said the things that are going to be really good will also be the chalA Red Deer couple who helped cre- lenges. ate a vibrant yoga community is about The biggest concern will be day-toto do what most people only dream day living — ensuring there is enough about — trading tradition for a life- food, water and power in the battery style of simplicity and experience on bank. They will finance the journey by the road. living frugally, working and drawing Josh Biro and Jenna Rosene have on savings. sold their yoga studio, their Waskasoo “Challenges in life are actualhome and most possessions to become ly what make things interesting and yoga nomads. make you become who you are and test In a 105-square-foot EarthRoam- you in a positive way,” said Biro. er RV, the couple, son Arjuna, 5, and Getting used to living in a confined daughter Lux, two months, hit the road space with two young children will be on Saturday. something they will have to get used The plan is to teach and consult on to. The children will be home schooled yoga while they write their next chap- and they will learn from the day-to-day ter in parts still to experiences. be decided. The “I would like “CHALLENGES IN LIFE ARE route is flexible, our kids be exbut starting on ACTUALLY WHAT MAKE THINGS p o s e d t o t h a t the West Coast.

INTERESTING AND MAKE YOU the fact that the They do not have world is this big an end date in BECOME WHO YOU ARE AND place and there mind. are differences TEST YOU IN A POSITIVE WAY.” Rosene, 32, JOSH BIRO but also similarisaid they have acties anywhere you complished what go,” said Biro. they set out to do As well, the in Red Deer and now it’s time to do principle of non-attachment, includsomething different on a personal level. The couple recently sold Bikram ing being flexible in different situations, getting rid of excess and clutter, Yoga Red Deer.

“We’re as crazy as people think we travelling with children and spending are,” laughed Rosene. “People thought more time in nature, added Rosene.

They know their journey is not for we were crazy to open a yoga studio in everyone but they hope it inspires othRed Deer five years ago.”

The couple loved the freedom and ers to follow their dreams and pasadventure that travelling gave them sions.

“It’s really easy for people to and had always dreamed of longer come up with excuses about why they trips with their children, said Biro, 31.

Juggling work, travel and life in Red shouldn’t do something,” said Biro.

Deer was stretching the couple a little “This is what we want to do and we thin, said Biro. They wanted to be com- figured out a way to do it. We are going pletely present in their lives and not to do our best. I don’t know how it will turn out but it will be fun and excithold back on anything.

“I would just like to challenge the ing.”

Follow Nomad Yoga Family at www. status quo for what you can do,” said Biro. “My message is you should be nomadyogafamily.com or on Twitter happy with your life. That’s really what and Instagram. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com life is about … You have more say in

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Preliminary hearing ordered for Christmas Day murder A man accused of a Christmas Day murder in Red Deer will have a preliminary hearing after all.

Chad Alexander Kulba, 33, had waived his right to a hearing during his last appearance. The hearings are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before going to trial.

Kulba and his counsel Andrew Phypers wanted to go straight to trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

The Crown Prosecutor, who also has the right to request a preliminary hearing, exercised that right on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court.

Judge James Glass adjourned the matter to March 24 to set a date for the preliminary hearing.

Kulba is charged with second degree murder and committing an indignity to a body. The charge was laid following the death of Thomas Patrick Braconnier, 46, of Red Deer.

Braconnier’s body was found in an apartment vestibule on Ross Street on Christmas morning, 2015.

Kulba was arrested in early January on charges of assaulting a peace officer and trying to take an officer’s weapon. While in custody, he was then charged with the murder.

Lacombe hires sponsorship expert for arena funding City of Lacombe is calling in sponsorship experts to help raise money for its $13.7-million recreation facility upgrades.

At its Monday meeting, council approved hiring Orangeville, Ont.based Performance Sponsorship Group for a retainer fee of $65,000.

Performance will inventory and determine possible sponsorship values for various parts of the project and recommend the terms of prospective sponsorship deals.

The company was picked after four submissions were ranked by city staff with Performance getting the highest scores.

Lacombe’s deal with the company runs until May 30.

The city has already begun work on the project to bring the facility that includes twin arenas and a pool up to modern safety standards. Included in the project are major changes to the lobby and the addition of new dressing rooms in one of the arenas, including a $736,000 space for the Bentley Generals.

To help offset the cost of the dressing rooms project, the city is working with the Generals and pursuing fundraising options.

A sponsorship consultant was also hired when the Lacombe Memorial Centre was revamped and proved

VERDICT FOR 2010 CANADA DAY FATAL CRASH VACATED

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer Rebel Ivan Nikolishin, left, along with Michael Spacek and Adam Musil were inundated with requests for autographs Wednesday as the Rebels made their final visit to Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School. Through the school year the Rebels players make regular visits to the school as part of their community partnership with the school.

Also in the photo are Grade 4 students Jamison Prudent-Bull, Owen Usher, Morgan Connell and Kaydence Tripke. successful with about $2 million raised from the community.

RCMP cracking down on distracted driving Crotches kill is the message that police want to get across as part of Distracted Driving Awareness month in February.

In the space of an hour on Feb. 18, Red Deer RCMP checked vehicles at roving locations through the city and issued two distracted driving tickets, no registration, one warrant and one expired driver’s licence tickets.

One distracted driving investigation turned into an impaired driving investigation and a 29-year-old woman was arrested.

“Distracted driving reduces your awareness of what’s happening on the road and limits your ability to make the split-second decisions that will avoid collisions,” says RCMP Sgt. Al Nickolson. “It only takes a second for a collision to occur, and every collision has the potential to be deadly.”

Police will charge drivers for distracted behaviours such as using hand-held electronic devices including cell phones, writing or sketching; reading printed materials; entering information on GPS devices and personal grooming.

Motorists will also be charged for allowing a person, animal, or thing to impede their safe operation of the vehicle, which includes rowdy passengers, dogs on laps, and large items hanging from the rear-view mirror.

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Police encourage drivers to take the pledge on their own Social Media accounts by using the hashtag #CrotchesKill and to challenge others to do the same in the community.

Innisfail saves on sanitary truck main project Alberta’s economic downturn has created a competitive pricing environment not seen in some time.

For municipalities, that has meant more construction companies are responding to tenders and prices are creeping downward.

Innisfail is the latest municipality to benefit from lower pricing. A sanitary trunk main for the northeast of the town was budgeted at $2 million.

No fewer than 11 companies bid on the project with Sylvan Lake’s Urban Dirtworks putting in the winning bid of just under $1.1 million.

“The move marked a significant cost savings to the town, freeing up funding that will now be allocated toward other important infrastructure projects,” said Craig Teal, director of planning and operational services.

Also part of the project is work on another main and repairs to a sewer manhole.

Other communities are also taking advantage of better pricing. Town of Sylvan Lake held off on some Lakeshore Drive improvements last year in part because only a single bid was received that was higher than budgeted.

This year, the work was re-tendered and prices were more in line with expectations and is going ahead.

Call it his last chance at liberty.

Rodey Ross Arens, 38, of Sylvan Lake has been granted bail one more time, while he awaits his new trial.

Convicted of the fatal Canada Day 2010 crash, that killed Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, in June 2014, an appeal court ruling vacated the ruling.

The decision handed down on Feb. 5, ruled the trial was a miscarriage of justice and given the requirement for procedural fairness, two of the three appeal court justices voted to quash the trial decision. The third justice wrote a dissenting opinion, calling the trial fair.

On Wednesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench, Justice Monica Bast granted Arens bail, a $500 cash deposit and a $15,000 no cash surety.

Arens will be released into the custody of a lifelong friend. Bast ruled Arens must live and work with his friend, as the friend indicated he will provide a structured life.

Bast found that Arens had done well while serving at the Drumheller Institution and had made use of the structured environment.

Arens was eligible before the parole ruling to seek his first parole hearing in May. A report made in anticipation of the parole application said Arens had a 20 per cent risk of recidivism, risk of re-offending. The report also said the risk of recidivism was tied to Arens’ substance abuse.

Part of Bast’s ruling included the acknowledgment that Arens had already served a significant portion of his sentence. Arens was sentenced to five years and nine months in 2014.

His bail conditions include abstinence from drugs and alcohol and his friend has indicated the home Arens will live at is drug and alcohol free.

Bast said Arens needs structure in his life and his life on release should replicate the controlled environment of the Drumheller Institution.

Arens will next appear in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on March 7. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Drunk driver ‘tortured by grief’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEWMARKET, Ont. — A drunk driver who killed three children and their grandfather in a horrific crash told the grieving family Wednesday that he wished he could erase his “inexcusable” actions, but his apology was rejected by the children’s parents.

Marco Muzzo, 29, faced a packed courtroom as he expressed the sorrow and regret he said have been consuming him since the Sept. 27 tragedy in Vaughan, Ont. “I am tortured by the grief and the pain that I have caused the entire family,” he said. “I will forever be haunted by the reality of what I have done. I am truly sorry.”

His voice trembling at times, Muzzo acknowledged that his words could bring no consolation to those whose lives have been irreparably harmed by his behaviour.

But he vowed to work to make amends by educating others on the dangers of drunk driving.

“I will spend the rest of my life attempting to atone for my conduct,” he said.

Muzzo pleaded guilty earlier this month to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two of impaired driving causing bodily harm.

Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly, and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather,

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Jennifer Neville-Lake stands with her husband, Edward, as they talk to the media outside at the courthouse in Newmarket, Ont., on Wednesday following the sentencing hearing of Marco Muzzo. The couple lost their three children and Mrs. Neville-Lake’s father in a drunk driving crash involving Muzzo.

Gary Neville, died after the van they were in was hit by an SUV. Jennifer and Edward Neville-Lake, whose family was decimated in the crash, left the room as Muzzo took the stand and did not return until he was back in the prisoner’s box.

Overseas operations shrinking for Syrian refugee resettlement

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Overseas operations launched last year as part of the Liberal government’s Syrian refugee resettlement program are winding down as the target date nears for the resettlement of 25,000 people.

The processing centre for security, health and identification checks in Turkey has now closed, one in Lebanon closes this week and the one in Jordan is not far behind as officials expect 25,000 Syrians to be in Canada

by Monday.

“The last few months have been something unique and totally different from anything the government has ever done,” Immigration Minister John McCallum said Wednesday.

“And so now it will be more, after the end of the month, still a very quick pace but nothing like the speed of what we’ve done.”

However, the Immigration Department has not yet officially told the Canadian military to take down the preparations they’ve made to potentially house thousands of refugees at bases in Quebec and Ontario while they await permanent housing.

“We continue to stand by, if needed,” said Evan Koronewski, a spokesperson for the Department of National Defence.

Finding both temporary and permanent housing for the 23,000 Syrians who have landed in Canada as of late Tuesday has been the most immediate challenge for the Liberals’ resettle-

ment program.

The potential that some would be housed briefly at military bases was part of the program when it was rolled out last fall, and six were designated at sites for that purpose.

While just a few weeks ago, officials had been near-certain they’d have to use at least two, they stepped up efforts to find enough hotels rather than have to use the bases.

Over the weekend, hundreds of people were moved out of hotels in Toronto and Montreal where they’d been staying for weeks as the federal government managed to find space in their eventual destination cities.

More cities have also been designated as reception centres for government-assisted refugees.

On Wednesday, the government announced Leamington, Ont., Peterborough, Ont., and Brooks, Alta. will all now receive government funding in order to assist Syrians to settle in those three centres, bringing the total number of cities taking in government-assisted refugees to 27.

About 52 per cent of the refugees who’ve arrived to date in total have found permanent housing.

“It’s normal that it doesn’t happen overnight,” McCallum said of the move into permanent homes, adding he is “almost certain” military bases will not end up being used.

One benefit of not needing to use them is that it will save money, McCallum said. The government has budgeted $678 million for the resettlement program.

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Outside court, Jennifer Neville-Lake said the couple had no interest in what Muzzo had to say and questioned the sincerity of his remorse.

In the end, she said, whether or not Muzzo is sorry is “irrelevant,” since nothing can bring back their loved

ones, she said.

The family has even requested a court order barring Muzzo from contacting them from behind bars, though his lawyer said Muzzo would respect their wishes without an official restraint.

Just a day earlier, Neville-Lake had stared down Muzzo as she delivered an emotional statement to the court, saying his actions had shattered her world and robbed her of her identity as a mother.

It’s common for mourning families to dismiss the apologies offered by drunk drivers, said Andrew Murie, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada. And while offenders often vow to change, few fulfil their promises, he said.

Muzzo’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said his client is “grief-stricken” and takes full responsibility for his actions.

The crash was the result of a “terrible decision made by a very good person” who had otherwise led a “virtually exemplary” life, he said.

The Muzzo family, one of Canada’s wealthiest, owns the drywall company Marel Contractors and is worth nearly $1.8 billion, according to Canadian Business magazine.

Dozens of people, including relatives and employees of the family business, wrote letters denouncing what they called an unfair portrayal of Muzzo in the media.

Muzzo is to be sentenced on March 29.

Teen faces 15 charges after multiple stabbings at school

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PICKERING, Ont. — A 14-year-old girl who allegedly moved through the corridors of her high school brandishing knives and wounding both staff and students is now facing 15 criminal charges, police said Wednesday.

Durham Regional Police laid the charges 24 hours after the stabbing at Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ont., which left seven people with non-serious injuries.

Police said five students and two staff members were hurt in the attack, revising the figures of six students and three staff offered by the Durham District School Board on Tuesday night.

The girl, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is facing seven counts of assault with a weapon and six counts of assault causing bodily harm. She is also charged

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She was scheduled to attend a bail hearing on Wednesday morning, the outcome of which was not known.

Dunbarton High was open for classes on Wednesday 24 hours after chaos reigned in the hallways.

The knife attack, which police say began after 8 a.m., sent students and teachers running for cover. Witnesses described seeing a girl running down hallways waving a knife in each hand.

One emotional 14-year-old girl said she came face-to-face with the suspect, who slashed at her with the knives.

“I just ran for my life,” the girl said as she began to cry. “I just can’t believe it happened. She almost got me.”

Another student said the scene hardly seemed real.

“People were running and screaming. There was blood on the ground. I thought it was fake.”

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Why calories don’t count When it comes to the food we eat the food reacts in our bodies to either dense foods are naturally lower in calwith respect to weight loss, gain or lose fat. ories but still leave you feeling satiatweight gain and even genWe are living, breath- ed and satisfied. eral health requirements ing, digesting, metabolizLets take a 1000 calories of marshwe’ve all been brought up ing, complex biological mallows vs. 1000 calories of leafy with the caloric approach beings with hormones and greens for example. to nutrition; calories in vs. thyroids and emotions and Two exact same caloric loads with calories out. insulin levels and inflam- opposite effects on the body. ConsumWorking out enough to matory immune responses ing 500 calories of marshmallows for “burn off the extra 500 calthat all affect how we end example, the intestinal tract quickly orie donut,” or restricting up processing our food, re- absorbs the sugar, spiking the blood ourselves from eating even taining and losing weight. sugar in the body, which then releases when hungry after consumA strictly mechanical ap- an overdose of insulin into the blooding “enough” calories for proach simply won’t do. stream, leading the body to store exthe day. While the science Often consuming “lower cess fat.

KRISTIN behind calories may in fact calories” can lead the body The key then is not the quantity of be accurate, there is much FRASER into starvation mode, which calories, but moreso the QUALITY of more to consider with the causes it to retain fat. This those calories; even more specific, the SOMETHING TO way caloric energy of food is why the focus needs to nutrient density of those calories. Take CHEW ON acts in our bodies. be on the right foods, with the dark leafy greens now for example.

The way we view what quality macronutrient bal- A 1000 calories of dark leafy greens, and how much food goes into our ance and less on the caloric value. even kale would be impossible to even mouths is in need of a shift, especially Luckily, many of the more nutrient consume in a day as a 30 Cup portion. if looking for some positive results in weight loss, physical performance or are seeking to just “eat how much you want” and not have to worry so much about counting calories.

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So leafy greens can truly be eaten in abundance leaving you feeling full before you eat “too much” so to speak, unlike nutrient-void food. This goes for most plant based foods.

The benefits then also include the reduced risk of cancer, aiding in weight management, stabilizing blood sugar levels, clearer skin, and enhanced energy. The body utilizes this “caloric energy” in a positive way.

The more educated one becomes as to what those calories contain in nutrients, the easier it becomes to start shifting the mindset from quantity of calories to the much more important element of the quality of those calories and then ultimately stop counting them!

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Lessons for the minister Over 50 years of attending and/or 2) Recognition of the value of public covering the annual conferences of the ownership of public lands, fish and Alberta Fish and Game Association, I wildlife with all to be managed in the have been both bemused and amused best interest of the public. A remindat the issues and brouhahas that arise er of the AFGA position of NO more just before virtually every sales of public land needs to conference. continue to go forward. The A very few years ago it true value of public lands to was internal: the president society as a whole needs to cancelling the traditional be re-examined. piping — in of the head ta3) An emphasis on managble at the closing banquet. ing the cumulative effects of This year it was external all users of the land. We recand not at all amusing: two ognize that industrial activweeks prior to the conferity on public lands is going ence, Minister of Environto happen, but there need to ment- Parks, Hon. Shanbe more stringent controls. non Phillips, declined her If it is going to happen we long-standing invitation need to identify areas where BOB to attend and speak at the it will NOT happen.

SCAMMELL conference; no reason giv4) Access to public land en. continues to be an issue. …

OUTDOORS Absolute outrage! The Reasonable access should appropriate minister has always be permitted for the been speaking at almost every previ- public to enjoy being on public lands ous 86 of these annual conferences, …. It becomes more and more importexcept for the scant few where an ex- ant that people have the opportunity to cuse was given, such as three years connect with nature to enjoy activities ago, when the then Minister, Hon. Di- that have been traditional to them and ana McQueen, was off babysitting pre- their families. mier Redford on a pipeline - lobbying 5) There are many fish and wildlife junket to Washington. species that get dealt with only when it Suddenly, two days before this becomes a crisis of either too many or year’s conference, Minister Phillips too few. Proper species specific manchanged her mind and told organizers agement plans need to continue to be she would accept the invitation, would developed and monitored and applied attend and speak, after all. Prior to to all user groups equitably. The penspeaking, and despite having held her dulum has swung in favour of the predCabinet portfolio for longer than many ator in most of the westerly areas of of her recent predecessors, Ms. Phil- the Province as we have seen dramatic lips met for the first time with AFGA reductions in many of the ungulate senior executive, and asked about the species as the predator numbers have group’s priorities. continued to rise. The eastern praiAmazingly, for the first time ever, rie regions have very low predation, Alberta’s largest conservation organi- however the burden that they have to zation had recently produced a list of carry is Chronic Wasting Disease and its five top priorities. The following, its implications. We will be re-focusing in condensed form, is what President some attention to bringing an end to Wayne Lowry was able to show the game farming in Alberta as well as the Minister domestication of any wildlife.

1) Re-stablish a dedicated Fish and The Minister then spoke to conferWildlife division that has the focus and ence delegates for ten minutes, advisclarity of roles that is needed for this ing them that fish and wildlife policy, public resource. along with the Wildlife Act and fish

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Wayne Lowry, Stirling, AFGA President, Environment – Parks Minister, Hon. Shannon Phillips, Brian Dingreville, Coalhurst, AFGA 2nd VP, Doug Butler, Lamont, AFGD 1st VP at the AFGA Conference in Edmonton. and wildlife regulations are currently under review, and drawing applause when she assured them that the Castle River Wildland Park management plan will include hunting and fishing.

Ms. Phillips told her audience that her personal ministerial guiding principles are conservation of fish and wildlife for future generations, and that watershed protection is her top priority.

Ms. Phillips spared the time to take and answer two delegate’s questions from the conference floor. A double – header on how the Minister was going to deal with the festering issue of public access to public land and how was she going to deal with the Auditor General’s damning report on public land grazing leases and Cowboy Welfare,

was met with one answer: “the government is reviewing those issues.”

More satisfactory was Ms. Phillips response to Q: “Would the Minister stop any further sales of public land.”

A: “The public interest is paramount and will be protected.”

Nobody seems to have asked Ms. Phillips why she changed her mind, came and was seen and heard at the conference. Could someone have convinced her that being listened to politely by a dedicated SRO crowd of 400, more or less, from all over the province was not a bad thing, or did the word leak that three Wild Rose MLAs would be attending?

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

How to have wildflowers in your own backyard Dream of turning your yard into a the seed will not germinate. wildflower Meadows do not consist of only flowmeadow? A ers expect to find grass seed includplace where ed. Grass seed, depending on variety, grasses and could have the same problems germiflowers internating as any other seed. mingle and Expect to find weed seeds mixed thrive. It is with the wild flower seeds. This can be a tempting due to the definition of a weed, plant proposition that are growing out of place which when looking means that a plant can be cherished by at the containsome and considered a weed by others. ers with wildPlants that are weedy in one area can flower seeds. be prized in another. An example of The package LINDA this is Baby’s-breath. It is hard to get shows a colorperennial Babies-breath established TOMLINSON ful sprinkling in western Alberta but is considered a GARDENING of flowers but weed in drier regions of the province. pictures can be Many weedy flowers are attractive deceiving. and are therefore found within the Some mixes will give an accurate wildflower mixes. list of the variety of seeds within the mixture while others will not. Chances are that the seeds within the package will consist of annual, biannual and perennial plants. In our short season many of the common annual plants will germinate and flower if planted early in the spring. Some of the mixture will manage to set seeds but other seeds will not mature as they will require a longer time frame.

The seeds may or may not germinate the next season. Some annuals will grow from the seeds the next season, others will not.

Biannual and perennials can present more of a problem. Nature, in its wisdom to keep plants from becoming extinct, protects seeds by ensuring they stay dormant until the ideal growing conditions, or germination conditions are met. These UP conditions may include TO one or more of the following: light, or darkness, peOffer expires March 15, 2016 riods of freezing or heat, or both, moisture, fire or levels of moisture. If the conditions are not met,

Lastly, a certain percentage of any seed package can contain weed seeds.

Weeds tend to germinate easily and spread quickly. Some of the weed seeds might be on the prohibited weed list. Keep an eye on the plants as they emerge from the ground.

A better wildflower meadow is developed if plants are purchased and planted randomly though out the designated area. Sowing a few seeds that are known to germinate and grow quickly can help fill in blank areas.

Like every other garden, wildflower meadows take time and effort to become established. The area will need to be watered until the plant roots are established.

Weeding is a necessity until desired plants have grown close enough together to prevent weed seeds from

landing on bare earth and germinating.

If you are just looking for a variety of flowers, choose an annual flower seed mix that are carried by many of the seed houses.

These mixes usually produce a number of attractive flowers that germinate and flower in Alberta’s short season.

Wildflower mixes are not native flower mixes and should never be mistaken for such.

A wildflower is a flower that grows in areas where it wasn’t planted which means that Dandelions are wildflowers.

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Oil Respect campaign makes local stop

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The push is on convince federal and provincial leaders to give Canadian oil and gas industry the pipelines it needs to reach more markets.

Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors is taking its Oil Respect campaign on the road and the first stop is Red Deer at a Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Red Deer Golf & Country Club on Thursday.

“If the Canadian energy industry shuts down today, the world would still demand oil and gas. But the problem is the world would consume it from the likes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Angola. All these countries have no environmental standards, no labour standards, no respect for human life and that is something we all should be concerned about,” said CAODC president Mark Scholz who will speak in Red Deer.

“Canadian responsible crude should be given the opportunity to compete with crude that has no standards. We can be so proud of our industry. But if we want this industry to succeed, then we have to get it to tide water, we have to get it eastern Canadian refineries so we can get Canadians off crude that is coming from those corrupt regimes.”

Scholz said the industry can’t wait and needs to expand the capacity of Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline and build the Northern Gateway Pipeline to Canada’s West Coast, as well as develop the Energy East Pipeline.

“I would say we would need all of them. I think all of them stand alone on the merit they provide.”

Delaying the pipelines is also causing the investment community to begin to question whether Canada is a destination for future capital, he said.

When it comes to oil prices, Scholz said Canadians are getting shortchanged.

“We have one market basically, 97 per cent goes to the United States and the United States right now is producing at incredibly high rates so they don’t really need Canadian crude and that’s why we’re seeing tremendous discounts for our products.”

Only three per cent of Canadian crude is exported to other international markets.

“We want to have a more diversified market so more of our products can go to places like Asia which is a market that is growing and commands much higher pricing than we get today.”

Scholz said not getting full value means fewer jobs and fewer revenue dollars for government to hire nurses and teachers and build schools and hospitals for Canadians.

He said oil field families and family businesses are being turned upside down from “low oil prices, bad public policy and misinformed criticism.”

“Opponents of oil and gas would argue that the industry is a laggard when it comes to environmental performance. That is absolutely false.

Alberta was the first oil producing jurisdiction in North America to put a price on carbon in 2007 and now more than 80 per cent of Canadians live

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Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors Mark Scholz (second from the right) is bringing the Oil Respect campaign to Red Deer at a Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Red Deer Golf & Country Club on Thursday. From left Dan Maidens, Floorhand, DC Drilling Inc.; Kevin Krausert, President, Beaver Drilling Ltd.; Mark Scholz, President, Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors; Duane Carol, President, DC Drilling Inc.. under a carbon pricing system.”

He said the climate leadership plan proposed by the Notley government in 2015 adds additional structure, higher

cost for carbon on Alberta producers and a 100 megaton cap on oil sand emissions. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Agriculture groups want the federal go

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An oilfield pumpjack works pumping crude on a well, belonging to Encana, surrounded by fields of blooming canola and ripening grain near Drumheller, in 2014.

Encana CEO says layoffs worst he’s seen as company plans to cut workforce by 20%

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The head of Encana offered a blunt take on the accumulating layoffs in the oil and gas sector as the Calgary-based energy giant announced plans Wednesday to cut its workforce by 20 per cent this year.

“The job reductions not only at Encana but across the industry have been as severe as I’ve ever seen in 33 years,” CEO Doug Suttles said in a conference call with investors after the company released its fourth quarter results.

Last year, as oil prices took a nosedive, the company laid off 19 per cent of its workers. It began 2015 with 3,129 employees, meaning it ended the year with about 2,500 staff.

Encana did not say how many jobs would be affected by the latest round of layoffs. But based on last year’s figures, it’s expected another 500 people would lose their jobs this year.

“This will bring us to about 55 per cent reduction from just over two years ago,” Suttles said. “In my experience, that’s incredible.”

He said the company is trying to use creative means of keeping staff on, deploying some employees into contractor and service provider roles while offering sabbaticals to others in the hopes of bringing them back once crude prices recover.

“People have empathy,” Suttles said. “These are real people with lives and families.”

The grim news came as the oil and gas producer, which reports in U.S. dollars, said it had a $612 million net loss or 72 cents per share in the fourth quarter — mostly the result of asset

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vernment to allow more producers to hire foreign seasonal employees to work on farms.

“There are some jobs that we can’t get Canadians to do,” Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said Wednesday.

“Having enough employees to get the job done in a timely matter makes more money for agriculture.”

The federal Seasonal Agriculture Worker Program already allows about 20,000 temporary foreign workers to be hired in Canada for up to eight months each year in specific industries such as the tobacco, livestock, fruit and vegetable sectors.

The program is open to workers from Mexico and some Caribbean countries.

Hall’s group and other farm organizations such as the Union des Producteurs Agricoles want Ottawa to expand the program to include other commodities such as grain, oilseeds and maple syrup.

Hall said there is a growing shortage of farm hands as older producers retire and younger people leave rural areas or seek other jobs.

But farmers who remain on the land are hoping to expand production.

“There are just not enough farm boys left,” Hall said.

“It would mean getting the crop in on time, getting it sprayed in time and then getting it harvested on time.”

Foreign workers hired under the program are limited to basic jobs such as running farm machinery, looking after animals, planting and harvesting.

They can come back to Canada year after year until they reach the program’s cumulative limit of 48 months.

Delegates attending the Canadian Federation of Agriculture annual general meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for expansion of the seasonal program.

They also passed resolutions for the federal government to lift the 48-month limit, to make it easier for foreign seasonal workers to change employers and to simplify the application process.

Producers also want to be able to use more foreign seasonal workers in their processing operations.

Hall said the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is to present the resolutions to the Liberal government later this year.

“We are hoping that the minister and the bureaucracy will look on this favourably and enact as much of it as possible,” said Hall, who is also a member of the federation’s board of directors.

Calfrac loses 1,700 jobs COMPANY SUSPENDING QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

—ENCANA CEO DOUG SUTTLES writedowns and other non-operating items.

Those were partly offset by a 36 per cent increase in Encana’s liquids production since the fourth quarter of 2014 and previous cost-cutting measures that helped boost Encana’s cash flow despite lower commodity prices.

Excluding $514 million in asset impairments and other items such as foreign exchange, Encana’s operating earnings were $111 million or 13 cents per share — up from $35 million or five cents per share a year earlier.

The fourth-quarter asset impairments brought the total for 2015 to $4.1 billion. Net loss for the full year was nearly $5.2 billion, or $6.28 per share.

Capital spending will decline by 55 per cent this year to between $900 million and $1 billion, and the company aims to reduce its cost structure by $550 million, Encana said.

Encana said it expects to produce the equivalent of between 340,000 and 360,000 barrels of oil a day this year, down from an average of 406,000 barrels a day in 2015. The company expresses production in barrels of oil equivalent to show both oil and gas output.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calfrac Well Services Ltd. has shed more than 1,700 jobs from its Canadian and U.S. workforce since the end of 2014, underscoring how painful the crude price collapse has been for oilfield services firms.

The Calgary-based company (TSX:CFW) said Wednesday it has reduced its head count by 40 per cent in Canada and 60 per cent in the United States as it faces the worst oilpatch downturn in three decades.

“Retaining key employees has always been a keen focus for the company, but unfortunately with the current downturn shaping up to be the worst in decades, the company has had to make some difficult decisions in order to position itself to survive in this environment,” CEO Fernando Aguilar told analysts on a conference call.

A Calfrac spokesperson said the company had 1,740 workers in its Canadian division and 1,750 in its U.S. division at the end of 2014, meaning the total staff cuts amounted to 1,746

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Meanwhile, Calfrac said it’s suspending its quarterly dividend immediately until further notice.

Last June, the dividend was cut in half to 6.25 cents a share, and then September it was slashed again to 1.6 cents.

Also Wednesday, it posted a net loss for the fourth quarter of $141.5 million, versus a profit of $26.5 million during the same period a year earlier.

Revenue fell 62 per cent to $286.2 million for the last three months of the year. Service companies like Calfrac have been hit hard by the downturn because their customers — oil and gas producers — have been scaling back on drilling new wells and pressing for lower rates.

For the first time since the late 1980s, global exploration spending has decreased for two consecutive years, Calfrac said. It’s expecting activity to be low for most of 2016, with the potential for “modest improvement” toward the end of the year.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Wednesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 112.68 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.80 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.42 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.06 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.180 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.05 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.87 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 164.79 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.26 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.36 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.70 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.19 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.16 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 17.99 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.01 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.84 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.82 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.36 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.24 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.38 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.04 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.01 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.79 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 129.00 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.54 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.54

MARKETS CLOSE Toronto and New York markets ended the day with mixed results, as investors sought direction amid commodity prices that showed little movement.

North American stocks had initially been down for most of the morning, but recouped some of those losses by midday.

At the close, the S&P/TSX index faded 23.17 points at 12,740.27.

The Canadian dollar up 0.43 of a cent to 73.06 cents US. The major indexes in New York ended in positive territory, up from earlier lows.

The Dow Jones industrial average added 53.21 points to 16,484.99.

The Nasdaq composite index gained 39.03 points to 4,542.61, while the broader S&P 500 composite index gained 8.53 points to 1,929.80.

Commodity markets were barely changed as the April crude contract gained 28 cents at US$32.15 per barrel.

The April contract for natural gas was unchanged at US$1.83 per mmBtu, while March copper also showed

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.97 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.57 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.31 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.40 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.60 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.47 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.61 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.55 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.34 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.99 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.66 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.710 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.67 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.07 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.70 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.91 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.98 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 18.32 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.33 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.17 Canyon Services Group. . 4.00 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 14.52 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1150 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 5.09 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.580

little change at US$2.10 a pound.

Gold was the only outlier, with April bullion jumping for the second straight day, up $16.50 to US$1,239.10 an ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,740.27, down 23.17 points Dow — 16,484.99, up 53.21 points S&P 500 — 1,929.80, up 8.53 points Nasdaq — 4,542.61, up 39.03 points Currencies: Cdn — 73.06 cents US, up 0.43 of a cent Pound — C$1.9069, down 2.30 cents Euro — C$1.5065, down 1.05 cents Euro — US$1.1007, down 0.11 of a cent Oil futures: US$32.15 per barrel, up 28 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,239.10 per oz., up $16.50 (April contract)

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.52 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.46 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.05 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.56 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.93 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.030 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.320 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.30 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.02 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.420 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.55 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 35.74 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.19 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.57 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.45 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 20.27 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.53 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.99 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 85.36 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.18 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 36.35 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.240 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 67.81 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.63 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.23

Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.199 oz., up 24.7 cents $713.70 kg., up $7.94 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $2.20 higher $460.70 May ‘16 $3.00 higher $464.70 July ‘16 $3.60 higher $470.10 Nov. ‘16 $5.90 higher $476.70 Jan. ‘17 $5.50 higher $481.30 March ‘17 $5.40 higher $482.80 May ‘17 $5.40 higher $481.50 July ‘17 $5.40 higher $481.00 Nov. ‘17 $5.40 higher $474.60 Jan. ‘18 $5.40 higher $474.60 March ‘18 $5.40 higher $474.60.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $186.00 May ‘16 unchanged $190.00 July ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 March ‘17 unchanged $192.00 May ‘17 unchanged $192.00 July ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 March ‘18 unchanged $192.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 609,340 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 609,340.

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OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is using a speech today to emphasize its concerns over rising household debt and its potential impact on the country’s financial system.

In prepared remarks of his address, deputy governor Lawrence Schembri says growing household indebtedness largely caused by low interest rates remains a key weak spot for Canada’s financial stability.

He says higher levels of consumer and mortgage debt have left the economy and Canadians more vulnerable to negative shocks — such as a severe recession that could drive up unemployment.

Schembri’s remarks come as the economy struggles to recover from the steep slide in oil prices.

He also spoke as the federal government appears poised to run budgetary deficits in order to invest billions of dollars in areas such as infrastructure as a way to boost Canada’s weak growth.

Schembri also reaffirmed the central bank’s view that measures such as fiscal stimulus from Ottawa are better suited at this point to help improve

Q1 RESULTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Royal Bank (TSX:RY) is setting more money aside for bad loans as the extended period of low oil prices has made it tougher for both energy companies and consumers in oil-dependent provinces to pay their debts.

“There’s no question that the persistently low oil prices are tough for clients in the affected regions and are driving an increase in credit provisions in our portfolio,” RBC’s chief executive David McKay said during a conference call to discuss the bank’s first-quarter results on Wednesday.

“It’s important to note that the increase is off historic lows we’ve experienced in recent years and further I want to highlight that we’ve managed through many cycles.”

The bank reported net income of $2.45 billion for the quarter — flat compared to the same quarter last year and six per cent lower than the previous quarter, when it had $2.59 billion of profit. Higher earnings from its wealth management and its main banking division were offset by weaker results from insurance and capital markets. RBC also upped its provisions for credit losses to $410 million — an increase of $140 million, or 52 per cent — due to higher provisions in the oil-and-gas sector and in its personal lending and credit card portfolios.

“This time last year, the price of oil was around $50 a barrel, a level that we noted challenged the profitability of the sector,” RBC’s chief risk officer Mark Hughes told analysts during the conference call.

“The extended duration of low oil prices, which averaged $37 a barrel in (the first quarter), has put additional pressure on some of our clients.”

Provisions for credit losses in the bank’s capital markets segment rose

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by $84 million to $121 million during the quarter due to losses related to four oil-and-gas accounts and one utility account.

Hughes said the bank has run updated stress tests to see how its loans to the oilpatch would perform under a variety of scenarios, including $30 a barrel oil for the remainder of the year. As a result of these tests, RBC has added nine companies to its energy watchlist for monitoring. It isn’t naming those companies.

Meanwhile, in its personal and commercial banking segment, provisions rose $44 million to $284 million as unemployment in oil-exposed provinces rose.

“Against this backdrop, we continue to actively monitor shifts in our clients’ financial patterns to ensure we maintain visibility into early signs of stress,” said Hughes. “We did see delinquencies move up this quarter from historical lows in our residential mortgage portfolio in Alberta.”

The bank has also run stress tests to see how the entirety of its loan portfolio would perform if a perfect storm of factors were to ensue, including oil remaining at $25 a barrel for the remainder of the year, Canada slipping into a recession and house prices plummeting nationwide by as much as 25 per cent.

“In what we believe to be an unlikely scenario at this point, provisions based on this macro stress test would increase to 40 to 50 basis points, which is within our historic average,” said Hughes.

Despite the challenging economic environment, McKay said he believes that pressure stemming from low oil prices will remain contained within energy-dependent provinces, while the benefits of the low loonie on Canada’s manufacturing and export activity will help support “modest” GDP growth this year.

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Lowe’s meets 4Q profit forecasts MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Lowe’s Cos. (LOW) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $11 million.

On a per-share basis, the Mooresville, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of 1 cent. Earnings, adjusted for asset impairment costs, were 59 cents per share.

The results met Wall Street expectations.

The average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 59 cents per share.

The home improvement retailer posted revenue of $13.24 billion in the period, topping Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $13.05 billion.

Lowe’s expects full-year earnings to be $4 per share.

Lowe’s shares have dropped 11 per cent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index has declined 6 per cent.

The stock has dropped almost 8 per cent in the last 12 months.

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$1000 REWARD HAAKONSON FITT (nee Wallace) Arnold Thomas Sheila Jean 1942 - 2016 Born: Nov. 10, 1949 It is with great sadness that Passed Away Feb. 24, 2016 we announce the passing of On Wednesday, February Arnold Haakonson, beloved 24, 2016 Sheila Fitt of husband, father, grandfather Edmonton passed away at and great grandfather. He age 66.

She was passed away February 21, predeceased by her parents, 2016 at the Red Deer John(Jack) and Anne Regional Hospital, at the age Wallace, youngest brother of 73 years, surrounded by Jim Wallace. Sheila is his family. Arnold was born in survived by her loving family; Lacombe, Alberta, the son Troy (Pam), her youngest son of Barney and grandson Jack, son Todd, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Haakonson granddaughter Kayla and on June 18, 1942. He took grandson Logann; her sisters his schooling in the Lincoln Sharon Goddard and Sandra and Iowalta districts and then Green, Sylvia Lague and her in Lacombe. After graduating brother Jack (Tina) Wallace he went to work at Lacombe as well as numerous nieces Feed Services working for and nephews. Sheila was a Allan Hodge. In 1966, along kind hearted, grateful lady. A with two partners, he started Celebration of Sheila’s life Lacombe Fertilizer and Farm will be held on Monday, Supply where he worked until February 29, 2016 at Trinity he retired in 2009. In 1964 he Funeral Home 10530 116 St. met the love of his life, Edmonton at 2:00 p.m.

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Arnold lived his entire life on the farm with the exception of In Memoriam three years that he and his family lived in Lacombe. In 1971 they moved back to the farm and in 1980 they bought their own farm where he lived until his passing. Arnold loved working with his cows, the smell of fresh cut hay and newly turned soil; whether it was in the field or the garden he loved to watch things grow. His children and grandchildren were his pride and joy. He loved passing on his wisdom and teaching them new or different ways to do things. Arnold is survived by his loving wife, Shirley, of 50 years, his children: Angie (Allan) Vanderzwan and their HARRY BOOMER children Garret (fiancé Victoria), Apr. 13, 1928 - Feb. 19, 2014 Mitchel and his son Treyce, and Cole, all of Sundre, AB; Months have grown Edmund Haakonson of Day by day Edmonton, AB; Treena Cox It’s now two years and children Matthew, Emily Since you went away. and Stephanee of Lacombe, Death leaves a heartache AB; Leslie (Sam)(Shannon) No one can heal.

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Lacombe, AB. He is also survived by his siblings, Sadly missed and Gladys Jeglum of Clive; lovingly Remembered Elmer (Linda) Haakonson of Dorothy (Dot), Len & Val & Lacombe and Adeline (Richard) family, & Donna & family Bellerive of Lacombe; his mother in law Freda Gillespie In Loving Memory of of Innisfail, AB; numerous JOE BODWELL nieces and nephews, extended We only have a picture family and many friends.

A frozen piece of time Arnold was predeceased by his father Barney in 1994; his Memories of those happy days Passing years cannot unwind mother Lizzie in 2006; his How much we miss you father in law Les Moore in being here 1977; his step father in law We really cannot say Delbert Gillespie in 2000; six The ache is deep brothers in law and one sister inside our hearts in law. Funeral Services will And will never go away be held Tuesday March 1, Forever Loved 2016 at 2:00 p.m. the Darlene and family Lacombe Memorial Centre, 5214-50 Ave, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers, donations LEONARD GORDON LYLE may be made to the charity Jan. 31, 1923 - Feb. 25, 1991 of the donor’s choice. 25 years ago today you left us Condolences may be Once a day, and sometimes more made by visiting You knock upon our www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca daydream door, WILSON’S FUNERAL And we say warmly, CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM “Come right in!” serving Central Alberta with We’re glad you’re here locations in Lacombe and with us again!”

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Rogers could help spur further interest in Canadian fans by highlighting homegrown talent playing for U.S. teams, said Ryder. Canada’s golden boy Sidney Crosby, for example, may duke it out in the playoffs with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

But regardless of how the company positions the post-season, it’s unlikely to replicate the ratings when Canadian teams compete for the cup, Ryder said.

Others point out that the rights acquisition was hardly a bad investment for Rogers. The company is only a few seasons into a 12-year deal that’s likely to have good performance over the long-term.

Zwick compares Rogers’s investment to a portfolio that’s likely to have some bumps over the years, but should lead to a strong profit overall.

Rogers can also hope that the poor performance of Canadian teams this season will position them favourably to make early picks at June’s NHL draft.

The teams could beef up their rosters and become more fierce competitors next season, said Ryder.

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But after the second round, no Canadian teams remained in the quest for the Stanley Cup and ratings slipped, said Ryder.

So a looming Canadian playoff drought could spell trouble for Rogers, he said. The company depends on high viewership to be able to sell playoff advertising spots for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.

That revenue then helps pay for the yearly cost of its NHL broadcast rights.

Rogers declined to comment on the prospect of a Canada-free playoff season.

But Ryder predicts playoff viewership could fall by 25 to 35 per cent this year.

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He projects a viewership drop between 30 and 40 per cent — if not more — compared to last year. “Simply, the product they sold to or they’re going to sell to advertisers is just not worth as much.”

If significantly fewer fans tune in, he said, it’s likely Rogers will offer discounted ad space, while companies that have already purchased slots may try to re-negotiate the terms of their contracts.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HLUHLUWE-IMFOLOZI GAME RESERVE, South Africa — In hills where Zulu royalty once hunted wildlife, South African conservationists now scan live video from a thermal-imaging camera attached to a drone, looking for heat signatures of poachers stalking through the bush to kill rhinos.

The unarmed drone, which resembles a model airplane, flies several miles (kilometres) from a van where an operator toggles a customized video-gaming control, zooming and swiveling the craft’s camera.

The nocturnal surveillance in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve comes amid international discussion about whether technology, particularly drones, will make a real difference in anti-poaching efforts that often rely on the “boots on the ground” of rangers on patrol.

Several years ago, drones were touted by some as a silver bullet for conservation, but some experiments have foundered. Even so, drone technology is developing quickly and the aircraft have been used around the world, including: • In Belize, where the Wildlife Conservation Society helped deploy drones to successfully monitor a protected reef area for illegal fishing, according to David Wilkie, director of conservation measures for the group.

• In Indonesia, where drones have surveyed threatened orangutan habitats.

• In Africa, where the World Wildlife Fund is exploring the use of drones and other anti-poaching technologies, using funding from Google.

“It’s a very dynamic battle space where the poachers are continually responding to advances in technologies,” said Arthur Holland Michel, co-director at the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Poachers could, for example, seek vegetation cover to try to avoid being spotted by drones or use informants to monitor drone teams and learn when the skies are clear.

“They have great potential,” Wilkie said of drones. “I think they’re not there yet.”

Wilkie said that while

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A drone is launched in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve in the KwaZulu Natal province. Once in flight conservationists can scan live video from a camera attached to the drone looking for poachers in the bush or next to the reserve to help curb the slaughter of rhinos. groups with limited budgets often opt for types of drones used by hobbyists. A military-grade, aluminum drone with a powerful engine and sophisticated radar that can look through canopy and detect metal — a poacher’s car or motorcycle, for example — could be more effective, he said.

Searching for poachers with drones in Africa’s vast wildlife reserves can seem like a needle-in-a-haystack operation.

Costs mount, crashes are frequent, equipment breaks down, rain or high wind can scrap a mission and even before operations start, legal and bureaucratic obstacles must often be overcome in countries that tightly regulate airspace.

In a drone mission in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi, operators looked for heat-emitting objects that appear white and vertical on the screen, similar in shape to a rice grain. Three vertical rice grains are a giveaway because poachers often work in threes — a tracker, a shooter with a heavy-calibre rifle and a carrier with supplies and an axe to hack off rhino horn for eventual sale on an illegal Asian market.

The operators didn’t spot any suspected poachers or need to notify rangers by phone or radio, though they saw horizontal heat signatures from wildlife, including a rhino and

a calf. Flights can last more than two hours, focusing on perimeter fences and other areas where poachers might be.

“All we’ve learned to do is to fly and to live in the bush. It can only get better from here,” said Otto Werdmuller Von Elgg, director of UDS, a fledgling South African firm that operates the drone team in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi. It has another at Kruger National Park, the country’s biggest wildlife reserve, which is almost the size of Israel.

Poaching levels dropped in some areas where UDS flew and picked up after it left, possibly indicating poachers were scared by the drones, according to Von Elgg. He said he worries about possibly corrupt park staff who might tip poachers to drone team whereabouts and flight times.

Each UDS drone has a composite foam fuselage and a 7.9-foot wingspan, relying largely on durable, off-the-shelf technology and costing about $12,000, half of which is for the camera. UDS gets support from the Lindbergh Foundation, which is based in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and “dedicated to the elimination of illegal poaching of elephants and rhinos in southern Africa using cutting edge software-based predictive analysis and drones.”

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A new low in television YOU ALREADY KNOW ‘FULLER HOUSE’ IS BAD. BUT ARE YOU ADULT ENOUGH TO RESIST IT?

BY HANK STUEVER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES There’s a point where nostalgia becomes more like necrophilia, and Fuller House immediately crosses that line.

Exhumed on the pretense of millennial desire (you loved the show as kids; you’ll love it even more as stunted, binge-watching adults), Netflix’s 13-episode revival of the old ABC sitcom Full House is less an update than an irony-free pantomime of the past.

It represents a new low in the current culture’s inability to leave behind the blankies, binkies and wubbies of one’s youth. It squeezes itself in with all the other retrograde fare (The X-Files; the forthcoming reiterations of Gilmore Girls and Twin Peaks) that is constantly being served in response to millions of fists pounding a table.

Even that new Star Wars movie we all loved so much exists, to some degree, because of mass petulance.

But now that the stone has been rolled from the Tanner family tomb, all we really see is another one of TV’s underwhelming acts of resurrection.

Lured by the empty promise of more Full House (which ran for 192 episodes from 1987 to 1995), we are instead subjected to the only logical spinoff, Fuller House, in which the show’s original child actors (Candace Cameron Bure; Jodie Sweetin; Andrea Barber) now play grown-up, single, working women tasked with raising a set of new child actors whose precocity and artificial sweetness reflect three decades of synthetic refinement.

The first episode does indeed reunite (almost) all of the extended clan, with its attendant Katsopolises, Gibblers, basement dwellers and lovestruck fridge-raiders. Also back are the catchphrases, overcheered by a studio audience of devoted dimwits.

The only person missing, of course, is baby sister Michelle Tanner, played from infancy through first grade by the saucer-eyed twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It’s a devastating absence that throws volumes of deserved shade at the whole endeavor — and the show meets it early on with an ineffectual response from the gathered ensemble, who glare at the camera’s fourth wall at the lone mention of Michelle’s name and her “fashion empire.” (Netflix only let critics see Fuller House’s first six episodes; if an Olsen twin eventually appears in the back half of Fuller House, my heart will sink like a stone, for there will be no integrity left anywhere on the planet.)

The gang is brought back together by momentous news: Patriarch Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) is moving from San Francisco to Los Angeles to cohost a syndicated morning show with his longtime colleague Becky Katsop-

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BRIEF Canadian filmmaker Colin Low has died at age 89 MONTREAL — Colin Low, a prolific and pioneering force in Canadian cinema who earned two Oscar nominations and inspired the likes of Stanley Kubrick, has died.

The National Film Board of Canada says the Alberta native died Wednesday in Montreal. He was 89.

The director and producer worked on over 200 titles during his six decades at the NFB, where he was a groundbreaking filmmaker and head of the animation unit.

He directed the NFB’s first film to

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‘Fuller House’ is full of group hugs. olis (Lori Loughlin), which means her husband (and Danny’s brother-in-law), Uncle Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos), is going, too. (Jesse and Becky’s twin sons, born late in Full House’s run, are now college bums who aspire to operate a taco truck near the beach.) Danny’s lifelong pal Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) is now performing 10 comedy shows a week in Las Vegas; he drops by to spend a final night in his former basement dwelling and salvage some of his favorite late-’80s belongings.

Eldest daughter D.J. (Cameron Bure) is, like so many sitcom characters before her, grieving the death of her husband (grieving is too strong a word

career in London and move home to help care for the kids. They are joined

by D.J.’s lifelong friend and perpetual irritant, Kimmy Gibbler (Barber), who is recently divorced and moves in with her tweenage daughter Ramona (Soni Nicole Bringas).

Once Saget, Stamos and the other older alums head off to cash their checks, Fuller House gets down to the real business of utter vacuity, in which the women and their adorable children (that baby! Seriously!

Nom-nom-nom-nyaaaarrrghmppf) experience moments of carefully plotted hubris, light humiliation, personal reckoning and group hugs.

‘‘FULLER HOUSE’ CONFIRMS ONCE AGAIN WHAT WE’VE KNOWN FOR SOME TIME, THAT WE ARE TRAPPED IN AN ENDLESS LOOP OF POP-CULTURE SELF-REGARD. IT’S A CYCLE WE HAVE TO BREAK, AND NOW IS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO BREAK IT. I AM THEREFORE FORBIDDING YOU — YES, I FORBID YOU — TO WATCH ‘FULLER HOUSE.’’ — HANK STUEVER here; she is a little bit sad) and focusing on her career as a veterinarian and raising her three sons: Jackson (Michael Campion), Max (Elias Harger) and baby Tommy (played by twins Dashiell and Fox Messitt, who are so cute you could eat one up and still have another to eat up later).

Danny magnanimously hands the keys to his vintage Laurel Heights home over to D.J., and nothing has changed in two decades — not a stick of furniture, nor the terrible jokes.

D.J.’s kid sister Stephanie (Sweetin) decides to give up her fledgling music

This show has uncorked in me some deeper fear and loathing about the fate of our culture, just as it did in the late ’80s, when my crowd used to watch and make fun of Full House as stoned and drunk college students.

And that’s why “Fuller House” is such a letdown — there’s no twisted undertow. Saget, who reinvigorated his stand-up career a decade ago with the filthiest material he could come up with (which in turn delighted the Full House generation), is needlessly restrained here in his brief, compulsory appearances. Fuller House clings to

be nominated for an Oscar for best animated short, 1952’s The Romance of Transportation of Canada, which won a short film Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a special BAFTA Award.

The film’s “industrial animation” style was unconventional for the NFB at the time, when Norman McLaren’s auteur model was favoured.

Low earned another Oscar nomination, for his 1957 documentary City of Gold.

Low’s other pioneering projects included his 1954 documentary Corral, which won an award at the Venice Film Festival. The NFB says the piece, which didn’t have any words, “helped to change the way cowboys were depicted on screen” and broke NFB tradition of heavily narrated documentaries.

The NFB says Low also had an influence on Kubrick with 1960’s Universe, which he co-directed with Ro-

man Kroitor.

Kubrick ended up using Universe narrator Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also hired Wally Gentleman, who had done optical effects for Low.

Canadian producer faces Kanye West’s fury TORONTO — Kanye West is firing back at veteran Canadian music producer Bob Ezrin after he published a scathing takedown of the rapper’s career.

Earlier this week, the longtime Toronto-born producer — who has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Taylor Swift, Lou Reed and Nine Inch Nails — posted a blog entry questioning if West’s music would stand the test of time.

its stale insouciance, brought to us by the same producers (Bob Boyett and Jeff Franklin), who apparently believe their show is some golden treasure of family-friendly programming. It’s not.

Fuller House also demonstrates that multi-cam/studio-audience sitcoms are too old-fashioned for commercial-free, vanguard Netflix. Too dopey, too boring, not worth the price. This show begs for a single-camera, Tina Feystyle treatment (like in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). It should come to us bluntly, and filled with tawdry, grownup situations and children who need their mouths washed out with soap.

Set in San Francisco, it could satirize so much about the 21st century as seen from the perspective of ’80s ladies of a certain age. And if the Olsen twins both pass up the opportunity, then you must — must — recast the part with a new actress who plays Michelle as a malevolent skank.

Go big or go home, in other words, but mostly, stop going back. Fuller House confirms once again what we’ve known for some time, that we are trapped in an endless loop of pop-culture self-regard. It’s a cycle we have to break, and now is as good a time as any to break it. I am therefore forbidding you — yes, I forbid you — to watch Fuller House.

I forbid you all, with this exception: are you watching it from a place of sadness? Are you looking at Fuller House across a chasm of broken hopes? Are you so worried about the future that you’re not even sure you want to live in it? Is the world irreparably screwed?

Is your brain that fried? Are you that afraid of growing old? Are you that hard up for a hug?

All right, you can watch.

But keep it down.

The post was made on the Lefsetz Letter, the widely read blog of industry insider and author Bob Lefsetz, which put it directly on the radar of both West and Ezrin’s friends.

“Unlike other creators in his genre like Jay-Z, Tupac, Biggie or even M.C. Hammer for that matter, it’s unlikely that we’ll be quoting too many of Kanye’s songs 20 years from now,” wrote Ezrin, in response to a recent New York Times article on the release of the rapper’s latest album, The Life of Pablo.

“In my opinion, his productions are his best work — and I admit I’m jealous of several of them — but I don’t think he’s on quite the same level as Timbaland and Rick Rubin among several others.”

He went on to question whether popular music is devolving into a space where public personalities are simply trying to be interesting, likable or shocking.

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Mother-in-law trying to discredit woman Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 32 years to “Conrad,” and we have two terrific adult sons. My mother-in-law will be 87 soon, and Conrad is her only child. I have never had a good relationship with her in spite of all my efforts.

She chose not to attend our wedding reception because it was hosted by her late ex-husKATHY MITCHELL band’s second AND MARCY SUGAR wife. Instead, she told us ANNIE’S MAILBOX that she stayed home, drank champagne and “cried all night.”

She has a long history of making snide remarks when nobody is there to witness them.

My husband and I are in Maui for a month.

Prior to our departure, I provided a list (in a large font) of all contact information for family members, physicians, dentists, etc., and clipped it to a magnet on her refrigerator.

While we’ve been gone, her condo has developed a basement leak. My husband and I have been on the phone with her daily regarding insurance, repair work, etc.

During one call, she commented that she had no one to phone while we were away. My husband reminded her that she can call our sons, who live nearby, and she replied, “No, your wife told me not to bother them.” This was a complete lie.

He told her that I would never say that, but she insisted that I had. My first reaction was to call her out on it, but I want my husband with me as a witness when I talk to her.

I want to be sure I am courteous when we see her. But how do I get her to stop lying? — Annoyed DIL

Fruit and veggie box companies focus on local produce to keep prices down

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Fresh fruit and vegetable prices may be climbing at a rapid rate, but the costs of food delivery box subscriptions are holding steady as economic and weather forces align to make local food a better deal.

“You haven’t seen the increased prices on local foods, locally produced foods in the way you have for imports,” said Ran Goel, who founded the Greater Toronto Area’s Fresh City Farms in 2011.

Fresh City Farms is one of many food box subscription companies to offer regular deliveries of pre-selected or customized produce.

In January, food costs for Canadian households were four per cent higher than they were at the same time a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada’s latest consumer price index.

Fruits and vegetables fuelled the hike, rising by 12.9 and 18.2 per cent respectively.

This year, overall food costs will outpace general inflation again, according to the Food Institute of the University of Guelph. Fruit and nut prices will jump between 2.5 and 4.5 per cent, according to the institute’s annual food price report projections, while consumers will pay roughly two to four per cent more for vegetables.

The low Canadian dollar and a drought in California and Mexico — where much of the produce Canadians enjoy over the winter is grown — are largely to blame for the situation, including the near-double-digit price tag for a head of cauliflower earlier this year.

Locally grown produce, therefore, acts like a “buffer” from the steep price increases on imported foods, said Goel.

Many food box providers pride themselves on including mostly local offerings that include root vegetables and apples.

So their subscribers may feel the pinch less than those shopping for imported produce at grocery stores.

Fresh City Farms packs its produce bags with an average 70 per cent locally grown food throughout the year.

For example, the company’s boxes include potatoes — Ontario’s largest fresh vegetable crop, according to the Ontario Potato Board.

The humble spud actually cost 5.4 per cent less last month than in January 2015, according to Statistics Canada.

During the winter, when the growing season in southern Ontario grinds to a halt, Fresh City Farms’ produce bags have about half local, half imported goods.

‘YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE INCREASED PRICES ON LOCAL FOODS, LOCALLY PRODUCED FOODS IN THE WAY YOU HAVE FOR IMPORTS.’ — RAN GOEL, FOUNDER OF GREATER TORONTO AREA’S FRESH CITY FARMS Then, Goel said, he attempts to select American produce sold at a good value. That means there was no cauliflower during the so-called cauliflower crisis.

Goel has consequently been able to keep his food basket prices steady.

The only extra cost passed on to consumers, he said, is that sometimes they receive slightly less produce than usual in their baskets — a tactic also used by other companies.

In its food boxes, B.C.- and Alberta-based SPUD mostly removed imported fruits like mangoes, bananas and oranges, said Corbin Bourree, SPUD Edmonton’s managing director.

“That’s where we’re seeing the biggest price jumps,” he said.

Instead, the company has substituted those tropical fruits with more local offerings, including Canadian cucumbers and apples, so that prices don’t spike.

Such defensive purchasing strategies also helped the Food Share’s food box prices remain the same, said Alvin Rebick, a manager at the non-profit organization who’s also a loyal customer.

He signed up for the service to lower his grocery bills. Rebick estimates he saves about $15-20 a week on produce to feed his family.

Other consumers are apparently beginning to see food boxes as a financially savvy option amid rising food costs.

Fresh City Farms doubled the number of customers it serves over the past year, said Goel, which is atypical growth for the company that has been steadily increasing its subscriber base by roughly 40 to 50 per cent a year since 2012.

SPUD Edmonton, meanwhile, reports a 50 per cent increase, said Bourree, in a province grappling with a significant economic downturn.

But the doom-and-gloom rhetoric of rising food prices may also be spurring some customers to suspend or cancel their delivery services, said Rebick.

“When people are hearing that the food prices are too high and walking into the grocery store and seeing those prices,” Rebick said, “I think they sort of shy off, and say … ‘It’s not going to be good enough or it’s going to be too expensive.”’

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Dear Annoyed: If Mom is still looking to discredit you after 32 years, it isn’t likely to change.

We would also add that, as she gets older, some of this behavior may get worse.

You and your husband need to politely, firmly and repeatedly correct Mom whenever she does this, so she knows she isn’t fooling anyone.

Write it down, if necessary, so that when you are vacationing, there is a record. Also inform other family members of any instructions you have given Mom. You will be less aggravated knowing that others are aware of what’s going on.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “The Ones Left Behind,” who said that she and her husband raised her three kids with no help from their birth father. Now that the kids are grown, the bio-dad is back in the picture and the kids are hungry for his attention.

She feels they are leaving her in the dust.

I was like her children. At one point, I felt I needed to establish a relationship with my father so that I could be at peace. I did it for my own well-being and hoped my mother would understand, but she was upset and hurt. She took that anger to her grave. It saddens me to think about it.

Please tell “Left Behind” that a relationship with their father is probably very healing for her children. It has nothing to do with her. If she can joyfully support them in this effort, it would be the greatest gift she could give. — Been There Dear Been: Thank you for presenting the other side. We hope “Left Behind” sees this and understands.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Myths About Dental Implants Dear Dr. D: I am considering dental implants. My existing denture wobbles, is embarrassing, and frankly I'm ready to take the plunge.

My big concern is pain. I've always been frightened of any dental treatment, which is one reason I let my natural teeth go. I don't want to commit to something I can't handle.

A: There are many myths about dental implants. The first one concerns pain. Patients are surprised that dental implants are often no more uncomfortable or painful than any normal dental procedure such as extractions. We have significant advances in both training as well as medications. Most of our patients don't even use the painkillers we do prescribe for them for the 'just in case' situation. At a course, we overheard a woman who had received 3 implants in one session speaking to her family outside the building. Her husband actually said 'What do you mean – it doesn't hurt?' He had witnessed the surgery on close circuit TV. Her dentist had used oral sedation only – consisting of a pill the night before and one before the surgery.

Every case is different, but this is not a unique situation. Pain is not something our patients tell us they experience, any more than any normal dental procedure.

One preconception we hear often is that dental implants are expensive. One has to look at overall costs for any procedure. The longevity of that procedure should be taken into consideration.

Insurance plans frequently cover work that requires periodic replacement, such as bridges or dentures. When you consider the cost of relining the dentures, or the cost of replacing bridges – the overall investment of dental implants makes a lot more sense. You can have what is regarded as the highest standard of replacement teeth and pay no more for it in the long run.

Dental implants are not the perfect option for every situation. It is possible for an implant to fail. Simply putting a titanium root in your jawbone, and adding a porcelain tooth to it doesn't eliminate the need for regular hygiene. You must continue to take care of it, or you risk failure. Sometimes, and we see this most frequently with 'resort dentistry' – the implant is placed in insufficient bone. It's not unlike a fence post that is buried into the ground in too shallow a posthole.

Proper anchoring is necessary, for both the fence as well as for dental implants. Our primary task is to analyze a prospective patient's mouth to determine carefully whether or not implants are right for them. It may be that adding some bone from a variety of sources will make a placement more ideal, and our examination and subsequent CT Scans will provide us all the information you and we need.

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