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Oilfield Dad caught up in downturn

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Chadron Miller and his son, Carson, 6, daughter, Jenna, 12, and wife, Jill, during happier times. The founder of the Facebook page Oilfield Dads, Miller once had no trouble keeping up with payments on a new vehicle or a mortgage. But the downturn in the Alberta oilpatch has taken its toll on Miller and his family.

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COMING SATURDAY provided. Back home in Sylvan, his wife, Jill, was doing her best with a part-time job and also some hairdressing work, trying to make ends meet. The couple, who have three young children, havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been completely successful.

Miller was able to survive the 2008-09 recession because he had enough money put away. However Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recession has turned into a depression and his savings dwindled up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get bill collectors calling every day.â&#x20AC;?

Oilfield Dads saw about 4,000 people join soon after he started it last year. It now has about 8,700 members, and serves as a support group for people who work in the industry. Many share their personal and family challenges as they struggle through hard times in an oilpatch hit hard by low world oil prices.

Thousands of direct and support jobs have been lost.

Miller says the future of Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil industry is uncertain because the impact of a royalty review and new carbon tax are unknown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting hit: left jab, right jab, uppercut.â&#x20AC;?

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Firestick Living History Society members get a bang out of recreating old-fashioned firearms from the flintlock days and the 1800s. We hung out in their garage workshop recently to see their handiwork.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CHADRON MILLER FOUNDER, OILFIELD DADS

BARRSIDE Chadron Miller had a tough financial decision to make last week.

The oilfield worker from Sylvan Lake had to either try and hang onto his 2015 work truck, or pay for repairs on his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle.

In the end, he drove the truck to the dealership and handed in the keys. He documented the return on Oilfield Dads, the Facebook page he started about a year ago.

Like so many other people who made a comfortable middle-class living from Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oilpatch, Miller, 36, once had no trouble keeping up with payments on a new vehicle or a mortgage. Putting food on the table was never an issue.

In 2014 he worked 338 days. In 2015 it was only 150.

This year he was hoping for better times but so far heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked just 90 days, at about 60 per cent of the rate he received as an oilfield consultant.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been able to fall back on his pipefitting ticket to find work here and there. He was in the Fort McMurray area in the spring, but evacuated during the catastrophic wildfire and later laid off. He was recently working in the Red Earth Creek area, but last week the job ended.

Miller felt guilty living in camp because food is

Lacombe Police Commission minutes offer a glimpse into the events that led to Police Chief Steve Murray unexpectedly retiring.

Several special meetings were held by the commission over 15 days in August and September to deal with â&#x20AC;&#x153;personnel issues.â&#x20AC;?

After an Aug. 25 commission special meeting, the chief was placed on â&#x20AC;&#x153;paid administrative leave until further notice.â&#x20AC;? In the same meeting, Insp. Lorne Blumhagen was appointed acting chief.

In a tele-conference special meeting that night, a motion was unanimously passed STEVE MURRAY â&#x20AC;&#x153;to convene an inquiry into the events giving rise to the Chief of Policeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in an incident occurring on Aug. 22, 2016, and any other related, relevant matters.â&#x20AC;?

On Sept. 9, legal counsel exercised an unspecified option in Murrayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employment contract. It was to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;funded through the anticipated surplus and cost savings in the 2016 Lacombe Police Service budget.â&#x20AC;?

The earlier inquiry was to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;held in abeyanceâ&#x20AC;? until the commission exercised the option.

Council ratified Blumhagenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment as acting chief on Sept. 9, and received a further in camera update on Sept. 26.

Within a few days word was out publicly that the chief was on administrative leave. On Oct. 4, a news release was issued saying Murray had retired effective Oct. 7.

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Local BRIEFS RCMP probe racist graffiti at site of Bashaw fire RCMP are investigating racist graffiti at the site of the burned-out Bashaw Motor Inn. Police couldn’t say whether there was any connection between the graffiti that contained a “racial slur” and the fire that destroyed the motel early Sunday morning, that killed one person and badly injured several members of the Tiwana family, who owned and lived at the inn.

“There is still no information at this time to indicate that the mischief to property and the motel fire are related in any way,” said police in a news release.

Firefighters were called to the hotel early on Sunday morning with reports of a large explosion and fire.

Bashaw’s volunteer firefighters were supported by firefighters from Maskwacis and Mirror as well as police and EMS. The RCMP is considering the fire a crime scene and the Major Crimes Unit and other support services have been brought to the site to assist in the investigation.

Police are asking that anyone with information about the graffiti or the fire to call Bashaw RCMP at 780-3723793 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Lydia Sacallis, 9, and her brother Adonie, 11, handcuffed themselves together Wednesday in the foyer of the Red Deer Superstore. The two are on a year-long adventure along with their mother J.B. Owen and Alisha Kandler to raise money for a variety of charities around the world. The four are taking part in the Just Give Today campaign and over the next 11 months will visit 11 countries: Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica, Australia, Thailand, Turkey, Greece, Ecuador, Peru and the United States. Their goal is to raise $1 million for a variety of charities. The pair hoped to raise $500 before taking the handcuffs off.

Housing program aims to provide safe environment for pregnant woman

Buchanan to sit on AUMA board of directors Red Deer Coun. Buck Buchanan will be sitting on the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association board of directors for a one-year term.

Buchanan was recently elected as a director to represent cities up to a population of 500,000, and will be one of three directors representing the same-sized cities.

Buchanan said he will be advocating on behalf of all municipalities as well as Red Deer, which has always been active bringing forward resolutions to the AUMA. “You’re always bringing your own city’s views to the table,” Buchanan said who was also a 2013-14 board member.

AUMA represents Alberta’s urban municipalities including cities, towns, villages, summer villages, and specialized municipalities, as well as associate and affiliate members, and represents more than 85 per cent of Albertans.

The goal of AUMA is to develop a strong and engaged partnership between all three levels of government.

He said it will be a critical time for the AUMA with the review of the Municipal Government Act that has been underway and developing regulations to go along with the act.

“That’s every municipality’s bible.

There are lots of changes happening.”

He said advocating for tri-lateral funding negotiations between municipalities, the provincial and the federal government instead of bilateral negotiation between the province and Ottawa is another important issue AUMA will focus on.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Construction on Phase 2 of Maternity Home is underway and should be finished in May to provide more teens and young women with a place to live and raise their babies.

“It does take a village to raise a child. This is how it starts,” said Anne Waddell, executive director of Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre, at the official groundbreaking ceremony held Wednesday.

The Christian agency’s new housing program is all about giving pregnant teens and women, age 12 to 25, a safe and stable environment where they can learn life and parenting skills.

Waddell said Maternity Home is a new model and people in Ontario and British Columbia have already been calling to learn what is happening in Red Deer.

“We’re excited to be able to share that and for this model to be carried throughout Canada. So you’re not just part of a local project,” she told Maternity Home supporters.

Last fall, work was complete on Phase 1 to renovate the top floor of the Central Alberta Trade and Labour Society Building at 5116 47th St. Living space for four clients and 24-hour onsite staff was created, which allows clients to stay until their child is six months old.

Phase 2 is a $2.6-million project to

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Jim Cramer of Eagle Builders and Anne Waddell, executive director of the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre, and others attended the groundbreaking of the Maternity Home Phase 2 in downtown Red Deer Wednesday. construct an adjoining building with seven one-bedroom suites for longer-term housing and support until the child turns two years old. Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre, located at 4610 48th Ave., will move its offices to the main floor of the facility to run its programs and services.

Since February, three clients have stayed in Phase 1 of Maternity Home.

Right now there is one client.

Waddell said the length of stay has varied. Staff was able to help one client reunite with her family. Clients can also develop a new support system at Maternity Home.

“The goal is to be with them as they carry to term. If they choose to parent, then we’ll equip them to parent successfully. If they choose at some point to place the child for adoption, then we can walk through that process with them as well.”

She said Phase 2 will include a child-care services, allow clients to go back to school or work, and provide their child with needed support.

“The first two years for the child is very crucial for brain development. If we can create a safe and stable loving environment for the child for the first two years, the long-term impact will be great.”

She said Maternity Home will serve Central Alberta. The centre offers services in Olds and will be developing services in Rocky Mountain House and Sundre this fall.

Eagle Builders is the construction company in charge of Maternity Home and has also donated $1 million to the project. An anonymous donor is providing a $500,000 donation and a capital campaign will be launched to match that donation by April. The centre already has $300,000 for the project.

For more information visit www. pregnancycare.ca or call 403-343-1611. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Petition calls for end to hospital parking fees

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF A petition to the House of Commons to eliminate parking fees at hospitals across the country has made its way to Red Deer.

Winnipeg cancer patient Collin Bryce Kennedy began the electronic petition in July and has gathered more than 3,000 signatures from across Canada.

One of those signatures includes Red Deer cancer patient Nicole Shave.

Shave has spent countless hours at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre during diagnosis along with multiple trips to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary for chemo treatments, stem cell transplants and radiation.

In the past five months, her family has spent about $1,500 in parking fees.

“I haven’t been able to work throughout my treatments and the $20 a week literally broke me some months. For a lot of cancer patients it is honestly a toss up about whether you’re paying for parking or buying groceries,” said Shave.

The Wildrose Party started a similar petition in August suggesting hospital parking fees be waived for the first two hours. Their petition has received more than 3,000 signatures.

“Visiting a loved one in hospital, or having treatment or surgery should not be made tougher or discouraged by having to shell out for what can be very expensive hospital parking fees,” Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said. “This hidden tax is hitting Albertans at a time of enormous emotional stress, and financial stress shouldn’t be an added anxiety.”

Steve Rees, senior program officer of capital management at Alberta Health Services, said he understands the concerns, but eliminating the fees is just not possible.

“I certainly have empathy towards the people who are signing it and understand the issues,” he said.

“AHS really understands that coming to a facility either for personal care or to support a loved one can be an extremely stressful time and parking can just add to it. AHS doesn’t receive funding from the government to support the parking. All of our parking facilities have to be self sustaining.”

Financial information from Alberta Health Services shows that hospital visitors pay approximately $75 million in parking fees per year with more than $17 million in profit.

“That goes into the new facilities. We finished the parking lot in Red Deer lot not too long ago and that was one of the new sites where we have done a major upgrade or a replacement. The money is being spent in planning and other projects,” said Rees.

Rees said although parking fees are sometimes a financial burden, he feels the rates are reasonable.

“We try to do market rates. We do surveys in each city, each zone and each area in each city to make sure it’s competitive. If they weren’t competitive, you may have people that aren’t using our facility, but are using our parking. So we try to be as close to market rates as possible,” said Rees.

The hospital currently charges $1.25 per half hour and daily rates of $8.50 for surface parking lots and the parkade and $9.50 for underground. A weekly parking pass costs $37, while a month parking pass is $57.

Local BRIEFS Sylvan Lake to hire full-time bylaw enforcement officer for animal control Sylvan Lake is taking over animal control.

Town council voted on Tuesday to hire a full-time bylaw enforcement officer to handle animal complaints, a move meant to save money and provide quicker service.

Previously, animal control has been contracted out, but the town believes it can provide quicker service by having its own officer.

Municipal enforcement staff are spending about $67,500 a year responding to animal complaints.

Combined with the cost of the animal control contractor, the service was costing the town more than $130,000 per year.

Staff looked at 10 comparable communities and all did their own animal enforcement.

It will cost about $18,000 to get the service up and running by December. Over a full year, the town expects to save about $7,000 annually.

Man in hospital after shooting A man shot on the O’Chiese Reserve northwest of Rocky Mountain House is recovering in hospital.

RCMP said they were called to a home invasion about 4 a.m. on Tuesday. Three men went into a home armed with a firearm and stole numerous things before leaving.

Shortly after, police got a report that a man had been shot. He was airlifted in critical condition to hospital in Calgary. His condition has since been upgraded to stable with non-life-threatening injuries.

Rocky RCMP are investigating with assistance from Forensic Identification Services, Police Dog Service and the Emergency Response Team.

Call Rocky RCMP at 403-843-2882 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit. com.

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Rob Krettler, facility supervision at Recycle Logic at 8075 49 Ave. in Red Deer, adds some discarded electronics to a bin as Red Deer Public School students from Aspen Heights Elementary and Hunting Hills High School look on. From the left are Allison Weninger, Avishek Das, Delila Osmanovic, Natalie Sommerville, MacKenzie Brown, Bailey Johnson and Neelam Singh.

Electronics roundup raising money for students in need

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF Time to round up all those old or unwanted electronics.

Red Deer Public Schools has teamed up with Alberta Recycling and Recycle Logic to raise money for students in need while helping the environment at the same time.

People are encouraged to drop off their old or unwanted electronics at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School on Oct. 15 and Oct. 22 from 9-4 p.m.

For every electronic device dropped off, Alberta Recycling will donate between $1 and $10 to Red Deer Public Schools.

Bruce Buruma, Director of Community Relations at Red Deer Public Schools, said the money raised will help kick start a new District Equity Fund for the district’s schools. The fund will be set up to ensure that diverse learning needs, personal situations and social circumstances are not obstacles for student success. The money will also be used to support school environment clubs.

Buruma believes the recycling roundup could fundraise close to $10,000.

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Lacombe resident wins $100,000 A Lacombe resident ended up $100,000 richer when he decided to attend a recent farmers market in Bentley.

“I was in Bentley for the farmer’s market,” Lemuel Harding said. “I play the lottery every week, but I was still really surprised when I checked it and saw that I won!”

He purchased his LOTTO 6/49 and EXTRA ticket at the Bentley IDA and won $100,000 on the Aug. 20 EXTRA draw.

“Increasingly in our community we recognize there’s some challenging times and it’s being reflected through the kids in our schools. By establishing an equity fund we want to be able to make that useful for people in our school who need that type of support,” said Buruma. “It’s a great reason for our community to get behind this.”

Funds raised will also go to encouraging green initiatives at the schools, he said.

Laurie Parsons, director of operations at Recycle Logic, said there has been a decline in the number of electronics being recycled. She said she believes the partnership with Red Deer Public Schools will help increase the awareness about the importance of recycling.

“All of these things are valuable resources that we are throwing away,” said Parsons. “There’s copper and other precious metals and can be reused.

There’s only a certain amount of those elements in the world and we are throwing them away. This is a great opportunity for people to clear out their basements and raise some money for the schools.”

Electronics can also be dropped off at Recycle Logic’s recycling centre (4625 62 St.) from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ross Sea: The last intact sea GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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urray for sustainability.

Commercial fishing for the Antarctic toothfish is permitted in the Ross Sea, provided that the biomass of the spawning stock (total weight of all the fertile adult fish) is still at least half of its previous level 35 years later. And at no time in that 35 years will the spawning biomass be allowed to fall below 20 per cent of the pre-exploitation level.

That sounds pretty safe and reasonable. What better guarantee of the future health of the toothfish stock could you ask for?

Well, it might help to know where the toothfish actually spawn (but you don’t, not for sure. It’s certainly not the Ross Sea). And it could be handy to know when and how often they go off as adults to spawn, because they don’t mature sexually for about 15 years and they can live to 50.

Never mind. We’ll just pick a number for the total allowable catch – say,

3,000 tonnes a year – and we’ll see how it goes.

These are big, slow-growing fish, about two metres long and up to 150 kg as adults, so 3,000 tonnes is around 30,000 individuals. That might be a safe take, but we don’t even know their numbers.

If we had a dozen other ocean areas where there has been no major human interference yet, taking a few risks with this one would not be such a big deal. But this is the last one: in the Ross Sea, off the Antarctic coast where there has been no pollution, and where fishing only began in 1996, the local ecosystem is still more or less intact.

That is why there has been a proposal before the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) for the past five years to turn the Ross Sea into a Marine Protected Area.

Twenty-three of the 25 members of the CCAMLR have supported this proposal at each October meeting for the past five years, but the organization only works by consensus. Every member must agree, and China and Russia didn’t. But last October the Chinese came around and supported the idea, and the Russians at least committed to

“inter-sessional discussion” of the proposal: back-channel talks before this year’s meeting.

They all know the bigger picture is grim. Nobody takes much consolation from the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s most recent statistics, according to which the total global catch was 86 million tonnes in 1996, and only down to 77 million tonnes in 2010: an 11 per cent decline in 14 years.

The FAO’s statistics are very old, and if the trend has continued since 2010 then the total global catch is probably down to around 73 million by now.

Moreover, this apparently slow decline may be misleading, because as the old stocks dwindled fishing fleets began operating in remote southern seas where the stocks had remained intact until recently.

If the only reason the global catch numbers still look fairly good is because the fishing fleets move on to new areas as old stocks become depleted, then we are in for a big shock when they run out of new areas to exploit.

Probably not very long from now.

One of the good things about sea creatures, however, is that most of them reproduce very fast. Give them a decade or two without fishing, and it’s amazing how quickly they come back.

So what marine life really needs is Marine Protected Areas that include 10 to 20 per cent of the oceans’ total area.

About two per cent of the oceans is currently in MPAs, mostly in areas that are not important to the commercial fishing industry. And only half of that area is strict “no-take” reserves that can act as nurseries for the recovery of entire damaged ecosystems.

Turning the Ross Sea into an MPA won’t reverse all the damage, but it is scientifically very important. It is even more important politically, because international co-operation on this could lead to much broader common action to save the marine biosphere.

This year’s CCAMLR meeting opens in Hobart, Tasmania, on Oct. 17. The Russians are not even major players in the Ross Sea fishery, and there is at least a chance that this time they may do the right thing.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Too many women still die during pregnancy and childbirth

BY LOUBNA BELAID AND VALERY RIDDE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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bout 830 mothers die due to pregnancy and childbirth complications around the world every day. Most are preventable deaths. That’s why improving childbirth outcomes was a critical issue at the recent G7 Health Ministers Meeting, and why Canada must remain committed to the cause.

We know where it’s happening. The number of mothers who die relative to the number of births – the mortality maternal ratio – is much higher in low-income countries. In 2015, the ratio in low-income countries was estimated at 239 deaths per 100,000 births, compared to 12 per 100,000 in high-income countries.

We know that improving access to health-care services is important for pregnant women. In fact, it is included in the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations and 23 international organizations, including Canada, in 2000.

Canada supported that goal by spearheading the 2010 Muskoka initiative, where G8 countries invested $7.3 billion to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortalities globally. Canada alone invested $1.1 billion to the RED DEER

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But what if access to health care isn’t enough? What if expecting mothers, despite the risks they see around them, reject health services offered to them?

That’s what researchers discovered in a meta-analysis on the barriers expecting mothers face when seeking medical care in low- and middle-income countries.

Studies reported women were concerned about or had experienced disrespect and abuse in health-care facilities. For example, care in hospitals and health facilities was often associated with physical and verbal abuse, non-consensual care, discrimination, neglectful care, lack of privacy and even detention against the patient’s will.

The analysis found hospital facilities were perceived to provide too many invasive interventions, such as unnecessary vaginal examinations, that they were insensitive to privacy issues and that they took away women’s control over the birthing process.

Many complained of a lack of supportive attendants at birth during a hospital delivery. Some experienced long delays for care. Some had a fear of cutting (from episiotomy or caesarean section).

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Some women described health providers as verbally abusive, lacking compassion or even physically abusive during delivery. Some feared compulsory HIV testing or HIV-status disclosure. And some feared stigmatization because of their unwed status.

These issues of cultural disconnect, disrespect and abuse are matters of quality of care that haven’t had enough attention globally. But they are important for improving maternal outcomes.

In fact, researchers have found that improving the quality of care is essential for improving maternal outcomes.

Around the world, civil and professional movements promote childbirth based on respect and dignity. The White Ribbon Alliance, for example, convenes individuals, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, government entities, youth, community leaders, academics and donor agencies to promote every woman’s right to a safe birth.

Canada has committed to 20 projects in which Canadian researchers work with African counterparts and policy-makers to improve access and quality of care for expecting mothers and babies.

But Canada can – and must – do more. Canada can direct policies and funding to tackle disrespect and abuse

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at health facilities. We can insist on sensitization training for global health students and non-governmental organization workers. We can encourage more awareness on the issue for policy-makers and health professionals.

We can support more research on evidence-based policies to inform our goals.

Of course, Canada should always work with local practitioners, researchers and policy-makers to avoid the mistakes of the past. And quality of care should be an integral part of our broader commitment to addressing barriers to health care, such as access, transportation, education and more.

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A flock of swans swims in a small patch of open water on a pond on the east side of Gasoline Alley south of Red Deer Tuesday. Both trumpeter swans and tundra swans migrate through Alberta on their way back to warmer wintering grounds in the south this time of year.

Ottawa urged to Dangerous offender speed up judicial appealing conviction appointments

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calls are mounting for Ottawa to swiftly appoint more judges after a first-degree murder charge was stayed in Edmonton because of unreasonable delay in getting an accused to trial.

Alberta MP Michael Cooper, the Conservative deputy justice critic, is urging Liberal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to immediately fill dozens of vacancies across the country, including at least nine on Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench.

“It’s time for the minister to stop talking about appointing judges and actually get around to appointing judges,” Cooper said. “Otherwise, thousands of cases across Canada could be thrown out due to delay.”

A jury trial was to begin next week for 29-year-old Lance Matthew Regan, who was accused of stabbing to death fellow inmate Mason Tex Montgrand at Edmonton Institution in August 2011.

But on Friday a Court of Queen’s Bench judge stayed the murder charge due to the long delay.

That wait — more than 62 months — was more than twice as long as what a Supreme Court ruling this summer deemed reasonable.

In setting aside drug convictions in British Columbia for Barrett Richard Jordan, the top court laid out a new framework for determining whether a person’s right to a timely trial had been infringed.

It said an unreasonable delay should be found in cases that take 18 months in provincial court or 30 months in a superior court to get to tri-

Jansen joins Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race EDMONTON — Calgary legislature member Sandra Jansen has joined the race to become the next leader of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives.

Jansen announced Wednesday that she wants to focus on rebuilding the party as a modern, forward-looking team, while not abandoning principles simply to defeat the NDP in the next election.

Jansen joins four other contenders in the race to replace former premier Jim Prentice.

Fellow MLA Richard Starke, former MLA Donna Kennedy-Glans, former Calgary MP Jason Kenney, and Calgary lawyer Byron Nelson have already announced they are running.

The fate of the party is also up in the air.

Kenney is running on a platform to dissolve the PCs and merge with the Wildrose to create a new conservative coalition he says is necessary to defeat the NDP.

Trilogy Energy says oil emulsion spill has covered three hectares CALGARY — Trilogy Energy says the pipeline leak it discovered late last week in north central Alberta has covered an area about three hectares in size with oil emulsion. That’s about the size of four football fields.

In an update posted to its website late Tuesday, the Calgary-based oil and gas producer says it still doesn’t know the volume of the spill into

al from the time an accused is charged.

Wilson-Raybould said the government is working to modernize Canada’s criminal justice system and address delays.

“This week I am meeting with provincial and territorial ministers of justice and public safety to address this very important question,” she said in a statement issued by her office.

“In June, we filled pressing judicial vacancies at the federal level by drawing on existing lists of recommended candidates. Additional appointments will be announced in the near future.

“However, a concerted effort is required to tackle the many factors that contribute to delays in our courts.”

Ian Savage, president of the Calgary-based Criminal Defence Lawyers’ Association, figures there are 12 to 15 fewer judges than what Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench needs to handle its volume of cases in a timely manner.

He adds that resources are also tight at the provincial court level. And it’s the worst possible time for there to be delays in Alberta’s justice system, Savage said.

“Everyone knows that when the economy goes sour, crime rates — especially petty crime, property crime — go up because more and more people are out of work. More and more people are desperate to support themselves and their families and will turn to petty crimes to do that,” he said.

“More and more people will turn to substance abuse and mental health issues will increase. And all of that leads to an increase in crime and the system is becoming overwhelmed with the volume as well.” marshland about 15 kilometres from Fox Creek.

The posting says that company president John Williams and other managers travelled to the remote scene Tuesday to meet with the cleanup team and assess the extent of the spill.

It says the pipeline has been shut down and purged. Staff on site include environmental and wildlife specialists working with representatives of the Alberta Energy Regulator.

The AER said last week that the oil emulsion that leaked is about 50 per cent water and 50 per cent oil.

Teen girl pleads guilty to murder in beating death of Saskatoon infant SASKATOON — A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of a six-week-old boy in Saskatoon.

The teen, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, entered the plea during a scheduled court appearance Wednesday.

Nikosis Jace Cantre was found beaten in his playpen in his family’s home and died in hospital July 3.

Justice officials said shortly after the teen’s arrest that she had escaped from a youth centre, where she was serving a 10-month open custody sentence for several offences, including assault with a weapon.

The baby’s family has said they did not know the girl and invited her to their home when they found her downtown with no place to go.

“Let there be justice for my grandson,” Jeffrey Longman said outside provincial court after the guilty plea.

He and other relatives, wearing T-shirts with a photo of the Nikosis, sang a song and held up signs demanding the girl get a life sentence.

Longman said he wakes up in pain every day and wants to see the girl sentenced as an adult.

“Sixteen-years old — you should know better,” he said.

“He was just a baby, just six-weeks old. We just got him into our home.”

The Crown earlier said it would seek an adult sentence if the teen was convicted. The maximum youth sentence for second-degree murder is seven years in custody and supervision.

CALGARY — Lawyers for an Alberta man who was declared a dangerous offender for torturing his roommate appealed his conviction before the province’s top court Wednesday.

Dustin Paxton, now 36, was convicted in 2012 of aggravated and sexual assault.

Court heard that Paxton humiliated, starved, beat and sexually assaulted his roommate over 18 months while they lived together in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. The victim was dropped off near death at a Regina hospital in 2010.

The man, who cannot be identified, testified during the trial in Calgary that he suffered a traumatic brain injury from the abuse and can no longer hold a job.

Justice Sheilah Martin of Court of Queen’s Bench ruled that Paxton, showing indifference to his crimes, was a high-risk to reoffend violent should be jailed indefinitely.

Paxton’s lawyers told the Alberta Court of Appeal that the trial judge made errors, showed bias and shouldn’t have excluded a defence expert who found the victim’s testimony unreliable.

“The judge made a finding based on the perceptions of the complainant,” said Alias Sanders.

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MILLER: Doesn’t know how long job will last Today Miller starts work in the Fox Creek area. He got there because his sister lent him her vehicle. He doesn’t know yet how long the job will last.

“I’m hoping till Christmas.”

On a brighter note, he’s noticed that more oilpatch people have been finding work lately. He believes that’s because oil companies who had been pushing off capital projects are now spending money in the final quarter of their 2016 budgets.

But there are fewer hours and pay cuts, and companies aren’t paying as much for travel or picking up costs like orientation training.

Miller has started oilfielddads.com, a membership business that helps people with networking, training and resumes. But it takes time to build a business, he said.

In a way it was comforting when he let his truck go. “Hey I’m no different than anybody else out there. … I’m fighting the struggle right alongside everybody else.”

“Here, the conviction and the finding of what he did is based on the perception of the complainant who … has difficulty articulating what happened.

What’s lacking in this case is evidence from the complainant of acts and gestures of what leads to the sexual conduct.”

One of the three Appeal Court judges, Justice Bruce McDonald, questioned the defence’s argument.

“It doesn’t surprise me he suppressed these very degrading events,” McDonald said.

“I don’t find it all that strange that someone, particularly someone who suffered this brain injury, would be vague on those details.”

The Crown asked the justices to dismiss the appeal.

Crown prosecutor Jolaine Antonio told the Appeal Court that if the reasons handed down by the trial judge were insufficient, then “every trial judge in Alberta might as well give up.”

She also said the Justice Martin did a “superhuman” job.

In its written argument, the Crown also said that Martin found that the victim’s memories diminished over time due to his health and she did not act on the weaker points of his testimony.

The Appeal Court reserved its decision.

He’s worked in the oilfield for 20 years but he is not going to push his son to do the same.

“I don’t want him to have the same heartaches that I have.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

MURRAY: Personal health issues In the release, Murray cites “personal health issues” for his decision and spoke of his pride in the department he had started work for as a constable in 1999. He was appointed chief in 2013.

Citing the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the city declined to provide any further information on the circumstances of the chief’s departure.

In an email, it was stated that releasing the information would be an “unreasonable invasion of personal privacy” as outlined in the legislation.

Mayor Steve Christie and police commission member Peter Bouwsema directed questions to the commission.

Chairman Jonathan Jacobson could not be reached for comment.

The amount of the surplus and cost savings in this year’s police budget won’t be known until the end of the year, says the city. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Jordan Roy glad to be a Rebel FORMER TRI-CITY AMERICAN FORWARD KNOWS THE ROLE HE HAS TO PLAY

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

difference.”

Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter believes he fits in that role as well.

“He’s a big guy who wants to use his body. He’s not a fancy player. He plays Jordan Roy had an idea he wouldn’t in straight lines and is a guy who has to be spending the 2016-17 Western Hockey finish his checks and simplify his game.

League season with the Tri-City AmeriHe has to focus in every game and every cans. practice and build from there.”

“I had an idea I would be traded, but One thing Roy does do as well as had no idea where … I’m glad Red Deer most is skate. was interested in me,” he said prior to the “I’ve always been a good skater Red Deer Rebels practice at the Centrium in every league, and that’s one of my Wednesday afternoon. strengths,” he said. “I have to use that “It’s worked out … I’m definitely fitting in this league.” in with the team. I know the role I have to Roy grew up in Kimberley, B.C. and play and where I’m at as a player.” played bantam AA in Cranbrook. He Roy arrived in September from the moved to Lethbridge in 2012 and played Americans and fortunately had one friend JORDAN ROY two seasons of minor hockey there — D-Jay Jerome — with the club.

— one with the bantam AAA Golden “We played together in minor hockey in Lethbridge, so we seemed to click right away, plus Hawks, and one with the midget AAA Hurricanes. the other guys treated me like family,” said Roy, who He played junior with the Kimberley Dynamiters in assisted on three of Jerome’s first four goals of the the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League in 2014-15 before joining the Americans, who drafted season.

“It was good to get an opportunity to set up a few him in the fifth round (95th overall) in the 2013 WHL bantam draft. goals and get the chemistry going,” he said.

He played 34 games with Tri-City last season, scorAt six-foot-two, 190-pounds, the 18-year-old winger is looked at as a power forward, something he’s more ing twice and adding one assist. This season he has four assists in eight games. than willing to accept.

But he’s still looking for his first goal with the “That’s the role I see myself in. I have to keep my game simple, do the little things, and try to make a Rebels.

“I’ve has some chances, but haven’t found it yet,” he said. “Points are obviously important, but as long as at the end of the game we win, and I do my best, that’s important.”

Sutter agrees.

“We just want to get him into a mind set to get better and build off that,” he said. “We want him to use his strengths to his best advantage. To get settled in his mind set which will simplify everything. We want him to continue to use bis body, work on straight lines and continue to go to the net harder. He’s a smart kid. He was complicating it a bit, but when we set it out for him on what we want from him he’s more mentally engaged and focused as a player. He’s dialed in and I think he’s handled it all well.”

Roy has been happy with the way the season has progressed.

“I still have to work on positioning and getting used to the team and what they want from me in terms of keeping it simple and not trying to do too much. But I’m certainly happy to be here.”

The Rebels are coming off one of their best games of the season — a 5-0 win over the Kelowna Rockets.

“That was a big win for us, it gave us a lot of confidence heading into this week,” said Roy. The Rebels host the Moose Jaw Warriors Friday at 7 p.m. at the Centrium and visit the Kootenay Ice Saturday.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at Danny’s bog at rdcathletics.ca

Blue Jays pitching rotation ready for Cleveland

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When it comes to Toronto’s starting rotation, it’s an embarrassment of riches for Blue Jays manager John Gibbons.

Proven playoff performer Marco Estrada will start the opener of the American League Championship Series on Friday in Cleveland. The rest of the rotation includes 20-game winner J.A. Happ, league earned-run average leader Aaron Sanchez and wildcard game winner Marcus Stroman.

That’s one of the deepest four-man crews in the major leagues and gives Toronto a distinct edge over the Indians, who are missing starters Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar due to injury.

The off-days that came after Toronto needed only three games to win the AL Division Series has allowed the Blue Jays to set their rotation as they wish rather than be forced into maintaining a regular routine.

Stroman has had the most rest and will be a good bet to go in Game 2 on Saturday.

Estrada, meanwhile, was dominant in a 10-1 rout of Texas in the ALDS opener last week. His changeup regularly handcuffed the Rangers throughout the 8 1/3-inning performance.

“All I know is you look back at the last couple years at how good Marco has been for us in big games for us,” Gibbons said. “Playoff games and two straight years of regular-season games. And he’s one guy too that probably needs more than anybody to keep on a (schedule that’s as) close to normal as possible.”

The Blue Jays have some options to consider before setting their ALCS roster. Once the status of Francisco Liriano is firmed up, they’ll likely be in a position to make some decisions.

Liriano suffered a concussion last week but said Tuesday he feels much better and is hopeful to be ready for the ALCS. He has to complete Major League Baseball’s seven-day concussion protocol and could return as early as Saturday.

Liriano was strong down the stretch and would give the Blue Jays another left-handed option out of the bullpen. He could also be used in a short or long relief spots as needed.

Second baseman Devon Travis said his sore right knee is feeling better and he expects to be ready for Game 1. The Blue Jays could elect to drop a pitcher and perhaps add a backup player in Ryan Goins or Dalton Pompey.

The Indians, meanwhile, are also enjoying a break before the start of the best-of-seven ALCS. They completed a three-game sweep of Boston in the other ALDS on Monday night.

“It’s really probably the most balanced team in the American League that I can think of and they

Local sports BRIEFS NHL filled with former Red Deer Rebels Ten former members of the Red Deer Rebels will start the season in the National Hockey League.

Both the Florida Panthers and Minnesota Wild have two former members of the WHL club with defenceman Alex Petrovic and goalie James Reimer in Florida and defenceman Matt Dumba and goalie Darcy Kuemper with the Wild.

Forward Martin Hanzal is with the Arizona Coyotes, while goalie Cam Ward returns to the Carolina Hurricanes and centre Ryan NugentHopkins with the Edmonton Oilers.

Defenceman Dion Phaneuf is with the Ottawa Senators, forward Boyd Gordon with the Philadelphia Flyers and centre Brandon Sutter with the Vancouver Canucks.

RDC runner Jill Stewart selected Central female athlete for October Jill Stewart, a first-year member of the RDC crosscountry running team, has been selected the Alberta Sport Development Centre — Central female athlete of the month for October.

The 18-year-old Hunting Hills grad has had an impressive start to her college career. She has a

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When it comes to pitching, the Blue Jays have an embarrassment of riches with the likes of J.A. Happ, a 20-game winner. The Jays open the American League Championship Series Friday against Cleveland. have good team speed so they can manufacture (runs),” Gibbons said.

Cleveland edged Toronto 4-3 in the regular-season series. These teams are evenly matched and well rested.

“Nobody really knows how off-days and things like that and teams playing at the end really affects what actually happens,” Gibbons said. “I do think it might have helped us at the end when we got in, that wild card, playing right up to the end, that might have been of benefit to us.

“But I think everyone is on an even playing field really, (it’s) two good teams.”

If a fifth game is necessary, it would be played Oct. 19 at Rogers Centre. The series would then shift back to Cleveland for Game 6 on Oct. 21 and Game 7 on Oct. 22 if required.

“We’ll try to get four wins and move on. That’s our goal,” Gibbons said. “All I know is we’re playing a very, very good team. I’d expect them to be really good games I would think.”

second and two third place finishes in three ACAC Running Room Grand Prix events this season.

Stewart, along with Jordanna Cota, have the RDC Queens ranked first in the province, and third in the country.

The RDC team competed in Camrose Saturday and at the ACAC finals in Grande Prairie, Oct. 29.

Hat on Sunday. ● The hockey Kings will play a pair of exhibition games at the Penhold Regional Multiplex — Friday against the Augustana Vikings and Saturday against the senior AAA Innisfail Eagles. Both games go at 7 p.m. ● The RDC cross-country running team will compete in the fifth and final Grand Prix race of the season, Saturday in Camrose.

The Queens go into the event, ranked third in Canada while the Kings are ranked 14th. ● Both RDC golf teams will leave for the CCAA championships, on Sunday. Both teams finished third in the ACAC finals and qualified for the Canadians, which will be hosted by Holland College in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Queens hockey, Kings basketball share athlete of the week honours Queens hockey and Kings basketball shared the spotlight in the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week voting.

Fourth-year winger Jade Petrie received the top female award, while fifth-year forward Matt Matear was the top male.

Petrie was outstanding in the Queens opening two games of the ACAC regular season, despite losing both games.

She scored the Queens lone goal in a 2-1 loss at NAIT, and she was the RDC player of the game in a 3-2 loss at home.

Matear played in two of the three Kings games during the Ramada Inn and Suites Fall Royalty Classic basketball tournament. He was one of the Kings premier players against Lethbridge and then pumped in 33 points in a 104-65 win over Keyano. ● The RDC volleyball teams open their ACAC regular season this weekend against the SAIT Trojans. They meet Friday in Calgary and Saturday at RDC, during which the Kings will raise their 201516 CCAA championship banner.

The women get underway at 6 p.m., followed by the men. ● The soccer teams return to action after a week off, visiting Lethbridge on Saturday and Medicine

Murray Crawford, Sports Reporter, 403-314-4338 E-mail mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer’s Josh Tarzwell named to World U-17 Hockey Challenge Forward Josh Tarzwell of Red Deer is one of 66 players named to represent Canada at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge.

The 16-year-old Tarzwell is a second-round draft pick (24th overall) of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the 2015 WHL bantam draft.

He played midget hockey with the Optimist Chiefs last season and has played four games with the Hurricanes this year, scoring once.

The six-foot-197 pound Tarzwell will play on one of three Canadian teams — Red, White or Black — in the tournament which runs Oct. 27-Nov. 5 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Russia and the United States will also compete.

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All eyes on veteran QB Burris LEADING THE REDBLACKS INTO CRUCIAL CONTEST AGAINST TIGER-CATS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s Henry Burris’s time with the Ottawa Redblacks — again.

The CFL’s outstanding player last season will lead Ottawa into its crucial home-and-home series with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night. The Redblacks will visit Tim Hortons Field before the two teams return to the Canadian capital next weekend.

Ottawa (6-7-1) leads the East Division standings by just one point over Hamilton (6-8-0) heading into the back-to-back games. The first-place finisher will secure home-field advantage for the East Division final Nov. 20.

The second-place finisher will have to play an extra playoff game, hosting the East semifinal Nov. 13.

For Ottawa and Hamilton to secure playoff berths, they must finish first or second in the East. That’s because the fourth-place team in the West — currently Edmonton (8-7) — will likely accumulate more points than the Toronto Argonauts (5-10), who are third in the East.

In that scenario, the fourth-place team in the West would cross over and take the No. 3 playoff seed in the East.

Burris was effective coming off the bench in Ottawa’s 32-30 overtime loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders last weekend. He completed 9-of-16 passes for 138 yards and two TDs and also ran for a touchdown in rallying the Redblacks from a 15-point deficit in a wild fourth quarter.

Ottawa had the chance to secure the win in overtime but Chris Milo missed a 30-yard field goal, allowing Tyler Crapigna to connect from 39 yards out and secure Saskatchewan’s third straight win.

Burris, 41, opened the season as Ottawa’s starter but missed four games with a finger injury, resulting in Trevor Harris taking over the job. Burris returned under centre after Harris was injured in the Redblacks’ 30-29 loss to Saskatchewan on July 22, only to be replaced by Harris once again.

But Burris won’t have leading receiver Chris Williams (77 catches, 1,246 yards, 10 TDs), who suffered a season-ending knee injury against Saskatchewan.

Still, the Redblacks’ receiving corps still boasts Greg Ellingson (61 catches, 1,045 yards, four TDs), Earnest Jackson (67 catches, 918 yards, seven TDs) and Brad Sinopoli (76 catches, 865 yards, four TDs).

Hamilton is hurting also.

Starter Zach Collaros (concussion) won’t play.

He’ll be replaced by Jeremiah Masoli, who guided

Hamilton to last year’s East Division final, which was won by Ottawa. Masoli has a solid 68.7 completion percentage but has almost as many TDs (nine) as interceptions (eight) this season.

Receiver Luke Tasker (76 catches, 852 yards, five TDs) is also out but Canadian Andy Fantuz (85 catches, 926 yards, five TDs) anchors the Ticats pass-catching corps.

Hamilton is 3-3 at home while Ottawa is 4-3 on the road.

Pick — Hamilton.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers versus B.C. Lions (Friday night) Winnipeg (9-6) moved into a second-place tie in the West Division with B.C. (9-5) with last week’s controversial 37-35 home win. The Lions appeared to recover a late Andrew Harris fumble but he was ruled down before the ball came loose. That allowed Weston Dressler to give up a safety with one second remaining and clinch the victory. Fortunately, both teams have secured playoff berths, now it’s just a matter of seeing who finishes where. Here’s giving the Lions the edge just from a redemption perspective.

Pick — B.C. Saskatchewan Roughriders versus Toronto Argonauts (Saturday afternoon) Saskatchewan (4-10) has won three straight but was eliminated from playoff contention last weekend. The Riders appeared to be comfortably ahead of Ottawa last week before Burris came in and worked his magic. Darian Durant threw for 328 yards and two TDs for Saskatchewan but Crapigna was solid, hitting on 6-of-7 field goals, his lone miss coming from 55 yards out. The Argos are 2-6 at BMO Field and have lost eight of their last nine overall.

Pick — Saskatchewan.

Montreal Alouettes versus Calgary Stampeders (Sunday night) Calgary (13-1-1) clinched first in the West on Monday with a convincing 48-20 road win in Toronto. The Stampeders have won 12 straight and are riding a 14-game unbeaten streak. They’re also 7-0 at McMahon Stadium this season. Dave Dickenson needs one more win to break the league record for most regular-season victories by a rookie head coach but faces the challenge of keeping the club’s momentum going while giving players time off. Montreal (4-10) is coming off a 40-20 home loss to Edmonton.

Pick — Calgary.

Last week: 2-2 Overall: 38-26-1.

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Redblacks quarterback Henry Burris is expected to lead his team into a crucial home-and-home series with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Friday night.

Not wearing microphones costly for Esks, Maas

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Edmonton Eskimos were fined $20,000 and head coach Jason Maas was fined $15,000 for refusing to wear live microphones during a game in Montreal, the Canadian Football League announced Wednesday.

The head coach and quarterback of both clubs were mandated to wear microphones for television during Edmonton’s 40-20 victory over the Alouettes on Monday, but Maas and quarterback Mike Reilly refused to put them on. No penalty was assessed against Reilly.

Commissioner Jeffrey Orrige said that if Maas refuses to wear a mic when asked to in any future game he will receive the maximum fine allowable and be suspended one game.

Eskimos president and CEO Len Rhodes said his club accepts the league’s decision.

“Last Monday, our football club failed to honour the commitment we had previously made to the league to follow through on the live mic broadcast,” Rhodes said in a statement. “By failing to act on our commitment, we let our peers down across the league.

“For this, we are sorry and we sincerely apologize to our league, our broadcast partner TSN and to CFL fans from coast-to-coast. Today, the commissioner has levied significant fines against our football club and our head coach. We respect and fully support this decision. The long-term interests of our league as a whole must always supersede the interests of any individual or any one team.

Orrige’s strongly worded statement called the incident “a direct contravention of a directive from this league’s board of governors, a motion that was supported by all nine clubs.

“It was unfair to our fans, who had been promised a live mic game, to our broadcast partner, who had advertised a live mic game, and to the other clubs in the league who had abided by the board’s directive to participate in live mic games. It was totally unac-

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Eskimos head coach Jason Maas has been fined $15,000, while his club has been fined $20,000, by the Canadian Football League after they refused to wear microphones during a game in Montreal. ceptable.”

He held Maas personally accountable.

“The fact that coach Maas has expressed no remorse whatsoever for what appears to be a unilateral and planned act of defiance is particularly disappointing,” Orrige said. “I want to send a clear signal that this cannot happen again.”

Maas and Reilly said after the game they elected not to be mic’d up because it made them uncomfortable and they didn’t want any distractions during a game they needed to win to help improve their playoff position. Both said they were prepared to live with any league discipline it incurred.

“They can’t hold a gun to your head to make you do it so we just decided not to do it,” Maas said after the game. “It’s what’s right for our football club, not

what’s right for the other people, that’s the bottom line.

“We just decided between Mike and I not to do it and we’ll live with the consequences.”

Reilly said he was told by the CFL Players Association it was his choice whether to wear a mic or not.

“We played the game, we got the win and that’s all I care about,” said Reilly.

The league named Reilly one of its players of the week for his performance in the game, which included throwing for two touchdowns and running in another himself.

Montreal coach Jacques Chapdelaine said the Eskimos refusal to wear mics gave them an unfair advantage.

CFL playoffs more important Esks, Lions than nabbing record: Dickenson nab CFL weekly honours

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Chasing a historic CFL record and preserving your players for a division final at home don’t have to be mutually exclusive, but Calgary Stampeders coach Dave Dickenson has a balancing act ahead of him.

The Stampeders (13-1-1) know over five weeks out they’re the host team of the West Division final at McMahon Stadium on Nov. 20. The winner advances to the Grey Cup the following week in Toronto.

Calgary’s last three games of this regular season are meaningless to their playoff position. If they win out, however, the Stampeders would be just the second team to finish with 16 wins in the 18-game era.

The Edmonton Eskimos went 16-2 under Joe Faragalli in 1989, but were ousted in the West final by the eventual Grey Cup champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The Stampeders are at home to the Montreal Alouettes (4-10) on Saturday and the Toronto Argonauts (5-10) on Oct. 21, before finishing on the road in Montreal. They conclude the regular season with a bye week.

Dickenson, in his first season as Calgary’s head coach, says he’s learned playing for B.C. head coach Wally Buono and coaching with Stampeder GM John Hufnagel how to conserve personnel while staying competitive.

“There’s certainly some opportunity to rest some guys,” Dickenson said Wednesday. “I will definitely do that versus trying to get 16 wins. I don’t think that’s the important thing.

“We’re still all paid to do a job. Guys want to play.

For the most part, if you’re healthy, you play.”

A 16-1-1 record — which would produce the highest point total in the 18-game era — motivates running back Jerome Messam to keep his foot on the gas.

“I want to be part of one of the best teams in history, so if we can do that, win out for the rest of the season and go on and get this Grey Cup, I think we’re going to be claimed the best team,” he said.

The CFL’s leading rusher (1,002 yards) is likely referencing himself when he says Stampeders are chasing individual milestones too.

“A lot of guys got things going in their contracts and guys want to hit a couple of incentives just to get a little extra money,” Messam said candidly.

“I’m sure guys are going to be fighting through little nicks and bruises to hit what they need to get. I’m sure guys will be smart with their bodies.”

The six-foot-three, 254-pound back ranks ahead of Toronto’s Brandon Whitaker (830 yards) and wants to stay there.

“While I’m playing, I’m going to try and rack them up as much as I can so nobody can creep up and pass me at the end,” Messam said.

Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell says a Grey Cup trumps a 16-win season, but he would take both.

“The most important thing is holding the Grey Cup,” Mitchell said. “It would be a nice little nugget to add on there to have the best record ever.”

The Stampeders secured a division final at McMahon — where they are 7-0 — with their 48-20 win over Toronto on Monday.

The win well in hand, Mitchell gave way to backup Drew Tate early in the fourth quarter.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly and running back John White and B.C. receiver Bryan Burnham are the CFL top performers for Week 16.

Reilly completed 25-of-34 passes for 346 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for another TD, as the Eskimos thumped Montreal 40-20 on Monday.

This marked the 12th game of season that Reilly passed for 300 or more yards as he chases the 6,000 yard passing mark.

This season Reilly leads the league in passing yards with 5,054 and he is second MIKE REILLY in the league with 25 passing touchdowns.

White racked up two rushing touchdowns and 145 yards as well as 13 receiving yards on five catches in Edmonton’s win.

Burnham compiled 208 yards on nine receptions in the Lions’ 37-35 loss at Winnipeg on Saturday.

SPORTS

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016

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Shapiro’s love for Cleveland runs deep

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — Mark Shapiro’s love for Cleveland and its people runs deep, personally and professionally.

It’s where the Toronto Blue Jays’ president and CEO began his career, raised his family and helped orchestrate a baseball renaissance in the 1990s that’s enjoying a 21st-century revival. In many ways, it will always be home for Shapiro.

Over the past few months, Shapiro has enjoyed from afar seeing Cleveland celebrate this summer as the Cavaliers won an NBA title, ending a half-century drought for the city, and he’s watched with pride as Indians fans rallied around a team that has been overlooked — even in October.

It’s been some ride.

“I just feel bad that we’re going to have to put an end to it,” he said with a chuckle over the phone on Wednesday.

Shapiro finds himself the man in the middle of the AL Championship Series as his new team, the Blue Jays, will face with the Indians, the franchise that gave him his start, for a spot in the World Series.

And it won’t just be an emotional reunion for Shapiro. Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins also came up in Cleveland’s organization, working alongside Indians president Chris Antonetti, manager Terry Francona and many others.

Shapiro was flying to Cleveland on Wednesday and planned to have dinner with his sister, Julie, who lives in the area. On Thursday, he’ll arrive at Progressive Field as he did for more than two decades, and although he knows the direction to the visitors’ clubhouse, Shapiro’s first stop will be the Indians’ executive offices, where he plans to visit colleagues who are as close as family.

“I’ve got not just friendships, but deep friendships both in the community there and throughout the Indians organization, up and down it,” he said.

“It’s not just walking in to play the team, it’s walking in to play a group of people where you have a deep history and a profound respect. But I can tell you, because we’ve played them seven times already, when the first pitch gets thrown, the only emotion I feel is a competitive desire to win.”

Shapiro spent 24 seasons with the Indians, breaking in as an unpaid intern in the early ’90s. But it didn’t take long for the Princeton-educated son of respected sports agent Ron Shapiro to advance through the ranks and become one of baseball’s top executives. Shapiro has always done it the right way, displaying class and humility while molding the Indians into a model organization and helping them navigate through difficult years when the turnstiles slowed and the club had to re-invent itself to stay competitive.

However, Shapiro’s impact with the Indians goes way beyond statistical data. His personal skills might be what set him apart.

“I didn’t like Mark when he was here. How’s that?” Francona joked before turning serious about

File photo THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays’ president and CEO Mark Shapiro’s love for Cleveland is apparent as he began his career, raised his family and helped orchestrate a baseball renaissance in the 1990s that’s enjoying a 21st-centry revival. both Shapiro and Atkins.

“I’m so close to both of them that it’ll be fun to say hello,” said Francona, who used to take diligent notes whenever Shapiro spoke. “I’m sure they feel the same way we do — they want to beat our brains out. But then when it’s over, that’s never going to affect a friendship. Next time I probably see them will be at the winter meetings and we’ll be laughing and I’m sure something will happen during this (series) we’ll be laughing about.

“It could be a year, it could be a month, it could be two years. When you’re friends like that, it kind of goes beyond time or uniform or anything like that.”

During his time with the Indians, Shapiro was approached by numerous organizations, turning down an offer from the Cleveland Browns. He was content, but maybe needing a new challenge, Shapiro accepted a position with the Blue Jays and decided to leave the only team he had ever known.

Shapiro spent much of the past year commuting between Cleveland and Toronto, where he was rudely welcomed after popular GM Alex Anthopoulos was pushed aside to make room for him. Shapiro’s transition was beyond tumultuous, as he was lambasted on sports talk radio and in columns across Canada. Some of the attacks were personal and vicious.

Shapiro accepted the criticism, put his head down

and went to work.

Antonetti never worried that Shapiro would change people’s opinions of him.

“I talked to Mark frequently, especially at the outset,” Antonetti said as the Indians took batting practice in anticipation of Friday’s Game 1. “I never had any doubt that once the city, the organization and the country got to know Mark Shapiro the person and the executive that they would embrace him. He’s a transformational leader and a phenomenal human being, and those are two pretty good attributes that will end up endearing you to people.”

When the Indians wrapped up their Division Series victory against Boston, completing a three-game sweep at Fenway Park, Shapiro watched on TV along with his son, Caden, who used to shag flies during batting practice in an Indians uniform.

While the Shapiros have changed colors, their affection for Cleveland remains.

“We were both happy, not just for the chance to come back, but happy for the staff and the organization and the players,” Shapiro said. “But as he grows up he learns about the game and he’s 100 percent a Toronto Blue Jay now, just like me, but with the Cleveland Indians running through our veins. They will always be an important part of our lives and history.”

Jays broadcaster hasn’t used word Indians in over 25 years

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Blue Jays broadcaster Jerry Howarth won’t be using the word “Indians” when he calls the American League Championship Series between Toronto and Cleveland, and he says he hasn’t uttered the team’s name on the air for nearly 25 years.

Howarth told The Fan 590 on Tuesday that he stopped using team names like Indians and Braves and terms such as tomahawk chop and powwow on the mound after receiving a letter from an aboriginal fan after Toronto defeated Atlanta in the 1992 World Series.

He called it “one of the best fan letters I’ve ever received.”

“He said ‘Jerry, I appreciate your work but in the World Series, it was so offensive to have the tomahawk chop and to have people talk about the powwows on the mound and then the Cleveland Indians logo and the Washington Redskins.’ He just wrote it in such a loving, kind way. He said ‘I would really appreciate it if you would think about what you say with those teams.”’

Howarth wrote the man back, promising he would stop using Indians, Braves and other offensive words.

“I haven’t from that point on,” he said.

Sportsnet’s Jamie Campbell, who hosts Blue Jays Central, said he will be following Howarth’s lead.

“Like Jerry Howarth, I will attempt to avoid using the name of Cleveland’s baseball team during our broadcasts,” Campbell tweeted.

The issue was also gaining steam on social media Tuesday, a day after Cleveland beat the Boston Red Sox to advance to the AL championship series against Toronto, with many applauding Howarth and using the hashtag .notyourmascot.

Ontario human rights commissioner Renu Mandhane challenged the Canadian media to stop using the name, saying it perpetuates a negative stereotype.

“If their mascot isn’t said on TV it negatively impacts merchandise sales & brand recognition. Hit ‘em where it hurts. .NotYourMascot .BlueJays,” she tweeted.

Bob Rae, the former Ontario premier and federal Liberal leader, tweeted “Cleveland ‘s name and logo for their baseball team is so bad we need to beat them for that reason alone. Offensive stereotype.”

There have been demonstrations at Cleveland’s home opener every season for decades with protesters calling on the team to change its name and abolish the Chief Wa-

Judge refuses to declare mistrial in Derrick Rose lawsuit

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for a woman who filed a lawsuit accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape failed to disclose text messages to the defense, but the lapse was not significant enough to derail the civil trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Lawyers for Rose had argued that the plaintiff’s lawyers purposely withheld three texts until the woman finished testifying so the defense couldn’t ask about messages that showed she had been plotting sex on the night in question and, on the following day, was seeking taxi reimbursement and not accusing anyone of rape.

The woman’s lawyers said the texts did not add new information. They claimed they were shared with the defense, though they couldn’t prove it.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald said the accuser’s legal team had failed its legal obligation to share the texts, but there was a “minimal amount of prejudice” against Rose and his friends.

The judge said he would instruct jurors that the texts were disclosed recently and allow defense lawyers to question the accuser about the messages.

“I’m not going to dismiss it now,” Fitzgerald said. “I’m not going to declare a mistrial when we have a jury in the box.”

The woman suing Rose and two friends for $21.5 million claims she was raped while incapacitated three years ago.

Text messages have played a central role in the case, providing a rough

chronology and also helping explain what happened at a time when she said she blacked out from drinking and possibly some drug. During that time, she continued sending coherent messages to Rose.

Dr. Ernest Lykissa, a toxicologist hired by the defense, testified that the woman couldn’t have been as drunk as she claimed and been able to text so clearly.

Defense lawyer Mark Baute said the newly revealed text messages were the best evidence the defense had that the woman had filed a false rape claim after being “dumped by texts” from Rose.

During his argument to have the case dismissed, Baute dropped a bombshell by announcing the Los Angeles police detective investigating the case had died the day before.

He said Detective Nadine Hernandez had once told him “there’s no rape case here.”

Hernandez, a 19-year police veteran, died from a gunshot wound to the chest Tuesday in a suspected suicide, police said.

The woman suing Rose appeared shocked by news of the death.

Hernandez had just interviewed the woman at her parents’ Northern California home in the past month, attorney Brandon Anand said.

“She unequivocally stated that a crime had been committed,” Anand said.

A Los Angeles police spokeswoman wouldn’t comment on the death or the investigation, but the department issued a statement saying Hernandez was one of several detectives investigating the allegations and her death wouldn’t impede the probe.

hoo logo, an image of a smiling, red-faced character with a feather on his head.

Similar calls have been made for the NFL’s Washington Redskins and CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos to change their names.

The Indians have said they understand there are passionate views about the logo but will keep using it on uniforms and caps.

But Howarth said he has no intention of changing his approach.

“It’s always interesting to see things in black and white but when you get a fan letter from someone who has lived it and breathed it, and said in a very eloquent way ‘It’s just so offensive and we don’t like it’ … it was my way of saying ‘I agree with you and your feelings and that’s how I’m going to honour that and your entire native American culture.”’

The ALCS starts Friday in Cleveland.

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Local Sports Saturday

Today

● High school JV volleyball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at Hunting Hills.

Friday

● High school football: City Division: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.; Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, 7:30 p.m. Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. Rural Division: Rocky at Stettler, Drayton Valley at Sylvan Lake, Camrose at Ponoka. ● College volleyball: RDC at SAIT, women at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Moose Jaw, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Augustana Vikings, ACAC exhibition, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Coaldale at Stettler, 8 p.m.; Cochrane at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

● AMHL: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Edmonton Gregg Distributors, 4:30 p.m., Kinex. ● College volleyball: ACAC, RDC vs. SAIT, Women at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m., at RDC. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Kootenay. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Innisfail Eagles, exhibition, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Banff at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Collicutt; Okotoks at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Banff at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● AMHL: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Fort Saskatchewan Rangers, 4 p.m., Kinex.

Baseball WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 4: Toronto 5, Baltimore 2, 11 innings Wednesday, Oct. 5: San Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Toronto 3, Texas 0 Thursday, Oct. 6: Toronto 10, Texas 1 Friday, Oct. 7: Toronto 5, Texas 3 Sunday, Oct. 9: Toronto 7, Texas 6, 10 innings Cleveland 3, Boston 0 Thursday, Oct. 6: Cleveland 5, Boston 4 Friday, Oct. 7: Cleveland 6, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 9: Cleveland at Boston, ppd., rain Monday, Oct. 10: Cleveland 4, Boston 3 National League Chicago 3, San Francisco 1 Friday, Oct. 7: Chicago 1, San Francisco 0 Saturday, Oct. 8: Chicago 5, San Francisco 2 Monday, Oct. 10: San Francisco 6, Chicago 5, 13 innings Tuesday, Oct. 11: Chicago 6, San Francisco 5 Washington 2, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Washington 3 Saturday, Oct. 8: Los Angeles at Washington, ppd., rain Sunday, Oct. 9: Washington 5, Los Angeles 2 Monday, Oct. 10: Washington 8, at Los Angeles 3 Tuesday, Oct. 11: Los Angeles 6, Washington 5 Thursday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at Washington, 6:08 p.m. (FS1) LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All Games on TBS

Toronto vs. Cleveland Friday, Oct. 14: Toronto (Estrada 9-9) at Cleveland, 6:08 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA Monday, Oct. 17: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA Tuesday, Oct. 18: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-Wednesday, Oct. 19: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-Friday, Oct. 21: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA x-Saturday, Oct. 22: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA National League Chicago vs. Los Angeles-Washington winner Saturday, Oct. 15: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) Sunday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 18: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 19: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 20: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) x-Saturday, Oct. 22: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) x-Sunday, Oct. 23: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Tuesday, Oct. 25: NL at AL Wednesday, Oct. 26: NL at AL Friday, Oct. 28: AL at NL Saturday, Oct. 29: AL at NL x-Sunday, Oct. 30: AL at NL x-Tuesday, Nov. 1: NL at AL x-Wednesday, Nov. 2: NL at AL

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF x-New York 32 14 9 9 56 x-N.Y.C. 32 14 9 9 57 x-Toronto 32 13 9 10 46 Montreal 32 11 10 11 47 D.C. 32 10 9 13 48 Philadelphia 32 11 12 9 52 N.E. 32 10 13 9 40 Columbus 31 8 12 11 45 Orlando 32 7 11 14 49 Chicago 31 6 16 9 36 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF x-Dallas 32 16 8 8 48 x-Colorado 31 14 5 12 36 x-L.A. 32 11 6 15 53 Salt Lake 32 12 11 9 43 Seattle 31 13 13 5 41 Kansas City 32 12 13 7 40 Portland 32 11 13 8 46 San Jose 31 8 10 13 31

GA 42 53 35 48 42 51 52 49 58 52

Pt 51 51 49 44 43 42 39 35 35 27

GA 39 29 39 44 40 41 49 36

Pt 56 54 48 45 44 43 41 37

BASEBALL National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP Justin Miller and RHP Christian Bergman outright to Albuquerque (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Fired president Mike Dee. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Waived G Xavier Mumford and F Dorell Wright.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed QB Zac Dysert to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Anthony Fabiano to the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed WR Jay Lee to the practice squad. Released DB Charles Washington from the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed WR Shaquelle Evans to the practice squad. Released FB Glenn Gronkowski from the practice squad.

Vancouver 32 9 15 8 41 51 35 Houston 31 7 13 11 38 43 32 x — clinched playoff berth. Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Saturday’s result Colorado 3 Houston 2 Wednesday’s game Houston at Seattle, late Thursday’s games Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 16 New England at Chicago, 1 p.m.

New York City at D.C., 1 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 1 p.m.

Columbus at New York, 1 p.m.

Orlando at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Los Angeles at Houston, 3 p.m.

Colorado at Portland, 3 p.m.

Kansas City at Salt Lake, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 3 p.m.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed WR Eric Decker on injured reserve. Signed CB Nick Marshall from Jacksonville’s practice squad.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined the Edmonton Eskimos $20,000 and Edmonton coach Jason Maas $15,000 for failure of coach Maas to wear a live microphone during their game on Monday.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released OL John Kling and DB Keith Lewis from their practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Announced that D Seth Helgeson cleared waivers and was assigned to Albany (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Agreed to terms with F Stephen Gionta on a one-year contract.

COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA — Named Kevin Bonner associate athletics director for adminstration/strategic communications.

OILERS DOUSE THE FLAMES

WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Swift Current 9 6 2 0 1 34 25 13 Regina 7 4 0 3 0 32 22 11 Moose Jaw 7 4 1 2 0 26 23 10 Saskatoon 7 4 2 1 0 16 18 9 Brandon 6 2 3 1 0 22 25 5 Prince Albert 7 2 5 0 0 19 25 4 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Lethbridge 8 5 2 0 1 34 32 11 Medicine Hat 8 5 3 0 0 32 26 10 Red Deer 8 3 3 1 1 26 32 8 Edmonton 8 3 4 1 0 17 24 7 Calgary 5 3 2 0 0 10 13 6 Kootenay 8 1 5 1 1 20 29 4 Western Conference U.S. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Portland 10 7 3 0 0 47 35 14 Everett 7 5 1 1 0 29 16 11 Tri-City 7 4 3 0 0 27 26 8 Seattle 5 2 3 0 0 12 19 4 Spokane 6 2 4 0 0 16 26 4 B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 9 8 1 0 0 37 26 16 Kamloops 9 4 5 0 0 32 22 8 Victoria 9 4 5 0 0 20 25 8 Kelowna 8 3 5 0 0 16 27 6 Vancouver 10 3 7 0 0 30 38 6 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 2 (OT) Monday’s Games Vancouver 5 Calgary 3 Swift Current 4 Kootenay 3 Tuesday’s Games Spokane 3 Seattle 1 Everett 4 Prince George 0 Victoria 5 Medicine Hat 1 Vancouver 2 Edmonton 0 Portland 7 Brandon 6 Wednesday’s Games Lethbridge 5 Victoria 2 Kamloops 6 Spokane 1 Portland 5 Regina 4 (OT) Everett at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games Saskatoon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Victoria at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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

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

Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Prince George at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Prince George at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

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

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Moose Jaw at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Monday’s Games Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Spokane 10 7 13 — 30 Kamloops 14 14 7 — 35 Goal — Spokane: Weatherill (L, 1-2-0-0), Sittler (10:02 second, 17 shots, 16 saves). Kamloops: Ingram (W, 3-4-0-0).

Winterhawks 5, Pats 4 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Overhardt Por (tripping) 1:16 Zablocki Reg (tripping) 7:04 Brooks Reg (inter. on goaltender) 11:35 McKenzie Por (interference) 17:07 Veloso Por (delay of game) 17:11.

Second Period 1. Portland, Gilliss 3 (Blichfeld) 5:40.

2. Regina, Brooks 1 (Leschyshyn, Zablocki) 17:51.

Penalties — Zborovskiy Reg (hooking) 18:03.

Third Period 3. Portland, Weinger 4 (Gilliss, Hughes) 4:33.

4. Portland, Veloso 4 (Ginnell, Czaikowski) 4:59.

5. Regina, Brooks 2 (Zborovskiy, Harrison) 5:33.

6. Regina, Steel 6 (Ahl, Hobbs) 7:21 (pp).

7. Regina, Ahl 3 (Hobbs, Steel) 10:12 (pp).

8. Portland, Texeira 5 (Jones, Hughes) 17:05 (pp).

Penalties — Hobson Por (holding) 6:59 McKenzie Por (roughing) 9:39 Ahl Reg (tripping) 15:20 Hobbs Reg (roughing) 15:20 Overhardt Por (interference) 17:21.

Overtime 9. Portland, Jones 1 (unassisted) 4:05.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Portland 14 17 17 3 — 51 Regina 14 13 22 3 — 52 Goal — Portland: Bullion (W, 2-2-0-0). Regina: Hurricanes 5, Royals 2 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Babenko 4 (Bellerive) 2:43.

2. Victoria, Walker 4 (Phillips, Hannoun) 17:33.

Penalties — Peckford Vic (hooking) 3:41.

Second Period 3. Lethbridge, Estephan 1 (Burke, Zaharichuk) 7:52.

4. Lethbridge, Burke 1 (Lindgren, Menell) 9:58 (pp).

Penalties — Hannoun Vic (interference) 8:31 Dmytriw Vic (hooking) 8:47 Vandervlis Let, Pachal Vic (major, major-fighting) 18:11 Pachal Vic (checking from behind) 18:11 Vandervlis Let (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 18:11.

Third Period 5. Lethbridge, Estephan 2 (Burke, Merezhko) 4:07.

6. Lethbridge, Babenko 5 (Estephan, Addison) 10:24.

7. Victoria, Dmytriw 3 (Ibragimov, Jarratt) 17:24.

Penalties — Lindgren Let (delay of game) 5:55 Bellerive Let (playing w/out helmet) 6:01 Wong Let (embellishment) 17:58.

Shots on goal by Victoria 13 7 18 — 38 Lethbridge 10 11 6 — 27 Goal — Victoria: Outhouse (L, 4-4-0-0), Myskiw (4:07 third, 4 shots, 3 saves). Lethbridge: Skinner (W, 5-2-0-0).

2016-17 CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE TOP TEN POLL

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Blazers 6, Chiefs 1 First Period 1. Spokane, Anderson-Dolan 3 (Yamamoto, K. Yamamoto) 2:20 (pp).

2. Kamloops, Vala 1 (Benjafield, Chyzowski) 13:46.

3. Kamloops, Shirley 2 (Gatenby, Balcers) 15:15 (pp).

4. Kamloops, Davidson 1 (Benjafield, Kneen) 19:21.

Penalties — Vala Kam (tripping) 1:49 Walton Kam (tripping) 8:25 Henderson Spo (interference) 14:26 Faith Spo (tripping) 17:20.

Second Period 5. Kamloops, Kneen 1 (Chyzowski) 9:23.

6. Kamloops, Vala 2 (McDonald) 10:02.

7. Kamloops, Davidson 2 (Pilon, Benjafield) 12:24 (pp).

Penalties — McKay Spo (charging) 11:03 McKay Spo, Bast Kam (major, major-fighting) 19:45.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Zazula Kam (slashing) 0:52 Sideroff Kam (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 5:54 Kneen Kam (roughing) 12:00.

Shots on goal by

The Canadian Hockey League’s weekly top 10 poll for the 2016-17 season (last week’s rankings in parentheses records as of Tuesday): 1. (4) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 6-0-0-1) 2. (1) Prince George Cougars (WHL, 8-1-0-0) 3. (NR) Windsor Spitfires (OHL, 6-2-0-0) 4. (4) Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 6-1-0-0) 5. (8) Regina Pats (WHL, 4-0-2-0) 6. (6) Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, 5-2-0-0) 7. (3) London Knights (OHL, 3-1-1-1) 8. (9) Hamilton Bulldogs (OHL, 5-1-0-0) 9. (NR) Everett Silvertips (WHL, 5-1-1-0) 10. (NR) Sarnia Sting (OHL, 5-1-1-0) Honourable Mentions: Swift Current Broncos (WHL, 6-2-0-1) Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL, 4-1-0-2) (7) Kitchener Rangers (OHL, 4-1-0-1).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Ottawa 1 1 0 0 2 5 Toronto 1 0 0 1 1 4 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0

GA 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 GA 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pittsburgh Washington

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 5 2 Chicago 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa 5, Toronto 4, OT St. Louis 5, Chicago 2 Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Montreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

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

Washington at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

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

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Chicago at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Blues 5, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Panik 1 (Toews, Hossa) 4:38 (pp).

Penalties — Fabbri StL (slashing) 3:31 Parayko StL (holding) 18:39.

Second Period 2. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 1 (Pietrangelo, Steen) 4:52 (pp).

3. Chicago, Hartman 1 (Motte, Kruger) 13:57.

4. St. Louis, Tarasenko 1 (Stastny, Shattenkirk) 19:28 (pp).

Penalties — van Riemsdyk Chi (hooking) 3:01 Toews Chi (slashing) 17:54 Anisimov Chi (hooking) 18:31 Keith Chi (high-sticking) 19:28.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Stastny 1 (Tarasenko, Shattenkirk) :55 (pp).

6. St. Louis, Tarasenko 2 (Stastny, Steen) 18:54 (en).

7. St. Louis, Upshall 1 (unassisted) 19:41.

Penalties — van Riemsdyk Chi (boarding) 1:31 Berglund StL (high-sticking) 6:22 Brodziak StL (roughing) 9:52.

Shots on goal by St. Louis 9 15 9 — 33 Chicago 6 3 10 — 19 Goal — St. Louis: Allen (W, 1-0-0). Chicago: Crawford (L, 0-1-0).

Senators 5, Maple Leafs 4 (OT) First Period 1. Toronto, Matthews 1 (Hyman, Nylander) 8:21.

2. Ottawa, Ryan 1 (Karlsson, Smith) 10:26.

3. Ottawa, Karlsson 1 (Brassard, Ryan) 12:49.

4. Toronto, Matthews 2 (unassisted) 14:18.

Penalties — Martin Tor, Borowiecki Ott (fighting) 13:25 Smith Ott (hooking) 14:59 Brown Tor (hooking) 18:01.

Second Period 5. Toronto, Matthews 3 (Rielly) 1:25.

6. Ottawa, Brassard 1 (unassisted) 17:52.

7. Toronto, Matthews 4 (Nylander, Gardiner) 19:57.

Penalties — Martin Tor, Neil Ott (cross-checking) 1:25 Wideman Ott (interference) 3:26 Ottawa bench (too many men, served by Hoffman) 6:36 Phaneuf Ott (hooking) 10:55.

Third Period 8. Ottawa, Turris 1 (Stone) 6:45.

Penalties — Nylander Tor (holding) 2:02.

Overtime 9. Ottawa, Turris 2 (Stone, Karlsson) :37.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Toronto 9 19 10 0 — 38 Ottawa 13 8 8 1 — 30 Goal — Toronto: Andersen (L, 0-0-1). Ottawa: Anderson (W, 1-0-0).

Football Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T PF PA Pt Ottawa 14 6 7 1 377 387 13 Hamilton 14 6 8 0 388 375 12 Toronto 15 5 10 0 342 467 10 Montreal 14 4 10 0 307 346 8 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 15 13 1 1 525 331 27 x-B.C. 14 9 5 0 416 370 18 x-Winnipeg15 9 6 0 419 379 18 Edmonton 15 8 7 0 454 421 16 Sask.

14 4 10 0 283 435 8 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 16 Bye: Hamilton Monday’s results Calgary 48 Toronto 20 Edmonton 40 Montreal 20 Saturday’s result Winnipeg 37 B.C. 35 Friday’s result Saskatchewan 32 Ottawa 30 (OT) WEEK 17 Bye: Edmonton Friday’s games Ottawa at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Saskatchewan at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Calgary, 5 p.m.

National Football League

East L T Pct PF New England 1 0 .800 114 Buffalo 2 0 .600 117 N.Y. Jets 4 0 .200 92 Miami 4 0 .200 88 South W L T Pct PF Houston 3 2 0 .600 82 Tennessee 2 3 0 .400 92 Indianapolis 2 3 0 .400 137 Jacksonville 1 3 0 .250 84 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 4 1 0 .800 139 Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 94 Cincinnati 2 3 0 .400 92 Cleveland 0 5 0 .000 87 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 4 1 0 .800 142 Denver 4 1 0 .800 127 Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 83 San Diego 1 4 0 .200 152 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 4 1 0 .800 129 Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 115 Washington 3 2 0 .600 115 N.Y. Giants 2 3 0 .400 89 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 4 1 0 .800 175 W 4 3 1 1

PA 74 87 136 119 PA 104 101 148 111 PA 93 88 110 148 PA 137 87 92 142 PA 91 51 122 108 PA 140

Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

2 1 1

3 0 .400 3 0 .250 4 0 .200 North W L T Pct Minnesota 5 0 01.000 Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 Detroit 2 3 0 .400 Chicago 1 4 0 .200 West W L T Pct Seattle 3 1 0 .750 Los Angeles 3 2 0 .600 Arizona 2 3 0 .400 San Francisco 1 4 0 .200 Thursday’s Games Denver at San Diego, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at New England, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at Detroit, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Tampa Bay, Minnesota Monday’s Games N.Y. Jets at Arizona, 6:30 p.m.

94 142 114 130 123 135 PF PA 119 63 98 83 119 125 85 126 PF PA 79 54 82 106 125 101 111 140

Basketball NBA PRE-SEASON EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 2 1 .667 New York 2 1 .667 Brooklyn 1 2 .333 Toronto 1 2 .333 Philadelphia 1 3 .250 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 2 1 .667 Miami 2 1 .667 Washington 1 2 .333 Charlotte 1 3 .250 Orlando 0 3 .000 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 3 1 .750 Cleveland 2 1 .667 Milwaukee 2 1 .667 Chicago 1 2 .333 Detroit 0 2 .000

GB — — 1 1 1½ GB — — 1 1½ 2 GB — ½ ½ 1½ 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Houston 4 0 1.000 San Antonio 3 1 .750 Memphis 2 1 .667 Dallas 2 2 .500 New Orleans 1 3 .250 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 3 0 1.000 Minnesota 2 1 .667 Denver 2 2 .500 Utah 2 2 .500 Oklahoma City 0 1 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 2 1 .667 L.A. Lakers 2 2 .500 Phoenix 2 2 .500 L.A. Clippers 1 2 .333 Sacramento 0 2 .000 Tuesday’s Games

GB — 1 1½ 2 3 GB — 1 1½ 1½ 2 GB — ½ 1 1½

Miami 121, Brooklyn 100 Memphis 121, Philadelphia 91 Dallas 114, Oklahoma City 109 Portland 109, L.A. Lakers 106, OT Wednesday’s Games Houston 116, New Orleans 104 San Antonio 95, Orlando 89 Indiana 101, Milwaukee 83 Minnesota 105, Denver 88 Phoenix 111, Utah 110 Today’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis vs. Oklahoma City at Tulsa, Okla., 6 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m.

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

Cleveland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Miami at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Matthews’ four goals not enough as Maple Leafs lose

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Senators 5 Maples Leafs 4 OT OTTAWA — It didn’t take Auston Matthews long to live up to the hype.

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 draft scored four goals in his first regular-season NHL game, giving the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 lead over the Ottawa Senators in the second period on Wednesday’s season opener for both teams.

He’s also the first player to score four goals in his NHL debut.

Matthews opened the scoring at the 8:21 mark of the first period, standing in front of Senators goalie Craig Anderson as rookie linemate Zach Hyman centred the puck from behind the net. Matthews swatted at the pass, giving Toronto a 1-0 lead.

For his second goal, Matthews showed off his flashy puck-handling skills. He stripped Ot-

tawa right-winger Mark Stone of the puck near the Senators’ blue line, then dangled the puck in and around the rest of the defence before putting it over Anderson’s shoulder.

The-19-year-old Matthews completed a hat trick just 1:25 into the second period, taking a cross-ice feed from Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly as the Toronto veteran charged toward the goal line, putting a light one-timer past Anderson.

Matthews added a fourth goal in the final seconds of the second period, taking a pass from William Nylander on a 2-on-1 opportunity.

Matthews is the fifth player in NHL history to score a hat trick in his regular-season debut and the first in Maple Leafs history.

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Public ‘pushback’ on immigration

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s economic development minister says the federal Liberal government is encountering public “pushback” on its immigration plans from Canadians who fear for their jobs.

Navdeep Bains says newcomers create jobs in Canada and is urging people to see immigration not as a social issue, but as a key driver of economic growth.

Bains is asking the business NAVDEEP BAINS community to help sell immigration as something that can increase prosperity and opportunity for Canadians.

He says people need to understand that bringing in newcomers will give the country a competitive advantage.

The minister says the government has to do a better job of telling that story.

Bains made the comments yester-

Provinces want to ensure supports are in place for immigration boost WINNIPEG — Discussions are ongoing about how to best accommodate and support a rising number of immigrants that is driven in large part by Syrian refugees, say federal, provincial and territorial immigration ministers.

“I know that many provinces have expressed the same concern … regarding, when you get to the end of the federal support, what happens and what are the responsibilities,” Manitoba’s Ian Wishart said Wednesday after a closed-door meeting in Winnipeg.

“We are certainly all prepared to work with the federal government on this.”

Some 321,000 immigrants arrived in Canada in the 12 months leading up to July 1, according to Statistics Canada. The

day while speaking to business leaders at a economic summit in Ottawa sponsored by the Public Policy Forum.

“The honest truth is there is still reluctance around immigration policy,” Bains said. “When we want to talk about immigration and we say we want

agency said it was the largest number of immigrants in an annual period since the early 1910s, when a wave of European immigrants arrived in the western provinces.

The number was driven by more than 30,000 Syrian refugees under a special program launched last year. Both levels of government have struggled at times in terms of finding housing support programs for the new arrivals.

“Many of the refugees had large numbers of children, and that was not completely anticipated in the beginning and that created some challenges for finding appropriate housing and for schools,” said John McCallum, the federal minister of immigration, refugees, and citizenship.

The federal government provides language and job training, as well as social assistance payments for one year. The provinces pay for other services.

Financial support and what immigration levels should be were part of Wednesday’s talks, McCallum said. to bring more immigrants in because it’s good for the economy, we still get pushback.”

He asked his audience to pitch in.

“I need your help, and the help of many in this room, to change that conversation, because I can tell you I’m

hitting a bit of challenge within government in having this conversation.”

Some worry that immigration might be viewed negatively because there is high unemployment in some parts of the country.

“Overall, how do we explain it to Canadians? Because they’ll view it as somebody taking away their jobs.”

That’s what needs to change, he said.

“I think we need to change the conversation to say, it’s not a social policy it’s an economic policy. It’s important to our economic agenda, our innovation agenda.

“If we bring the right people, the motivated people, they’ll create more jobs and more opportunities for Canadians.”

There are a lot of immigrant success stories, he added, including that of his own father who arrived with seven dollars in his pocket, worked three jobs for a time and then went on to start his own company, which employed 20 people.

“That needs to be part of the narrative,” Bains said.

“We talk to and engage with Canadians and we explain to them that immigration policy is a good thing, it’s a competitive advantage, it’s how we’re genuinely going to grow.”

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Clement drops out of race

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Conservative MP Tony Clement is ending his bid for the leadership of his party, saying that he fell short of fundraising targets he set when he started his campaign.

“Everything else was on track, but that was definitely not on track,” Clement said in an interview Wednesday.

“To the extent that that put my family’s finances in peril — I had never signed up TONY CLEMENT for that,” said Clement, who earlier in the day had announced his decision in a video posted to Twitter and Facebook.

The Ontario MP and former cabinet minister would not share the fundraising goal he had in mind — and the amount he was able to raise is not yet publicly available through Elections Canada — but he said campaign finances were probably about two months behind where he would have wanted them to be at this point.

Clement also attributed some of his challenges to the way the party decided to have all donations to leadership candidates directed through the Conservative party of Canada, which then takes a 10-per-cent administrative fee before transferring the money to the individual campaigns.

“I think there is a certain amount of donor fatigue, and it was tough to raise money when basically the party saw us as the fundraising machine,” Clement said.

He suggested his erstwhile rivals would encounter similar struggles.

“I’m the first out. I ain’t going to be the last out. I’m telling you now,” said Clement.

Canada BRIEFS Police locate suspect in shooting of a Mountie GOLDEN, B.C. — The manhunt is over in British Columbia for a suspect who is believed to have shot a Mountie and who police say is linked to a Saskatchewan murder.

Mark McKee, the mayor of the southeastern B.C. community of Revelstoke, says Sheldon Thunderblanket is in custody, SHELDON but he’s unsure THUNDERBLANKET of the man’s condition.

Police have been searching for the

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Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, right, meets with Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls at Rideau Hall the official residence of the Governor General of Canada in Ottawa, Wednesday.

Visiting French PM looking for peacekeeping update from counterpart Trudeau

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — When France’s leaders look at Canada, they see an oasis in a desert of angry populism that has darkened discussion on the merits of trade and immigration.

In their own country and across Europe, they see a backlash against the waves of immigrants flooding the continent from north Africa and the Middle East, and they hear loud rumblings against liberalized trade, including — in some pockets, at least — Canada’s free trade deal with Europe.

They also see the ugliness of the U.S. presidential race, where both candidates have cast aspersions on trade, including the massive 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Not so in Canada.

That’s why, when French Prime Minister Manuel Valls meets with counterpart Justin Trudeau this week, he will want to discuss why Canada seems immune to all that noise, say French officials, speaking on condition they not be named.

Over the course of meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Ottawa

and Montreal, Valls wants to engage Trudeau on “the political atmosphere in the Western Hemisphere with the rising of populism, protectionism, and all these questions that we see rising in various countries,” said one French diplomat.

“But less so in Canada, so that’s why the prime minister is interested to hear about the Canadian situation and Canadian solutions.”

While some might see it as philosophical navel-gazing, another French diplomat said that thread runs through the very real issues Valls and Trudeau are facing: the rise of Islamic extremism, especially in Africa, and getting the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement done once and for all.

On the former point, Valls is keen to get an update on Canada’s plans for sending peacekeepers to West Africa to join the fight against Islamic militants.

The Trudeau government has said it will commit 600 peacekeepers to UN missions, and France has been pushing Canada hard to join the UN mission in West Africa.

France has 3,000 troops fighting a

separate counter-insurgency mission in several countries that used to be its colonies, under the banner of Operation Barkhane.

“That is one very important subject,” said one diplomat who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The two countries are making progress on talks that have been taking place “for quite some time now,” the diplomat added.

The two prime ministers won’t be in a position to announce anything on this visit, but the two countries are getting closer.

“Frankly, it’s really going in the right direction.”

Canada has the expertise to play a leadership role in the UN mission, said another source, dismissing concerns that the Canadian Forces are out of peacekeeping practice after a long, deadly decade of war-fighting in Afghanistan.

Valls, who arrived Wednesday afternoon in Ottawa, was scheduled to sit down with Trudeau for a private dinner before Thursday’s more formal proceedings.

40-year-old man since Tuesday when a female officer was shot in the arm while stopping a vehicle in a theft investigation on Highway 1 near the community of Golden.

The RCMP say they believe Thunderblanket is wanted for numerous charges in connection with a murder and attempted murder in Saskatchewan.

A statement from the City of Revelstoke says the officer who was shot has undergone reconstructive surgery on her hand and arm and is recovering.

Man tried to fake death to avoid charges SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to three months in jail for trying to fake his death.

John Malcolm Ross, who is 44, pleaded guilty in Swift Current court Tuesday to public mischief and obstructing a police officer.

RCMP Sgt. Scott Hunter says Ross told court that he believed if police thought he was dead, he would avoid prosecution on outstanding charges in Manitoba.

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NDP urge Liberals to go proportional CONSULTATIONS FIND OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR VOTING SYSTEM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — New Democrats are putting pressure on the Trudeau government to adopt a proportional voting system in time for the next federal election in 2019.

NDP democratic reform critic Nathan Cullen says the party has undertaken an “unprecedented” cross-country consultation with more than 37,000 Canadians and has found overwhelming support for a proportional system.

Cullen says 84 per cent of those consulted want a voting system in which the percentage of seats won by each party reflects its share of the popular vote.

As well, he says 82 per cent want to maintain a strong connection with their local member of Parliament.

And a little more than 66 per cent want to increase the representation of women and visible minorities in the House of Commons.

A spokesman for Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef says the government will “take note” of the NDP’s findings.

However, the all-party committee currently exploring options for electoral reform hasn’t yet processed all the public submissions it has received, nor has it yet completed its own hearings.

The committee has until Dec. 1 to submit its report on the best replacement for Canada’s current first-pastthe-post voting system.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed during last fall’s election campaign that it would be the last conducted under the existing system.

First-past-the-post, as it is commonly known, is widely criticized for routinely handing a majority of seats to a party that wins less than 40 per cent of the vote, under-representing small national parties, over-representing regionally concentrated parties, exacerbating regional tensions and encouraging adversarial politics.

“Canadians are seeking a change in our political culture,” Cullen told a news conference Wednesday.

“They want to see a political system that is more oriented towards co-operation and consensus by nature.”

Among other things, the NDP consultations found almost 80 per cent believe it’s vital that parties work together collaboratively. And that includes the outcome of the all-party commit-

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Natha Cullen, the NDP’s Critic for Democratic Reform, presents the party’s submission to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform during a news conference in Ottawa, Wednesday. tee’s work, Cullen said, warning that any attempt by the governing Liberals to unilaterally change the voting system would have no legitimacy in the eyes of the public.

But whether the committee can achieve a multi-party consensus remains to be seen.

The Conservatives have shown little interest in finding an alternative to FPTP, insisting instead that whatever change is proposed must be put to a national referendum — a route that killed electoral reform proposals in three provinces in the past.

During the Liberal leadership contest in 2013, Trudeau expressed a personal preference for a ranked ballot system but he has since said he’s open to other options. Cullen said the Liber-

als on the committee have been a bit “cagey” about their preferences.

Both the NDP and Green party Leader Elizabeth May favour a proportional system.

Nevertheless, Cullen said he remains optimistic that the committee can come to some consensus.

“The incentive to get to agreement is very high,” he said.

“Simply folding your arms and pouting in the corner achieves virtually nothing. (Change) is happening. So to all of my colleagues … this is going ahead, so let’s participate and have some influence on the process.”

Similarly, Monsef spokesman Jean-Bruno Villeneuve said the government remains hopeful that a consensus can be reached. But he stressed

‘CANADIANS ARE SEEKING A CHANGE IN OUR POLITICAL CULTURE. THEY WANT TO SEE A POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT IS MORE ORIENTED TOWARDS CO-OPERATION AND CONSENSUS BY NATURE.’ — NATHAN CULLEN NDP DEMOCRATIC REFORM CRITIC

it “will not move forward on reforms without the broad support of Canadians.”

Wall tells Ottawa that Clinton’s climate plan a better approach REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should look south of the border before implementing a carbon tax in Canada.

Wall said the climate change plan released this week by U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supports investments in energy efficiency, cleaner fuels and carbon capture, but does not include a carbon tax.

“When I take a look at Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan, I wish Justin Trudeau was a little more like Hillary Clinton,” Wall said Wednesday.

“Her plan is very serious about battling climate change, I would say. She’s got a real focus on technology.”

The plan Trudeau announced last week calls for a $10 dollar per tonne tax on carbon starting in 2018, increasing to $50 dollars per tonne by 2022.

Trudeau also warned that carbon pricing will be imposed on provinces that don’t implement the tax or bring in a cap-and-trade system.

Trudeau’s carbon pricing scheme would put Canada’s economy at a dis-

Canada BRIEFS Federal government will spend $55M on rail safety MONTREAL — The federal government is making about $55 million available over three years to improve rail safety across country, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Wednesday.

Projects eligible for funding include the installation of flashing lights and bells at railway crossings and the construction of full pedestrian overpasses, he said.

The money is earmarked for projects on federal rail property, along rail lines, at crossings and in the form of public education campaigns.

After 46 people died last year on federally regulated railways, Garneau said “we need to do more to make grade-level crossings safer.”

He said the federal government is responsible for roughly 23,000 railway crossings across the country.

Provinces, municipalities and

advantage with its largest trading partner, Wall said.

“Before we rush to a final decision on what we’re going to do on taxing carbon or pricing carbon or the timeline, shouldn’t we be aware at least of what the Americans are going to do,” he said.

“We’re part of the North American integrated market. We need to know if anything that we’re going to do unilaterally in Canada will make us less or more competitive.”

Canada generates 1.6 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Saskatchewan accounts for 10 per cent of the Canadian amount, about 75.5 million tonnes annually.

The Saskatchewan government passed its own legislation in 2010 to tax heavy emitters, with the money to go back into a technology fund to help find ways to reduce emissions. However, the legislation was never brought into force.

Wall has championed carbon capture and sequestration, the trapping underground of carbon dioxide generated by power plants and other sources.

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other local authorities will be able to request funding for projects, construction on which can begin in 2017.

Lawsuit against Russell Williams, Williams’ wife, settled TORONTO — An Ontario woman’s lawsuit against convicted sex killer Russell Williams and his wife has been settled.

Sexual assault victim Laurie Massicotte had filed a nearly $7-million lawsuit in late 2011 against Williams, his wife Mary Elizabeth Harriman and the province of Ontario.

She reportedly settled with the province last year, but the suit against Williams and his wife had remained active.

Harriman’s lawyer Mary Jane Binks said Wednesday that the lawsuit was settled “very recently.”

“The civil action launched by Laurie Massicotte has now been settled,” Binks said. “All parties want their privacy.”

Details of the settlement were not disclosed.

Williams, once a rising star in the Canadian Forces, was sentenced to life in prison in October 2010 after pleading guilty to the murders of two women.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Halifax-based pop-electronica group Neon Dreams play Cowboys Nightclub in Red Deer on Nov. 10

Three-year-old band Neon Dreams is suddenly playing with the big boys.

Members of the Halifax-based pop-electronica group were thrilled — and rather shocked — to be chosen one of the Top 3 bands in a competition held by the Juno Awards/CARAS (Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences).

“It was pretty incredible,” said DJ Corey LeRue, of winning a spot in the coveted Allan Slaight Juno Master Class.

More than 100 acts from across the country had applied for the chance to go to the one-week workshop in Toronto. While the Neon Dream musicians — who perform on Thursday, Nov. 10, at Cowboys Nightclub in Red Deer — thought it would be an amazing opportunity, they didn’t think they would climb to the top of the pack.

“It seemed too far-fetched,” said LeRue — until they made the short list.

Then he realized his band, which mixes recorded electronica music with live instrumentation — could actually do this.

The artist development program is focused on helping up-and-coming acts get on the fast track to compete for Juno Awards. Industry leaders and other artists will act as mentors to assist bands to reach their full potential.

Neon Dreams will share the masterclass experience with The Lytics from Winnipeg and Youngblood from Vancouver, ending with a showcase performance for the music industry.

All three groups will then go to the

Junos in Ottawa next year and perform during Juno-fest. Neon Dreams is getting $10,000 to film a music video that will be shown on MuchMusic.

LeRue said the musicians are, meanwhile, working very hard to expand their fan-base by getting their tunes on more than 40 TV placements (shows ranging from Keeping Up With The Kardashians to Silicon Valley) and touring in Western Canada for the second time in three months.

The band that last passed through Alberta in August is back again this fall, promising to get audiences dancing.

Neon Dreams recently released the seven-track EP, To You, and entered the top 40 on radio charts with the first single, Marching Bands, featuring Canadian rapper (and record producer) Kardinal Offishall. The group members met Offishall through a mutual friend a while ago, “and we thought it was time we worked him into a song,” said LeRue. “We made this song and thought he would be a good fit for it.”

Tunes on the EP are pretty much all relationship-based, but allow room for interpretation, said LeRue, who noted that while Wallpaper was written about a loved one who died, it could also be about someone who fades out of your life for other reasons.

He invites Red Deer music fans to come out and see the live show with fellow group members, vocalist Frank Kadillac, guitarist Matt Gats, and drummer Adrian Morris. “It has a lot of energy … In a word, it’s all about fun.”

For more information about the show, please contact the venue. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Twins play their own game in revenge thriller ANNAMARIE LEA, OF LACOMBE, GETS MAJOR ROLE IN CALGARY-BASED PRODUCTION

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe actor AnnaMarie Lea is biting into a juicy role — the part of identical twins in an indie movie being shot in Calgary.

Lea will have double the fun playing Myrna and Verna in a revenge thriller, called In Plainview, starring Shaun Johnston of Ponoka (Heartland), and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) The identical twins will work at a local diner and confuse both the good and the bad guys who drop in to question them about a crime.

“It’s so exciting,” said Lea, who looks forward to her three-day shoot next week.

While the local actor has appeared in many previous movies and TV serials, including Death Race with Jason Statham and MacGyver, Lea had taken time off from auditioning to raise her four children while running and acting in her professional Cow Patti Theatre for 20 years.

Now that her children are older, Lea has signed back on with Characters Talent Agency (the same agency she had been with while working as a professional actor in Vancouver in the 1980s).

“I still want to be a movie star,” joked Lea, who admits that as much as

she loves the stage, she occasionally yearns to be on the big screen. “You watch the Oscars and think, I want to be there! … It’s kind of silly but we all have these things…”

After Lea auditioned for In Plainview, she was asked to perform a callback audition over Skype because she was visiting her daughter in Switzerland at the time. “That was a first for me,” said the Calgary-born woman, who was told she landed the role because she was convincing as a rural woman.

It’s a part Lea is very familiar with.

She’s residing for a dozen years in Lacombe (from 1996-2002, then again in 2010-2016), and spent the stretch in between living near Cornwall, Ont., where her pilot husband had been transferred for work.

In Plainview, set in small-town Alberta, is about a dirty ex-cop who’s out for revenge against his former partner.

Lea said she loves the script, which reminds her of quirky movies, such as Fargo.

The indie film is being made with a budget of $250,000. It was nominated by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers for the Telefilm Microbudget Program and was one of three Alberta films chosen for funding this year.

Actors and a technical crew from Alberta and Vancouver are involved in the production. Producer Scott Westby

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Lacombe actor AnnaMarie Lea will have double the fun playing twins in Calgary film ’In Plainview‘. and director Matt Watterworth, from Calgary’s Full Swing Productions, have previously done shorts, a web series and commercials, but this is their first feature-length movie.

When completed, it will be sent to film festivals around the world.

“While a theatrical release would

RDC faculty set for fall recital

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From Schubert, to spirituals, to an original work by Red Deer’s Ruston Vuori – Red Deer College will bring 200 years of music to the stage next week.

A dozen talented RDC instructors will entertain at a faculty recital on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Arts Centre.

Percussion instructor Malcolm Bell said it’s a great way for the college to connect with the community. “Once a year, in the fall, we put something like this on for the student to enjoy, and also to play some music for Central Alberta.”

Bell will perform on drums as part of the Faculty Jazz Quintet, along with

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Andrew Ludtke on trombone, Jeremy Doody on guitar, Audrey Graham on piano, and Steven Tanner on bass. The group will tackle everything from Feels So Good, which was popularized by Chuck Mangione, to standards such as Limehouse Blues and What Is This Thing called Love?

The playbill includes works going back to the early 1800s. Danica Hoffart will perform a piece by Austrian composer Franz Schubert, accompanied

by Louise McMurray on French horn and Dale Wheeler on piano.

Wheeler will also perform Lament or the Maiden and the Nightingale by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, who was inspired by the paintings of Goya to create his most famous opera, Goyescas, from 1916. It includes the Lament.

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RDC piano instructor Vuori will premiere and perform his original composition for trombone and piano, called Sonata in C Minor.

Trombonist Peter Fielding will also perform, as will classical guitarist Shannon Frizzell, and Sharon Braun will sing some American spirituals.

Bell said all of the instructors have other outlets for performing throughout the year. But they enjoy getting together to collectively play for the community and their students during the faculty recital.

The program has something for most tastes, he added — from classical music, “right up to a brand-new composition.”

Tickets are available from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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be amazing, the reality is that films of this size are generally released on TV and digitally,” said Westby. He noted Telefilm has been pushing digital and other new models of film distribution “that cater to the new landscape of entertainment.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

VANCOUVER — Comedian, musician and pot activist Tommy Chong says he intends to keep “priming the pump” until marijuana is legalized across the United States and in Canada.

He says the introduction of legislation promised for next spring to legalize recreational marijuana in Canada could set an example for the United States, where a state-by-state approach isn’t ideal.

Chong, who is scheduled to appear tomorrow at the International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver, says he hopes the next American president will legalize pot throughout the U.S. so every state can benefit economically from taxing the drug.

He credits marijuana for healing him of prostate and colorectal cancers.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 2016

October blooming flowers do exist LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING Mention fall and one automatically thinks of the colorful leaves and dead plants. This need not be the case.

There are flowers that bloom into October in Central Albertan gardens.

The secret of getting these plants noticed is in mass planting. A small patch of flowers can easily be missed when combined with colorful foliage.

Pansies and Violas are cool weather plants. Most people interchange the names Pansy and Viola thinking that the only difference is in the flower size. The difference is that Pansies have four petals facing upwards and violas have two.

The popular easy to grow flowers come in a number of varieties that vary is sizes and colors. The short plants make a great ground cover and

are often used as winter plants in climates where the ground doesn’t freeze and snow is non-existent or short lived.

Deadhead all plants that form seeds to keep the blooms coming. Seeds can be picked and replanted but they rarely match the parent flowers more likely to produce the weedy Johnny-JumpUps There are many different varieties of Mums or Chrysanthemums. The one sold as a container planting will not survive the cold winter but withstands a number of degrees of frost. These colorful plants fall last until they are broken by heavy snow or a long period of cold temperatures. To get the most out of these planters, cover or take in when necessary.

Varieties that came out of the research station in Morden, Man., are hardy in Central Alberta. Out of the four different varieties available the Yellow, Morden Canary appears the easiest to purchase. Others are often found and traded through fellow gardeners as they are easily propagated by division.

Golden Glow or Rudbeckia laciniata is a heritage perennial that was often planted close to the outhouse to shield it from the rest of the yard hence its other common name, Outhouse Plant.

If left to its own devices, Golden Glow will spread slowly filling an area with lanky foliage; yellow flowers on the top of long stems. Pinching the plant in June helps produce a shorter bushier plant, similar to the newer varieties on the market. Flowers start the end of August and continue into the fall.

Colchicum bulbs not to be confused with Fall Crocus are planted mid- August until the end of September and will bloom mid-September. Flowers are pink, purple or white with either a single set of petals or multiple layers of petals. Once established the bulbs will produce a multitude of flowers over a period of a few weeks.

There are a number of varieties of fall blooming Asters available. The flowers are blues, purples and pinks in various sizes. Plants are up to a foot (30

cm) tall. On years with a early winter these plants will remain foliage but given a late warm fall, the flowers are a welcome addition.

Like all perennial asters fall varieties divide easily.

Turtlehead is a compact plant that produces white or pink flowers that look very similar to snapdragons when they are starting to break bud. These flowers start blooming late August continuing into the fall. Turtleheads are woodland plant and do best in partial shade and damp soil.

Propagation is by division but it can be started through seeding.

Planting fall flowering flowers is a gamble. In years where there is a warm open fall, the blooms are welcome. In years where the snow and or frost comes early, the plants do not bloom. The choice is up to each gardener to decide if there is space for these tail end plants.

Linda Tomlinson is a gardener that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your-garden@hotmail. com

Hiking White Cloud range a trip to remember

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STANLEY, Idaho — Chamberlain Basin boasts some of the most striking views in the White Cloud Range, and it’s a hike that’s doable for most people of reasonable fitness.

Luke Ramseth and I made the trip as part of a reporting project about the area a year after major sections became protected wilderness.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle is the drive in on Pole Creek Road, which starts about 25 miles south of Stanley.

It’s about 14 miles, getting rougher the farther you go. The road is washed out and rocky in many places, and there are a number of stream crossings. Decently high clearance is a necessity, and four-wheel drive is recommended.

Starting from Washington Creek Trailhead, follow the Washington Lake Trail toward Germania Creek. Turn left at the Castle Divide Trail and continue until the ridgeline.

Luke and I started out late on a Friday evening, and walked in a little less than a mile. There were several stream crossings which were easily made in late August but could be more challenging earlier in the year when high-altitude snowpacks haven’t fully melted. We made camp below the trail junction where we would begin gaining elevation toward Chamberlain Basin the next day.

We began heading up the trail toward the ridgeline. The climb gradually gains altitude with plenty of switch-

backs, rising a little less than 2,000 feet from the junction in about 3.5 miles.

The trail is clear and well maintained.

We popped to the top of the ridgeline at around 2 p.m. and took a break to soak it all in.

If you can’t make it farther, at least make it here. The view from the ridge into Chamberlain Basin, dotted with clear-blue alpine lakes, filled with wildflowers and lodgepole pines, is astounding. Dominating the view to the north is Castle Peak, the craggy, 11,815-foot mountain that is the icon of the White Clouds. To the south there are excellent views of the southern edge of the range.

The 700-foot descent into the basin is gradual, passing by small lakes, open fields and groves of old-growth forest, including gnarled whitebark pines — a high-altitude species which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service warned in 2011 is in imminent danger of disappearing. While we didn’t see bighorn sheep or mountain goats, they are commonly reported in the area.

There were relatively few other backpackers in the basin, though a steady trickle of day hikers made their way along the trail throughout the day.

We made camp on the shores of Lake 9197, right at the base of Castle Peak, where there are many well-used camp sites.

After lunch and a rest we made a late start toward the summit of Castle Peak.

But about a third of the way up I realized I wasn’t making enough prog-

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Bryan Clark makes his way along Castle Divide Trail in the White Cloud Range near Stanley, Idaho. Chamberlain Basin boasts some of the most striking views in the White Cloud Range, and it’s a hike that’s doable for most people of reasonable fitness. ress to get up and down before dark.

The rock on Castle Peak is notoriously loose and unstable, and I turned back.

Luke sprinted up like a goat, quickly gaining the summit by following the leftmost branch of the main gully all the way to the ridgeline before moving along to the summit. He reported this route had lots of loose rock and a few moves with significant exposure.

We spent the evening and much of

the next morning lounging by the sides of the lake. Shortly before we broke camp, Ed Cannady, a U.S. Forest Service backcountry recreation manager who has been working in the White Clouds for 40 years, happened along.

We asked Cannady to name his favorite spot in the White Clouds. He said he couldn’t do that and there were at least 15 such spots he would list.

More minorities are hiking and camping: survey AMONG FIRST TIME CAMPERS IN 2016, 20% WERE BLACK AND 11% WERE LATINO, DOUBLE THE RATE FROM 2014

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES LOS ANGELES — Recalling the childhood fun she had at summer camp, CiJi McBride has decided to go back to the outdoors.

The 41-year-old African-American beauty consultant from Los Angeles’ Baldwin Hills section recently joined the Sierra Club, began taking day hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains and is planning a camping trip to Yosemite National Park next summer.

“As a kid, I always liked being in the outdoors, and as I approached my mid-30s and 40s, I said, ‘What are some of the things I like to do,’ ” she said.

“You can go to bars and movies, and that’s all great, but we live in a state with great weather.”

McBride’s renewed interest in hiking and camping reflects the growing percentage of minorities spending time in the great outdoors, a significant shift for a demographic long underrepresented among campers and hikers in the U.S. even as the nation’s population becomes more diverse.

The development holds the promise of a potentially lucrative new market for state and national parks as well as makers of outdoorsy equipment and clothing.

A recent survey of nearly 3,000 Americans and Canadians found that among the 1 million people who began camping for the first time last year, nearly one in five was black and 11 per cent were Latino, nearly twice the rate for those groups in 2014.

The survey, commissioned by Kampgrounds of America, showed that the latest generation of campers more closely represents the nation’s overall ethnic breakdown.

“The changing demographics of the U.S. is the demographics of consumers,” said Ivan Levin, deputy director for the Outdoor Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the trade group that represents the outdoor recreation industry. “It’s important to get these people interested in the outdoors now.”

Minority groups represent a growing and largely untapped market for outdoor gear manufacturers and retailers with buying power that is rising much faster than for the general population, marketing experts say.

U.S. Latinos’ buying power — defined as household income minus taxes — increased 167 per cent from 2000 to 2015, while the overall buying power

of all U.S. consumers rose 82 per cent in that same period, said Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The same 15-year period saw 91 per cent growth in African-Americans’ buying power and a 199 per cent increase for Asian-Americans, he said, based on annual studies by the Selig Center.

“The reason why these multicultural markets are so compelling is that they are quite large and are exhibiting extraordinary growth,” Humphreys said. Buying power is surging for all three groups, he said, because of a rising level of education, above-average population growth and increasing entrepreneurship.

Increased interest by diverse groups is redefining the $646 billion outdoor recreation industry, which despite annual sales growth of about five per cent a year hasn’t managed to increase the overall participation rate in outdoor activities such as biking, hiking, camping and fishing. Close to half of the nation’s population participated in an outdoor activity in 2015, a rate that has been almost unchanged for the past nine years, according to annual studies by the Outdoor Foundation.

In California, attendance at state parks has dropped six per cent since 2006. National parks fared better, with a 13 per cent increase in visitors during that same period.

Managers of state and national parks say that boosting visitation will help parks generate more funding to stay open.

“The more people appreciate the parks, the more constituents we have for our parks,” said Karl Knapp, who is part of a team at the California State Parks trying to make parks more relevant to the state’s diverse population.

“It’s not just a numbers game. It’s an appreciation.”

One of the reasons more minorities are venturing into parks and forests, according to the Kampgrounds of America survey, is that technology, including smartphones and online apps, makes it easier to book campsites, locate hiking trails or meet up with fellow outdoor enthusiasts.

Nadine Jackson, an African-American cafeteria manager from Compton, said she was prompted a few years ago to spend more time in the outdoors when she saw the Facebook posts of a friend who enjoyed hiking near Ran-

‘I’M ON A MISSION TO SEE AS MANY NATIONAL PARKS AS I CAN BEFORE I LEAVE THIS WORLD.’ - NADINE JACKSON cho Palos Verdes.

After checking out videos and photos on Facebook of other people having outdoor adventures, Jackson, 46, said she decided last year to take 17 family members to Sequoia National Park.

“I’m on a mission to see as many national parks as I can before I leave this world,” she said.

McBride agrees that technology has helped encourage her to spend time in the outdoors. She said she recently used a sky map app on her smartphone to look at a meteor shower.

“Things are much more accessible,” she said.

In opinion surveys, the top reasons African-Americans and Latinos have said they don’t spend more time on outdoor activities are the expense or the lack of time or skills to participate.

Recognizing the need to draw more minorities into the outdoors, park managers and outdoor industry groups have launched several outreach programs in the last few years.

The Outdoor Foundation launched a program in 2014 called the Outdoor Nation Challenge that rewards college students for taking time to bird-watch, hike, camp or do other activities. The college that scores the most points gets

a trophy and up to $5,000 in cash and outdoor gear.

The program started with 10 colleges and 8,000 participants and has expanded to 90 colleges and nearly 20,000 participants. The contest is designed to pique the interest of young, ethnically diverse populations, Levin said.

In California, the state parks department launched a “transformation” effort in 2015 to draw more Californians into state parks.

Among the initiatives of the group is to create a community liaison program to encourage young people in urban areas to venture into the parks.

The program also includes a partnership with Google to map state parks, making it easier to find trails and landmarks. The state parks also are working to install more wireless Internet access at campgrounds.

“It’s a more digital generation than in the past,” Knapp said.

The National Park Service also has launched an effort to get minorities into the outdoors by inviting artists, photographers, bloggers and writers who have huge followings on social media to visit parks and post videos, stories and photos of their experiences.

Will Shafroth, president of the National Park Foundation, the official charity of the national park system, said the future of the national parks depends on getting a more diverse generation of millennials to be regular visitors.

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We can’t dig our way out of the fossil fuels pit DAVID SUZUKI SCIENCE MATTERS I’ve often thought politicians inhabit a parallel universe. Maybe it’s just widespread cognitive dissonance, coupled with a lack of imagination, that compels them to engage in so much contradictory behaviour. Trying to appease so many varying interests isn’t easy.

Rather than focusing on short-term economic and corporate priorities, though, politicians should first consider the long-term health and well-being of the people they’re elected to represent. When it comes to climate change and fossil fuels, many aren’t living up to that.

We celebrate the federal government’s decision to implement nation-wide carbon pricing, even though what’s proposed won’t, without additional measures like regulations, get us to our commitments under the Paris Agreement, which is also inadequate for keeping global warming from catastrophic levels. A government could be forgiven for going slow on a measure opposed by some industrial sectors, provinces and citizens, but it’s difficult

to take a government seriously when it approves or supports expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and development while the world continues to break warming records, with increasingly dire consequences.

A massive B.C. “carbon bomb” LNG project in the midst of critical salmon-rearing territory, in defiance of many area First Nations’ wishes. Likely approval of at least one more bitumen pipeline to support expanded oil sands development. A provincial government that pretty much says, “We’ll support federal efforts to fight climate change if you support our efforts to fuel it.” None of this makes sense.

As a report from non-profit Oil Change International and 14 other groups concludes, “The potential carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in the world’s currently operating fields and mines would take us beyond 2°C of warming,” and “The reserves in currently operating oil and gas fields alone, even with no coal, would take the world beyond 1.5°C.” That’s without any new development!

That leaves us with three choices: managed decline, stranded assets or climate chaos. The first, which the report recommends, means no new fossil fuel infrastructure, existing supplies become depleted and replaced with clean alternatives and employees redeployed to latter. As the report’s authors point out, “This does not mean

stopping using all fossil fuels overnight. Governments and companies should conduct a managed decline of the fossil fuel industry and ensure a just transition for the workers and communities that depend on it.”

Stranded assets means, “Companies continue to develop new fields and mines, governments are eventually successful in restricting emissions, and the resulting reduction in demand causes many extraction assets to become uneconomic and shut down, causing destruction of capital and large job losses.”

Under the third scenario, we keep digging, mining, fracking, building, transporting, selling and burning until we’re well beyond the 2 C threshold, resulting in “economic and human catastrophe.”

Sadly, in Canada and globally, we’ve chosen the second option, and in some cases, the third. Subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable industry ever, continue despite a 2009 G20 commitment to phase them out.

Canada alone promotes the industry to the tune of about $3.3 billion a year in tax breaks and handouts, not including provincial incentives. Politicians say they care about climate while arguing we need more bitumen, natural gas and coal to fuel growing economies and human populations, and more pipelines to get “product” to tidewater and overseas markets. Saskatchewan

has Canada’s best wind and solar resources, but the government focuses on expensive and unreliable schemes like carbon capture and storage while arguing against carbon pricing and other tools to cut emissions.

It’s all a form of denial. Conserving energy, shifting to cleaner sources, reducing automobile use by improving transit and bike and pedestrian infrastructure, protecting and restoring carbon sinks such as forests and wetlands, and getting a handle on agricultural emissions are all possible, and would create numerous jobs and economic opportunities.

Most national governments have committed to the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 2 C above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational goal of 1.5 C. We’re already nearing the latter, with growing consequences, including increasing extreme weather events, water and food shortages, migration crises and extinctions. We must conserve energy, quickly phase out coal power and continue to develop renewable resources.

As Oil Change International says, “If you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.

Unprecedented opportunity in economic shift LORNE OJA ENERGY

The World Resources Institutes, estimate for the worlds GHG emissions, in 2012, at some 44815.54 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2. Of that, India produces 3013.77 Mt, China 10 975.50 Mt, the U.S. 6235.10 Mt, and the combined European Union at 7919.14 Mt. Our home and native land, Canada, produces 714.12 Mt or 1.59% of the total.

The Fraser Institute estimates that the emission reductions proposed by the Alberta government of 100 Mt for this province alone would come at a cost of $1,000 per tonne. Further, the Institutes study estimates the cost to our economy at some C$150 billion by 2040. A large sum by any estimation, this undoubtedly will have very deep and far reaching consequences to the people of this province.

Most of the world recognizes that hydrocarbon has allowed its societies to evolve into the modern technological based model most of us are so familiar

with. There are very few corners of this world left, if any, which can boast of having no hydrocarbon based, medicine, transportation, source of heat, clothing, or piece of technology derived from plastic.

So with the government imposed changes that we now face, how we are going to respond. One would hope that as we transition from our old hydrocarbon based system to a society of a renewable energy driven technologies we will somehow preserve the jobs and standard of living, that to this date, hydrocarbon has afforded us.

For the past seven years this column has revealed the latest endeavours by societies, inventors and scientists into addressing our energy needs.

Photovoltaics, wind, tidal, fuel cells, fusion, blue fuels, and numerous other examples of alternative sources of energy production have been explored. If one common thread is apparent in all this research, it would have to be the innovative and inventive nature of the human species.

Does this mean that we will have to move from a resource exporting economy to one based on manufacturing? Likely this shift will become an economic requirement. Currently, the CO2 concentration is reported at 401.19 ppm, as of Oct. 8, 2016, and although to some this may seem an overwhelming disaster, it

may also proffer an unprecedented opportunity.

Carbon is one of the building blocks of life and of many of our manufactured goods; cement may be the most mundane and common type, blue fuel the highest form of carbon recycling. -For those that missed the news release, blue fuel is produced by harvesting carbon from the air and turning it into liquid fuels for our vehicles-.

Alberta’s own Climate Change and Emission’s Management Corporation, — CCEMC — set up in 2009, is working to this end. This year they have put up C$40 million in funding. By comparison the province has announced a C$2 million investment in energy efficiency and conservation initiatives which will allow municipal governments to apply for building upgrades.

On the working man’s leveI, is it possible that atmospheric mining and carbon capture will provide a new revenue stream? Can Albertans rise to the challenge?

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

Apes think like humans in an important way: study

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This photo provided by Kumamoto Sanctuary, Japan, and MaxPlanck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, shows chimpanzee Kumamoto eye-tracking.

A sharp boundary that separates human thinking from great ape thinking may be getting blurrier.

That’s because a new study finds that our primate relatives show some key abilities to see the world from someone else’s point of view, a trait that once was considered uniquely human. ing” because tests in the past have not found primates understanding someone else’s false beliefs. But Santos said she’s reserving judgment because the study’s sample size is small — 29 apes — and there is no good explanation why the apes pass this test and failed other, similar ones.

Joel Fagot and Raphaelle Malassis at Aix-Marseille University said in an email that it was “a very exciting study on an important question, but this study is probably not THE definitive demonstration of false belief in apes.”

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A new study finds that great apes show some key abilities to see the world from someone else’s point of view — a trait that once was considered uniquely human.

An international study found that chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans seem to have this ability, even when they know that point of view is dead wrong. It’s called theory of mind, or the ability to know that others have different beliefs and perspectives.

Researchers in the Japan, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom put a specific part of theory of mind to the test — understanding that someone else may have false beliefs — and the apes passed, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science. While apes had shown other aspects of understanding others’ perspectives, previous studies had not shown them to grasp the complex concept of understanding others’ false beliefs, said study authors Christopher Krupenye and Fumihiro Kano.

It’s a concept humans develop around age 4 or 5.

Researchers tracked the eye movements of the apes as they watched 40-second movies that showed someone in a King Kong costume trying to fool a man. The man watches King Kong either hide a rock in a box or — in a different version of the experiment — hide himself in a hay bale.

Then, after the man leaves, King Kong moves the rock or moves out of the bale.

So at this point, the man doesn’t know the rock or King Kong has moved — but the ape watching the movie does. When the man returns, the ape looks at where the man last saw the rock or King Kong, showing that it can anticipate the man’s false belief that the rock or King Kong remains in the same place.

That shows that the ape is getting the concept of others’ false beliefs, and this is a “critical” aspect of cognition, said Kano, a comparative psychologist at the University of Kyoto.

“Apes have some understanding of others’ actions and can predict others’ actions even when those individual are acting on misinformation,” said Krupenye, who conducted psychological research at Duke University and is now at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. “This kind of skill is central to a lot of sophisticated human behaviour that we use in co-operative context and culture and communications.”

But this may not be a full understanding of others’ false beliefs, Kano cautioned.

Yale cognitive science professor Laurie Santos called the test results “really remarkable” and “very surpris-

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PM’s wife launches social media accounts RESISTING FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM FOR A DECADE, GREGOIRE TRUDEAU JOINS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau used his Instagram account to promote a different sort of gender equality Tuesday: spouse Sophie finally getting with the social media program.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau used the occasion of International Day of the Girl to launch newly established Facebook and Instagram feeds of her own.

“For the past decade or so, I’ve resisted getting on social media in every way,” Gregoire Trudeau wrote in a message that appeared on both accounts.

“About time, eh?” the prime minister quipped.

Gregoire Trudeau attributed her change of heart to being a 41-year-old mother of three young children and an activist for the rights of women and girls.

“It’s time,” she wrote. “On this International Day of the Girl, it’s time to share the amazing journey we’re on together.”

The message came with a black-andwhite photo of Gregoire Trudeau as a five-year-old girl, sitting in a wheelbarrow held by her mother, Estelle Blais.

She also marked Tuesday’s UN-declared occasion by joining a group of girls to open trading at the Toronto Stock Exchange.

It was a collaboration with three charitable organizations — G(irls)20, Plan International Canada and FitSpirit — to illustrate the importance of making sure boys have equal opportunities to boys.

In her inaugural Facebook post, Gregoire Trudeau went on to say she wants to share details of her life and provide a venue for Canadians to share their stories and ideas.

“I hope to use this space to get to know you, and also share more about my life with you — very little of which is spent in heels and dresses, by the way!” she wrote.

“I’m an activist for gender equality,

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Launching Instagram and Facebook feeds, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau says she hopes to use the space to share her life and provide a venue for Canadians to share ideas and their stories. a nature lover, an adventurous athlete, and a curious and open-hearted woman hoping to help others find justice, balance and inner peace.”

Gregoire Trudeau, a former broadcast journalist, also noted her activism and public speaking — particularly on the topics of self-esteem and eating disorders, with which she has had personal experience — began before she began dating her husband.

She signed off by urging everyone to call her by her first name — instead of “Madame.”

She also added a postscript to say

she was a “very proud mama” because her youngest son, two-year-old Hadrien, had just learned to spell part of his name.

By Tuesday afternoon, the Facebook page had garnered more than 30,000 “likes.”

Andree-Lyne Hallee, a spokeswoman for Trudeau, said in an email that Gregoire Trudeau wrote the post herself, but would be getting help from staff in the Prime Minister’s Office to help her manage the page on a regular basis.

The Conservatives and New Demo-

crats were attacking the Liberals this spring after Gregoire Trudeau asked for extra staff to help her manage the high volume of requests she gets for charity work and public appearances.

Hallee said Tuesday that no extra staff had been hired.

“Madame Gregoire Trudeau receives help from PMO staff to fulfil the duties and responsibilities that come with the role. She receive the support she needs with existing staff within the PMO,” she wrote.

Hallee said the page is not being promoted with paid advertising.

Robots organize your photos, so you can procrastinate

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — If you’re like many people, you have thousands of photos on your phone, long forgotten after you’ve posted a few on Instagram or Facebook.

They don’t have to stay forgotten. Apple and Google are both applying a form of artificial intelligence called “machine learning” to organize your pictures and video — and along the way, help you rediscover last year’s vacation, dinner with close friends and a casual summer outing to the park.

Apple’s tools are part of last month’s iOS 10 system update for iPhones and iPads. The Google Photos app for Apple and Android devices has a digital assistant to automatically organize these memories — and Google signalled last week that it will only get smarter.

Here’s a look at how they take you down memory lane:

APPLE’S MEMORIES

Apple’s new Memories feature automatically generates video highlights around a theme, such as a trip or birthday party. Individual photos and snippets from video are chosen for you, as is the music, though you can change it to reflect a different mood.

This isn’t just a slideshow. There’s slow zooming and panning, reminiscent of Ken Burns historical documentaries. Some of the photos also come to life, at least on newer iPhones that automatically take three seconds of video with every photo.

When you’re ready to share, the app creates a standard movie file — so it works on Windows and Android devices, too.

For me, Apple’s app created a “Florida to Illinois” package for a three-week trip in January and one for a day trip to Philadelphia last November.

But Apple goes beyond date and location. Apple created a “Together” package for shots with family over the past two years. It also created an “At The Beach” package with beach photos since 2013. Other scenic themes could include mountains, lakes and sunsets.

Apple offers up to three new Memories a day.

You can create more based on photos you add to an album and generate new automated ones by scrolling down to “Related.” You can also add or delete images within Memories — in my experience, a few included mundane screenshots I had to get rid of.

Nothing will ever replace the human touch. But let’s face it, even though I keep meaning to organize my photos, I never find the time. The machine-generated selections aren’t necessarily ones I’d choose myself, but with a small amount of tweaking, they’re presentable and will tide me over until I get around to catching up manually … someday.

GOOGLE’S ASSISTANT

Google Photos has been at this longer and offers more types of packages. With collages, Google combines smaller versions of several shots into one layout . Animations combine a bunch of photos taken in succession so that they resemble as a moving image .

Unlike typical “GIF” animation files, Google applies its magic to align successive shots, so buildings and bridges look steady — without the shake common with handheld video. Google also offers albums and video highlights, though without the Ken Burns effect.

Google’s Assistant generates much of this for you automatically. You can edit auto-generated albums and video highlights, but not collages or animation — although you can create your own from scratch.

(That does defeat the purpose of letting the robots do the work, though.)

Sharing is easy and doesn’t require recipients to have Google Photos.

The results vary in quality. I tend to take several shots of the same subject, just in case some are blurry. Yet I get collages and animations out of those repetitive shots. And the albums and video highlights seem based on location and date. I got nothing that spans several months or years (though Google does combine several days on the same trip).

Most of my computer-generated creations are animations and collages. As with Apple, Google’s choices aren’t necessarily ones I’d make, if only I had the time. But some are good enough that I look forward

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Digital assistants are cropping up on Apple and Google smartphones. Samsung remains mired in controversies over its flammable Note 7. to alerts for new ones to check out.

I also enjoyed a feature called “Rediscover this day.” Google will automatically create collages from shots taken on a day, say, two years ago. But it only does so if there’s anything memorable, such as a trip.

As my life is boring, most days go by without a rediscovery.

SEARCHING

Apple and Google are both getting better at image recognition. Apple’s version tends to be more conservative. While Apple found four photos in a search for fireworks, Google found dozens. Google also found more photos with hats, though one was actually a strange hairdo and a few were of a headband. Then again, Apple thought an illustration of a hut was a hat.

Google is also bolder with face recognition. Its technology is smart enough to recognize the same child at 2 months and 6 years, while Apple often separates the same child into multiple identities (you can merge them, and things will be fine after that).

Google has an edge over Apple in part because it taps its powerful servers to process photos. Apple

leaves all the machine thinking to your device as a privacy measure. But Apple says it also favours being right more than complete to reduce the work people need to do to fix things. Being wrong can also have consequences: Google had to apologize last year after its software got too aggressive and mistakenly labeled two black people as gorillas.

STORAGE

To free up space, both services will automatically clear photos from your phone after uploading them to the Internet, once you activate the option. You still have a lower-resolution version on the device and can get the sharper image anytime, as long as you’re online.

Google Photos offers unlimited online storage of photos at up to 16 megapixels and videos at 1080p high definition — good enough for most people. It will compress larger photos, or you can store the original and have it count toward your Google Drive limit, which starts at 15 gigabytes for free. Apple’s iCloud Photo Library requires paying once you exceed 5 gigabytes, which is enough for a few thousand photos.

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Braised cauliflower with anchovies and capers COOKING ON A DEADLINE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Any time capers mingle with anchovies and garlic, I’m happy. You might think these are very strong flavours, but when they are used sparingly they add a lovely layer of salty/savory flavour to whatever dish they grace.

When I serve this to my family, do I mention that there are anchovies in it?

Nope, I don’t. Do they think it’s delicious? Yup, they do.

The cauliflower is browned in the pan before it’s braised, and don’t cook it too long in the liquid or it will lose its great, firm texture. If you want a vegetarian version, do skip the anchovies and use vegetable broth.

I was making this for the second time when I realized I didn’t have fresh parsley, so I grabbed a bag of baby arugula from the fridge and it was a happy amendment. In fact, it made me realize that chopped arugula is a great alternative to chopped parsley on any number of dishes, offering a different slightly bitter and bracing green note.

I’ll be keeping arugula on hand for just this purpose.

BRAISED CAULIFLOWER WITH ANCHOVIES AND CAPERS

Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 6 to 8 1 large head cauliflower 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon finely minced garlic 2 tablespoons capers, drained Coarse or kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 4 anchovies, rinsed and minced Splash dry white wine 1 cup less-sodium vegetable or chicken broth

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Braised cauliflower with anchovies and capers. This dish is from a recipe by Katie Workman. ½ cup flat-leaf parsley or 1 cup baby arugula leaves, roughly chopped (optional) Cut the cauliflower into small florets.

Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven or heavy stockpot over medium high heat. Add the cauliflower and cook, stirring occasionally until it starts to lightly brown in some spots.

Shove the cauliflower to one side and

add the garlic, capers, and anchovies so that they hit the bottom of the pan, and season with salt and pepper. Stir into the olive oil until the garlic turns golden and you can smell everything.

Stir the mixture into the cauliflower, and season with salt and pepper, so the anchovy mixture coats the vegetables.

Pour in the wine and give everything a stir. Add the broth and bring to

a simmer. Cover the pan, and reduce the heat so the liquid remains at a simmer. Cook until the cauliflower is just tender but not mushy, from 8 to 10 minutes. If there is more than ½ cup liquid left, remove the cauliflower with a slotted spoon and simmer the remaining liquid until there is less than ½ cup, then pour it over the cauliflower.

Stir in or sprinkle over the parsley or arugula (if using). Serve hot or warm.

Dinner in 35 minutes: colourful mix shines in salad

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES During a recent interview event, “Gefilte Manifesto” writers Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern prompted lots of audience head nodding when they referred to “growing into” foods such as chopped liver. Beets fall into that category of things a mature palate can appreciate, I think. Their earthiness, attributed in part to an organic compound called geosmin, generally is not something young folks enjoy.

I grew up with a borscht-loving father and learned to make the stuff for him yet still never cozied up to the vegetable served that way or “Harvard” style, from a jar – until I had them roasted, when I was in my late 20s.

And at this time of year, when the purplish-red, candy-striped and golden ones get bundled together at the grocery store, roasting them all together is a fine way to go. This salad shows off their color; the crunchy hazelnuts tossed in with them during the final minutes of oven time play off the beets’ roasted texture, as does the pan-crisped paneer cheese. A dressing of yogurt, dill, horseradish and a touch of honey provides an unexpected tangy jolt.

Paneer and roasted beet salad

4 servings

You can peel the beets before you cut the vegetable into wedges – as instructed below – or you can scrub the exteriors well and, once roasted, slip off the skins after they’ve cooled for a bit.

Firm, fresh paneer cheese is available in large supermarkets, where you can also sometimes find black mustard seed, a staple at Indian markets.

Serve with warm focaccia.

Adapted from The Indian Family Kitchen: Classic Dishes for a New Generation, by Anjali Pathak (Clarkson Potter, 2016).

Ingredients 1 ¼ pounds beets, preferably of different colors (see headnote) 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 teaspoon black mustard seed (see headnote; may substitute brown mustard seed) 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 ¾ ounces (about ½ cup) skinned hazelnuts 5 ½ ounces paneer cheese (may substitute halloumi cheese; see headnote) Several sprigs fresh dill ½ lemon 2 tablespoons plain Greek-style yogurt (regular or low-fat) 1 tablespoon prepared white horseradish Pinch fine sea salt, or more as needed Drizzle of honey

2 cups watercress Steps Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

Peel the beets, then cut them into wedges and place on the baking sheet. Drizzle them with half the oil and toss to coat, then sprinkle the mustard seed and ginger over them. Roast for 20 minutes, then add the hazelnuts to the baking sheet and roast for 5 more minutes, so the nuts become fragrant. Let cool on the baking sheet.

Meanwhile, line a plate with paper towels. Heat the remaining oil in a wide nonstick skillet over medium heat. Cut the paneer into large bite-size pieces.

Once the oil shimmers, add the cheese and fry for a few minutes, moving the pieces in the pan so they become golden brown. Transfer to the plate to drain while you make the dressing.

Coarsely chop the dill and place a generous pinch of it in a medium bowl, then squeeze in the juice from the lemon half, being careful to avoid adding pits. Whisk in the yogurt, horseradish, salt and honey (to taste) in a medium bowl until emulsified. Taste, and add salt as needed.

Combine the watercress, the remaining dill, the roasted beets, toasted hazelnuts and seared paneer on a platter. Pour the dressing over the mix and toss to coat just before serving.

Cod recipe with some tricks becomes richer, meatier I think we all know that eating fish several times a week is a good call, both for our hearts and our brains. In the summertime, it’s easy. I love tossing a piece of fish seasoned with just a little salt and pepper on the grill, giving it a bit of char and squeezing it with bright lemon and serving it next to a lightly-dressed coleslaw or a chopped grilled veggie salad. In summer, I like not feeling full.

But winter? I crave something richer and meatier. I want food that fills my belly with warmth and coats my tongue with luscious, deep flavours.

Basically, I want to eat a fatty venison stew for several months a year. Is that so wrong?

Well, I can’t eat like a bear before hibernation every day from December to March. It wouldn’t meet my health goals, and let’s face it: I don’t have that kind of braising time available to me on a casual Tuesday night.

A simple, quick sauteed fish recipe comes to the rescue! It’s a classic saute plus pan-sauce method that is more blueprint than recipe: Saute the fish and remove from the pan, add in some veggies and aromatics and cook until tender, deglaze the pan with broth, wine, or other liquid and then add finishing touches, such as whisking in a pat of butter or adding chopped fresh herbs.

The recipe today, quick cod with red wine pan sauce has a few tricks up its sleeve to satisfy my winter palate. I use meaty portabella mushrooms as the veggie, which amps up the filling-factor of delicate cod. And for the sauce, I use beef broth and red wine, surprising companions for a white fish dish. But, get excited, because they work.

For minimal extra calories, this cod dish goes from summer-light to winter-comfort with these small swaps.

Oh, and yes, I added a smidge of butter at the end to make the sauce glossy, but feel free to skip if you don’t want the extra fat.

COD WITH RED WINE

PAN SAUCE

Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 4 4 5-ounce fillets of cod, rockfish or other sturdy white fish 2 teaspoons of flour, divided 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided 1 shallot, minced 8 ounces baby bella (or white) mushrooms, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2/3 cup beef stock 1/3 cup red wine (regular, or sweetened, such as Marsala or Madeira) 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon unsalted butter chopped parsley for garnish lemon wedges, for garnish salt and pepper Pat the fish dry with a paper towel and season it with salt and pepper.

Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of flour on the fish, using a silicon brush to coat the fish very lightly with the flour.

Heat half the oil over medium high heat in a large nonstick skillet. Cook the fish until golden brown on both sides and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side, flipping the fish only once to retain the nice crust. Place the fish on a warmed platter and set aside.

Add the remaining oil, shallot and mushrooms to the skillet and saute until mushrooms begin to soften, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and remaining teaspoon of flour, and stir for a minute. Then add the stock and wine to deglaze the pan, and bring to a boil for a minute or two, until sauce starts to thicken.

Turn off the heat and add in the lemon juice and whisk in the butter to make the sauce glossy. Top with parsley and a lemon wedge for garnish.

Serve the sauce with the fish, either on the side to spoon on, or on top of the fish.

(Optional: Serve the fish on a bed of baby spinach, spaghetti squash or quinoa to soak up the tasty sauce.)

Nutrition information per serving: 201 calories 64 calories from fat 7 g fat (2 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 61 mg cholesterol 178 mg sodium 6 g carbohydrate 0 g fiber 2 g sugar 24 g protein.

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Cod with red wine pan sauce and mushrooms. This dish is from a recipe by Melissa d’Arabian.

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Unwelcomed guest goes beyond over-staying DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: On one day’s notice, my husband’s college friend — let’s call him “Will” — asked whether he could “crash” with us for two nights. I assumed that meant he was coming to town on other business and just needed a place to sleep — which would have been OK, even though I’m up against a work deadline, because I wouldn’t have had to be a proper host.

When he arrived holding a suitcase that looked large enough for a monthlong cruise, I got a little nervous. Now he’s been here for five days. And aside from a couple of hours here and there, he hasn’t left the house. He’s just been

hanging out in our living room.

I work from home, and he keeps coming into my office to chat during the day and ask random questions.

He’s a nice, funny guy whom I would enjoy spending time with under other circumstances. But I feel as if my personal space has been invaded, and that’s a big pet peeve of mine.

After Will had been here for a day, my husband privately complained to me some about his behavior (putting his feet up on the table, lying on the couch, leaving a mess in the bathroom), but I told him to let it go. Now I’m the one who’s annoyed, and my husband has pretty much tuned it all out. Yesterday and today I asked him, “Isn’t Will leaving today?” He just shrugged.

I don’t want to be rude or inhospitable to a friend of my husband’s (though it turns out they were never that close and have hardly kept in touch since graduating). But I really would like

The incident is being investigated by the Danish Maritime Authority. It was not immediately clear whether the ship would be fined. Police say no one was injured when the ship sailed into the aquaculture farm.

But now authorities fear the farmed trout wreak havoc on the region and eat the eggs of other trout species. Soeren Knabe of the environmental group Vandpleje Fyn is urging anglers to “grab their rods and catch as many as possible. I’ll join them this weekend.”

“Get yourself a fishing licence and get out there.

The more the better,” he said jokingly.

Knabe said Wednesday that the rip happened “at the worst time” because sea trout “are about to spawn and their eggs are ‘yummy’ for rainbow trout.”

Kaare Manniche Ebert, a biologist with Danish Anglers’ Association, told Denmark’s TV2 that the farmed rainbow trout could very well die of starva-

WEIRD NEWS

80,000 trout set free in Denmark by accident COPENHAGEN — Danish anglers are rushing to a western Denmark fjord to catch some of the up to 80,000 farmed rainbow trout that have been accidentally released, hoping to keep them from upsetting the area’s ecological balance.

A cargo ship on Monday accidentally tore apart a fish farm net off Assens, 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of Copenhagen in the western Baltic Sea, setting free the entire trout farm, which was estimated to hold 250 tons of fish.

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPE Thursday, Oct. 13 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Paul Simon, 75; Kate Walsh, 49; Sacha Baron Cohen, 45 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It will be very easy to put your foot in your mouth today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You love to strive for success. If you want to move ahead in 2017, try to be less critical and more creative. Romance and love are in the air in February.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Words can cut like a knife! It will be very easy to say the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. So think before you speak and choose your words

some privacy back. How can I tactfully drop the hint that he’s overstayed his welcome? — No Vacancy Dear Vacancy: Someone needs to take the bull by the horns here, before that bull turns your whole house into his own personal pasture.

You have two options. You can tell your husband that it is time to tune back in and tell his friend that he has to find another place to stay by the end of the week, or you can tell Will yourself. Anyone who would say he is staying for only two days and then stay for five (without leaving the house at all) doesn’t seem the type to have an exit plan unless he is pushed to. So push him. It’s time for this house guest to find another nest.

Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to the letter from “Smell You Later,” as well as your reply, which, for the most part, was a good one. For quite a few years, I suffered from having bad breath. It was very disconcerting,

wisely today — and tonight.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Calling all Bulls! With peace-loving Venus visiting your partnership zone, your motto for the moment is from writer Robert Louis Stevenson: “Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re frustrated by some people’s lack of speed and motivation, but today’s not the time to push buttons. Instead, make connections with friends who focus on solutions, and stay positive.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are plenty of unfinished jobs to tackle around the home so get to it. But be careful when you’re communicating with a family member, as it will be easy to get your wires crossed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A close relationship will be complicated today Lions. Over the next 24 hours, Mercury muddles communication, while Mars contributes to moody moments and

seeing as I was constantly brushing my teeth. It turned out that a lack of brushing was not the issue. It was the fact that I was not flossing. I never realized that the food that got stuck between my teeth was the culprit — rotting and causing my halitosis. Once I started flossing and using a proxy brush, the problem disappeared and has never returned. Besides stopping the bad breath, the practice also put an end to all the cavities I used to get.

I always thought I went to a good dentist, but obviously he was not good enough to emphasize the importance of flossing and cleaning between my teeth.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

tion because they are used to being fed.

“In some streams, they will start eating the eggs of other trout species, and maybe the other trout. That will be a disaster,” he told TV2.

Police looking for owner of 100 goats found wandering Ontario road GEORGINA, Ont. — Police in southern Ontario say they’re looking for the owner of a wayward herd of about 100 goats.

York Regional Police say officers responded Tuesday to a report that approximately 100 goats were on Frog Street in Georgina, Ont., a community about 80 kilometres north of Toronto.

They say that when the officers arrived, the herd had moved off the roadway.

plenty of fiery drama.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The nest two days aren’t particularly suitable for dealing with complicated money matters, as Mercury and Mars make it hard to focus on the important details.

Instead, be patient and wait.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The more you include family members or work colleagues in your daily routine, the faster things will get done. Double-check all appointments though, as silly misunderstandings are likely.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you being somewhat insensitive? When it comes to a friend or colleague, take the time to walk a mile in their shoes.

Then you’ll have some small insight into what they’re going through.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Family relationships are in a confusing state of flux so the more adaptable you are, the better the day will be. Just make sure you visualize ideas in your

mind before you tell other people.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Prepare for fiery debates or complicated dramas today or tonight. You’re keen to initiate changes, but don’t underestimate the resistance of some people to your plans. Try to proceed diplomatically.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to take action and change the status quo. But don’t jump in and be too impulsive. Tune into your inner voice Aquarius — it will lead you in the direction that’s right for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The planets shine a spotlight on a financial problem and help you see things from a fresh perspective. Boost your cash flow by pairing up with someone, doing something you both enjoy.

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

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Awaiting the opening shot U.S.-CANADA SOFTWOOD LUMBER WARS READY TO REIGNITE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Canada’s oncea-decade softwood lumber trade war with the U.S. appeared on the verge of reigniting Wednesday with the end of a legal grace period that threatens to kick off another round of petitions, panels and punitive tariffs.

The American softwood lobby has confirmed plans to launch a process that could culminate sometime next year in duties on its northern neighbour’s lumber, barring sudden progress toward a so-far-elusive deal between governments. “(We have) no choice but to move to initiate trade cases against unfairly traded imports from Canada at the most effective time,” said the U.S. Lumber Coalition.

As the old agreement wound down, the group said it spent three years urging new negotiations. Talks only got serious in recent months. While those talks continue, the sides remain far apart on formulas involving import limits and duties.

Softwood lumber is excluded from the continental trade agreement. Lumber producers in both countries continually bicker over whether Canadian companies’ cheap access to public forests constitutes an illegal subsidy.

The lumber lobby is now expected to file petitions to two U.S. federal agencies: one to the Department of Commerce alleging that Canadian lumber is subsidized, and another to the U.S. International Trade Commission that those subsidies hurt domestic producers.

Those proceedings will likely wrap up by late next year, federal officials

‘(WE HAVE) NO CHOICE BUT TO MOVE TO INITIATE TRADE CASES AGAINST UNFAIRLY TRADED IMPORTS FROM CANADA AT THE MOST EFFECTIVE TIME.’ — THE U.S. LUMBER COALITION in Ottawa told a background briefing Wednesday. By that point, the U.S. administration would calculate potential penalties, and decide whether to impose retroactive penalties. Canada would fight back at international trade panels.

Members of Congress are also expected to exert political pressure — they have mills in their own states, and have received at least US$3.6 million in donations so far this year from forestry companies, according to the site Open Secrets.

The stakes are considerable for forestry communities.

U.S. lumber consumption has surged the last few years, growing onethird since the depths of the housing crisis albeit still short of early-2000s levels. The details of an eventual deal or intervening punitive measures will help determine Canada’s share of that growth.

Canada’s share of the U.S. market has oscillated between 26 per cent and 35 per cent since 2000. It’s at 31 per cent now, according to a new analysis by CIBC. Expecting penalties, the bank has downgraded prospects for two lumber companies.

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An email from the office of the Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland says Canada is ready for any situation regarding softwood lumber.

Trans Mountain Morneau, private-sector economists pipeline builder set to examine federal finances says approval could create target for attackers

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The president of Kinder Morgan Canada says he expects more attacks by activists if its Trans Mountain oil export pipeline expansion from Edmonton to the West Coast is approved.

Ian Anderson says approval could paint a target on the project, resulting in more incidents like attempts Tuesday by protesters to shut down oil export pipelines in the U.S. He told reporters at an energy conference that one of his company’s pipelines in Washington state was targeted, but there was no damage and deliveries were not affected.

Earlier at the conference, Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd condemned the pipeline attacks as “dangerous” and beyond the realm of civil disobedience.

A federal decision on the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain expansion project is expected in December. Anderson says construction could present a target both for peaceful protesters and those who mean harm.

He says the company is studying the protests against the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline, adding that the best strategy to deal with protesters is to communicate fully and as early as possible with those affected.

OTTAWA — When Finance Minister Bill Morneau meets a group of private-sector economists Thursday to ask about their economic forecasts, he may be encouraged to shed a little light on the future himself.

Morneau will sit down with experts in Toronto to seek their projections and opinions ahead of the government’s fall economic and fiscal update, which is expected in the coming weeks.

Scotiabank’s chief economist, a former senior Finance Department official under Morneau, plans to ask his old boss about something he says is lacking from the feds: a clear fiscal road map.

“Right now, there isn’t really a plan,” said Jean-Francois Perrault, who was assistant deputy minister of economic and fiscal policy until the end of 2015.

“They’ve not really given any clarity as to how they think about fiscal policy and government debt going forward.”

In its March budget, the Liberal government included new spending commitments aimed at helping the economy grow. The document predicted fivestraight budgetary deficits that could add more than $110 billion to Canada’s public debt, beginning with a $29.4-billion shortfall this year.

But it didn’t include a blueprint outlining when or how these shortfalls would eventually be eliminated.

Citing a weaker-than-anticipated economy, the Liberals abandoned several firm fiscal benchmarks they played up during last year’s election campaign — sometimes referred to as “anchors.”

The budget put them on track to ditch pledges to: run annual deficits of no more than $10 billion to

TOKYO — Toyota, the world’s top automaker, and Suzuki, a Japanese rival that specializes in tiny vehicles, are tying up in a partnership.

Both sides announced in a joint statement Wednesday they will study areas where they can work together in developing technology for the environment, safety and information networking. They said such areas are likely to benefit from a partnership since the industry is changing rapidly in those areas.

Toyota Motor Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp. said they will continue to compete in other ways. They expressed hopes other automakers will join the partnership to help work toward an industry standard in such areas.

Toyota President Akio Toyoda said survival depends on such collaborations, and it was not enough for a company to be doing just its own research.

“It is very important now to have partners who share the same goal and passion,” he said.

Suzuki specializes in minicars, which benefit from tax breaks in Japan and are reputed to boast good mileage.

But it has acknowledged problems with its emissions tests in Japan after Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said it had cheated on such tests.

Suzuki denied violating any laws, but the Japanese government ordered all automakers to re-examine their emissions tests after the Mitsubishi scandal.

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Suzuki does not have a hybrid, electric car or fuel cell vehicle in its lineup.

Suzuki Chairman Osamu Suzuki stressed that he has been eager for such a partnership and had discussed it first with Toyoda’s father, and Toyota’s honorary chairman, Shoichiro Toyoda.

“Toyota is the industry-leading, and the most reliable company which is actively working on various advanced and future technologies,” Suzuki said.

Toyota leads the world in selling gas-electric hybrids, headed by the Prius, and it is also working on fuel cells and electric vehicles. Emissions regulations are tightening around the world, amid growing concerns about the environment and global warming.

Massive recall Toyota recalled 340,000 Prius cars around the world, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, Wednesday for a defect in their parking brakes. Toyota said it has received reports of crashes, injuries and deaths, but declined to provide details.

Self-driving cars also all the rage in the industry, although the use of artificial intelligence in cars on the roads has had mixed results. Toyota tends to be more cautious than its rivals in commercializing the technology, but all the world’s automakers are competing intensely in that research.

Also Wednesday, Interbrand, a research company that ranks brands, found in its 2016 “Best Global Brands” report that Toyota was the first Asian company and the only automaker to break into the top five on the list that ranks the best brands.

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balance the books in four years and to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio — also known as the debt burden — in each year of their mandate to 27 per cent.

Morneau said at the time that Ottawa’s spending decisions would be guided by economic growth, rather than precise fiscal markers. He also pointed to his budget’s revised prediction that the debt-to-GDP ratio would be lower than current levels in five years, to 30.9 per cent.

On Wednesday, Morneau reiterated during an event in Ottawa that the government would be “fiscally responsible.”

“We’re going to maintain that objective to have fiscal anchors,” Morneau said during a public policy conference. He did not elaborate on potential markers.

“As we put out our fiscal update this fall, Canadians will get a better sense of where we stand and how we’re going to make an impact.”

Perrault thinks Ottawa should provide more information about its goals when it comes to the federal bottom line. The government must show that the shortfalls are temporary, set an objective to be met over time and lay out how it will get there, he said.

“I think that stuff is pretty important to give a sense to markets that deficits aren’t going to be $30 billion forever,” said Perrault, who added he doesn’t hold strong views as to what the objective should be.

He also noted the Liberals still have election spending promises that have yet to be costed.

Craig Alexander, chief economist for the Conference Board of Canada, said even in a low-rate environment a government can’t run deficits indefinitely.

OTTAWA — The chief executive at one of Canada’s biggest banks is supportive of a new package of federal measures aimed at easing risks in the country’s real estate system.

CIBC’s Victor Dodig says government changes announced last week that include tightening mortgage lending rules are prudent and will create stability in the housing system.

Last week, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced measures designed to slow the injection of foreign cash into Canadian housing markets and stiffen eligibility rules on prospective borrowers. The gov- VICTOR DODIG ernment also proposed consultations on a policy that would see banks shoulder more of the risk for mortgage default.

Dodig says he expects the consultations around so-called “lender risk sharing” will be a constructive one.

He says the goal of the government is to make sure the taxpayer is not on the hook to support financial institutions in a perceived or real way.

Morneau’s announcement last week came amid concerns that real estate costs in the hot Toronto and Vancouver markets are out of reach for many Canadians. Some fear foreign investment in these areas has helped drive up prices.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.06 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.04 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.34 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.06 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.77 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.10 Cdn. National Railway . . 87.84 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 20061 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.55 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.79 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.21 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 57.94 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.39 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.34 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.68 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 30.85 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.72 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.72 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.93 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.82 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.77 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 61.14 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 131.13 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.01 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.27 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 66.49

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Rising gold and materials stocks helped push the Toronto stock market higher Wednesday, while New York indices finished flat after the U.S. Federal Reserve released minutes that showed its decision to hold interest rates last month was a “close call.”

The S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto gained 69.37 points at 14,618.97, with the energy sector being one of only two sectors that were down.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.10 of a cent to 75.42 cents US. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average added 15.54 points to 18,144.20, while the S&P 500 advanced 2.45 points to 2,139.18. The Nasdaq composite lost 7.77 points at 5,239.02.

Minutes from the U.S. Fed’s Sept. 20-21 meeting showed officials were inching closer to hiking rates for the first time since last December, but had decided to hold off due to inflation and little sign of rising wage pressures.

The minutes said that some officials believed it would be appropriate to raise rates “relatively soon” if the labour market kept improving.

Many economists expect the Fed to keep rates unchanged at the next meeting in November due to the U.S. presidential election, but raise rates by a modest quarter-point in December.

Senior portfolio manager Susan Da Sie of Manulife Asset Management said the central bank continues to send a clear signal that it’s moving towards a rate hike, but that decision can still change if the economic data in the next two months doesn’t support such a move.

She said the Fed is facing

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a time crunch because rates need to be higher than current levels in case the economy goes into a recession again.

“You have to reload interest rates so (that) in the next four years, if there is a recession, you do have higher rates,” said Da Sie. She noted that the markets will likely continue to stay volatile until the U.S. election. Most are expecting Democrat Hillary Clinton to win, with a Republican majority in Congress. If that turns out to not be the case, the markets will likely react negatively.

Da Sie said a Democratic majority in Congress could be seen as a negative to financial services, health care and energy firms. A win by Republican candidate Donald Trump could be seen as having a dampening effect on global economic growth due to his stance on trade.

In commodities, the November crude contract faded 61 cents at US$50.18 per barrel. Oil prices had briefly dipped below US$50 a barrel earlier in the day, after hitting their highest level in more than a year on Monday.

Elsewhere, the December gold contract fell $2.10 to US$1,253.80 an ounce, November natural gas dipped three cents at $3.21 per mmBTU, and December copper contracts were down a penny to $2.18 a pound.

— With files from The Associated Press FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,618.97, up 69.37 points Dow — 18,144.20, up 15.54 points S&P 500 — 2,139.18, up 2.45 points

High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.95 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.13 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.25 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.46 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.03 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.19 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.57 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.17 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0950 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.28 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.99 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.02 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.41 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.13 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.62 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.90 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.27 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.58 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.800 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.43 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.92

Nasdaq — 5,239.02, down 7.77 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.42 cents US, down 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.6188, up 1.30 cents Euro — C$1.4604, down 0.35 cent Euro — US$1.1014, down 0.42 of a cent Oil futures: US$50.18 per barrel, down 61 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,253.80 per oz., down $2.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.105, down 0.2 of a cent $774.98 kg., down six cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $0.50 higher $474.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.70 higher $482.10 March ‘17 $0.40 higher $487.30 May ‘17 $0.30 higher $491.80 July ‘17 $0.10 lower $493.00 Nov. ‘17 $1.10 lower $494.20 Jan. ‘18 $1.10 lower $495.70 March ‘18 $1.10 lower $497.00 May ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.10 July ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.10 Nov. ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.10.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘16 unchanged $132.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $132.50 March ‘17 unchanged $134.50 May ‘17 unchanged $135.50 July ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 March ‘18 unchanged $135.50 May ‘18 unchanged $135.50 July ‘18 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘18 unchanged $135.50.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 653,800 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 653,800.

Samsung sends fire-proof boxes for Galaxy Note 7 returns

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it is sending fire-resistant packages to its customers in the U.S. as a precaution against possible fires or explosions from Galaxy Note 7s they return to retailers.

Samsung is offering prepaid shipping boxes as an option for U.S. consumers who purchased the phones on its website, Samsung.com.

It said consumers who purchased their Note 7 phones from mobile carriers should visit the carriers’ websites for recall instructions.

On Tuesday, Samsung said it was discontinuing the Note 7 phones just two months after their launch, after two recalls and many reports of fires.

Samsung must now deal with receiving back more than 1.5 million Galaxy Note 7 phones, both the original ones and those issued as replacements.

Most were sold in the U.S. and South

Korea.

A video on YouTube dated Tuesday shows a man it says is at the XDA Developers office in the U.S., unpacking a kit containing a static shield bag, thermally insulated boxes, gloves and instructions for ground shipping only.

“We have just received this crazy Galaxy Note 7 return kit,” the person said in the video.

According to the XDA Developers forum, Samsung’s packing instructions say the Note 7 should be put in the static shield bag and then in a box labeled “OEM Replacement” to be put inside an “Inner Box” and a “Recovery Box.” Shipping companies reportedly had complained they did not want to handle Note 7 returns because of fire concerns.

Samsung said the packaging kits conform with U.S. requirements for shipping lithium-ion batteries or devices containing them that are subject to a recall.

Business BRIEFS Bass Pro CEO talks to Cabela’s workers about future SIDNEY, Neb. — Bass Pro Shops’ CEO has told Cabela’s employees that he won’t plant false hopes about their jobs after his company completes its purchase of the company. But he repeated earlier statements that some operations will stay in the Nebraska town where Cabela’s was founded.

Last week’s announcement of the $4.5 billion deal to buy Cabela’s raised questions about the roughly 2,000 people the company employs at its Sidney, Nebraska, headquarters. The combined headquarters will be in Springfield, Missouri.

Bass Pro CEO Johnny Morris told about 250 Cabela’s employees at a Sidney meeting Tuesday that there will be some “slimming down” because of function duplication. Morris said without details that “important, significant jobs” will remain in Sidney.

A Cabela’s representative didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

The company has committed to keeping open Cabela’s call centres in Grand Island, Kearney and North Platte, but Bass Pro spokesman Jack Wlezien said Wednesday that he couldn’t yet say whether there will be any employee cutbacks. As for the Sidney staffing, Wlezien said, “We don’t have an exact forecast yet.”

French activist Jose Bove allowed to stay in Canada MONTREAL — A member of the European Parliament who opposes the Canada-EU free-trade deal has been allowed to stay in Canada after being

threatened with expulsion.

Just a few hours before boarding an Air France flight out of Montreal on Wednesday, Jose Bove found out about the reprieve from the Canada Border Services Agency.

“I’ve just had the customs supervisor on the phone and he told me ‘there’s been a bit of a U-turn in your file,”’ Bove told reporters after a news conference.

Bove, who was to pay $200 for the document that will allow him to stay for seven days, will actually leave the country this Saturday.

“Maybe I will also thank the prime minister (Justin Trudeau), who seems to have understood it wasn’t a good idea to stop me from coming here,” Bove said jokingly.

Earlier, he told the news conference he wanted Trudeau to tell him why he was being kicked out of Canada.

“I feel like asking Mr. Trudeau: ‘What’s got into you? And why do you, someone who always wants to come across as the most open person on the North American continent, accept such a situation?’ It is pretty incongruous.”

German court hears Canada trade deal injunction calls BERLIN — Germany’s highest court is considering calls from opponents of a European Union-Canada trade deal for an injunction aimed at putting the signing of the accord on ice.

The Federal constitutional Court scheduled a hearing Wednesday on the matter and plans to issue a ruling on Thursday. Opponents of the trade deal with Canada, known as CETA, want the government to be forced to vote against approving the accord at an EU meeting Oct. 18 pending full consideration by the court of whether it violates the principles of democracy.

Plans call for CETA to be signed at the end of this month. Its opponents are deeply suspicious of a proposed trade deal with the United States, which is still being negotiated, and view CETA as a blueprint for that accord.

MORNEAU: ‘They LUMBER: Disputes do come with a cost’ getting longer STORIES FROM PAGE D1

Disputes in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s lasted an average of three years.

They’ve been getting progressively longer.

The latest dragged on for five years when it was concluded with a deal in 2006.

The trade penalties could also get costlier, CIBC warns. Duties could exceed market expectations of 20-30 per cent, such as for dumping — selling a product for cheaper abroad than at home — and countervailing duties, a penalty for illegal subsidies.

If those duties are retroactive, they’d still deliver a financial hit to companies like Interfor, which has nearly two-thirds of its production in the U.S.: “(A backward penalty) is purely negative for anyone with a single Canadian sawmill.”

Canada and the U.S. both say they’re trying to avoid that outcome.

In a joint statement, the countries said officials are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week.

While hoping for peace, the Canadian government is preparing for trade war. The country has been mostly successful in softwood cases before NAFTA and WTO panels and could be heading there again.

“Canada is prepared for any situation,” said an email from a spokesman for International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland.

“Our government will vigorously defend the interests of Canadian workers and producers… The U.S. industry is not where we need them to be. At the same time, the protectionist climate in the U.S. does complicate any trade negotiation, including this one.”

The 2006 softwood lumber agreement expired a year ago but a one-year standstill period kicked in to allow an attempt at resolution.

It imposed export taxes of zero to 15 per cent on Canadian lumber, growing with market prices and export volumes.

The U.S. Lumber Coalition now wants across-the-board quotas — which is rejected by Western Canadian producers.

“They do come with a cost,” said Alexander, whose organization will be represented at the meeting by deputy chief economist Pedro Antunes because of a scheduling conflict.

“A responsible fiscal path is also to make a commitment to balance the books down the road.”

Alexander also said while the debtto-GDP ratio is good for illustrating Canada’s fiscal capacity, he didn’t think it made a strong fiscal anchor.

Governments have some control over how big their deficits are, but have limited command over GDP, he said.

BMO chief economist Doug Porter, who will attend the meeting, said he plans to “counsel patience” when it comes to looking for the effects of spending Ottawa has already committed to as an economy-booster.

“Some of the measures that they’ve announced have yet to fully kick in and I think just the history of the past year shows that there’s only so much that fiscal spending can do,” said Porter, who added he had no immediate concerns about the lack of a timeline to return the books to balance.

Porter said he believes the debt-toGDP ratio is a good anchor. He also said it’s important for governments to have some flexibility.

Economists expect to present Morneau with outlooks that are weaker than the forecasts they made in the weeks before last spring’s budget. Ottawa, they said, should expect the downgrades to chew into the government’s bottom line.

In March, Morneau added a $6-billion risk adjustment to his fiscal projections in case the economy underperformed.

Several economists have predicted that between $2 billion and $3 billion of the contingency reserve will be used up because of lower growth.

The key for experts like RBC’s chief economist is what Morneau decides to do with any leftover portion of the contingency fund.

“Where does that money go?” Craig Wright said.

“Does it go towards deficit reduction or debt reduction rather than a hidden slush fund of cash?”

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GREENHOUSE Laborers are req’d for our greenhouse operation located WHAT’S HAPPENING near Blackfalds, AB. CLASSIFICATIONS Resp. incl’d. transplanting, watering, handling & caring 50-70 for plant material & preparation of customer orders. This position is labor intensive & entails Found working in both hot & cold environments. Laborers WALLET, found in the are required to work a min.

Vanier Woods area. of 40 hours/wk. Laborers Must identify to claim. must be avail. to work 403-391-3528 different shifts, 7 days/wk. positions are avail. starting mid Jan. & last til late June. No previous work Personals exp. or qualifications are req’d. Starting wage is ALCOHOLICS $12.20/hr. Please email ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 l resumes to Kevin@ cagreenhouses.ca or fax COCAINE ANONYMOUS resume to 403-885-4147 403-396-8298 (Attn. Human Resources.)

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0

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NIBOURG, Jase After a courageous battle with cancer, Mr. Jase Nibourg passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospital on Friday, October 7, 2016 in Red Deer, AB at the age of 35. Jase will forever be remembered by his children, Peyton and Damien; his parents, Kathy and Ted Nibourg; his sisters, Amy Nibourg (Troy) and Shandra (Matt) Tymchuk; his niece and nephew, Joelle and Isaac; his grandmother, Min Nibourg; many aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and friends that were like family. Jase was born on September 22, 1981 in Stettler, AB. He was the first born child and only son to Ted and Kathy Nibourg. Together, they raised Jase to stay humble, love deeply, and continually strive to do his best. His family moved to Red Deer when he was a young child and he became passionate about the roots he planted and the life that he built in this city.

He graduated from Notre Dame high school in 1999, where he made life-long friendships. In 2005 and 2012, Jase welcomed his children into this world. He was a caring father and had a passion for teaching his children strength, bravery, and independence. He was a loyal friend and active in the local Red Deer small business community. Jase believed strongly in supporting unique, local talent. He understood the grit and determination required to build something successful, as he himself owned a personal fitness company. Jase was passionate about the relationships constructed through the support of these local businesses, often generating close, meaningful friendships.

A Celebration of Life party will be held at Canyon Ski Resort, Red Deer, AB on Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:00 am. All are welcome to attend. In lieu of flowers, Jase has asked that a donation be made to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, 800 College Plaza, 8215 -112 Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C8 (charitable donation# 12207 3158 RR 0001) in his honour.

Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

WERNER Mark Morrison Werner, 57, of Lacombe, Alberta passed away on October 6, 2016.

Mark was born February 16, 1959 to Clinton Werner and Beatrice Potter in Wynyard, Saskatchewan.

Mark is survived by his son Nick Punko and wife Carolyn; his brother Larry Werner and wife Helen, Nicholas Werner (nephew), and Hannah Werner (niece), her husband Mike Stefanishion, and their son Austin; his sister Cleo SaleWerner and Don Ross, Clint “Bones” Werner (nephew), and Alexis Werner (niece).

Mark was a fun-loving father, son, brother, uncle and friend to all. He will be sorely missed by many, including Jody Cook, Sandy Newans, Skylar and Kayla, and his favorite dog - Aiko. Mark was an avid pilot, golfer, biker and a member of the Lacombe Flying Club. He also enjoyed going to the gym, trips to Mexico, and dinners out with friends and family.

A celebration of Mark’s life will be held at the Frontier room at the Westerner Centre, Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 pm. Memorial donations may be made to the Lacombe Flying Club.

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Children's Items

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EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP and Recycling avail. weekly or occasional basis.

(403) 505-4777.

Painters/ Decorators

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20.

403-885-5020 3 KITCHEN counter bar stools $65 for (all); home gym $50; girl’s bedroom curtain and rod, $20; and 2 brass lamps, $50 for both.

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Nov. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incl’d., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

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Extra storage, free parking, heat incl. in rent. $950/mo.

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BOX Spring, twin $80; misc. knitting yarn, $10; LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Christmas tea pot, $10; SUITES. 25+, adults only china tea cups with n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 saucers, $20; 403-343-1266 FUTON, like new, $50; Crosby dryer, top shape, Rental incentives avail. $50; and Eureka vacuum, 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. upright, bagless, like new, only, N/S, No pets. $50. Please leave 403-596-2444 message ~ 403-843-6325 or 403-887-0768 NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 SOLID wood book shelf bdrm. apartments, rent with sliding doors, $20; $750, last month of lease microwave stand, $20; free, immed. occupancy.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets members of the audience after speaking at a rally at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colo., Wednesday.

Buoyant Clinton reaching past Trump, wants Democratic Senate

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PUEBLO, Colo. — Brimming with new confidence, Hillary Clinton turned up the heat Wednesday on Republican candidates who are facing both tight election races and tough decisions on what to do about Donald Trump. She’s now seeking to spread her new momentum to fellow Democrats on November ballots.

Are you with him or not? Clinton and her campaign are demanding of GOP candidates as she surfs a wave of new support, part of the fallout from the revelations of Trump’s aggressive sexual comments about women.

Some Republican lawmakers are doing as she demands — but not all of them in the way she hoped.

Two senators and two House members who called for Trump to step aside over the weekend now have climbed back aboard. Their basic case: They’re voting for a Republican next month, and if Trump isn’t leaving then he’s got to be the one.

John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate told the Rapid City Journal he had “reservations about the way (Trump) has conducted his campaign and himself.” However, he said, “I’m certainly

not going to vote for Hillary Clinton.”

Also back on board after calling on Trump to resign: Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Reps. Scott Garrett of New Jersey and Bradley Byrne of Alabama. There still are some three dozen GOP lawmakers who have withdrawn their support or are calling for Trump to step aside.

At a rally in Colorado, Clinton declared that Trump is “desperate” and running “scorched earth strategy.”

“That’s all they have left — pure negativity, pessimism,” she said.

Indeed, Trump kept up his unrelenting denunciations of Clinton at a rally in Florida. It’s not enough for voters to elect him instead of her, he declared, “She has got to go to jail.”

Later Wednesday, Clinton was campaigning in Las Vegas, where she planned to call out Rep. Joe Heck, a Republican in a tough Senate fight who revoked his support for Trump after hearing his caught-on-video boasts about groping women.

The focus on Republican congressional candidates is the latest sign the Clinton campaign is moving past a narrow focus on winning the White House, and now is aiming to win big — by delivering the Senate to Democrats, making deep cuts into the Republicans’ majority in the House and,

possibly, winning states long considered Republican territory.

“If you’ve got friends in Utah or Arizona, make sure they vote, too,” Clinton told a raucous crowd in Pueblo.

“We are competing everywhere. …

I think Americans want to turn out in as big a number as possible” to reject Trump’s message, Clinton said.

She had sympathetic words — serious or not — for Trump supporters who have begun to interrupt her events.

As security escorted one man out in Pueblo, Clinton said: “You have to feel a little sorry for them they’ve had a really bad couple of weeks.”

Clinton’s new swagger and expanded ambitions come as Trump declares he feels unshackled to launch the sort of hard-edged, personal campaign his most ardent supporters love.

In Florida, he highlighted a new batch of hacked emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s account, published by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group. He asserted that the emails show ever more clearly that the former secretary of state and her family are corrupt.

“It never ends with these people,” he said.

Airstrike hits market in Aleppo

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — An airstrike hit the biggest market on the rebel-held side of Syria’s Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and levelling buildings as rescuers were still sifting through the rubble from air raids that killed dozens the day before.

Activists and a witness said the early afternoon strike destroyed several shops in the besieged eastern part of the city, which has been the target of a Russian-backed Syrian offensive since the collapse of a ceasefire last month.

The latest strikes have shattered a relative three-day lull in the area, where hospitals, underground shelters and buildings had been targeted for weeks.

On Tuesday, Russian or Syrian aircraft bombed several neighbourhoods, killing at least 41 people, including five children, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, a group of volunteer first responders, and the activist-run Aleppo Media Center. Both groups said 15 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of contacts in Syria, gave lower tolls for the attacks but said they were likely to rise. Varying reports of casualties are common in the chaotic aftermath of attacks in Syria.

Dr. Farida, a gynecologist whose clinic is in the market, said it was not clear what the aircraft were targeting.

“Many stores totally disappeared.

I can’t find a trace of a mini-market I used to buy things from,” she said, asking that her last name not be published because of security concerns.

She said at least five buildings have been destroyed.

“The destruction is horrible,” she said. “The rubble has piled up and the roads are cut.”

The Observatory said Wednesday that at least 358 civilians have been killed in eastern Aleppo since a U.S. and Russian-brokered truce collapsed on Sept. 19. The UN says more than 100 children have been killed in the campaign, which has also included a limited ground offensive.

Syria Civil Defence workers pulled at least one boy alive from under the rubble Tuesday, amid cheers from onlookers. The 13-year-old boy, Jamil Habboush, emerged covered in dust and dazed from the flattened build-

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Civilians leave the town of Suran, in Hama province, Syria. Infighting among some insurgent groups in Syria is severely hampering an offensive that many activists had hoped would cut government supply lines to Aleppo and ease the pressure on that embattled northern city. A Syrian cabinet minister, Ali Haidar, told The Associated Press in Damascus on Wednesday that Hama was the ‘safety valve which the gunmen tried to open to alleviate pressure on Aleppo.’ ing, gripping his rescuer tightly.

His mother survived, but remains in critical condition, said Ibrahim al-Haj, a member of the Syrian Civil Defence, which is also known as the White Helmets. The boy had lost his father and brother in previous bombings, according to al-Haj. The UN Security Council is deadlocked over how to respond to the Aleppo crisis and the U.S. and Russia have failed to reach an agreement on renewing the short-lived cease-fire.

Russia said Wednesday, however, that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Switzerland to discuss efforts to find a peace deal in Syria. The encounter would be the first face-to-face contact between the two men since Washington broke off bilateral diplo-

matic contact with Moscow on Syria over the violence in Aleppo earlier this month.

A statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry said Lavrov and Kerry will meet in the Swiss city of Lausanne Saturday.

The State Department said Kerry would meet with “key regional partners” in Lausanne to discuss ways to resolve the Syria crisis, without specifying who they were. It said Kerry would discuss a “multilateral approach” to ending the crisis, “including a sustained cessation of violence and the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries.”

A spokeswoman for Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy to Syria, said he was invited, without commenting further.

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‘It is just a heartbreak’ RIVER THAT GAVE LIFE TO N. CAROLINA TOWN NOW TEARS IT APART

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LUMBERTON, N.C. — A day after fleeing from the swollen Lumber River, the residents of this down-but-notquite-out former mill town waded into the swirling, tea-coloured floodwaters Wednesday and filled jugs for something most of us take for granted: flushing their toilets.

“We still don’t have water or power in our house,” Caroline Kahn said as she sloshed through someone’s flooded front yard in a pair of flower-print boots. “So we need water for the necessities of life.”

The river gave this town its life.

Now it has torn the community apart.

About 1,200 residents had to be evacuated by boat and plucked from their roofs by helicopters as the river crested. Two of the state’s 20 fatalities occurred in Robeson County, of which Lumberton is the seat.

Of all the towns affected by Hurricane Matthew, this city of 22,000 was among the hardest hit and the least able to absorb the blow.

“It is just a heartbreak,” said novelist Jill McCorkle, a Lumberton native.

She and her husband, Tom Rankin, drove southeast from their home in Hillsborough, his pickup filled to the gunwales with diapers and drinking water. “It’s a very poor area anyway.”

In her youth, McCorkle worked as a lifeguard on the Lumber. The river meanders through her fictional landscape, where the mosquitoes “are so big they roll up your pants legs to bite you.”

“When people are missing in Marsh County, the river is one of the first places to go,” the novelist wrote in Carolina Moon, published in 1996.

The police “regularly drag nets up and down through that twisting brown river, one man in the boat designated to watch the branches of the live oaks for snakes that might sense the warmth of

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Food Lion employee Dell Locklear, foreground, helps offload pallets of free bottled water for residents of Lumberton, N.C., Wednesday after Hurricane Matthew caused downed trees, power outages and massive flooding along the Lumber River. bodies below and drop onto them.”

“There’s the constant trade-off of the river giving and taking away,” McCorkle said. “It’s a really beautiful, beautiful river” — until it bursts its banks and “goes out of control.”

Like so many early settlements, Lumberton depended on the river for survival. By the late 18th century, the town had become a trading centre for timber and related materials.

“Rafts of pine logs on which were piled other pine products such as tar, pitch, turpentine and resin were floated down” the river to Georgetown,

South Carolina, according to a history produced by the Federal Writer’s Project in the 1930s.

But it wasn’t timber that gave the river and town their names.

To local Indians, it was not the Lumber, but the Lumbee. Poet John Charles McNeill, a native of neighbouring Scotland County who grew up along the river, said the name was from a local Indian word meaning “black water.”

Early European surveyors and settlers called it “Drowning Creek.”

In the 2011 book Communities in

Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South, Lumbee Indian activist Richard Regan drew a primal connection between his people and the waters upon which they live.

“Like the river, the Lumbees have a mystery, excitement and violence in their history and like the river they persevere,” he said. “Our very identity is wrapped up in the river. The river gave us isolation to develop community identity. It gave us protection from our many enemies. It gave us spiritual power to sustain our bodies and souls.”

Lawyers for Paris attacks suspect stop defending him

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Colombians take to streets again to support peace deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA — Thousands of farmers, indigenous activists and students marched in cities across Colombia on Wednesday to demand a peace deal between the government and leftist rebels not be scuttled.

It’s the second time in a week that Colombians are taking to the streets to support the accord signed last month with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and now hanging by a thread.

In Bogota, victims of the decades-long conflict carrying photos of dead loved ones were greeted by well-wishers handing white flowers symbolizing peace.

“We victims are in a state of limbo, we need the accord now,” said Diana Gomez, 38, whose activist father was killed a decade ago. She said her father’s murder remains unsolved — one of a flood of unsolved crimes committed during the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of 220,000 people and left almost 8 million displaced.

President Juan Manuel Santos, winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, is in talks with the opposition and FARC to make adjustments to the accord after it was narrowly rejected in a referendum six days after it was signed in front of world leaders.

But it’s not clear he can save the deal as opponents push for stiffer penalties for rebel leaders widely loathed

by Colombians. Under the terms of the accord signed Sept. 26, guerrillas who confess their war crimes will be spared time in jail and instead ordered to carry out community development work in areas hard hit by the conflict.

“This isn’t a question of cosmetic changes,” former President Alvaro

Uribe, who led the campaign against the peace deal, said Wednesday after delivering to government officials a list of proposals that he said will strengthen and provide broader support for the accord. “In a country of institutions like Colombia, transitional justice can’t consist of failing to punish those responsible for atrocious crimes.”

The FARC leader known by his nom de guerre Timochenko tried to put on a brave face Wednesday, saying that the guerrilla group is open to making adjustments even if it’s not willing to start negotiations again from scratch.

“Personally I think it may have been good that this happened,” Timochenko, referring to the referendum loss, said in a rare, hour-long interview with Caracol Radio. “It allows us to clear up many doubts and especially commit the important segment of the Colombian society that didn’t vote, more than 63 per cent, to take an interest in this history-making event.”

Wednesday’s march on the Plaza Bolivar, adjacent to the congress and presidential palace, appeared to be larger than last week’s rally, a sign of how politically apathetic Colombians have been jolted into action by the fading prospects for peace. In recent days, the Plaza has been overtaken by dozens of tents set up by die-hard peace activists and on Tuesday was blanketed with a giant, white shroud containing the names of almost 2,000 victims of the conflict stenciled in ash.

Santos has applauded the outburst of activism, and on Wednesday reiterated the need to seek a quick solution to the impasse so that a ceasefire in place doesn’t unravel.

“The great majority of people have asked me to find a solution son because uncertainty is the enemy,” he said in televised address.

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An indigenous woman participates in a peace march in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday. Thousands of rural farmers, indigenous activists and students marched in cities across Colombia to demand a peace deal between the government an leftist rebels no be scuttled.

PARIS — Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November’s attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak.

Frank Berton and Sven Mary said they’ve decided to stop representing Salah Abdeslam, who has chosen to remain silent in a protest against his prison conditions, including the 24-hour video surveillance of his cell.

Berton told a press conference on Wednesday that Abdeslam, who was arrested in Brussels in March then transferred to France, was psychologically damaged by his detention at Fleury-Merogis prison.

“I’ve been convinced for months that he is isolating and radicalizing himself, he is taking his video surveillance very badly,” Berton said. “This is not blackmail, it’s just the reality of his psychological and psychic state.

The problem is related to his solitary confinement.”

According to Berton, Abdeslam was initially willing to speak and the lawyer urged French authorities to soften their tough approach.

Authorities hope Abdeslam can provide information about the Islamic State group’s strategies and networks, and identify others who might have had a connection to the Nov. 13 attacks, which killed 130 people.

The same network that attacked Paris struck again in Abdeslam’s hometown of Brussels in March, days after he was arrested in his hideout.

Berton previously argued that two round-the-clock video cameras in Abdeslam’s could cause psychological damage, but France’s top administrative authority rejected the lawyer’s request to remove them. Judicial authorities argue the surveillance is needed to ensure he doesn’t commit suicide.

“He is demonized because he is the only surviving suspect,” Berton said.

“There is no other inmate in France detained in the same conditions.”

Abdeslam, 27, had initially said he wanted to explain his path to radicalization and his role in the Nov. 13 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafes and the national stadium. The other attackers died in suicide bombings or under police fire.

Abdeslam’s role in the attacks has never been clear.