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‘Do you know how fortunate you are?’

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

About an hour later, she was recovering in a hospital bed.

Goller was told she would likely not have survived if she’d had her heart attack in Red Deer.

“Doctors kept telling me, ‘Do you know how fortunate you are?’ ” she recalled.

The city’s 2017 proposed capital budget has been cut by $26 million, with some projects deferred, to adjust to the challenging economy and reduced growth in Red Deer.

On Wednesday, city administration tabled a $106.75-million bud- Project list get instead of $133 Page A5 million approved in principle last year.

The budget goes before city council on Nov. 22 and 23 for approval. Council will also consider a $1.27-billion Capital Plan for 2018-2026.

City manager Craig Curtis said the biggest project to be deferred is the North Highway Connector along 20th Avenue, which will ultimately include a new bridge across Red Deer River and one across the railway line along Hwy 11A. Construction was scheduled to begin in 2019, but has now been postponed by about three years.

“Of course with the slower growth, the traffic projections are lower than they were as well,” said Curtis on Wednesday.

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RED DEER’S JOANNE GOLLER SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK IN CALGARY — WHICH MAY HAVE JUST SAVED HER LIFE

Photo by LANA MICHELIN/Advocate staff

Joanne Goller, of Red Deer, feels lucky to have had a heart attack in Calgary, where she immediate received a heart stent.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Joanne Goller suffered a heart attack on Oct. 12 — but it was also her lucky day.

The Red Deer woman happened to be attending a work conference in Calgary when pain struck the back of her neck with the force of a baseball bat

whack.

“I didn’t know what was wrong,” said Goller, who was rushed by paramedics to Foothills Hospital, where doctors discovered she had 95 per cent heart blockage.

She immediately underwent cardiac catheterization at the Calgary hospital, in which a stent was inserted through her arm and into her heart to keep the valve open.

Submachine gun among weapons seized during drug raids

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

ALERT

A MAC-11 sub-compact machine gun can empty its 32-round magazine in less than two seconds.

Understandably, police were happy to take one of those lethal weapons off the streets along with six other firearms during drug raids earlier this month in Sylvan Lake and Red Deer.

Six people were arrested and are facing drugs and weapons charges in the operation co-ordinated with Red Deer and Sylvan Lake RCMP. “This is a prohibited weapon in Canada and in the wrong hands it represents a major public safety concern,” said Insp. Chad Coles, of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) Red Deer organized gang and crime team.

“ALERT is relieved to get this firearms off the street and these suspects arrested,” said Coles at a news conference on Wednesday at Red Deer RCMP detachment headquarters downtown.

The loaded silencer-equipped MAC11 along with two extended-clip magazines were seized at a Vanier Woods home earlier this month.

Alarmingly, the weapon was found in the home of a suspect, who was out on bail on charges in connection with an Edmonton homicide investigation.

Justin Kenneth Sandquist, 26, was charged in connection with the death of Aaron Cote in Edmonton in 2013.

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ALERT’s Insp. Chad Coles shows off a silencer-equipped MAC-11 submachine gun seized during drug raids in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake earlier this month. Six other firearms, drugs and drug-related items were also seized. Six people have been arrested and charged.

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Society counting on successful gala

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion volunteer Neil St. Denys pins a poppy onto Ken Bateman’s shirt. The two are part of a group of dedicated volunteers who prepare for the local poppy campaign every year.

Poppy campaign to raise up to $90K for veterans, military

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Poppies will be popping up everywhere in the city on Friday when the Royal Canadian Legion in Red Deer launches its annual campaign to raise funds to help veterans and other groups with military ties.

A back room known as the “poppy room” at the Legion on Bremner Avenue was a hum of activity Wednesday with volunteers and others picking up poppies and wreaths for delivery prior to “the blitz,” as poppy chairman Doug Ramsey calls it.

He and other volunteers Neil St. Denys, Ken Bateman and Dwayne Neudeck were surrounded by dozens of poppy trays and wreaths ready to go out.

Their mission is to distribute, with the help of others, about 100,000 poppies and dozens of wreaths.

About 20,000 poppies — worn to remember and honour of those who made the ultimate sacrifice — were readied to go to all local schools in Red Deer.

Students can get further involved by participating in a Legion poster contest.

The Legion raises between $70,000 and $90,000 locally through the poppy campaign, and the funds are only used to help veterans, serving military and their families. The campaign is run entirely by volunteers.

The money is spent on things like medical equipment such as wheelchairs, housing or care facilities, bursaries for descendants of veterans, and sponsoring youth and cadet programs.

“On Friday morning we start the blitz,” said Rumsey. Poppies will be available in stores and other businesses throughout the city.

Korean veterans are now in their 80s, and Second World War vets in their 90s. Many are at a stage where they are in nursing homes and can’t get around much. The Legion doesn’t see Afghanistan veterans much, but maybe that will change when they get older, Rumsey said.

This year’s Nov. 11 Remembrance Day ceremony will be held at CrossRoads Church because a new arena is currently under construction at the site of the old Downtown Arena. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Despite the slow economy, the Central Alberta Victim and Witness Support Society hopes to better last year’s fundraising efforts at the fifth annual Helping Hands Harvest Gala on Nov. 5.

Gloria Derksen, executive director of the society, said the slow economy has made it a difficult year for the group.

“We have really seen a decline in the amount of support that we’ve seen this year,” said Derksen.

“Community members are still supporting us, but we sure have seen a downturn because of our sad economic climate.”

Last year’s gala raised around $15,000, and the hope is to raise $20,000 this year.

The money raised is used for recruitment and retention of volunteer advocates.

“We provide services to the community, and we do that with grants, fundraisers and donations to our program. Our program is only 60 per cent government funded, so we need to raise funds elsewhere,” said Derksen. “We offer a 24-hour crisis response, so we have a large number of volunteers.”

Derksen added often the society uses the money to buy bus tickets for victims who need to get out of town, or help people find accommodations when the homeless shelters are full.

All services are free and confidential.

Derksen said the need for volunteers has been due in large part to the increase in crime in the area.

“Our program serves a very large geographical area. We cover the 2,000 square kilometres around Red Deer and every year our files are going up by major percentages, especially in our criminal code files. At the end of September, we had over 400 open files,” said Derksen.

The areas covered are: Blackfalds, Clive, Joffre, Springbrook, the Summer Village of Gull Lake, a large portion of Lacombe County, and a large portion of Red Deer County.

Tickets can be purchased at www.victimsupport. ca.

The gala takes place at the Black Knight Inn in Red Deer. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

Stormy summer slowed progress on multi-use trail project SECTION FROM 55TH (HWY 11) TO 32ND STREETS WELL RECEIVED

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A $5-million multi-use trail project on the east side of Red Deer ran into a bit of a snag this year, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

The project, which includes a unique “living wall” and is about half done along the future 20th Avenue, could have been completed this year however a wet and stormy summer slowed progress.

“It has been a very challenging year in terms of the weather,” said Wayne Gustafson, Engineering Services manager for the City of Red Deer.

But the good news is that the trail that was completed this year — from 55th (Hwy 11) to 32nd Streets — has been well received. People are already walk-

ing and cycling along the freshly laid three-metre wide asphalt trail.

Gustafson said the project will continue next year with the remainder of the trail loop and berm being built from 32nd to 19th Streets (along 20th Avenue), and then west to Vermont Avenue in Vanier Woods.

A tender has been issue for the work next season, and includes planting 520 trees and 680 shrubs along the trail that features the living wall.

The wall, which Gustafson called a pilot project, is comprised of large earth-filled bags. Grass and other plants will grow into the wall that doesn’t require regular maintenance such as cutting and trimming. The wall is now topped with a wire mesh fence so that people who might walk along the top of it won’t fall off.

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It’s the first time the city has built a living wall system but it has been used successfully elsewhere in Alberta. It doesn’t take as much land, and natural vegetation grows in it to help stabilize it. “So we’re quite excited to see how that works,” Gustafson said.

A lengthy row of older trees along trail route was removed last year. The new trees and shrubs will be planted in the spring, well ahead of when construction starts on the 20th Avenue, which is sometime in the future, depending on need and funding.

The landscaping will help alleviate some of the construction disturbance that will eventually occur, Gustafson said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Province pays tribute to first responders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The Alberta government is paying tribute to first responders who battled and dealt with the Fort McMurray wildfire.

The province is naming the bridge that crosses Highway 63, which goes through the town, as “Responders Way.�

The fire in May forced almost 90,000 people to flee the region and destroyed more than 1,900 structures.

When the first batch of residents were allowed back about a month later, first responders stood on the bridge over the highway to welcome them home.

Melissa Blake, mayor of the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes the city of Fort McMurray, says they are delighted with the tribute.

Premier Rachel Notley, who was in Fort McMurray on Wednesday to make the announcement, says people will think of what the first responders did every time they cross the bridge or drive under it. “First responders, during the Wood Buffalo fire, absolutely made the difference. They made the difference between safety and danger, they made the difference between chaos and order, and certainly, in many, many cases, they made the difference between life and death,� said Notley. “They dedicated themselves without thinking. All of you did, you just went out and you did your work, and you worked and you worked for hours and hours and days and days and I remember coming up here and seeing

people who hadn’t gone home for days, they were just working and working, even knowing that their home wasn’t even there.�

Notley made several stops in the community on Wednesday, including spending time at Westwood High School with students in grades 10, 11, and 12, all of whom had lost their home in the fire.

She also visited the very first home site to get a rebuild permit after the fire. The home is nearly completed.

Erin O’Neill, Wood Buffalo recovery branch lead, said in the Thickwood neighbourhood alone there were 178 homes lost. She said so far 41 rebuild permits have been issued in Wood Buffalo and across the region 229 rebuild permits have been issued.

Some Fort McMurray residents have expressed anger over red tape and the slow pace of insurance payouts.

Trial date set for woman accused of sex assault on son

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS RED DEER — A trial date has been set for a central Alberta woman accused of sexually assaulting her fouryear-old son.

The woman, who is 43, was arrested

in June at a licensed daycare in Red Deer where she worked.

The boy was placed in the care of other family members.

An investigation had been launched in May after authorities in Idaho seized explicit photos that were sent in email to a man they believe was plan-

ning to visit Red Deer.

The woman, who can’t be named to protect the boy’s identity, is charged with sexual assault, sexual exploitation and four counts related to child pornography.

Her trial is to begin in Red Deer provincial court on April 19.

Man charged after university threatened online

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A man has been charged following an online threat to a post-secondary school in Edmonton.

Local BRIEFS RCMP issue warning about extortion scam Red Deer RCMP are alerting the public about alleged extortion where men are being lured into compromising online encounters, then threatened with the images being posted online unless they pay money.

Two complaints of extortion by libel have occurred this month and in both cases men were approached online by females, RCMP said.

Neither victim was defrauded of money and in both cases the extortionist stopped communication when the victims stated that they were reporting the interaction to RCMP. RCMP suspect there may be even more instances of this type of extortion, but that victims may be too embarrassed to report it.

Unfortunately, these online profiles are usually fake and the extortionists live in different countries, making prosecution of them impossible, police said.

RCMP urge citizens to follow these tips for a safe online experience: � use the privacy settings on social media accounts � be cautious about whom you befriend online – ask yourself why they are approaching you and be wary of any push for inappropriate intimacy � don’t share personal details with a stranger who approaches you online – stick with first names and generalized locations � do not let anyone — friends or strangers — talk you into doing anything that you wouldn’t want your family, your employer or your friends to see � be aware that the person you’re chatting with online may be misrepresenting their age, sex, location and intentions � remember, your online actions do not disappear � the Internet and/or social media sites are not the issue; the way that scammers and predators use them is the problem Red Deer RCMP received their first report of extortion by libel in July 2013. For more information about online safety, visit http://www.rcmpgrc.gc.ca/cycp-cpcj/is-si/io-cl-eng.htm.

Tourism Red Deer recognized for Bring this Story Alive program Media relations with Tourism Red Deer are stronger then ever.

Tourism Red Deer received an Alto Award for Marketing Excellence (between $10,000 and $50,000) at the

Police officers were sent to the downtown and west-end campuses of MacEwan University on Tuesday after a threat was posted on a social media platform.

An investigation led police to a

home in Sherwood Park, just west of Edmonton, where a man was taken into custody.

John Derek Quest, who is 19, is charged with one count of uttering threats.

Alto Awards gala in Banff on Monday.

The organization was recognized for their Bring this Story Alive program.

It’s a media relations program where travel journalists from around Alberta are invited to experience tourism in the Red Deer region and write about it.

Sponsored by Travel Alberta, the Alto Awards recognize individuals and organizations committed to enriching Alberta’s tourism industry and Liz Taylor, executive director for Tourism Red Deer, said the program was designed for exactly that. “We simply couldn’t tell our story alone, so we made it a priority to create interest in our region and build strong alliances with Alberta journalists who are consummate story tellers,� said Taylor.

Debbie Olsen, media relations specialist for Tourism Red Deer, said before the program, there was little interest by journalists to visit the Red Deer region. “A couple of years ago, we decided to really step into media relations so we developed this program. Since then, the results have been great,� said Olsen.

Nine journalists covered Red Deer stories in 2015, up from six from in 2014, reaching 317,705 social media followers with 507,371 monthly page views. It contributed to a 32 per cent increase in web traffic on www. visitreddeer.com. “You invite a journalist and they write an article for a Calgary paper or they write an article for a blog that’s really popular and promote it on social media. That helps get our name out there. People start thinking ‘Hey, that sounds really cool.’ It’s the power of the press,� said Olsen.

All the Bring this Story Alive articles are available on its website.

The Central Alberta Tourism Alliance was also selected as an Alto Award finalist for the collaboration tourism and marketing partnership categories.

The alliance is a group of 11 Central Alberta communities that foster the growth of tourism and provide economic diversification for the area.

Winners will be announced at the Alberta’s Best Workplaces Conference and Awards in Edmonton today.

The City of Red Deer held the 2016

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Home schooling agency fires back at government

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A privately run Alberta home schooling agency at the centre of a million-dollar spending scandal says it has done nothing wrong.

The Wisdom Home Schooling Society calls government allegations of financial misdeeds “partial truths amounting to calumny� and says the society “has administered home schooling in an exemplary manner.�

The society is urging parents not to work with the province as it tries to find new arrangements for Wisdom’s 3,500 home-schooled students and 13 others who were in a classroom setting in Cold Lake. “Over the next few days the Wisdom Parent Advisory Council will communicate suggestions regarding your options,� read a news release the society issued Wednesday.

Wisdom’s administrator, Ken Noster, when reached by phone, declined to comment.

For two decades Wisdom was subcontracted by the publicly funded Trinity Christian School Association.

Trinity receives more than $5 million a year from taxpayers. That represents about one-third of all homeschooled students in Alberta.

On Tuesday, Education Minister David Eggen announced the province was immediately cancelling Trinity’s accreditation and funding for failing to adequately supervise Wisdom.

On Wednesday, he told reporters it was imperative to act and urged students to re-register with another board to get funding flowing again. “It was incumbent upon us to stop the flow of money to that particular organization,� he said.

Eggen was acting on the recommendation of an audit that reviewed Trinity and Wisdom finances going back three years. It found the senior ranks of both organizations were essentially made up of two families.

It said those families, whose names were not made public, received $2.8 million in compensation over the past three years.

It found that almost all the money given to Trinity was redirected to Wisdom, which, in turn committed multiple financial irregularities.

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Child-care costs holding back our economy GREG NEIMAN OPINION

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confluence of headlines outlining dangers to the Canadian economy have a common thread. We read about high levels of household debt, families under stress due to unemployment, stresses on schools dealing with children living with stress at home, and declining birth rates leading to worries about who is going to power the economic engine when seniors retire.

The common thread is that more than ever, it takes two full-time incomes just to keep the roof over our collective heads. Signing trade deals, building pipelines or pushing debt-funded infrastructure projects will not be able to fix this.

Not when taxes eat up half of a two-income family’s pay, and certainly not when paying for child care eats up another 22 per cent, as a recent OECD study has shown.

Why does the government need to tighten regulations on mortgages? Because young families can get in over their heads on their mortgages, should interest rates rise someday — which, eventually, they will.

I’ve lived through this. During a period of rapid, inflationary growth,

a generational surge occurred in the 1970s, with thousands of new families being formed and having kids.

We were giving birth to Generation X, and we wanted to raise our kids in a house. A starter home cost a bit more than double the median salary of a single worker, and was rising quickly. Today, that cost can reach — or in some cities, surpass —10 times the Canadian median income.

In the late ’70s, mortgage rates spiked to 20 per cent and more, and even though most mortgages totalled less than $75,000, young families found themselves in over their heads.

The numbers have changed, but that same potential appears likely today.

When our family started having children, we made it possible to survive on one income. That was because after paying taxes on a second income, plus child care costs, the second bread winner got very little bread for her labour. (Then as now, most stay-at-home parents were females.)

Today, I can’t see how everyday working families could possibly keep home and family on one regular income. The cost of a (new, more restricted) mortgage isn’t the only reason for this. It’s the cost of child care.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canadian families pay more for child care than just about anyone in the developed world — up to 22 per cent of family income. The Trudeau

government’s much-vaunted family support program barely touches those costs.

If a second working spouse essentially works for no take-home pay, what’s the incentive to work? If the desperate need for cash flow forces the need for a second income anyway, what value is that labour to the economy?

Not only is there a disincentive to work (and pay taxes), there is also a disincentive for educated families to have children. If populations cannot be sustained by natural growth, and if we cannot pass our culture on to a sufficiently large next generation, what changes can we expect in our national makeup?

Almost all other nations in the OECD solve this dilemma with generously subsidized child care — costing 10 per cent or less of family income in many countries.

If two incomes are required for a Canadian family today, and if a nation wants to collect the benefits of educating women into well-trained career paths, it makes sense to subsidize quality child care for them.

Would we rather tell women not to bother getting a good education because their labour will only be eaten up by student debt, taxes and child care costs? Would we rather see families default on mortgages in large numbers, or see the costs of our own homes plummet as fewer and fewer young families can afford to buy a home?

Would we rather signal to young people that having children is too much of a burden? Would we rather rely on immigration alone for a stable population?

It seems the cheapest alternative is the one chosen by almost all other developed economies: nationally-subsidized child care.

We’re always told that our people are our greatest resource. But in Canada, half of our family-producing population seems only to be a resource for governments, banks and daycare operators.

In my retirement, I’ve become a grandparent day home operator. It’s a lot of work for the money (yes, I’m being paid). But the pay is substantially less than what regular daycare for three children would cost.

Not every young working family has that alternative available. And I can’t see how our federal government believes its new national support plan for young families fills any gap at all.

That unfilled gap — as much as the lack of a new pipeline, or a trade deal with Europe or infrastructure projects that never seem to materialize (though we pay for the debt with our taxes) — is what is holding back growth in our economy.

We’re not making best use of our best resource: our young people.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor.

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AIDS situation is far from over GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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our years ago optimism was high that AIDS was in retreat, and could ultimately be eradicated. Back then the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) was boldly predicting “the end of AIDS by 2030.” Nobody is feeling that optimistic now.

New HIV infections, after dropping steadily for the 10 years to 2005, more or less stabilized at two million a year in the past decade, and the annual death toll from AIDS has also stabilized, at about 1.5 million a year.

But the future looks grimmer than the present.

Two-thirds of all HIV-positive people (24 out of 36 million) are in Africa, and an even higher proportion of the AIDS deaths happen there. If it were not for Africa, the predictions of four years ago would still sound plausible. So what’s wrong with Africa? Two

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price they charged elsewhere. Many HIV-positive Africans could not even afford that amount, but Western governments and private foundations also began providing major funding for anti-HIV programmes in Africa: $8.6 billion in 2014. The continent’s death rate from AIDS went into a temporary steep decline, but it is now heading back up for a number of reasons. The main one is that resistance to the standard mix of drugs has grown into a major problem.

The second-line treatment, using newer drugs that are still available at the “African discount,” costs $300 per person per year – and resistance is also apparent in 30 per cent of those cases. The third-line or “salvage” treatment costs $1,900 a year even in Africa.

The governments can’t afford it, and very few Africans have medical insurance.

Drug resistance has been growing in the developed world too, of course, but the solution there is to move HIV-positive people onto newer combinations of drugs that are far more expensive. African governments will probably have to wage another long diplomatic and media battle to access generic or cut-rate versions of the best

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new drugs. In the meantime, a great many people will die. And this is happening just as the amount of funding from Western sources for anti-HIV programmes in Africa has gone into decline: donations last year were down by almost one billion dollars.

The other specific reason for sub-Saharan Africa’s much higher rate of HIV infections is “cultural”. What that means, in plain English, is that sexual traditions are different there: pre-marital and extra-marital sex is commonplace.

Moreover, older men often exploit their relative wealth and power to have unprotected sex with many young women and girls.

The situation in sub-Saharan Africa is almost bound to get worse, not better, because the 15-24 age group, the most likely to become infected, is growing explosively fast. They number about 200 million now, but that will double to 400 million by 2040.

Africa has long been the world capital of HIV and AIDS, and it will remain so for the foreseeable future.

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BRIEFS Separate drug busts yield big fentanyl haul LETHBRIDGE — Hundreds of fentanyl pills have been seized and five people, including an alleged gang member, are facing charges after separate drug busts in southern Alberta.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team says 777 pills were found over the last two weeks as part of an effort to limit the supply of fentanyl hitting streets in Lethbridge.

“It’s quite possible that any one of these pills are a deadly pill,” Staff Sgt. Rod Klassen said Wednesday. “We’ve possibly saved some lives in that case and the more we can do this, the better off our communities will be.”

Klassen said each pill could have sold for $40 in Lethbridge and about $60 on the nearby Blood reserve.

Investigators say that team members seized 193 pills, cocaine and a loaded handgun from two homes and two vehicles in Lethbridge on Oct. 13.

Alleged Mad Cowz gang member Corey Amyotte,

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GOLLER: Cardiac treatment unavailable in Red Deer This life-saving cardiac treatment is not available at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, but Goller strongly believes it should be.

During follow-up visits to the local hospital, she met many other heart patients who are waiting in intensive care, sometimes for two to three days, to get transferred to Calgary or Edmonton for the procedure.

“I’ve watched as they’ve sat and waited,” she said, “and I’ve wondered how much money was being wasted transferring them to Edmonton or Calgary,” instead of offering the life-saving treatment here.

Whether Central Region gets a cardiac catheterization lab is expected to be included in an Alberta Health Services Review of provincial cardiac care needs.

Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman stated earlier this week it’s going to take time to complete this review. Local doctors were given a three-to-five year time-frame about a year and a half ago.

Goller feels it’s unfair that Central Albertans “are being put on the back burner,” when time is of the essence for heart attack patients. She learned the best recovery results are when the stent procedure is done within three hours, otherwise organ damage can occur.

Goller remembers the procedure being painless and relatively non-invasive. She recalled various scanners rotating around her as the catheterization was done. The medical workers “needed to see what they were doing, and how my heart was doing …”

A stent was inserted into a vein in her arm and guided, through camera imagery, to her heart. The stent, which opened up blockages with a balloon, will remain in her chest for life.

The local woman, who’s off from her jobs at Superstore and as an Advocate carrier as she recovers, is on blood thinners and has to go to follow-up appointments.

But she’s very grateful to the team at Foothills Hospital for keeping her alive. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

BUDGET: Deadline to submit feedback Nov. 16 He said the connector will have a number of links into the city and a big piece of one link is the 67th Street/30th Avenue roundabout, which is already complete, as well as servicing in embankments along the alignment.

While roads in the east and northeast were postponed, the first phase of development of the area south of Red Deer College was to move ahead and will join up to the new QEII/Gaetz Avenue interchange.

“That area has a fair amount of boxed commercial development and it also has residential as you move up the slope and around the wooded area.”

Curtis said it will significantly expand the city’s park system. The natural area has been acquired by the city based on a plan adopted by council in 2007.

He said slower development in the city means less funding which in part contributed to reductions to the capital budget. The city can’t put more tax dollars into projects than currently allocated because it would affect the operational budget and tax rates.

“We’ve been conservative in respecting that need of our community,” Curtis said.

Mayor Tara Veer said this is the first full year government is feeling the effects of the recession.

“I think that this budget moves this community forward while adjusting to the economic reality that we’re navigating through,” Veer said.

“There’s an expectation on council, and the community’s part, that we move forward on looking after our key infrastructure, moving forward in terms of preparing for future growth and also building quality of life in Red Deer. But we need to do that in a way that’s responsive to the provincial economy.”

She said one of government’s primary roles during economic recession is to bring stability to the local economy. Without the games, the city would not be seeing the construction of the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre at RDC, runway extension at Red Deer Airport, the QEII interchange, and other infrastructure upgrades in the community.

“When you look at the Canada Winter Games in and of itself and the economic spinoff that’s had for us, it’s brought stability for us at an economic time when we needed it the most,” Veer said.

Curtis said a lot of the funding for projects related to the Winter Games came through generous contributions and from the provincial and the federal governments.

“Those facilities all under construction generate jobs in this community, they generate activity, and they generate excitement,” Curtis said.

Red Deerians can review the budget and offer feedback to council. Feedback can be provided by e-mail to legislativeservices@reddeer.ca or in writing at City Hall., Collicutt Centre, Recreation Centre, Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch, Timberlands Branch and G.H. Dawe Branch.

Copies of the budget are available at those locations or online at www.reddeer.ca/budget.

29, and associates Ali Zalfo and Jerry Bull, were arrested on 32 charges relating to drugs and firearms.

Last Thursday, officers seized 584 fentanyl pills and arrested two suspects during a vehicle stop in Aldersyde, about 40 kilometres south of Calgary.

William Hatch, 33, and Awet Abraha, 28, were arrested and face six drug-related charges.

Police charge man with manslaughter in fentanyl overdose death EDMONTON — The Edmonton Police Service has charged a man with manslaughter in the death of man from a fentanyl overdose.

Police say the body of Szymon Kalich was found in a home in January.

Autopsy results concluded that Kalich died from an overdose of the drug, which experts say can be up to 100 times more powerful than morphine.

Police say Jordan Yarmey is accused of supplying the drug to Kalich and is to appear in court on the manslaughter charge Thursday.

Earlier this year a man in southern Alberta was charged with manslaughter in the fentanyl overdose deaths of a couple in Standoff on the Blood reserve.

Prosecutor in Travis Vader murder case appointed to provincial court EDMONTON — The Alberta government has appointed a former Crown prosecutor in the Travis Vader murder case as a provincial court judge.

PROJECT LIST Red Deer’s 2017 proposed $106-million capital budget includes projects for 2017 and multi-year projects that would start in 2017.

Funding sources are as follows: 48 per cent from reserves, 23 per cent from grants, 20 per cent debt, eight per cent from developer/customer contributions, and one per cent from operating.

Major capital projects proposed for 2017 amount to $38 million. They include $3.4 million for fleet replacement vehicles, $7.5 million for pavement rehabilitation and $7.2 million for roadway reconstruction, $8.1 million for the North Red Deer Regional Water Services Commission supply line, and $4.8 million for Ross Street from 20th to 10th Avenue.

Other projects among those to be considered The deadline to submit feedback is 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 16. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

RAID: Three residences targeted on Oct. 12 Cote died from stab wounds he suffered in a motel parking lot near Gateway Boulevard and 45th Avenue in the early morning hours on Dec. 18, 2013.

Three residences in Sylvan Lake and the Vanier Woods home were raided by police on Oct. 12 as part of a three-month drug investigation.

A sub-compact machine gun was among seven weapons seized by RCMP in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake drug raids.

Officers seized 68 grams of cocaine, various pills, drug chemicals and other drug paraphernalia.

An arsenal of other weapons were seized including: two SKS rifles, two shotguns, a sawed-off rifle,

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Michelle Doyle was chief Crown prosecutor in Edmonton when she stayed first-degree murder charges against Vader in 2014 after discovering Mounties failed to disclose some evidence to lawyers.

Vader was accused of killing seniors Lyle and Marie McCann, who vanished after setting out on a trip in their motorhome in 2010.

The high-profile case resumed several months later when the Crown reactivated the murder charges.

Vader was convicted last month of second-degree murder, although the case is now caught up in a mistrial application.

Other appointments to the bench include Edmonton defence lawyer D’Arcy DePoe and Grande Prairie prosecutor Jasmine Sihra.

More charges in multiple break and enters, thefts across Prairies BROADVIEW, Sask. — An Alberta man is facing 30 additional charges for break and enters and theft across Saskatchewan and Manitoba dating back more than a year.

Joseph Ronald Palmer, who is 52, is accused of multiple break-ins at businesses and camper trailers across Saskatchewan.

Police say their investigation involved 21 Saskatchewan RCMP detachments and went as far as Souris, Minnedosa and Neepawa in Manitoba.

Palmer was arrested in Moosomin, Sask., in August after someone broke into a business.

include: ● $2.05 million for the construction of Riverwalk Phase 2 and plaza to connect the trail network from Taylor Drive to Alexander Way, the Civic Plaza and West Park for Riverlands redevelopment. ● $125,000 to replace the existing wheelchair ramp on the west side of City Hall, along with $83,000 in 2018 for barrier-free washrooms on City Hall’s first floor. ● $220,000 for a feasibility study, location assessment, business case and concept design for a Culture Centre/Concert Hall.

Major projects in the $1.27-billion 2018-2026 capital plan include $88 million for a multi-use aquatic centre, $17 million for a bridge from Riverlands to Bower Ponds, $34 million for arena expansion, arena twinning, expanded parking and spray park at G.H. Dawe Community Centre. loaded handgun, body armour and ammunition.

Police are working with the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team, which is a partnership of police forces to counter the illegal movement of firearms across the country.

The amount of drugs seized was only a small indication of the extent of the drug trafficking ring, police believe.

“We have reason to believe that this group of individuals was involved for trafficking a significantly (larger) amount of drugs,” he said.

Staff Sgt. Andrew Shepherd, detachment commander of Sylvan Lake RCMP, said the array of weapons “demonstrates the severity of the criminal activity we’re dealing with.”

Shepherd said working with ALERT allows police to tackle crime on a regional basis and to share intelligence effectively.

ALERT (Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams) was set up by the province to bring together law enforcement agencies to tackle the most serious crimes and organized crime. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Rebels own Wheat Kings

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Red Deer 5 Brandon 2 Following a win last Saturday Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was worried that his team was beginning to take the little things for granted.

That certainly wasn’t the case Wednesday.

The players were obviously listening to what Sutter was preaching as the Rebels turned in a solid performance in downing the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-2 in Western Hockey League play before 4,025 fans at the Centrium.

“I thought we played pretty well, the only time we got ourselves in trouble we did it to ourselves with a couple of bad penalties in the third period, which allowed them to get a couple of goals,” said Sutter.

“Overall five-on-five and our power play was good tonight. We changed a couple of things with it (power play) after the first period and it seemed to work better.”

The Rebels scored twice with the man advantage on five opportunities.

From the outset the game belonged to the home team as they peppered Brandon goaltender Logan Thompson with 56 shots.

“With 50 plus shots on their net, we dominated a lot of the zone time, which certainly was a good sign,” said Sutter.

However, it wasn’t until 9:32 of the second period that the Rebels managed to beat Thompson when Brandon Hagel shovelled in a rebound.

“It was a greasy goal, but it counts and it was a good one to get … it got the boys going and after that we were really good,” said Hagel.

“The first period we had a lot of shots (19) but didn’t generate a whole lot of second opportunities,” added Sutter. “That happens when you’re shooting with no one within 10 or 15 feet of the net. It made the game easy for their goaltender.

“But the second period we started doing what we wanted to do and Hages’ goal was a big one in that it showed if we get a presence in front and get those second and third opportunities we will capitalize on them.”

Grayson Pawlenchuk took a crossice pass from the game’s first star Michael Spacek and rifled a quick shot high over the sprawling Thompson to make it 2-0 at 15:48. Jared Freadrich scored his first as a Rebel, on the power play at 19:50, once again on a crossice pass from Evan Polei.

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Brandon Hagel, of the Red Deer Rebels, celebrates the first goal of the night early in the second period.

Edmonton Oilers clinch fourth-consecutive win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 4 Capitals 1 EDMONTON — Benoit Pouliot had a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oilers stretched their winning streak to four games with a 4-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday.

Patrick Maroon and Milan Lucic also scored for the Oilers (6-1-0), who have won four out of five games at Rogers Place, their new downtown arena.

Alex Ovechkin replied for the Capitals (3-2-1), who lost their second game in a row in regulation time — something that did not happen all of last season.

The chances were fairly even in the scoreless first period, with the Capitals getting 11 shots on Oilers goalie Cam Talbot and Edmonton directing 10 shots on Washington starter Braden Holtby.

Edmonton was badly outplayed to start the second period, but ended up taking the game’s first lead just over seven minutes in as Ryan Nugent-Hopkins intercepted a pass, danced around defender Dmitry Orlov and put a long shot on net that Pouliot redirected into the Washington net.

The Oilers made it 2-0 with 2:52 remaining in the second, as Pouliot

scored his third of the season by banking a shot off of Holtby from behind the Washington net.

Things got a beat heated late in the period as Talbot had enough of T.J. Oshie hitting him with his stick in front on a power-play scramble and ended up unleashing a couple punches of his own that led to a roughing minor.

Washington cut into the lead just nine seconds into the third as Ovechkin slid a puck under Talbot, scoring in his fourth consecutive game.

Edmonton shook that goal off quickly, though, as Connor McDavid set up Jesse Puljujarvi for a glorious opportunity and Maroon came in to collect the goal off of the rebound.

The Oilers got some insurance midway through the third as Lucic tipped an Andrej Sekera power-play point shot into the net.

Notes: It was the first of two meetings this season between the Capitals and Oilers. The next time the teams meet is on February 24th in Washington… Edmonton’s 5-1-0 record coming into the game was it’s best start since the 1985-1986 season… Edmonton has had the NHL’s first star of the week for the first two weeks of the season, as Talbot followed McDavid in winning the award on Monday.

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Washington Capitals’ goalie Braden Holtby (70) looks on as Edmonton Oilers’ Oscar Klefbom (77), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) and Benoit Pouliot (67) celebrate a goal during second-period NHL action in Edmonton on Wednesday.

Cubs even the series with Indians

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Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mike Montgomery reacts after striking out Cleveland Indians’ Carlos Santana during the seventh inning of Game 2 of the Major League Baseball World Series Wednesday, in Cleveland.

Cubs 5 Indians 1 CLEVELAND — Jake Arrieta made a teasing run at history, Kyle Schwarber drove in two runs and the Chicago Cubs brushed off a shutout to even the World Series with their first Fall Classic win in 71 years, 5-1 over the Cleveland Indians in Game 2 on Wednesday night.

Arrieta carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning, briefly invoking Don Larsen’s name, before the Indians touched him for two hits and a run. However, the right-hander helped give Chicago just what it needed — a split at Progressive Field — before the Cubbies return to their Wrigley Field den for the next three games starting Friday night.

The Cubs hadn’t won in the Series since beating Detroit 8-7 in 1945 to force Game 7.

The free-swinging Schwarber, who made it back for Chicago’s long-awaited Series return after missing most of the season with an injured left knee, hit an RBI single in the third off Cleveland’s Trevor Bauer and had another in the Cubs’ three-run fifth — highlighted by Ben Zobrist’s run-scoring triple.

Even the presence of star LeBron James and the NBA champion Cavaliers, sporting their new rings, couldn’t stop the Indians from losing for the first time in six home games this post-season.

And Cleveland manager Terry Francona’s magical touch in October finally fizzled as he dropped to 9-1 in Series games.

With rain in the forecast, Major League Baseball moved the first pitch up an hour in hopes of avoiding delays or a postponement.

It turned out to be a good call as the game went

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Arrieta and the Cubs provided the only storm.

The bearded 30-year-old coasted through five innings without allowing a hit, the first pitcher to get that deep in a Series game with a no-hitter since David Cone of the New York Yankees in 1998.

For a brief period, Arrieta looked as if he might challenge Larsen’s gem — a perfect game — in 1956 before Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis, a diehard Cubs fan as a kid, doubled with one out in the sixth.

Before that, Cleveland hitters had a couple good swings, and drew three walks, but couldn’t mount a real threat. Arrieta has two career no-hitters, in fact, including the only one in the majors this year.

Cubs lefty Mike Montgomery replaced Arrieta and worked two scoreless innings before Aroldis Chapman came in and unleashed his 103 mph heat while getting the last four outs.

The teams will have an off day before the series resumes with Game 3 at Wrigley, which will host its first Series game since Oct. 6, 1945, when tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave with his pet goat, Murphy, and a curse was born.

Josh Tomlin will start for the Indians, who will lose the designated hitter in the NL ballpark, against Kyle Hendricks.

Schwarber might also wind up on the bench after two days as the DH. With a gametime temperature of 43, the weather was more fitting for the Browns and Bears to bang heads than the boys of summer.

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Calgary Stampeders chasing CFL history

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bo Levi Mitchell and the Calgary Stampeders will chase CFL history this weekend.

Calgary (15-1-1) visits the Montreal Alouettes on Sunday afternoon to conclude its regular season. A win would give the Stampeders the best regular-season record in CFL history, slightly better than the 162 mark the Edmonton Eskimos established in 1989.

But that year, Edmonton lost to eventual Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan in the West Division playoffs. Mitchell and his teammates have said the regular-season accomplishments mean nothing unless Calgary can cap the 2016 campaign hoisting the Grey Cup next month at BMO Field.

Calgary hasn’t lost since suffering a 20-18 road defeat to the B.C. Lions on June 25. The Stampeders are riding a 16-game unbeaten streak and have won 14 straight since a 26-26 tie with Ottawa on July 8.

Mitchell has been a big part of Calgary’s success.

He not only leads the CFL in passing with 5,385 yards but is also tops in TD strikes (32) as the Stampeders’ offence is scoring a league-best average of 34 points per game.

Mitchell, the favourite for the CFL’s outstanding player award, is more than just a one-man show.

Calgary also boasts the league’s rushing leader in Jerome Messam (1,162 yards, 5.8-yard average and a leading candidate for the top Canadian award) and the Stampeders’ offensive line has allowed a leaguelow 18 sacks this season.

Calgary has already cemented top spot in the West but coach Dave Dickenson — whose 15 wins is a CFL single-season record for a rookie head coach — has incentive to go deep with his starters. The Stampeders not only have a bye next week but will watch the opening week of the CFL playoffs having already clinched home-field advantage for the West Division final.

Montreal (5-11) will miss the CFL playoffs but is coming off a 19-14 win over Saskatchewan as Vernon Adams Jr. was 11-of-24 passing for 177 yards and a TD in his CFL debut. But Calgary’s defence is the league’s stingiest, allowing just 20.7 points per game.

And the Stampeders are very adept at making life difficult for quarterbacks, having registered a CFL-high 49 sacks. What’s more, Montreal’s offence is averaging just 20.9 points per game, second only to Saskatchewan (20.4) and a league-low 299.1 net offensive yards.

Pick — Calgary.

Edmonton Eskimos versus Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Friday night) Zach Collaros will start for Hamilton (7-9) after missing two games with a head injury. The Ticats clinched a home playoff game with last week’s 3936 overtime win over Ottawa which also kept their hopes to finish first in the East Division alive. Edmonton (8-8) has clinched a playoff berth and could

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Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell fires a pass against the Toronto Argonauts during first-half action in Toronto. Mitchell and the Stampeders will chase CFL history this weekend. Calgary (15-1-1) visits the Montreal Alouettes on Sunday afternoon to conclude its regular season. be visiting Tim Hortons Field next month as the West Division crossover opponent. The Eskimos trail both B.C. and Winnipeg by four points with two games remaining and are 3-3 versus Eastern opponents while the Ticats are 2-7 against Western teams.

Pick — Edmonton.

Ottawa Redblacks versus Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Saturday afternoon) A huge test for Ottawa (7-8-1) considering it’s just 2-5-1 versus West Division rivals. The Redblacks had a chance to clinch first in the East last weekend but lost in overtime to Hamilton. Quarterback Henry Burris was 31-of-41 passing for 418 yards with three TDs and two interceptions. Winnipeg (10-6) comes off the bye week tied with B.C. (10-6) for second in the West Division. Matt Nichols threw for 301 yards and a TD in a 35-32 win over the Lions on Oct. 14, the Bombers’ second straight over their conference

rivals.

Pick — Winnipeg.

B.C. Lions versus Saskatchewan Roughriders (Saturday night) After dropping two straight to Winnipeg, B.C. (10-6) beat Edmonton 32-25 last week to move into a second-place tie in the West Division with the Blue Bombers. Quarterback Jonathon Jennings threw for 272 yards and two TDs to Manny Arceneaux, who finished with eight catches for 132 yards. Running back Jeremiah Johnson also rushed for 108 yards.

Saskatchewan (5-11) had its four-game win streak halted last weekend by Montreal as quarterback Darian Durant finished 23-of-35 passing for 188 yards and no TDs. Pick — B.C. Last week: 1-3.

Overall: 41-31-1.

Tough out of the gate for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs ONE OF SIX TEAMS INVOLVED IN THE MIDGET AAA DIVISION OF THE NEW ALBERTA FEMALE HOCKEY LEAGUE

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It’s been a tough start to the season for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs.

But that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The Chiefs. who are 1-7-0, are one of six teams involved in the midget AAA division of the newly formed Alberta Female Hockey League, plus they had a coaching change in September.

Former RDC Queens head coach Bob Rutz took over control of the team when Trevor Thomas stepped aside.

“It’s a change with a new coach coming in,” said Rutz. “We really haven’t have time to build the structure and systems yet. Some things are different than the previous coaches. I told them that where we are now won’t be where we will be in March. The ceiling is high for these girls.”

The league also consists of the St. Albert Slash, Edmonton Pandas, Rocky Mountain Raiders, Lloydminster Steelers and Calgary Fire along with the Chiefs.

“They cut the league down from nine teams and opened the borders so you can recruit from any association as long as the player gets her release,” explained Rutz. ”It makes for a competitive league with teams deeper and more skilled. The third and fourth lines, for example, will be that much better.”

CFL BRIEFS Former CFL coach of the year Vic Rapp dies at age 80 Former CFL coach of the year Vic Rapp has died.

He was 80.

The Edmonton Eskimos and B.C. Lions both announced Rapp’s death in releases on Wednesday.

Rapp began his CFL coaching career in Edmonton, where he coached five seasons from 1972 to 1976. He was a member of Ray Jauch’s coaching staff and helped lead the Eskimos to the 1975 Grey Cup Championship victory.

Rapp went on to become the head coach of the Lions from 1977 to 1982, recording a 53-39-4 record.

He won the Annis Stukus Trophy in 1977 as the CFL’s Coach of the Year.

He was inducted onto the Lions’ Wall of Fame in 2010.

Rapp coached in the NFL from 1983 to 2000 with the Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears and Arizona Cardinals.

Arceneaux, Chick and Messam take CFL top performers of the week honours TORONTO — B.C. Lions receiver Emmanuel Arceneaux, Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive end John Chick and Calgary Stampeders running back Jerome Messam were named CFL top performers of the week on Tuesday.

Arceneaux scored two touchdowns and caught eight passes for 132 yards in the Lions’ 32-25 victory over the Edmonton Eskimos last week.

Chick had two sacks, five defensive tackles and forced a fumble in Hamilton’s 39-36 overtime win over the Ottawa Redblacks.

Messam rushed for 111 yards on 10 carries in Calgary’s 31-13 victory over the Toronto Argonauts.

Red Deer Minor Hockey general manager Dallas Gaume agrees.

“It’ll definitely strengthen the league, with the majority of the top midget players from the province in the league, plus part of the reason was to cut down on teams losing players to academy teams.”

“It also gives the league more exposure and allows university coaches to watch the league and see most of the top players,” said Rutz, who admitted Red Deer is in tough when it comes to recruiting.

“We’re in the middle and so have to keep all our top players at home and will have to count on girls coming in from a number of areas.”

The Chiefs will find billets for out-of-town players. They’re also associated with Notre Dame High School and its hockey academy.

“That’s a good setup as it gives the girls more ice time and training,” said Gaume.

Rutz has 11 players back from last year’s team, including defencemen Gina Sosnowski, Tyra Coutts, Caleigh Meraw and Emma Thomas.

Back up front are Paige Grenier, Carley Wlad, Skylar Colonna, Brandy Steinman, Jordyn Burgar, Emily McLennan and Kaitlan Linnel.

Both goaltenders are new with Camille Scherger coming in from Lloydminster and Chantelle Sandquist from Red Deer.

The Chiefs added four players from Northern Alberta in forwards Celine Chailler of Grande Prairie and Camryn Wallan of Beaverlodge and defencemen

Jenna Himer from Peace River and Brynn O’Dwyer from Whitecourt.

Forward Beth Taylor is from New Norway with forwards Kaley Mueller from Red Deer and Faith Gette from Innisfail.

“What it’s done is turn the league into a league like college where you have to recruit players,” said Rutz.

The AFHL also added midget elite and bantam elite leagues. Both have 12 teams with Red Deer in the six-team South Division in both.

“The midget league is like a AA program for girls who have aspirations to make AAA and on their way up,” said Rutz. “The bantam league is for the top players in bantam and a good building block.”

Olds also has a team in the bantam league.

The Sutter Fund midget elite team has a 4-0-0 record to start the season with the bantam Chiefs at 1-2-0.

The midget AAA Chiefs play out of the Collicutt Centre and play a pair of games at home this weekend — Saturday at 5 p.m. against Lloydminster and Sunday at 5 p.m. against the Rocky Mountain Raiders.

The bantam team is also home for a doubleheader against Lethbridge — Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in Penhold and Sunday at 4:15 p.m. at Kin City.

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

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Lindsay Thurber Raiders confident they’ll reach volleyball provincials

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF The Lindsay Thurber Raiders are two games into the Central Alberta High School volleyball regular season and the senior boys and girls teams like their chances of reaching provincials.

The boys beat the Lacombe Rams in three straight sets 25-11, 25-16, 25-15 on Tuesday, improving to 2-0 on the regular season.

“The goal is always to be on top at the end of the season,” said head coach Terrence McMullen.

“Right now we’re in the conversation, but I don’t know if we’re in that ‘team to beat’ talk. I think we are more of a ‘how we play will determine where we end up’ kind of team, but I do think we are a top eight team in the province.”

McMullen said he has a very strong team to work with this season and will rely heavily on offence.

“Right now, I think we are one of the better offensive teams,” he said.

“We are tough if we can be consistent with our serve. We can be very aggressive, and that puts opponents at a disadvantage. As a team, we also attack very well.”

As good as the offence can be, McMullen said making sure the team is constantly doing the little things right will be the key to the team’s success.

With only four returning players from last season, McMullen said the inexperience is leading to inconsistency.

“It’s about learning to play at a high level for a longer period of time and maintaining it,” said McMullen. “A lot of that comes with competing each day in practice and coming to games with the attitude of it doesn’t matter who we are playing.”

The boys placed second in zone championships last year, but failed to make the provincials.

After dropping their first regular season game to the Notre Dame Cougars on Oct. 18, the girls rebounded with a win over the Lacombe Rams 25-9, 2513, 25-16 on Tuesday to push their record to 1-1.

“Our goal is always to be the best we can be. The goal this year is to push to be the best team in Central Alberta.

“I believe that we can compete on a provincial level and I believe our team is capable of huge success,” said head coach Kirsten Dezutter.

The team has eight returning players with a good mix of youth and experience, said Dezutter.

“We always look to our veterans, but the new kids have really rounded out the roster quite well. We are really pleased with our first year players.

“They are doing really well and we’re excited about the contributions they are making,” said Dezutter.

Dezutter said because the team is smaller than most teams in the province, it plays with more patience.

“We’re all about defence and passing. Because of our size, we know we have to defend well and pass well.

“We try to make as few mistakes as possible.

When we have offensive opportunities, we go for it,” said Dezutter.

Getting the entire team involved is something Dezutter said is important.

The team finished first in zone championships last year and placed fourth at provincials.

Lindsay Thurber host the provincials this year from Nov. 24-26 in Red Deer.

Next up for the two teams are games against Hunting Hills on Nov. 1. The girls play at 6 p.m. followed by the boys. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

SPORTS

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016

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Raptors win season opener against Pistons

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 109 Detroit 91 TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan picked up exactly where he left off last season.

The Raptors all-star scored 21 of his 40 points in a spectacular third quarter to propel Toronto to a 109-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the team’s season opener on Wednesday.

DeRozan broke Vince Carter’s record for an opening-night performance (39 points) set in 2003.

Jonas Valanciunas added a career-high 32 points and 11 rebounds while Kyle Lowry finished with 10 points and eight assists.

Tobias Harris had 22 to top the Pistons.

Almost five months to the day since the Raptors’ thrilling and historic playoff run came to an end — ousted in six games by eventual NBA champion Cleveland in the Eastern Conference final — expectations are high.

DeRozan, who signed a five year deal worth US$139 million in the off-season, famously saying “I am Toronto,” took the mic before tipoff, telling the crowd “I want to thank you, the best fans in the world. Hope you enjoy the season.”

Then the 27-year-old, starting a record eighth straight season-opener for Toronto, went to work.

DeRozan and Valanciunas combined for 25 points in the first quarter as the Raptors roared back from a seven-point deficit to take a 33-23 lead into the second.

Toronto took a 58-46 advantage into the dressing room at halftime, and then DeRozan’s outstanding third quarter, which included a rim-rattling dunk, sent the Raptors into the fourth with an 86-71 lead.

Valanciunas also came to play. He flattened Andre Drummond with an errant elbow to the face in the first quarter, then brought the capacity Air Canada Centre crowd that included Dalton Pompey of the Toronto Blue Jays to its feet with a massive second-quarter dunk, shoving his way past Boban Marjanovic to the hoop.

Both DeRozan and Valanciunas were ushered off the floor with standing ovations in the fourth quar-

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Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) passes the ball as Detroit Pistons centre Andre Drummond (0) defends during second-half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Wednesday. ter.

Cameroon forward Pascal Siakam became the first rookie to start for Toronto since Valanciunas in 2012, and didn’t look out of place, playing 9:15 before coach Dwane Casey subbed him off.

Casey, who coached his sixth consecutive season-opener with Toronto, said he still gets nervous for Game 1.

“When I get nervous and get upset and get a little cued Cleveland’s rotation in the post-season, winning both starts.

CUBS: Came out thumping REBELS: Riley Lamb made a pair of excellent saves against Cleveland The Cubs were the ones who came up thumping after being blanked 6-0 in Game 1 by Corey Kluber and Cleveland’s shut-down bullpen.

Zobrist’s one-out triple triggered the fifth as the Cubs opened a 5-0 lead, not that Arrieta needed it.

After Anthony Rizzo walked following a 10-pitch at-bat, Zobrist laced a ball off Zach McAllister that was going to be a double until right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall slipped and fell. Rizzo was waved around and Zobrist hustled into third.

Schwarber followed with his second RBI and reliever Bryan Shawn later walked No. 9 hitter Addison Russell with the bases loaded.

Unlike his start in Toronto on Oct. 17, when his stitched cut opened up and Bauer was forced to make a bloody departure in the first inning, his finger held up fine.

The Cubs, though, put a few nicks in him in 3 2/3 innings.

The drone accident has brought attention to the quirky Bauer, and one Chicago fan tried to rattle the right-hander by sending a smaller version of the remote-controlled, flying object that cut him.

Bauer posted a photo of it on Twitter, saying “I see the Cubs fans love me! How nice of them to send me a gift!”

The Cubs, who were off balance from the start against Kluber, scored their first run in a Series game since ‘45 in the first on Rizzo’s RBI double.

Bauer needed 51 pitches to get through two innings, and he was one strike from getting out of the third unscathed when Chicago turned a walk and to singles into a 2-0 lead.

UP NEXT Cubs: Hendricks is coming off his brilliant performance in Game 5 of the NLCS when he pitched twohit ball for seven innings as the Cubs clinched their first pennant in 71 years.

The right-hander went 16-8 during the regular season with a league-leading 2.13 ERA. Indians: It will be an emotional night for Tomlin, who will pitch on 12 day’s rest with his ailing father, Jerry, in attendance.

The elder Tomlin became stricken with a spinal condition in August, when Tomlin was struggling on the mound.

The right-hander more than recovered and res-

BRIEFS Cooke leads Kingsmen past the Wolf Pack The Kingsmen got 22 points from Keegan Cooke and 19 from Myles Tyrell in downing the Wolf Pack 10547 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Tuesday.

Robert McFarlane had 11 points in a losing cause.

Aidan Gehring wins male athlete honours for October Fifteen-year-old Aidan Gehring has been selected as the Alberta Sport Development Centre — Central male athlete of the month for October.

The Red Deer resident is a competitive baseball player, who attends Hunting Hills High School and is enrolled in the Sports Excellence Program. He travels to St. Albert several times a week to train with the Prospects Baseball Academy.

Gehring is primarily a catcher but plays some outfield and pitches.

Gehring competed in the Alberta Summer Games in Leduc, helping Zone 4 to a fourth-place finish. He was also selected to the Alberta Baseball Council’s U16 Development Team and trained in Calgary during the summer.

Aidan hopes to receive a baseball scholarship to the States after high

Senators Smith eager to show off offensive flair

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Zack Smith believed he was capable of more, but just needed an opportunity to prove it.

Last season the Ottawa Senators forward turned heads when he posted career numbers with 25 goals and 36 points. Suddenly the player known for his defensive abilities was showing an offensive flair, and this season he’s determined to prove it wasn’t an anomaly.

“I’ve always been a late bloomer in everything I’ve done so I’m 28 now and I don’t feel I’ve been playing near my best hockey yet so it’s nice to be getting better every year,” said the Maple Creek, Sask., native. “Now getting a chance to play not only regular PK, but on the power play too, which is something I haven’t had an opportunity to play in a long time. I think last year was a big step in that I can produce offensively if put in that role.”

The problem is Smith, who has played over 400 NHL games, has rarely been given offensive opportunities.

Drafted in the third round, 79th overall, by the Senators in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft as a 19-yearold, Smith made a strong first impression at his first camp and was the final cut before being assigned to the Binghamton Senators, where he had 24 goals and 48 points.

Smith made a strong impression when recalled in January of the following season and played in all six playoff games. In 2010-11 Smith was recalled three different times, but felt his greatest development came from Binghamton’s playoff run that resulted in a Calder Cup. “I really liked Zack as a player and a person,” said former Senators head coach Cory Clouston, who also coached Smith in Binghamton. “Zack was a third or fourth liner for me in Ottawa. He was young and wasn’t ready for top six, but in Binghamton as a rookie I used him as a top six forward.

“He scored 24 goals as a 20-year-old rookie and I saw a lot of offensive upside in him. He showed he had that potential offensively with me in Binghamton and is now starting to show it in the NHL, which is great.”

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Hoop action in the Red Deer Women’s League Pink Panthers 44 Xpress 31 PP: Erica Payne 8. Xpress: Julie DeJong 8.

POG: PP: Amy Archibald. Xpress: Karley Wasanen.

Triple Threat 48 Shooting Stars 42 TT: Nena Armstrong 13. SS: Candace Stamps 9.

POG: TT: Jessi Charchuk. SS: Katie Wozney.

Hoosier Daddy 61 Big Ballers 41 Hoos: Cori Jones 20. BB: Aimee Sandham 12.

POG: Hoos: Danielle Clifford. BB: Julie Neilson.

Rampage 40 Dynamo 24 Ram: Jody Bell 13. Dyn: Shelly Weibe 7.

POG: Ram: Beth Townsand. Dyn: Molly Parcels.

Funk 49 Raptors 26 POG: Funk: Allison Lundall.

Average Joe’s 33 Spartans 15 Joe: Amber Smith 9. Spart: Tracy Klausen 6.

POG: Joe: Smith.

Byron Nelson tournament moving a year ahead schedule DALLAS (AP) — Lord Byron’s tournament is moving a year earlier than expected.

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Stelio Mattheos got the Wheat Kings on the board, shovelling in a loose puck during a wild scramble at 1:30 of the third period after Red Deer netminder Riley Lamb had made two excellent saves.

However, second star Alexander Alexeyev restored the three-goal margin, taking a pass from Spacek as he cut in off the point.

Tyler Coulter, on a deflection, made it 4-2 before Josh Mahura, once again took a Spacek pass, on the power play and put the finishing touches on the scoring at 17:59.

Hagel was pleased to see the Rebels spread the scoring around.

“It’s awesome to see, not just two guys, but the whole team contributing … that’s what happened tonight,” he said.

But despite the fact the Rebels allowed a pair of power play goals, it may have been a five-on-three penalty kill in the first period that set the tone of the game.

“We gave up two goals in the third, but that fiveon-three kill when the score was 0-0 was huge,” said Sutter.

“We only gave up three shots, but Lammer made a huge save when he got across and got his pad on the shot. That was significant, no question, especially with it 0-0. Killing off that five-on-three helps you and enhances your chances, especially the way we were playing.”

Lamb, who finished with 22 saves, robbed Tanner Kaspick on that leg save and later got a glove on a bullet drive by James Shearer.

However, it was Thompson that had everyone shaking their heads as he made outstanding save after outstanding save. He was justifiably named third star.

The Rebels return to action Friday when they host the Medicine Hat Tigers at 7 p.m. at the Centrium. They then head out on an extended road trip which sees them play their next eight games on the road before returning home Nov. 18 against Medicine Hat. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at Danny’s blog at rdcathletics.ca.

edgy with the questions a little bit, I’m excited. So that’s a good sign,” Casey said. “Still do. Didn’t sleep much last night, so get a little irritated with the players quicker. So yes, I do get excited.”

The Raptors were playing without Jared Sullinger, who had surgery on his foot on Monday, and Lucas Nogueira, who’s sidelined with a sprained ankle.

Toronto hosts the Cavaliers on Friday.

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SCOREBOARD THURSDAY, OCT. 27, 2016

Local Sports Today

● High school football: Semifinals — City Division: Notre Dame vs. Lindsay Thurber, 4:30 p.m.; Hunting Hills vs. Lacombe, 7:30p.m., Lacombe M.E. Global Athletic Park. Rural Division: Sylvan Lake vs. Rocky, 4 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Stettler vs. Wetaskiwin, 4 p.m., Stettler. ● College women’s hockey: ACAC, RDC Queens vs. SAIT, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Sr. men’s basketball: CASMBA, Vikings vs. K.J. Concrete, 7:15 p.m.; Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS.

Friday

● College volleyball: RDC vs.

Medicine Hat, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Medicine Hat Tigers, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Major midget: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Foothills Bisons, 7 p.m., Kinex. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings at MacEwan University Griffins. ● College women’s hockey: RDC Queens at SAIT. ● Heritage Jr B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, 8:30 p.m. ● Chinook League: Lacombe Generals at Innisfail Eagles, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Cross-country running: ACAC finals in Grande Prairie. ● College volleyball: RDC vs.

Medicine Hat, women at 1 p.m., men to follow, RDC ● Bantam hockey: Red Deer Chiefs vs. Airdrie, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Hockey

● Bantam elite girls: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Lethbridge, 12:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Girls midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Lloydminster Steelers, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College basketball: RDC vs. St. Mary’s University, women at 6 p.m., men to follow, RDC ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Lethbridge Hurricanes, 7 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. MacEwan University Griffins, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget elite girls: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Calgary Fire White, 7:45 p.m., Kin City ● Heritage Jr. B hockey: Medicine Hat at Stettler, 7:30 p.m., Strathmore at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday

● Minor midget hockey: Red Deer TBS Chiefs vs. Red Deer Northstar Chiefs, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Heritage Jr. B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Bantam elite girls: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Lethbridge, 4:15 p.m., Kin City. ● Sr. men’s basketball: CASMBA, Grandview All-stars vs,. Orangemen, Henry;’s Eavestroughing vs. K.J. Concrete, Silver Spurs vs. Johns Mansville, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Monstars, NWS Axemen vs. Kingsmen, Triple A Batteries vs. Drystone Interiors, 5:30 p.m., LTCHS. ● Girls midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 1 0 1.000 Toronto 1 0 1.000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 Brooklyn 0 1 .000 New York 0 1 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 1 0 1.000 Charlotte 1 0 1.000 Washington 0 0 .000 Atlanta 0 0 .000 Orlando 0 1 .000 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 1 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 0 1.000 Chicago 0 0 .000 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 Detroit 0 1 .000 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 1 0 1.000 Memphis 1 0 1.000 Houston 0 0 .000 New Orleans 0 1 .000 Dallas 0 1 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 1 0 1.000 Oklahoma City 1 0 1.000 Denver 1 0 1.000 Minnesota 0 1 .000 Utah 0 1 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 0 0 .000 L.A. Lakers 0 0 .000

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GF 62 51 44 47 30 30

GA Pts 36 21 46 18 43 16 40 14 43 13 39 9

GF 46 59 42 28 18 31

GA Pts 41 18 42 17 58 12 41 10 31 7 55 6

Western Conference U.S. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 13 9 2 2 0 43 28 20 Tri-City 14 8 5 1 0 51 51 17 Portland 14 8 6 0 0 57 48 16 Spokane 13 5 6 1 1 37 48 12 Seattle 9 3 5 0 1 20 31 7 B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts P. George 15 12 2 1 0 56 38 25 Victoria 14 8 6 0 0 49 40 16 Kamloops 14 7 7 0 0 49 36 14 Kelowna 13 6 7 0 0 37 44 12 Vancouver 15 6 9 0 0 43 51 12 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 Prince Albert 3 Calgary 2 Tri-City 5 Vancouver 4 Tuesday’s Games Spokane 6 Moose Jaw 2 Brandon 5 Edmonton 3 Tri-City 4 Portland 3 Victoria 2 Kamloops 1 Wednesday’s Games Red Deer 5 Brandon 2 Prince George 5 Kootenay 2 Spokane 6 Saskatoon 2 Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Seattle at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Brandon at Kootenay, 2 p.m.

Seattle at Regina, 4 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 117, New York 88 Portland 113, Utah 104 San Antonio 129, Golden State 100 Wednesday’s Games Indiana 130, Dallas 121 Miami 108, Orlando 96 Boston 122, Brooklyn 117 Toronto 109, Detroit 91 Charlotte 107, Milwaukee 96 Denver 107, New Orleans 102 Memphis 102, Minnesota 98 Oklahoma City 103, Philadelphia 97 Sacramento at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Washington at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Chicago, 6 p.m.

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

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

Friday’s Games Cleveland at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 10:30 a.m.

Boston at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

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

Orlando at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

Rebels 5, Wheat Kings 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Brandon bench (too many men, served by ) 5:12 Polei Rd (hooking) 11:10 Roy Rd (boarding) 11:31 Armour Bdn (tripping) 16:58 Kaspick Bdn (tripping) 19:41.

Second Period 1. Red Deer, Hagel 4 (Sass, Alexeyev) 9:32.

2. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 3 (Spacek, Mahura) 15:48.

3. Red Deer, Freadrich 1 (Polei, Hagel) 19:10 (pp).

Penalties — Clague Bdn, Musil Rd (roughing) 11:41 Wharrie Bdn (charging) 18:15.

Third Period 4. Brandon, Mattheos 5 (Kaspick, Clague) 1:30 (pp).

5. Red Deer, Alexeyev 2 (Spacek, Pratt) 5:39.

6. Brandon, Coulter 5 (Shearer, Lewis) 8:40 (pp).

7. Red Deer, Mahura 4 (Spacek, Bobyk) 17:59 (pp).

Penalties — Spacek Rd (cross checking) 1:07 Hagel Rd (misconduct, 10-minute misconduct) 4:00 Kaspick Bdn, Musil Rd (major, major-fighting) 4:00 Spacek Rd (hooking) 7:54 Sambrook Bdn (cross checking) 16:55 de Wit Rd (hooking) 19:55.

Shots on goal by Brandon 9 6 9 — 24 Red Deer 19 17 20 — 56 Goal — Brandon: Thompson (L, 2-2-1-0). Red Deer: Lamb (W, 7-2-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Brandon: 2-5 Red Deer: 2-5.

Referees — Tyler Adair, Kevin Webinger. Linesmen — Jason Nedinis, Michael Roberts.

Attendance — 4,025 at Red Deer, Alta.

First Period 1. Prince George, O’Brien 3 (Gabrielle, McDonald) 8:05.

2. Kootenay, Wellsby 1 (Zborosky, Sidaway) 14:04.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Prince George, Harkins 2 (unassisted) 7:01 (pp).

4. Prince George, O’Brien 4 (Gabrielle, Ruopp) 16:40.

5. Kootenay, Philp 1 (Alfaro, Pouliot) 19:01.

Penalties — Pouliot Ktn (high sticking) 6:06.

Third Period 6. Prince George, Harkins 3 (Morrison, McAuley) 5:48.

7. Prince George, Morrison 7 (McAuley, Harkins) 18:45 (en).

Penalties — Curtis P.g (hooking) 0:21 Ruopp P.g (high sticking) 0:23 McDonald P.g (checking from behind) 10:44 Pouliot Ktn (high sticking) 10:44.

Shots on goal by Prince George 7 14 12 — 33 Kootenay 7 13 15 — 35 Goal — Prince George: McBride (W, 4-1-0-0). Kootenay: Walter (L, 0-4-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Prince George: 1-1 Kootenay: 0-2.

Chiefs 6, Blades 2 First Period 1. Spokane, McIndoe 2 (Yamamoto, Miske) 10:43 (pp).

Penalties — Shmyr Sas (delay of game) 9:49 Huitema Spo (holding) 14:00 Olynek Sas (high sticking) 19:55.

Second Period 2. Spokane, Huitema 1 (Ostir, McIndoe) 3:07.

3. Spokane, K. Yamamoto 9 (unassisted) 9:51.

4. Saskatoon, Ramsay 1 (Sayers, Reid) 17:01.

Penalties — Wishnowski Spo (holding) 0:20 Anderson-Dolan Spo (high sticking) 0:43 Faith Spo, MacKenzie Sas (major, major-fighting) 3:35 Najman Spo (hooking) 10:47 Anderson-Dolan Spo (hooking) 14:55 Braid Sas (misconduct, 10-minute misconduct) 14:55 Sloboshan Sas, Fiala Spo, McCarty Sas, Hamaliuk Spo (roughing) 16:02 Ostir Spo (high sticking) 17:18 Huitema Spo (holding) 18:58 Sloboshan Sas (tripping) 19:39.

Third Period 5. Spokane, K. Yamamoto 10 (Miske, Fiala) 0:42.

6. Spokane, McKay 1 (Ross, Henderson) 2:17.

7. Saskatoon, Olynek 4 (Sayers, Caller) 4:53.

8. Spokane, Kousal 3 (Ross, McKay) 9:43.

Penalties — McIndoe Spo (roughing) 13:16 Henderson Spo (tripping) 19:02.

Shots on goal by Spokane 12 10 8 — 30 Saskatoon 9 13 8 — 30 Goal — Spokane: Weatherill (W, 3-3-0-1). Saskatoon: Hamm (L, 1-4-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Spokane: 1-2 Saskatoon: 0-9.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 7 6 0 1 13 26 Tampa Bay 6 5 1 0 10 24 Detroit 7 5 2 0 10 24 Ottawa 6 4 2 0 8 21 Florida 6 3 2 1 7 18 Boston 7 3 4 0 6 17 Toronto 6 1 2 3 5 21 Buffalo 5 1 2 2 4 14 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 7 5 2 0 10 27 Pittsburgh 7 4 2 1 9 16 Washington 6 3 2 1 7 14 New Jersey 6 3 2 1 7 13 Philadelphia 7 3 3 1 7 24 N.Y. Islanders 7 3 4 0 6 20 Columbus 5 2 2 1 5 13 Carolina 6 1 3 2 4 18

GA 12 17 17 20 15 23 26 16 GA 18 21 14 12 25 20 14 24

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 7 4 2 1 9 24 19 St. Louis 7 4 2 1 9 20 19 Dallas 6 3 2 1 7 17 18 Chicago 7 3 3 1 7 25 25 Colorado 5 3 2 0 6 16 16 Nashville 5 2 3 0 4 15 15 Winnipeg 6 2 4 0 4 16 22 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 7 6 1 0 12 27 17 Vancouver 7 4 2 1 9 15 17 San Jose 7 4 3 0 8 16 19 Calgary 8 3 4 1 7 25 30 Los Angeles 6 3 3 0 6 17 20 Anaheim 7 2 3 2 6 15 18 Arizona 6 1 5 0 2 17 26 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Florida 2 Minnesota 5, Boston 0 New Jersey 5, Arizona 3 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 3 Detroit 4, Carolina 2 Philadelphia 4, Buffalo 3, SO Calgary 4, St. Louis 1 Dallas 3, Winnipeg 2

Cougars 5, Ice 2

Ottawa 3, Vancouver 0 San Jose 2, Anaheim 1, OT Los Angeles 3, Columbus 2, OT Wednesday’s Games Montreal 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 N.Y. Rangers 5, Boston 2 Edmonton 4, Washington 1 Nashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Florida at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

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

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Detroit at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

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

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

Friday’s Games Chicago at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m.

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

Ottawa at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Florida at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Washington at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Oilers 4, Capitals 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Pouliot Edm (cross-checking) 7:37 Beagle Wash (stick holding) 10:15 Nugent-Hopkins Edm (tripping) 13:02 Winnik Wash (tripping) 18:44.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Pouliot 2 (Nugent-Hopkins) 7:48.

2. Edmonton, Pouliot 3 (Nugent-Hopkins, Klefbom) 17:08.

Penalties — Pouliot Edm (closing hand on puck) 17:13 Talbot Edm (roughing, served by Nurse) 17:38 Oshie Wash (cross-checking) 17:38.

Third Period 3. Washington, Ovechkin 4 (Niskanen, Burakovsky) :09.

4. Edmonton, Maroon 2 (Puljujarvi, McDavid) 1:25.

5. Edmonton, Lucic 3 (Sekera, McDavid) 9:57 (pp).

Penalties — Eller Wash (hooking) 9:14 Oshie Wash (high-sticking) 10:34.

Shots on goal by Washington 11 13 11 — 35 Edmonton 10 7 12 — 29 Goal — Washington: Holtby (L, 2-2-1). Edmonton: Talbot (W, 6-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Washington: 0-3 Edmonton: 1-4.

Canadiens 3, Islanders 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Montreal, Byron 2 (Gallagher, Emelin) 3:10.

2. NY Islanders, Tavares 4 (unassisted) 15:17.

Penalties — Lehkonen Mtl (high-sticking) 14:42.

Third Period 3. Montreal, Danault 2 (Flynn, Weber) 11:21.

4. NY Islanders, Seidenberg 2 (de Haan, Strome) 14:16.

5. Montreal, Weber 3 (Petry, Pacioretty) 17:03 (pp).

Penalties — Leddy NYI (slashing) 16:10 Gallagher Mtl (high-sticking) 19:40.

Shots on goal by Montreal 5 12 12 — 29 New York 8 5 15 — 28 Goal — Montreal: Montoya (W, 3-0-1). NY Islanders: Greiss (L, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Montreal: 1-1 NY Islanders: 1-2.

Rangers 5, Bruins 2 First Period 1. Boston, Pastrnak 5 (Marchand, Chara) :10.

2. Boston, Czarnik 1 (Krejci) 14:44.

Penalties — Spooner Bos (interference) 7:40 Zuccarello NYR, Nash Bos (slashing) 10:09.

Second Period 3. NY Rangers, Nash 3 (Stepan, Vesey) 9:16 (pp).

4. NY Rangers, Hayes 2 (Fast, McDonagh) 16:35.

5. NY Rangers, Pirri 3 (Miller, Zibanejad) 19:24 (pp).

Penalties — Schaller Bos (hooking) 5:28 Czarnik Bos (interference) 8:08 Pastrnak Bos (illegal check to head minor) 10:55 Beleskey Bos (interference) 17:58.

Third Period 6. NY Rangers, Pirri 4 (M.Staal, Miller) 2:23.

7. NY Rangers, Vesey 4 (Nash, Stepan) 3:06.

Penalties — Marchand Bos (high-sticking) 8:54 Lindberg NYR (high-sticking) 15:10.

Shots on goal by Boston 8 10 11 — 29 New York 9 14 8 — 31 Goal — Boston: McIntyre (L, 0-1-0). NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 4-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: 0-1 NY Rangers: 2-6.

Baseball

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF New York 16 9 9 57 61 NYC FC 15 10 9 54 62 Toronto FC 14 9 11 53 51 D.C. United 11 10 13 46 53 Montreal 11 11 12 45 49 Philadelphia 11 14 9 42 52 New England 11 14 9 42 44 Orlando City 9 11 14 41 55 Columbus 8 14 12 36 50 Chicago 7 17 10 31 42 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF FC Dallas 17 8 9 60 50 Colorado 15 6 13 58 39 Los Angeles 12 6 16 52 54 Seattle 14 14 6 48 44 SKC 13 13 8 47 42 Real Salt Lake 12 12 10 46 44 Portland 12 14 8 44 48

WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W L OTLSOL Regina 12 9 0 3 0 Swift Current 14 8 4 1 1 Moose Jaw 12 7 3 2 0 Brandon 12 6 4 2 0 Saskatoon 13 6 6 1 0 Prince Albert 12 4 7 1 0 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL Red Deer 13 8 3 1 1 Medicine Hat 13 8 4 1 0 Lethbridge 13 5 6 1 1 Edmonton 12 4 6 2 0 Calgary 9 3 5 1 0 Kootenay 13 1 8 3 1

GA 44 57 39 47 53 55 54 60 58 58 GA 40 32 39 43 41 46 53

Vancouver 10 15 9 39 45 52 San Jose 8 12 14 38 32 40 Houston 7 14 13 34 39 45 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Sunday’s Games FC Dallas 0, Los Angeles 0, tie Houston 1, Colorado 1, tie New England 3, Montreal 0 New York 2, Philadelphia 0 New York City FC 4, Columbus 1 Orlando City 4, D.C. United 2 Seattle 2, Real Salt Lake 1 Sporting Kansas City 2, San Jose 0 Toronto FC 3, Chicago 2 Vancouver 4, Portland 1 Wednesday’s Games Toronto FC 3, Philadelphia 1 Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Montreal at D.C. United, 5:30 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Claimed LHP Giovanni Soto off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.

TEXAS RANGERS — Announced RHPs Shawn Tolleson and Lucas Harrell cleared outright waivers and assigned them to Round Rock (PCL). Named Vinny Rottino and Donzell McDonald professional scouts.

National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent INF Jemile Weeks and RHPs Jake Smith and Jose Dominguez to El Paso (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Announced RHP Aaron Barrett refused his outright assignment Syracuse (IL) and elected free agency.

American Association WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Exercised the 2017 contract options on RHP Winston Abreu, RHP Victor Capellan, RHP Edwin Carl, LHP Ethan Carnes, OF David Rohm, OF Josh Romanski, OF Adam Heisler, OF Willie Cabrera, OF Reggie Abercrombie, RHP Duke Von Schamann, RHP Robert Tasin, RHP Brandon Shimo, RHP Cameron McVey, RHP Mikey O’Brien, LHP Kevin McGovern, LHP Erie Eadington, C Tanner Murphy, C Carlton Tanabe, INF Wes Darvill, INF Maikol Gonzalez, INF Ridge Hoopii-Haslam and INF Jacob Rogers.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Signed G Dennis Schröder to a contract extension through the 2020-21 season. Promoted Thad Sheely to chief operating officer, Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena David Lee to executive vice-president, external affairs and executive director and Nzinga Shaw to senior vice-president along with her duties as chief diversity & inclusion officer. Named Brett Stefansson executive vice-president, general manager of Philips Arena.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Exercised their

2017-18 team options on G guard D’Angelo Russell, F Julius Randle and F Larry Nance Jr. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Chris Hubert from the practice squad. Re-signed G-OT Martin Wallace to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DB Jacoby Glenn to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DB Darius Hillary, RB Terrance Magee and DL Gabe Wright to the practice squad. Released OL Michael Liedtke and RB Terrell Watson from the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed C Jacob Flores to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed OT Jeff Adams.

Placed OT Derek Newton on injured reserve.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived DE Julius Warmsley.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Acquired LB Kyle Van Noy from Detroit for future considerations.

Signed DL Anthony Johnson to the practice squad.

Released OL Chase Farris from the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed QB Geno Smith on injured reserve. Signed LB Taiwan Jones. Signed C Kyle Friend and LB Reshard Cliett to the practice squad. Released WR Myles White from the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released RB C.J. Spiller. Signed FB Will Tukuafu.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled G Dustin Tokarski from San Diego (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed G Anders Lindback to a professional tryout contract. Released G Troy Redmann from his professional tryout contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned D Steven Santini to Albany (AHL).

American Hockey League

Cougars topple Ice in WHL action

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CRANBROOK, B.C. — Brogan O’Brien and Jansen Harkins both had a pair of goals as the Prince George Cougars toppled the Kootenay Ice 5-2 on Wednesday in Western Hockey League action.

Josh Curtis rounded out the offence for the first-place Cougars (12-2-1), who are 3-0-1 in their last four.

Nick McBride made 33 saves for the win.

Austin Wellsby and Noah Philp found the back of the net for the slumping Ice (1-84), who are on a seven-game slide. Jakob Walter kicked out 28-of-32 shots in defeat.

Prince George was 1 for 1 on the power play while Kootenay failed to score on two chances with the man advantage.

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) 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 Los Angeles 3, Washington 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, Los Angeles 3 Tuesday, Oct. 11: Los Angeles 6, Washington 5 Thursday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles 4, Washington 3 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Cleveland 4, Toronto 1 Friday, Oct. 14: Cleveland 2, Toronto 0 Saturday, Oct. 15: Cleveland 2, Toronto 1 Monday, Oct. 17: Cleveland 4, Toronto 2 Tuesday, Oct. 18: Toronto 5, Cleveland 1 Wednesday, Oct. 19: Cleveland 3, Toronto 0 National League Chicago 4, Los Angeles 2 Saturday, Oct. 15: Chicago 8, Los Angeles 4 Sunday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 1, Chicago 0 Tuesday, Oct. 18: Los Angeles 6, Chicago 0 Wednesday, Oct. 19: Chicago 10, Los Angeles 2 Thursday, Oct. 20: Chicago 8, Los Angeles 4 Saturday, Oct. 22: Chicago 5, Los Angeles 0 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Cleveland 1, Chicago 1 Tuesday, Oct. 25: Cleveland 6, Chicago 0 Wednesday, Oct. 26: Chicago 5, Cleveland 1 Friday, Oct. 28: Cleveland (Tomlin 13-9) at Chi-

cago (Hendricks 16-8), 6:08 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 29: Cleveland (Kluber 18-9) at Chicago (Lackey 11-8), 6:08 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 30: Cleveland at Chicago, 6:15 p.m. x-Tuesday, Nov. 1: Chicago at Cleveland, 6:08 p.m. x-Wednesday, Nov. 2: Chicago at Cleveland, 6:08 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—Panik, San Francisco, .462; Murphy, Washington, .438; Gillaspie, San Francisco, .421; Donaldson, Toronto, .417; Holt, Boston, .400 RUNS—Fowler, Chicago, 8; Baez, Chicago, 7; Turner, Los Angeles, 6; Rizzo, Chicago, 6; Donaldson, Toronto, 6 RBI—Encarnacion, Toronto, 9; Turner, Los Angeles, 8; Baez, Chicago, 7; Murphy, Washington, 6; Gonzalez, Los Angeles, 6 HITS—Donaldson, Toronto, 15; Baez, Chicago, 15; Bryant, Chicago, 14; Lindor, Cleveland, 13; Fowler, Chicago, 12 PITCHING—Kluber, Cleveland, 3-1; Shaw, Cleveland, 2-0; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2-1; Lester, Chicago, 2-1; Tomlin, Cleveland, 2-0 ERA—Brach, Baltimore, 0.00; Osuna, Toronto, 0.00; Syndergaard, New York, 0.00; Barnette, Texas, 0.00; Kelly, Boston, 0.00

Football High School Football Rankings Tier I (Pop 1250 and over) 1. (2) Bev Facey (Sher Park), (9-0) 2. (6) Henry Wise Wood, Calgary (5-1) 3. (1) St. Francis, Calgary (5-1) 4. (4) Harry Ainlay, Edm (8-0) 5. (5) LCI, Lethbridge (6-2) 6. (9) Centennial, Calgary (5-1) 7. (3) Notre Dame, Calgary (3-2) 8. (8) Spruce Grove (5-2) 9. (7) Notre Dame, Red Deer (6-1) 10. (10) Raymond (4-3) Tier II (750-1,249) 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Gr Prairie (8-1) 2. (2) Foothills, Okotoks (5-2) 3. (3) Hunting Hills, Red Deer (6-2) 4. (5) Medicine Hat (7-1) 5. (4) Springbank (5-1) 6. (8) Austin O’Brien, Edm (4-4) 7. (7) St. Mary’s, Calgary (3-2) 8. (6) Catholic Central, Leth (5-3) 9. (9) Lloydminster( 5-2) 10. (10) Lacombe (3-4) Tier III (450-749) 1. (1) Cochrane (6-0) 2. (2) Holy Rosary, Lloydminster (8-0) 3. (3) Sylvan Lake (6-0-1) 4. (6) Cardston (5-3) 5. (9) Strathmore (5-2) 6. (NR) Peace Wapiti, Grande Prairie (5-3) 7. (10) St. Albert (3-4) 8. (5) Bonnyville (6-2) 9. (6) Crescent Heights, Med Hat (5-3) 10. (NR) Brooks (3-5) Tier IV (449 and less) 1. (2) W.R. Myers, Taber (7-0) 2. (1) Sexsmith (7-1) 3. (3) Ardrossan (4-1-1) 4. (NR) Stettler (4-1) 5. (4) Willow Creek, Claresholm (4-3) 6. (6) Bow Valley, Cochrane (5-2) 7. (5) Valleyview (6-2) 8. (7) St. Paul (4-3) 9. (9) Canmore (5-2) 10. (8) Cold Lake (5-3) Six-Man 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Brooks (7-0) 2. (4) Buck Mountain, Buck Lake (6-0) 3. (2) Millwoods Christian, Edm (5-1) 4. (3) Rimbey (5-1) 5. (5) JC Charyk, Hanna (5-1) 6. (6) Holy Redeemer, Edson (4-2) 7. (7) Breton (5-2) 8. (8) Sedgewick (4-2) 9. (9) Redwater (3-2) 10. (10) Oscar Romero, Edm (2-3)

GP x-Ottawa 16 x-Hamilton 16

CFL East Division W L T PF 7 8 1 443 7 9 0 456

PA Pt 455 15 441 14

Montreal Toronto

16 17

5 11 0 334 382 10 5 12 0 366 527 10 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 17 15 1 1 578 352 31 x-Winnipeg 16 10 6 0 454 411 20 x-B.C. 16 10 6 0 480 430 20 x-Edmonton 16 8 8 0 479 453 16 Saskatchewan16 5 11 0 326 465 10 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 18 Bye: Winnipeg Saturday’s Games Montreal 19 Saskatchewan 14 B.C. 32 Edmonton 25 Friday’s Games Hamilton 39 Ottawa 36 (OT) Calgary 31 Toronto 13 WEEK 19 Bye: Toronto Friday’s Games Edmonton at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Ottawa at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

B.C. at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Calgary at Montreal, 11 a.m.

WEEK 20 Bye: Calgary Friday, Nov. 4 Winnipeg at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 5 Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

End of Regular Season NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 6 1 0.857 176 107 Buffalo 4 3 0.571 187 131 Miami 3 4 0.429 146 159 N.Y. Jets 2 5 0.286 119 180 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 4 3 0.571 117 154 Indianapolis 3 4 0.429 194 200 Tennessee 3 4 0.429 146 161 Jacksonville 2 4 0.333 117 160 North W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 4 3 0.571 170 150 Baltimore 3 4 0.429 133 139 Cincinnati 3 4 0.429 140 162 Cleveland 0 7 0.000 130 207 West W L T Pct PF PA Oakland 5 2 0.714 185 179 Denver 5 2 0.714 167 117 Kansas City 4 2 0.667 136 123 San Diego 3 4 0.429 206 185

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 5 1 0.833 159 107 Philadelphia 4 2 0.667 156 88 Washington 4 3 0.571 159 162 N.Y. Giants 4 3 0.571 133 141 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 4 3 0.571 229 199 Tampa Bay 3 3 0.500 128 159 New Orleans 2 4 0.333 176 195 Carolina 1 5 0.167 161 176 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 5 1 0.833 129 84 Green Bay 4 2 0.667 140 123 Detroit 4 3 0.571 170 170 Chicago 1 6 0.143 111 169 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 4 1 1.750 111 84 Arizona 3 3 1.500 159 110 Los Angeles 3 4 0.429 120 154 San Francisco1 6 0.143 144 219 Thursday, Oct. 20 Green Bay 26, Chicago 10 Sunday, Oct. 23 N.Y. Giants 17, Los Angeles 10 Cincinnati 31, Cleveland 17 N.Y. Jets 24, Baltimore 16 Detroit 20, Washington 17 Kansas City 27, New Orleans 21 Philadelphia 21, Minnesota 10 Miami 28, Buffalo 25 Indianapolis 34, Tennessee 26 Oakland 33, Jacksonville 16 Tampa Bay 34, San Francisco 17 New England 27, Pittsburgh 16 San Diego 33, Atlanta 30, OT Arizona 6, Seattle 6, OT Open: Los Angeles, San Francisco, N.Y. Giants, Miami, Baltimore, Pittsburgh Monday, Oct. 24 Denver 27, Houston 9 Thursday’s Games Jacksonville at Tennessee, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Washington at Cincinnati, 7:30 a.m.

Detroit at Houston, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Seattle at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Dallas, Carolina Monday’s Games Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

NEWS

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016

B5

Info from accused nurse led to probe

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CRIME

TORONTO — The investigation into the alleged murders of eight elderly nursing home residents was prompted by information the nurse accused in the case provided to a psychiatric hospital in Toronto, The Canadian Press has learned.

Officials from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) alerted the Toronto police that Elizabeth Wettlaufer, of Woodstock, Ont., had shared information with hospital staff that caused them “concern,” a police source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.

Wettlaufer, 49, was charged Tuesday with eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of elderly residents at two nursing homes in Woodstock and London, Ont. The source said once Toronto police

received the information from the hospital, officers interviewed Wettlaufer and found out that the alleged crimes had occurred outside Toronto police’s jurisdiction.

That’s when Toronto police passed the information to the Ontario Provincial Police and police forces in Woodstock and London, said the source, who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

The investigation into the alleged murders was launched on Sept. 29.

Wettlaufer was arrested on Monday and appeared in an Woodstock courthouse on Tuesday where she was remanded into custody.

The victims have been identified as James Silcox, 84, Maurice Granat, 84, Gladys Millard, 87, Helen Matheson, 95, Mary Zurawinski, 96, Helen Young,

90, Maureen Pickering, 79, Arpad Horvath, 75.

Lawyers for Wettlaufer could not immediately be reached for comment.

CAMH declined to comment, saying they do not disclose information about their clients due to patient confidentiality.

However, a peace bond Wettlaufer entered into earlier in the month required her to “continue any treatment for mental health” with any physician to whom she was referred by her family doctor or “representatives of CAMH.” Wettlaufer was also not allowed to possess or consume alcohol and had to obey a curfew and reside in either her apartment or with her parents in Woodstock between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m., except to attend alcoholics anonymous meetings, according to terms laid out in the peace bond.

Wettlaufer’s friend, Nancy Gilbert,

told The Canadian Press that Wettlaufer had told her she recently completed her second stint in rehab in Toronto and seemed to be in good spirits.

A Facebook page for a Bethe Wettlaufer, whose photo, education and employment records match that of Elizabeth Wettlaufer, makes reference to what appears to be a struggle with substance abuse.

“My own voice called to me in the darkness. Others hands lifted me when I chose the light. One year ago today I woke up not dead. 365 days clean and sober,” says a post from September 2015.

While health-care professionals are generally bound by patient confidentiality requirements, they are obliged in some cases to contact police or other authorities without a patient’s consent, such as in cases where they believe a death is suspicious or other important interests are at stake.

CAUGHT IN A TRAP

Inmate out of segregation after four years

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

“Sweet Pepper,” of the sideshow duo The Monsters of Schlock, poses for photographs with animal traps on his arms after an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for having the most number of animal traps set on the human body in one minute, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday. He set 36 raccoon traps and two coyote traps on his hands and arms in less than one minute. The duo are performing at Fright Nights at Playland for the Halloween season.

Trudeau defends Iraq mission secrecy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the previous Conservative government of having endangered Canadian troops as he defended a recent clampdown on information about Canada’s mission in Iraq.

The comments came during a sharp exchange in the House of Commons on Tuesday in which interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose alleged the Liberals were keeping Canadians in the dark for “political reasons.”

She alleged the Liberal government was trying to hide the fact that Canadian soldiers are actively fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant despite Trudeau’s promise during last year’s election campaign to end the combat mission in Iraq.

Military officers revealed during a rare briefing this month that Canadian special forces troops have been spending more time on the front lines and engaging in more firefights with ISIL forces.

But the military and government have refused to provide further details, including the number of incidents, what Canadian soldiers are doing on the front lines, and even how many troops are in Iraq.

Ambrose noted the Conservatives held more briefings and provided more details about the mission when they were in power.

“But the prime minister has changed that policy for political reasons,” she said. “He promised to end a combat mission that he’s actually expanding. Will the prime minister be transparent and resume these briefings so Canadians can know exactly what our men in uniform are facing?”

Trudeau acknowledged that his government, which was elected on a promise of greater transparency, was being more restrictive in terms of information about the campaign against ISIL. But he defended it as necessary to protect Canadian soldiers.

“We have changed somewhat the approach that the previous government had,” Trudeau said. “We will not put our men and women in the Canadian Forces in harm’s way for communications purposes.”

The exchange drew shouts from both sides of the aisle. It also marked an escalation in the battle between those calling for more transparency and those insisting on secrecy with regards to the Iraq mission.

That debate has been punctuated by the current operation to free the city of Mosul, which began last week and featured some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

The government has said Canadian troops on the ground are supporting the offensive to retake the city of 1.2 million, ISIL’s last bastion in Iraq, but refused to elaborate.

OTTAWA — The New Democrats say they plan to turn up the political pressure on the Liberal government to take action on First Nations child welfare.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the government discriminates against First Nations children in its delivery of child welfare services on reserves, and has since issued two compliance orders to compel the Liberals to act.

The NDP plans to introduce a motion Thursday calling on the government to comply with the ruling — first with an immediate $155-million cash injection, then with a funding plan for future years.

“We are losing children every single day in our communities dying from suicide, children being taken away from their parents and put into a broken foster care system,” NDP indigenous affairs critic Charlie Angus said. “We are asking Parliament to take respon-

sibility for this. It will be up to Parliament to force this government to meet their legal obligations for the protection of children who are suffering in a broken system, suffering systemic discrimination and suffering from hopelessness.”

The party also wants the government to adopt Jordan’s Principle, which says no aboriginal child should suffer denials, delays or disruptions of health services available to other children due to jurisdictional disputes.

The principle is named for Jordan Anderson, a Cree boy from Norway House, Man., who died in hospital in 2005 after jurisdictional disagreements kept him from spending his last years in home care.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett has been insisting for months that her government is committed to overhauling child welfare services on reserve.

During question period, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair pressed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for action, but the answer he got was non-committal.

BRIEFS Feds explore nickel coin’s use OTTAWA — An internal federal analysis shows the government has studied the pros and cons of the nickel — but Ottawa insists it has no plans to force the five-cent coin into retirement, as it did the penny.

When the Royal Canadian Mint yanked the penny from circulation in 2013, the nickel became the country’s smallest circulating denomination of pocket change.

Since then, many people have expected it would only be a matter of time before Ottawa also eliminated the nickel.

Earlier this year, a Finance Department memo to senior officials examined the nickel’s purchasing power, usage and production costs.

Much of the April document, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, was blacked out, including the “assessment” portion that likely discussed the coin’s future.

The uncensored portions of the memo explored the significance of the nickel in a post-penny era.

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The 23-year-old First Nations man now has access to a day room, telephone and television, but he does not have a cell mate and he will be kept separate from the general population, added Orazietti.

“We understand that Mr. Capay would rather be in this cell than be moved to another location or another institution” while he awaits trial on a murder charge in connection with the 2012 death of another inmate, he said.

Orazietti admitted there is an “over-reliance on segregation in the correctional system,” but said inmates can ask to be held in isolation to protect themselves.

New Democrat critic Jennifer French said the Supreme Court has ruled a “reasonable delay” in getting to trial should be no more than 30 months.

“Adam Capay has waited nearly twice that long,” French said in the legislature. “Worst of all, it’s for a crime for which he has not yet been convicted.”

Capay’s case came to light after a guard tipped off Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Renu Mandhane about his situation when she was visiting the 90-year-old Thunder Bay jail earlier this month.

“It is clear that his long-term isolation has negatively affected his mental health,” Mandhane said in a release.

“For that prisoner, and others, this is an urgent life-and-death human rights issue.”

The human rights commissioner found that over a three-month period, about 19 per cent of prisoners in Ontario jails — 4,178 people — were placed in segregation at least once, and about 1,383 of them were for 15 days or more.

The government ordered a second review of the use of segregation in jails after receiving the results of a previous review earlier this month, which prompted Orazietti to announce a 15-consecutive-day limit on disciplinary segregation, down from 30. He wants to see segregation used only as a “means of last resort” in jail.

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Tips on placing, stocking bird feeders LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING A common misconception is that an early snow means that many birds will die due to lack of food. Birds are resilient, they have existed in the wild for centuries without handouts from humans. That being said, they tend to frequent feeders as it is easy food.

Adding a feeder or refilling last years? Clean and disinfect it before filling and hanging it. Feeders can be a breeding ground for bacteria and diseases.

Do some planning before setting up a bird feeder. To minimize the amount of birds hitting the window the feeder should either be within three feet (one meter) of the window or more than 13 feet (four meters) from the window.

Feeders placed in the area between three-13 feet (one to four meters) increase the chance of the window collisions especially if the bird is being

chased.

The height of hopper feeders depends on what other animals inhabit the same space. Deer and moose will quickly empty a feeder, which can be avoided by using a pulley system to keep the feeder high and out of reach unless it is being filled.

The distance between the perch and seed determines what size of bird can feed. Small distances encourage small birds. Medium distances allow a larger range of birds to feed while keeping the larger ones such as magpies away.

Hoppers are easy to use as seeds are dispensed over time, but they are not the only way to dispense bird seed.

In an open area, one where birds can see predators from a distance, feed can be spread on the ground. This type of feeder usually attracts different varieties of bird, ones that are often seen cleaning up the ground under hopper feeders. Spread a tarp or place a large piece of wood on the ground to make cleaning in the spring easier.

Ground feeders will need to be swept or cleaned after heavy snow falls.

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birdseed on the market. Sunflower seeds are the most universal feed in Central Alberta; attracting the largest variety of birds. Expect to clean up shells unless shelled sunflower seeds are fed to the birds.

There are other seeds, nuts and meals on the market that are attractive to specific varieties of birds. Do some research to decide which birds you wish to attract before making a purchase. Myrna Peaman’s book Backyard Bird Feeding has an extensive list matching birds to types of food. Large, clear pictures of each bird make identification easy.

It is best to avoid seed mixtures unless they are mixes of native materials that are made specifically for the area. Often the mixes are manufactured elsewhere and shipped throughout North America. If the birds are not familiar with the seeds chances are they will not eat them. Unfamiliar seed will be swept out of the feeder and on to the ground by the birds’ beak. The result is a waste of money and extensive weeding in the spring.

Suet is a fat that provides energy when consumed. It can be fed to the

birds plain or mixed with unsweetened, unsalted peanut butter and other grains. The best suet comes from around the heart and kidneys of cattle and sheep. It can be purchased and grocery stores in the raw form and rendered or purchased ground, rendered and ready to use. Shortening is easy and cheap to use in a suet mixture but it isn’t considered a healthy choice for humans and might not be the best for birds either. Lard is from pigs, not the bird’s first choice but they will eat it.

Suet can be placed in a mesh bag or metal cage that does not contain sharp edges. Birds will hang on the container and feed. Suet feeders need to be placed out of the reach of dogs and other hungry creatures.

A well-attended bird feeder supplied supplies hours of entertainment.

If the feeder goes empty, the usual birds will look for food elsewhere they will not starve. Birds rarely only have one source of food.

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Along Montana’s Missouri River Breaks ELK ON DISPLAY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEWISTOWN, Mont. — The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge spans more than a million acres along the Missouri River in central and northeast Montana. Each autumn, when the cottonwoods along the “Big Muddy” turn yellow in this crisp fall air, the elk of the Missouri River Breaks put on a show.

Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area, a short drive downriver from Fred Robison Bridge on the border of Fergus and Phillips counties, sees hundreds of elk during the height of the rut. Bull elk emerge from the willows along the Missouri to compete for cows, often clashing in dramatic fashion. The scene along the river looks much the same today as members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition must have found it in 1805.

Gene Erlandson, 78, grew up in Lewistown, just an hour’s drive from Slippery Ann. As the sun dipped in the afternoon he watched the stream of vehicles — from Winnett, Malta, Zortman, Dodson — line up along the road below his motorhome.

“All the little towns, we all come down to watch the elk,” Erlandson said. “This is kind of an annual event. I think some are hunters, but I think some people just come down to see them.”

Throughout the day we’d watched an enormous bull elk bedded down in the willows with a harem of more than 60 cows. His eight-point antlers gave a hint at his size, but it wasn’t until noon when another bull appeared in the cottonwoods that we got a clean look at him.

The cows that had been browsing the willows drew tense and focused their attention on the challenger. The big bull rose and charged the upstart.

We watched through binoculars as the bulls clashed in the thicket of the cottonwood bottom. The collision of their antlers echoed through the breaks until the lesser bull withdrew toward the Missouri and the big bull strode back to his place in the cottonwoods.

For the better part of the afternoon the eightpoint bull commanded Slippery Ann. Around 4 p.m., when the sun began to wane, the bull rose with the cows and faded into the willows. Around the same time cars started to line up on the roadway. The best time to view elk at Slippery Ann is between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The boundary of the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area is posted from Slippery Ann Campground on the banks of the Missouri River to Slippery Ann Creek. The area straddles both sides of Route 201 and is closed to public entry and hunting.

Elk have gathered at Slippery Ann for the rut for more than 100 years. Of the approximately 5,000 elk that inhabit the CMR, “records from recent years show that nearly 500 elk may visit the elk viewing area in September,” according to the refuge. Elk numbers at Slippery Ann remain high into early October. The latest report from the refuge (available by calling the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area hotline at 406-535-6904) indicates 150-200 elk are present in the area.

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The White Cliffs reflect off the Missouri river in Montana. It’s been 40 years since Montana has added any wild and scenic rivers, a point river advocates are trying to change and get the East Rosebud Creek added by year’s end.

Near 5 p.m., the cows that had vanished in the willows re-emerged. A hush came over the crowd of spectators lining the road as the bull elk followed them into the open and let out a thunderous bugle.

A number of other bulls that remained hidden along the river bottom throughout the day appeared in the cottonwoods, each bugling and raking its antlers on trees and in the dirt. Bluff charges and clashes between the bulls ensued. The biggest bull, that had spent the afternoon with the harem, looked exhausted fending off his challengers.

“Frank said last night that a bull loses 30 per cent of its bodyweight during rutting season,” Erlandson said. “I don’t know if that is a fact or not, but they don’t get a chance to eat a lot and drink a lot.”

As evening fell over Slippery Ann the bulls continued their displays and bugling while the cows browsed on grass and sage in the fading light. Visitors snapped the last photographs the light would allow before heading to their trucks for the drive to camp.

Erlandson joined his wife in his motorhome, the sound of bugles echoing across the river bottom all night.

“I like studying them a little bit, you watch how the bulls watch their little harem and keep them all together and keep the other bulls out,” Erlandson said. “It changes all the time. Them big old bulls are big some of them. It is interesting.”

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Coats For Kids Campaign until Oct. 28. Gently used winter coats, mittens, tuques and scarves for children and adults are needed and appreciated, and can be dropped off at the following locations: Classic Cleaners and Tailors, Sterling Cleaners, three locations of Ultra Cleaners, Mustang Laundry and Parkland Coverall Cleaning, Bashaw Laundry Mat and Delburne Laundry Mat. The coats are cleaned free of charge and distributed through Victory Church, Red Deer. For more information call 403-343-2484.

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Gunmen still control metals mined for modern gadgets

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Violent gunmen still menace pick-and-shovel miners in eastern Congo, a new report finds, despite years of efforts to loosen their grip by local reformers, Western activists and companies like Apple and Intel that use minerals from the African region in their products.

Conditions are improving for miners who dig the ore that’s processed into tin, tungsten and tantalum for smartphones and other electronics, though some still face interference from armed groups. But slumping demand and depressed prices for those minerals have driven many workers to dig instead for gold that’s used in electronics, jewelry and other consumer products sold by Western companies.

Armed groups hold sway over mining sites where nearly two-thirds of Congo’s gold miners ply their trade. There, under threat of violence, workers are often forced to pay illegal “taxes” that support corrupt army units, rebel groups or unauthorized militias. Sometimes they’re conscripted into forced labour.

Those are the findings of an extensive field survey by the International Peace Information Service, a Belgian non-profit whose research is frequently cited by activist groups and policy advisers to European and Western officials. IPIS is releasing its findings today.

The detailed report bolsters the recent observations of activists. “Things are slowly but surely changing,” said Holly Dranginis, a senior policy analyst at the Enough Project, a U.S.-based advocacy group. “But armed groups still benefit from gold, and they are wreaking havoc on communities that are near the mines.”

REIGN OF VIOLENCE IPIS has sent researchers, teamed with industry and government officials, to inspect more than 1,600 mining sites in Congo over the past four years. Nearly 240,000 people, mostly men but many supporting families, work as so-called artisanal (i.e., independent) miners at those sites.

For decades, an assortment of armed rebels, homegrown gangs and corrupt army units have reigned over parts of eastern Congo, where many people live in poverty despite the rich mineral resources underground. These armed groups are known for terrorizing local residents through pillaging, forced labour and sexual assaults on women and girls.

In recent years, Western activists have pressured corporations to stop using conflict minerals from areas controlled by armed groups, which profit from sales of those metals.

The metals are used in a variety of products. But activists have particularly focused on makers of smartphones, computers and other electronic components, since they use large quantities of tantalum in electrical capacitors and tin as solder for circuit boards, along with smaller amounts of tungsten and gold in various components.

MORE DISCLOSURE Human rights groups also persuaded the U.S. Congress to address the issue in the 2010 financial reform bill known as the Dodd-Frank Act. One section of the law requires corporations to file annual reports showing what they’ve done to determine if they’re using tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold from Congo or neighbouring countries.

Though it’s been three years since the reporting requirement took effect, most companies say they’re unable to trace all the minerals they use, since metals usually travel through complex supply chains that include mines, regional wholesalers, refiners and independent component-makers.

Companies in some sectors, particularly computer and electronics manufacturers, are providing more information each year, according to researcher Chris Bayer, who reviewed company filings for the non-profit Development International. But he said nearly two-thirds of the 981 companies from all industries that filed conflict mineral reports this year still didn’t identify the country of origin for all the minerals they used that are covered by the law.

Still, activists and academics say the Dodd-Frank requirements have prompted companies to examine

TECH NEWS

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant arrives on Fire tablets NEW YORK — Amazon’s Fire tablets are getting the Alexa voice assistant.

The previously announced feature will start rolling out to customers Wednesday. It’s meant to complement what users get on other Alexa devices, such as the Echo speaker.

Through voice commands, users can get the news read out to them or listen to music from services such as Amazon Music or Pandora. On the tablet version, playback controls are offered, too.

When you ask for the weather, Alexa will not just speak out current conditions, but offer a visual card with the week’s forecast.

Amazon says Alexa will differ from Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant in being designed for tablets first, rather than phones. That means focusing on tasks typically done at home, such as entertainment, recipes and timers.

Apple says it needs more time before new ear buds are ready SAN FRANCISCO — Apple says it needs “a little more time” before it starts selling the new wireless ear buds that are designed to work with its newest iPhones — the ones that don’t come with a dedicated headphone jack.

The tech giant showed off what it calls “AirPods” last month, during an event where it also introduced the new iPhone 7 smartphones. But unlike the iPhones, which went on sale in late September, Apple had said the AirPods would go on sale in late October. Now the Cupertino, California company isn’t saying when they’ll be released, or why it needs more time.

You can still listen to audio on the new iPhones by using other wireless headsets or plugging into the phone’s charging port, although older headsets may need a plug adapter.

Apple’s quarterly sales fall, but forecast calls for gains SAN FRANCISCO — Apple says it sold 45.5 million iPhones in the last quarter, 5 per cent fewer than it sold a year earlier. But the giant tech company’s rosy forecast for the holidays was better than what Wall Street had been expecting.

Apple reported Tuesday that its revenue declined

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A woman selling mining supplies waits at her stall in the town of Nyabibwe, eastern Congo, adjacent to once lucrative mines for cassiterite, the major ore of tin. Once able to sell up to 10 pairs of rubber boots a day, traders now only sell one pair, as campaigns and regulations against conflict minerals have made mining for resources like cassiterite much less profitable. Gold is now the primary source of income for armed groups in eastern Congo, and is ending up in jewelry stores across the world, according to a report published by the Enough Project. Following American legislation requiring companies to track the origin of the minerals they use, armed groups have been unable to profit from the exploitation of tin, tungsten, and tantalum, and have turned instead to gold, which is easier to smuggle across borders. Gold miners, like cassiterite miners, work in extreme conditions, with crude equipment such as pick-axes and shovels. supply chains and underwrite audits by industry groups that pressure suppliers to stop buying from illegitimate sources. The audits and a tracking system devised by industry and Congo’s government are intended to certify that ore comes from mines free of armed interference.

SILICON VALLEY RIPPLES Silicon Valley’s Intel is one of very few companies to claim conflict-free status for its microprocessors and chipsets, citing audits of smelters in its supply chain. But Intel says it can’t be sure about other products it sells that contain components made elsewhere.

Apple, which also requires its smelters to undergo audits, says it has no indication that any of its products contain minerals that benefit armed groups. But while Apple reports more information than most companies, it stops short of declaring its products “conflict-free” and says those audits may not be enough. Apple also does its own investigations, focusing particularly on gold because it’s susceptible to smuggling and weak oversight.

Activists don’t want U.S. companies to simply stop using minerals from Congo, because that would hurt miners and their families. But some wholesalers have turned to sources elsewhere. And while the number of artisanal miners working in Congo has remained stable, IPIS estimates about 80 per cent, or 193,000 workers, are now digging for gold. They produce about 12 tons of gold each year, worth about $437 million when sold at local trading sites.

IPIS found 64 per cent of gold miners working at sites controlled by armed groups — only a slight decline from 67 per cent in 2010.

CONGOLESE ARMY “TAXES” More often than not, the gun-toting groups are units of the Congolese army, known as the FARDC. But the soldiers aren’t just there to keep the peace.

IPIS found evidence that army units interfered with mining operations, usually by collecting unauthorized taxes, at two-thirds of the sites where they

were present.

Other sites were under the control of armed militias, including a rebel group notorious for “looting, extortion, killing and sexual violence” in Congo’s Ituri district, IPIS reported.

IPIS researcher Ken Matthysen, who co-authored the new report, estimates the vast majority of Congolese gold is exported outside legal channels. He said it’s smuggled into neighbouring countries to disguise the true source, and then often exported to the United Arab Emirates.

Industry officials say gold is extremely difficult to trace through layers of wholesalers, refiners and other middlemen. They also blame ongoing civil unrest in the DRC. “But that shouldn’t stop us,” said David Bouffard, vice-president at Signet Jewelers, a leading retailer that says it works with auditors and industry groups to make sure it doesn’t use metal from conflict sources. “We have to help as much as we can.”

SOME IMPROVEMENTS Meanwhile, about half the miners digging for tin, tungsten or tantalum ore in the Congo are working at sites covered by an industry inspection system. IPIS found 21 per cent of 3T miners at sites under the control of armed groups. That’s a big improvement from 57 per cent in 2010.

But experts say the “tag and trace” system used for tracking 3T ore isn’t perfect. U.N. advisers reported last year that 3T minerals were still being smuggled from Eastern Congo into Rwanda. They also found a black market for altered or counterfeit tags. A separate report by the Enough Project, a human rights group, found Congolese inspectors are poorly paid and susceptible to bribes.

Tantalum mines in eastern Congo are still vulnerable to violence, according to the Enough Project.

Its report cited an incident in January 2016 when a group of Congolese soldiers fired on civilian miners in the town of Rubaya, injuring nine people.

9 per cent to $46.8 billion for the quarter that ended last month. Profit fell 19 per cent to $9 billion.

The results are a reflection of lukewarm interest in last year’s iPhone models. Apple released two new models, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, just two weeks before the quarter ended.

Apple is forecasting a return to sales growth in the three months ending December, after three quarterly declines. Analysts say that’s a good indicator for 2017. The holiday quarter is traditionally Apple’s biggest.

formats.” He said the next decade will be defined by technology that empowers people to create.

Jan Dawson, an analyst with Jackdaw Research, said Microsoft has been pushing business products and services lately. Dawson said the company “has needed a rallying point for a set of efforts around consumer use cases, and it appears to have decided on creativity as the catchphrase for this push.”

Blurring effect comes to iPhone 7 Plus with software update NEW YORK — Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus is getting a new camera capability — the blurring of backgrounds to focus attention on people or other objects in the foreground.

Apple’s “portrait mode” feature was announced in September but was unavailable until the company released its iOS 10.1 software update Monday.

It replicates an effect typically limited to larger cameras known as SLRs. Portrait mode requires an iPhone 7 Plus because it uses the phone’s two lenses to sense depth. Other iPhones have only one camera lens. The software update will still be available for other iPhones because it also comes with bug fixes and other improvements.

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Little lies lead to bigger ones: study SLIPPERY SLOPE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows.

Neuroscientists at the University College London’s Affective Brain Lab put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on the magnitude of their lies.

They said they were the first to demonstrate empirically that people’s lies grow bolder the more they fib.

The researchers then used brain scans to show that our mind’s emotional hot spot — the amygdala — becomes desensitized or used to the growing dishonesty, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience .

“You can think of this as a slippery slope with what begins as small acts of dishonesty escalating to much larger ones,” said study lead author Neil Garrett , now a neuroscience researcher at Princeton University.

“It highlights the potential dangers of engaging in small acts of dishonesty on a regular basis because these can escalate to much larger ones further down the line.”

And during this lying, brain scans that show blood supply and activity at the amygdala decrease with increasing lies, said study co-author and lab director Tali Sharot.

“The more we lie, the less likely we are to have an emotional response” — say, shame or guilt — “that accompanies it,” Sharot said.

Garrett said he suspects similar escalation factors happen in the “real world,” which would include politics, infidelity and cheating, but he

cautioned that this study was done in a controlled lab setting so more research would be needed to apply it to other situations.

University of Massachusetts psychology and brain sciences professor Robert Feldman wasn’t part of the study but praised it: “The results provide clues as to how people may become more convincing liars with practice, and it clearly suggests the danger of tolerating small, white lies, which can escalate into greater and greater levels of deception.”

Garrett, Sharot and colleagues arranged for 80 people to go through an experiment where they would see a photo of a jar full of pennies.

The subject would advise a partner in another room — someone who was looking at a photo that was less clear — how much money they should guess was in the jar. But the more the partner overestimated the bonus, based on the subject’s advice, the higher the reward.

The researchers did a couple variations of the experiment. In one version the test subject was told he and the partner would share in overestimating rewards in that case, the subject’s lies were even bigger.

But in another scenario, the test subject would benefit more from overestimating and the partner would benefit less.

That second scenario showed the increase in the magnitude in lying.

The people went from lying on average worth four British pounds (about $5) at the beginning to about eight pounds ($10) near the end of about 80 repetitions — thus going from “little lies to bigger and bigger lies,” Sharot said.

And of those 80 test subjects, 25 of them, chosen randomly, did their estimates while an MRI machine scanned

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A brain-scanning MRI machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In a study coming out in the tail end of a U.S. presidential election where the truth has been strained, neuroscientists at the University College London’s Affective Brain Lab put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on the magnitude of their lies. They said they were the first to demonstrate empirically that people’s lies grow bolder the more they fib. their brain. It showed how we get used to the lying, much like someone no longer noticing the smell of their own perfume over time and thus using more, Sharot said.

It shows people’s brains adapting to their own wrongdoing. It was so noticeable that the researchers were able to predict growing dishonesty based on the dropping activity in the amygdala.

Shaul Shavi, who runs the Behavioral Ethics Lab at the University of Amsterdam, said scientists had long suspected this slippery slope in lying existed, but there was limited proof until this “elegant” and “important”

study. And the brain scan showing a neurological link with increased lying is novel, added Maurice Schweitzer, who studies deception at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

The study found that there is a segment of people who don’t lie and don’t escalate lies, but Sharot and Garrett weren’t able to determine how rare those honest people are. It also found that people lie more when it benefits both them and someone else than when they just profit alone “That’s sort of a good thing,” Sharot said.

Electric aircraft’s early success a good sign LORNE OJA ENERGY

The amount of water vapour found in the atmosphere, is considered the number one greenhouse gas affecting global warming. Second is carbon dioxide, followed by methane, Nitrous oxide, ozone and finally chlorofluorocarbons. Interestingly enough the largest manmade source of water vapour forming clouds, is the contrails of the modern jet engine. A joint study by NOAA, the EPA, and NASA calculates that aviation’s contribution of water vapour and CO2 causing global warming issue constitutes some 3.5% of the total of all human activities.

Compare this to the Canada’s contribution to the total world emissions

of 1.59% and it makes one wonder why our illustrious leaders are being so anal about our nation’s production.

Despair not fellow earth inhabitants, in spite of the heavy tax burden that our national and provincial governments are about to place on the small population that forms this great nation, science is stepping up to the plate to address the short comings of this significant politically driven GHG issue.

Electric aircraft have gained celebrity status, notably with the circumnavigation of the globe in the aptly named Solar Impulse 2. Those of us that have seen the newscasts, will straightaway note this aircraft technology is far from a viable commercial airliner. Moreover, it was proof of concept that motivated this airfoil experiment. To that fact, electrical engines have a definite advantage over current combustion engines when it comes to flying at altitude and the subsequent low oxygen environment.

Powering these electrical purveyors of motive force is the evident bugbear in the scheme. To this end one of the world’s leading designers of lithium battery packs claims to have come up with a solution. Axial stack battery design is Luke Workman’s answer to the problem of carrying enough electric energy to sustain supersonic flight.

The simple version of his system uses a battery that actually forms the wing of the aircraft. If a wing design based on one similar to the supersonic airliner, the Concord, was to be utilized, the total amount of energy, using a airfoil this size, is calculated at 44 megawatt hours of storage.

In addition to the high energy potential, the strategy allows for greater efficiencies to be produced as wing grows in size, in this case, bigger is better. The aluminum skin of the wing is actually a major component of the 900 layers it would take to configure the enormous battery, and it forms the conductor needed for electrical cur-

rent transfer. A conductor afforded the massive area required by a wing, reduces battery heating to a negligible amount.

On a smaller scale Siemens and EADS have developed a small hybrid electrical plane. With a small gas engine as back up, a 900 kilometer range is attained. Not to be left behind, Boeing has experimented with a fuel cell driven small aircraft since 2012.

When these innovations come to commercial fruition mayhap our celebrities and leaders can traverse the world indoctrinating their lowly subjects minus the current double standard they now demonstrate.

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.

Heated debates ignore an overheating planet SCIENCE MATTERS Scientists worldwide accept that Earth is warming at an unusually rapid rate, that humans are primarily responsible, mainly by burning fossil fuels, and that the consequences for humanity will be disastrous if we don’t take immediate, widespread action.

The U.S. Defense Department calls climate change a security risk “because it degrades living conditions, human security and the ability of governments to meet the basic needs of their populations.”

People in the U.S., and around the world, are already experiencing the costly impacts: more frequent and intense extreme weather, prolonged droughts, flooding in coastal areas, contaminated water, ocean acidification, growing refugee crises and more.

Every month this year has become the new hottest on record, and the past three years have also broken records.

Considering the magnitude of the threat, you’d think global warming would merit an entire debate between the two contenders for president of

what is still the world’s most powerful and influential country. At the very least, it’s significant enough to warrant numerous questions from debate moderators and thorough policy discussions from the candidates.

So, in three debates, how many questions have moderators asked about climate? How much time have candidates devoted to discussing it?

The answer to the first question is zero. They’ve been asked about email usage, abortion, Muslims and taxes, but not about an issue that overwhelms all the others.

The answer to the second question is “barely five minutes”, mostly about energy rather than climate. One candidate extolled the virtues of fossil fuels and mythical “clean coal” while the other promoted the misguided notion of natural gas as a “bridge fuel” to help us transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. But for much of the three debates, one candidate threatened and called the other names and discussion centred on issues such as tweets about a former Miss Universe and who has the required “stamina” to lead.

That doesn’t mean both candidates and their parties are equal on climate change. One talks about the need to shift to renewable energy and has a party platform that outlines solutions. The other calls climate change a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese,

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during one of the most important, albeit bizarre, political campaigns in recent history.

Solutions and opportunities could and should be included in these debates, as well as in media coverage and everyday conversation: carbon pricing to provide incentives for clean energy and disincentives for outdated, polluting technologies; increasingly efficient and cost-effective clean energy and storage technologies; protecting natural carbon sinks; and changing agriculture practices.

We’ve ignored the problem for so long that a smooth transition is becoming more challenging every day. For those hoping to head a country that has shown leadership in so many ways to ignore or outright deny the problem is a punch in the face to humanity.

Let’s hope that, whatever the outcome on Nov. 8, the U.S. government will heed its experts at the Pentagon, NASA, NOAA and every other scientific and policy department and get serious about climate and the measures needed to ensure citizens’ well-being and survival.

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

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Kreviazuk displays energy on new album

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Chantal Kreviazuk is surprising some fans with her latest solo album, Hard Sail.

Anyone who labelled the Juno-award winner as the soft, lilting singer of Feels Like Home and Surrounded will be reconsidering once they hear her surging voice on her first single from the album, Into Me. Besides delivering this powerhouse love song on Hard Sail, Kreviazuk also recorded some lighter, dance-worthy tunes and a couple of highly personal tracks that came out of a deeply painful experience.

Cumulatively, the songs show different dimensions of the singer/songwriter than her last solo effort, Plain Jane, in 2009.

Since the past seven years were a big chunk of life, the 42-year-old said, “I hope I would sound different!”

The Juno Award winner who performs on Monday, Nov. 7, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, has been raising her three children in Los Angeles with her musician husband Raine Maida, lead singer of the band Our Lady Peace.

All three of their sons are school aged now, leaving her with more time to devote to touring and album promotion. It’s still not easy being a working mom (Kreviazuk admitted, “As soon as I am on the plane, I miss my kids and have to have Wi-Fi, so we can make a connection. I’m pretty attached”), but the artist believes in the larger picture it’s healthy spending time on projects

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Chantal Kreviazuk performs at the RDC Arts Centre on Nov. 7. “that define you, apart from being a parent.”

Since 2009, she’s been singing and writing music every day — although most of it wasn’t destined for her solo album. Professionally, she’s been collaborating with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Pitbull, Pink, Christina Aguilera and Carrie Underwood.

Hard Sail only came about “because I had something to say,” she said.

Some of her messages — particularly on the songs Lost and I Love You, originate from a very deep, painful place. The Winnipeg native witnessed a family-related tragedy. Without wanting to elaborate for privacy reasons, she said it was “something hor-

rific,” that left her feeling like she had post traumatic stress disorder.

She believes the emotional “storm” that resulted was only quelled through her songwriting.

Kreviazuk remembers being in the studio and automatically coming out with the lyrics: “Oh the only hope you’ve got/Is breathing in/And breathing out/And oh you know you can’t make it stop/That’s what tragedy/Is all about. …”

She found singing those words cathartic. “I was able to save my life that day. The song came out exactly how I wrote it. … I asked (the engineer), ‘Could you record that note-for-note, word-for-word?’ ” and he did.

On the lighter side, her new tune All I Got comes across as a danceable love letter to Maida, despite some poignant lyrics.

Kreviazuk recalled she used to be the kind of person who would have to bail on parties. But upon first meeting her husband of now 20 years, she instantly “felt like I was finally in my body.” Like the song’s lyrics say: “I don’t look for exit signs in every room I walk in/There’s nothing that need escaping.”

Although the classically trained pianist has lived in America for some time, she said she always looks forward to coming back to Canada to perform — as she is this fall, accompanied by cellist Kevin Fox, who will also play the opening set.

As a U.S. resident, Kreviazuk has been hugely unimpressed by the presidential election — particularly Donald Trump’s campaign. Calling the Republican candidate by his original family name of “Drumpf,” she said it’s disheartening that he’s given bigots a bigger voice.

“We’re going in a direction of unilateralism, of every man for himself.”

She advocates for the opposite in her song, Vicious, which is about a life of service.

Having recently come back from Peru with the charity the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which provides hearing aids to impoverished people, Kreviazuk said “the world is your family… so helping others is integral to who we are.”

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

New conductor, multicultural music for Symphonic Winds

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Symphonic Winds are starting the season with multicultural music — and a new conductor.

After 14 years, popular music director Steve Sherman has retired and passed his baton to Karen Gustafson, the new Director of Bands at Red Deer College.

Gustafson has taught across North America — most recently at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She brings extensive performance experience to the RDC Arts Centre stage on Thursday, Nov. 3, when the Symphonic Winds perform a diverse program.

Everything from Latin dances to an Italian operatic march will be played by the 50-musician orchestra of students, faculty and community members. Canadian works and traditional concert band music by Gustav Holst are also on the playbill.

Gustafson said she’s thrilled to be at RDC — and in Central Alberta, which she considers Canada’s “band central,” because of its abundance of local orchestras.

The new RDC trumpet instructor anticipates collaborating with the community. “I look forward to paying homage to this concert band’s past, while also planning for an exciting future,” added the Saskatchewan native, who completed her post-graduate degrees in Chicago and Minneapolis.

RDC’s School of Creative Arts Dean Jason Frizzell said Gustafson brings a wealth of experience to her new job.

Sherman also feels the orchestra is in good hands.

Retiring is bittersweet for the affable former band director, who took over as Symphonic Winds leader at a difficult time — just after the 2002 accidental death of former conductor Keith Mann, who founded the RDC school of music.

“That first concert was so emotional,” Sherman recalled, “but I had to take the reins and keep going …”

Hundred of musicians passed through the orchestra since then, and Sherman is grateful for all the support he received from them and the community.

“I did a lot of crazy things,” he recalled. For instance, Sherman once listed 20 Christmas songs and asked people to call in their requests, which would be performed at the seasonal concert. “The ad said: ‘You choose the music!’

The California native came to Canada for work and lifestyle reasons and married another band teacher. He was a director for the Calgary Stampede band, and later taught the trumpet at Red Deer College, and band classes at Innisfail public schools since 1981.

“I’ve been doing this a long time… it’s not a job, it’s my life.”

At 67 years old, Sherman felt it was time to step down — but he still teaches at band clinics throughout North America.“For us teachers, the music

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A rockin’ Halloween The third annual Days of the Dead festival begins this weekend in Red Deer.

The three-day music festival will include punk, metal, progressive and horrobilly music.

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Karen Gustafson takes up the baton as the new director of RDC’s Symphonic Winds. never dies — we keep going ’til we stop blowing,” he added, with a chuckle.

Tickets for the Nov. 3 show are

The festival begins at Vat Pub on Friday and Saturday and moves to the Scott Block Red Deer Black Box Theatre on Sunday.

Doors open at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $35 for all three days in advance. Tickets are available at the Soundhouse Guitar and Record Shop in Red Deer or online at www.myshowpass.com.

Fox’s Megyn Kelly to guest-host ‘Live’

available at the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

day after election NEW YORK — She may be a little bleary-eyed, but Fox News’ Megyn Kelly is booked to co-host the morning talk show Live with Kelly Ripa on the day after the election.

The show said it will be Kelly’s first time as a cohost. Live has been looking for a partner for Ripa since last spring, when Michael Strahan left to join Good Morning America.

Bette Midler revisits ‘old friends’ — her star-making songs

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Bette Midler poses for a portrait in New York. The Grammy- and Emmy Awardwinner is re-releasing a deluxe version of ‘The Divine Miss M’ her 1972 debut album that included the hits ‘Do You Want To Dance’, ’Chapel Of Love’, ’Friends’ and ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’.

NEW YORK — Bette Midler is going back to the beginning of her career — the divine beginning.

The Grammy- and Emmy Award-winner is re-releasing a deluxe version of The Divine Miss M, her 1972 debut album that included the hits Do You Want To Dance, Chapel Of Love, Friends and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. “They were the songs that launched me, really. They were the foundation on which I built my career,” Midler said. “I’m always happy to sing them because they’re friends. They’re old friends.”

Midler made a name for herself in the early 1970s singing high-energy concerts downtown with Barry Manilow as her pianist. In vintage clothing and with her bawdy personality, she breathed new life into old songs and made torch songs scalding.

“She was, and is, the most brilliant performer we have in my lifetime,” Manilow said. “When it came to the music, her taste in songs and her choices were so odd — what was on the radio those days was nothing like what she wanted to do. Her taste was very much my taste.”

Midler and Manilow put together a solid hour of music and one night lured Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun to a swanky midtown nightclub to hear it.

“The audience was so crazy that at the end of the show they carried her out on their shoulders,” Manilow recalled.

Midler soon signed with Atlantic and released The Divine Miss M based on her act. She won a best new artist Grammy in 1973 and went on to get two more, plus four Golden Globes and three Emmys. This spring she returns to Broadway in a revival of the musical Hello, Dolly!

She admitted to being a little shocked revisiting the platinum-selling album that made it all possible 44 years later: “It’s just unbelievable the way that time passes. And yet I still look fabulous. What can I say?”

Midler was hands-on with the re-release by Rhino Records, including selecting the bonus disc of singles, outtakes and demos. There are five unreleased recordings, including “Mr. Freedom And I,” and an alternate version of Superstar.

She recalled that recording the album was stressful because co-producers Joel Dorn and Manilow didn’t get along: “In those days, I was really caught between a rock and a hard place. I couldn’t really stand up for myself.”

Dorn, who had produced Roberta Flack, was the first to take a crack at it. He threw out Manilow’s tried-andtrue arrangements and started from scratch. When it was finished, Midler stopped by to play it for Manilow.

“She sounded beautiful and professional and boring,” said Manilow. “She was never boring. That’s the last word you would ever describe Bette Midler, especially in those days.”

Manilow vowed to not let that album out — “I was this young, punk musician but I believed so much in her,” he said.

HEALTH

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Girls and autism IT CAN BE SUBTLE OR ABSENT FOR SOME AT RISK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Think autism and an image of an awkward boy typically emerges. The developmental disorder is at least four times more common in boys, but scientists taking a closer look are finding some gender-based surprises: Many girls with autism have social skills that can mask the condition. And some girls are born without autism despite the same genetic mutations seen in boys with the condition.

The gender effect is a hot topic in autism research and one that could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating a condition that affects at least one in 68 U.S. children.

Better understanding of gender’s role is key to helping the most people, said Kevin Pelphrey, an autism researcher at George Washington University. “Autism may not be the same thing in boys and girls.”

WHAT SCIENCE SHOWS The causes of autism aren’t known but various genetic mutations are thought to play a role and outside factors including older parents and premature birth also have been implicated.

Brain imaging suggests there may be an additional explanation for why many girls with autism have more subtle symptoms, Pelphrey said.

“The surprising thing we are finding is that even in girls who clearly have autism,” brain regions involved in social behaviour that are normally affected are less severely impaired, he said.

Recent studies on autism-linked genes have found another gender difference.

Girls can have the same kinds of genetic mutations seen in boys with autism, “and even need to have twice as many mutations on average to actually manifest with autism,” said Joseph Buxbaum, director of an autism centre at Mount Sinai medical school in New York City.

Buxbaum is among researchers trying to identify a “protective factor” that may explain how some girls at genetic risk remain unaffected, perhaps a protein or other biological marker that could be turned into a drug or other therapy to treat or even prevent autism. That possibility is likely a long way off, but Pelphrey said this line of research has prompted excitement among autism scientists.

MAKING A DIAGNOSIS There’s no autism blood test. It’s diagnosed by observing behaviour and some experts say gender-based differences highlight a need to develop different ways to evaluate boys and girls.

Autism screening is recommended for all kids at age 18 months and two years. But screening tools typically are based on research in autistic boys, said Rachel Loftin, clinical director of an autism centre at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

One widely used screening questionnaire for parents focuses on social deficits seen more often in autistic boys than affected girls. Questions include “Does your child play make-be-

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Evee Bak, left, talks with her brother Tommy while they wait to talk with reporters at the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Tom has autism but Evee doesn’t. The gender effect is a hot topic in autism research and one that could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating the condition. lieve, make eye contact, seek praise, show interest in other children?” Girls with autism, especially mild cases, often don’t show obvious problems in those categories — they’re more likely than affected boys to play pretend with toys rather than lining them up by size or shape. Loftin said they’re also more likely to show concern for another person’s feelings.

Government data show that all forms of autism — mild to severe — are more common in boys and that the average age at diagnosis is four years in boys and girls. But Loftin said anecdotal evidence suggests a two-year lag time in diagnosis for girls, especially those with mild cases. And she suspects many cases are missed or misdiagnosed. That means a delay in early intensive behaviour therapy that is the main treatment for autism.

Some girls manage to camouflage symptoms until school pressures to fit in become overwhelming, delaying diagnosis until around age eight or nine, said Alycia Halladay, chief science officer at the Autism Science Foundation, a non-profit educational and research-funding group.

Prominent autism advocate, professor and author Temple Grandin didn’t fit that mould. She wasn’t fully verbal until age four. “It was obvious something was drastically wrong with me,” Grandin said. With “1950’s parenting”

Cholesterol test for one-year-olds?

STUDY SAYS IT COULD HELP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What if a blood test could reveal that your child is at high risk for early heart disease years in the future, giving you a chance to prevent it now?

A big study in England did that — screening thousands of babies for inherited risk — and found it was twice as common as has been thought.

The study also revealed parents who had the condition but didn’t know it, and had passed it on to their children. Ninety per cent of them started taking preventive medicines after finding out.

Researchers say the two-generation benefits may convince more parents to agree to cholesterol testing for their kids.

An expert panel in the United States recommends this test between the ages of nine and 11, but many aren’t tested now unless they are obese or have other heart risk factors such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

For every 1,000 people screened in the study, four children and four parents were identified as being at risk for early heart disease. That’s nearly twice as many as most studies in the past have suggested.

“We really need to pay attention to this,” said Dr. Elaine Urbina, director of preventive cardiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a member of the U.S. expert panel.

“It’s reasonable to screen for something that’s common, dangerous and has a treatment that’s effective and safe.”

Dr. William Cooper, a pediatrics and preventive medicine professor at Vanderbilt University, called it “an innovative approach” that finds not just kids at risk but also parents while they’re still young enough to benefit from preventive treatment, such as cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Statins aren’t recommended until

around age 10, but certain dietary supplements such as plant sterols and stanols could help younger kids, Urbina said.

“We’re not talking about putting all these kids on statins,” she said.

The study was led by Dr. David Wald at Queen Mary University of London. He and another author founded a company that makes a combination pill to prevent heart disease. The work was funded by the Medical Research Council, the British government’s health research agency. Results were published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers were testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder that, untreated, raises the risk of a heart attack by age 40 tenfold.

They did a heel-stick blood test on 10,059 children ages one to two during routine immunization visits to check for high cholesterol and 48 gene mutations that can cause the disorder. If a child was found with the disorder, parents were tested.

One in 270 children had the gene mutations others were identified through cholesterol levels alone.

“That’s a pretty common genetic defect,” said Dr. Stephen Daniels, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a member of the U.S. expert panel.

But many parents balk at the idea of testing children for a disorder associated with middle age, experts say.

Karen Teber, a media relations specialist in Madison, Wisconsin, was surprised when a doctor wanted to test her 12-year-old stepson. “My reluctance was really born out of lack of information,” she said. “I hadn’t heard of it before.”

The study did not address whether screening is cost-effective. In the U.S., cholesterol tests cost around $80 and usually are covered by health insurance, though much lower prices often are negotiated.

including intense encouragement to develop social skills and other talents, she said she learned to adapt.

A MOM’S CONCERN Allison Klein worried about possible autism in her daughter, Jillian, for three years before the little girl was finally diagnosed. Jillian couldn’t tolerate loud noises, grew withdrawn around her preschool classmates and lagged behind their academic progress. She was labelled anxious, not autistic.

“She didn’t meet the stereotypical behaviours of no eye contact, no communication, hand flapping,” Klein said. “It was always the hands-off approach” from teachers and doctors.”

“They’d say “‘Let’s wait and see.

Give her some time, she’ll grow out of it. She’s just shy,’” Klein recalled.

“People dismiss it in girls.”

A few months ago, just before Jillian turned six, Rush University’s Loftin confirmed Klein’s concerns. Jillian has mild autism. Now the family is playing catch-up in getting her needed services.

SIBLINGS AND AUTISM Buxbaum, the Mount Sinai researcher, is seeking to enrol hundreds of families with autistic sons but unaffected daughters in a study looking for genetic clues and protective factors.

Funded by the Autism Science Foundation, the Autism Sisters Project be-

gan last year with the goal of building a big database that other scientists can use. Girls and their families visit the New York lab to give saliva samples for DNA analysis and efforts are underway to expand DNA collection to other sites.

Evee Bak, 15, hopes her saliva samples will eventually benefit her older brother Tommy. The suburban Philadelphia siblings are just a year apart.

They play in a garage band— Evee on drums, Tommy on guitar and vocals.

He’s a masterful musician, but has trouble reading social cues and doing things that come easy to other teens, like shopping alone or using public transportation.

“The thing at the forefront of my mind is mostly just taking care of Tommy and making sure he’s happy and healthy,” Evee said.

Tommy was diagnosed at age three, after he stopped using words he’d learned months earlier and showed unusual behaviour including repetitively lining up toys instead of playing with them.

“He’s a wonderful person and I don’t think that we’d ever want to change him,” said his mother, Erin Lopes. But they’d welcome anything that could help him function as independently as possible “because I think that’s what he really wants, is to be independent.” cial hand at home, instead of the lab, as they go about their everyday lives.

HEALTH BRIEFS

Artificial hand helps amputees feel just how hard to squeeze WASHINGTON — A next-generation artificial hand is letting two amputees tell the difference between a soft or firm touch. It’s another step toward developing prosthetics with a sense of touch, thanks to implanted electrodes that let them feel pressure.

Scientists from Case Western Reserve University studied how nerves fire to signal different amounts of pressure. They implanted electrodes in nerves in the stumps of the amputees’ remaining limb, and attached a prosthetic with sensors.

They found the electrodes allowed the men to feel the same intensity of pressure in the artificial hand as in their other hand. Now the men are taking the next big step, testing the artifi-

Experts hope mosquito-borne bacteria can beat Zika LONDON — Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading the Zika virus and other dangerous diseases.

British and American governments are teaming up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K.based Wellcome Trust to expand field tests in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the city of Bello in northwest Colombia, philanthropist Bill Gates told a conference Wednesday.

The tests revolve around the Wolbachia genus of bacteria, which has been shown to hamper the spread of viruses when it’s carried by mosquitoes. The virus doesn’t occur naturally in Aedes aegypti — the tropical mosquitoes primarily responsible for spreading viruses such as Zika.

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Trump, Clinton masks snapped up quickly

BY IAN SHAPIRA ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — Ben and Melissa Arnold wasted no time. The couple from Ohio landed at Reagan National Airport earlier this month, rented a car and drove straight to Total Party, a big Halloween costume purveyor two miles away.

Their plan: Buy Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton masks. Wear them the next day on the Mall. Take selfies of one another at each iconic monument Ben as Trump, Melissa as Clinton. And post every photo on Facebook.

“I told her about the idea on the plane, and she said, ‘Heck, yeah. We’re doing it,’ ” said Ben Arnold, 36, a chemical plant operator.

The Arnolds, Republicans from Marietta, Ohio, who were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary in Washington, couldn’t resist a little pre-election fun – or maybe fright.

And they help explain the hordes of people who, after such an ugly campaign season, will go to parties or knock on doors Oct. 31 wearing latex or foam masks of this year’s highly unpopular presidential candidates.

Because these masks, they are nasty: The various Donald Trump offerings – made in China and Mexico – show a man with a screaming mouth, face aflame, and eyes squinting in fury. The Hillary Clinton likenesses aren’t flattering, either. One company’s version shows the former secretary of state with greenish teeth, wrinkles galore, and a very, very creepy smile.

In normal presidential election/Halloween cycles, the best-selling mask is the candidate who goes on to take the White House, according to Halloween costume executives.

This year, though, it may be just the opposite.

Spirit Halloween, the world’s largest retailer specializing in Halloween attire, teamed up with Harris Poll, which surveyed 2,000 American adults in late August and came up with several “key findings,” announced in a press release headlined, “Spirit Hal-

loween to Predict Results of the Most Frightening Presidential Election Yet.” The top reason people would choose Trump for Halloween is to be funny, whereas the No. 1 reason they’d dress up as Hillary is that they like her. The Harris poll also found that twice as many Americans who want to dress up as Trump say they’d do it to mock him.

Spirit Halloween makes it especially easy to parody Trump, given that its collection includes masks called “Loud Mouth Donald Trump Mask,” “Cry Baby Trump Mask,” and “Tax Evasion Trump Mask.” (Cry Baby and Tax Evasion are made of foam and cost $12.99. But Loud Mouth, which is made of latex, is $29.99.)

Over at Rubie’s, the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of Halloween costumes, the “Donald Latex Mask” is outselling the “Hillary Latex Mask” by a ratio of three-to-one, said Howie Beige, the company’s executive vice president. Though Rubie’s didn’t partner with any polling outfit, Beige said based on his company’s sales and his conversations with numerous retailers selling his masks, he knows that a large percentage of people are buying the “Donald Latex Mask” to ridicule Trump.

“I think you’re going to find a lot of people wearing the Donald mask, calling themselves ‘The Grabber,” said Beige, referring to the 2005 Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged that he can “grab” women “by the p—-y.” “You’re not going to have people just put on the Trump mask and walk around as Trump. You’ll see a twist. Like with the Richard Nixon mask. Most of the time people wore that with a prison outfit.”

And yet, the Arnolds weren’t hate-buying their “Billionaire Tycoon Mask” from Total Party in Crystal City, Va. They are leaning towards voting for Trump in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

As they put on their Trump and Clinton masks by the Lincoln Memorial and began taking selfies, some tourists stopped and gawked. This being the smart phone era, people also took

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Ben Arnold, right, and his wife Melissa, of Marietta, Ohio, came to Washington to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. To celebrate, they decided to take selfies of themselves at various tourist sites wearing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump masks. pictures of the Arnolds taking pictures of themselves. But not everyone got the joke.

“This is just weird,” said Karen Pajotte, a nurse and undecided voter from Rhode Island, who began wincing. “The election this year is a kind of a joke.”

Just then, a crowd of thick-chested men swarmed around the Arnolds on the Lincoln Memorial steps, posing for a group shot with the fake Trump and fake Clinton. They were international military members from Egypt and other countries, training at the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College.

When a reporter approached, they quickly dispersed.

“One of the guys said to me, ‘You represent America well!” said Ben, taking off his Trump mask off for a breather.

Ben’s Trump mask is an especially alarming one, and raises an important question: Why does the mask’s manufacturer – H.M. Smallwares or HMS, based in Canada - call it “The Billionaire Tycoon Mask” and not “The Donald Trump Mask?”

Lorenzo Caltagirone, the longtime owner of Total Party, praised HMS’s $24.95 Trump mask as by far the most realistic on the market, which is why he sells it.

But he wondered whether HMS is worried about potential litigation with the Trump empire over branding the mask with Trump’s name.

Reached by phone, Mark Feigelman, a co-owner of HMS, said he didn’t know why.

“We just decided to call it ‘The Billionaire Tycoon Mask.’ There’s no reason,” Feigelman said, “I really gotta go.”

Morman church’s new message permits gays JUST NOT GAY SEX

BY JULIE ZAUZMER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Getting the gadget-obsessed to look at old stuff

BY RUTH EGLASH ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES JERUSALEM — There is no shortage of ancient artifacts in the Holy Land. Some have already been found, and others are just waiting to be discovered.

But the big question is whether fragments of pottery, fraying textiles and decaying manuscripts can elicit excitement these days when people are glued to technology.

Can archaeology draw big crowds?

The Israel Antiquities Authority thinks so, and it is constructing a multimedia, multi-floored underground complex designed to show off some of the best finds from the past 1.5 million years.

Uzi Dahari, the authority’s deputy director, said that Israel has more than two million ancient artifacts in storage that can’t be squeezed into any of Israel’s existing museums. So the authority is building what he calls an “archaeological campus,” an interactive center where items from every prehistoric and historical period in this fraught land will be stored and displayed.

The centre, which is due to be completed in 2018, will also house one of the largest archaeological libraries in the Middle East, specialized archaeological laboratories for rescuing and restoring ancient relics, and climate-controlled storage rooms.

“The centre will explain the history of this land and will give everyone the chance to connect with history via archaeology,” the authority’s director, Yisrael Hasson, said during a recent tour of the multiplex.

There are, for example, between 15,000 to 16,000 parchments from the Dead Sea Scrolls collection that were discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea about 70 years ago and have been studied intensely by historians ever since.

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Preserving the past and teaching future generations about it is certainly a noble feat, but a question remains: Is

there interest in one more antiquities museum in Jerusalem?

The city is already packed with historical sites and museums. The new project will be flanked by the Israel Museum, with its own collection of antiquities, and the Bible Lands Museum, which displays mostly antiquities.

“We don’t want to be in competition with these places,” said Dahari, who is heading the project. “We expect the place to draw researchers who want to learn about the archaeology here, it is the only place where one can learn about Israeli archaeology.”

Speaking at an event at the center last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campus represented a defiant response to those “attempting to deny, ignore or erase our history in our land.” He was referring to a resolution recently passed by UNESCO, the UN cultural and heritage agency, that did not mention the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism and once a site of two Jewish temples.

The place is now home to the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

The new archaeology campus, the National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, was designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie. The building reflects the layering of archaeology, flowing down 10 floors deep into the ground. The upper floors will display a wide variety of mosaics, pottery, manuscripts and other interesting finds, but the 10th floor below ground will hold what Dahari calls the “state treasures.”

Several storerooms with wide portholes line the hallway on that floor.

Each room will have a specific type of lighting, temperature gauge and climate control designed to best preserve the historical items. There will be separate rooms for ancient textiles, old coins, bronze, jewelry and manuscripts.

In addition, a dusty, dimly lit hall with a suspended bridge will allow visitors a chance to glimpse thousands of oversize artifacts. It has the aura of a mysterious Indiana Jones adventure.

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A piece of a life-size human statue discovered in April in the sea off the coast of Caesarea in Israel, part of marine cargo from a merchant ship that sank in 400 AD, sits in a display cabinet at the entrance to what will become Jerusalem’s archeology center.

The last time the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a website on the church’s relationship with homosexuality, the church titled the Web page, “Mormons and Gays.”

This time, they’re calling it “Mormon and Gay.” Not two separate groups. One and the same.

You can be gay while being Mormon, the new website says – as long as you don’t have gay sex.

“They’re loved. They’re supported.

They’re part of the church,” said L. Whitney Clayton, who serves on the Presidency of the Seventy, making him one of the most powerful leaders in the Mormon Church. “We want them to feel happy and included in the kingdom of God.” To that end, the church released its glossy new website Tuesday, filled with high-production-value videos of gay and lesbian people explaining how they manage to stay Mormon and find fulfillment without entering same-sex relationships.

But to advocates for LGBT inclusion, the new website’s words of welcome fall far short of sufficient. Welcoming gay people without welcoming

gay relationships, they say, is no true welcome at all. And this website does not introduce any change to the strict position of the church, which last year declared that anyone in a same-sex relationship is an apostate, and their children cannot be baptized unless they are over 18 and have renounced their parents’ relationship and moved out of their house.

“It’s highly problematic,” John Dehlin, founder of the popular podcast Mormon Stories, said about the church’s outreach to gay people.

“They’re acting like the most homophobic church in all of Christianity.

And yet they’re trying to send this double message that gays are welcome.”

The videos tell personal stories. In one, a woman named Laurie paints tiles, walks on the beach near her California home, and plays a board game with her husband and son. She talks about her history of dating women.

“I ended up with a woman who I fell in love with and I felt like I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, and it felt right. But there were still times when I had this feeling that God did not want me in that life,” she says. She went to church. She married a man.

Another video features Josh, who has chosen a life of celibacy as a gay Mormon.

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Back-to-business for oilsands producers SHRUGGING OFF LINGERING IMPACTS OF THE DEVASTATING WILDFIRES IN FORT MCMURRAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Oilsands producers are expected to report back-to-business third-quarter results over the next few days as they shrug off lingering impacts of last May’s devastating wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alta.

While provincial estimates report that Alberta oilsands production dropped by about one million barrels per day in May and by about 700,000 bpd in June, financial analysts say the industry’s main players were producing normal volumes in the threemonth period that followed.

Calgary-based Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) oilsands production dropped to 178,000 barrels per day in the second quarter and it reported a $735-million loss as it shut down production from both mining and steam-injected well operations. Financial analysts expect it to report late Wednesday that oilsands output had been restored to over 440,000 bpd in the quarter ended Sept. 30.

Suncor owns 54 per cent of the Syncrude Canada consortium. Its oilsands mining and upgrading operations were shut down due to a fire-related evacuation, although its facilities suffered no damage.

“We expect Syncrude ran like gangbusters this quarter and estimate utilization at 91 per cent for production of about 171,200 bpd (net to Suncor),” said CIBC analyst Arthur Grayfer in a report to investors.

Syncrude’s strong production is also expected to boost results at Calgary-based Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO), which owns 25 per cent of the consortium. Imperial is set to report on Friday.

The senior oil company reported a $181-million loss in the second quarter and estimated the wildfires reduced its production by an average of 60,000 bpd.

Analysts expect the third-quarter recovery in production will be tempered by a maintenance shutdown at its Kearl oilsands mining operations.

Calgary oilsands analyst Michael Dunn of GMP FirstEnergy said in a report he will be watching for hints of potential deals between Imperial and Calgary-based Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) when the

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A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near Fort McMurray. Oilsands producers are expected to report back-to-business third quarter results over the next few days. latter reports on Thursday morning.

Dunn said Cenovus may be working with American refining partner Phillips 66 to bid on a Billings, Mont., refinery owned by Imperial’s parent company, U.S.-based ExxonMobil.

He speculated Imperial may be interested in buying undeveloped oilsands leases from Cenovus to build projects using its solvent-aided steam technology to produce oilsands through wells.

NEB downgrades oil production outlook CALGARY — The National Energy Board has downgraded its long-term outlook for oil prices and Canadian production in the face of lower global industry costs and stricter environmental regulations.

In an update released Wednesday, the regulator projects inflation-adjusted oil prices rising to US$68 a barrel by 2020 and US$90 by 2040, $12 and $17 a barrel lower, respectively, than in its January report.

“A lot of it is the ability of oil production to be sustained at lower prices,” said Shelley Milutinovic, chief economist at the NEB. “There’s an expectation that somewhere between 40 and 60 dollars a barrel, you can get a lot of oil production around the world,” she said.

The lower prices are expected to translate to lower long-term production for Canada, where costs are comparatively high.

The NEB projects oil production to increase from four million barrels a day in 2015 to 5.7 million barrels a day by 2040, which is 391,000 barrels a day less than what it estimated in its January report.

The lower oil prices would only have a modest effect on increased oilsands production in the near-term, as projects are already under construction, but recently cancelled and deferred projects start to hit production numbers by 2019.

Increasing prices in the longer-term would bring a return to steam-extraction oilsands growth, while mining-based oilsands production remains flat from 2020 onward as the high cost of the large-scale projects make them less economic.

Rapidly changing climate policy is also creating increased uncertainty for

oil and gas, but so far it’s playing out more in changing projections in the electricity sector.

The NEB sees non-hydro renewable energy making up 12 per cent of electricity generation by 2040, up from eight per cent in the January report, while coal drops from seven to one per cent of generation, as Alberta’s and Ontario’s climate plans take full force.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also committed to imposing a national carbon price on provinces that don’t initiate their own programs, but Milutinovic said the policy was announced too late to be incorporated into the report.

“Things are changing very very quickly, particularly with respect to climate policy,” said Milutinovic. “It’s a very fast-moving target.”

Technology improvements and stricter regulations continue to push down energy demands, she said, with energy consumption growth rising only 0.5 per cent a year compared with 0.7 in the last report and 1.3 per cent over the past 25 years.

“We’re in a time of so much considerable change when it comes to climate policy, which is very influential when it comes to energy markets,” said Milutinovic.

Climate change is also leading to greater scrutiny and uncertainty on pipeline proposals in Canada, but the NEB assumes infrastructure will be built as needed in its projections.

Similarly, the NEB assumes liquefied natural gas exports begin in 2021, even though no export projects have been sanctioned.

The report estimates that the opening of exports would boost natural gas production from 14.8 billion cubic feet per day in 2020 to 17.3 billion cubic feet per day by 2025.

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Precision Drilling rehiring demonstrates a bit of optimism

GLOBAL INDUSTRY COSTS, STRICTER REGULATIONS

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“All said, we think there are two separate, but not entirely unrelated, reasons for Exxon and Cenovus to be having discussions, and so it is likely that discussions are ongoing,” he said, adding he thinks it’s unlikely that Imperial would consider a corporate takeover of Cenovus.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Word that Precision Drilling hoped to put 1,000 people back to work was pounced on by those looking for a little oilpatch optimism.

Darren Ruhr, Precision’s vice-president of corporate services, points out that a lot of the hiring announced by the company president last week is part of the oil sector’s traditional winter activity ramp-up.

However, there have been a few glimmers of light in what has been a dark year for Alberta’s trademark industry.

“There’s a little bit of optimism out there that we have hit bottom,” he said on Wednesday. Oil hitting $50 a barrel also helped.

Red Deer, along with Grande Prairie and Lloydminster, is where Precision does a lot of its service rig recruiting. Lately, Precision has been hiring 20 to 25 workers a month, many of them experienced past employees.

Precision president and CEO Kevin Neveu says in a release accompanying a report on the company’s third-quarter earnings last week that “customer sentiment has substantially improved.”

Activity levels in the Canadian operations are approaching 2015 levels but “it is still historically low and pricing remains highly competitive.”

John Bayko, of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC), said the hiring going on now has more to do with the season than commodity prices or other factors.

‘PEOPLE ARE JUST LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF AN UP-TICK JUST TO SAY SOMETHING POSITIVE. THAT’S JUST A COMMENT ON HOW LONG THINGS HAVE BEEN BAD.’ — DARREN RUHR, PRECISION DRILLING’S VICE-PRESIDENT “We’ve heard some rumblings that things are picking up, but other than that we haven’t heard too much,” he said.

Given the economic climate, it’s perhaps not surprising Precision’s kernel of good news got so much traction.

“People are just looking for any kind of an up-tick just to say something positive,” he said. “That’s just a comment on how long things have been bad.

“In downtown Calgary, the mood has been grim for a long time.”

Any improvement will be welcomed. 2016 has now officially gone into the books as the industry’s worst year since CAODC began issuing rig counts in the late 1970s.

“We’re really hoping that ’17 is a little better, but we’re not anticipating much of an increase in Canada,” said Bayko.

Some of the larger companies with a U.S. presence are seeing more activity south of the border.

“Saskatchewan is also seeing more activity year over year. Alberta is not seeing more activity year over year for Q4.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Hard lines being drawn on softwood dispute CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WARNS U.S. SENATORS OF POTENTIAL LUMBER DISPUTE CONSEQUENCES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The Canadian government is warning U.S. politicians about the consequences of a possible new softwood-lumber dispute.

A letter from International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland and David MacNaughton, the Canadian ambassador to Washington, went out today to two dozen senators — with a copy to President Barack Obama.

The letter says American lawmakers are being misled by their domestic lumber lobby about what’s been delaying a new softwood agreement since the expiry of the previous decade-old deal.

It says the Canadian side has acted in good faith,

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meeting U.S. officials seven times and U.S. lumber lobbyists twice, and releasing four position papers, along with a detailed proposal that meets conditions set out by Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

But it accuses the lobby group, the U.S. Lumber Coalition, of inflexible protectionism, with demands that would reduce the Canadian share of the U.S. market by 30 per cent.

It points to estimates from a U.S. homebuilders’ organization of the damage its proposal would cause Americans themselves: well over $1 billion a year in housing investment and more than 9,000 full-time jobs.

“Such an approach would cause widespread shortages of lumber in the United States and greatly increase prices for consumers,” says the letter, dat-

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“We remain determined to reach a fair and reasonable arrangement.”

Softwood lumber was excluded from Canada-U.S. free trade deals, causing periodic flareups over that product. The dispute is rooted in the longstanding contention of American lumber companies that Canadian competitors get an unfair price advantage, because of cheap, market-distorting access to public land.

That has caused a recurring cycle of lawsuits, U.S. tariffs, appeals to international trade bodies, followed by agreements that temporarily bring peace through a series of measures limiting Canadian exports.

The latest agreement was reached in 2006, and it just expired.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 124.83 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.28 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.51 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.69 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.85 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.32 Cdn. National Railway . . 84.30 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 192.17 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.00 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.87 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.76 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.76 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 58.32 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.15 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.89 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.58 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 30.80 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.89 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 54.40 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 29.99 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.93 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.99 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 61.39 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 130.11 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.78 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.35

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The price of oil continued its slide on Wednesday with a third consecutive day of losses, as it and other commodities dragged down the Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index.

“For the Canadian market really not much is working today … given our significant reliance on the resource stocks,” said Monika Skiba, a senior portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

The December crude contract shed 78 cents US to US$49.18 a barrel on Wednesday. The price of oil has lost US$1.67 since Monday’s close.

Wednesday’s drop came partly from news that the National Energy Board downgraded its long-term outlook for oil prices and Canadian production, Skiba said.

The NEB projects inflation-adjusted oil prices to be US$68 a barrel by 2020 and US$90 by 2040, which is US$12 and US$17 a barrel lower, respectively, than its January report.

It also projects oil production will increase to 5.7 million barrels a day by 2040, several hundred thousand barrels a day less than its previous report.

While this news impacted crude’s value, Skiba said “OPEC really is the driver,” adding that more clarity on prices will come after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ meeting on Nov. 30. The group’s 14 members are expected to hash out a plan to cut oil production.

Skiba said Iraq’s recent request to be exempted from the arrangement has again raised questions about whether the members will be able to cut production enough. That uncertainty has

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 66.87 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 30.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.59 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.15 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.24 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.62 First Quantum Minerals . 12.21 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.50 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.17 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.06 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.72 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.45 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.890 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.14 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.64 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.58 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 54.76 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.48 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.20 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.56 Canyon Services Group. . 5.53 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.16 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.77 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.600

lowered energy prices, she said.

December gold contracts also fell Wednesday, dropping $7.00 to US$1,266.60, as the market again contemplates whether America’s central bank will raise interest rates in December.

It’s now maybe less likely America will see negative interest rates, said Skiba, which isn’t great for gold.

The gold sector was among the worst performing in Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index. It fell nearly three per cent, while the energy sector dropped more than one per cent. The TSX slipped by 63.07 points to 14,807.56.

“So we have a lot of areas of weakness in the market and not enough to carry it to a positive territory,” Skiba said.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 30.06 points to 18,199.33, while the S&P 500 fell 3.73 points to 2,139.43. The Nasdaq composite lost 33.13 points to 5,250.27.

The Canadian dollar, meanwhile, was at 74.73 cents US, down 0.17 of a U.S. cent.

Elsewhere in commodities, December natural gas shed 11.3 cents to US$3.04 per mmBTU and December copper contracts were relatively unchanged at about US$2.15.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,807.56, down 63.07 points Dow — 18,199.33, up 30.06 points S&P 500 — 2,139.43, down 3.73 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.09 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 47.62 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.64 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.26 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.69 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.18 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.20 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.29 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.38 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.73 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.72 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0650 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 86.67 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.76 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.67 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.92 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.82 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.69 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.88 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.48 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.90 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.730 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 83.65 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.75 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.63

Nasdaq — 5,250.27, down 33.13 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.73 cents US, down 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$1.6367, up 0.97 of a cent Euro — C$1.4589, up 0.49 of a cent Euro — US$1.0902, up 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.18 per barrel, down 78 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,266.60 per oz., down $7.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.563, down 7.3 cents $789.70 kg., down $2.35 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $3.20 higher $510.20 Jan. ‘17 $4.50 higher $518.20 March ‘17 $4.30 higher $523.30 May ‘17 $4.80 higher $525.80 July ‘17 $6.10 higher $525.50 Nov. ‘17 $6.50 higher $506.00 Jan. ‘18 $7.00 higher $508.70 March ‘18 $7.00 higher $510.00 May ‘18 $7.00 higher $511.10 July ‘18 $7.00 higher $511.10 Nov. ‘18 $7.00 higher $511.10.

Barley (Western): 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 Dec. ‘18 unchanged $135.50.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 768,940 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 768,940.

Time running out on EU trade deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Time was running out on the European Union to sign a landmark free trade deal with Canada on Thursday after Belgium failed to make decisive headway to lift a crucial veto of one of its regions.

In a race against the clock to avoid an embarrassing cancellation of a special summit, recalcitrant Francophone leaders insisted late Wednesday they would need more time to study and approve the latest compromise texts following talks with the Belgian national government, which desperately wants to sign the trans-Atlantic deal.

The 28-nation EU can only sign the agreement if it has unanimity among its 28 member states and Belgium can only approve it is all its regional executives back it.

But Wallonia leader Paul Magnette said late Wednesday that his region would not be able to approve the deal in the coming hours, making it ever more unlikely the full signing ceremony with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could be held on Thursday.

“We regret it but it won’t be possible to have the summit tomorrow, but nothing is impossible,” he said, leaving little space for approval. Earlier he had said that an EU-Canada summit would come “one day, but not tomorrow!”

It showed that despite the likelihood of missing the Thursday deadline, the talks with Wallonia were heading toward a compromise which would allow the signature at a later stage.

In Ottawa, Trudeau suggested he’s prepared to wait out a longer timeline.

“We are confident that in the coming days we will see a positive outcome for this historic deal,” the prime minister told the Commons during question period Wednesday.

Magnette, the Wallonia leader, said that some details still need to be clarified, notably in the agriculture sector where he wants his farmers better protected.

If the regional leaders agree, the adjustments to assuage Wallonia would have to be vetted by the 27 other nations and then likely still have to go back to the regional francophone legislatures for approval. It makes the deadline for signature next to impossible.

If not Thursday, the summit could be postponed for later in the year, but the failure would be an embarrassment for the EU, the world’s biggest trading bloc which wants to project itself as a dependable global partner.

Politicians in Wallonia, which has a population of 3.6 million compared to more than 500 million for the whole EU, argue that the proposed accord would undermine labour, environment and consumer standards.

Home prices are rising at a faster rate: CMHC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There is mounting proof that home prices are rising at a faster rate, Canada’s federal housing agency said Wednesday as it increased its risk rating for the national housing market to its highest level for the first time.

Back in July, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said there was little indication of price acceleration, which occurs when home prices are climbing faster than the historical average.

But in its latest housing market assessment report released Wednesday, CMHC said it now sees moderate evidence that price acceleration is occurring on a national level.

Accelerating prices are a possible sign that speculation — the buying and selling of homes to turn a profit — is taking place, according to the agency.

CMHC also said there was strong evidence that increases in income and population growth have not kept up with the rise in home prices over the last quarter.

The two factors combined prompted CMHC to raise a red flag about possible risks in the national housing market for the first time ever, hiking its risk rating from moderate to strong — something that CMHC signalled earlier this month it was going to do.

However, the agency is predicting that the market will start to balance itself out next year, with both sales and the pace of housing starts expected to decline next year before stabilizing in 2018.

“When you have an imbalance like what we’re seeing right now in that the level of prices is beyond what fundamentals can support, over the medium term, those kinds of things historically have been resolved,” CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan said during a conference call.

“So we would expect to see prices moving more in line with fundamen-

Business BRIEFS Driver, train owner in Lac-Megantic disaster added to class action lawsuit MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge is allowing changes to the class action lawsuit in the 2013 LacMegantic disaster.

Justice Martin Bureau ruled Monday the conductor as well as the owner of the runaway train that exploded and killed 47 people have been added as respondents.

Driver Thomas Harding, Montreal Maine and Atlantic Canada Co., and Canadian Pacific Railway are now the three official respondents in the class action.

About 25 other companies and individuals were once accused in the suit but have settled with victims and creditors.

Harding’s lawyer was not immediately available for comment, while the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Canada Co. is in bankruptcy protection and no longer has employees or assets.

Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) denies

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OILSANDS: Updates from Suncor RBC analyst Greg Pardy said in a note to investors he will be looking for updates from Suncor on its target to sell between $1 billion and $1.5 billion of assets by mid-2017.

It has announced it would sell a 49 per cent stake in a storage tank farm at its under-construction Fort Hills oilsands mining project to two First Nations groups for about $500 million.

tals rather than the spread just becoming wider and wider.”

Royal LePage president Phil Soper said he agrees.

“The market does self-regulate and in only rare cases do you get a Vancouver situation, where in a relatively limited geographic area you see spiking home prices — typically due to a sharp imbalance in supply and demand,” Soper said.

Ottawa’s recent move to tighten rules on insured mortgages will help prevent the chasm between prices and economic fundamentals from becoming too wide, Dugan said.

“The imbalances resolve themselves over time, but the greater the imbalance becomes, the harder that correction can be,” Dugan said.

“So having measures that help promote stability in the market can help prevent sharp corrections in house prices.”

Earlier this month, the federal government announced a number of changes that will affect the real estate market.

Among them is a new requirement that took effect Oct. 17 where all insured mortgages have to undergo a stress test to determine whether borrowers are still able to make mortgage payments if interest rates rise or their income declines.

Previously, such stress tests weren’t required for fixed-rate mortgages longer than five years.

CMHC’s housing market assessment is intended to be an early warning system to alert Canadians about problematic conditions developing in the country’s real estate markets. It covers 15 regional markets and the national housing market as a whole.

CMHC said there is strong evidence of problematic conditions in Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, Toronto and Hamilton.

Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Quebec City show moderate evidence of such conditions, the agency said. involvement in the crash and is also facing a $409-million lawsuit brought forth by the Quebec government related to the derailment.

Canadians now spending more on Internet access than on TV OTTAWA — Canadians spent more on Internet access than television services for the first time last year, according to a report by the CRTC. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said that in 2015 communications service industry revenues from Internet access were $9.8 billion, while subscription television services accounted for $8.9 billion.

The shift also saw wireless data usage increase by 44 per cent from 2014 to 2015, while fixed data usage through home Internet services increased by about 40 per cent.

The CRTC found that Canadians aged 30 and younger spent three times more on wireless services than those aged 65 and older.

Overall, the federal regulator said communications industry revenues reached $65.7 billion in 2015, up from $64.1 billion in 2014 — a gain of 2.5 per cent, slightly above the five-year average growth rate of 2.1 per cent.

Increases in revenue for mobile and Internet services were offset by a drop in home television and home telephone service.

It also launched a sales process for its lubricants business last summer with results expected by year-end.

Analysts say Suncor may also try to sell wind project stakes in Ontario and note speculation it could look at selling its Petro-Canada retail fuel business.

Husky Energy (TSX:HSE) reports its third-quarter results on Thursday morning and is expected to update output from its 60,000-bpd capacity Sunrise oilsands project. The newly constructed project was ramping up production in May when it was forced to shut down due to lack of access to pipelines closed as a precaution because of the fires.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — His presidential dreams increasingly in question, Donald Trump pushed his business empire to the centre of his political campaign Wednesday. Taking a break from battleground states, he made the case at his newest hotel that all Americans should look to his corporate record for evidence of how well he’d run the country.

“Under budget and ahead of schedule. So important. We don’t hear those words so often, but you will,” said Trump, linking the hotel redevelopment — just blocks from the White House — to his promised performance as president. “Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country.”

Hillary Clinton agreed, but not the way he meant it. She used campaign events in Florida to attack the GOP nominee for having “stiffed American workers,” saying he built his empire with Chinese-manufactured steel, overseas products and labour from immigrants in the country illegally.

“Donald Trump is the poster boy for everything wrong with our economy,” she told several thousand supporters in Tampa, Florida. “He refuses to pay workers and contractors.”

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World BRIEFS Taliban insurgents abduct, kill 26 people KABUL — Taliban insurgents on Wednesday killed 26 Afghan civilians after abducting them in the remote central province of Ghor the previous day, officials said, the latest brutal attack targeting the local population in one of the country’s most lawless areas.

The slain civilians were from a group of 33 taken by the militants near the provincial capital of Ferozkoh, according to Ziauddin Saqib, the deputy provincial police chief. Earlier reports suggested 20 were killed but the death toll rose later in the day.

The abductions took place while battles were underway between the Taliban and Afghan security forces on Tuesday that saw two militant commanders killed, Saqib added.

Both commanders were infamous figures in Ghor and were involved in many anti-government activities, Saqib also said, adding that the “cowardly insurgents killed innocent civilians in

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and Ivanka Trump, looks at a pair of scissors for the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel-Old Post Office, Wednesday, in Washington. ed lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan and has held dozens of campaign events at his own properties. His remarks at his new Washington hotel, which has struggled to fill rooms amid the controversy surrounding his presidential bid, followed a visit Tuesday to his Doral golf course outside Miami.

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revenge for their commanders killed by security forces.”

There was no immediate statement from the Taliban on the incident in the largely lawless Ghor.

killed by Daesh or die along the way, so we ran,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for IS. The family is now living in a camp for those displaced by the fighting in an area under government control.

Other Shura residents also described being forcibly relocated to Mosul over the weekend. The militants only gave people a few minutes to leave and said any stragglers risked being punished for hiding out and trying to join the Iraqi security forces.

IS using human shields in Mosul QAYARA, Iraq — Islamic State militants have been going door-to-door in villages south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint on a mileslong trek into the city and using them as human shields as the extremists prepare to defend it from Iraqi forces, according to residents swept up in the forced evacuations.

Witnesses described scenes of chaos over the past week as hundreds of people were ordered out of their homes without having time to pack and driven north across the Ninevah plains toward the heavily-fortified city, where IS has been preparing for a climactic showdown.

“IS took all of us from our homes at gunpoint and told us they were taking us with them to Mosul,” Ahmed Bilal Harish said Wednesday. “They said if you don’t come with us you’re an unbeliever.”

He said he and his family were only able to escape when a volley of airstrikes caused the fighters to scatter during the 40-kilometre forced march from their home in the town of Shura to Mosul.

“We had two choices: We could be

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CALAIS, France — The grim camp known as “the jungle,” a symbol of Europe’s failure to come to grips with its crisis over asylum seekers, is no more.

French authorities declared Wednesday they had cleared out the camp after most of its thousands of residents were driven away on buses — an evacuation accelerated because some of the frustrated, departing migrants set fire to parts of the burgeoning slum.

Smoke hung in the air as dusk fell, its stench a reminder of how one of the world’s wealthiest nations was unable to create order at the camp, where those fleeing war and poverty have lived in squalor for months or longer.

Most of the camp’s former residents, foiled in their bid to enter Britain despite reaching the edge of the

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North Carolina for what his campaign billed as an urban policy speech.

In Charlotte, Trump unveiled what he billed a “New Deal for black America” in front of a mostly white crowd.

Trump, who has struggled to earn the support of minority voters, bemoaned that “too many African-Americans have been left behind” and unveiled a handful of new proposals aimed at revitalizing impoverished urban areas.

They included new tax incentives for inner cities, new micro-loans for African-Americans to start companies and hire workers and a plan to reinvest money from suspended refugee programs in inner cities.

He also wants cities to be able to seek federal disaster designations to help them rebuild infrastructure, demolish abandoned buildings and invest in law enforcement.

As Trump cut the ribbon, Clinton was slamming his business practices in Florida, a state he must win to have any chance on Nov. 8. In Tampa, she was introduced by restaurateur Jose Andres, a naturalized U.S. citizen who pulled out of the Washington hotel to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Trump and Andres are currently locked in litigation over the deal.

Trump’s unusual travel schedule, coming amid signs that the controversy surrounding his campaign has hurt his corporate brand, raises questions about whether the GOP nominee has begun to turn some of his focus to postelection plans.

English Channel, are being relocated to communities throughout France, where authorities vow to give them decent shelter and advice about how to seek asylum so they can stay in Europe rather than return to trouble spots in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Syria airstrikes kill 22, mostly children BEIRUT — Airstrikes in Syria killed up to 22 people, mostly children, on Wednesday when warplanes struck a residential area housing a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib, activists and rescue workers said.

A team of first responders, the Syrian Civil Defence in Idlib, said 22 people were killed and at least 50 wounded in the raids on the village of Hass.

Most of those killed were children, the group said in a posting on its Facebook page.

Another activist group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, gave the same death toll and said 14 children and a woman were among those killed.

The activist-operated Idlib News network, which gave a lower toll of 17 people killed, said the strikes hit as the children were gathered outside the school complex. It said the death toll could rise as some of the wounded were reported to be in critical condition, the network added.

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IN THE MATTER OF HE BANKRUPTCY OF BRIAN HERBERT WEBBER BKY # 24-2135848

Notice is hereby given that the deemed bankruptcy of Brian Herbert Webber, of the City of Red Deer, in the Province of Alberta, occurred on October 17, 2016, and that the first meeting of creditors will be held on November 10, 2016 at the hour of 9:00 AM at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel, 3310 50 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta.

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Winnipeg transit driver stops to carry groceries for senior WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg transit driver who stopped during the afternoon rush hour to help a senior with her groceries is receiving kudos from hundreds of people on social media.

A passenger on the Route 43 bus last week noticed what the driver did and posted a photo on Facebook.

Amber Therrien says she was confused at first about what was going on.

But then she watched as the driver carried the senior’s groceries from the bus all the way to the front door of her apartment. Therrien says she’s not sure how the woman — who had a cane and was a slow walker — would have managed otherwise.

The bus driver, Raminder Chahal, saw all the fuss on Facebook and sent a thank-you to Therrien for acknowledging his good deed.

“My eyes are filled,” Chahal said. “Thanking you from the core of my heart.”

Therrien says she has seen bus drivers do nice things before, but never to this extent. She feels Chahal went above and beyond his job.

Black bear with taste for tuna damages SUV FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS, B.C. — A Fairmont, B.C., man has learned the hard way that a tunafish sandwich can lead to a lot of damage.

RCMP say the victim left his sandwich in his SUV in the southeastern B.C., community. That wasn’t a problem, until a black bear ambled past.

Mounties say the bruin sniffed out the tasty morsel, then tore through the SUV’s sunroof to reach it.

The man reported the incident as a vandalized vehicle, but police say bear prints covering the side, hood and roof of the damaged SUV helped confirm the culprit.

Artist mows Trump portrait in Italian cornfield Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A vet holds a pygmy anteater, also known as a silky anteater, at the Huachipa Zoo, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The zoo presented on Wednesday three anteater species: giant bears, tamanduas, and pygmies, during an event to promote their pair of silky anteaters, who just turned 11 years old. The zoo is preparing a breeding program of this rare species, that does not exceed 13 cm.

MILAN — An Italian land artist has used his tractor to transform a field near the Italian city of Verona into a giant portrait of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Artist Dario Gambarin created a similar portrait of Democrat Hillary Clinton in September.

Gambarin created the Trump portrait on a 25,000-square-meter field, writing “Ciao,” beneath Trump’s left shoulder, signifying recent polls that show Clinton ahead.

Comments about weight not appropriate at family holiday buffet DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: The holidays are coming, and I’m feeling anxious already.

Most of the events with my family will include buffets — which will also include criticism about what I eat, how much I eat and how much I weigh. I am 5 feet 3 inches tall, and I weigh 115 pounds. My husband’s family members, with the exception of him, are, by medical definition, morbidly obese.

I am careful about what I eat. I exercise and take care of myself. So do my husband and our children. I have never and would never comment on what his family members eat or their weight. Why is it acceptable for them to comment on me? I’ll hear, “You don’t eat enough.” “Is that all you’re taking?” “You’re too skinny.” All comments are said loud enough for all to hear and with a snide tone.

Do I continue to smile and be silent? Is there something I should say in return? This has been going on for 29 years. — Sad About the Holidays Dear Sad: If one of your in-laws had a genuine worry about your weight and health, there would be a time and a place to talk to you about it, and it

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPE Thursday, Oct. 27 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Roberto Benigni, 64; John Cleese, 77; Kelly Osbourne, 32 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If you work hard then you’ll finish the day feeling surprisingly satisfied.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Magnetic and powerful, you need to spend lots of time on your own. 2017 is the year to be less controlling and possessive in relationships.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A passionate approach sees many energetic Rams zoom ahead at work. If you’re looking for employment, do your homework and be persistent. But don’t scare others away by being too full-on.

TAURUS (April 20x-May 20): A close relationship will be intense today Taurus, as the Sun and Mercury link up in your partnership zone. Don’t do all the talking. Instead, be observant and listen closely to what they have to say.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you been neglecting yourself Gemini? The current planetary patterns remind you to be proactive about your health and fitness, as you read up about nutritious food and regular exercise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Interactions with a child, parent or friend should be informative, as you have much to learn from each other. The Moon encourages you to contribute more of your time and talents to your local community.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What you do and say will be closely scrutinized by family members, which suits you just fine. You don’t mind if others are clap-

definitely wouldn’t be at the family holiday buffet, after a few glasses of wine, in front of every cousin, niece and nephew. It sounds as if they’re speaking more from a place of insecurity than concern.

That said, I doubt they have any idea that their comments are rude.

Because thinness is idealized in our society, many people mistakenly think it’s OK to pick on a person for being skinny, even if they would never pick on someone for being heavy.

Talk to your husband about how these comments bother you. Perhaps he can persuade them to cut it out. And if they continue with their remarks anyway, try not to let it eat at you. What matters is that you’re healthy, and that’s something only you and your doctor can determine.

Dear Annie: I totally recognized my daughter’s experience after she gave birth to my grandson in your recent column about postpartum depression.

It was heartbreaking. Your identification of it and your recommendations were spot on, but it concerns me that you did not include medication as an option, as well. Perhaps you quite correctly assumed the therapist would prescribe an appropriate medication, but you missed an opportunity to inform the public that additional help in the form of medication is out there for many.

In my daughter’s case, the proper medication was what finally enabled ping or criticizing. As long as you are being noticed, you’re happy!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Under the positive influence of the Sun and Mercury, you are extra observant and vigilant today Virgo. So it’s a terrific time to power through paperwork, research projects and tie up loose-ends.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Single Librans prefer to attract a potential partner in subtle and low-key ways. But, with Uranus still racing through your relationship zone, it’s time to be more proactive. And much more adventurous!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many smart Scorpios have a good business brain. And today’s stars are very positive for starting a commercial venture, improving your financial portfolio or studying new strategies for success.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re in a super generous mood today but don’t promise more than you can actually deliver. Talk is cheap Sagittarius! So make sure you can follow through with action and walk your talk.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you jump to conclusions or make assumptions at work, then you could find yourself in a complicated mess. So take the time to check the facts thoroughly before you make any big moves.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to a work matter or an education issue, clever communication is the key to success at the moment. So get talking, conversing and debating with colleagues, teachers or friends.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make sure you are shouldering your share of the work, otherwise others will voice their concerns. Outdoor activities beckon today but you’ve got so much to do it may be difficult to get away.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

her to break free and begin the path to regaining her old self and enjoying her son. It took her eight months to realize medication was what she needed. She looks back now and wishes she did not wait so long.

Thank you for bringing attention to the all-too-common issue of post-

partum depression. Too many people write it off as baby blues and don’t seek out help. I’m happy to say my daughter is back to her old self, while still on medication, and my grandson is now eight years old, the joy of our lives.

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