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Gladue jailed six years VICTIM, 27, LOST IN WOODS FOR 12 DAYS WITH BROKEN JAW

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF An O’Chiese woman may have emerged from the wilderness on July 26, 2013, but Justice Kirk Sisson said she’s not out of the woods yet.

The woman, who can’t be named by a court ordered publication ban, spent 12 days in the woods on the north end of the O’Chiese First Nation. She fled

into the woods trying to escape Kevin Roy Gladue, 38.

Gladue was convicted of aggravated sexual assault on the 27-year-old woman on Feb. 5 by a jury. He awoke the sleeping woman by pulling down her pants. She tried to get away, but Gladue followed.

She told him to stop, but Gladue hit her in the face with a stick, breaking her jaw in two places.

On Thursday, in Red Deer Court

of Queen’s Bench, Sisson sentenced Gladue to six years in prison.

Sisson ruled it was a major sexual assault because of the actions that followed the pulling of pants, which exposed the woman’s buttocks.

Gladue and the woman had been part of a group off-roading in the area on July 14, 2013. The truck they were in became stuck in the mud. Four of the people went for help, leaving Gladue and the woman alone. The woman fell

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asleep in the truck and was awoken to Gladue removing her pants. Sisson said up until this point it was a minor sexual assault.

When Gladue followed the woman, refused to stop and then hit her in the face with a stick it became a major sexual assault. Gladue then endangered her life as she fled into the woods.

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A RED DEER COLLEGE MOTION PICTURE ARTS GRADUATE COVERS MOUNTAINOUS TERRITORY IN HIS 10-MINUTE SHORT

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Red Deer College motion picture arts graduate Justin Brunelle shot his 10-minute short ‘One, One Thousand’ in the Canadian Rockies, mostly on Fortress Mountain.

The storyline follows a 19th-century photographer and assistant who scale a mountain to take one of the first summit photographs in the region in the winter of 1894. It is an all-Canadian crew featuring lead actors Mark Kandborg and Byron Mayberry. The cinematographer is David Baron.

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RDC grad explores uncharted territory SHORT FILM BUILDS ON IDEA DIRECTOR HAD WHILE DRIVING THROUGH MOUNTAINS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Filming at the peak of a mountain doesn’t happen every single day.

Director Justin Brunelle, a Red Deer College motion picture arts graduate, covers mountainous territory in his 10-minute short, One, One Thousand.

“It was an idea that I always had when I am driving through the mountains,” said Brunelle. “I always think, who is the first person to be here or explore these territories.”

The storyline follows a 19th century photographer and assistant who scale a mountain to take one of the first summit photographs in the region in the winter of 1894. It is an all-Canadian crew featuring lead actors Mark Kandborg and Byron Mayberry. The cinematographer is David Baron.

“In our day and age, we are so driven by what’s the biggest achievement right now,” said Brunelle. “The first man on the moon was a huge achievement for us. At that time in the 1890s, which wasn’t really long ago, getting to the peak of the mountain and getting a photograph for the rest of the world to see would have been a pretty huge thing.”

The filming was done over nine days in Edmonton, Calgary and Longview. Forty people worked on the film and a small crew of nine worked on the mountains.

The main mountain scenes were shot on Fortress Mountain in Kananaskis. The same mountain was used in the movie The Revenant. When Brunelle was shooting his film, there was a Hollywood crew shooting for the upcoming movie.

“Nine days is a lot for a 10-minute film but considering we were all over Alberta and filming in some really remote locations,” said Brunelle.

There was a lot of things that goes into technically filming on a mountain, he said.

“Filming at 8,200 feet in the air is a little bit different than filming downtown Edmonton or downtown Calgary,” said Brunelle. “Using Fortress we were very lucky, it is well known for movies.”

A safety, transport and avalanche control guided the nine-person crew to the peak the mountain.

“They drove us up to what they called base camps up there,” said Brunelle. “We took sleds for about half an hour to go as high as we could using the machines. But we had to go on foot with all our camera gear and props to where we wanted to film.”

Brunelle said they had to hike up about 100 metres higher but no vehicles could go up there. It took about two hours to get about 10o metres up with all the camera gear.

“There was a really big scene where they are climbing up an extremely steep slope and they are exhausted,” said Brunelle. “They collapse on the mountains. We scheduled three hours to film that scene. It was at a 45 degree incline. We thought it would take 30 minutes. It took three hours. We were so far behind. We had to reschedule other scenes.”

Brunelle said it was a pretty ambitious project to do in two months with the planning and the filming but he is happy with the final cut.

“It was a challenge,” he said. “It was

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Director Justin Brunelle reviews a take from the camera. cold. It was windy. When you’re up to your waist in snow, it’s hard to put the camera down … I think Alberta will be proud for what this is.”

The Moving Artistry Productions film is funded through Storyhive, a Telus production grant program for filmmakers in British Columbia and Alberta.

The film will be available for viewing on Telus Optik TV and Telus YouTube channel and all national Air Canada flights starting on Feb. 28. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Actors Mark Kandborg and Byron Mayberry film a scene; Filming a horse-and-carriage scene; Actor Byron Mayberry; David Baron (cinematographer) and Justin Brunelle (director) discuss a shot.

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Southern Alberta man charged with manslaughter MEDICINE HAT — RCMP have charged a southern Alberta man with manslaughter after a woman died in hospital.

Tanya Campbell-Losier, who was 19, was found in a home in Brooks last Friday with severe injuries.

She was rushed to a Calgary hospital but died two days later.

Jessie Dyck, who is 26, was originally charged with aggravated assault.

RCMP say that charge has now been upgraded to manslaughter.

Dyck was being held in custody and is to appear in court on March 1.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After two days of testimony, a Crown expert witness concluded Mark Damien Lindsay appreciated the consequence of stabbing an Edmonton mother of three.

Dr. Peter Rodd, a forensic psychiatrist, concluded Lindsay, 29, was criminally responsible for the August 2011 killing of Dana Turner.

Rodd cited Lindsay’s actions following the incident, calling them organized and purposeful, adding Lindsay’s behaviour was consistent with trying to conceal the offence. This, Rodd said, made him aware of the wrongness of the act.

After killing Turner, Lindsay bought a shovel and other items from a Rona hardware store, he drove all over Alberta to dispose of the body and other items and even plotted to get out of Alberta when he went to his parents house to get his resume and welding materials.

Rodd also pointed to the role drugs played. Lindsay has had a lifelong battle with substance abuse and was told on numerous occasions to abstain.

Leading up to the night of Turner’s murder, Lindsay used cocaine and drank alcohol.

This led Rodd to believe drugs may have played a role in the act.

Inconsistencies between Lindsay’s reported delusions and his behaviour also came to light on the second day of expert testimony from a Crown witness.

Crown Prosecutor Bina Border directed Rodd’s attention to the paranoid delusion Lindsay, 29, has said precipitated his killing of Turner, 31.

Lindsay believed a group of serial killers called Healers was out to kill him and Turner was who they sent.

Evidence presented at trial indicated Lindsay believed the police were a part of the Healers plot against him.

However, Border pointed to a March 21, 2011 incident where Lindsay barricaded himself in his apartment and called the police. Rodd said this behaviour was inconsistent with Lindsay’s belief the police were out to get him.

In reviewing Dr. Marc Nesca, a defence expert witness and psychologist, Rodd called into question his findings of some of Lindsay’s behaviour. Rodd said there were a number of episodes that “on the surface” looked like psychiatric incidents, but he identified efforts to manipulate circumstances to fit Nesca’s diagnosis.

Some reports describe Lindsay’s behaviour and acting out at facilities he was held at as volitional, by Lindsay’s choice.

Other behaviour described in reports read by Rodd indicated Lindsay’s behaviour was mostly substance seeking and purposeful, and not indicative of disorganized behaviour.

Lindsay’s paranoia and diagnosed schizophrenia have been the focus of much the trial. Defence expert witnesses have made a correlation between Lindsay’s schizophrenia and the psychosis that led to the attack on Turner.

Lindsay is charged with second degree murder in the death of Turner.

Turner was stabbed in the eye with a pencil, strangled and ran over by a car in August 2011.

At the time, Lindsay was recently released from the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre. Lindsay had served a 50-day sentence for stabbing Turner in the face with a knife. The two had been in a relationship.

Defence counsel have acknowledged Lindsay committed the crime.

The trial questions whether or not he should be held criminally responsible.

Trial resumes on Monday when defence counsel Kent Teskey will cross examine Rodd. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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GLADUE: Must pay restitution The woman spent the next 12 days with a broken, infected jaw wandering the woods. She survived on berries and river or rain water. She was found about 10 km from where she was last seen having crossed the Baptiste River.

She was found on an oil lease road.

She suffered from a double-compound fracture of her jaw, which had become infected; blisters, rash, exposure and had lost a significant amount of weight.

Sisson ordered Gladue pay restitution of $8,745 to cover the woman’s medical bills.

Additional court orders issued rule Gladue must provide a sample of his DNA, a 10-year weapons prohibition and will be on the Sex Offender Information Registry for life.

Gladue has served 10 months of his sentence and has five years and two months left to serve. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Skier dies from injuries suffered in Sunday avalanche GOLDEN, B.C. — RCMP say a southern Alberta man who was hurt Sunday in an avalanche while skiing near Golden, British Columbia, has died of his injuries.

The 64-year-old man, who was from Canmore, was airlifted to Calgary in critical condition.

He was one of six people who were hurt in the slide during a self-guided trip near Sunshine Lodge.

The previous day Nick Roberts, a Calgary Fire Department technician, was killed in an avalanche in the same region while snowmobiling with friends.

Both groups were out despite a special warning that was issued by Avalanche Canada Friday warning of the possibility of “very large and dangerous avalanches” in the region.

Eight people have died in British Columbia this season due to avalanches.

PCs to hold nomination meeting for byelection candidate after all

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EDMONTON — Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party has done an about-face and will hold a nomination meeting for an upcoming byelection in the constituency of Calgary Greenway.

Party leader Ric McIver announced that the party’s board of directors has overturned a decision by the constituency board to appoint Prabhdeep Gill to be the party’s candidate in the March 22 vote.

“I’ve heard from countless Albertans who are unhappy with the decision,” said McIver in a Facebook message posted late Wednesday night.

“There is an overwhelming desire to see the party members in Calgary Greenway select their candidate through a fair and open nomination process.”

He said it is the right thing to do for the candidates and for voters.

“One of the big lessons from our May 5, 2015, general election loss is that the public must be respected and listened to, and that we must admit when we’ve made a mistake.”

McIver said that to be fair the local board was under significant time pressure when it decided to appoint Gill.

Premier Rachel Notley announced the byelection on Tuesday, three days after her NDP party picked its candidate.

The other major parties were left to scramble to move up nomination dates to get candidates in place.

Four PC candidates will vie for the nomination on Saturday. The three other contenders are Dan Sidhu, Jamie Lall and Tushar Yadav.

The Wildrose party will pick between Devinder Toor and Robin Martin on Friday.

The Liberals nominated Khalil Karbani on Wednesday.

The NDP candidate is Roop Rai. Thana Boonlert is running for the Greens.

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Blackfalds RCMP are searching for an armed male suspect involved in an attempted murder at a rural residence in Red Deer County Thursday morning.

Police responded to the residence at about 5:20 a.m. and found the victim who was assaulted by an unknown suspect and sustained serious injuries.

The suspect fled in the victim’s vehicle which was recovered by police.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian male, 1.65 to 1.67 metres tall (five-foot-five to five-feet-six), with a skinny build and short hair. He wore camouflage pants, a jacket and black toque.

Anyone with information relating to this incident is asked to contact Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3310.

Police considered the suspect armed and dangerous so no one should approach him, but rather contact police immediately.

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Missing the days of the Voice of Doom I caught an old National Film Board fancy in 1942 and Greene noted the film on TV and recognized a familiar importance of a steady supply of oil voice as the narrator. Lorne Greene to the overall good health of this nawas the man behind the microphone tion, particularly during the unstable and the film was produced about three political climate of the Second World War. Oil supplies were a foyears into the Second World cal point of military strateWar. Greene was known as gy for all combatants in the the Voice of Doom because war and battle plans were he had to deliver plenty of designed to protect this bad news during his radio precious commodity from broadcasts about the war efharm. fort.

A steady supply of oil Greene later became was the lifeblood of a highfamous as the patriarch of ly mechanized conflict like the Cartwright family in the the Second World War and long-running TV western Greene’s message was a that started in the late ’50s sense of national pride beand rode into the sunset cause the Turner Valley in the early ’70s. I was too JIM field alone was producing young to know Greene as SUTHERLAND 1/6 of Canada’s entire oil the Voice of Doom, but my output in 1942, according to parents were well aware of OPINION Greene’s narrative. him as the announcer who Gas rationing was in full had to deliver a grim radio effect because of the shortages but Camessage during the war years.

Greene also did the narrative for nadians were big picture people in inspirational war messages such as 1942, so they were happy to conserve the one I encountered in the old NFB fuel so it could be used in the war effilm. The crux of the matter was the oil fort. Greene was excited about the fushortage produced by a conflict that ture of the oil industry in 1942 and nothad spread into the oil-rich regions of ed how safe, efficient transfer through a pipeline network would provide a the Middle East.

Canada’s oil industry was in its in- reliable made-in-Canada solution to

our future needs.

Greene’s vision in the 1942 film was decidedly optimistic in view of the events that have transpired over the past 74 years. Post-war oil from foreign suppliers was cheaper than Western Canadian oil and Eastern Canada bought the cheaper foreign product until the 1973 Arab oil embargo forced up the price of oil.

The lack of a price advantage prompted Pierre Trudeau to implement the National Energy Program in the early ’80s that crippled an already ailing industry in Alberta. The contentious plan included a forced barrel price for Western Canadian oil that was lower than global market prices so it could subsidize Eastern Canadian industry energy costs.

Things have not improved since 1980 because the East has reverted back to foreign oil suppliers since the dismantlement of the ill-advised NEP after world oil prices collapsed in the ’80s.

Now we once again find ourselves in a situation where a glut of oil supplies has driven the barrel price into the ground. The situation has become even more nightmarish for Alberta this time because we have no access to tidewater for our oil and few of our

Confederation partners seem to care about our plight.

In fact, there appears to be open animosity toward this province and a sense of glee over the collapse of our oil industry. Every Canadian has benefited from the oil industry, directly or indirectly, and yet they are callous enough to derive a sense of exhilaration from its collapse.

We have smug eco-hypocrites like David Suzuki and Neil Young who enjoy jet set lifestyles while admonishing the rest of us for our crimes against the climate. We have well-paid shills funded by wealthy foreign investors in agenda-driven organizations like Tides operating under the guise of a noble cause to save the world.

None of these cretins were a factor when Lorne Greene delivered his 1942 message in a film designed to celebrate a Canada that was truly united around a genuine need to save the free world from tyranny. That was a different Canada and I doubt we will ever see that Canada again, because these days we have political leaders who are embarrassed by our oil industry.

We need the Voice of Doom back because the bad guys won this war.

Jim Sutherland is a local freelance writer.

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Alberta not receiving enough help in time of need Most of Alberta’s tax revenues go to Ottawa, mainly to Quebec for them to fund their programs.

Under the federal equalization program alone, Quebec receives nearly $10 billion a year, a transfer of wealth generated in Alberta, but not for Albertans.

According to Fred McDougall, a former deputy minister in the Alberta government, in the years between 2000 and 2014, Alberta’s taxpayers shipped, on a net basis, $200 billion plus to Ottawa. Yet the Notley government has said nothing on this subject.

For those of us who have lived in Alberta a long time, this is a continuation of what happened during the ’70s and ’80s. In a report printed in the 1980’s by a University of Calgary economist named Mansell, $90 billion was estimated to have left Alberta, in a 17-year period starting with 1969, never to have returned.

In the meantime, the federal Liberals have only talked about releasing $700 million that had been budgeted for Alberta under the previous Harper government and only $200 million in new money.

The number of Alberta EI recipients doubled in 2015, with no action taken by either Notley or Trudeau, months into this downturn, to address the

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thousands of layoffs in the oil patch.

The magnitude of the money leaving Alberta has been enormous, the help now needed for Albertans, non-existent to minimal.

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Litter not just a spring problem

Now is the time to invest in building and keeping folks working

This is in reference to the column ‘Alberta needs to quit its litter habit’ by John Stewart on Feb. 22.

The column has certainly laid a platform for all Albertans and non-Albertans to introspect the standards of cleanliness that they are following in regard to mother nature. Even though I don’t agree with the statement completely that “ugly truth of lying garbage is revealed only when snow melts,” I have seen the unpleasant view of litter in terms of cigarette butts, cans, tissues, etc. on snow spread starlit ground and when aurora was playing its matutinal tricks in the sky. The image was disturbing and made me realize that though we are so blessed with nature we are so poor with maintaining it.

I also agree that if this scenario continues strict rules must be enforced to bring trash sense in the community and help in up-keeping the environment standards.

In short, I would like to say that Alberta is our home and we should take all necessary measures

I am bewildered.

I hear so much howling and gnashing of teeth about the plan of our provincial and federal governments to run deficits.

Why? My thoughts go back to the period called the Great Depression-that time in the 1920s and 1930s when there was so much poverty, hunger, homelessness.

We were told there is no money to do anything about this pain and suffering.

Then in 1939, we went to WAR. Now, there was a bottomless jar of money to maim, to kill, to destroy.

And so my bewilderment.

Why is it okay to borrow to maim, to kill to destroy, and it is not okay to borrow money to build and to keep folks working?

Alice Williamson Red Deer

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Welcome death with open arms MEDICAL HELP IN DYING SHOULD BE WIDELY AVAILABLE, WITH FEW RESTRICTIONS: REPORT

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Conservative MPs Gerard Deltell, Michael Cooper, and Harold Albrecht listen as Mark Warawa speak on the Physician-Assisted Dying report tabled in Ottawa, Thursday. The long-awaited report recommended Canadians should be able to seek medical help to die with few obstacles.

The committee recommended that health-care practitioners should be able to refuse to provide assistance but said, at a minimum, conscientious objectors must provide an “effective referral” for a patient who asks for aid in dying.

It also said the federal government must work with the provinces to ensure, where possible, that requests for medical assistance in dying are made in writing, witnessed by two people who have no conflict of interest and that it be carried out only if two physicians, independent of one another, determine that the eligibility criteria have been met.

But Conservative MPs on the committee said those safeguards fall “far short” of what is necessary to protect vulnerable people from being pressured or coerced into seeking medical help to die or to protect mentally ill people who might not be competent to make such a decision. That criticism was echoed by groups representing disabled Canadians, which expressed “dismay” and “alarm” over the majority committee report.

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OTTAWA — Canadians enduring intolerable suffering from grievous and irremediable medical conditions should be able to seek medical help to die with few obstacles, a special parliamentary committee has recommended.

The long-awaited report, tabled Thursday in the House of Commons by a joint all-party committee of MPs and senators, concluded: ● The right to seek a doctor-assisted death should apply to Canadian adults suffering both terminal and non-terminal physical and psychological conditions ● It should not exclude the mentally ill and should allow those diagnosed with competence-impairing conditions like dementia to make advance requests for medical help to die. ● It should be expanded within three years to include so-called “mature minors.”

Advocates of doctor-assisted death immediately lauded the relatively permissive approach urged by a majority of the committee’s 16 members.

But it was denounced by three Conservative MPs on the committee for failing to protect vulnerable persons. They filed a dissenting report, although Conservative senators backed the majority position.

The 21 recommendations will guide the federal government in crafting a new law after the Supreme Court ruled last year that Canada’s ban on assisted suicide violates the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

The top court has given the government until June 6 to come up with a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said she hopes to have draft legislation ready for cabinet within a couple of weeks. She promised to “engage” further with Canadians on “this very sensitive and important issue.”

“We’re looking to ensure that we continue to take an empathetic approach, that we look to create balance in our approach that recognizes the autonomy of individuals, that recognizes the need to protect the vulnerable, that respects the conscience rights of medical practitioners,” Wilson-Raybould said.

Shanaaz Gokool of Dying With Dignity Canada had particular praise for the committee’s recommendation to allow advance directives. Without that, she said dementia sufferers face a “dire choice: access assisted-dying prematurely, while they are still competent or risk losing competence before their wishes can be carried out, only to be condemned to the exact fate they sought to avoid.”

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DYING: Rights of health-care practitioners In particular, the Conservatives objected to extending the right to die with a doctor’s assistance to anyone under the age of 18. Alberta MP Michael Cooper said the Supreme Court was clear that the right to medical aid in dying applied only to competent adults.

“We find it very troubling that the committee would disregard the clear pronouncement of the Supreme Court by opening the door to minors,” Cooper said.

Wilson-Raybould declined to offer her personal opinion on that issue.

NDP committee member Murray Rankin said the courts have already recognized the right of mature minors to make end-of-life decisions. Nevertheless, he said the committee opted for a “fair compromise” that would allow expansion of the regime only after it’s been tested with adults.

The Conservatives also objected to the notion of advance directives and expressed shock that the majority report does not recommend requiring a psychiatric assessment for anyone seeking medical help to die.

“There is no group that is more vulnerable than people with underlying mental health challenges, on the question of capacity and on the question of consent,” Cooper said, noting the high court recommended “stringent safeguards” for such people.

As well, the dissenters said the report fails to adequately safeguard the rights of health-care practitioners who conscientiously object to helping patients die — a criticism echoed by the Canadian Medical Association.

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, co-chair of the committee, said the Conservative MPs are profoundly opposed to medical assistance in dying and “apparently think the Supreme Court was wrong.”

He suggested their approach — “to find ways to restrict it as much as possible” — would not have passed muster with the top court.

“While I respect their deeply held convictions, I also recognize that the charter protects all Canadians and we had to ensure that our recommendations would respect both the letter and the spirit” of the court ruling, Oliphant said.

The New Democrats supported the majority report but also urged the government to provide improved palliative care for those under federal jurisdiction, such as Aboriginal Peoples, veterans and members of the armed forces.

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TORONTO — A special parliamentary committee has recommended that legislation governing doctor-assisted death for competent adults be expanded within three years to include “mature minors” under the age of 18.

The notion of a young person seeking help to terminate their life raises a number of thorny questions, not the least of which is how does one define a mature minor?

Erin Nelson, a professor at the University of Alberta who teaches medical law and ethics, said the definition of a mature minor is not based an a “bright line” demarcated by a certain age, but on whether a person can understand the nature and consequences of a particular decision.

“It’s not obvious all the time and you might not always have 100 per cent agreement,” Nelson said Thursday from Edmonton. “If you asked three different people to assess a minor’s competency, you might not get agreement by all of those people.

“So I suppose the pitfall is that mistakes could be made in deciding that a 14-year-old or a 15-year-old is sufficiently mature to make the decision,” she said “However … the pitfall of having a bright line is that you may miss people who are sufficiently mature to make their own decision.”

The Canadian Paediatric Society opposes mature minors being included in legislation, which the federal government must draft and pass before June 6, when assisted suicide becomes legal in Canada.

However, Dr. Dawn Davies, chairwoman of CPS’s bioethics committee, said the organization will not have a full position statement on the issue until it completes a survey of its members.

“What we suspect is that most pediatricians and pediatric health practitioners would not think that mature minors should be included, at least in the first iteration of the legislation, just because of the weight of the decision being made,” Davies said.

As to how to define when a minor is considered mature enough to make a decision about ending his or her life, Davies said there is no specific age “and that’s where it becomes very related to the individual child.”

“Really, we’re just looking at can they comprehend the information that’s being presented to them? Do they understand all the options and the outcomes of those options? And is there a durability about their wish.”

Dr. Derryck Smith, who made a submission to the committee during its hearings, said qualifying for assisted death should not be dependent on age, but on whether a person is competent to agree to a medical

treatment, including aid in dying.

“Children and teenagers do die and they suffer just as much as adults who are dying,” Smith, the former head of child psychiatry at B.C. Children’s Hospital, said from Vancouver.

“The basic principle is why do we want people of any age to suffer unnecessarily if ultimately they are going to die?”

There are standard measurements for determining competency, which are blind to the age of the individual. So it’s up to the practitioners assessing a patient to decide, based on those standards, if a young person is capable of understanding and consenting to the terminal nature of their request, he said.

“Is a seven-year-old likely to be competent? Probably not. But that’s not because they happen to be seven, it’s because they wouldn’t understand the issues” needed to determine if they have capacity, he said.

Even so, Smith agrees with the committee’s recommendation that Parliament should wait three years before extending the right to die to mature minors.

“I think we need to proceed cautiously with this because it’s controversial.”

To date, Belgium and the Netherlands are the only two jurisdictions that allow minors access to physician-assisted death.

Nelson said the issue of mature minors could be legally sticky on both sides of the age divide.

If the federal government drafts legislation that allows only those 18 and older to request medical aid in dying, she said it’s quite likely there will be a Charter challenge brought by a younger person claiming discrimination on the basis of age.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Premiers have long lobbied the federal government to act on missing and murdered indigenous women.

Now the president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada says it is time for them to back up their call for action with some money of their own.

Dawn Lavell-Harvard said the roundtable on missing and murdered indigenous women taking place in Winnipeg is a chance for provinces to commit to help vulnerable women rather than wait until a national inquiry on the issue has wrapped up.

“We want to see the provinces and the federal government coming forward with action plans and budgets to back up those action plans,” she said Thursday.

“We cannot afford to wait two years for the end of the inquiry when we know many of the things we need to have happening. We need to start taking action now.”

Hundreds of family members, indigenous leaders and the country’s top policy makers have gathered for the meeting.

People sat around a large table covered with candles and photos of some of Canada’s roughly 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women. Some wept and hugged while volunteers walked through the room with tissues.

Lavell-Harvard said provinces need to look at how their child-welfare systems, policing practices and corrections facilities affect indigenous women.

“When our women leave a First Nation looking for a better life, coming into the cities, these are the structures that are discriminating against our women,” she said.

“These are the structures that have the opportunity to create safety. In the past, they have been integral in putting our women into unsafe situations.”

The roundtable wraps up late Friday.

Liberals seek to repeal Tory citizenship changes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The only person ever to lose his Canadian citizenship after being convicted of a terrorism offence would get it back under a proposed new federal bill that’s rekindling familiar partisan passions over what it means to be a citizen.

The Trudeau Liberals moved Thursday to repeal some sweeping Conservative changes to the rules that govern citizenship — one of several issues that have long highlighted the ideological divide between the longtime political rivals.

The most controversial of the Tory changes to the Citizenship Act allowed the immigration minister to revoke the Canadian status of dual nationals convicted of crimes like terrorism, treason or taking up arms against the country.

Critics denounced the move as a slippery slope that created two classes of citizen, a theme Immigration Minister John McCallum reprised as he explained the rationale for seeking to reverse the measure.

“From my point of view this is a question of principle, that if one believes that a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian and there is only one class of Canadian, those principles must be applied universally,” McCallum said.

One person promises to be a headache for the Liberals, however: Zakaria Amara, the presumptive leader of the so-called Toronto 18 and the only person in Canada to ever lose Canadian citizenship as a result of the Conservative law.

Once the Liberal proposals become law, he will get it back.

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel could barely contain her contempt.

“There’s many things that unite us as Canadians and I think one of those things is a respect and deep value for Canadian citizenship,” Rempel told a news conference immediately following McCallum’s.

“When we’re talking about principle, I would like to think the first principle we put forward (is) that we’re not celebrating people that commit terrorist actions against our country.”

During last year’s election campaign, the Conservative law became a flashpoint particularly in ethnic communities, where the Liberals warned of the risk that others could lose their citizenship too.

It also became a proxy issue for the Conservative “tough on terror” message and their party’s efforts to paint the Liberals as soft on crime.

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La Loche will need years to heal from high school shooting: NDP MP OTTAWA — It has been more than a month since a shooter killed four people and wounded seven others in La Loche, Sask. but the community’s former mayor and current MP knows the healing process is only beginning.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Islanders 2 Flames 1 (OT) CALGARY — Thomas Hickey saw a goal from a different perspective at Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome on Thursday.

Hickey’s tying goal halfway through the third period set the stage for Josh Bailey’s overtime winner as the New York Islanders beat the Calgary Flames 2-1.

“I watched a lot of games in this rink and saw a lot of goals. You hope that it’s you some day,” said the Calgary-born Hickey, who had his parents and several friends in the crowd.

“You don’t think about scoring on the Flames growing up, but it’s a real cool moment for me and my family and my friends, too.”

Matt Martin set up Hickey’s first goal in 37 games by charging his way down the sideboards, evading checks from Mark Giordano and Sean Monahan, then sending a pass into the slot where Hickey put a backhand past Joni Ortio.

“It’s always good to come back into your hometown and get one and it was a big one too,” said Isles coach Jack Capuano. “We were looking for a little bit of offence and there’s no better way for your defenceman and hometown kid to get it. It got us going, it gave us the surge that we needed.”

The winning goal came with 18 seconds remaining in extra time and less than a minute after Calgary’s Giordano hit the goal post at the other end.

On a two-on-one down low, Bailey was set up at the side of the net on a perfect feed from John Tavares.

“It’s a good play by them,” said Ortio, who had 32 saves. “I knew he was

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New York Islanders’ Casey Cizikas, left, fights with Calgary Flames’ Lance Bouma during first period NHL action in Calgary, Thursday. The Flames lost to the Islanders 2-1 in overtime. going backdoor there but he got it up quick, got off a good shot and I just wasn’t quick enough.”

Making his second start in a row and just his fourth NHL start on the season, Ortio picked up where he left

off on Tuesday when he made 35 saves in a 2-1 loss to Los Angeles.

“Orts was real, real good. He’s tracking the puck real well, he’s solid,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. “It’s too bad. I felt we deserved better but that’s the way it goes.”

Also excellent on the night was Halak, who had 31 stops. The 30-year-old has started and won the first three games of the Isles franchise-record seven-games road trip, stopping 88 of 90 shots.

“Your goalie has to fight for his space,” said Capuano. “I’m not a goalie coach but I do know if you sit back, you’re in trouble. You’ve got to get out, you have to challenge, you have to hack and whack at certain times in front to protect your area and he’s done that.”

Third in the Metropolitan Division, the Islanders (33-19-7) remain three points back of the New York Rangers, who were also victorious Thursday.

Jiri Hudler with his 10th scored the lone goal for Calgary (26-30-4). The slumping Flames are 1-5-1 in their last seven.

“We had a solid game. They’re a good team, they’ve been on a hot streak and we matched up really well against them,” Ortio said.

Calgary scored the lone goal of the first period when Hudler finished off nifty three-way passing play with Gaudreau and Monahan.

After a disappointing first half, Hudler — a pending unrestricted free agency — has five goals and eight assists in his last 15 games. Key in the line’s success lately has been Gaudreau, who has one goal and seven assists during a six-game point streak.

Notes: Flames D Kris Russell (lower body) missed his sixth consecutive game. RW Josh Jooris was a healthy scratch… Sidelined for a second straight game for New York was Mikhail Grabovski (upper body)… It was the Calgary’s first overtime game at home since Dec. 12. Their record at the Saddledome falls to 6-1.

Queens drop opener of ACAC championship

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Wolves 3 Queens 2 The RDC Queens met a familiar foe in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League championships and unlike the last two seasons came out on the short end.

The Queens defeated the Grande Prairie College Wolves the last two years in the ACAC final. This season they drew them in the first round and the Wolves took a 25-22, 26-24, 24-26, 1425, 15-10 victory before a full house at RDC Thursday.

The Queens looked to have all the momentum after dominating the fourth set, but the Wolves gained some momentum when they served first and took a 3-0 lead. They led 8-5 when the teams switched sides and were never challenged.

“We let it slip out of our control the first two sets,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “It was hard to say why, but they played well and their No. 1 (Megan Koch) played well before she cooled down a bit. We also had a couple leads in those first two sets and didn’t capitalize on them and put them away when we had the opportunity.”

The Queens also didn’t pass well, especially on serve receive, and couldn’t run their offence with any consistency. Walton switched setters after the second set bringing Meagan Kuzyk in in place of Ashley Fehr.

“It wasn’t that we passed that much better, but Meagan is a little smaller and quicker and was able to get to some of those balls and get us back into our system,” added Walton, who was disappointed with the fifth set.

“There was a two-point spread and we let it get away from us. It was a combination of things. A few balls could have been in but were just out and we didn’t find a way to put the points away. But give them credit they’re scrappy and a good defensive team. We just didn’t get away from their middle.”

Talbot was hoping home court

would give them an edge.

“We were, but we’re never disappointed in showcasing who we are as a team in front of our home fans. It’s an honour to play at home.”

Middle Hanna Delemont was the RDC player of the match with eight kills, eight digs, an ace and two blocks.

“Hannah has learned well last three years,” said Walton. “She embraced the role. What a middle blocker needs is massive work capacity and work ethic and she has those things in spades.

She has the attributes that makes for good middle. Plus she has a great personality on the floor.”

Miranda Dawe led the Queens with 18 kills and 16 digs while McKenna Barthel added 10 kills, 10 digs and three blocks. Kelsey Tymkow had seven kills and 12 digs and libero Olivia Barnes had an outstanding match with 30 digs.

Koch led the Wolves with 19 kills while Kaitlyn Cordingley had 17 kills and 18 digs and Jamie Strauss 21 digs Grande Prairie will face Briecrest Bible College Clippers in the 7 p.m. semifinal. BBCV downed Keyano 2519, 25-20, 25-21 as Samantha Zacharias had 14 kills, four aces, two blocks and nine digs.

On the other side the Olds Broncos run the same route as the Queens as they lost 21-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-23, 12-15 to the Kings University Eagles.

The Queens face Keyano at 2 p.m. while Olds and Lakeland clash at noon.

Keir Alcorn had 20 kills and 25 digs for TKU with Naomi Jardine finishing with 24 kills and 27 digs for Olds.

The Eagles will meet SAIT in the 5 p.m. semifinal. SAIT downed Lakeland 25-21, 19-25, 25-19, 25-23 with Megan Brennan finishing with 17 kills and 13 digs.

Kings 3 Ooks 0 In the men’s playoffs at NAIT, the RDC Kings defeated the host Ooks 2521, 25-20, 25-18.

‘We jumped on them early and took a 5-0 lead in the first set, but their best server got them back in it and tied at

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Red Deer College Queens Ashley Fehr, left, and Olivia Barnes dive for the ball during the second game against the Grande Prairie Wolves during the opening day of competition at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Women’s Volleyball Championship at Red Deer College on Thursday. five,” explained Kings head coach Aaron Schuilha.

“After that it was back and forth until about the middle of the set when we started to take control.”

The Kings control the match with their blocking, finishing with nine stuff blocks.

“That was nice to see, something we’ve been stressing of late,” said Schulha, who felt the guys may have been a bit nervous early.

Nic Dubinsky had 10 kills, four digs and two blocks, middle Ton Lyon six kills and two blocks and Ty Moorman four kills and two blocks. Setter Luke Brisbane had two kills, 29 assists and three digs and libero Michael Sumner 14 digs.

The Kings face Augustana in today’s 8 p.m. semifinal.

Augustana downed Lethbridge 3-0. On the other side, Medicine Hat stopped The Kings University 3-2 and Keyano downed SAIT 3-0.

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“Once we settled down we played with a lot of confidence.”

Riley Friesen had 12 kills, three digs and two blocks for the Kings while

Alberta clinches top seed heading into Scotties playoffs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — Chelsea Carey has been in a similar position before, but with a different province.

Carey skipped Manitoba in the playoff game between the top two seeds at the Canadian women’s curling championship two years ago in Montreal.

Her team lost 5-4 to eventual champion Rachel Homan, but that game will be experience Carey draws on Friday night when she skips Alberta in that same playoff at this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Grande Prairie, Alta.

“That was one of the best games I’ve ever been a part of, from a shotmaking perspective,” Carey recalled. “I had a bunch of people call me after and say ‘that’s the best women’s curling game I’ve ever seen’ because both teams just made a lot of shots.”’

The host province concluded their preliminary round with a pair of wins Thursday and topped the standings

with a 9-2 record.

Only defending champion Jennifer Jones (8-2) can equal their record when the round robin concludes Friday morning, but Alberta opened the tournament with a win over Jones and would thus be seeded higher.

Carey and Jones were the only teams to nail down playoff berths Thursday. Second place was still up for grabs heading into the final draw.

Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville (7-3) and Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson (64) were still in the hunt.

Saskatchewan’s Jolene Campbell, Ontario’s Jenn Hanna and Nova Scotia’s Jill Brothers were still in play for tiebreakers with five losses each.

Alberta’s reward for topping the table is hammer to start the one-two playoff game.

The victor goes directly to Sunday’s championship game. The loser drops to the semifinal to face the winner of the playoff between the third and fourth seeds.

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“It’s not as uptight as a sudden-death game,” Carey said. “You can play it hair looser. I don’t think you change anything with your strategy.

“That being said, if you lose you go to a sudden death game. You still sort of need to treat it like one. You have that second life so it takes just a tiny bit of the heat off maybe.”

Carey, third Amy Nixon, second Jocelyn Peterman and lead Laine Peters out of the Glencoe Club opened the tournament a torrid 6-0 before losing two of three.

They stole a point to win their last game Thursday when Saskatchewan’s Campbell rolled her shooter out of the rings on an open takeout for one.

After losing two of their first three games, the Jones team from Winnipeg went on a seven-game win streak.

“It’s always nice to control your own destiny, which we knew we did even when we were one-two,” the skip said.

“We knew if we won out, we’d have a pretty good shot to make it. I feel like we’re making some big shots when we

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Jones and second Jill Officer are five-time Canadian champions and can equal Colleen Jones’s record with a sixth. Jones and Officer have made the Hearts playoffs in all 12 of their appearances.

Prince Edward Island’s Susanne Birt and Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche were out of playoff contention at 4-6.

Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador was 3-6 ahead of New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud and B.C.’s Karla Thompson both at 2-7.

The province that finishes last in the preliminary round will have to play in next year’s pre-tournament qualifier against Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut to gain entry into the main draw in St. Catharines, Ont. 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.

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THE ICE This week in Rebels history The Red Deer Rebels’ 4-2 win over the visiting Prince Albert Raiders on Feb.23 of 2013 was doubly important to GM/head coach Brent Sutter. The Rebels not only moved two points clear of the Raiders for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, they did so while adorned in throwback Red Deer Rustlers jerseys.

“Obviously it was a great day to honour the Rustlers and their legacy here in the city and Central Alberta,” said Sutter, who — as the club’s best player — won a Canadian junior A championship with the Rustlers in 1980. Among the 6,554 spectators at the Centrium were numerous Rustlers alumni — players and coaches — dating back to the early days of the junior A franchise, which was born in 1967. Down 2-1 after 40 minutes, the Rustlers pulled even when Matt Bellerive connected 7:29 into the final frame.

Sutter reminded his players during the second intermission that it was important to establish themselves on home ice.

“We’ve been working hard at that and there’s not a better way to establish yourself than being down in the third period in your own building and going out there and getting a win,” said the Rebels bench boss. Rhyse Dieno, with the eventual winner, Turner Elson and Haydn Fleury also scored for Red Deer.

Who’s hot Leagueleading scorer Adam Brooks (3368-101 in 60 games) Adam is riding a Brooks 12-game point streak. The 19-year-old Regina Pats centre has accumulated 24 points, including six goals, during the span dating back to Jan. 29.

He said it “I needed this game. I was pretty pissed off (Friday). I knew I’d Tyler Brown have to be a lot more sharp (against Edmonton).

I just stuck to my game as best I could. Everything went my way.” — Regina Pats goaltender Tyler Brown, to the Regina Leader-Post, after a 48-save performance in a 3-1 win over the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings Sunday, two days after allowing five goals on 31 shots in a 7-5 win over the last-place Kootenay Ice.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 2016

Philp a proven leader WAS A UNANIMOUS PICK FOR THE COACHES TO PICK FORWARD AS REBELS CAPTAIN

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR It wasn’t imperative that Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter appoint a new captain after dealing Wyatt Johnson to the Spokane Chiefs on New Years Day. With a team loaded with experience and talent, the belief was that there was more than enough leadership already on board.

But when centre Luke Philp returned from a nearly three-month layoff two weeks ago, it soon became apparent that he was the man to wear the ‘C’.

“He’s a proven leader, a guy who’s a proven player at playoff time,” Sutter said Thursday. “I think it was an important step for us and it was pretty unanimous among the coaches and everyone on the hockey operations side who needed to be our captain moving forward.”

Philp was the Kootenay Ice captain this season before sustaining an ankle injury that required surgery in late November.

Acquired from the Ice Jan. 3, he finally made his Rebels debut Feb. 12 in a 4-1 loss at Calgary.

“It felt really good to be back. You get pretty frustrated being out for as long as I was,” said Philp. “It was really good to get into the lineup. It takes a couple of games to get back to game speed, but I’m feeling really good now.”

The 20-year-old Canmore native, who put up 29 points, including 13 goals, in 22 games with the Ice this season and has recorded four goals and two assists in six outings with the Rebels, had barely been cleared to practice when he got into his first game with the Rebels.

“He’s a player who does the right things.

He’s going to play hard every shift and again, the bigger the game the better he plays,” said Sutter. “Just look at our (recent) road trip. For a guy who hadn’t played in a long time, a guy who had hardly practised with us at all … to come in and play like he has, that speaks for itself and a lot of it is based on just his character.

“The day before he played his first game with us he’d only had one practice and after practice he came into the coaches room and asked me what my plan was for him. I told him what it was — to basically to get through a couple of more practices and then we’d play him.

“He just basically flat out told us, ‘put me in the friggin lineup’. That just speaks about his character. I thought about it through the night and the next day I called him at one o’clock and told him I was going to play him.”

So far, so good. Philp has already exhibited his two-way skills and is skating on the Rebels’ top line with Adam Helewka and Jake DeBrusk.

While he was somewhat taken aback at Sutter’s decision to name him as the club’s new official on-ice leader, Philp wasn’t shocked that he was given the appointment.

“Maybe a little bit, but Brent had meetings with me and told me he brought me in

to take a leadership role with this team,” said Philp. “I was a little surprised, but at the same time I knew it was a possibility.”

It’s a role he’s gladly taken on and one that he is confident he won’t handle alone.

“There’s a lot of really good leaders on this team so I know I wouldn’t be doing it by myself, that’s for sure,” he said.

The Rebels snapped a five-game losing streak with last Saturday’s 2-1 victory over the Prince George Cougars in the final leg of a four-game B.C. Division road trip.

Philp, who served as an assistant captain with the Ice each of the previous two seasons, is confident that the hard-fought victory can be a springboard to future success.

“We took a lot of positives out of the Prince George series,” he said, referring also to a 3-1 loss last Friday. “We played hard both games. That was a good series and we were glad to get the win in that last game. It got us out of the slump and now we have to build off that and keep moving forward.”

Philp sees plenty of potential for the

2016 Memorial Cup host Rebels — who officially clinched a playoff berth this week — to finish off the regular season on a positive note and go deep into the post-season.

“There’s tons (of potential) here, the sky is the limit,” he said. “This group has a lot of talent, we just need to put it all together and find ways to play a full 60 minutes and I think we’ll be fine.”

Sutter is confident Philp is the right man to lead his squad down the regular-season homestretch and beyond.

“It’s just his makeup, it’s the way he is,” said the Rebels boss. “He’s a player who is very well respected inside our (dressing) room. He’s not a player who talks a lot but when he speaks it’s about the team. It’s not about individual stuff, it’s about team stuff.”

• The Rebels open a weekend homestand tonight against the Portland Winterhawks. The Victoria Royals visit the Centrium Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Ice out of playoffs for first time in 18 seasons It was as inevitable as the approach of the Grim Reaper and the eternally unpopular taxman, but that didn’t make it any easier for Kootenay Ice head coach Luke Pierce and his charges to swallow.

“Guys have understood for a little while here now that playoffs weren’t really realistic and have had to find different ways to stay motivated,” Pierce told Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Townsmen, referring GREG to the club’s official elimination from the MEACHEM WHL playoff race INSIDER last weekend.

“For the most part, with the exception of a couple blips here and there, I think we’ve done a pretty good job of being consistent in our effort level. That is going to continue to be a real big focus — continuing to work to be better.

“Let’s be honest — there’s no question there will be changes here going into next year. Do you want to be on the right side or the wrong side of those changes? It’s certainly not a threat, it’s just reality. You can’t finish the way we have and not expect changes. I think there’s plenty of motivation that way for individual guys.”

Regardless of the fact the Ice, who slipped to 10-45-5-0 with Wednesday’s 4-2 loss to the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings, will not be attending the post-season dance for the first time in 18 seasons, there have been a few bright spots this season.

Winger Zak Zborosky, for example, is enjoying a career year with a team-best 24 goals and 53 points in 47 games, and his linemate, Matt Alfaro, has also stepped up with 17 goals and 39 points in 59 outings.

“There’s been a tremendous amount (of growth),” Pierce said of Alfaro and Zborosky.

“There’s a lot that gets lost in what’s been a difficult season. But you get some time to reflect on some things and certainly the play of those two has been a real bright spot.”

The team also has a handful of enticing building blocks moving forward. Second-year defenceman Cale Fleury and rookie forward Noah Philp, both of whom turn 18 this year, come to mind.

Fleury, the brother of Red Deer Rebels rearguard Haydn Fleury, has emerged as a two-way defender with 21 points (6-15) this season, while Philp, the brother of Rebels captain Luke Philp, has scored five goals and assisted on 15 others.

Still, missing the playoffs stings.

“It’s obviously not something we’re used to, especially for the veteran guys,” Alfaro said. “You’ve really just got to push through, keep going every day, look forward to next season and take it one game at a

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“Just try to focus on winning these last games and going out on a good streak, playing good hockey to get rolling into next year.”

• The Prince George Cougars were, for at least a short time, fearful for their captain after defenceman Sam Ruopp was struck on the neck by the puck while attempting to block a shot from Tri-City forward Tyler Sandhu Tuesday in Kennewick, Wash.

Ruopp was immediately transported to hospital where it was determined there was no damage to the blood vessels in his neck.

“He just went down to block a shot and the puck went on edge and hit him in the neck,” Cougars general manager Todd Harkins told Ted Clarke of the Prince George Citizen.

“He went to the hospital and it’s just a bruise and he’s got some discomfort, obviously, but the blood vessels are fine and there are no cracks. It’s like a bit of whiplash feeling that he’ll have for awhile and until he can get mobility he’ll be sidelined for awhile. We’ll just take it day by day and I know he’s feeling better today.

“When I talked to him before he went to the hospital he was more mad that they cut his jersey off.”

The 19-year-old did not play Wednesday in Spokane and will likely miss the Cougars’ final two games of their road trip Friday in Spokane and Saturday in Tri-City. gmeachem@reddeeeradvocate.com

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Queens open playoffs with big win

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College Queen Jade Petrie and SAIT Trojan Erin McLean clash at centre ice during first period playoff action at the Arena in Red Deer, Thursday.

Kirsten Brown increased the hosts’ lead at 6:55 of the middle frame — connecting from the high slot — and Jade Petrie scored her first of two goals on the evening just over three minutes later.

Petrie, with a rising shot from 15 feet out, struck again early in the third

Demale a natural born scorer in two sports Shae Demale has al- midget AAA (hockey) ways been a scorer, team I put that to the whether it was in hockey top,” she explained. or on soccer pitch.

Demale came up T h e through the DANNY 15-year-old Red Deer mifrom Red nor hockey RODE Deer is showassociation LOCAL SPORT ing that in her and played first season with the banwith the Red tam AAA SutDeer Sutter Fund Chiefs ter Fund team last seamidget AAA team. She son. leads the S h e team in goals watched the with 12 and midget AAA chipped in six squad reach assists and the final of the sits second in Esso Cup Cateam scoring nadian chamto Breanna pionship at Martin, who the Red Deer has eight goals Arena, before and 11 helplosing. ers.

“That was “I’ve always exciting … afbeen a scorter last year it er,” she said. made this year Shae Demale “In hockey I even more exalso try to get citing,” she it done in the corners.” said. “That team had a Demale grew up play- lot of success and I being both sports and be- lieve coming onto the cause of the time of team this year it makes it season of each sport easier for myself. she could continue on, “In fact I think it realthough she’s not sure ally helped everyone on she will play soccer this the team. For me it was a summer. big step up as the league “I played last year, is a lot faster, but I bebut I’m not sure about lieve you can do it if you this year,” she said. “But want to.” then I believe it’s good to Demale has the be a multi-sport athlete size — five-foot-eight, as it keeps you going, so 1 4 0 - p o u n d s — a n d we’ll see.” strength to play in the She did play volley- midget league, despite ball, basketball and soc- being a first-year playcer in school as well as er. She is in Grade 10 at competed in track. It’s Lindsay Thurber and tough to play basketball will be around two more and volleyball because years. of hockey, but she’s still “My size and strength interested in track and does help me, especially possibly the high school in the corners,” she said. soccer team.

Demale plays on “I want to stay active a line with Martin and so I will likely play what Brandy Steinman.

I can,” she said.

“We’ve been togethAt one time Demale er most of the year and was interested in possi- it’s been good,” she said. bly playing soccer at a “They’re both great to post-secondary institu- play with.” tion, but that’s changed.

The Chiefs started “Once I made the slowly this season and

were in ninth place after nine games, but thanks to the play of the Demale line and a solid defence and goaltending they moved into fourth place, one point out of third.

They finish their regular season this weekend on the road against the Peace Country Saturday and Sunday. The Chiefs are assured of home ice advantage in the quarter-finals.

Demale believes the team can make a run at the league title.

“I believes if we play our game we can handle anyone,” she said.

“The veterans have been through this before and they know what it takes to compete with the rest of the league.”

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.

period and Casey Nicholson and Jessica Anderson rounded out the scoring.

Petrie’s linemates combined for five assists, with Ashley Graf picking up three and Emily Swier contributing two.

Jen West turned aside all 26 shots she faced in the RDC net. While she

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Carter, King score in third to lift Kings over Oilers Kings 2 Oilers 1 LOS ANGELES — Jeff Carter and Dwight King scored in the third period and Jonathan Quick made 26 saves, leading the Los Angeles Kings to a 2-1

victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Zack Kassian scored late in the second for the Oilers, who have lost six straight games and eight in a row at Staples Center going back to a 3-0 victory on Nov. 3, 2011. Cam Talbot stopped 34 shots.

The Kings, coming off consecutive 2-1 wins over Nashville and Calgary, increased their Pacific Division lead to four points over Anaheim.

The Kings are 16-1-2 in their last 19 meetings with the Oilers, who have the fewest points in the NHL. Carter tied it with 14:33 left in the third, poking the puck past a sprawling Talbot for his 15th goal after the goalie stopped Tyler Toffoli’s 25-foot wrist shot and his ensuing rebound attempt.

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The Queens fired three goals in each of the second and third periods Thursday at the Arena and soared past the SAIT Trojans 6-0 in the opening game of a best-of-three Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League semifinal.

The RDC squad can advance to the league championship series against either NAIT or Grant MacEwan with a victory tonight in Calgary. A third game, if necessary, will go Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Arena.

The Queens outshot the visitors 15-9 in the opening period but failed to find the back of the net. But Morgan Fraser beat SAIT goaltender Laticia Castillo high to the blocker side at 3:11 of the second stanza and RDC never looked back.

“I think there was a bit of nerves in the first period,” said Queens head coach Kelly Coulter. “The girls started to execute the game plan, wanting to get pucks on net and trying to create scoring chances off of our forecheck and turning over pucks.

“We started getting that going in the second period after the butterflies and nervousness kind of went away.”

wasn’t overly busy, West made a timely save on Sarah Botter with the game still scoreless in the first minute of the middle period and preserved her shutout with a sliding stop on Cara Daudin in the final minute of the contest.

“We’ve been fortunate all year,” said Coulter. “Both goalies (Alex Frisk included) do the job we need them to do and Jen had a great game tonight.

“We didn’t have the best start but she had a great game and thankfully we were able to get some goals to support her.”

Castillo was replaced in the Trojans goal by Jocelyn Wynnyk following the fourth goal. The SAIT starter stopped 24 of the 28 shots directed her way while Wynnyk blocked six of eight.

Despite his club’s inability to cash in during the first period, Coulter wasn’t overly concerned, citing homeice expectations as the primary reason for the early nerves.

“I think what we’ve tried to put in place here is we want to approach each game the same in how we prepare and focus,” he said. “With playoffs your execution has to be a little sharper and you have maybe a bit more jump in your step.

“I don’t think we’ve changed how we prepare for any game and I think the girls have learned that from the start of the season to what they’re doing right now.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

SCOREBOARD Local Sports • 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,

WHL

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.

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

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 Battreries 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:n red Deer Elks vs.

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

Basketball

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 41 15 .732 31 26 .544 30 26 .536 29 29 .500 24 34 .414

GB — 1 2 5 6

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

GB — 10 1/2 11 13 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 48 9 .842 — Memphis 33 23 .589 14 1/2 Dallas 30 28 .517 18 1/2 Houston 28 29 .491 20 New Orleans 23 34 .404 25

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

Northwest Division W L Pct 41 17 .707 30 27 .526 28 28 .500 23 35 .397 18 40 .310 Pacific Division W L Pct

GB — 10 1/2 12 18 23 GB

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

52 37 24 14 11

5 20 32 44 48

.912 .649 .429 .241 .186

— 15 27 1/2 38 1/2 42

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 108, Sacramento 92 Denver 87, L.A. Clippers 81

Pt 81 74 70 67 50 50

GF 249 214 203 168 182 127

GA 182 172 186 190 251 264

Pt 82 75 74 59 49 25

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

GA 182 145 190 197 224

Pt 87 86 68 63 53

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

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

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 60 35 20 3 2 161 138 75 Seattle 59 33 23 3 0 186 168 69 Spokane 60 29 23 5 3 195 199 66 Portland 61 31 27 3 0 196 191 65 Tri-City 59 29 27 2 1 195 204 61 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

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)

Thursday’s Games Golden State 130, Orlando 114 Boston 112, Milwaukee 107 New Orleans 123, Oklahoma City 119 Brooklyn 116, Phoenix 106 Houston at Portland, late San Antonio at Utah, late

Sunday’s games Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.

Tri-City at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

WHL SCORING LEADERS G 33 49 21 36 36 35 36 30 36 30 24 29 18 37 32 36 35 32 19 34

Adam Brooks, Reg Dryden Hunt, MJ Brayden Burke,Let Tyson Baillie, Kel Nolan Patrick, Bdn Parker Bowles, TC Reid Gardiner, PA Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Tyler Wong, Let Ivan Nikolishin, RD Alex Forsberg, Vic Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Jesse Gabrielle, PG Matthew Phillips, Vic Jon Martin, SC Chase Witala, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Kailer Yamamoto, Spo Tyler Soy, Vic

Saturday’s Games Miami at Boston, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Portland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Utah, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.

A 68 50 74 48 45 46 44 48 39 44 49 43 53 32 34 29 30 33 45 29

PTS 101 99 95 84 81 81 80 78 75 74 73 72 71 69 66 65 65 65 64 63

2015-16 Canadian Hockey League Top Ten Poll (last week’s rankings in parentheses records as of Tuesday): 1. (1) Erie Otters (OHL, 44-11-1-0) 2. (2) Val-d’Or Foreurs (QMJHL, 43-11-2-1) 3. (3) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 43-9-3-2) 4. (4) London Knights (OHL, 41-12-2-1) 5. (5) Kitchener Rangers (OHL, 39-12-5-1) 6. (9) Victoria Royals (WHL, 40-16-3-3) 7. (6) Kelowna Rockets (WHL, 41-16-3-0) 8. (8) Gatineau Olympiques (QMJHL,39-16-2-1) 9. (7) Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL, 40-19-1-0) 10. (NR) Kingston Frontenacs (OHL, 37-15-2-2) - 2 Honourable Mention Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, 36-15-4-0) Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 37-16-4-0) Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL, 37-18-3-2).

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.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 60 35 18 7 77 Tampa Bay 60 34 22 4 72 Boston 61 33 22 6 72 Detroit 61 30 20 11 71 Ottawa 62 29 27 6 64 Montreal 61 29 27 5 63 Buffalo 61 24 30 7 55 Toronto 59 21 28 10 52

GF 167 165 190 153 179 167 144 145

GA 139 149 170 158 192 168 167 176

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 59 44 11 4 92 N.Y. Rangers 61 35 20 6 76 N.Y. Islanders 59 33 19 7 73 Pittsburgh 59 30 21 8 68 New Jersey 62 30 25 7 67 Carolina 62 28 24 10 66 Philadelphia 60 27 22 11 65 Columbus 62 25 29 8 58

GF 197 175 170 155 139 152 148 162

GA 137 156 146 156 149 164 163 191

Dallas Chicago St. Louis

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 62 38 18 6 82 202 178 63 38 20 5 81 177 151 63 35 19 9 79 157 152

Rebels vs.

Portland Winterhawks Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Winterhawks’ record of 31-27-3-0 has them in fourth place in the U.S. Division and in seventh spot in the Western Conference. The ‘Hawks dropped their second game in succession Wednesday at Edmonton — falling 5-1 to the Oil Kings — and are 6-3-1-0 in their last 10 contests …

Portland isn’t lacking in offence, with six players possessing 40 points or more this season. Leading the way is C Dominic Turgeon with 58 points (29g,29a). Next in line are LW Rihards Bukarts (24-30-54), RW Alex Schoenborn (24-24-48), D Caleb Jones (10-3848), D Jack Dougherty (10-37-47) and C Rodrigo

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.

Nashville Colorado Minnesota Winnipeg

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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.

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 59 35 20 4 74 159 138 Anaheim 59 32 19 8 72 147 141 San Jose 59 32 21 6 70 177 161 Vancouver 60 24 24 12 60 147 171 Arizona 61 27 28 6 60 166 188 Calgary 60 26 30 4 56 162 184 Edmonton 61 22 33 6 50 151 188 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

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

Saturday’s Games Arizona at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Florida at Columbus, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit vs. Colorado at Denver, CO, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Islanders 2, Flames 1 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Hudler 10 (Monahan, Gaudreau) 4:16.

Penalties — Cizikas NYI, Bouma Cgy (fighting) 7:25 Okposo NYI (hooking) 11:08 Martin NYI, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 14:14.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Martin NYI, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 2:54 Bollig Cgy (delay of game) 15:32.

Third Period 2. NY Islanders, Hickey 3 (Martin, Cizikas) 9:49.

Penalties — Colborne Cgy (tripping) 7:19 Okposo NYI (holding) 10:06.

Overtime 3. NY Islanders, Bailey 11 (Tavares, Hamonic) 4:42.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal New York 12 10 9 3 — 34 Calgary 12 11 7 2 — 32 Goal — NY Islanders: Halak (W, 16-12-4). Calgary: Ortio (L, 0-4-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — NY Islanders: 0-2 Calgary: 0-2.

Abois (17-23-40) … Turgeon (Detroit), Schoenborn (San Jose), Jones (Edmonton) and Dougherty (Nashville) are NHL draft picks, as are C Keegan Iverson (NY Rangers), injured LW Paul Bittner (Columbus) and G Adin Hill (Arizona).

Injuries — Portland: LW Paul Bittner (lower body, indefinite). Red Deer: C Conner Bleackley (lower body, indefinite), RW Reese Johnson (upper body, 2-4 weeks), D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite), LW Braden Purtill (upper body, indefinite), G Rylan Toth (lower body, indefinite).

Special teams — Portland: Power play 19.5 per cent, 14th overall; penalty kill 79.1 per cent, 14th. Red Deer: Power play 22.2 per cent, fifth overall; penalty kill 75.4 per cent, 20th.

Scouting report

PGA Tour-Honda Classic Thursday At PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,140 Par 70 (35-35) Partial First Round Sergio Garcia 31-34—65 Michael Thompson 31-34—65 William McGirt 32-34—66 Rickie Fowler 32-34—66 George McNeill 32-35—67 Shane Lowry 34-33—67 David Lingmerth 32-35—67 Jimmy Walker 34-33—67 Justin Hicks 33-34—67 Jason Dufner 35-33—68 Si Woo Kim 37-31—68 Adam Hadwin 33-35—68 Erik Compton 33-35—68 Sean O’Hair 34-35—69 Justin Thomas 33-36—69 Phil Mickelson 37-32—69 Paul Casey 34-35—69 Sam Saunders 31-38—69 Ollie Schniederjans 34-35—69 Greg Owen 35-34—69 Darron Stiles 33-36—69 Vijay Singh 33-36—69 Cameron Tringale 34-36—70 Scott Brown 35-35—70 Brendon de Jonge 37-33—70 Stuart Appleby 35-35—70 Smylie Kaufman 34-36—70 Adam Scott 34-36—70 Russell Knox 35-35—70 Brooks Koepka 36-34—70 Gary Woodland 35-35—70 Blayne Barber 35-35—70 Ricky Barnes 33-37—70 Will Wilcox 35-35—70 Chesson Hadley 31-39—70 Anirban Lahiri 36-34—70 Derek Fathauer 34-36—70 Harold Varner III 33-37—70 Tom Hoge 34-36—70 Hudson Swafford 37-34—71 Matthew Fitzpatrick 37-34—71 Daniel Summerhays 36-35—71 Steve Wheatcroft 36-35—71 Tyrone Van Aswegen 33-38—71

Hideki Matsuyama Retief Goosen Dawie van der Walt Ernie Els Ian Poulter Mark Hubbard Sung Kang John Huh Scott Pinckney Jerry Kelly Alex Cejka Ben Martin John Senden Davis Love III Graeme McDowell Jason Bohn Andrew Loupe Andy Sullivan Will MacKenzie Lucas Glover Freddie Jacobson Emiliano Grillo Camilo Villegas Kevin Kisner Pat Perez Tony Finau Jeff Overton Brett Stegmaier Charles Howell III Angel Cabrera Brendon Todd Rory McIlroy Geoff Ogilvy Graham DeLaet Jamie Donaldson Boo Weekley Peter Malnati Branden Grace Billy Horschel Robert Streb Kyle Stanley Francesco Molinari Luke List Spencer Levin Stewart Cink Padraig Harrington Daniel Berger Steve Marino Ryan Palmer Jonas Blixt Jamie Lovemark

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Curling 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) x-Alberta (Carey) x-Canada (Jones) x-Northern Ont. (McCarville) Manitoba (Einarson) Saskatchewan (Campbell) Nova Scotia (Brothers) Ontario (Hanna) P.E.I. (Burt) Quebec (Larouche) Nfld. & Labrador (Curtis) B.C. (Thompson) New Brunswick (Robichaud) x — clinched playoff berth.

National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 6 4 2 .667 78 Rochester 6 3 3 .500 71 Buffalo 8 4 4 .500 107 Georgia 8 4 4 .500 110 Toronto 7 1 6 .143 72 West Division W L Pct. GF 6 2 .750 100 4 2 .667 70

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Thursday’s results Draw 14 Alberta 8 Nova Scotia 2 New Brunswick 6 Quebec 5 Northern Ontario 10 B.C. 3 Saskatchewan 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Draw 15 Northern Ontario 7 Quebec 2 B.C. 7 New Brunswick 5

Ontario 8 P.E.I. 5 Canada 8 Manitoba 4 Draw 16 Canada 7 Ontario 4 Manitoba 8 P.E.I. 7 Alberta 6 Saskatchewan 5 Nova Scotia 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 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 Ontario 6 New Brunswick 4 P.E.I. 6 B.C. 4 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’s games 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’s games Page Playoffs One vs. Two, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Page Playoffs Three vs. Four, 1:30 p.m.

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

Sunday’s games Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 1:30 p.m.

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

Transactions

Lacrosse

GP Colorado 8 Saskatchewan 6

GA 177 188 195 212 253 205

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 38 18 .679 — Boston 34 25 .576 5 1/2 New York 24 35 .407 15 1/2 Brooklyn 16 42 .276 23 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 31 .446

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WEEK NINE Friday’s game Buffalo at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

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

Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Saskatchewan at Calgary, 2 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL The visiting Lindsay Thurber Raiders, with Kiera Fujimoto netting 20 points, roared past the Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers 94-27 Thursday to close out their senior high girls basketball regular season schedule with a 9-0 mark.

The Raiders, who clinched top spot in the Central Alberta High School League and will face the Notre Dame Cougars in a best-of-three 4A zone semifinal starting Tuesday, also got 16 points from Kelsey Lalor. Lizzy Morneault added 15 for the winners and Hayley Lalor scored 14.

Megan Steenbergen led the Lakers with 10 points, while Taylor Ferguson chipped in with eight.

RINGETTE Six members of the 2016 Canadian world junior ringette championship team — including Red Deer’s Kelsie Caine — will be at the Lacombe Arena Saturday from noon to 2 p.m.

The players will sign autographs and pose for photos with the world championship trophy as part of the ringette AA provincials scheduled to open today at 7:45 a.m.

Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated 1B/OF Efren Navarro for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Yovani Gallardo on a two-year contract.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with LHPs Blaine Hardy and Jairo Labourt, C James McCann, INFs Nick Castellanos and Dixon Machado, OF Wynton Bernard and RHPs Jeff Ferrell, Michael Fulmer, Shane Greene, Montreal Robertson, Jose Valdez, Drew VerHagen and Alex Wilson on oneyear contracts.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Scott Alexander RHPs Miguel Almonte, Alec Mills and Kyle Zimmer INFs Cheslor Cuthbert and Raul Mondesi and OFs Jorge Bonifacio, Brett Eibner, Terrance Gore, Jose Martinez and Bubba Starling on one-year contracts.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with OF Domonic Brown on a minor league contract.

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

CHICAGO CUBS — Traded OF Chris Coghlan to Oakland for RHP Aaron Brooks. Placed LHP Zac Rosscup on the 60-day DL. Agreed to terms with OF Dexter Fowler on a one-year contract.

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Traded INF Dustin Geiger to Wichita for a player to be named

and cash and RHP Matt Sergey to Laredo for a player to be named and cash.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Traded RHP Jorge Martinez to York for a player to be named.

TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Mark Pope.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed RHP Jon Link, LHP Anthony Capra and OF Brent Clevlen.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Eric Sim. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Waived G Joe Johnson.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Reassigned F Jarell Martin to Iowa (NBADL).

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Waived G Andre Miller.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed F J.J. Hickson.

Women’s National Basketball Association MINNESOTA LYNX — Signed G Katerina Elhotova.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed RB Martese Jackson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Claimed C Chris Wagner off waivers from Colorado.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned G Philippe Desrosiers to Idaho (ECHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled Fs Maxim Kitsyn and Scott Sabourin from Manchester (ECHL) to Ontario (AHL).

NHL

Jets send captain Ladd to Blackhawks in package deal The last time Andrew Ladd wore a Blackhawks jersey it was in the middle of the 2010 Stanley Cup parade in downtown Chicago.

He’s hoping to repeat that moment.

The Winnipeg Jets traded their captain to the Blackhawks in a multi-player deal on Thursday with Red Deer’s Matt Fraser and Jay Harrison also going to Chicago. Both Fraser and Harrison will report to the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Garrett Noonan from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Milwaukee (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Acquired F Marko Dano, a 2016 first-round draft pick and a 2018 conditional draft pick from Chicago for Fs Andrew Ladd and Matt Fraser and D Jay Harrison.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Chicago RW Cody Beach two games.

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Recalled D C.J. Ludwig from Missouri (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Assigned G Brian Foster to Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Loaned F Mike Embach to Chicago (AHL).

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Loaned F Matt Leitner to Ontario (AHL).

WICHITA THUNDER — Signed G Adrien Lemay.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Transferred F Obafemi Martins to Shanghai Greenland Shenhua (Super League-China).

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Named Ronan Wiseman assistant youth director.

United Soccer League SAN ANTONIO FC — Signed D Greg Cochrane and F Manolo Sanchez.

“The city was electric and we just had such a close-knit group of guys that it was an exciting time for everyone,” said Ladd. “The reality hit that not everyone’s going to be sticking around. I think it was good for my career in terms of the situations and minutes that I played beyond that. I’m excited to come back and show what my game’s all about now.”

Winnipeg gets forward Marko Dano, the Blackhawks’ first-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft and a conditional pick in 2018.

Ladd immediately upgrades the reigning Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks, filling a need on the left wing of their already-potent top-six forward group. He seems likely to join Jonathan Toews on a Chicago top unit that will also likely include Marian Hossa, sidelined at the moment by a leg injury.

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Garcia faces unique hazard at Honda Classic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Sergio Garcia made an eagle, avoided an alligator and wound up in a share of the lead Thursday in the Honda Classic.

Garcia holed out with an 8-iron from 142 yards into the wind on the second hole for an eagle, and he narrowly missed an eagle putt on the 18th hole at PGA National. The Spaniard shot 5-under 65 and shared the lead with Michael Thompson, the 2013 Honda Classic winner, who also birdied the last hole.

They were one shot ahead of Rickie Fowler and William McGirt.

The biggest excitement for Garcia was on the par-4 sixth hole, where he made his lone bogey.

His tee shot found the water left of the fairway, shallow enough for him to roll up his pants and try to play it out to the fairway. That part was easy. He looked over his shoulder because of an alligator on the island, making sure it wasn’t going anywhere soon. “I was more worried about the alligator that was on the other side of the island than getting out of the water,�

Garcia said. “The ball, I could see probably half of it, so I knew that I could get it out. Almost made 4, which would have been a great 4. I’m not going to lie, I was happy with a 5.�

And he was happy with other 60 strokes he took on a typical windy day at PGA National.

Garcia missed the cut last week at Riviera, two days in which he said he did nothing well. Hardly anything went

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Michael Thompson hits out of a bunker onto the 12th green during the first round of the Honda Classic, Thursday, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. wrong for him in the Honda Classic, and even when it did, he managed to avoid trouble. Garcia had to play a 40-yard hook from the rough left of the 10th fairway to just short of the green for a simple par.

Fowler had the only bogey-free round, which included a chip-in for par on the 10th hole. McGirt was more on the wild side by making seven birdies. “Anything in the red is good around

this place,� McGirt said. “At 4 under, I would say it was bordering on great.

This place is never easy, even when it’s calm. You can’t fall asleep on any shot out here.�

For the early starters, it was a rude welcome to the Florida swing — chilly and gusts that approached 30 mph.

Phil Mickelson extended his good play from a runner-up finish at Pebble Beach and shot 69, among 10 players who managed to break par in the

morning. The wind eased slightly and the warmth returned briefly in the afternoon, and the crowd had a lot more to cheer.

That included the loudest cheer of the day on the par-3 17th, where Alex Cejka made a hole-in-one.

Rory McIlroy, however, wasn’t in a happy place when he finished.

Standing outside the scoring area, he smacked his putter on the concrete before going inside to sign for a 72. It wasn’t an awful score, but the finish led to his angst.

He hit the face of a bunker on the 14th hole and went into another fairway bunker, put his third in more sand left of the green and made double bogey. After a birdie on the 15th, McIlroy came up short into the bunker on the 16th for a bogey, and he finished his round with a three-putt bogey from 10 feet.

Fowler was playing for the first time since he lost a two-shot lead with two holes to play and Hideki Matsuyama beat him in a playoff at Phoenix Open.

Fowler said he spent a week with friends and played plenty last week to get ready for a big stretch. He opened with two birdies in three holes and was in position most of the day. “I think we got a good break playing in the afternoon today,� he said. “I think the wind laid down a little bit for us. I know the guys had a tough time this morning and the course was not easy. Still didn’t play easy out there for us. I felt like I swung it really well teeto-green. Would have been nice to putt a little better, but still a nice, solid round to start off the week.�

Reigning MVP Donaldson comes Canadian bowler returns home still to camp with great expectations savouring historic PBA Tour win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Josh Donaldson isn’t worried about the Toronto Blue Jays’ offensive potential this upcoming season.

He just feels sorry for opposing pitchers. “The fact of the matter is, you have me, then you have Jose Bautista, who hit 40 homers last year ‌ then Edwin Encarnacion, who’s hit over 40, then Russell Martin ‌ (Chris) Colabello, (Justin) Smoak ‌ Tulo (Troy Tulowitzki) — I mean, Jesus, it just keeps going,â€? Donaldson said. “I wouldn’t want to pitch against us. There were a lot of guys last year that we faced who were defeated before they even threw the first pitch.

And those guys made their exit pretty quick.�

Donaldson, the reigning MVP of the American League, reported to Blue Jays camp Thursday after a jampacked off-season.

He played with PGA Tour star Jason Dufner in the Pebble Beach Pro Am — where he rubbed elbows with singer Justin Timberlake — took a photo of himself with Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton at an Auburn football game (both are Tigers alumni), and even landed a speaking role on an episode of the History Channel’s Canadian-Irish drama series “Vikings.� “I had a great time,� Donaldson said about his acting gig. “Went to Ireland (to film the episode), got to meet a lot of the cast members there, got to dress up and become a Viking. It’s something that is kind of still a little bit surreal to me. “I’ve never been on a TV show. I never claimed to be an actor. But now I am an actor.�

Fresh off avoiding arbitration with a two-year contract worth US$28.65 million, the all-star third baseman is entering his second season with the club.

The differences between this year’s camp and spring training last year, he said, are “night and day.� “Last year coming into a new team, a lot of new faces, trying to let everyone get acclimated to me and then really just trying to get to know everybody,� Donaldson said. “This year they know who I am, I know most of the faces in there. “This year (the goal) is trying to get the troops on board early on what the objectives are and I’m looking forward to having another good year.�

While Bautista dominated storylines Monday with his comments on a possible contract extension, Donaldson is still years away from thinking of his own free agency. The infielder said he’s not even contemplating a longer-term deal at this time. “I said earlier in the off-season that I would love to end my career as a Blue Jay but that’s something that we’re not even talking about right now for the sheer fact that I feel like both sides are happy where we’re at,� he said. “I’m sure at some point we’ll have talks but that’s not even a concern for me right now.�

Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro said avoiding arbitration with one of his star players was “important, there’s no question about it.â€? “That’s the business reality of the game,â€? Shapiro said. “Ninety-eight per cent of the time you’re aligned with identical objectives ‌ and then you’re left with these small junctures of time when you’re across the table in a business setting and to some extent you’re against each other.â€?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Graham Fach arrived home Tuesday, bringing a possible case of bronchitis and US$40,000 with him.

The 24-year-old left-hander from Guelph, Ont., made history in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday when he became the first Canadian to win a Professional Bowlers Association Tour title. And Fach did it in just his second PBA Tour event, defeating American Ryan Ciminelli 279-244 to win the Barbasol Players Championship at Wayne Webb’s Columbus Bowl.

The victory, in an event considered one of the PBA Tour’s majors, was worth $40,000. For the fledgling pro, the prize money helps make the future a little less uncertain. “That definitely takes a huge load off my back — $40,000 definitely eases the tension,� Fach said.

He has also received an offer for a sponsorship contract from a bowling ball manufacturer. Fach, who got a shaving cream facial from his fellow bowlers in the wake of his nationally televised win, had been battling sickness throughout the weekend. His girlfriend, who was in the stands along-

side his mother to watch his weekend win, had the same thing and was just diagnosed with bronchitis. “So I’m assuming I’ve had bronchitis since Friday,� he said. “Adrenalin kicked in at the right time, that’s for sure.�

Fach finished 171st in his PBA Tour debut — the United States Bowling Congress Masters in Indianapolis earlier this month. “It was the very first tournament that I bowled professionally so there was definitely some nerves. I didn’t think I bowled that bad but there was like 500-plus bowlers because that tournament was open to amateurs.�

Using both hands, Fach first bowled when he was three — “even younger if you count five-pin.� “I didn’t start getting good until I was maybe 13 or 14 and then I might have won my first youth tournament.

Then I just kind of ran with that. I realized that I could do it so the confidence was sky-high and I just didn’t want to look back, I guess.�

He earned a partial scholarship to Ohio’s Urbana University, whose team was runner-up at the 2014 XBowling Intercollegiate Team Championships.

Fach was named tournament MVP.

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Charles Bonnet syndrome causes hallucinations for some with low vision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The first time Jack Hunter realized that seeing wasn’t really believing was about eight years ago, as he was sitting in his Toronto apartment reading and caught a flicker of movement across the room.

There, before his eyes, he beheld a woman cleaning the floor.

“All I could see was the profile of a woman standing there and one hand was going in and out negotiating the broom — she was either sweeping or mopping the floor — and I thought ‘What the heck is this?’

“And the more I tried to turn my head to see, I saw less of it. And if I really looked hard, it disappeared altogether.”

Hunter, an ex-cop from Scotland who emigrated to Canada 50 years ago and spent 35 years as a private detective investigating copyright infringement, isn’t one given to flights of fancy. So he was more intrigued than alarmed.

“I wouldn’t say I was afraid. I was a wee bit concerned,” said the 77-yearold, who has lost sight in his left eye and has about 30 per cent vision in his right eye, the result of age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma.

At a scheduled appointment the next day, Hunter described the apparition to his ophthalmologist, who assured him such hallucinations were common among people with severe vision loss and he shouldn’t worry.

Hunter later discovered his condition had a medical designation — Charles Bonnet syndrome (pronounced bone-AY), named for the Swiss naturalist who first documented it in 1760 in his grandfather. The 89-year-old, who was nearly blind from cataracts, described seeing people, birds, carriages and buildings that didn’t exist.

About one in five people with low vision experience Charles Bonnet syndrome, said Keith Gordon, vice-president of research at the CNIB, whose study on the condition’s prevalence among about 2,500 patients seen at the Toronto centre is published in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology.

But what was alarming to Gordon was how little awareness there seemed to be about the syndrome, both among medical professionals and the general public.

That dearth of knowledge can harm affected patients because many believe the hallucinations are caused by dementia or mental illness, he discov-

ered while interviewing 35 subjects in a subsequent study.

“A lot of them said they would not tell people about it because they were afraid to admit that they were going crazy,” Gordon said.

“I think people need reassurance that they’re not going crazy and what they’re suffering from isn’t a form of dementia.”

Dr. Dominic Ffytche of King’s College London, one of the world’s foremost experts on Charles Bonnet syndrome, said the hallucinations are caused by hyperexcitability of neurons in parts of the brain that process visual images.

“So brain cells are firing when they shouldn’t be … (and) that leads to the hallucinations,” Ffytche, a clinical senior lecturer in old age psychiatry, said Wednesday from London.

“Our visual brains are working all the time to decode what we’re seeing in front of us, whether that’s a face or an object. It’s not a reliving of a visual experience that you’ve seen in the real world.”

People with Charles Bonnet commonly describe similar types of images: geometric patterns like brick walls, birds and animals, gargoyle-like faces, and people dressed in elaborate Edwardian- or Victorian-era costumes or military uniforms. Napoleonic soldiers are a common “sight.”

“We don’t know why that is, but the assumption is there’s a bit of the brain processing, maybe figure-perception, that when it fires off, it gives you a sense that there are figures in an old-fashioned costume,” said Ffytche.

Unlike hallucinations related to dementia or some mental illnesses, those caused by Charles Bonnet syndrome do not have an auditory component, he added.

“It’s like a silent movie, but they can have internal motion. They could be dancing or moving around or walking, for example.”

Gordon said one woman saw little men holding umbrellas sitting on the end of her bed. Another described ranks of soldiers marching down the street.

“Some people like it, some are afraid and others hate it,” said Gordon, noting that hallucinations can last from seconds to minutes and often occur a couple of times a day, sometimes for months, sometimes for years.

“Some are prepared to live with it and others just want to get rid of it.”

There are no drugs that will banish the delusions, but Gordon said adjusting one’s lighting and rapidly blinking or repeatedly moving the direction of

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Jack Hunter, who has Charles Bonnet syndrome which is a condition that causes hallucinations due to low vision, poses for a photo in Toronto on Wednesday. A new study finds that one in five Canadians with vision loss who were surveyed experience such visual hallucinations which may include seeing images of shapes, animals as well as people. one’s gaze can make them disappear, at least temporarily.

The CNIB has a pamphlet explaining Charles Bonnet syndrome, which clients are asked to take to their primary-care doctor. They are also encouraged to have their physician confirm that the hallucinations are related to eye disease or conditions like stroke that affect visual pathways in the brain — not Parkinson’s or another neurological condition.

As for Hunter, he can no longer read or drive a vehicle — but at least his experience with Charles Bonnet has been visually rich.

Towering castles where there was only an empty field and park a young girl wearing a red dress with a big bow on the back, holding out her arms to someone a man wearing khaki shorts and sandals, reading a broadsheet newspaper and a fly that appeared inside his TV that flew out into his

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“I find it very, very interesting,” he said. “And they’re so clear.”

One day in his apartment, he saw three ladies with grey hair, all of them wearing long dresses from “the late 1800s or something,” who appeared to be polishing furniture. One of them was up a ladder, reaching up to do some task.

Hunter has no idea why it’s these kinds of objects and figures that appear to him, and he knows his friends are often incredulous when he describes these visual companions that come and go in the blink of an eye.

And that can include some good-natured ribbing.

“My friend says to me, ‘Do you ever see anyone in a mini skirt?’ Unfortunately, I’ve not been that lucky.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — A tiny study suggests that the experimental Ebola treatment ZMapp sharply increases the chance of surviving the deadly virus.

The study included only 72 patients, less than half the 200 originally planned, because the Ebola epidemic was declared over in January. Researchers testing the experimental combination drug, developed by Mapp Biopharmaceuticals, cut off enrolment when the epidemic ended.

The outbreak raged in several western African countries for two years, killing more than 11,000 people.

The study, released late Tuesday at a medical conference, found that 22 per cent of participants given ZMapp died, compared with 37 per cent of participants receiving standard treatments. Because so few people were tested, the results could have occurred by chance.

Still, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the study sponsors, wrote that Mapp’s combination drug “was well tolerated and showed promise.”

Because of that, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked Mapp to make its drug available to any future patients as needed. Mapp plans to continue testing and seek approval to put the drug on the market as quickly as possible.

“Having a therapeutic option available for Ebola will help motivate patients to come to treatment units, reducing opportunities for infection in the community,” Dr. Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders said in a printed statement.

Ebola is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of victims or corpses. Traditional funerals, in which mourners touch the body, were a major source of virus transmission during the epidemic in West Africa.

The study ran for nearly a year, testing 72 adults and children with confirmed Ebola. The participants included 1 patient in the U.S., plus 12 patients in Guinea, five in Liberia and 54 in Sierra Leone, the African countries hardest hit in the epidemic that began in December 2013.

Half got ZMapp, which combines three genetically engineered antibodies — substances that help direct the immune system’s attack on invading germs. The antibodies are produced in tobacco plants inside

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Vanier Woods Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Bylaw Amendment 3217/A-2016 Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/B-2016 Red Deer City Council proposes to amend both the Vanier Woods Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan and the Land Use Bylaw to provide for commercial development (C5) on a triangle shaped ±1.17 hectare (±2.89 acres) parcel at 2506 – 19 Street (Lot 1, Block 2, Plan 932 1800).

The subject parcel is currently designated R3 – Residential (Multiple Family) District in the Land Use Bylaw and the Vanier Woods Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan (NASP) identifies the subject site as “Multi-Family Residential(R2/R3)”, but with the potential for commercial use as well.

The proposed amendments would identify the site as “Commercial” in the NASP and designate the site as C5 Commercial (Mixed Use) District in the Land Use Bylaw.

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The other half got standard supportive care: intravenous fluids, electrolytes to maintain bodily functions and treatments to control blood pressure and oxygen levels. In a second report also released at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection, two experimental vaccines targeting Ebola induced an immune response against the virus and were well tolerated, according to the infectious diseases institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. That study also was scaled back from the 28,000 volunteer participants originally planned. Instead, 1,500 people were divided in three equal groups and injected with one of the two vaccines or with saline. After a month, antibodies were seen in the blood of 94 per cent of the participants getting a vaccine called rVSV-ZEBOV. Drugmaker Merck & Co. has licensed rights to eventually sell that vaccine from New Link Genetics Corp., which licensed it from the original developer, Canada’s Public Health Agency. Likewise, antibodies were seen after a month in 87 per cent of volunteers given the cAd3-EBOZ vaccine. That vaccine is being developed by drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC and the infectious diseases institute.

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Downtown 2 Media Resources Alberta Inc. – three freestanding signs related to an existing funeral home, to be located at 4820 45 Street.

Laredo 3 True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a raffle home within a proposed detached dwelling, to be located at 45 Larratt Close.

4 True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a secondary suite, with two bedrooms, within a proposed detached dwelling, to be located at 9 Lutz Court.

Riverlands 5 Up To Kode Carpentry – a multiple family residential building consisting of four units, to be located at 5589 47 Street.

The Mayor’s Recognition Awards recognize individuals, groups and teams from Red Deer whose actions have brought honour and recognition to the city of Red Deer.

Do you know someone deserving of recognition?

Nominations will now be accepted until Monday, March 14.

The Mayor’s Recognition Awards honour recipients in five categories: • Athletics • Fine & Performing Arts • Distinguished Voluntary Service • Community Builder Award • Mayor’s Special Award To find out more about this awards program, or to print a nomination form, visit www.reddeer.ca/mra.

Nomination forms can also be picked up at: Legislative Services Second Floor, City Hall 4914-48 Avenue, Red Deer, AB For additional information, contact: Samantha Rodwell, Deputy City Clerk 403.342.8289 samantha.rodwell@reddeer.ca

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Nominations accepted until Monday, March 14, 2016 at 9 a.m.

6 B. Cleall – a secondary suite, with two bedrooms, within an existing detached dwelling, to be located at 3241 55 Avenue.

The Mayor’s Recognition Awards will be presented at an awards ceremony in June.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on March 11, 2016. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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The Work is comprised of approximately:

The proposed bylaws may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearing on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

by Friday, March 4, 2016. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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B8 Learning to be a life-long runner FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 2016

DOUG MACISAAC HAS LEARNED THAT TO CONTINUE RUNNING HE MUST MIX IN OTHER SPORTS Doug MacIsaac likes to describe Just missing severing his femoral himself as “a jack of all trades, master artery in his leg, Doug lost two pints of of none.” blood on the trail.

He is one of those life-long athletes “I actually thought this is it, ” said who played multiple sports growing up Doug. “That’s my femoral artery. You such as football, rugby and got minutes and we were not soccer. in a minute response. It took Over the years, the nowan hour for emergency to 53-year-old added running, get there because we were speed-skating, snowshoeso embedded in the maze of ing and mountain biking trails. The four other people to his recreational reperbasically saved my life.” toire.

The other riders were He took to running fairfrom Quebec and English is ly easily and he turned their second language. out to be pretty good at But when it came to a life it – running Boston three or death situation, everyone times, soloing the Canadiunderstood what they had to an Death Race and comdo.

CRYSTAL peting in the 200m, 400m, One rider called 911 and RHYNO 8k cross-country, 10k road communicated with the disRUNNING WITH race and half-marathon patcher and rode out to meet RHYNO events in the 2005 Summer the search and rescue teams.

World Masters Games in Another used a rubber Edmonton. glove and applied direct “I prefer running the longer events pressure to his wound to help stop like marathons,” says Doug. “The and control the bleeding. They used a shorter distances “hurt” too much jacket to block the sun and placed an due to the implied faster running pac- emergency blanket over him. es. I also prefer trail running to road Today Doug is completely recovrunning – better aesthetics and less ered save for a scar on his leg. He went pounding on the joints.” through counselling and rehab to deal I called Doug to chat about the Com- with the physical and emotional traurades Marathon, the largest and oldest ma. ultramarathon in the world.

Most people may tend to “slow Doug and some friends will chal- down” after such a life-altering expelenge the 90K-race, Pietermaritzburg rience. to Durban in South Africa on May 29.

“The hardest thing was dealing with This historic race is on my bucket people who say you’re not 25 anymore list. but it had nothing to do with age,” But as I got to chatting with Doug, I said Doug. “It was circumstantial. The realized his story is much more inspir- bike accident was a freak accident. ing than someone simply running an The stars all aligned with a bunch of ultramarathon on another continent. things. That was just something that The story begins on April 30, 2014, happened.” when Doug was taking advantage of As Doug trains for Comrades, a race the hot weather in Arizona to train for he had planned to run in 2014, he is a six-day mountain race in July. Doug re-learning what his body can do and is a firm believer of crosstraining to testing his limits. He is running long stay healthy and reduce injuries. and slow.

On the final day, Doug was on a new “Running is more of my passion bike because his was getting fixed. The than the other sports,” he said. “In orriders, whom he only met at the begin- der for me to be a lifelong runner, I ning of the trip, were taking it easy and realize I should only run three days a without warning Doug took a fall. week. By doing some mountain biking “We had just gone through a creek,” and inline skating, some speedskating, said Doug, who works at Nova Chemi- it allows me to keep doing the running. cals. “Things were wet. I was clipped It also keeps things fresh by trying othin with my shoes. I had a lot of sand er sports.” and grit on my shoes. When I started Send your column ideas, photos and falling, I tried to unclip but my foot got stories to crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com. stuck in it. When I fell, my inner groin Find Running with Rhyno on Facebook fell on the end cap. I basically impaled and @CrystalRhyno on Twitter and Insmyself with the handlebar.” tagram.

Doug MacIsaac of Lacombe is headed to South Africa in May to run the Comrades Marathon, a 90 km. run from Durban to Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal Province.

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Tough times for STARS funding

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Trish Rasmussen looks through the letters recently found in a stolen car, which were originally written between her grandfather Mungo Clark and his sister Margaret Clark in the 1940’s.

Letters delivered home WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE RETURNED TO SYLVAN LAKE FAMILY

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Calling it serendipity at its finest, Mungo Clark’s granddaughter is looking forward to handing over 90-yearold letters to her mother.

A bundle of letters dating back to the early 1940s were recently discovered in a stolen vehicle in Rimbey.

Most letters were penned between Margaret Clark and her brother Gen. Mungo Clark, who served with the Canadian Army overseas in the 40th Battery, 11th Field Regiment.

Sylvan Lake’s Trish Rasmussen, one of Mungo Clark’s three grandchildren, picked up the letters with her siblings this week in Rimbey. Her mother Bonnie is Clark’s only daughter.

“We had no idea they were missing

at all,” said Rasmussen, 39. “We don’t know where they came from.”

She said the letters showed a softer side of Clark because the war had changed him.

“I think it is so nice for my mom to be able to read some of his emotional moments because she did not get to see that at all in her upbringing,” said Rasmussen. “I am just really, really happy for my mom most of all. It will just mean a lot to her to read these letters and see a different side of her dad.”

Bonnie is working at a camp in British Columbia and will be home to Sylvan Lake in two weeks.

Rasmussen said she read some of the letters with her husband last night.

“He has such a dry sense of humour,” said Rasmussen. “Hearing some of his stories back to his sister

and it was quite comical.”

She said there was a lot of emotion behind the letters.

“You know these soldiers go away to war and all they have are these letters and the connection to the world,” she said. “And when there is a void there, how lonely could that be.”

Clark was born on Oct. 2, 1916 and died in 1995. He would have been 100 this year. Rasmussen has been in contact with Margaret’s granddaughter in New York. She plans to make copies of the letters for her siblings and Margaret’s family before giving them to her mother.

Rimbey RCMP put out a call last week trying to reunite the letters with relatives of the Margaret and Mungo Clark. The letters were written when Mungo was serving overseas. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

New Career High School opens doors

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Chinook’s Edge School Division has a new home for its Red Deer-area alternative high school on the edge of the city.

Since mid-January, about 160 high school students, as well as adults looking to upgrade their education, have been enrolled at Gasoline Alley Career High, 104-159B Leva Ave., across from Galaxy Theatre.

The outreach school temporarily operated out of Penhold Crossing for about a year until work on the new storefront rental site in Gasoline Alley was complete. Originally located in Red Deer, the school has operated for 21 years.

Principal Daryl Brown said moving to Gasoline Alley has already made the school attractive to more adults.

“Since we walked in the door here a month ago, we probably gained 15 adults simply because we’re closer to Red Deer now. A lot of adults who don’t have access to their own vehicles could not get to Penhold. Now they can take public transportation and get to us,” said Brown at the school’s official re-opening on Thursday.

Currently about 50 out of 110 active students are adults. Funding is provided through Alberta Works for adults who qualify.

“We’re one of the unique outreach schools that actually include adult upgrading. Most do not.”

He said a lot of Red Deer College students are coming to the Gasoline Alley school to upgrade to access college courses.

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RCMP arrest pair after road rage incident Red Deer RCMP arrested two males after a road rage incident involving an imitation firearm Thursday afternoon.

Police received a complaint at about 1:30 p.m. about a man and a youth in a vehicle waiving what appeared to be a long-barrel firearm at another driver in the Bower neighbourhood.

The males then confronted the driver in an alley that intersected Boyce Street, but there was no physical confrontation.

The two suspects got back in their car and were immediately intercepted

by RCMP in the parking lot of Bower Place shopping centre.

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Chinook’s Edge School Division employees from the left, Dee Peterson, Lori Kennedy-Betts, Tracee Lamy and Susan Fox attended the grand opening of the new Chinook’s Edge Career High School at Gasoline Alley located at 159 Leva Avenue on Thursday. fessional jobs in other countries are also coming in for English language training.

High school students come mostly from Red Deer County.

Brown said the school will look at whether summer school could be provided for both youth and adults in Gasoline Alley.

The school has two full-time teachers and another teacher who is on-site one day a week.

He said the new school will have room for more students than the downtown location in Red Deer. Gasoline Alley Career High School was also designed to make students feel at home.

The cheery space has round tables where students can spread out their

work adjacent to an open kitchen space where they can grab a healthy snack like fruits and vegetables.

“We built this site so when students walk through the door they feel comfortable. So they feel like they belong.

So they feel like they’re accepted,” Brown said.

A small classroom at the school is almost soundproof so teachers can teach small groups and students can take exams. A small office is available for private meetings.

Chinook’s Edge has five Career High Schools. It’s other alternative high schools are in Sylvan Lake, Innisfail, Olds and Didsbury to provide a flexible approach to learning. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Police executed a high-risk arrest, which is standard procedure when there is any perceived risk to public safety.

The males were taken into custody without incident, and RCMP seized a replica BB gun. Charges are pending.

Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3310.

Police considered the suspect armed and dangerous so no one should approach him, but rather contact police immediately.

To contact police anonymously, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 (TIPS), or at www.tipsubmit. com. People do not have to reveal their identity to Crime Stoppers.

If information leads to an arrest, the caller may be eligible for a cash reward.

Police looking for attempted murder suspect RCMP are searching for a suspect armed with a gun who robbed Gasoline Alley Liquor Store Wednesday night.

Blackfalds RCMP said at about 10:30 p.m., a male walked up to a store cashier, demanded money and produced a black handgun.

About $370 in cash was taken and the suspect left in a white or silver car.

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Clarification An article published on Feb.24 about the Medicine River Wildlife Centre contained incorrect information. The Medicine River Wildlife Centre received a $111,000 corporate donation from Border Paving towards the centre’s land preservation project.

Financial donations are the lifeblood of STARS air ambulance service.

Three-quarters of the non-profit foundation’s $41-million operating budget comes from fundraising and other revenue.

A significant contributor has been the province’s oil and gas sector. However, that support has been shrinking as the industry is pummelled by rock-bottom world oil prices.

“It’s definitely down as far as what we’re seeing from industry,” said Glenda Farnden, senior municipal relations liaison.

Some supporting companies have folded and others have had to scale back their own STARS fundraising events as firms look at shoring up their bottom lines.

While Alberta Health Services is the single largest funder with an annual contribution just under $10 million, the oil and gas industry has been one of STARS biggest private sector supporters.

“We do have some long-term industry partners that have made some significant commitments to continuing the service,” said Farnden, who did not a specific breakdown of contributions by sector.

Among other recurring donors are two-thirds of the province’s municipalities, which collectively contribute about $1.3 million to the foundation each year.

To help boost funding, STARS would like to see the remaining onethird of Alberta municipalities that don’t support the foundation financially to consider an ongoing per-capita donation.

The target is $2 per capita but STARS understands communities may want to start lower.

Farnden was before Lacombe County council on Thursday to request a $1-per-capita two-year pledge. Council, as is usual practice, referred the request to staff for a report and recommendations for a later meeting.

STARS averages about 10 calls a year in Lacombe County, which is on the lower side in Central Alberta. Red Deer County averages about 70 a year and Clearwater County 45.

While most communities have chosen the $2-per-capita, many are giving more and one community donates $65 per capita every year — a $150,000 cheque annually.

Besides giving STARS a level of financial security, the municipal contributions bring Albertans together to support a service that has made more than 30,000 flights over the last 31 years.

“STARS belongs to Albertans so this is maybe where we can join together,” she said.

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Group of 10 hit it big on LOTTO MAX

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A group of 10 Central Alberta co-workers struck it rich with LOTTO MAX on Jan. 22.

The group, that included Red Deer, Tofield, Sylvan Lake and Lousana residents, won $100,000 on the EXTRA draw.

The winners included Tracy Jackson, Betty Ann Baich, Jan Wareham, Kim Surian, Tammy Hawryszko, Shirley Dawley, Lee Watt, Patricia Johnston, Audra Hoover and Karen Thompson.

They have been playing LOTTO MAX together for the past four years.

Jackson took the tickets to Rexall to scan them on the ticket checker, then informed Baich that they won.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Baich. “So I ran upstairs and grabbed some of the other girls to come and take a look at the ticket.”

Jackson purchased the group’s winning LOTTO MAX and EXTRA ticket at Sobey’s Gaetz Avenue, at 5-5111 22nd St.

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Students get boost, smokers, drinkers feel pinch from Ontario budget TORONTO — University and college will soon be free for low-income students in Ontario, but prices are going up on wine, tobacco, gasoline and heating for most homeowners.

The Liberal government says it’s on track to eliminate a $5.7-billion deficit in the next budget largely thanks to managing program spending and fighting the underground economy, but it is hesitant to acknowledge that the partial privatization of Hydro One and a new carbon pricing system are major factors contributing to that goal.

The showcase pledge in the government’s 201617 budget — its ninth consecutive in the red — is to introduce an Ontario Student Grant that would entirely pay for average college or university tuition for students from families with incomes of $50,000 or less.

Under the new program, half of students from families with incomes of $83,000 will qualify for non-repayable grants for tuition and no student will receive less than they can currently receive.

The new grant combines existing programs, and Finance Minister Charles Sousa said he hopes it will come at no additional cost to government.

The Canadian Federation of Students applauded the move in an era in which students graduate with “mortgage-sized” debt.

VICTORIA — Homeless campers on the grounds of Victoria’s courthouse staged a block party Thursday as they faced eviction from a tent city where more than 100 people have lived for months.

The party got off to a rough start as police cars arrived with sirens blaring to investigate a disturbance at one of the tents at the camp.

Police were not commenting about an alleged assault.

The B.C. government gave campers a Feb. 25 deadline earlier this month to move, but police and the province say they’d prefer people to leave voluntarily for shelters as opposed to a forced eviction.

Housing Minister Rich Coleman said some campers were packing up for shelters that the province has provided and that the situation at the camp will be monitored over the coming days.

“There’s about 50 people who’ve accepted housing, so they’ll be moving off and we’ll measure it over the weekend to see how it’s going,” he said.

“We’ve got enough housing for everybody down there, so they don’t have an excuse to not come inside but they also live in a free country, so they don’t have to come inside.”

In recent weeks, the government and social agencies have reached deals on housing for up to 230 people, with shelter space at a former Boys and Girls Club, a seniors’ residence and a vacant youth jail.

The camp grew from a few tents last spring to dozens as people from alleyways and parks moved to the highly visible manicured grounds of the downtown courthouse.

Mounties challenge claim that carbines are in every patrol vehicle MONCTON, N.B. — The RCMP in New Brunswick is misleading the public with the claim that every patrol vehicle in the province has a carbine firearm, say Mounties who have yet to be trained on the highpowered weapon and cannot use it.

Two members at different detachments in New Brunswick, who said they can’t speak publicly about issues within the force, were responding to comments by Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown who recently said there was a carbine in every police car.

“To me it seemed like an outright lie to the public to say, ‘Yep, we’ve got it, it’s all under control,”’ one

officer said.

“I’m sitting in my patrol car right now and there’s no carbine. I have the shotgun. No one on my team has access to the carbine right now, so it’s there but nobody can use it.”

The officers say they have access to the guns in their offices, but they or their colleagues can’t use them because they haven’t received the required training.

That means they and many of the officers in their districts can’t go out on calls with the weapons, which the force pledged to roll out after Justin Bourque gunned down three RCMP members in Moncton in 2014.

Another officer in a different New Brunswick detachment also said he has access to the carbines, but sometimes fewer than half the people he works with on a shift are trained on how to use it.

“There might be a carbine for every car, but you can’t put a carbine in every car if the member’s not trained,” he said. “A carbine in every car? That’s not the case.”

Thibault won’t go to the Supreme Court QUEBEC — Former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault will not go to the Supreme Court after losing a bid to serve her 18-month jail term in the community, her partner said Thursday.

Real Cloutier said Thibault has accepted a ruling

by Quebec’s top court she be incarcerated.

Cloutier was speaking after he drove Thibault to a Quebec City detention centre to begin the 18-month term for fraud and breach of trust.

“She spent the night (Wednesday) crying,” Cloutier told the station. “Let’s just say it was a difficult morning (Thursday).”

Cloutier, who was Thibault’s longtime aide-decamp, described himself at sentencing arguments last May as her “best friend, chauffeur, bodyguard, cook and assistant gardener.”

The Quebec Court of Appeal rejected Thibault’s attempt Wednesday to be allowed to serve the sentence in the community.

Accused Winnipeg letter bomber loses bid for out-of-province judge FOR THE RETURN OF 1 OR BOTH OF THESE RINGS!

WINNIPEG — A man accused of targeting his former wife and two lawyers with potentially lethal letter bombs has lost a bid to have a judge from another province brought in for the case.

Guido Amsel faces three counts of attempted murder as well as various weapons-related charges.

Two of the letter bombs last summer were safely detonated, but one exploded. Lawyer Maria Mitousis, who had represented Amsel’s ex-wife in the couple’s divorce, lost a hand in the blast and suffered severe injuries to her upper body.

Amsel has already been denied bail, but his lawyer, Martin Glazer, wanted a judge from another province brought in to hear an appeal of that decision.

Glazer, in a submission that Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal said could have affected the trial as well, argued that Winnipeg’s legal community is tight-knit and a judge from another province was needed to avoid the appearance of bias.

Joyal ruled Thursday that a local judge can oversee the bail appeal.

“There is no cogent evidence establishing a reasonable apprehension of bias,” Joyal said.

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EDC earmarks $750M to help oilpatch

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CALGARY — Export Development Canada is setting aside $750 million to help ailing oil and gas firms make it through the industry’s worst downturn in decades.

The assistance could take the form of commercial loans or guarantees, said Mark Senn, the Crown corporation’s vice-president for Western Canada. The focus will be on small an medium-sized companies, many of which provide drilling and other services to oil and gas producers.

EDC said that’s where the funding can have the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to jobs and the economy.

“They are probably the ones with fewest alternatives at the moment and possibly the most disadvantaged by the downturn in the price of oil,” said Senn.

But the idea isn’t to be the “lender of last resort” for companies that have exhausted all of their financing options, he added.

The agency will be choosing to support firms that have a solid survival plan for the next two years. As well, recipients would need to have an “export angle” — whether they’re active internationally or are interested in expanding beyond Canada.

EDC will be focusing on investments aimed at boosting productivity, opening up new markets for resources, advancing technology that can help firms diversify into different industries and improving environmental

sustainability. Senn said he expects the bulk of the recipients will be in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but there are many firms elsewhere in the country that have suffered because of the crude price collapse.

“We’ve been in this trough for quite a while now and so we recognize the need to be very expeditious in dealing with customer asks or customer requirements,” he said. “We see that the energy sector as a really, really key and important economic contributor to the entire Canadian landscape and I just wouldn’t want us to end up standing on the sidelines during this time.”

TD, CIBC overcome challenging environment in Q1 FIRST-QUARTER PROFITS UP FOR BOTH BANKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — CIBC and TD Bank both grew their first-quarter profits as tight expense control helped them weather a storm of economic challenges including oilpatch woes, turbulent stock markets and a sluggish economy.

“The hard work we did last year to manage our cost base has equipped us better to respond to volatile markets and rising competition from non-traditional players,” TD (TSX:TD) chief executive Bharat Masrani said during a conference call Thursday to discuss the bank’s results.

TD reported net income of $2.22 billion, up roughly eight per cent from a year ago when it had $2.06 billion in quarterly profits.

CIBC (TSX:CM) saw its quarterly profit climb six per cent to $982 million from $923 million in the same period a year earlier.

Both banks also boosted their quarterly dividends.

TD’s will rise by four cents to 55 cents per share, while CIBC’s will go up by three cents to $1.18 per share.

“We achieved very strong results this quarter during a period of greater market uncertainty and volatility — conditions that may persist for the near to medium term, particularly as weak energy prices continue to be a drag on economic growth both in our own country here in Canada and globally,” CIBC chief executive Victor Dodig told analysts and investors Thursday.

“But whatever market conditions we encounter, the collective focus of our CIBC team members will remain on the following: to sustain and build on our current financial strength, to simplify and transform the way banking is done for our clients, and to deliver innovative and sustainable growth for our shareholders.”

Scotiabank analyst Sumit Malhotra said TD and CIBC’s results were better than those announced by the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) on Tuesday and Royal Bank (TSX:RY), which on Wednesday reported a significant uptick in bad loans to the oilpatch.

“Yesterday Royal really spooked the market in terms of the large rise in energy impairments and provisions,” Malhotra said.

“I think for these two banks today there is a bit of a sigh of relief that you didn’t see anything particularly worrisome in the energy or the Canadian consumer metrics on the credit side.

“WE ACHIEVED VERY STRONG RESULTS THIS QUARTER DURING A PERIOD OF GREATER MARKET UNCERTAINTY AND VOLATILITY — CONDITIONS THAT MAY PERSIST FOR THE NEAR TO MEDIUM TERM, PARTICULARLY AS WEAK ENERGY PRICES CONTINUE TO BE A DRAG ON ECONOMIC GROWTH BOTH IN OUR OWN COUNTRY HERE IN CANADA AND GLOBALLY.”

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Standing sentinel between Penhold and Innisfail one of two elevators operated

by Canada Malting is shown along Hwy 2A.

New grain terminals planned for Niobe

— CIBC CHIEF EXECUTIVE VICTOR DODIG But that doesn’t mean they’re not going to have issues as we go through the course of this year.”

In addition to credit trends that looked relatively benign compared to RBC’s situation, Malhotra said CIBC and TD’s ability to keep a firm grip on their expenses allowed them to grow their earnings in spite of all the economic headwinds.

“In the environment we’re in, expense control for all of these companies is a bigger part of the equation than it would be in a more robust operating environment,” Malhotra said.

“You’re seeing some of the fruits of the restructuring efforts start to make their way into the operating performance of the banks.”

Both banks have taken restructuring charges in recent quarters as they worked to improve efficiency through a variety of measures, including revamping certain processes, closing branches and trimming their head counts.

In the first quarter, CIBC had 43,609 full-time staff — 592 fewer than it had during the previous quarter.

TD, meanwhile, had 79,927 full-time employees in the first quarter, down 627 from the prior quarter.

Compared to a year ago, the bank has slimmed down its ranks by 2,256 workers.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A multi-million-dollar grain terminal complex is expected to sprout up along the rail line north of Innisfail later this year.

GrainsConnect Canada is proposing to build a giant grain handling facility with a 35,000-tonne capacity and the ability to offload to a 135-car train in 10 hours. A 2.6-km loop line will come off the main CP Rail line as part of the roughly $30-million complex.

Ten 58-metre high grain storage towers, a spur rail line, weigh scale, support buildings, offices and truck queuing area will be built on 207 acres at the Niobe site, near where a pair of Canada Malting elevators now stand.

The project is only one piece of a $120-million high-throughput grain elevator network that GrainsConnect is building in Western Canada.

GrainsConnect is a joint venture between Australia’s GrainCorp Limited and the U.S. arm of Japan-based ZenNoh Grain Corporation.

GrainCorp operates the largest grain storage and transport network in Eastern Australia and Zen-Noh is one of Japan’s largest feed grain buyers.

Central Alberta’s part of the project was recently granted a development permit by Red Deer County and construction is expected to begin in April.

GrainsConnect president Warren Stow said GrainCorp owns Canada Malting so they already had a presence in Niobe to build upon.

“We’ve got very good people there on the ground already as far as the elevator staff goes,” said Stow. “We’ve got a good presence in the grower base in that community.”

The older elevators will remain and will serve the company’s barley business, which includes a malt plant in Calgary.

“Those elevators are perfect for that type of business.”

Stow said they are excited about the

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plays a virtual reality video game during a visit to video game maker Ubisoft Thursday, in Montreal

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opportunities Central Alberta presents and are pleased the project has been well received.

“This is just another avenue for (farmers) to market their grain. It’s another option.

“There hasn’t been too many new entrants to the marketplace over the past number of years. It’s some fresh blood.”

GrainsConnect will focus on wheat, barley, canola and peas for destinations in China, Japan and Southeast Asia via the West Coast.

Provincial government foreign investment approval is among a number of other regulatory steps to be cleared.

Stow is not anticipating any delays.

Mayor Jim Wood was pleased to see the project.

“It will definitely be a huge benefit to the farming community,” said Wood, who farms in the Elnora area.

“To have another opportunity to market our grain is extremely important,” he said. ”Competition is always great. I look at it as an opportunity for choice.”

Unlike many counties, Red Deer County does not have a large-scale terminal that can move huge amounts of grain quickly.

“I’m still waiting to move grain that I should have moved in December,” he said.

Wood said he often trucks his grain to Kneehill, Lacombe or Mountain View Counties, which adds to transportation costs.

“This is one of the things we definitely needed in this area.”

Building the grain terminals will also provide employment at a time when the oil and gas sector is struggling.

Dozens of construction workers will be on site during the 18-month build and 10 permanent positions created.

GrainsConnect has three other terminals planned, one more in Alberta and two in Saskatchewan. Land negotiations are still underway for the other sites with locations to be announced in the next couple of months.

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The average price of homes sold has also started to creep down to $286,819, a drop of 7.7 per cent from a year earlier.

There were 2,298 active listings on the MLS system last month, up 14.5 per cent from a year ago.

To the end of January, there were 13.7 months of inventory on the market, which is the number of months it would take to sell the current inventory at present sales rates.

Alberta-wide numbers tell a similar story with residential sales down 13.8 per cent from January 2015.

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jobs or seeing accounts receivable drying up it becomes yet another financial pressure.

But putting off the government for one more year, to stave off another creditor, is bad planning.

When developing a repayment strategy, listing all of the known debts, such as credit cards, house and car payments is the first step.

However, tax debt can be an unknown that when tallied could reshape how to handle all arrears, she says.

The question becomes: “If I did know how much my income tax was, would it make a difference to how I would deal with my personal balance sheet in total?

Would it change what I would do?”

Especially when dealing with the Canada Revenue Agency, there are things debtors can do before wages are garnisheed, bank accounts seized, or liens put on homes, she says.

“There are always more options earlier in the process, than later in the process,” she says.

It’s advice that fits most debt situations.

Whether they are banks, credit card companies, stores or the government, they are all more open to finding repayment solutions if they know what is going on. m Ignoring letters and phone calls from creditors is never a good strategy.

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HOW TO DETERMINE IF DOWNSIZING IS FOR YOU

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s men and women retire or approach retirement age, many opt to downsize their homes. Such a decision can save older adults substantial amounts of money while also liberating them from the hassle of maintaining large homes they no longer need.

Downsizing to smaller homes or apartments is a significant step, one that homeowners should give ample consideration before making their final decisions. The following are a handful of tips to help homeowners determine if downsizing to smaller homes is the right move.

• Get a grip on the real estate market.

Downsizing is not solely about money, but it’s important that homeowners consider the real estate market before putting their homes up for sale. Speak with a local realtor or your financial advisor about the current state of your real estate market.

Downsizing can help homeowners save money on utilities, taxes and mortgage

payments, but those savings may be negated if you sell your house in a buyer’s market instead of a seller’s market. If you think the current market won’t get you the price you are hoping for, delay your downsize until the market rebounds.

• Take inventory of what’s in your house.

Empty nesters often find that their homes are still filled with their children’s possessions, even long after those children have entered adulthood and left home. If the storage in your home is dominated by items that belong to your children and not you, then downsizing might be right for you. Tell your children you are thinking of downsizing and invite them over to pick through any items still in your home. Once they have done so and taken what they want, you can host a yard sale, ultimately donating or discarding what you cannot sell. Once all of the items are gone, you may realize that moving into a smaller place is the financially prudent decision.

• Examine your own items as well. Your children’s items are likely not the only items taking up space in your home. Take inventory of your own possessions as well, making note

of items you can live without and those you want to keep. If the list of items you can live without is extensive, then you probably won’t have a problem moving into a smaller home. If you aren’t quite ready to say goodbye to many of your possessions, then you might benefit from staying put for a little while longer.

• Consider your retirement lifestyle. If you have already retired or on the verge of retirement and plan to spend lots of time traveling, then downsizing to a smaller home may free up money you can spend on trips.

And if you really do see yourself as a silverhaired jetsetter, then you likely won’t miss your current home because you won’t be home frequently enough to enjoy it. If travel is not high on your retirement to-do list but you have a hobby, such as crafting, restoring classic cars or woodworking, that you hope to turn into a second profession, then you might benefit from staying put and converting your existing space into a workshop.

Many retirees downsize their homes, but this decision requires careful consideration of a variety of factors.

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May copper dipped three cents to US$2.07 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,753.60, up 13.33 points Dow — 16,697.29, up 212.30 points S&P 500 — 1,951.70, up 21.90 points Nasdaq — 4,582.21, up 39.60 points Currencies: Cdn — 73.85 cents US, up 0.79 of a cent Pound — C$1.8909, down 1.60 cents Euro — C$1.4930, down 1.35 cents Euro — US$1.1026, up 0.19 of a cent Oil futures: US$33.07 per barrel, up 92 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,238.80 per oz., down 30 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman:

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Canadian securities regulators release new corporate takeover rules TORONTO — The Canadian Securities Administrators are extending the time target companies have to find alternatives under new rules for corporate takeover bids.

The regulators say the changes will help shareholders and give boards more time when responding to a takeover bid. The final amendments include a requirement for a minimum deposit period of 105 days, subject to certain exceptions.

The period will also be subject to an extension of at least 10 days after the minimum tender requirement and all other conditions are met.

The changes also require that bids meet a minimum tender condition of more than half of the securities held by the target company’s stockholders — not counting the bidder and its allies.

Under the current rules, non-exempt takeover bids must remain open for 35 days and are not subject to any minimum tender requirement or an extension requirement.

Molson Coors Canada recreates 1908 ale recipe TORONTO — Molson Coors Canada says it’s offering a limited release pale ale brewed from a 108-year-old recipe found deep in the company’s archives.

Molson Coors says John H.R Molson and Bros.

1908 Historic Pale Ale was created to celebrate its 230 years of brewing in Canada.

The company says its brewmasters “worked tirelessly” to authentically recreate the pale ale of 1908, right down to the most minute details, combining diverse malts, heirloom hops and century-old fermentation techniques.

During the brewing process, the density and temperature measurements had to be recorded every few hours to ensure consistency.

As an unfiltered beer, each batch of the 1908 brew has its own unique qualities and the company says it can be enjoyed cold, or even at warmer temperatures.

$21.519 oz., down 68 cents $691.84 kg., down $21.86 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $12.90 lower $447.80 May ‘16 $11.50 lower $453.20 July ‘16 $10.80 lower $459.30 Nov. ‘16 $9.00 lower $467.70 Jan. ‘17 $9.10 lower $472.20 March ‘17 $9.10 lower $473.70 May ‘17 $9.10 lower $472.40 July ‘17 $9.10 lower $471.90 Nov. ‘17 $9.10 lower $465.50 Jan. ‘18 $9.10 lower $465.50 March ‘18 $9.10 lower $465.50.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 $4.00 lower $182.00 May ‘16 $5.90 lower $184.10 July ‘16 $7.00 lower $185.00 Oct. ‘16 $7.00 lower $185.00 Dec. ‘16 $7.00 lower $185.00 March ‘17 $7.00 lower $185.00 May ‘17 $7.00 lower $185.00 July ‘17 $7.00 lower $185.00 Oct. ‘17 $7.00 lower $185.00 Dec. ‘17 $7.00 lower $185.00 March ‘18 $7.00 lower $185.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 859,720 tonnes of canola 4500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 864,220.

The recipe is one of the many historic documents found in approximately 400 cartons of Molson archives.

“To try and replicate the flavours and nuances of the early twentieth century recipe, we went deep into the archives to uncover every last detail behind this historic brew,” said brewmaster Keith Armstrong.

AltaGas halts development of Douglas Channel LNG amid global supply glut CALGARY — AltaGas Ltd. says it has stopped work on the Douglas Channel liquefied natural gas project due to low prices and an oversupplied market. During a conference call Thursday to discuss its financial results, AltaGas said the consortium behind the project failed to secure any meaningful offtake agreements and so it shelved the project. AltaGas, along with its global partners in the project, had been aiming for the project near Kitimat, B.C., to begin exporting LNG in 2018. The project had recently been held up over a 25 per cent excise duty being charged on its floating LNG facility. AltaGas said that had been resolved and no duty would be charged, but with the unfavourable markets they couldn’t continue working on the project.

B.C. brings in new oversight rules for mining

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an even safer and more sustainable industry.

Bennett says his goal is to ensure the province has a regulatory regime for health and safety on mine sites that is the best in the world.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is imposing more oversight on the mining industry by boosting potential penalties for prosecutions to $1 million in fines and three years in prison.

Powered by The new regulations Central Alberta’s emerge from recommendations in separate recareer site ports after the collapse of of choice. the Mount Polley tailings dam in B.C.’s Interior, which spilled millions of tonnes of mine waste into area waterways.

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Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Wendy Moore, Advertising Manager wmoore@reddeeradvocate.com We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Canadian dollar showed strength today, gaining more than three quarters of a cent.

The loonie soared by 0.79 of a cent to settle at 73.85 cents US. On the markets, investors shied away from broad moves as the Toronto Stock Exchange ended the day relatively flat.

The S&P/TSX composite index added 13.33 points at 12,753.60 as rising financial stocks balanced out lower metal stocks.

Wall Street was firmly in positive territory with the Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 212.30 points at 16,697.29.

The broader S&P 500 composite index climbed 21.90 points at 1,951.70 and the Nasdaq composite index jumped 39.60 points to 4,582.21.

In commodities, the April contract for crude oil slipped 92 cents at US$33.07 per barrel.

The April gold contract lost 30 cents to US$1,238.80 a troy ounce and April natural gas was down five cents at US$1.79 per mmBtu.

TORONTO — A businessman who bought a downtown Toronto property in a bankruptcy sale but secretly flipped it for almost $3 million more before the deal went through is liable for fraudulent misrepresentation, Ontario’s top court ruled Thursday.

In upholding a lower court decision, the Court of Appeal found Ahmed Baig had deliberately misled the company handling the bankruptcy by failing to alert them to the resale.

“In certain circumstances, silence and half-truths can amount to a misrepresentation,” the Appeal Court ruled.

Baig bought the property at 984 Bay Street from the bankruptcy receiver with court approval for $6.2 million in August 2006. The receiver, however, had no idea Baig had already agreed to resell the property to another company, Yellowstone Property Consultants, for $9 million.

On the advice of Baig’s lawyer, Peter Kiborn, the deal was structured so that the property would go directly to Yellowstone to avoid transfer taxes, court documents show.

“Both the appellant and his counsel wanted to prevent the receiver from discovering the sale to Yellowstone, because the $2.8 million differential in the price would jeopardize court approval,” the Appeal Court said.

As a result, the receiver assumed Yellowstone was Baig’s company and

neither he nor his lawyer corrected that misunderstanding, according to court documents.

“Both the appellant and his counsel actively hid the agreement,” the Appeal Court found.

Meridian Credit Union, which was the top creditor at the time of the sale to Yellowstone, discovered the resale in 2009 and sued Baig for the difference. The receiver, obliged to maximize the return on assets of any sales, argued it would never have recommended court approval had it known about the flip.

In 2014, Superior Court Justice Frederick Myers found Baig liable for fraudulent misrepresentation.

Myers concluded Baig was responsible for the misrepresentations made

by Kiborn, who knew documents given to the receiver were false. While Baig had no obligation to disclose the resale agreement, Myers decided, his failure to correct the misunderstanding that Yellowstone was his company amounted to fraudulent misrepresentation.

The Appeal Court also dismissed a claim by Kiborn and his firm, Miller Thomson, that they were denied natural justice when Myers made findings about them that could damage their reputations in their absence.

“Non-parties should not be able to lurk in the shadows and then spring up to challenge a decision whenever the outcome — or findings of fact — may affect them in some manner they do not like,” the Appeal Court said.

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HAAKONSON Arnold Thomas 1942 - 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Arnold Haakonson, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He passed away February 21, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, at the age of 73 years, surrounded by his family. Arnold was born in Lacombe, Alberta, the youngest son of Barney and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Haakonson on June 18, 1942. He took his schooling in the Lincoln and Iowalta districts and then in Lacombe. After graduating he went to work at Lacombe Feed Services working for Allan Hodge. In 1966, along with two partners, he started Lacombe Fertilizer and Farm Supply where he worked until he retired in 2009. In 1964 he met the love of his life, Shirley Moore, and on May 8, 1965 they were married.

Arnold lived his entire life on the farm with the exception of 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 children Garret (fiancé Victoria), Mitchel and his son Treyce, and Cole, all of Sundre, AB; Edmund Haakonson of Edmonton, AB; Treena Cox and children Matthew, Emily and Stephanee of Lacombe, AB; Leslie (Sam)(Shannon) Haakonson and their children Ryan, Tristan and Chris of Lacombe, AB. He is also survived by his siblings, Gladys Jeglum of Clive; Elmer (Linda) Haakonson of Lacombe and Adeline (Richard) Bellerive of Lacombe; his mother in law Freda Gillespie of Innisfail, AB; numerous nieces and nephews, extended family and many friends.

Arnold was predeceased by his father Barney in 1994; his mother Lizzie in 2006; his father in law Les Moore in 1977; his step father in law Delbert Gillespie in 2000; six brothers in law and one sister in law. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday March 1, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. the Lacombe Memorial Centre, 5214-50 Ave, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families for 40 years”

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THACKERAY Lillian May Lillian May (Lil) Thackeray (nee Brister) passed away peacefully on February 5, 2016 at the age of 97. Lil was born in Elgin, Manitoba and became a teacher. She married Bernard (Brick) in 1944 and the two of them moved to Alberta the next year where Brick began his Ministry in the United Church. Over the years they lived In Saddle Lake, Bentley and Lacombe and eventually retired to Red Deer. Lil was deeply involved in both church and community affairs wherever she lived. She was a Cub Leader for over 40 years, was a dedicated teacher, taught Sunday School Kindergarten and was a Life Member of the United Church Women. In 1973 Lil and Brick were named Lacombe’s Citizens of the Year. She was predeceased

by Brick in 2010 and by her parents, Jesse and Maud, and three siblings, Edgar, Roy and Kae. Lil will be missed by her children: Sandra (Al) Quirt, Ruth (Dale) Roedler and Tom (Kathy) Thackeray; seven grandchildren: Brian Quirt (Rivka Gates) and Lyanne Quirt (Edward Pullman); Rhonda Roedler and Chris (Leah) Roedler; and Laura (Gerry) Beaudin, Dan (Michelle) Thackeray and James Thackeray; and eight great-grandchildren: Blake and Emily Roedler; Tate and Grace Beaudin and Spencer, Liam, Nolan and Paisley Thackeray.

Lil is also survived by Isabelle Brister (sister-in-law) and many nieces and nephews. A Memorial service for Lil will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe on Monday, February 29 at 1:00 PM. Donations in memory of Lil may be made to the St. Andrew’s United Church Memorial Fund or a charity of choice.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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SHEWCHUK Jennifer Lynn 1993-2016 On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, Jennifer Lynn Shewchuk, passed away in Abbotsford, BC. Jennifer Lynn Shewchuk was born April 28, 1993 in St Albert.

She attended schools in St Albert, and graduated from Huntington Hills High School in Red Deer. Jennifer was active in the youth organization programs at Crossroads Church in Red Deer. She then pursued a degree in Youth Counseling and Ministry Education at Columbia Bible College. She will be remembered, loved, cherished and missed by her parents Mary Shewchuk, Paul Shewchuk, Paul French, sister Christine Shewchuk, grandmother Evelyn Wilson, and beloved relatives from the Milos, Wilson and Rachar families. Many will remember Jennifer as an enlightening ray of sunshine, while she engaged us all. Jen was a compassionate person to help in any way she knew how. She had a strong spiritual relationship with God and Jesus Christ. She was an advocate for people in need. With her smile, laughter, sense of humor, bravery, and determination to make the world a better place, she has touched so many hearts. A Viewing was held on February 22, 2016 at the Woodlawn Mission Funeral Home in Mission, BC to commemorate Jennifer’s life and the time she had spent within the college community. A Celebration of Life will be held for Jennifer Sunday afternoon, February 28, 2016 at 2:00 pm at Beulah Alliance Church, 17504 98a Ave, Edmonton. The family wishes to invite those that had the privilege to meet Jen to Sunday’s service. Photos, mementos, quotes or stories to be left or shared with the family are welcomed. In lieu of flowers, we ask that a donation be made as a tribute to Jennifer’s life, and the passion she had for her work with those that are suffering with mental illness. To help shatter the stigma surrounding mental illness, and help fight for those who still need help fighting, please consider a donation on her behalf at The Center for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation (http://www.supportcamh.ca/).

Jennifer will always be loved and missed.

LEVINS 1939 - 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of (Walter) Neill Levins, 76, who left us peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on February 22, 2016 with family by his side.

Neill was born and raised in Sprit River, AB in 1939. After completing school and a stint in the Air force at the age of 22 he decided to try his hand in the field of servicing heavy duty equipment, and in 1962 he joined Park brothers in Grand Prairie, AB. From there he worked as a mechanic for Dave Ross in Spirt River, Alberta.

Neill married Leona Salamon in August 1965. They moved from Spirit River in 1970 after the birth of their first son Harold Levins and twin daughters Lynn Levins Bussey and Lori Lamothe Begg (Frank Begg). They soon traveled to Whitehorse where Neill spent a good portion of his time working with the Department of Public Works. During this period of time their second son Kevin Levins was born. After several years spent in Whitehorse he moved his family to Dawson Creek, BC where he joined Finning Caterpillar Equipment as a Field Service Mechanic. He transferred to Fort Nelson, then Fort St. John as resident mechanic and later to McKenzie, B.C. After 31 years as a heavy duty mechanic, Neill retired from Finning in 2002 at the Prince George branch. He and Leona then moved from Prince George BC to their final residence in Red Deer, Alberta. In his retirement years he stayed connected to his hard working ethics by working at Lacombe Trailer sales as a Commercial Vehicle Inspector and with the RCMP Commissioners office.

Neill enjoyed fishing, boating, camping and spending time with his immediate and extended family including 4 children, their significant others and his 8 grandchildren. Neill was loved and respected by all who knew him, he was a quick witted man with a memory of dates, times and events like no other. We will remember him as an honest hardworking man who took excellent care of his family and enjoyed his life as a father, husband and grandfather. He will be very missed in our lives. Neill is predeceased by his mother Claribel Seward Levins and his father Harold Alvin Levins. Relatives and friends are invited to a memorial planned to be held in Balzac AB (date to be determined). Also internment and a memorial service will be held in Sprit River, AB on the July long weekend 2016. We thank the staff at the Red Deer Hospice for their care and attention paid to Neill during his time there. We ask that in lieu of flowers, consideration of a donation in Neill’s memory be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

Condolences to Neill’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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MILLER Ken With great sadness, we announce the passing of Ken Miller, who lost his battle with cancer on January 1, 2016 at 69 years young. He leaves to mourn his loving wife, Jackie; daughter, Lorrie (Bill); grand daughters, Jessica (Kelsey), Janina, JoHanna (Dallas); great-grandson, Konrad; sister, Donna Mason; brother, Gordon Miller and many aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews. Ken was a loving father, grandfather, greatgrandfather and wonderful husband.

A brilliant photographer and talented carpenter. He, with his wife Jackie, built and renovated many homes and businesses in Central Alberta. They build the famous Jimmy Jock Boardwalk in Big Valley and their last project together was the invisible house. Ken had a great sense of humour and could always make light of a difficult situation. He touched may lives and will be deeply missed. A celebration of his “would be” 70th Birthday, will be held on March 22, from 5-8 at the Elnora Legion.

CYR DANIEL ALEXANDER (DAN) 1967 - 2004 Taken from us too soon by an impaired driver.

Our lives were enriched by your compassion, sense of fun and the love you shared.

Those who have lived in our hearts are never really gone. ~Always remembered, forever in our hearts.

Your loving family

IN LOVING MEMORY Donalda “Donnie” Gibson February 27, 2014 Two years have passed and still you are so dearly loved and so deeply missed. The many happy memories, that infectious smile, your zest for life was your gift to us all.

You will never be forgotten.

Love, Bill, your family and friends.

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WALKER Lyman E Sept. 15, 1929 - Feb. 19, 2016 With Sadness, the family of Lyman E. Walker announces his peaceful passing at the age of 86 at the Fairview Hospital, his family by his side. A Funeral Service for Lyman will be held on Monday, February 29th at 11:00 am at the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home located at 5019 47Ath Avenue.

Immediately following the service a lunch will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion at 4916 50th Avenue.

A Births private family interment service at the Sylvan Lake Cemetery will follow the luncheon. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations can be made in Lyman’s name to the Stollery or Alberta Children’s Hospitals.

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Love bees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially the wild ones!

Many environmental campaigns es.) over the past 50 years have aimed at The honeybee decline has been getting people to care for imperilled big news partly because they make species in wild, far-off places. The fo- delicious honey, but more importantcus in Canada has often been on large, ly because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pollinators. About photogenic, culturally imthree-quarters of flowering portant animals, with boplants and more than a third nus points for campaigns of food crops worldwide dethat include alliteration, pend on pollinators â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from bumper sticker-friendbees and butterflies to humly slogans and plush toys. mingbirds and bats. As a reThis has been a sensible sult, governments across the and often successful stratglobe are developing strateegy. gies to protect them, includOver the past few years ing Ontario with its recently smaller, charismatic critproposed Pollinator Health ters closer to home have Action Plan. buzzed into the spotlight: Public attention in Canabees. About a decade ago, da has largely focused on doDAVID beekeepers in Europe and mesticated European honeySUZUKI North America started bees, but research indicates noticing serious declines the honeybee crisis is part in honeybee populations. SCIE3NCE MATTERS of a wider problem affecting Bees have lost much of hundreds of lesser-known their natural habitat to urbut crucially important wild banization and industrial agriculture bee species. and face increased stress from climate Of about 800 wild bee species in change-related drought and severe Canada, more than 90 per cent have a winters. These threats, coupled with â&#x20AC;&#x153;solitaryâ&#x20AC;? lifestyle rather than living the global spread of diseases and pests in large, social colonies. Two-thirds and a dramatic increase in the use of of these are ground-nesters, includagricultural pesticides like neonicoti- ing bumblebees, mining and digger noids, have resulted in unprecedented bees that make nests in soil and under losses for beekeepers. (Because bees leaves and rocks. The rest are caviand other insects provide ecological ty-nesters like mason and carpenter services like pollination, it makes no bees that burrow in hollow stems, sense to declare war against all just to twigs and logs. eliminate or control the few nuisancAlthough honeybees get the head-

lines and most of the credit for pollinating flowers and crops, studies show that wild bees can be two or three times better at pollination, and some, like mason bees, can be up to 80 times more effective.

The good news is that the honeybee crisis has galvanized interest in all pollinators, inspiring thousands of groups and citizens worldwide to establish new spaces for them, from wild bee hotels and rooftop honeybee hives to pollinator gardens in parks and schoolyards.

As our communities grow, pollinator habitat is fragmented into increasingly disconnected patches that disrupt natural pathways, making the potential of connected networks of habitat within cities especially fascinating.

Osloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bumblebee Highway, Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pollinator Pathway and Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pollinator Paradise are all great local initiatives.

Establishing an urban pollinator corridor is also at the heart of the David Suzuki Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homegrown National Park Project, which since 2013 has created more than 50 pollinator-friendly patches along the path of a creek now buried beneath Toronto â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from small guerrilla plantings to a network of flower-filled canoe planters in schools, cafĂŠs, churches, parks and yards.

This spring, the Foundation will launch the Great Canadian Butterflyway Project, to inspire bee-friendly

urban innovations and neighbourhood-scale pollinator corridors across the country. Through videos, tips and other resources, the project will profile projects nationwide that are bringing nature home, one pollinator-friendly planting at a time.

You can become part of the growing movement to protect pollinators.

Head to the library (or check out davidsuzuki.org/pollinators) to research the amazing diversity of wild bees and other pollinators in your community.

While youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there, learn what flowers and shrubs best support those species, and what might work in your yard or on your balcony. Then check out what local groups are up to.

Want to show wild bees some love?

Create a sanctuary in your yard or garden by leaving a sunny patch of bare soil for ground-nesters. Add some pithy stems, sticks and wood debris for cavity-nesters. And be sure not to disturb the nests over winter.

Will the buzz generated by media stories and pun-filled campaigns save the bees? Only time will tell. In the meantime, we can all help by making bees welcome in our yards and neighbourhoods.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation communications strategist and urban beekeeper Jode Roberts. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

Sorting out the mixed messages on climate change â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even the UN Intergovernmental Pan- Two days after Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter, Dale el on Climate Change (IPCC) refutes a Russell wrote in to tell us that there tie between extreme weather and climate are some â&#x20AC;&#x153;very compelling argumentsâ&#x20AC;? change.â&#x20AC;? to suggest that CO2 will contribute to Murray Snyder (letter Dec. 21) global cooling instead of warmingâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;Observed changes in climate ex- though he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother to say what tremes reflect the influence those arguments were (and I of anthropogenic climate certainly couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find them changeâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? on-line).

IPCC 2012 report on exAnd a few days after that, treme weather Stewart Staudinger wrote Did you catch the in to tell us that in pre-hisrather glaring mismatch tory, climate change was there? Snyder wrote that sometimes initiated by temthe IPCC says there is no perature increases, instead link between extreme of CO2 increases (therefore, weather and climate the thinking goes, we have change. But the IPCC itself nothing to worry about as we states that there is a link. loft 30 billion tonnes of it inDoes Snyder know better to the atmosphere each year).

EVAN than the IPCC what the IPBut this is something that evBEDFORD CC is itself thinking? How ery single climate scientist would that work? Sounds already knows. In pre-hisENERGY like an elaborate science tory, there was a feedback & ECOLOGY fiction plot to me. loop going on (just like the So is Snyder just telling 21st century feed-back loop). a fib? No, I doubt it. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more And in a feedback loop, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matlike that game of telephone that we ter which factor (CO2 or increasing used to play as kids. A message gets temperatures) starts the ball rolling; whispered from one operator to the it only matters that (as Wikipedia puts next, and by the time it reaches the it in its entry on positive feedback) â&#x20AC;&#x153;A other end, it gets pretty garbled. And if produces more of B, which in turn proone of those kids in the line happens to duces more of Aâ&#x20AC;?. be a famous anti-science blogger (AnMore recently, Charles MacLeod thony Watts, perhaps?), he can sneak- wrote in to tell us of a monstrous inily leave out a critical word or two in ternational conspiracy (by the IPCC, of the message. course) to alter temperature records.

It certainly helps if the message is The conspiracy was first alleged about complicated. For example, although a year ago, but as yet, no one has been the IPCC figures that we have good led away in hand-cuffs. And why not? evidence that the length and number Probably because the FBI and Interof heat waves have increased, we have pol are still too busy gathering evimuch less evidence that hurricanes dence regarding the faked moon landhave increased in either number or ings. strength.

Just kidding. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually So if someone wants the final mes- wondering what MacLeod was writing sage to indicate that there is no link about, just google â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paul Homewoodâ&#x20AC;? between CO2 and extreme weather, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;conspiracyâ&#x20AC;? (maybe that subject then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very easy to leave out the in- will be my next column). convenient stuff about heat waves.

What is common to all of these isOther recent letter writers also sues (extreme weather, global cooling, seem to have trouble gathering facts. the â&#x20AC;&#x153;CO2 temperature lagâ&#x20AC;?, and the

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Son’s fiancée finds future FIL ‘creepy’ Dear Annie: My youngest son, “Ian,” is soon to marry the “love of his life.”

I haven’t had much of an opportunity to get to know “Tess,” but my wife has spent time with her and really likes her.

Around me, however, Tess seems to be reserved and quiet. I asked Ian about her reticence and after some hesitaKATHY MITCHELL tion, he told me that Tess finds AND MARCY SUGAR me “creepy” ANNIE’S MAILBOX and is uncomfortable being around me.

I was flabbergasted. I cannot think of one thing I’m doing to make this woman feel this way.

I have never touched her or leered at her. I don’t find her particularly

attractive, so I cannot imagine that I’m being lascivious without realizing it. I don’t make off-color jokes. I dress conservatively.

When I speak to her, I look her in the eye, not the chest. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

I mentioned it to my wife, and she admitted that she overheard Tess and two of her friends laughing about how creepy I am.

Her opinion of Tess has been substantially lowered. I asked my other two daughters-in-law whether they thought I was creepy and they were astonished that anyone would think so. They both want to talk to Tess, but I asked them not to. My son said that Tess shared her feelings about me in confidence and he doesn’t want her to know he told me.

Should I wait until after the marriage and try to talk to Tess? My other family members say to let it go and that she’ll get to know me better with time, but I’m not so sure. Ian has been dating Tess for nearly three years and she’s had plenty of opportunities to

get to know me. Any advice? — Not a Creepy Guy Dear Guy: We don’t know why Tess thinks you are creepy.

There may be something about you that reminds her of a less-savory character.

Or her definition of “creepy” might be different than yours. It is also possible that Tess is setting the stage for keeping Ian away from his family after the marriage.

You need to discuss this openly and your wife has provided the perfect excuse to do so without compromising your son.

With other family members present, especially Ian, tell Tess what your wife overheard.

Ask her why she thinks you are “creepy” and how the two of you can overcome it in order to have a better relationship.

Frankly, we would be wary of any young woman who turns her future father-in-law into an object of derision with her girlfriends. Tread carefully.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from

“Please Stop,” who is on a fixed income, but feels guilty when she receives constant requests from charities for donations.

Last year, between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, I wrote down every request we received from a charity. Using the smallest amount that I would have sent, the total for my donations would have come to $7,151. As my wife and cannot afford this amount, we no longer feel guilty about not sending money to anyone. — C. Dear C.: We wish more people could leave the guilt out of these decisions.

One should only donate to those charities you support, in the amount your budget can handle.

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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ARIES (March 21-April LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 19): Resist the urge to be a Don’t expect lots of attenreckless Ram. Current comtion and affection from loved munication must involve plenones. They have their own ty of tolerance plus give-andproblems to deal with. Rest JOANNE MADELINE take. Avoid being a bossy Arassured that you’re still MOORE ies - compromise is the key to adored and appreciated HOROSCOPE a stress-free day. even if others aren’t showing TAURUS (April 20-May it.

20): Loved ones and work VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. mates wont take kindly to criticism to- 22): There could be some friction — or day, no matter how ‘constructive’ it is. So surprises — to do with money today Virkeep your opinions to yourself, and don’t go. With the Sun firing up your relationoffer advice when it’s not wanted! ship zone, it’s time to bite the bullet and GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re patch up partnership problems.

HOROSCOPE LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Whatever you have organised for today, be prepared to change it at the last minute as other people shake up your perfect plans. When it comes to family matters, expect an intense day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may have trouble communicating with others today but don’t worry Scorpio — it’s just a passing phase. Concentrate on individual projects that require hard work and plenty of persistence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Impulsive Sagittarians are the big spenders of the zodiac, but now is the time to hunker down and count your pennies.

Pluto encourages you to have a solid financial plan for the future.

Vienna visitors beware: Burping too loud could come at a price.

Vienna bartender Edin Mehic found that out when fined 70 euros ($77) after belching in the proximity of a policeman while enjoying the scene at the Prater fun park area.

Displayed on Mehic’s Facebook page, the ticket notes that Mehic violated “public decency with a loud belch next to a police officer.”

Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger on Monday confirmed that Mehic had been fined for the offending burp.

Though it was emitted earlier this month, the belch continues to resonate. By Monday, 118 people said they will attend a flash mob posted on Facebook and planned for next Saturday near the scene of the crime. Another 298 were “interested” in the “Loud Belch Flashmob.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a positive day for practical projects plus disciplined work that requires close attention to detail — but resist the urge to be over-fastidious and criticise the efforts of others.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you want to stay out of trouble today then think — carefully — before you blurt out things that you later regret. You’re in the mood to rock the boat but is that the smartest thing to do?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Many people will have the moody blues but that doesn’t mean you have to pick up on everyone’s problems. Do your own thing in your own way, and don’t allow others to bring you down.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Facebook’s “like” button isn’t going away, but it’s about to get some company.

Facebook has been testing alternatives to “like” in about a half-dozen countries, including Ireland, Spain and Japan. On Wednesday, Facebook started making “haha,” “angry” and three other responses available in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

In changing a core part of Facebook — the 7-yearold “like” button has become synonymous with the social network — the company said it tried to keep things familiar. The thumbs-up “like” button will look just as it long has, without the other choices cluttering the screen or confusing people. You have to hold that button or mouse over the “like” link for a second or two for the alternatives to pop up.

Here are seven things to know about Facebook’s latest feature, known as Reactions.

WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? When a friend posts that his father has died, or a cousin gets frustrated with her morning commute, hitting “like” might seem insensitive. Users have long requested a “dislike” button, but that was deemed too negative and problematic. Are you disliking the death or the call for sympathy?

Facebook chose to offer more nuanced reactions — “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry” — alongside “like” — to give users “greater control over their expressivity,” says Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s product design director.

WHY THESE CHOICES Facebook went through comments on friends’ posts, as well as emoji-like stickers people were using. It chose the most common ones and tested those.

Facebook considered dozens of reactions — but offering them all would have been confusing. Think of having to flip through pages and pages of emojis: Do you want one wink, a tear, a full frown or a half frown?

Facebook ultimately chose these six reactions for their universal appeal — something that could be understood around the world. Even a generic happy face “was a little bit ambiguous and harder for people to understand,” Zhuo says.

Each reaction comes with an animated emoji, such as the thumbs up for “like” and a heart for “love.” These emojis will look the same around the world, but phrases such as “love” will be translated.

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Julie Zhuo, product design director at Facebook, demonstrates the new emoji-like stickers customers will be able to press in addition to the like button. Facebook’s Like button is getting some company, as the company rolls out alternatives worldwide after testing in a few countries. hones and Android devices (no word yet on Windows and BlackBerry).

Facebook already shows how many people like a post and lets you tap or click on the count for a list of people. With Reactions, you see how many people have reacted in some way, along with the top three reactions, such as “love” followed by “haha” and “wow.” You can get breakdowns for each reaction — the total and specific people. If you don’t update your app, you’ll just see the number of likes.

Once you have this, you can start marking older posts as “wow” or “sad,” too.

“LIKE” STILL TAKES CENTER STAGE Zhuo says people click on “like” more than a billion times a day, so “we didn’t want to make that any harder.” It’s still the go-to reaction for most posts.

But Zhuo says in the countries tested, people used the alternatives more frequently over time.

A HAPPY BIAS? Facebook has a complex formula for deciding which of your friends’ posts are more prominent.

Ones that get a lot of likes, for instance, will tend to show up higher. Now, posts marked “angry” or “wow” will bump up, too.

But Facebook wants to show what it thinks you’re most interested in — and that might ultimately mean mostly happy posts, rather than ones that evoke sadness or anger. Zhuo says Facebook will tweak its formulas based on how people respond.

HOW TO GET STARTED The rollout is expected to take a few days to complete. You’ll get the feature automatically on Web browsers, but you’ll need to update your app on iP-

EXPRESS THAT ANGER These alternative reactions are for all posts, including those from groups and brands. A company won’t be able to block the ability to mark its posts

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attention to diversifying our economy and emphasizing value-added exports.

So we’re now in a very tough spot. But when you’re in a very tough spot, it’s wise to remember the story of The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf. If you want people to believe you on matters concerning pipelines versus rail (for example), it’s critical that people can also take you seriously when you’re researching things like science and the environment and climate change. Because if they hear you spouting nonsense on one subject, they’ll be less likely to heed your wisdom on anything else that you might need to warn them about.

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@ telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www.evanbedford.com.

BEDFORD: Nervousness about the carbon tax But let’s be totally honest, shall we?

We all know the real reason that a rapid succession of people wrote in to tell us that 192 years of climate science is bogus. The real reason is that there is some understandable nervousness out there about the upcoming provincial carbon tax. And this is compounded by even more nervousness about the plummeting price of oil, the plummeting trajectory of the loonie, and the plummeting chances for an early national consensus on the Energy East pipeline.

However, we shouldn’t be too surprised. Because, in addition to 192 years of climate science, we’ve had 110 years of Alberta governments, and 149 years of federal governments that didn’t pay nearly enough

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IT TOOK A YEAR TO DEVELOP Why so long? Besides deciding on how many and which specific reactions to offer, Facebook needed to figure out the right way for people to discover and use it. For instance, a menu might have been harder to find, while offering all six buttons up front might have made it harder to just quickly “like” a post and move on. Zhuo says CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed for the long-press method as a balance.

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