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A $3M SHOT IN THE ARM

Historic Move Wadey home relocates

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Joan Donald and her husband, Jack, address a group gathered in the foyer of the Red Deer College Arts Centre after an announcement of a $3-million contribution to the college by the Donalds Wednesday. Their contribution will go towards the new Donald Health and Wellness Centre to be located in the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre under construction at the college.

Industries Ltd. with his wife Joan.

“Everyone in the room, if you look around us here, is getting older one year at a time,” he said after the funding announcement was made at the Arts Centre foyer at the college.

He also said it’s nice to be able to help out the community now.

“We’re trying to do things while we’re still here to

enjoy seeing it happen and helping it happen, and working towards it so that it does happen,” Donald said.

RDC president Joel Ward said the Donalds are correct when they talk about preparing for an aging population by focusing on technology and health care professionals. The college is positioned to do just that.

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Health education at Red Deer College received a shot in the arm on Wednesday when philanthropists Jack and Joan Donald donated $3 million to the post-secondary institution.

The money will go towards the construction of the Donald Health & Wellness Centre, a wing in

the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.

Retiree Jack Donald said supporting health and wellness appeals to them.

“In your later years, you need more health care.

Health care is becoming more and more complex so people need more training to administer and provide it to look after people as they get older,” said Donald who founded and built Parkland

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NOVEMBER 3 1892 — First Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&ER) train arrives on the southern branch at Mekastoe.

1904 — Wilfrid Laurier wins landslide in 10th general election, defeating Robert Borden’s Conservatives; re-elected with a majority of 64 seats; 138 seats to 75 for the Conservatives; Henri Bourassa one of the new MPs elected for the Liberals.

1918 — Austria signs an armistice with the Allies, a prelude to the German surrender November 11, 1918.

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1957 — National Research Unit nuclear reactor starts operation at Chalk River; one of world’s most advanced nuclear reactors to be used for research into power generation, production of plutonium and manufacture of radioactive isotopes for use in medicine, industry and food preservation.

1995 — Toronto Raptors beat the New Jersey Nets 9479 at SkyDome, and Vancouver Grizzlies thump the Portland Trail Blazers 92-80 on opening night; First games for Canada’s new NBA expansion teams.

1999 — Beverley McLachlin first woman appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, replacing Antonio Lamer, who was retiring; sworn in January 7, 2000.

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WADEY HOME MOVED TO SITE AT ALL STAR PARK

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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century ago, early Blackfalds settler George Wadey ordered his home from Eatons and it was sent out by train and pieced together on site.

That home served generations of the Wadey family over about 80 years before the home came into the hands of the town, after the land was sold to developers.

On Wednesday, that example of early mail-order ingenuity was on the move to a new site at All Star Park, a few hundred metres from its original location. It will become the Wadey Centre, a unique visitor information centre and a space for the local chamber of commerce and Blackfalds and Area Historical Society.

Historical Society president Judy Carleton was among the small group of spectators who turned out on a chilly morning to watch as the house was slowly moved by truck down the road to its new spot at the corner of Broadway Avenue and South Street.

“Blackfalds doesn’t have very many historical houses left that are still standing, let alone in good condition,” she said.

Left empty for a number of years, the house was fortunate to survive vandals and arsonists.

“They torched the Quonset in the same yard and they broke into the house many times.”

While the interior has been trashed, the house remained structurally sound.

Carleton said the society has had its eye on the house since 2002, but there was never the money available to move it.

That changed last year when the town received a $162,600 federal grant through a program to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday next year. A condition of the grant is to have the project completed by Cana-

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DONATION: Classroom, lab space He said Donald Health & Wellness Centre will be home to the college’s School of Health Sciences.

“There will be lots of classroom space and lab space to support our

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The century-old Wadey house in Blackfalds was moved to its new site at All Star Park on Wednesday morning. It will be renovated to become the Wadey Centre, a visitor information centre and home to historical archives. da Day, although the society expects to beat that deadline by several months.

The town contributed the rest of the $720,000 to move and renovate the building, which will have a basement for historical archives.

While Blackfalds has not preserved its history as well as communities such as Lacombe, Carleton said the society is taking an inventory of historical buildings with the

help of the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation.

“We’ve identified 15 to 20 buildings,” she said. “There are heritage buildings in Blackfalds and I think it’s important to try to preserve your history.”

It is hoped town council will follow Lacombe’s lead and pass a bylaw to designate historical buildings. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

programs whether it’s nursing, practical nursing, health care aide, medical lab technician, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and new programs that we have on the books that we’ll be announcing fairly soon as well,” Ward said.

In addition to increasing programming opportunities on campus, the wellness centre will be another major step in RDC’s efforts to attain polytechnic university status, a designation that would allow the college to offer its own degrees.

The $88-million Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre, funded by a combination of donations, partnerships and government funding, will welcome students in the fall of 2018 and will host five events during the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

He said RDC has raised more than half of the $30 million it will put towards the Canada Games Centre.

“We’ve got three more major announcements coming in the next 12 months. We’re very optimistic we’re going to reach our target. The facility

will be open on time. It will be under budget actually a little bit, and it will be ready for the games in 2019.”

Joan Donald said the Olympic-sized ice surface and other sports amenities being built at the Canada Games Centre are very much needed.

“This is going to bring it all right here. I think it’s the most wonderful thing Red Deer has done in a long time,” she said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Health officials talks cath lab with Hoffman

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

The battle to get better care for heart attack victims in Central Alberta landed on the doorstep of Health Minister Sarah Hoffman on Tuesday.

Red Deer Regional Health Foundation and health representatives met with Hoffman in Edmonton to discuss the need for a cardiac catheterization lab at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

About 10 days ago when local doctors made their concerns public, Hoffman said she would not commit to a cardiac catheterization lab anytime soon for Red Deer.

Iaian Park, Red Deer Regional Health Foundation executive director, said everyone who went to Tuesday’s 45-minute meeting felt it was very positive and that her office would respond with a statement in a few weeks.

“We weren’t expecting a yes or no answer yesterday,” Park said on Wednesday.

“But we definitely wanted to meet the minister and tell her where we’re coming from. We wanted to let her know this wasn’t just somebody that thought this up and came forward with a donation to do it. But there was actually a history that showed there was a need and the great citizens of Red Deer stepped up and said we’ll provide some funding to meet that need,” said Park who attended the meeting.

Local philanthropists Joan and Jack Donald have offered a $5-million and the foundation can provide another $5 million towards capital costs for the lab.

On. Oct. 23, Red Deer doctors launched the Facebook page — Central Alberta Needs Cardiac Catheterization.

Central Alberta heart attack victims are currently given medications that break down clots — considered an inferior treatment — before they are transferred to Calgary or Edmonton by ground or air ambulance for cardiac catheterization.

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As his father Cody passes the ball, Rhett Huseby, 5, uses a pair of rubber-tipped hockey sticks to push himself along as they discover the game of sledge hockey Wednesday evening in Red Deer. The two were taking part in an Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and Servus free family fun night at the museum. On the first Wednesday of each month, the Sports Hall and Servus host a family fun night.

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IN SHORT RCMP warn of suspicious Halloween candy Trick-or-treaters are being warned to look out for suspicious candy after a child in Clive got sick.

Blackfalds RCMP said on Wednesday afternoon someone came in and said their child, who was trick-or-treating in Clive, got sick after consuming a candy.

Symptoms included pale skin, dilated pupils and sweating.

This is the only complaint of this kind police have received.

The candy is described as a loonie-sized orange sugar candy with a black centre.

Police urge others to discard any candies that look like this or appear to have been tampered with as a safety precaution.

Anyone with information is asked to call Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-8000-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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IN SHORT Curl for a Cure on Nov. 12 The 2016 Judy Schweitzer ALS Curl for a Cure will be held Nov. 12

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LAB: Would save about 30 lives a year Cardiac catheterization involves inserting a catheter into the heart and opening up blockages with a balloon. In most cases a stent is then inserted to keep the valve open.

Red Deer doctors say a lab would save about 30 lives a year, as well as save money.

Park said a petition calling for the lab could be available soon. In the meantime, people can contact their local MLA to express concerns or send a letter to the health minister.

“Until we hear an answer one way or the other, we want to keep it top of

in an effort to raise $2,500 for ALS Society of Alberta.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rapidly degenerative and fatal neuromuscular disorder.

Participants at the seventh annual funspiel can purchase tickets for a 50/50 raffle, as well as join in curling competition.

Curl for a Cure will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Michener Hill Curling Club, at 3910 51A St. To register contact Carrie Mello at ALScurlforacure@hotmail.ca. To sponsor the funspiel visit www.alsab.ca. mind and moving forward so that it remains in the top priorities for the minister,” Park said.

In a statement to the Advocate, Hoffman said the meeting was a chance to hear first-hand the foundation’s views about the pressures facing frontline workers and patients.

“I believe we have a mutual understanding that any improvements in Red Deer need to be made with a view of the province-wide cardiac system, and that the issues facing Red Deer are a priority,” Hoffman said. “We will continue to work with AHS, the health ministry and the foundation to improve cardiac services in the Central Zone. This will include ongoing discussions between my office and the foundation, and between Red Deer physicians and Alberta Health’s senior provincial medical adviser.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE

Provincial review clears town

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

A provincial inspection of the Town of Rocky Mountain House found some “irregularities” but no serious red flags.

The 150-page Alberta Municipal Affairs report makes 47 recommendations, but makes no directives to improve its operations.

“Overall, I was very pleased,” said Mayor Fred Nash. “We’ve been open and transparent in front of our public.

“I think the town is doing a terrific job. There’s a lot of really, really good points (in the report), but no directives,” said Nash, who first saw the report on Tuesday and has not gone through it in detail with council and administration yet.

“What I’ve read so far is there are some things they say we do very well and some areas we need to improve still.”

Council will be following up on each of the recommendations, he said.

Inspectors found some issues, but say the town was generally being run well.

“While some aspects of the municipality have been managed in an irregular manner, the inspectors are of the opinion that overall, the municipality is not being managed in an irregular, improper or improvident manner,”

says the report posted by the town on its website on Wednesday.

“Significant ongoing strategic efforts were also evident and officials typically demonstrated good intent.”

Eight key recommendations were identified including: conduct councillor training and a core service review, update the council procedural bylaw, improve financial reporting and improve public communications and access to bylaws.

Inspectors also recommended the town review its planning documents and off-site levies, establish performance measures and communicate the results and promote FireSmart practices.

Nash believes the inspection results will reinforce confidence in council and administration.

He points out inspectors found 87 per cent of those surveyed on the town’s overall service delivery rated themselves as average, satisfied or very satisfied. Only 13 per cent were unsatisfied or very unsatisfied.

Town council voted last year to ask for an inspection in response to a petition — which fell short of the required number of signature — from dissatisfied residents asking the province to review management of the town The province began a preliminary review anyway. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer arts community Exhibit offers snap shot of mourns loss of trailblazers Great War REMEMBRANCE DAY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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ed Deer lost two vibrant cultural leaders within two weeks with the deaths of Sadie Braun and Carole Forhan.

Braun, a pianist and founder of the Red Deer Chamber Singers, died on Tuesday at age 94. Forhan, co-founder of Red Deer Players and a long-time member of Central Alberta Theatre, succumbed to cancer SADIE on Oct. 24 at the age of 74.

BRAUN Both women were described as upbeat trail-blazers who freely gave of their time and talents to boost Red Deer’s cultural scene.

Braun, a Manitoba native, nurse and piano teacher, got involved with the The Waskasoos barbershop singing group after arriving in Red Deer with her family in 1973.

By 1976, the mother of three had transformed the group into the Red Deer Chamber Singers, expanding membership and repertoire to include everything from Renaissance CAROLE to contemporary selections.

FORHAN The group held a 40th-anniversary concert last spring that ended with a mass choir of present and former members.

Braun’s daughter, Sharon, who took over leading the Red Deer Chamber Singers about five years ago, said her mother loved seeing and socializing

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with people she had worked with through the years.

Sharon, a respected local musician and opera singer, said Braun taught her singing and encouraged her love of music. Dale Dickau, executive-assistant of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, described Braun as “a wonderful, very warm person,” who helped diversify Red Deer’s culture scene.

Forhan arrived in Canada when she was 14 with her family from Northern England. The mother of three lived in Ontario, Quebec and Drumheller before arriving in Red Deer in 1992 with her husband, Barry Forhan, who survives her.

The former school secretary dived into on- and off-stage roles at Central Alberta Theatre. She helped found the theatre group Red Deer Players, volunteered with CARE (Central Alberta Refugee Effort), TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), and animal rescue groups.

Her daughter, Rochelle Byiers, recalled Forhan taking therapy dog, Teddy, to visit Michener Centre residents. “She chose to be positive and busy — and she never stood still.”

“She did everything,” added fellow thespian, Debby Allan, who along with Forhan’s close friend Jan Underwood, described being inspired by Forhan’s sunny disposition, humour and kindness.

A public memorial was held for Forhan on Tuesday. Her passing follows that of several other longtime CAT members and founders over the past few years, including: Mary Lou Armstrong, Florence Stephan and Harold Truckle.

A memorial concert for Sadie Braun will be held in the spring. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com Also recently appointed is Tanya McDonald, who will become vice-president of advancement.

McDonald will be responsible for fund development, including the college’s multi-year fundraising campaign. Other responsibilities extend to corporate communications and marketing and athletics.

Home school takes Alberta to court Olds Colleges appoints Callum, McDonald to leadership team Olds College has announced a pair of key appointments to its leadership team.

Stuart Cullum will be the college’s new chief innovation officer. He will drive innovation by aligning the college’s programs and research with industry and government priorities, says the college in a news release announcing his appointment.

Cullum will also work on asset development, advocate for the college and develop a “comprehensive analytics and big data plan.”

“With the changes in the province and the nation around climate leadership and the realignment of Alberta’s innovation agenda, the college needs to take bold action in the area of innovation so it can position itself for the opportunities that lay ahead of us,” says Olds College president Tom Thompson.

EDMONTON — An Alberta private school and its home-schooling agency want a court to reverse the province’s decision to pull funding and accreditation over allegations of misspending.

Trinity Christian School Association and the Widsom Home Schooling Society have filed an application in Court of Queen’s Bench in Grande Prairie.

The two groups say in the document that money has not been misspent.

They also say the province shut them down unfairly last week by acting with no prior notice and giving them no change to respond.

Education Minister David Eggen pulled $5 million a year in funding after a government report cited financial irregularities that included public money being used for lavish parties, alcohol, gift cards, funeral expenses and babysitting.

A department spokesman declined to comment on the court application and said the department is focused on finding new school arrangements for 3,500 students affected.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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hen Colin Broughton went to fight the Kaiser’s forces in the trenches of France, his letters home were published in ‘THEY’RE the local newspaper.

With friends and INTERESTING neighbours following SNAPSHOTS Broughton’s letters in OF WHAT WAS the Red Deer News, the GOING ON whole community’s THERE, WHAT hopefulness about the First World War was HE WAS SEEING AND FEELING.’ badly shaken when the 25-year-old was killed in — MIRANDA RILEY the Battle of the Somme, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT said the museum’s curatorial assistant, Miranda Riley.

Broughton was among 50 young men from the region who fell in that notorious offensive that lasted from July 1 to Nov. 19, 1916. In the end, Allied forces gained 10 kilometres of ground at the expense of a million soldiers getting killed or injured in the bloodiest battle in recorded history.

Riley said losses from The Somme were a massive blow for Red Deer, since a total of 850 soldiers from the area had enlisted to fight in the entire 1914-1918 Great War. But lessons learned from that battle changed some of the tactical ways war was fought, and there were less losses at Vimy Ridge.

Several of Broughton’s messages to his parents can be read in this year’s Remembrance Day display at the museum, which commemorates events from 100 years ago.

The exhibit I Remain Your Loving Son, contains copies of his published letters. While the originals are presumed lost, their texts were obtained from archived editions of the Red Deer News, said Riley.

“They’re interesting snapshots of what was going on there, what he was seeing and feeling,” she added — although Broughton might have spared his parents the worst of his experiences, since the letters are generally optimistic in tone.

Artifacts from another local soldier — Arthur Bowers — are also displayed, including the compass his parents gave him and the Silver Cross medal received by his mother after Bowers’ death in battle at age 22. Museum guests can see a photo of Sgt. Walter MacKenzie, a local soldier who made it home from the Great War. Museum workers will be bringing out other old photos from their collection at an open house from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 27, and are hoping members of the public will help identify some unnamed people in them. Refreshments will be served.

Other special Remembrance Day events are crafts and activities from 1-4 p.m. on Nov. 11, and a history of the Red Deer Legion talk by Bev Haines from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 20. Everyone is welcome. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Worst of downturn over: ATB

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ALGARY — ATB Financial says it expects the worst of the energy downturn to be over and Alberta to emerge from a two-year recession caused by the collapse of oil prices.

In its economic outlook released Wednesday, the provincially owned bank says it expects Alberta’s economy to grow 2.1 per cent next year after a forecasted contraction of 2.6 per cent this year and a shrinking of four per cent last year.

ATB chief economist Todd Hirsch said with oil prices expected to hover around US$50 to US$55 a barrel next year, there will be increased stability in the energy industry — but not growth.

“We are pretty confident that we’ve seen the worst of this downturn, that we’re not likely to test that US$27 West Texas Intermediate price again, and that we’ve seen prices rebound modestly and stabilize,” he said.

Hirsch said the stability should mean a tapering of further job losses, but that the rehiring of the tens of thousands of energy workers who have lost their jobs in the downturn

isn’t expected to start for at least another year or more.

“Even though we are forecasting a return to modest GDP growth in 2017, we do emphasize that it will be modest, and the gains in the job market are likely to be very slow in coming,” he said.

Industries like manufacturing and business services continue to struggle to cut costs and increase efficiency, much like the energy sector, said Hirsch, limiting job growth potential.

There is more room for job and economic growth in agriculture, forestry, and tourism, but Hirsch noted the second through fourth biggest industries in Alberta are much smaller than energy.

“Even combined they’re dwarfed by the petroleum sector, they don’t even come close,” he said.

ATB expects the overall unemployment rate to climb slightly to 8.1 per cent next year from eight per cent this year before edging down to 7.7 per cent in 2018.

Alberta’s labour market continues to grow, with 13,300 new jobs added in September for one of the highest monthly gains in years, but Hirsch said the numbers show a deterioration in the quality of job growth with

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Beef spokesman urges better transparency from food inspection agency

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ALGARY — The co-chair of the Alberta Beef Producers says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency needs to be more transparent with ranchers affected by a case of bovine tuberculosis in the province.

The case has led to the quarantine of 30 farms and several herds will likely have to be destroyed.

Bob Lowe told radio station CHQR that he can understand some secrecy from the CFIA, but “if you tell a guy his whole herd is going to be condemned and then you don’t say why, that leads to a lot of suspicions and rumours.”

The initial herd owned by Brad Osadszuk is set to be euthanized next week, and Lowe says it could be four to six weeks later before testing on the animals is complete and we know if there’s another case of bovine TB. Lowe says cases of the bacteria are very rare with the last one in Alberta in 2007.

It’s a concern though in all animals, wild and domesticated, and even humans and that’s the reason why the CFIA is taking the precautions.

Andy Potter with the International Vaccine Center in Saskatchewan says bovine TB is very closely related to human tuberculosis.

“Although it’s not a great risk to people, those who are immuno-compromised, higher risk people, it can be an issue there. I think that’s one of the reasons why you see borders closed quite quickly and that type of thing because human health is involved.”

Potter says it’s is a complicated disease to control. He says animals can carry the bacteria for months or years before being diagnosed.

“When one starts looking at tracing where an animal has been and who it has been in contact with, it becomes a lot more complicated because you’re looking at a period that could be many years in length.”

Meanwhile, Lowe is concerned for the livelihood of the ranchers.

9,300 of those positions part-time.

“The quality of the job market is deteriorating,” said Hirsch. “Howev-

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IN SHORT Arrests made after major find of fentanyl pills in two Calgary neighbourhoods CALGARY — Three people are facing charges after police seized thousands of fentanyl pills during two separate investigations in Calgary late last month.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team, or ALERT, says upwards of 2,800 pills were found Oct. 28 in a vehicle at a home in the city’s Killarney neighbourhood that had been identified as a potential fentanyl stash site.

Police say they were made aware of the residence based on an ALERT investigation the previous week in which officers uncovered hundreds of fentanyl pills from the Calgary area during an arrest in Aldersyde, just south of the city.

It’s alleged the home was being used as a cocaine conversion lab.

Two people were arrested on a number of drug-related charges.

The second Calgary seizure occurred Oct. 26 when more than 940 pills were discovered in an apartment, two days after the arrest of a 22-year-old man who had been the target of an investigation.

Sofonyas Fkade, who is 24, and Bereketab Gedecho, who is 30, were arrested in the Killarney bust.

They are charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, production of a controlled substance, possession of property obtained by crime.

Gedecho was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and production of a controlled substance.

Police say Cody Bryant, the third suspect, allegedly had fentanyl pills in his possession when he was arrested. He is facing a number of drug-related and other charges and will appear in court Thursday.

In June of this year, police in Edmonton seized 2,000 fentanyl pills.

The synthetic opioid painkiller has been linked to hundreds of deaths in Western Canada.

Edmonton shuts down Suspect in man’s fentanyl tunnelling operations after overdose death earlier employee killed on job released from jail EDMONTON — An Edmonton man accused of supplying fentanyl to another man who later died from the drug has been granted bail.

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Police have said the body of the 33-year-old man was found in an apartment block hallway.

Yarmey was freed on a $2000 cash deposit prior to his next court appearance on Nov. 15.

He also faces a number of conditions, including living with his parents, not consuming drugs or alcohol and adhering to a 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew.

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.

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EDMONTON — The City of Edmonton has shut down all tunnelling operations after one of its employees was killed on the job.

Emergency crews were called to a sewer line site in a southwest neighbourhood Tuesday afternoon.

The name of the 44-year-old man has not been released.

Alberta Occupational, Health and Safety is investigating.

City manager Linda Cochrane says until they found out why the man was killed, all city tunneling operations have been suspended.

The project runs 20 metres deep and when complete will be 155 metres long and crews were about a quarter of the way through it.

“We’re hoping they (the other workers) can inform us of specifically what happened, both in broad and more detailed sets,” Cochrane said Wednesday.

Mayor Don Iveson offered condolences to the worker’s family, co-workers and friends on behalf of the city and council.

“It’s troubling that this happened at a city worksite but I know the city is co-operating fully with the province’s Occupational Health and Safety investigators,” Iveson said in a news release.

“Our council will ensure we receive updates on the results and outcomes of that investigation and act to implement any recommendations that will protect our workers.”

Leadfoot who barreled through school zone to cool heels in jail EDMONTON — A man who chose

Thursday, November 3, 2016 the wrong day to zoom through an elementary school zone in Edmonton going 122 kilometres an hour will spend a week’s worth of time behind bars.

Brodie Rae Christensen, who is 26, was sentenced Tuesday in a case provincial court Judge Elizabeth Johnson calls disturbing.

Court was told Christensen was angry and frustrated with the slow pace of traffic in a west-end neighbourhood on Oct. 2 of last year.

He floored it and drove around the vehicle ahead of him before barrelling through the 30-kilometrean-hour zone at Sherwood School, where police had chosen to set up a radar gun the same day.

A Crown prosecutor says the accused showed total disregard for the kindergarten-to-Grade 6 students who attend Sherwood.

Christensen will serve his time on weekends and he’s also been banned from driving for a year.

Charges laid in theft of post from mailboxes in Calgary and Saskatoon CALGARY — Two Calgarians face numerous charges related to mailbox break-ins in Calgary and Saskatoon.

Police in Medicine Hat, Alta., pulled over a vehicle last week and found a small amount of methamphetamine.

A more thorough search uncovered numerous ID cards and other personal information documents.

Cody Nordgulen, who is 33, and 24-year-old Brittany Harris face nearly two dozen charges, including theft of mail and possession of identity documents.

They are to be in court next week.

Opposition calls for stop to out-of-province donations in Saskatchewan REGINA — The Opposition in Saskatchewan says the province’s political donation laws are the weakest in the country and often are described as the Wild West.

There are no donation limits for contributing to registered political parties or candidates in Saskatchewan however, donations can only be made by Canadian citizens.

The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party has raked in more than $2 million from out-of-province companies, mostly from Alberta.

NDP Leader Trent Wotherspoon says it’s time to stop corporate, union and out-of-province donations, and for a cap on individual contributions.

“We believe we should get big money out of Saskatchewan politics, make sure that ultimate trust is there for Saskatchewan people, address questions of influence and I think Saskatchewan people just don’t feel it’s right to have millions of dollars flowing in, for example, from Alberta corporations,” Wotherspoon said.

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Man charged with murder, assault TWO GIRLS STABBED AT ABBOTSFORD, B.C., SCHOOL

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BBOTSFORD, B.C. — Charges of murder and aggravated assault have been laid against a man in his early 20s over a stabbing attack in an Abbotsford, B.C., high school that left one girl dead and another injured.

Court records show Gabriel Klein has been charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection with an offence in Abbotsford, B.C., on Tuesday.

Klein appeared in Abbotsford Provincial Court on Wednesday.

Police and school-district officials have said they believe the attack was a random act of violence against the two teenage girls and they don’t believe the victims knew their attacker.

Police said a barefoot man walked into the school on Tuesday afternoon while classes were in session and attacked the girls.

School district Supt. Kevin Godden said there’s no indication the accused knew the teenage girls.

“What I can tell you is that he is not a student of this school now.”

The site of the stabbing, Abbotsford Senior Secondary School, remained closed Wednesday so police could maintain the integrity of the investigation, Godden said.

He praised the school’s staff for their actions under a very difficult situation.

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Girls light candles at a makeshift memorial outside Abbotsford Secondary School in Abbotsford, B.C. Wednesday. Two students were stabbed at the school Tuesday, leaving one dead and one in hospital. of this horrific situation they stopped this individual, first by just yelling at him and then the staff converged on him and got him. The knife fell from his hands and they got him to take a seat while they held him in some restraint and then provided first aid to the students, who were obviously hurt.”

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No quick fix for housing crisis: regional chief

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INNIPEG — New federal money for First Nations housing is welcome, but will not solve a monumental shortage for at least a generation, an indigenous leader said Wednesday.

“I don’t see it happening in my lifetime or in my children’s lifetime, to be honest,” Kevin Hart, a regional chief with the Assembly of First Nations, said during a break in the assembly’s housing and infrastructure conference held in Winnipeg.

“We have 16, 18 people in a two-bedroom house (in Norway House, Man.).

Now if that was to occur here in Winnipeg with a non-native family, would that be acceptable? The black mould

that’s in our houses — would that be acceptable here in Winnipeg? Would that be acceptable in Toronto?”

The federal government has promised $8.4 billion over five years for infrastructure, education and other issues in First Nations communities.

The housing portion over the next two years is forecast to be more than double previous levels at $450 million.

The money is a fraction of what reports have indicated is needed. Internal government documents dated January 2015 and obtained by The Canadian Press early this year pegged the cost of fixing First Nations housing in Manitoba alone at $2 billion.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said the government realizes it has a long way to go.

Every school in the Abbotsford district had locked all but one of its doors on Wednesday, in what Godden called a precautionary measure.

Officials were expected to make a decision later in the day about when the school would reopen.

There is a video circulating of the stabbing, and Godden asked those

sharing it to please stop.

“This video is a trigger to trauma, not only for our students and our community but for any person that has been involved in a traumatic incident.”

Police also asked that the video not be shared further.

It was taken from what appears to be the second floor looking into the school’s atrium and shows a man in a grey T-shirt standing over a girl and frantically stabbing at her as she screams on the floor. A person in an apron then approaches the man, who suddenly drops his weapon.

Godden said there was nothing to stop the man from walking in to the school.

“Our schools are closed campuses to the extent that we keep our kids in and have lots of adult supervision,” he said. “But there is nothing that would preclude any stranger from walking into school.”

He said anyone who doesn’t attend the school or work there is expected to check in at the office.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted his condolences to the family.

“As a parent, it is heartbreaking to hear of the tragedy at Abbotsford Senior Secondary. My thoughts are with the entire school community,” Trudeau said on Twitter.

Premier Christy Clark offered her condolences to the families of the victims at a news conference Wednesday, saying she was shocked by the incident.

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Doctor used own sperm on patients?

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n Ontario doctor once suspended for inseminating women with the wrong sperm at his fertility clinic is now accused of allegedly using his own biological material to impregnate certain patients who came to him for treatment.

An Ottawa family has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin, alleging he is the biological father of their 26-yearold daughter.

In a statement of claim, the family alleges Barwin falsely claimed to be using Daniel Dixon’s sperm to inseminate the man’s wife, Davina, in 1990 when the couple was trying to conceive a child.

It claims the couple had a daughter, Rebecca, but DNA tests have conclusively shown that she is not Daniel Dixon’s biological child.

The statement of claim says Rebecca Dixon, who has filed the legal action along with her parents, has reason to believe she is also related to a Vancouver woman who has been proven to be Barwin’s biological daughter.

Barwin’s lawyer, Karen Hamway, said a statement of defence will be filed in the coming weeks and declined to offer any further comment. None of the allegations against Barwin have been proven in court.

All three Dixons are seeking general damages for pain and suffering, special damages for out-ofpocket costs including DNA testing, punitive damages, and the chance to pursue Barwin for child support.

“The defendant’s reckless and wanton conduct, including the cavalier use of his own sperm in his insemination procedures, demonstrated a reprehensible disregard for the health, safety and rights of the plaintiffs, the members of the plaintiff classes and of the general public,” the Dixons’ statement of claim said.

Barwin’s dealings with the Dixon family began in 1989 when Daniel and Davina Dixon came to the Ottawa-based Broadview Fertility clinic for treatment, according to the statement of claim.

Over the course of numerous fertility treatments, the suit alleges Barwin assured the couple Davina Dixon was being inseminated with sperm provided by her husband.

Rebecca Dixon was born in June 1990, the suit said, adding the family did not question her paternity until earlier this year.

At that time, it said, Davina Dixon grew concerned after learning that it was impossible for two blue-eyed parents to conceive a brown-eyed child.

The family sought DNA testing and learned in April 2015 that Daniel Dixon had a zero per cent probability of being Rebecca Dixon’s biological father, the statement of claim said.

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Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer, of Woodstock, Ontario, is shown in this still image taken from video provided

by Citynews Toronto in Woodstock. Police have charged her with murder, alleging she killed eight nursing home residents by administering a drug.

CRIME

Nurse accused in deaths of 8 nursing home residents appears in court

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OODSTOCK, Ont. — A nurse accused of killing eight seniors at two longterm care homes in southwestern Ontario has had her case put over to Nov. 18 after a brief court appearance Wednesday morning.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, was charged last week with eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of elderly residents at nursing homes in Woodstock, Ont., and London, Ont. Police allege Wettlaufer used drugs to kill her victims between 2007 and 2014, while she worked at the facilities.

During Wednesday’s court appearance by video from the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ont., Wettlaufer only spoke her name and said “that’s it?” before the brief hearing concluded.

Outside court, Wettlaufer’s lawyer, Brad Burgess, declined to comment on the case, saying: “anything I have to say, I’ll say in the courtroom.”

But the daughter of one of the alleged victims did talk and said her family asked for an autopsy from the coroner at the time of her father’s death, but was denied one.

Andrea Silcox told reporters her father, James Silcox, died in 2007 and she had concerns about his death at the time.

“My father was a good, strong man and because I work in long-term care myself, it just didn’t seem right,” she said.

Silcox said her sister asked the coroner at the time about an autopsy. She said her sibling was told “he lived in long-term care, he was 85 years old, so why bother.”

The coroner’s office has said that every longterm care home is obligated to report deaths of residents, but deaths are only investigated when someone has died as a result of violence, “misadventure,” negligence, misconduct, malpractice, “by unfair means,” from any illness not being treated by a medical professional, “suddenly and unexpectedly,” or “from any cause other than disease.”

In addition to Silcox, the victims in the case have

‘MY FATHER WAS A GOOD, STRONG MAN AND BECAUSE I WORK IN LONG-TERM CARE MYSELF, IT JUST DIDN’T SEEM RIGHT.’ — ANDREA SILCOX DAUGHTER

been identified Maurice Granat, 84, Gladys Millard, 87, Helen Matheson, 95, Mary Zurawinski, 96, Helen Young, 90, Maureen Pickering, 79, Arpad Horvath, 75.

Horvath lived at a Meadow Park facility in London while the other seven alleged victims lived at the Caressant Care Woodstock Long-Term Care Home in Woodstock.

Last week, police said the investigation into the alleged murders was launched on Sept. 29. Wettlaufer was arrested last Monday and appeared in court for the first time last Tuesday.

A source familiar with the case told The Canadian Press police began investigating after Wettlaufer provided information to careworkers at a psychiatric hospital in Toronto.

Officials from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health alerted Toronto police that Wettlaufer shared information with hospital staff that caused them “concern,” a police source familiar with the investigation said.

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.

Wettlaufer entered into a peace bond in early October as police feared she would “commit a serious personal injury” and had restrictions placed on her by a court.

She was required to “continue any treatment for mental health” with any physician to whom she was referred by her family doctor or “representatives of CAMH.”

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Raitt joins Tory leadership race, brings field to 10 candidates

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A complete review of the Royal Military College of Canada begins today at the prestigious institution, as senior Canadian Armed Forces commanders ordered the probe following a number of suspected suicides and allegations of sexual misconduct. Members of the graduation class of Royal Military College of Canada parade during a graduating ceremony in Kingston, Ont.

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Concerns raised over team tasked with probe

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TTAWA — The Canadian Forces came under fire Wednesday for leaving academics and other non-military personnel off the team investigating the Royal Military College of Canada, which has been rocked by a series of troubling events in recent months.

That omission was not intentional, the senior officer overseeing the probe said Wednesday the military had been considering ways to give civilian faculty at the college some type of advisory role on the team.

But in the end, said Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the team of eight current and former service members was convened specifically to address the college’s unique status as not just a school, but also a military unit.

“At the end of the day, this is the leadership of the armed forces looking at the unit environment of a unit of the armed forces,” Norman said.

“And that’s our business.”

The review, announced Wednesday, was ordered by defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance following several suspected suicides and concerns about a sexualized culture at the prestigious school in Kingston, Ont. Given the serious nature of the issues that have emerged in recent years, observers largely welcomed the decision to investigate the college, where future generations of Canadian military leaders have been groomed for the past 140 years.

But the absence of non-military personnel on the investigation team

raised eyebrows.

The eight-member team is being led by retired vice-admiral Greg Maddison and retired major-general David Neasmith, and includes several colonels and chief warrant officers who are still in uniform.

“I’m always concerned when a committee is made up, in this case, entirely of military personnel,” said Julie Lalonde, who was verbally abused while giving a presentation on sexual assault prevention at the college in October 2014.

“I would say the same if this was a police review or what’s happening with the RCMP around workplace harassment. Clearly if these institutions had the capacity to create the necessary change, they would have done so already.”

Lawyer Michael Drapeau, a retired colonel who now represents many military clients, including military college cadets, wants a coroner’s inquest following the suspected suicides of three students and a recent graduate over a four-month stretch earlier this year.

“I see this as a cover-your-butt exercise,” Drapeau said. “It’s being done in-house by the military for the military. And it will be seen by cadets as the military investigating itself.”

One faculty member, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, cited a rift between the college’s military staff and civilian faculty, and questioned why someone from an outside university or college wasn’t asked to participate.

TTAWA — Conservative MP Lisa Raitt has joined the race to replace former prime minister Stephen Harper as party leader.

“I know where that Liberal path leads us, ’cause I grew up at the end of it,” Raitt said in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday afternoon to mark the beginning of her leadLISA ership campaign.

RAITT The video has Raitt, who represents the Toronto-area riding of Milton, narrating over archival photographs from Cape Breton, N.S., where she grew up, as well as family photographs from her childhood, which she said included financial struggles.

“They tell us it’s the era of ‘sunny ways,’ yet so many can’t see the sun,” said Raitt, playing off an oft-used Liberal phrase.

“Canada needs a leader who is going to fight for the striving many, not just the privileged few. We need a leader who will beat (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau in the next election, who knows what Canada looks like from the bottom, who will work to create opportunity for every striver at every age,” said Raitt, before going on to tell her viewers that she is that leader.

Raitt did not respond to a request for an interview Wednesday, but is planning to make a full announce-

ment Thursday morning in Toronto.

The party has confirmed that she has filed the necessary paperwork to run.

First elected as a Conservative MP in 2008, Raitt served as minister for natural resources, labour and then transport under Harper.

She dropped hints about joining the leadership race all summer and last month stepped down from her role as Conservative finance critic so she could continue to explore the possibility of a bid.

Raitt also recently revealed that her husband, Bruce Wood, received a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s earlier this year.

The couple married in Cape Breton in September.

Raitt has two sons from a previous marriage, John Colin and Billy, who are also featured in her campaign video, .

The Conservative party gave those hoping to take part in the first official leadership debate in Saskatoon next week until the end of Wednesday to register as candidates.

The others who have officially joined so far are former immigration minister Chris Alexander and Conservative MPs Maxime Bernier, Steven Blaney, Michael Chong, Kellie Leitch, Deepak Obhrai, Erin O’Toole, Andrew Scheer and Brad Trost.

One topic that will likely come up is the question of Canadian identity and values.

Blaney announced Wednesday that he would set up a royal commission to explore the issue.

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espite recent musings by the prime minister that electoral reform — a Liberal campaign promise — may no longer be a priority, the parliamentary Special Committee on Electoral Reform will deliver a report by Dec. 1 on how to, well, reform Canada’s electoral system.

The prime minister seemingly favours an alternative vote (AV) system — the system Canadians likely understand the least.

Under AV, voters rank the candidates running in their riding. If a candidate receives a majority of “first preference” votes, he or she is elected to the seat in their constituency. If no candidate receives a majority of first preference picks, then the candidate with the fewest votes is dropped and those votes are redistributed based on the second or subsequent choices of voters. This process is repeated until one candidate achieves a majority.

But what would happen if Canada adopted an AV voting system?

Firstly, it’s unclear how switching

to AV fulfills any of the guiding principles set out by the government for the electoral reform committee.

This first principle states that electoral reform should increase the legitimacy and effectiveness of the system, and reduce distorted outcomes. Rather than reduce distortions between voter intention and the final result, AV could actually amplify those distortions by manufacturing a majority where none existed previously.

The second principle aims to increase voter participation. Past research analyzing the outcomes of provincial elections conducted under AV rules found that the switch to AV didn’t produce a large change in voter turnout.

It also isn’t clear that adopting an AV electoral system would address the other guiding principles: avoiding undue complexity in the voting process, safeguarding the integrity of the voting process, and ensuring the accountability of the local representative.

Moreover, in a recently released essay, we re-estimated the results of the seven previous federal elections dating back to 1997 to better understand how a move to AV could affect the outcomes of elections. The

only party to benefit in all seven elections was the Liberals, who gained an average of 19 seats. To a lesser extent the NDP increased their seat totals in the more recent elections. Only the Conservatives lost seats every election.

More dramatically, according to our estimates, changing the voting system to AV would have resulted in different governments, and in other cases, different Official Opposition parties. No doubt, as others have observed, changing the electoral system will also change the strategies of parties and the calculations of voters. However, it appears the Liberals will have the easier path to power under an AV system.

Although we can’t be certain about the exact outcomes of switching to an AV electoral system — the prime minister’s preferred system — some things are clear. It will do little to address the guiding principles of the electoral reform committee. And it could result in less-competitive elections.

Troy Media columnist Lydia Miljan is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and Troy Media columnist Taylor Jackson is a senior policy analyst at the Fraser Institute.

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Half the jobs are going “T

he notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common ‘platform’ is, to our minds, faintly ridiculous,” said one of Gwynne the judges on the employment tribunal. So Dyer the tribunal ruled that Uber’s 30,000 drivers in London were actually employees, and therefore entitled to be paid the minimum wage, to be given sick pay, even to have paid holidays.

Uber promptly appealed the ruling, because it would wreck its business model in the United Kingdom and, if the example spreads, worldwide. But it was only a temporary victory for workers’ rights, because just as the real jobs have been replaced by fake “freelance” jobs like Uber that strip people of their old legal protections, so the “freelance” driving gigs will soon be replaced by – no jobs at all.

The first self-driving cars are already on the roads. Automation, in the form of artificial intelligence,

will probably abolish almost all the driving jobs in the next 20 years. In Britain alone, that means 400,000 jobs driving big trucks and almost 300,000 licensed taxi drivers. (The jobs driving delivery vans will last a little longer.)

Three-quarters of a million jobs gone, say, and nothing plausible coming down the road to replace them.

Scale it up to the size of the United States, and that’s around four million more American jobs gone, not to foreign competition and “outsourcing” but just to technological change. It’s harder to replace drivers than bank tellers – “every ATM is the ghost of three bank tellers” – but it just takes a little longer to develop the right software.

There is a message here for all the angry people who voted for Brexit in Britain, who will vote for Donald Trump next week in the United States, who will vote for Marine Le Pen and the National Front in France next April. They are angry because the secure jobs and decent living standards they enjoyed in the latter half of the 20th century are gone. Something must be done about it, but the jobs are not coming back.

This is a global economic transfor-

mation comparable to the industrial revolution, when entire populations went from overwhelmingly rural to overwhelmingly urban in only two generations. This time the transformation is from a full-employment economy to an economy of abundance that only requires a fraction of the population to work.

A 2013 study by Oxford University economists Carl Frey and Michael Osborne concluded that 47 per cent of American jobs are likely to be destroyed by automation in the next 20 years. That’s change so big and so fast that people can’t believe it’s happening, and so they prefer to focus on something like out-sourcing that might be fixed by politics.

The industrial revolution was an angry, turbulent time, with urban uprisings and class warfare. We’ll be lucky if the damage this time is limited to demagogues like Donald Trump, who pander to the fear and anger of the newly displaced – and not just the displaced of the old working class, but the growing numbers of middle-class people who are also being displaced by machines.

They are not “right-wing” in the traditional sense, although many have become more socially conserva-

tive and some openly racist as their panic rises. “Populist” is a much better word: they hate the changes and the “elites” who seem untouched by them, and they want their old jobs and their self-respect back. But the old jobs are not coming back, and even populist politics cannot resurrect them.

Besides, most of them actually hated their jobs, from which they were only free for two weeks (the U.S. and Japan) or at most five weeks (Europe) a year. The real task will be to find ways of providing a majority of our fellow-citizens with money and self-respect without those jobs. Some form of Guaranteed Minimum Income is probably the answer, but we have barely got round to asking the right question yet.

This is not a disaster; it’s a process. Last time it took over a century of mass misery and occasional mass bloodshed to get through it, but at the end most people were living much longer, healthier, more interesting lives than their peasant ancestors.

We should try to do it a lot better and quicker this time.

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

Letters to the editor CENOTAPH MEANING This year Red Deer’s Remembrance Day Ceremonies will be held at the CrossRoads Church, and at Veteran’s Park on Ross St. Located at Veteran’s Park, is Red Deer’s Cenotaph. People have asked me “What is a cenotaph?”

A cenotaph is a memorial dedicated to Canada’s war dead and veterans across Canada. There are more than 6,000 local cenotaphs/ monuments/memorial walls in Canada. The vast majority of these memorials have been erected in dedicated municipal parks as a result of efforts by local Legion branches, community groups, provinces, private sponsors, regimental associations and other veterans’ organizations. The areas in which they are located within communities are considered sacred grounds and should receive the respect and

dignity they so rightly deserve.

During Remembrance Day, it is the location where the Remembrance Day Ceremony takes place.

Wreaths are laid at its base in memory of fallen veterans.

Red Deer’s cenotaph is the figure of a soldier commemorating the men and women from central Alberta who served in the First World War. The sculpture is an accurate representation of the dress kit of a Canadian soldier during the First World War. The soldier’s face emanates both weariness and a resolution of purpose, while his body twists westwards in a symbolic motion away from the ravages of European battlefields and towards home and peace.

The statue faces the location of the Canadian Pacific Railway station where most of the soldiers departed for the battlefield. The Cenotaph

was intentionally placed here on one of Red Deer’s busiest streets to be a constant reminder of the sacrifices of the war veterans. This memorial, formally unveiled September 15, 1922, by Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada. A copper tube containing two scrolls was placed inside the Cenotaph, one inscribed with the names of those who served during the war and the other with the names of those who had lost their lives in the conflict. The Cenotaph was rededicated in 1949 to include those who served during the Second World War. Another plaque was added in 1988 in memory of those who served and died during the Korean conflict.

Michael Barclay, sergeant-at-arms, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #104 Innisfail

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GOVERNMENT TO RUN ON GREEN POWER BY 2025

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ALGARY — The federal Liberals are promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday.

Speaking in Calgary to the Canadian Wind Energy Association, McKenna said the switch is to be complete by 2025.

“Today, to show we’re leading the way, we are announcing our firm commitment to purchasing 100 per cent renewable power for government operations by 2025,” she said.

“The government needs to be a key player to support the acceleration of clean growth — not only through policy, but by investing and showing leadership.”

McKenna said the government plans to buy renewable electricity for federal facilities such as military bases.

Few details were immediately available on how the program will work, but she confirmed it will include all government operations.

“We’re talking about government operations, buildings and fleets by 2025. This was something that was actually an agreement with the U.S. and Mexico … It shows our government is going to take a leadership role.”

McKenna wouldn’t say how much it will cost to move to renewable energy provided by wind, solar or hydro.

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Catherine McKenna, Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, speaks at the CanWEA conference in Calgary.

“The good news is, when you look at renewables, they’re actually becoming very cost competitive, so I think by 2025 you will see in many cases it’s parity and there’s different sources to choose from,” she said.

The announcement was welcomed

by Jean-Francois Nolet, vice-president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association.

“It sends a clear message to inves-

tors and this is what we need … so that investors can go ahead and invest in many of the different provinces and the regions, create jobs and benefits to the local communities,” he said.

“Ultimately, it’s all about reducing emissions, and wind is a big part of it.”

As McKenna was speaking in Calgary, Treasury Board President Scott Brison was announcing in the House

of Commons in Ottawa that the federal government plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030.

“We are creating a Centre for Greening of Government at Treasury Board that will track emissions, co-ordinate efforts across government and drive results,” Brison said in the daily question period.

The plan includes clean vehicle fleets, green procurement and refurbishment of six separate heating and cooling plants that service more than 85 federal buildings in the Ottawa area.

Currently, National Defence and Public Services and Procurement Canada account for more than three-quarters of all government greenhouse gas emissions.

Greening Canada’s federal government operations will have only a minuscule impact on national emissions, but is seen by the Liberals as symbolically important and as a potential boost to Canada’s clean-tech sector.

The scale of the challenge ahead is expected to be put into sharp relief Thursday when the United Nations Environmental Programme releases its annual emissions gap report.

It is expected to show that, even if all greenhouse gas reduction pledges made in Paris last December are achieved, the world will still need to cut a further 25 per cent to limit global warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.

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PM appoints six new senators for Quebec

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TTAWA — Independent senators now outnumber their colleagues affiliated with a political party after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau filled six vacancies in Quebec on Wednesday.

The new senators include a doctor, an environmental scientist and a mayor.

Newly appointed Sen. Eric Forest, currently mayor of Rimouski, Que., said Trudeau promised he and his colleagues would have “independence of thought.”

“Looking to the challenge of

renewing the upper chamber, he said he was counting on me, that he was expecting an important contribution from me due to my experience at the municipal level and with the (outlying) regions,” Forest said.

The other senators include Rosa Galvez, a professor at Laval University originally from Peru, who has focused much of her research on pollution.

Marie-Francoise Megie is a longtime family physician and professor at Universite de Montreal.

Renee Dupuis is an influential human rights and indigenous issues lawyer who won the Governor General’s Award in 2001 for her

non-fiction book, Justice for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.

Also nominated is Marc Gold, a prominent member of the Jewish community and former professor, along with Raymonde Saint-Germain, Quebec’s current ombudswoman.

Trudeau’s announcement followed his appointment last week of six new senators from Ontario who, like their colleagues from Quebec, are also not affiliated with political parties.

The appointees were selected through a process that involved more than 2,700 applicants who were screened by an advisory board that came up with a short list for each seat.

There are now 44 Independent senators, 40 Conservatives and 21 others who still consider themselves Liberals despite being kicked out of the party’s caucus by Trudeau.

A group of Independent senators have already asked for the same resources given to their partyaffiliated colleagues, including reserved spaces on committees studying legislation.

Conservative Sen. Claude Carignan didn’t appear to be too warm to that idea.

“Normally, it’s the tradition to come up with (composition of committees) during the throne speech,” he said.

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CRIME

Python had escaped before, negligence trial told

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AMPBELLTON, N.B. — A New Brunswick courtroom was gripped Wednesday by the testimony of a grieving mother whose two boys were killed by a python weeks after the owner was warned the snake’s possible escape route needed to be better secured.

Jean-Claude Savoie is on trial on a charge of criminal negligence causing death. His 45-kilogram African rock python escaped an enclosure within his Campbellton apartment in August 2013 and killed Noah Barthe, 4, and Connor Barthe, 6, while they were having a sleepover.

It’s believed the snake travelled through a ventilation duct.

Savoie, who now lives near Montreal, owned the Reptile Ocean pet store below his apartment at the time. He wept Wednesday as the boys’ mother, Mandy Trecartin, talked about her sons.

She said she dropped them off for a sleepover that night certain they were in good hands.

“I felt they would be as safe with him as they would be with me,” Trecartin testified.

Trecartin says they lived behind Savoie’s apartment, and her sons were best friends with Savoie’s son. She says Savoie was a good friend, although she hasn’t seen him since Aug. 4, 2013.

They had spent that day with the boys at a farm owned by Savoie’s father, where the boys played with a lot of animals.

That evening, she and her boyfriend dropped the kids at Savoie’s apartment for a sleepover, something they did often.

At 6:49 the next morning, she heard pounding on her door, and heard Savoie saying: “Oh my God, your two kids are dead.”

She said her boyfriend went next door with Savoie, and when he came back he told her: “It’s true. It’s a fucking nightmare, but it’s true.”

One of the first officers to arrive at the scene said

he was surprised such a large snake could move so quickly. But RCMP Const. Eric Maillet said Savoie was able to recapture the python.

“The snake coiled around his arm,” Maillet said.

Savoie put the snake in its enclosure, where it could be seen through a large floor to ceiling window, he said.

“The snake started hissing at us and lunging and hitting the window with its face.”

The python appeared to be trying to escape its enclosure again, said Maillet, who was concerned the snake wanted to feed and was trying to get back to the living room where the bodies of the boys were.

“It was going straight up in the air towards the vent opening,” he said.

Maillet said he was quite surprised how the snake was able to stand straight up — almost reaching the vent opening.

“I didn’t expect such a large reptile to be able to do that.”

He said the snake was put in a garbage bin and removed from the building.

Later Wednesday, another witness told the jury that the python had previously escaped its enclosure.

Ocean Eagles, a volunteer at Jean-Claude Savoie’s reptile store, said the snake had escaped about two-and-a-half weeks earlier through a ventilation duct. She later said it could have been a month-and-a-half earlier, but she was confused on dates. “(Savoie) told me he was sitting down in his living room and he looked up and the snake was halfway out,” Eagles testified.

Eagles said she placed a cover over the ventilation duct, but warned Savoie it needed to be screwed on. She said she often cared for the “dangerous” snake and fed it rabbits, but was very cautious.

“I knew what the snake was capable of. It can overtake any man,” she said.

CRIME

Man who watched his father murder his mother wants stiffer sentences

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Newfoundland man who was four years old when he saw his father brutally beat his mother to death says he’s living in fear knowing Dale Ogden is out on day parole and believes he should have received a more punitive sentence.

Daniel Benoit, 22, said he wants to start a national conversation about murder sentences and Canada’s justice system in general, which he says lets convicted murderers off too easily.

Ogden was sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder of his wife Judy Ogden in early 2000, and the judge set his parole eligibility at 14 years. He has been out on day parole since September after being released from William Head Institution in Victoria, B.C.

“He can go and see his family. He can walk down the street. He can live a normal life,” said Benoit in a phone interview from his home in Stephenville, N.L., on Wednesday.

“Meanwhile, when it comes time to see my mother for her birthday or Mother’s Day or Christmas, the only chance I have is to walk up and speak to a headstone that’s stuck in the ground. I’ll never get a chance to hug my mother again, or kiss her, or tell her I love her. He took that away.”

Benoit, who legally changed his last name to his mother’s maiden name, said Dale Ogden was an abusive man and an addict with an extensive criminal past, having faced numerous charges including assault, theft and fraud.

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Ontario’s top court has rejected an attempt by a father, mother and son to appeal their convictions for murdering four family members. Mohammad Shafia, front, Tooba Yahya, right, and their son Hamed Shafia are escorted into the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ont.

HONOUR KILLINGS

Murder convictions to stand for Shafia trio

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ORONTO — A father, mother and son found guilty in the drowning deaths of three teenaged sisters, and another woman who had apparently shamed the family, lost their bid Wednesday to overturn their first-degree murder convictions.

In unanimously rejecting an appeal by the Shafia family members, Ontario’s top court ruled among things that expert evidence on so-called honour killings had been properly admitted at their trial and the son was properly tried as an adult.

“Honour was a recurrent theme of discussions among the appellants after the deaths of the deceased,” the Court of Appeal for Ontario said in its decision.

Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed Shafia — immigrants originally from Afghanistan — were jointly convicted of murder in 2012.

They were arrested three weeks after the victims — Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 58 — were found in a submerged car at the Kingston Mills locks near Kingston, Ont. Autopsies found they had drowned.

At trial, the accused argued unsuccessfully that the deaths were accidental. Despite a lack of eyewitness testimony, the prosecution maintained the deaths were planned and deliberate, even if the exact role each accused played was unclear.

Evidence heard at trial included various statements the accused made before and after the deaths. For example, on police-installed listening devices, Mohammad Shafia was heard making derogatory comments about his daughters for dating, and accused them of shaming the family with their behaviour. He also referred to them as “whores.”

“We lost our honour,” Shafia said at one point.

“They betrayed us immensely. They violated us immensely. There can be no betrayal, no treachery, no violation more than this.”

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Light at the end of a dark downturn?

OIL SECTOR

OILFIELD SERVICES GROUP PREDICTS MODEST DRILLING INDUSTRY UPTICK IN 2017

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ALGARY — The Petroleum Services Association of Canada says oil and gas drilling will stage a modest rebound in 2017, but remain well below levels reached before the current commodity price slump began.

PSAC forecasts 4,175 wells will be drilled in 2017, up about six per cent from an anticipated total of 3,950 wells this year.

The 2017 forecast is 63 per cent lower than the number of wells drilled in 2014, when benchmark U.S. oil prices began their fall from more than US$100 per barrel to current levels around US$50 per barrel.

PSAC president Mark Salkeld said the global supply of oil and gas is expected to continue to exceed demand in 2017, leaving little optimism for a significant rebound in price or activity.

On a provincial basis, PSAC expects most of the drilling increases to take place in Saskatchewan, with 240 more wells. Alberta is expected to see a year-over-year increase of about 50 wells and both B.C. and Manitoba are expected to experience declines. Canada’s largest driller, Calgary-based Precision Drilling, reported recently that it has begun rehiring staff in anticipation of a busier winter drilling season based on customer bookings.

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The Petroleum Services Association of Canada is forecasting a modest rebound in 2017 for the oil sector, but well below the levels prior to the current commodity price slump.

RETAIL

Big ticket items disappear off consumers’ lists CONFERENCE BOARD SAYS CONSUMER CONFIDENCE POSTS BIG DROP IN OCTOBER

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The Conference Board of Canada has released its figures for October pertaining to consumer confidence, and the news is anything but good.

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The Ottawa-based think-tank says the national index fell 6.3 points last month to 96.7.

The survey found that, relative to September, more respondents said their household finances were worse than they were six months ago and expectations also waned about future financial conditions.

Consumers in every region of the country also said they were less likely to buy a big-ticket item, such as a home or a car.

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The balance of opinion regarding employment prospects was little changed.

The index in Alberta fell 15.4 points in October to 38.5, while the Saskatchewan-Manitoba region dropped 9.8 points to 74.1.

Quebec fell 9.0 points to 120.0, Ontario slipped 0.5 of a point to 101.2 and British Columbia dropped 8.7 points to 114.8.

Atlantic Canada was the only region to post a gain as it climbed 11.0 points to 129.7.

The online survey was conducted between Oct. 3 and Oct. 13.

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Shaw to focus on network: CEO MOVE COMES AFTER TRANSFORMATIVE 2016

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ALGARY — Shaw Communications will work to improve its network and launch a new generation of video services in the coming year, chief executive Brad Shaw said Wednesday in the cable company’s latest financial report.

The company, which began its 2017 financial year on Sept. 1, underwent major changes in 2016 — including the purchase of Wind Mobile and the sale of its media division.

“Fiscal 2016 marks a very deliberate pivot in the strategic direction for Shaw towards long-term, sustainable growth,” Shaw said in a statement.

“We have entered fiscal 2017 with the necessary foundation in place to execute on our strategic initiatives.”

He added that Shaw is reviewing results from inhome trials of new set-top boxes. It’s also working on infrastructure upgrades to integrate its coaxial cable, wi-fi and wireless networks.

The company (TSX:SJR.B) earned $154 million or 31 cents per diluted share in its fourth quarter, down from $276 million or 57 cents in the fourth quarter of its 2015 financial year when it was boosted by the sale of its wireless spectrum licenses.

Revenue for the quarter ended Aug. 31 totalled $1.31 billion, up 15.5 per cent from $1.13 billion a year ago.

For is full financial year, Shaw earned $1.24 billion or $2.51 per diluted share, boosted by the sale of its media division. The result compared with a profit of $880 million or $1.79 per diluted share in the previous year. Revenue totalled $4.88 billion for the 12 months ended Aug. 31, up 8.9 per cent from $4.49 billion.

In its outlook for its 2017 financial year, Shaw said it expected operating income between $2.125 billion and $2.175 billion, before restructuring and amortization, compared with $2.114 billion in fiscal 2016 and $2.037 billion in fiscal 2015.

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Shaw Communications chief executive Brad Shaw announced the company’s forecast for 2017 Wednesday, which includes improvements to its network.

OIL INDUSTRY

Fire effects linger CAMP AND CATERING FIRM HIT WITH WEAK RESULTS

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ALGARY — A company that operates workcamps for the oilsands industry in northern Alberta says demand for its services has been weaker than expected over the summer in the wake of the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Calgary-based Horizon North Logistics Inc. (TSX:HNL) says rebuilding efforts in the oilsands region of northern Alberta have proceeded at a much slower pace than expected and demand for its camp, catering and modular building services fell off “significantly” in September.

Horizon North’s 665-unit Blacksand Executive Lodge near Fort McMurray was destroyed by the wildfire in May. It says it expects to settle its insurance claim by year-end, without giving any dollar target.

On a conference call, CEO Rod Graham blamed lower activity for a 27 per cent drop in Horizon’s revenue to about $60 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30 versus the same period last year.

The company posted a loss of $4.7 million, compared with a gain of $313,000 in the third quarter of 2015.

He said progress has been made on cleaning up areas of Fort McMurray affected by the fire but the approach of winter has slowed efforts to replace the 1,800 singlefamily homes and other buildings that were destroyed.

Graham said he believes softer demand and downward pressure on pricing will persist through the rest of 2016 and into the first half of 2017.

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Calgary-based Horizon North Logistics Inc., which operates workcamps for the oilsands, says demand for its services has been weaker this summer following the Fort McMurray fire.

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Curse is over as Cubs win World Series in the 10th

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Chicago 8 Cleveland 7 LEVELAND — The wait ‘til next year is finally over. The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions.

Ending more than a century of flops, futility and frustration, the Cubs won their first title since 1908, outlasting the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings of a Game 7 thriller early Thursday.

Lovable losers for generations, the Cubs nearly let this one get away, too. All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman blew a three-run lead with two outs in the eighth when Rajai Davis hit a tying homer.

But the Cubs, after tormenting their fans one more time, came right back after a 17-minute rain delay before the top of the 10th.

Ben Zobrist hit an RBI double and Miguel Montero singled home a run to make it 8-6. Davis delivered an RBI single with two outs in the bottom half, but Mike Montgomery closed it out, and the celebration was on.

Blue-clad Cubs fans filled nearly the entire lower deck behind the Chicago dugout at Progressive Field, singing “Go! Cubs! Go!” Manager Joe Maddon’s team halted the longest title drought in baseball, becoming the first club to overcome a 3-1 Series deficit since the 1985 Kansas City Royals.

Cleveland was trying to win its first crown since 1948, but lost the last two games at home.

World Series favourites since spring training, Chicago led the majors with 103 wins this season.

The Cubs then ended more than a century of misery for their loyal fans — barely. Third baseman Kris Bryant, one of Chicago’s young talents, began smiling even before fielding a grounder by Michael Martinez and throwing it across to star first baseman Anthony Rizzo for the final out.

Zobrist was chosen as the World Series MVP, a year after he helped the Royals win the championship.

Zobrist was among the players brought to the Cubs by Theo Epstein, the baseball guru added another crown to his collection. He also assembled the Red Sox team that broke Boston’s 86-year drought with the 2004 championship.

From Curse of the Bambino to the Billy Goat Curse, he ended another jinx.

The Indians, meanwhile, added more

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Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant, left, and Addison Russell celebrate after Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the series 4-3. heartbreak. In their previous World Series appearance, they were a double-play grounder from winning the title before losing Game 7 in 11 innings to the Marlins.

After defeating San Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs, Chicago became the first team to earn a title by winning Games 6 and 7 on the road since the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates.

While Cubs fans hugged with delight, there was only despair for the Indians, who now have gone longer than anyone without a crown.

Dexter Fowler homered on Corey Kluber’s fourth pitch of the game, 23-year-old Javier Baez and 39-year-old David Ross also went deep for the Cubs, who led 5-1 in the fifth inning and 6-3 in the eighth.

WORLD SERIES

Terrible start proves costly for Rebels Silvertips 4 Rebels 1 VERETT, Wash. — The Red Deer Rebels got off to a terrible start and could never recover as they dropped a 4-1 decision to the Everett Silvertips in Western Hockey League action before 2,657 fans Wednesday.

The ‘Tips jumped all over Red Deer starting netminder Lasse Petersen as Dominic Zwerger connected just 26 seconds into the game and Patrick Bajkov made it 2-0 at 2:13.

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Petersen and his teammates settled down after the second goal with both teams finishing with 10 shots in the first period.

However, Zwerger made it 3-0 with a power play goal at 6:53 of the second period. Michael Spacek gave the Rebels a bit of life as he connected on his ninth goal of the season at 14:07 of the middle stanza.

But that was all they could get past Everett netminder Carter Hart, who finished with 27 saves. Petersen had 28 saves.

The Silvertips put the game away at 11:11 of the third period when Eatu Tuulola scored on a penalty shot.

The Rebels failed to score on four power play opportunities while Everett was one-for-three.

The Rebels finish the first half of an eight-game road trip Friday at Spokane.

They return home before heading east for games Nov. 11 in Brandon, Nov. 12 in Moose Jaw, Nov. 13 in Regina and Nov. 15 in Swift Current. They’re back home Nov. 18 against Medicine Hat.

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Red Deer College Queen Suze Vanderlinde checks and MacEwan University Griffin Jamie Erickson during first-period action at the Centrium in Red Deer Wednesday.

RDC WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Nordell notches game winner against MacEwan

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Queens 3 Griffins 1 einyn Nordell wasn’t looked at as an offensive threat during her first two seasons with the RDC Queens.

What the Edam, Sask., native was one of the premier defensive forwards in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League.

This season she’s expanded her role with the team, taking more of an offensive role.

In fact she’s already equalled last season’s goal total when she notched her third goal in seven games. This one was the game winner as the Queens downed the MacEwan University Griffins 3-1 at the Centrium Wednesday.

“I’m not really a goal scorer, but everyone is hitting me in the right spots,” she said. “I’ve been getting the passes across the slot … it’s nice.”

Nordell, along with centre Suze Vanderlinde and winger Morgan Fraser, give the Queens one of the better checking lines in the ACAC, but also a line that’s stepping up offensively.

“Morgan was always the goal scorer, but now they’re looking more at us, and we’re picking up our game,” said Nordell, who skates as well as anyone on the team.

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“Her strength is skating and she’s going hard to the net. Tonight you saw that on her goal,” said Queens head coach Kelly Coulter. “She was a nice option for Baumer. It’s what we expect from third year players.”

Kirsten Baumgardt made a perfect pass across the crease from the right circle, and all Nordell had to do was shovel the puck in the open side. The goal came at 16:26 of the second period, which the Queens dominated, outshooting the Griffins 15-3.

Jade Petrie had tied the game at 13:39 on the power play when she grabbed a rebound and tucked it under MacEwan goaltender Sandy Helm.

Once again she did a good job of driving to the net.

“That’s something we’ve been working on,” said Coulter. “The goalies in this league are excellent, and you have to create situations where they can’t control the rebounds, and that’s creating traffic in front.”

The Griffins had opened the scoring on a goal by Raven Beazer at 3:24 of the first period.

“In thought we played a solid game, but the one error we did make in our zone was on their goal,” said Coulter. “Other than that we played well.”

The Queens did get caught leaving the offensive zone to fast at times, but were able to cover up.

“That’s communication and something we can work on,” said Coulter. “We need to read the rush a

bit better and see what’s happening.”

Jessica Anderson put the finishing touches on the scoring, firing the puck into the empty net after taking a pass from Ashley Graf with Helm on the bench.

The win was the fifth in a row for the Queens, who moved into second place at 5-2. MacEwan slipped to 4-3. NAIT is at 7-1.

The two RDC losses came against NAIT to open the season.

“We started slow and got our butts kicked, but we’re starting to grow as a team and we’re getting to where we want to be,” said Nordell. “We still have some things to work on, but they’re coming.”

Jen West finished with 14 saves in goal for the Queens, who had 30 shots on Helm.

The lack of activity didn’t bother West, who made a couple solid saves down the stretch.

“It’s tough on a goaltender to maintain their focus when they’re not challenged much,” said Coulter.

“But we’ve been talking about that and I told her to be ready for a big push late and she did a good job of pushing the rebounds outside the house.”

The Queens play their next three games on the road, visiting GMU Saturday, NAIT Nov. 12 and GMU again Nov. 19. They return home Nov. 20 against GMU. 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.

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Muay Thai fighter aims for spot on national team

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF

An amateur Muay Thai fighter from Red Deer is looking to earn a spot with Canada’s national team later this month.

Will Quijada, 29, is competing at the Canadian Muay Thai National Tournament in Toronto on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, a Team Canada qualifier.

He will fight two professional fighters in the qualifying division.

‘I’M A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNDERDOG BUT I FEEL FRESH. I FEEL REALLY GOOD, AND I’M CONFIDENT IN MY ABILITIES.’ — WILL QUIJADA

“I’m a little bit of an underdog but I feel fresh. I feel really good, and I’m confident in my abilities,” said Quijada.

“I started (training) about six to eight weeks out from competition and I usually put in about three to five hours a day working on my striking, my mobility, my strength and my conditioning.”

Quijada has been competing in the sport for more than 10 years, and said he is looking forward to representing Red Deer on a national stage.

“I was born and raised in Red Deer, so this means a lot to me. I’ve trained at different clubs here in town, so I’m taking all my Red Deer-based knowledge to Toronto, and coming back with gold,” said Quijada.

“I’m really excited to whoop some pros’ butts.”

The last time he fought competitively was in 2012 at the last national tournament in Canada, where he found himself on top of the podium.

In 2012, Quijada also competed in Russia at the Saint Petersburg World Muay Thai Championships. He hopes that experience can translate into success in Toronto.

“Competing in Russia was out of my comfort zone including the flight there, cutting weight to make the bracket and competing against the world’s best.

“Having that experience will definitely help,” said Quijada. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

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Will Quijada, 29, is hoping for gold at the Canadian Muay Thai National Tournament in Toronto on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13. He’s been training Muay Thai for more than 10 years.

FOUR NATIONS TOURNAMENT

Sweden no match for Canadian gals Canada 3 Sweden 1 IERUMAKI, Finland — Canada defeated Sweden 3-1 on Wednesday to set up a pair of showdowns with the archrival Americans at the Four Nations women’s hockey tournament.

The first game will close out round-robin play Friday.

Since both teams will enter with 2-0-0 records, they have already locked up berths in the championship game Saturday.

“We’ve got to make sure that we play a good puck possession game,” said Canadian assistant coach Dwayne Gylywoychuk. “We have to have a good puck management game. The U.S. are going to be prepared. They’re a very skilled team and we’ve got to make sure we bring our A-game on Friday when the puck drops.”

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY Marie-Philip Poulin’s power-play goal at 10:22 of the second period stood up as the winner. Melodie Daoust iced the victory with an empty-net goal with 66 seconds left in the third period.

“The Swedes played a tough game,” Gylywoychuk said. “They played us hard, they have a lot of pride in their game and a lot of pride in their defensive game.

“We knew we had to get a lot of pucks to the net to have success.”

Hanna Olsson opened the scoring for Sweden at 11:48 of the first period and Haley Irwin pulled Canada even at 14:40.

Canada outshot Sweden 13-2 in the opening

stanza and 38-13 overall.

Sara Grahn was in net for Sweden while Genevieve Lacasse was the Canadian goaltender.

Laura Fortino had two assists for Canada.

“We knew Sweden would come out hard,” Poulin said. “We’re really happy to come out on top here.”

The United States blanked host Finland 4-0 in Wednesday’s other game.

Canada, which opened the tournament with a 3-0 win over Finland, has dropped its last six meetings against the U.S. The world champion Americans haven’t lost to Canada since dropping a 3-2 shootout decision in the 2014 Four Nations final.

“We know it’s really intense every time we play them,” Poulin said. “So we have to play physical, put a lot of pressure on them and a lot of shots.”

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Quarterback Matt Nichols and the rest of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers wrap up their regular season with a tilt against the visiting Ottawa Redblacks Friday night. The Bombers have already earned a berth into the playoffs, but not a final position within the West Division.

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att Nichols and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers could give themselves some playoff clarity Friday night.

Winnipeg (10-7) concludes its regular season visiting the Ottawa Redblacks (8-8-1).

The Bombers have clinched a post-season berth but not a final position within the West Division.

Winnipeg is currently third, two points behind the B.C. Lions (11-6) and just two ahead of the Edmonton Eskimos (9-8). A win Friday would keep the Bombers in the West come playoff time but a loss and Edmonton win Sunday against Toronto would force the Manitoba squad to head to Hamilton for the East Division semifinal.

Winnipeg can still finish as high as second in the West — and host the conference semifinal — if it beats Ottawa and B.C. loses to Saskatchewan on Sunday. A loss or tie by the Bombers would give the Lions the No. 2 spot.

The Bombers’ defence won’t have to contend with veteran quarterback Henry Burris. With the Redblacks having clinched first place in the East Division, the CFL’s outstanding player last season won’t play.

Ottawa cemented first in the East Division with last weekend’s 23-10 road win over Winnipeg. Burris completed 23-of-33 pass attempts for 338 yards and ran for a touchdown while Mossis Madu rushed for 125 yards and a TD. Defensively, Ottawa linebackers Taylor Reed and Damaso Munuz led the way with 12 and 10 tackles, respectively. And the Redblacks’ unit will be bolstered by the addition of defensive lineman

Cleyon Laing, an Edmonton native recently waived by the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.

Laing had eight sacks last season with Toronto before signing with Miami as a free agent.

Nichols was 35-of-46 passing for 289 yards and a TD versus Ottawa but also threw three interceptions. The Bombers had a season-high five turnovers and have lost three of their last five games after reeling off seven consecutive victories.

Nichols had just one interception in his first seven starts but has been picked off seven times in the last five contests. And Ottawa has won four of the five games played between the two clubs since it rejoined the CFL in 2014.

Should the Redblacks lose, they’ll become the first division winner in league history to finish with a losing record.

Bombers running back Andrew Harris, in his first season with his hometown team, needs 86 yards to reach the 1,000-yard rushing plateau for the second straight year and third time in his CFL career. Kicker Justin Medlock needs just three field goals to tie the CFL’s single-season record of 59, set in 1990 by Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway.

Pick —Winnipeg.

Montreal Alouettes versus Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Saturday afternoon) Hamilton (7-10) has clinched second in the East and home field for the division semifinal. Predictably, a host of starters won’t play this week, including running back C.J Gable, although starter Zach Collaros will see action. Slotback Andy Fantuz (101 catches, 1,059 yards, five TDs) has a suspected torn anterior cruciate ligament but receiver/returner Brandon Banks returns after serving a two-game suspension for a positive drug test. Montreal (6-11)

halted Calgary’s 14-game win streak last week to improve interim head coach Jacques Chapdelaine’s record to 3-2. Rakeem Cato could start after replacing an injured Vernon Adams Jr. (leg) against the Stampeders.

Pick — Montreal.

Toronto Argonauts versus Edmonton Eskimos (Saturday afternoon) Edmonton (9-8) will know by kickoff whether it has something to play for, depending on how Winnipeg fares. With Calgary idle, Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly will claim the CFL passing title and again have the league’s top two receivers in Adarius Bowman and Derel Walker to play catch with. It’s been a wretched stretch for Toronto (5-12), which has lost six straight and 10 of its last 11. Argos’ veteran Ricky Ray will make his 200th career start against his former team.

Pick — Edmonton.

Saskatchewan Roughriders versus B.C. Lions (Sunday afternoon) B.C. (11-6) looks to sweep the home-and-home series after last weekend’s 24-6 win in Regina. Veteran kicker Paul McCallum came out of retirement this week to rejoin the club as incumbent Richie Leone has been inconsistent. The Lions could have second spot sewn up prior to kickoff depending on what Winnipeg does. Saskatchewan (5-12) has dropped two straight and allowed 11 sacks — including seven last weekend — following four straight victories as the Riders complete their first season under head coach/GM Chris Jones.

Pick — B.C. Last week: 2-2.

Overall: 43-32-1.

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Gridiron greats named as nominees for top awards WHYTE CRAPIGNA, HAJRULLAHU, FANTUZ AND WOODS EARN MULTIPLE NODS

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ORONTO — There’s a silver lining to the bitter end of Andy Fantuz’s historic 2016 season.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats slotback was one of five double nominees Wednesday in opening-round voting for the CFL’s outstanding player awards. Ballots were cast by members of the Football Reporters of Canada and the nine CFL head coaches.

Fantuz, in his 11th CFL season and fifth in Hamilton, was nominated as the Ticats’ outstanding player and top Canadian. He suffered a serious knee injury in a 29-26 loss Friday night to the Edmonton Eskimos that will reportedly end his season.

The six-foot-four, 218-pound native of Chatham, Ont., was Hamilton’s receiving leader with a career-high 101 catches for 1,059 yards and five TDs. Fantuz, a unanimous pick as the Ticats’ top Canadian, is the first player in club history to crack the 100-catch plateau in a season.

“I think he’s very deserving, he’s had an unbelievable year,” said Kent Austin, Hamilton’s head coach/ vice-president of football operations.

“It’s really, really a shame he didn’t get to finish it out with his teammates.

“He had a great year and is still a valuable member of that room and helping to get guys ready to play to hopefully make a run in the playoffs.”

Hamilton (7-10) finishes its regular season hosting Montreal (6-11) on Saturday. The Ticats have already clinched second spot in the East Division and will host the conference semifinal Nov. 13.

Fantuz, 32, was the CFL’s top Canadian in 2010 with Saskatchewan. He had 87 catches for a career-high 1,380 yards —his first 1,000-yard receiving campaign — and six TDs that season.

Kickers Sean Whyte, Lirim Hajrullahu and Tyler Crapigna as well as linebacker Bear Woods also received multiple nominations.

Whyte, Hajrullahu and Crapigna were named the top Canadian and special-teams player for the Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts and Saskatchewan Roughriders, respectively, while Woods got the nod as the Montreal Alouettes’ outstanding player and defensive performer.

The division nominees will be announced next week. The CFL will honour its top individual performers Nov. 24 in Toronto.

Woods required surgery last year for a pectoral muscle injury but the 29-year-old has responded with a team-record 123 tackles this season.

He’s also registered five sacks, two interceptions and four forced fumbles, recovering one.

Whyte, 31, has made 43-of-46 field goals (league-best 93.5 per cent). The native of White Rock, B.C., has also hit

and five times this year had two or more sacks in a game.

Messam, of Brampton, Ont., is the CFL rushing leader with a career-best 1,198 yards and scored 12 TDs, 11 coming on the ground. He was the CFL’s top Canadian in 2011 when he ran for 1,057 yards while with Edmonton.

Daniels got the nod as Calgary’s top rookie despite not making his pro debut until Aug. 19. The former Notre Dame star has 51 catches for 885 yards (17.4-yard average) and nine TDs as the Stampeders’ second-leading receiver behind veteran Marquay McDaniel (83 catches, 1,074 yards, four touchdowns).

Defensive back Maurice Leggett, tied with teammate T.J. Heath for the CFL interceptions lead (seven) and kicker Justin Medlock (league-high 56 field goals, 212 points) were also unanimous picks as Winnipeg’s top defensive player and special-teams performer (unanimous), respectively.

The other unanimous selections were running back/returner Chris Rainey and offensive lineman Antonio Johnson as B.C.’s top special-teams player and rookie, respectively. Rainey leads the CFL with 2,760 combined yards and has returned two punts for TDs while Johnson has started 14 games this season with the Lions.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats slotback Andy Fantuz is one of five double nominees for the CFL awards. on 45-of-51 converts.

Crapigna, 24, of Ottawa, has made 35-of-40 field goals and 20-of-23 converts for 127 points.

Hajrullahu hit 36-of-41 field goal tries and has a 43.8-yard punting average in his first season with Toronto. The former Western star made 15 straight field goals earlier this season, tying Noel Prefontaine for the third-longest streak in Argos history.

Other notable nominations include linebacker Solomon Elimimian as B.C.’s top defensive player. Elimimian captured both the league’s outstanding player and defensive player honours in 2014 before suffering a season-ending Achilles injury last year.

He’s enters the final week of the 2016 regular season with a CFL-high 128 tackles and eight sacks.

CFL passing leader Mike Reilly (5,554 yards) was a unanimous selection as Edmonton’s outstanding player while quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, defensive lineman Charleston Hughes, running back Jerome Messam and receiver DaVaris Daniels were all unanimous picks as Calgary’s top player, defensive player, Canadian and rookie, respectively.

Mitchell led Calgary to a 15-1-1 record in his 17 starts, including a 14-game win streak and 16-game unbeaten streak. He didn’t play in the Stampeders’ season-ending 17-8 loss to Montreal.

But Mitchell has a CFL-high 32 TD strikes and is one of just two quarterbacks — Reilly is the other — to pass for more than 5,000 yards (5,385). Mitchell also threw for 300 or more yards 11 times this season and his 107.9 rating is tops among league starters.

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MAPLE LEAFS’ AUSTON MATTHEWS RIDING ATOP A WAVE OF YOUNG TALENT IN THE NHL

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uston Matthews naturally slowed down a bit after scoring four goals in his phenomenal NHL debut.

The Maple Leafs’ first overall pick is still on top of a league-wide youth wave that’s only picking up speed.

From Toronto to Arizona, teenagers and rookies had a major impact throughout hockey during the first month of the season.

As November began, 19-year-old Edmonton captain Connor McDavid was tied for the league lead in points, while Matthews and 18-year-old Winnipeg sensation Patrik Laine both had a share of the league’s goal-scoring lead. Toronto forward William Nylander was similarly prolific, winning the NHL’s rookie of the month award.

Two straight bumper crops of youngsters are changing the game with precocious speed and skill.

They’re also bringing hope to frustrated fan bases across the continent — particularly north of the border, where some of the best talent is taking flight.

“The generation that’s taking over is a new one, in my opinion,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan, who coached McDavid, Matthews and several other top youngsters at the World Cup of Hockey. “They haven’t played under the old clutch-and-grab rules. They never were exposed to it.

They’ve always played free hockey. … They’re fast, and they like playing that way.”

Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr were in attendance when McDavid and Matthews had their first headto-head meeting Tuesday night in the biggest showcase yet for the league’s young stars. While neither No. 1 pick scored in Toronto’s 3-2 overtime win over Edmonton, it’s clear they could be fighting for Art Ross trophies and Stanley Cup titles for years to come.

“It’s not just Auston, and it’s not just Connor,” Gretzky told reporters in Toronto. “There’s some good young players on both teams, and expectations go up with that.”

Indeed, the 2015-16 campaign produced a banner crew of rookies league-wide, including McDavid, Buffalo’s Jack Eichel and Philadelphia defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere.

Chicago left wing Artemi Panarin, who turned 25 this week, scored 77 points in 80 games to beat out McDavid for the Calder Trophy.

The new group appears to be equally promising. Matthews, Laine and Nylander appear to be ready for immediate stardom, while several other rookies have stepped into big roles.

But for clear star potential, nobody tops McDavid and Matthews, who could be at the start of parallel career paths with similarities to the roads traveled by Sidney Crosby and

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Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews, right, celebrates a goal against the Ottawa Senators with teammate William Nylander during an NHL hockey game in Ottawa, Ontario. Matthews is part of a talented crop of rookies and young players making an immediate impact on the NHL through the first month of the season. Nylander was named the NHL’s rookie of the month for October after scoring 10 points in nine games.

Alex Ovechkin, who broke into the NHL together as No. 1 picks in 2005.

McDavid is no longer a rookie despite missing nearly half of last season with a broken collarbone, but he’s still a teenager until January. Matthews just turned 19 after spending last year playing pro hockey in Switzerland, and he spent plenty of time with McDavid at the World Cup. “He’s a good guy,” McDavid said of Matthews. “I get along with him. I definitely don’t consider him a rival. … He’s definitely not a guy that needs advice. He’s got a good head on his shoulders, and he’s got a lot of confidence as well, so you don’t really need to tell him anything.”

Signs of this youth explosion were obvious in September, when that 23-and-under Team North America captivated the World Cup with its up-tempo, exciting brand of play.

“It was a fun time playing with a bunch of guys who were kind of your age and really competing hard,” Matthews said.

While McDavid has the young Oilers off to a promising start, no city has more blue-chip talent than Toronto, the epicenter of hockey and the home of the perennially frustrating Maple Leafs.

Although the standings still don’t look great, coach Mike Babcock is giving significant playing time to six rookies — including two of the highest-scoring newcomers in the game.

Nylander, who had four goals and seven assists in his first nine NHL games, got a jump-start on this fall

with 22 games for the Leafs last season. Matthews is probably the most tantalizing player in the sport, and he had the top-selling jersey in the NHL’s online store last month.

Three more Toronto rookies — defenseman Nikita Zaitsev and forwards Mitch Marner and Connor Brown — already look comfortable in the league.

The gifted Marner would be the most talked-about player in Toronto if it wasn’t for his two teammates lighting up scoreboards ahead of him.

Laine was a 7-year-old Finnish kid when Ovechkin broke in with Washington, and he grew up idolizing the Russian star. The No. 2 overall pick last summer is off to a fantastic start in North America, scoring six goals in his first nine games with ferocity and flair.

A surprising name was right behind Laine early on the rookie scoring lists: Travis Konecny, the smallish first-round pick who made the Flyers’ opening-night roster along with teenage Russian defenseman Ivan Provorov. Both rookies have stuck in Philadelphia, and Konecny had seven points in his first 10 games.

“You’re playing against men out there,” Konecny said. “It’s definitely a little bit of an adjustment, but I’m slowly getting used to it. The first few games, I felt like there was no time for me on the ice, but I’ve been making room for myself and allowing myself to make more plays.”

BY THE NUMBERS A remarkable nine rookies averaged at least 0.67 points per game

while playing in at least five games in October. Some of the kids making a major impact include: ● Jimmy Vesey, the New York Rangers forward who signed as a free agent out of Harvard and immediately backed up his Hobey Baker Award credentials with five goals in October. ● Michael Matheson, the 22-yearold Florida Panthers defenseman taking key roles on both ends. ● Jakob Chychrun, the 18-year-old Florida native getting a regular role on the Arizona Coyotes’ blue line. ● Zach Werenski, the 19-year-old Blue Jackets defenseman with six points in his first seven NHL games — and surviving as a Michigan man in Columbus.

STREAKING Artem Anisimov has a career-high point streak of eight games after getting a goal and an assist in Chicago’s 5-1 win over Calgary on Tuesday night.

SLUMPING The Los Angeles Kings haven’t scored a goal in three straight games after their 4-0 trouncing by Anaheim in the Freeway Faceoff on Tuesday night.

LEADERS Goals, Anisimov (Chicago) and Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay), 7; Points, Anisimov, 13; Time on ice, Dustin Byfuglien (Winnipeg), 28:49; Wins, Cam Talbot (Edmonton), 7.

GAME OF THE WEEK The rematch of the Stanley Cup Final is Saturday night when Pittsburgh visits San Jose at the Shark Tank.

Both conference champions are off to strong starts again this fall.

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Price slams door on Canucks as Canadiens winning streak hits eight games

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canadiens 3, Canucks 0 ONTREAL (AP) — Carey Price made 42 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-0 on Wednesday night to extend their winning streak.

Nathan Beaulieu, Torrey Mitchell and Alexander Radulov, into an empty net, scored for Montreal. At 9-0-1, the Canadiens are the only undefeated NHL team in regulation time this season. Alex Galchenyuk and Brendan Gallagher each had two assists.

Ryan Miller made 19 saves for the Canucks. They are winless in five games and 4-5-1 overall.

Price made more than 40 saves for the first time this season, topping his previous high of 38.

Montreal hardly looked like the league’s best team for much of the game. The Canadiens were disorganized and struggled to generate any momentum in the first period. The Canucks won most puck battles while Montreal failed to string passes together. The shots were 13-3 for Vancouver after 20 minutes.

Price kept Montreal in the game to start the second period, robbing winger Sven Baertschi from close range. The visitors led 24-3 in shots before the Canadiens struck midway through the second.

Following sustained pressure by Vancouver, Beaulieu scored on a fast break for Montreal. The defenseman cashed in a rebound at 12:22 after Brendan Gallagher’s shot from a tight angle bounced off Miller and landed in the crease.

The goal was Beaulieu’s first of the season and it came on Montreal’s 11th shot.

The Habs doubled their lead in the last minute of the second period on Mitchell’s team-high fifth goal of the year. Mitchell came storming down the wing on a 2 on 1 with Phillip Danault, who found his streaking teammate with a cross-crease pass.

Miller, who was playing the shot, had no chance on the goal.

NOTES: The Canadiens are 7-0-1 in their last eight home games against Vancouver. … Montreal has scored first in 8 of 10 games this season. ..

The Canucks are on a six-game trip. … Montreal recalled Daniel Carr and Joel Hanley from the AHL’s St. John’s IceCaps.

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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price keeps his eyes on the puck during third-period NHL hockey action against the Vancouver Canucks Wednesday in Montreal.

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Flyers stun the Red Wings in OT

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Flyers 4 Red Wings 3 (OT) HILADELPHIA — For certainties, look no further than death, taxes, and Flyers home wins against the Detroit Red Wings.

The Flyers continued their uncanny Wells Fargo Center domination of the Red Wings on Wednesday night. Dramatically.

Jake Voracek scored on a one-timer from the right circle with 3 minutes, 19 seconds left in overtime, lifting the Flyers to a riveting 4-3 win over the stunned Red Wings.

Claude Giroux set up the goal, giving him points in 10 straight games, a personal best.

It was their 12th straight regular-season home win over Detroit since 1997. (The Red Wings did beat the host Flyers in two 1997 Stanley Cup Finals games.)

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streak for the first time this season. Detroit (6-4-1) suffered its third straight loss, a skid that followed a six-game winning streak.

With 62 seconds remaining in regulation and the Flyers goalie pulled for an extra attacker, Mark Streit tied it at 3-3 after a wild scramble in front. Detroit challenged the call, claiming Brayden Schenn interfered with goalie Petr Mrazek. But the goal stood. Schenn was pushed into Mrazek by Detroit’s Frans Nielsen.

Veteran center Henrik Zetterberg got behind Giroux, took a slick pass from Tomas Tartar, and scored from the right circle with 11:42 remaining to put Detroit ahead, 3-2.

Defenseman Radko Gudas lost the puck in the neutral zone to put the play in motion.

About four minutes before Zetterberg’s first goal of the season, Flyers rookie winger Roman Lyubimov picked an opportune time to score the first tally of his young NHL career, depositing a rebound with 16:09 left to knot the score at 2-all.

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DeRozan scores 40 points as Raptors keep Wizards winless

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Raptors 113 Wizards 103 ASHINGTON — DeMar DeRozan continued his hot start by scoring 40 points and outdueling John Wall in a showcase of All-Star guards as the Toronto Raptors beat the winless Washington Wizards 113-103 on Wednesday night.

DeRozan was 14 of 23 from the floor despite leaving the game briefly to get his ankles taped. Raptors backcourt made Kyle Lowry needed three stitches to close a cut below his right eye but still scored 18 points.

Those problems didn’t slow down the Raptors (31) as they spoiled the home opener for the Wizards (0-3). Terrence Ross added 15 points for Toronto.

Wall was dominant in leading Washington with 33 points on 13 of 19 shooting and 11 assists. Otto Porter was 11 of 13 from the field for 23 points and Bradley Beal scored 15, but the Wizards did themselves in with 21 turnovers that Toronto turned into 30 points.

Wall almost singlehandedly led the Wizards back in the fourth quarter, awakening the crowd of 19,581 when he stole the ball from Lowry and tied the score at 92.

But DeRozan and Lowry put on an offensive clinic down the stretch as Washington couldn’t stop them or force the ball elsewhere.

P.P. 3 Public address announcer Ralph Wesley enthusiastically announces every Wizards 3-pointer as a “D.C. 3.”

D.C.-born Raptors big man Patrick Patterson dropped two of his own during a two-minute stretch in the second quarter and did not get the hometown treatment.

ANOTHER BAD TURN Wizards coach Scott Brooks lamented 5 bad minutes in a season-opening loss at Atlanta and bad breaks in a loss at Memphis. This time it was a bad response after Washington blew an early 12-point lead and was never able to recover.

TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto has won eight consecutive regular-season meetings and 11 of the past 12. …

DeRozan tied Mike James’ franchise record of four consecutive 30-point games.

DeRozan had 40, 32 and 33 points in the first three games. … DeRozan also tied Jose Calderon

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Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) is defended by Washington Wizards guard John Wall during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday in Washington. The Raptors won 113-103. for the second-most games played in Raptors with his 525th. He’s 18 away from tying Morris Peterson for first. … Rookie Jakob Poetltl fouled out midway through the fourth quarter with no points to his name.

Wizards: The Wizards fell to 0-3 for the fourth time in six seasons. … Rookie Tomas Satoransky checked in late in the third quarter after playing

just 6 minutes in the first two games. He finished with two points in 9 minutes.

UP NEXT Raptors: Host the Miami Heat on Friday in what’s already their fourth home game of season.

Wizards: Host the Hawks on Friday for the second meeting in 10 days after opening with a 114-99 loss at Atlanta last week.

NBA

Emotions high as Kevin Durant plays former team

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AKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As much as Kevin Durant might try to downplay the drama, when he steps on the court against his former Oklahoma City team for the first time Thursday night emotions will be flying high for both sides.

And there’s more: Durant’s new Golden State team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals just more than five months ago.

“I wouldn’t say weird. I’ll just be locked in to follow the game plan, and just playing,” Durant said.

“But once you step on the court and see the different jersey I’m sure it will hit me.”

Durant vs. old buddy Russell Westbrook, who

opted to stay put and sign an extension. Oh yes, this game has been circled on many an NBA schedule for months. At least since Durant departed as a free agent to join the Warriors in July.

New teammate and fellow Olympian Draymond Green knows Durant will be extra motivated for this matchup.

“I think it will be a lot of emotions. They’re going to want to beat him really bad, he’s going to want to beat them really bad,” Green said.

“In turn, we’re going to want to beat them really bad because we want him to beat them really bad.

So I think it will be a fun game to play in. It’s always a high intensity game against them and I expect nothing less.”

Yes, this could be a tense reunion when the tip goes up. Westbrook went into Wednesday night’s game against the Clippers in Los Angeles leading

the league in scoring averaging 38.7 points, while Durant was sixth at 28.5.

Golden State had Wednesday off from practice following a 127-104 win Tuesday night at Portland.

“I’m going to enjoy myself and get away from basketball,” Durant said.

“At shootaround we’ll think about going over the game plan and stuff and how we’re going to try to win the game.”

Durant has scored 20 or more points in 68 straight regular-season games for the longest such streak since Michael Jordan did so in 69 consecutive outings in 1990-91.

Coach Steve Kerr has insisted all along his team will need time to come together and really click.

Durant has made strides learning the system each day, leading the Warriors in scoring slightly ahead of two-time reigning MVP Stephen Curry.

LOCAL SPORTS Friday Sunday ● College basketball: RDC vs. Olds, women 6 p.,m., men to follow, RDC. ● CHL: Chinook League, Lacombe at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Spokane. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Saturday ● Football: Central Alberta High School Football League City Division final, 2:30m p.m., Lacombe. Rural Division final, Sylvan Lake, 2 p.m. ● College basketball: RDC vs. St. Mary’s University, women 6 p.m., men to follow, RDC. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Portage, 7 p.m., Penhold. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs.

Okotoks Oilers, 7 p.m., Olds. ● AFHL: Midget elite, Red Deer Sutter Fund vs. Lethbridge, 7:45 p.m., Kin City. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Collicutt.

● AMBHL: Major bantam, Red Deer Rebels vs. Calgary Royals, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● CHL: Chinook League, Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 2:45 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Stettler at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● AMHL: Midget AAA, Red Deer Chiefs vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 5 p.m., Kinex. ● AFHL: Midget AAA, Red Deer Sutter Fund vs.

Rocky Mountain Raiders, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Monday ● Basketball: Red Deer Women’s League, Storm vs.

Big Ballers, 7:15 p.m., Shooting Stars & Age Gap vs. Average Joe’s, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS Gym 11; Hoosier Daddy vs.

Funk, 7:15 p.m., Spartans vs, Dynamo, 8:30 p.m., CACHS; Triple Threat vs. Quarter-Pro, 7:15 p.m., Rampage vs. Pink Panthers, 8:30 p.m.; LTCHS North; Xpress vs.

Raptors, 7:15 p.m., LTCHS South.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 3 1 .750 Toronto 3 1 .750 Brooklyn 2 3 .400 New York 1 3 .250 Philadelphia 0 4 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 3 1 .750 Charlotte 3 1 .750 Miami 2 2 .500 Orlando 1 3 .250 Washington 0 3 .000 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 4 0 1.000 Chicago 3 1 .750 Detroit 3 2 .600 Milwaukee 2 2 .500 Indiana 2 2 .500 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 4 1 .800 Houston 3 2 .600 Memphis 3 2 .600 Dallas 0 4 .000 New Orleans 0 5 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 3 0 1.000 Utah 3 2 .600 Portland 2 2 .500 Denver 1 2 .333 Minnesota 1 2 .333 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 3 0 1.000 Golden State 3 1 .750 Sacramento 2 3 .400 L.A. Lakers 2 3 .400 Phoenix 0 4 .000

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GB — 1 1 3½ 4 GB — 1 1½ 2 2 GB — ½ 2 2 3½

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 128, Houston 120 Indiana 115, L.A. Lakers 108 Orlando 103, Philadelphia 101 Detroit 102, New York 89 Miami 108, Sacramento 96, OT Milwaukee 117, New Orleans 113 Minnesota 116, Memphis 80 Utah 106, San Antonio 91 Golden State 127, Portland 104 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte 109, Philadelphia 93 Toronto 113, Washington 103 Brooklyn 109, Detroit 101 Houston 118, New York 99 L.A. Lakers 123, Atlanta 116 Boston 107, Chicago 100 Memphis 89, New Orleans 83, OT Utah 97, Dallas 81 Portland at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 830 p.m.

Today’s Games Sacramento at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 9 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Now joining the World Series – Wild Thing CLEVELAND (AP) — Wild Thing wasn’t going to miss a Game 7 for the ages.

Actor Charlie Sheen, who played Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn in Major League, the iconic film about a sad-sack Cleveland Indians team finally finding success, was at the

climactic game between the Indians and Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.

With a push from fans on social media, Sheen had campaigned to throw out one of the ceremonial pitches before one of the four games in Cleveland.

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HOCKEY WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W L OTLSOL Regina 13 10 0 3 0 Moose Jaw 15 10 3 2 0 Swift Current 17 9 5 2 1 Brandon 15 6 6 3 0 Saskatoon 16 7 8 1 0 Prince Albert 16 4 11 1 0 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 15 10 4 1 0 Red Deer 17 8 7 1 1 Lethbridge 15 6 7 1 1 Edmonton 15 5 8 2 0 Calgary 11 5 5 1 0 Kootenay 15 3 8 3 1

GF 78 54 59 52 36 35

GA Pts 41 23 48 22 55 21 51 15 51 15 52 9

GF 77 54 51 38 26 41

GA Pts 51 21 62 18 62 14 57 12 35 11 68 10

Western Conference U.S. Division W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 12 2 2 0 53 32 26 Tri-City 9 6 1 0 58 59 19 Portland 8 8 0 0 62 56 16 Spokane 6 6 2 1 43 53 15 Seattle 6 6 0 1 34 43 13 B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 17 13 2 2 0 64 48 28 Victoria 18 9 7 2 0 62 52 20 Kamloops 17 9 8 0 0 59 43 18 Kelowna 17 9 8 0 0 47 56 18 Vancouver 17 7 10 0 0 47 55 14 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.

GP 16 16 16 15 13

Sunday’s Games Kootenay 6 Brandon 2 Regina 6 Seattle 3 Kelowna 3 Portland 2 Tuesday’s Games Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 1 Seattle 4 Saskatoon 3 Victoria 6 Red Deer 4 Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1 Wednesday’s Games Moose Jaw 3 Brandon 2 (OT) Kootenay at Regina, 7 p.m.

Seattle 5 Prince Albert 2 Edmonton 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Medicine Hat at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Everett 4 Red Deer 1 Friday’s Games Seattle at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

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

Red Deer at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’sGames Tri-City at Portland, 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Silvertips 4, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Everett, Zwerger 5 (Bajkov) 0:26.

2. Everett, Bajkov 6 (Fonteyne, Wylie) 2:13.

Penalties — Juulsen Evt (tripping) 4:51.

Second Period 3. Everett, Zwerger 6 (Bajkov, Dewar) 6:53 (pp).

4. Red Deer, Spacek 9 (Hagel) 14:07.

Penalties — Sakowich Rd (holding) 2:26 Bobyk Rd (roughing) 5:49 Bajkov Evt (kneeing) 18:59.

Third Period 5. Everett, Tuulola 4 (penalty shot) 11:11.

Penalties — Spacek Rd (tripping) 13:05 Juulsen Evt (tripping) 15:24 Jerome Rd (holding) 18:40.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 10 11 7 — 28 Everett 10 14 8 — 32 Goal — Red Deer: Petersen (L, 2-2-0-0). Everett: Hart (W, 9-2-1-0).

Hurricanes 2, Bla 1 (OT) First Period 1. Kamloops, Shirley 7 (Balcers, J. Gatenby) 7:27 (pp).

Penalties — Sideroff Kam (cross checking) 0:17 Franklin Let (inter. on goaltender) 3:16 Skinner Let (delay of game) 7:20 Riddle Let (tripping) 10:49 Vala Kam (roughing) 18:33 Bellerive Let (high sticking) 18:33.

Second Period 2. Lethbridge, Estephan 7 (Menell, Pankewicz) 12:26.

Penalties — Babenko Let (hooking) 13:26.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Zaharichuk Let (boarding) 9:27 Kneen Kam (cross checking) 17:59.

Overtime 3. Lethbridge, Bellerive 4 (Burke, Pankewicz) 1:44.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Lethbridge 11 9 9 3 — 32 Kamloops 12 10 5 1 — 28 Goal — Lethbridge: Skinner (W, 7-7-0-0). Kamloops: Ingram (L, 7-6-1-0).

Pats 10, Ice 2 First Period 1. Regina, Hobbs 4 (Wagner, Ahl) 10:45.

2. Regina, Ahl 8 (Brooks, Harrison) 17:11.

Penalties — Bruce Reg (tripping) 5:39 Pouliot Ktn, Buziak Reg (major, major-fighting) 15:06.

Second Period 3. Regina, Henry 6 (Zborovskiy, Leedahl) 0:21.

4. Regina, Ahl 9 (Brooks, Wagner) 4:11.

5. Kootenay, Rudakov 1 (Stewart, Morison) 6:34.

6. Regina, Steel 11 (Brooks, Hobbs) 18:37 (pp).

7. Regina, Leschyshyn 8 (Cole, Zablocki) 18:53.

Penalties — Brooks Reg (unsportsmanlike cnd.)

7:27 Steel Reg (tripping) 12:37 Alfaro Ktn (slashing) 13:01 Wellsby Ktn (high sticking) 17:41.

Third Period 8. Regina, Steel 12 (Henry, Leedahl) 1:14.

9. Regina, Bruce 1 (Hobbs) 2:43.

10. Regina, Henry 7 (Leedahl, Steel) 12:37.

11. Kootenay, Rudakov 2 (Wellsby) 14:46.

12. Regina, Smith 3 (Hobbs, Woods) 19:40 (pp).

Penalties — Ahl Reg (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 7:43 Leedahl Reg (slashing) 14:54 Hobbs Reg (hooking) 16:13 Hines Ktn (slashing) 17:55.

Shots on goal by Kootenay 9 8 15 — 32 Regina 18 21 23 — 62 Goal — Kootenay: Lee (L, 3-2-3-1), Walter (0:00 third, 23 shots, 19 saves). Regina: Hollett (W, 5-01-0).

Oil Kings 5, Broncos 4 (OT) First Period 1. Edmonton, Koch 3 (Berg, Bauer) 4:56 (pp).

Penalties — Jensen Sc (checking from behind) 3:30 Irving Edm (delay of game) 6:41 Klatt Edm (slashing) 17:10.

Second Period 2. Edmonton, Klatt 2 (Yewchuk) 5:55.

3. Edmonton, Bowman 2 (Cap) 6:20.

4. Edmonton, Bauer 8 (Irving, Dea) 11:49 (pp).

Missed penalty shot — Miller Sc, 7:57.

Penalties — Miller Sc (boarding) 0:59 Miller Sc (penalty shot) 7:57 Steenbergen Sc (high sticking) 11:09 Johnson Sc (interference) 13:29.

Third Period 5. Swift Current, Steenbergen 11 (Heponiemi, Minulin) 3:47 (pp).

6. Swift Current, Jensen 2 (Heponiemi, Steenbergen) 7:02.

7. Swift Current, Steenbergen 12 (Lajoie, Minulin) 10:44 (pp).

8. Swift Current, Minulin 4 (Lajoie) 19:22.

Penalties — Yewchuk Edm (tripping) 1:47 Robertson Edm (boarding) 3:23 Sissons Sc (closing hand on puck) 7:44 Miller Sc, Fix-Wolansky Edm (roughing) 8:41 Fix-Wolansky Edm (cross checking) 8:41 Warm Edm (delay of game) 9:57.

Overtime 9. Edmonton, Irving 3 (Koch) 0:29.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 11 15 8 1 — 35 Swift Current 13 10 13 0 — 36 Goal — Edmonton: Dea (W, 4-4-0-0). Swift Current: Burman (L, 4-4-2-0).

Thunderbirds 5, Raiders 2 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Coleman 5 (Morrison, Montgomery) 12:03.

2. Prince Albert, Kelly 3 (Holowko) 13:41.

Penalties — Andrusiak Sea (interference) 2:29 Leth Pa, Volcan Sea (roughing) 12:16 Vanstone Pa (tripping) 19:28.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Heid Pa (interference) 8:24 Leth Pa (high sticking) 12:01 Ottenbreit Sea (holding opp. stick) 14:48 Hamaliuk Sea (cross checking) 17:26.

Third Period 3. Seattle, Volcan 5 (Moilanen) 4:26.

4. Seattle, Gropp 2 (Wedman) 4:43.

5. Seattle, Hamaliuk 1 (True, Tyszka) 5:06.

6. Seattle, Briscoe 2 (unassisted) 10:10.

7. Seattle, Moilanen 4 (Eansor) 11:04.

Penalties — Vanstone Pa, Schuldhaus Sea (major, major-fighting) 5:39 Ottenbreit Sea (interference) 7:20 Morrison Pa (tripping) 11:40 Wedman Sea (interference) 19:41.

Shots on goal by Seattle 8 12 24 — 44 Prince Albert 11 9 7 — 27 Goal — Seattle: Toth (W, 5-6-0-0). Prince Albert: Scott (L, 3-8-1-0), Sanders (11:04 third, 9 shots, 9 saves).

Warriors 3, Wheat Kings 2 (OT) First Period 1. Brandon, Duke 5 (Coulter, Wharrie) 9:35.

Penalties — Jeannot Mj (tripping) 9:43 Gutenberg Bdn (slashing) 12:52 Brandon bench (too many men, served by Reinhardt) 18:55.

Second Period 2. Brandon, Duke 6 (Shearer, Gutenberg) 7:37.

3. Moose Jaw, Popugaev 10 (Odgers, Gardiner) 8:09.

4. Moose Jaw, Watts 2 (Bowen, Popugaev) 19:06.

Penalties — Duke Bdn (cross checking) 9:43 Thrower Mj (roughing) 9:43 Higson Bdn (elbowing) 11:06 Higson Bdn (cross checking) 14:28 Higson Bdn, Bowen Mj (roughing) 14:28 Kaluski Mj, Bukac Bdn (misconduct, 10-minute misconduct) 14:28 Mattheos Bdn, Odgers Mj (roughing) 16:59 Mattheos Bdn (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 16:59.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Sozanski Mj (tripping) 13:40.

Overtime 5. Moose Jaw, Popugaev 11 (Gregor, Brook) 2:13.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Moose Jaw 11 17 11 1 — 40 Brandon 14 8 7 1 — 30 Goal — Moose Jaw: Willms (W, 5-2-0-0). Brandon: Thompson (L, 2-2-2-0).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 10 9 0 1 19 34 Detroit 11 6 4 1 13 31 Ottawa 9 6 3 0 12 27 Tampa Bay 10 6 4 0 12 33 Boston 9 5 4 0 10 20 Buffalo 9 4 3 2 10 22 Florida 10 4 5 1 9 26 Toronto 10 3 4 3 9 29 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 10 7 3 0 14 40 Washington 9 6 2 1 13 25 Pittsburgh 9 6 2 1 13 25 Philadelphia 11 5 5 1 11 40 New Jersey 8 4 2 2 10 18 Columbus 8 4 3 1 9 21

GA 14 28 26 30 24 22 25 37 GA 22 19 27 41 16 19

N.Y. Islanders 10 Carolina 9

4 2

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 10 6 3 1 13 33 21 Chicago 10 6 3 1 13 36 28 St. Louis 10 5 3 2 12 22 26 Colorado 8 4 4 0 8 20 24 Dallas 9 3 4 2 8 20 29 Winnipeg 10 4 6 0 8 24 29 Nashville 9 3 5 1 7 24 29 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 10 7 2 1 15 31 22 San Jose 10 6 4 0 12 25 24 Anaheim 10 4 4 2 10 25 23 Vancouver 10 4 5 1 9 17 27 Calgary 11 4 6 1 9 32 40 Los Angeles 10 4 6 0 8 20 30 Arizona 9 3 6 0 6 27 35 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Columbus 3, Dallas 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, St. Louis 0 Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Islanders 1 Boston 2, Florida 1 Toronto 3, Edmonton 2, OT Ottawa 2, Carolina 1, OT Washington 3, Winnipeg 2 Buffalo 2, Minnesota 1 Chicago 5, Calgary 1 Nashville 5, Colorado 1 Arizona 3, San Jose 2 Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 0 Wednesday’s Games Montreal 3, Vancouver 0 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3, OT Pittsburgh at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

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

Winnipeg at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Vancouver at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at Arizona, 8 p.m.

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

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

Friday’s Games Montreal at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

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

New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Canadiens 3, Canucks 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Sbisa Vcr (interference) 2:34 Gallagher Mtl (interference) 12:58 Larsen Vcr (interference) 18:12.

Second Period 1. Montreal, Beaulieu 1 (Gallagher, Galchenyuk) 12:22.

2. Montreal, Mitchell 5 (Danault, Flynn) 19:11.

Penalties — Petry Mtl (hooking) 3:45 Tanev Vcr (hooking) 7:52 Shaw Mtl (interference) 9:10 Byron Mtl (goaltender interference) 13:10.

Third Period 3. Montreal, Radulov 3 (Galchenyuk, Gallagher) 18:05 (en).

Penalties — Galchenyuk Mtl (elbowing) 11:28.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 13 17 12 — 42 Montreal 3 11 7 — 21 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (L, 1-4-0). Montreal: Price (W, 6-0-0).

Flyers 4, Red Wings 3 (OT) First Period 1. Detroit, Larkin 4 (Nyquist, Green) 13:15.

2. Detroit, Athanasiou 3 (Sheahan, Ericsson) 13:31.

Penalties — Green Det (roughing) 16:44 Schenn Pha (goaltender interference) 16:44.

Second Period 3. Philadelphia, VandeVelde 1 (Schenn, Streit) 13:39.

Penalties — Ott Det, Manning Pha (fighting) 9:22 Tatar Det (stick holding) 19:52.

Third Period 4. Philadelphia, Lyubimov 1 (MacDonald, Read) 3:51.

5. Detroit, Zetterberg 1 (Tatar, Abdelkader) 8:18.

6. Philadelphia, Streit 3 (Schenn, Simmonds) 18:56.

Penalties — Weise Pha (high-sticking) 15:02.

Overtime 7. Philadelphia, Voracek 6 (Giroux) 1:41.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Detroit 9 6 10 0 — 25 Philadelphia 8 17 14 1 — 40 Goal — Detroit: Mrazek (L, 4-3-1). Philadelphia: Neuvirth (W, 3-1-0).

AHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OTLSOL W-B/Scranton 7 5 1 1 0 Springfield 7 5 2 0 0 Bridgeport 8 5 3 0 0 Hershey 7 3 2 2 0 Lehigh Valley 7 3 3 1 0 Hartford 8 3 5 0 0 Providence 8 2 4 2 0

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FOOTBALL x-Hamilton Montreal Toronto

7 10 0 482 470 14 6 11 0 351 390 12 5 12 0 366 527 10 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 18 15 2 1 586 369 31 x-B.C. 17 11 6 0 504 436 22 x-Winnipeg 17 10 7 0 464 434 20 x-Edmonton 17 9 8 0 508 479 18 Saskatchewan 17 5 12 0 332 489 10 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

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

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CFL East Division GP W L T PF PA 17 8 8 1 466 465

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WEEK 19 Bye: Toronto Sunday’s Games Montreal 17 Calgary 8 Saturday’s Games Ottawa 23 Winnipeg 10 B.C. 24 Saskatchewan 6 Friday’s Games Edmonton 29 Hamilton 26 WEEK 20 Bye: Calgary Friday’s Games Winnipeg at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s Games 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 New England 7 1 0 .875 217 Buffalo 4 4 0 .500 212 Miami 3 4 0 .429 146 N.Y. Jets 3 5 0 .375 150 South W L T Pct PF Houston 5 3 0 .625 137 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 182 Indianapolis 3 5 0 .375 208 Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 139 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 170 Cincinnati 3 4 1 .438 167 Baltimore 3 4 0 .429 133 Cleveland 0 8 0 .000 158 West W L T Pct PF Denver 6 2 0 .750 194 Oakland 6 2 0 .750 215 Kansas City 5 2 0 .714 166 San Diego 3 5 0 .375 225

PA 132 172 159 208 PA 167 183 230 196 PA 150 189 139 238 PA 136 203 137 212

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

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BOWLING Dallas N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington

W 6 4 4 4

L 1 3 3 3

Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 5 3 3 2

L 3 4 4 5

Minnesota Green Bay Detroit Chicago

W 5 4 4 2

L 2 3 4 6

Seattle Arizona Los Angeles San Francisco

W 4 3 3 1

L 2 4 4 6

T Pct 0 .857 0 .571 0 .571 1 .563 South T Pct 0 .625 0 .429 0 .429 0 .286 North T Pct 0 .714 0 .571 0 .500 0 .250 West T Pct 1 .643 1 .438 0 .429 0 .143

PF 188 133 179 186

PA 130 141 117 189

PF 262 152 201 191

PA 231 189 215 196

PF 139 172 183 131

PA 104 156 190 179

PF 131 179 120 144

PA 109 140 154 219

Thursday, Oct. 27 Tennessee 36, Jacksonville 22 Sunday, Oct. 30 Cincinnati 27, Washington 27, OT Houston 20, Detroit 13 New Orleans 25, Seattle 20 N.Y. Jets 31, Cleveland 28 New England 41, Buffalo 25 Carolina 30, Arizona 20 Kansas City 30, Indianapolis 14 Oakland 30, Tampa Bay 24, OT Atlanta 33, Green Bay 32 Denver 27, San Diego 19 Dallas 29, Philadelphia 23, OT Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati Monday’s Games Chicago 20, Minnesota 10 Today’s Games Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Dallas at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

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

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

Jacksonville at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Carolina at Los Angeles, 2:05 p.m.

Tennessee at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

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

Denver at Oakland, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Los Angeles, San Francisco, N.Y. Giants, Miami, Baltimore, Pittsburgh Monday’s Games Buffalo at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (single-game eliminations) Thursday’s results Montreal 4 D.C. 2 Seattle 1 Kansas City 0 Wednesday’s results Toronto 3 Philadelphia 1 Los Angeles 3 Salt Lake 1 SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (two-leg, total goals series) EASTERN CONFERENCE New York (1) vs. Montreal (5) (Montreal leads 1-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Montreal 1 New York 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Montreal at New York, 2 p.m.

New York City (2) vs. Toronto (3) (Toronto leads 2-0)

First Leg Sunday’s result Toronto 2 New York City 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Toronto at New York City, 4:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas (1) vs. Seattle (4) (Seattle leads 3-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Seattle 3 Dallas 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Seattle at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Colorado (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) (Los Angeles leads 1-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Los Angeles 1 Colorado 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Los Angeles at Colorado, 12 p.m.

THIRD ROUND Conference Championships (two-leg, total goals series) EASTERN CONFERENCE First Leg Tuesday, Nov. 22 Teams and Site TBD, 6 p.m.

Second Leg Wednesday, Nov. 30 Teams and Site TBD, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE First Leg Sunday, Nov. 20 Teams and Site, 6 p.m.

Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 27 Teams and Site, 2 p.m.

MLS CUP Saturday, Dec. 10 Eastern Champion vs. Western Champion, 8 p.m.

Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday Club plus 55: High single: Chris Carey, 257. High triple: Ray Clark.

Monday Mixed: High single: Lonnie Staples, 275.

High triple: Nicole Clossen, 735.

Monday Scratch: High single: Mike Tweedy, 395.

High quad: Shelby Chrest, 1,075.

Tuesday Mixed: High single: Terra Nystrom, 334.

High triple: Nystrom, 773.

Wednesday Club plus 55: High single: Don

Knowler, 281. High triple: Knowler, 708.

Wednesday Mixed: High single: Josh Bota, 313.

Andrew High triple: Gallaher, 825.

Thursday AM Ladies: High single: Chris Palm, 264. High triple: Palm, 687.

Thursday Special Olympics: High single: Anthony Kubasek, 273. High double: Kubasek, 481.

Thursday Mixed: High single: Amy Reid, 293.

High triple: Reid, 703.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent C Steve Clevenger, LHP Charlie Furbush and RHP Ryan Cook outright to Tacoma (PCL). Claimed RHP Ryan Weber off waivers from Atlanta. Designated C Steven Baron for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed RHP Adrian Sampson off waivers from Seattle. Announced the organization s Carolina League franchise will be called the Down East Wood Ducks.

National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Named Matt Stairs hitting coach.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Signed RHP Josh Johnson to a minor league contract.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Exercised the 2017 contract option on RHP Barret Loux.

Can-Am League TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Released RHP David Leblanc.

FIGURE SKATING SKATE CANADA — Named Debra Armstrong chief executive officer.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released CB Marcus Roberson. Signed LS Reid Ferguson to the practice squad. Released K Marshall Morgan from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OL William Poehls

to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed TE Connor Hamlett to the practice squad. Released WR Mitch Mathews from the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed RB Brandon Burks to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Announced the resignation of offensive co-ordinator Norv Turner. Named Pat Shurmur interim offensive co-ordinator.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed TE Matt Lengel from Cincinnati’s practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Traded G Mike Condon to Ottawa Senators for a 2017 fifth-round draft pick.

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned G Kent Simpson to Colorado (ECHL).

STOCKTON HEAT — Announced D Keegan Kanzig was reassigned to the team from Adirondack (ECHL). Released D Colby Robak from his tryout contract.

SOCCER National Women¤s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT— Traded D Ali Krieger and the No. 9 spot in the Distribution Ranking to Orlando for the No. 2 spot in the Distribution Ranking.

COLLEGE CLAYTON STATE — Named Tony LaMarr men’s assistant basketball coach.

EMORY & HENRY — Announced the resignation of women’s soccer coach Linda Schirmeister-Gess.

HOCKEY Toronto Albany Syracuse Rochester St. John’s Binghamton Utica

GP 8 9 7 7 10 6 9

North Division W L OTLSOL 6 1 0 1 6 3 0 0 4 3 0 0 4 3 0 0 5 4 1 0 2 3 0 1 2 6 1 0

GF 30 25 23 25 36 13 24

GA Pts 18 13 23 12 23 8 24 8 35 11 18 5 36 5

Western Conference Central Division W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts 4 2 0 1 18 18 9 4 3 0 0 24 17 8 4 3 0 0 17 17 8 4 3 0 1 21 26 9 4 4 0 0 23 20 8 4 4 0 0 24 28 8 4 4 0 0 21 30 8 3 5 0 0 21 25 6 Pacific Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pts Tucson 5 4 1 0 0 17 15 8 Ontario 6 3 1 2 0 21 19 8 San Jose 4 2 1 0 1 14 11 5 Stockton 6 3 2 1 0 24 20 7 Texas 8 4 3 1 0 29 29 9 San Diego 6 2 3 1 0 21 24 5 Bakersfield 5 2 3 0 0 13 15 4 San Antonio 8 3 5 0 0 19 19 6 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Wednesday’s Games Bridgeport 4, Albany 2 Lehigh Valley 4, Hartford 0 St. John’s 6, Utica 3 GP Milwaukee 7 Charlotte 7 Grand Rapids 7 Manitoba 8 Chicago 8 Iowa 8 Rockford 9 Cleveland 8

Charlotte 4, Rockford 0 Texas at Tucson, 7:05 p.m.

San Antonio at Bakersfield, 8 p.m.

Today’s Games Rockford at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Friday’s Games Iowa at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Lehigh Valley at Providence, 5:05 p.m.

Syracuse at Rochester, 5:05 p.m.

Hershey at Springfield, 5:05 p.m.

Binghamton at W-B/Scranton, 5:05 p.m.

Bridgeport at Hartford, 5:15 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Ontario at Tucson, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Bakersfield, 8 p.m.

San Diego at Stockton, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games San Antonio at San Jose, 2:15 p.m.

Toronto at St. John’s, 4:30 p.m.

W-B/Scranton at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Albany at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Iowa at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Utica at Syracuse, 5 p.m.

Rochester at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

Springfield at Lehigh Valley, 5:05 p.m.

Hartford at Providence, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Manitoba, 6 p.m.

Texas at Bakersfield, 7 p.m.

Ontario at Tucson, 7:05 p.m.

San Diego at Stockton, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Toronto at St. John’s, 1 p.m.

W-B/Scranton at Providence, 1:05 p.m.

Rochester at Hershey, 3 p.m.

Binghamton at Springfield, 3:05 p.m.

Rockford at Iowa, 4 p.m.

San Antonio at San Jose, 4 p.m.

OLYMPICS

Tokyo panel head says 2020 organizers not co-operating

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OKYO (AP) — The head of a Tokyo government cost-cutting panel has criticized 2020 Olympic organizers for not cooperating on recommendations designed to reduce spiraling expenses for the games.

The panel has said the cost of the Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion — four times the initial estimate — unless drastic cuts are made.

One suggestion was to move the rowing and canoeing venue to an existing facility in Miyagi prefecture, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tokyo.

That came after the projected cost for the original Sea Forest venue on Tokyo Bay soared to nearly 50 billion yen ($480 million), seven times the initial estimate.

Tokyo organizers countered by saying moving to Miyagi could actually drive up costs as that venue lacks Olympic-standard infrastructure.

“They (The organizing committee) have not come to the point where they are cooperating in specific ways to carry out an investigation of the venue together with Miyagi prefecture,” panel chairman Shinichi Ueyama said during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.

Calling Tokyo 2020’s rejection of the Miyagi site “unfair”, Ueyama said it’s the only realistic out-oftown alternative to the Sea Forest venue, considering the time needed for additional construction and other preparations.

The relocated venue would require up to 20 billion yen ($190 million) in construction costs to meet Olympic standards. Additional costs related

to security, transportation and other infrastructure could add up further. An earlier cost estimate for the Naganuma site was 35 billion yen ($330 million).

The city panel also proposed scaling down planned venues for volleyball and swimming, and ht possibility of moving volleyball to the nearby city of Yokohama and building a smaller venue for swimming. Ueyama also criticized the lack of financial accountability in the way the organizing committee was put together, comparing it to a company with no CEO or CFO. While Ueyama said there are leaders in similar roles within the organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japanese Olympic Committee, there is not one within the coordination committee that brings the various parties together.

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Toronto FC feeling the love at home, but not getting much respect elsewhere

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ORONTO — Coach Greg Vanney says it will be Toronto FC against the world Sunday when his team takes on New York City FC at Yankee Stadium.

While Toronto holds a 2-0 lead going into Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal, Vanney has had reason to feel disrespected this week. Toronto players were snubbed when it came to MLS award finalists and NYCFC star David Villa, one of three candidates for MVP honours, escaped punishment for kicking one of his players.

“All the trophies are irrelevant if we can lift the last trophy at the end of the year,” said the Toronto coach, taking the high road while referencing the MLS Cup. But Vanney, helped by a string of questions on the topic, could not leave it there.

Not having star striker Sebastian Giovinco, the reigning league MVP, as one of the three finalists for this year’s award was “ridiculous,” he said.

Giovinco’s 32 points (17 goals and 15 assists) led the league this season and ranked No. 4 on the league’s all-time list behind his own record of 38 last season, Chris Wondolowski’s 34 (in 2012) and Jason Kreis’s 33 (1999). And the Italian managed it despite missing six games through injury this season.

Vanney also pointed to a defence that conceded 19 fewer goals this season.

“As I recall were we were the second-best defensive team in the league,” he added. “So that counts for something.”

If other players feel slighted — Drew Moor likely merited consideration for defender of the year — Vanney suggested it could serve as motivation going into New York.

Asked about his omission, a classy Moor praised finalists Matt Hedges of FC Dallas, Axel Sjoberg of the Colorado Rapids and Jelle Van Damme of the

Sports BRIEFS Bell can appeal ban on Canadian ad substitution during Super Bowl TORONTO — Bell Media says it’s pleased the Federal Court of Appeal will hear an appeal of the CRTC’s ban on broadcasting Canadian commercials during the Super Bowl instead of the big-budget ads Americans get to watch.

Justice David Near granted leave to appeal regulator’s decision on Monday, but denied a stay of the ruling until the case is heard.

Bell spokesman Scott Henderson said the company is happy the appeal is moving forward, but disappointed the court didn’t stay the ban.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ruled against so-called simultaneous substitution of Canadian ads over U.S. ones during the Super Bowl after hearing complaints from Canadians.

The change takes effect in 2017 with the next Super Bowl slated for Feb. 5.

The CRTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Bell (TSX:BCE) holds the exclusive rights to air the NFL championship in Canada until the 20182019 season.

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Toronto FC player David Villa and his teammates will be in tough against a New York cheering squad.

Los Angeles Galaxy as “very worthy” candidates.

“What I’m most proud of is our team performance defensively this season,” he added.

Toronto’s only mention on the list of award finalists for the team fair play award.

NYCFC has its work cut out to climb out of a 2-0 hole. At the least, it needs to blank Toronto and score twice to even the score. If TFC does get a goal, the New Yorkers will have to score four times given away goals count double in the event the aggregate score is tied after 180 minutes.

Knowing NYCFC led the league in scoring with 62 goals (35 of which came at home), Vanney is not taking the opposition lightly.

“It’s MLS. We’ve seen some crazy things over the years,” he said.

Penguins trade third-string goalie to Ottawa for draft pick ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Penguins traded third-string goaltender Mike Condon to Ottawa on Wednesday for a fifth-round draft choice in 2017.

Condon became expendable with Matt Murray expected to make his first start of the 2016-17 season tonight against the Ducks at Honda Center.

That gives the Penguins eight picks in the 2017 NHL draft: its own picks in rounds one through seven, plus an extra one in the fifth.

The Penguins claimed Condon off waivers from the Montreal Canadiens on Oct. 11. He played 20 minutes as a Penguin — the third period in Nashville on Oct. 22 — and stopped all seven shots he faced.

In 56 NHL games, Condon, 26, is 21-25-6 with a 2.69 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage.

Perhaps nothing crazier than Villa not being punished for kicking Toronto midfielder Armando Cooper after the two tangled in the 20th minute of Game 1 Sunday. While the MLS Disciplinary Committee agreed Cooper should have been red-carded on the play, it could not come to unanimous agreement on the other tenet needed for a retroactive suspension — that “the play in question is of an egregious or reckless in nature, such that the Committee must act to protect player safety or the integrity of the game.”

That might have flown had the committee not suspended Cooper for one game and fined him an undisclosed out for kicking out at Brazil’s Felipe in a game last month with the New York Red Bulls.

Toronto captain Michael Bradley, no fan of the Disciplinary Committee’s ability to retroactively referee a game, had no issues with Villa going scotfree.

“Obviously the thing that frustrates some people is that Armando Cooper got suspended a month ago for something that was far far less. But ultimately, I’ll be honest, I couldn’t care less — in terms of whether (Villa) plays, doesn’t play,” said Bradley.

“It doesn’t change one thing for us.

“And ultimately it all gets filed under the category of things that are out of our control and things that we shouldn’t be spending one second or one ounce of energy worrying about.”

Bradley also was unfazed by the awards snub.

“If you asked me what I really think about those awards, it’s that they mean absolutely nothing and that I don’t care about them all,” he said.

His teammates feel the same, he added.

“What’s driving us at the moment and the goal for every guy here is that on Dec. 10, one team gets to stand on the podium and lift the trophy,” he said.

“And we want that to be us.”

As for Sunday’s game, Moor expects NYCFC to throw everything at Toronto on the tight confines of the soccer pitch squeezed into Yankee Stadium. and Wladimir Klitschko for its “super” heavyweight title.

The fight will take place in the spring of 2017, but only if Joshua beats Eric Molina on Dec. 10 in the British boxer’s second defence of his IBF title.

The WBA super belt is vacant after Tyson Fury relinquished it last month, citing “clinical depression.”

Fury beat Klitschko in November last year to take the WBA, IBF and minor WBO titles off the Ukrainian boxer.

“We will now move forward with Bernd Boente (Klitschko’s manager) and Team Klitschko in planning the date and venue,” Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, said on Wednesday.

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Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones said what?

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RISCO, Texas — The questions came at Dak Prescott almost as fast as the numerous Philadelphia pass rushers that made the Dallas quarterback look more like a rookie than any opponent so far.

How could he not have heard that owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the Cowboys should ride with Prescott’s six-game winning streak, and that Tony Romo was fine with it? What did he mean he stayed off Twitter all day? How busy could he be on the players’ day off?

‘YEAH, SURE. I MEAN IT’S NOT ANYTHING I REALLY THINK OF. YOU SAY I HAD A HOT HAND BUT I DEFINITELY WASN’T HOT EARLY IN THAT LAST GAME. I’VE JUST GOT TO COME IN AND JUST WORRY ABOUT GETTING BETTER.’ — COWBOYS QB DAK PRESCOTT

Does he believe in the “hot hand” theory?

“Yeah, sure. I mean it’s not anything I really think of,” Prescott said after silently smiling at the suggestion that his boss was such a believer. “You say I had a hot hand but I definitely wasn’t hot early in that last game. I’ve just got to come in and just worry about getting better.”

There’s no indication Romo, the 10-year starter, is replacing Prescott anytime soon as he continues his recovery from a broken bone in his back. And certainly not Sunday when the Cowboys (6-1) visit Cleveland (0-8).

The public glimpses of Romo’s daily regimen vary.

One day, the 36-year-old is going hard on individual drills in practice, taking snaps, rolling out, throwing with some zip even though he isn’t listed as an official participant. The next, he does enough in practice to be listed for the first time since getting hurt in a preseason game at Seattle.

And then there was Wednesday. Romo wasn’t on the field making throws like he had been a week earlier. He was doing conditioning work on resistance cords with one of the athletic trainers after practice. He had the “DNP” designation again, just as he did Friday.

“The way we manage this situation, every situation, is to focus on Wednesday,” coach Jason Garrett said.

“That’s what we’re trying to do. That’s what Dak is trying to do, that’s what everybody on our offence and throughout our team is trying to do. Tony is trying to do that as well.”

A few weeks after saying Romo was the No. 1 quarterback, Jones finally acknowledged on his radio show Tuesday that a change during a winning streak was risky at best.

“You want to be very mindful of what you’ve got going, which right now we’ve got a lot of chemistry going,” Jones said. “That has got to really be recognized if you’re making a decision.”

And that leads to the obvious question of how Romo might be taking it.

“Tony has no issue with doing what’s best for the team, absolutely no issue doing what’s best for the team,” Jones said.

“When you’ve got it going, we know these things can be a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity for everybody involved. We look at it that way.”

Romo briefly appeared in the locker room Wednesday, but didn’t talk to reporters. He’s been a steady presence on the sideline with a headset all season, and Prescott said there’s been no change in their interaction as the winning streak has grown.

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) and tight end Jason Witten (82) celebrate after an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Oct. 30, in Arlington, Tex. Prescott rallied Dallas in the fourth quarter and threw a 5-yard pass to Witten in overtime to give the Cowboys a 29-23 victory over the Eagles.

And while Prescott sticks with his mantra that it’s “Tony’s team,” he’s had enough success to earn a qualifier.

Even after three quarters against the Eagles that were probably his worst as a pro, Prescott has a 99.6 passer rating with nine touchdowns and two interceptions.

The 23-year-old led a 90-yard drive to a tying score in the fourth quarter. He never let Philadelphia and fellow standout rookie Carson Wentz get the ball in overtime, leading a 75-yard march to the 29-23 win .

“Really, it’s hard for me to say it’s Tony’s team, it’s my team or anybody’s team,” Prescott said. “It’s a true team and everybody is playing their part in it.”

Prescott said footwork was his biggest problem

against the Eagles, caused in part by heavy pressure from an aggressive defence. He bounced several throws, threw an end-zone interception that ended up putting Dallas behind at halftime, and had another near-pick that probably would have cost the Cowboys the game.

But the bottom line isn’t changing. And if it were, Prescott wouldn’t spend any more time wondering when the Cowboys were going back to their franchise guy.

“It never goes through my head that I’ve got to do this or that this is going to happen,” Prescott said.

“I think they will make that decision regardless of how my play is if they want to make that. I just go in and worry about these teammates.”

And if he needs updates, he could always start looking at Twitter again.

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LinkedIn, Glassdoor add tools to reveal your pay potential

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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AN FRANCISCO — Money isn’t everything, but it counts for a lot at work.

That’s why work-related websites like LinkedIn and Glassdoor are adding new online tools to help professionals understand their salary potential.

LinkedIn, which calls itself the social network for professionals, is adding a service that provides members with pay information for a variety of jobs, including a break-down by such factors as location, industry, education and experience. It’s based on anonymized data submitted by LinkedIn members, including details about base pay and other compensation, such as bonuses and stock grants.

The new service comes two weeks after Glassdoor, a competing online job site, introduced a feature that promises to help workers determine their “personal market value” by comparing their job title, salary and related information with data from other workers and current hiring trends.

Glassdoor’s site already showed information about median salaries and perks, along with employees’ reviews of what it’s like to work at various companies. It says the new feature can be useful for job-seekers as well as workers who might want to negotiate a raise from their current employer.

Both new services are free and promise to go beyond more generic salary tools — offered by job sites like Indeed, PayScale.com and Salary.com — by combining sophisticated computer analysis with the most up-todate information gleaned from workers, labour reports and other sources.

While LinkedIn officially announced its service Wednesday, spokesman Dan Shapero said the company has been quietly inviting

some members to contribute their compensation data in recent months.

The “LinkedIn Salary” feature is launching with data from 1 million professionals in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

LinkedIn may not have data for every job, Shapero acknowledged, but he predicted the service will improve as more people participate.

LinkedIn Inc., based in Mountain View, California, may add more kinds of information in the future, he added, such as suggestions about particular skills that can boost salaries in a particular occupation. LinkedIn recently began offering training suggestions for workers, based on their current jobs or career track, which tie into the online courses offered by its Lynda.com subsidiary.

Both LinkedIn and Mill Valley, California-based Glassdoor, Inc. promise to keep individual users’ pay data confidential. But spokesmen wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the companies making money in the future by aggregating the information — in a way that keeps individuals anonymous — and selling it to employers who might find it useful to calculate pay scales or salary offers.

While both companies promote their website as a useful service for workers, they make money by selling job listings and hiring tools to employers and recruiters. So each company wants to offer helpful features that keep workers coming back to their sites.

LinkedIn recently agreed to be acquired for $26 billion by Microsoft, which wants to augment its own commercial software — including email and calendars used by workers, as well as management and corporate sales programs used by employers — by incorporating LinkedIn’s extensive database of professionals and their resumés.

B.C. HOUSING MARKET

Vancouver home sales plunge 38.8% last month, real estate board says

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ANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales plunged 38.8 per cent last month compared with October 2015.

The board said 2,233 properties were sold in October of this year, down from the 3,646 home sales recorded in the same month last year.

Board president Dan Morrison said changing market conditions combined with a series of government interventions in the real estate market contributed to the decline.

“Potential buyers are taking a waitand-see approach to try and better understand what these changes mean for them,” he said in a statement Wednesday.

Both the B.C. and federal governments have brought in a number of measures to address soaring housing costs, particularly in Metro Vancouver.

In August, the provincial government implemented a 15 per cent tax for foreign nationals buying residential property in Metro Vancouver in a bid to stabilize the area’s housing prices, which have been among the highest in North America.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index pulled back more than one per cent with a three-digit loss Wednesday, as oil prices fell and the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it wasn’t ready to move on interest rates yet.

At the Toronto Stock Exchange, the S&P/TSX composite index lost 183.60 points at 14,594.72, pulled lower by all sectors.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average declined 77.46 points to 17,959.64 and the S&P 500 slipped 13.78 points to 2,097.94. The Nasdaq composite fell 48.01 points to 5,105.57.

The U.S. central bank says it’s leaving interest rates unchanged, but hinted that a hike will likely come soon.

Fed policy-makers said the case for an increase has

“continued to strengthen” as the economy shows steady growth.

Most Fed watchers expect a rate increase at the central bank’s next two-day meeting which begins Dec. 13.

The markets had pegged the possibility of a hike this month as slim while the U.S. prepares to head to the polls to vote for a new president in less than a week.

Michael Currie, a vice-president and investment adviser at TD Wealth, said the Fed has always maintained that it will move on rates if the economic data supports it — but an uncertain election result looming also likely had some bearing on their decision.

“In a sense, they’re being political in trying to be non-political,” he said. “Any kind of move here would’ve made a push for one (political) party or another…

They still have a little bit of wiggle

room until the end of the year and they played it safe.”

But Currie said the Fed needs to make a move sooner rather than later, because the expectation is that there will be at least one increase this year.

“There are two big risks they have. One is that they don’t want to scare the markets… They don’t want to deviate from the plan because the market likes certainty,” he said.

“But the other risk they run is not doing it when they have come out and said they’re going to raise rates… If they don’t do it, then they will lose their credibility.

They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”

In currencies, the Canadian dollar dipped 0.02 of a U.S. cent to 74.65 cents US, as crude prices fell for a fourth straight session. The December crude contract fell $1.33 to US$45.34 per barrel.

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IN SHORT Fed leaves key rate unchanged, but hints at upcoming hike WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, six days before Americans choose a new president, but hinted again that it would likely raise rates soon.

The Fed said that the case for a rate hike has “continued to strengthen” but that it had decided to await more evidence of progress toward its objectives. Most Fed watchers expect a rate increase at the central bank’s next meeting in

D I L B E R T

mid-December.

For the first time, the Fed observed that inflation has increased since earlier this year, closer to its two per cent target. And it said it no longer expects inflation to remain low in the near term. Taken together, the Fed’s comments on inflation suggested that it thinks it’s nearly achieved its mandate to keep U.S. prices stable — and thus closer to raising rates.

U.S. airlines expect Thanksgiving travel to rise 2.5 per cent The nation’s leading airlines are confident they can handle higher Thanksgiving travel this year partly because more people have signed up for quick-screening programs that are designed to keep airport security lines moving.

An airline trade group said Wednesday that about 27.3 million people will fly on U.S. airlines over a 12-day period that starts Nov. 18 and ends the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 128.78 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.41 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 17.31 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.13 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 30.81 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.45 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.41

Investors continued to flock to the safety of gold, driving bullion prices up $20.20 at US$1,308.20 an ounce.

Other commodities were mixed with December natural gas dropping 11 cents to US$2.79 per mmBTU and December copper contracts gaining one cent at US$2.23 a pound.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 24.24 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 11.15 First Quantum Minerals . 11.92 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.55 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.63 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.19 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.16 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.67 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.860 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.63

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,594.72, down 183.60 points Dow — 17,959.64, down 77.46 points S&P 500 — 2,097.94, down 13.78 points Nasdaq — 5,105.57, down 48.01 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.65 cents US,

Thursday, November 3, 2016 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.36 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.39 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 54.46 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.90 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 42.19 Canyon Services Group. . 5.12 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 12.49 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.550 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.45 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.93 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.46 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.19 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.70 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.03 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.04 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.82 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.73

Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.79 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.43 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.93 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0700

down 0.02 of a cent Pound — C$1.6463, up 0.80 of a cent Euro — C$1.4858, up 0.57 of a cent Euro — US$1.1092, up 0.41 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.34 per barrel, down $1.33 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,308.20 per oz., up $20.20 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $25.955, up 42.4 cents $834.45 kg., up $13.63

$522.50 July ‘17 $3.00 higher $521.90 Nov. ‘17 $2.50 higher $496.40 Jan. ‘18 $2.20 higher $498.60 March ‘18 $2.20 higher $499.90 May ‘18 $2.20 higher $501.00 July ‘18 $2.20 higher $501.00 Nov. ‘18 $2.20 higher $501.00.

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: 437,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 437,520.

ICE FUTURES CLOSE WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $6.30 higher $510.20 Jan. ‘17 $2.40 higher $515.80 March ‘17 $2.20 higher $520.30 May ‘17 $2.60 higher

That’s up 2.5 per cent from last year.

California cities ban pot sales ahead of state vote SAN JOSE, Calif. — Worried that California might legalize recreational marijuana, the state’s third-largest city by population has voted to ban pot sales ahead of Tuesday’s election.

San Jose isn’t alone in scrambling to block the possible effects of Proposition 64, which would legalize pot but also allow local bans on sales.

Dozens of cities and counties from tiny Blue Lake in the heart of Northern California’s potgrowing mecca to National City near the Mexico border have either imposed or are contemplating tough restrictions on recreational marijuana sales and cultivation.

However, under Proposition 64, which is winning in polls, local governments would not be able to prohibit people 21 and older from having up to six marijuana plants for personal use and possessing up to an ounce of pot.

City Council members in San Jose, with a population of a million people, said they passed the temporary ban Tuesday to give city officials time to develop regulations for sales and farming. Its ban includes a prohibition on outdoor gardens.

Most provisions of Proposition

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.39 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.31 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.76 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.36 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.76 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.44 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.20 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.98 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.32 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.870 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.58 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.46 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.42

64 wouldn’t kick in until 2018 if it’s approved by a majority of voters.

Tim Cromartie, a lobbyist with the League of California Cities, said cities have months to create their own restrictions and don’t need to hastily pass bans.

“There is no need for a stampede,” Cromartie said. “Some are doing it out of an over-abundance of caution.”

Broadcom buying Brocade Communications NEW YORK — Chipmaker Broadcom is buying Brocade in a deal valued at approximately $5.5 billion.

Brocade shareholders will receive $12.75 per share, a 13 per cent premium to the Tuesday closing prices of the computer networking company.

The deal also includes $400 million in debt.

Broadcom Ltd. plans to sell Brocade’s IP Networking business, which includes wireless and campus networking, data centre switching and routing and software networking solutions. Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney said the company will work with Broadcom to try to find a buyer for the IP Networking business.

The deal, targeted to close in the second half of Broadcom’s fiscal 2017, is not conditioned on the sale of the IP Networking business.

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RECIPE

With cauliflower puree, mashed potatoes won’t be missed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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auliflower entered the healthy food scene with a bang a few years ago as clever solution to our low-carb-seeking starch-loving woes.

And with good reason: Cauliflower is incredibly versatile and can be used to replace simple carbs in endless recipes — from cauliflower versions of risotto, pizza crust and couscous just to name a few.

While health-conscious folks will likely continue to debate about the benefits and shortfalls of the lowcarb-high-fat diets that probably are responsible for mainstreaming these cauliflower swaps, we can all agree that adding more cruciferous vegetables into our diet is a good thing.

Cauliflower is super low in calories — about 25 calories per cup — and is a good source of vitamin C, vitamin K, B6, folate and some minerals. Because of the fiber and protein, it’s also a filling vegetable, which means if you make a stir-fry using cauliflower instead of rice, you’ll actually be satisfied.

Its mild flavour means it’s an easy substitute for bland starches like rice or pasta, so parents can usually swap out some or all in recipes without kids turning up their nose.

Blending or mashing cauliflower is another excellent strategy — add blended cooked cauliflower to sauces or soups for cream-less creaminess and extra nutrition.

Mashed or pureed cauliflower may be the most celebrated swap of all, giving low-carb eaters an alternative to mashed potatoes. The drawback to many cauliflower puree recipes is two-fold: Often they rely on high

quantities of butter or cream for flavour and texture.

Followers of a ketonic or superlow-carb diet may be fine with highfat, but the resulting calorie counts might scare off the average eater.

The second problem is that a cauliflower puree is looser than true mashed potatoes, which means it’s nearly impossible to make a dent with a gravy ladle that will actually hold up. Mashed potatoes without gravy, especially around the holidays, is quite simply not an option at our house.

My trick is so simple, but it solves both problems: Silken tofu. Just a little bit of firm silken tofu blended up into the puree adds low-cal creaminess (along with a little chicken or vegetable stock) and just enough much-needed thickening to avoid the soupy puree that can easily happen.

With the tofu, you will only need a tiny bit of high-fat goodies like butter and milk (I use half-and-half if I have it — it’s only a few tablespoons) to give a luscious creaminess that the entire family will love. Once you master the basic recipe, feel free to tweak by adding spices such a smoked paprika, herbs or, if you are feeling decadent, top the puree with a little cheese and bacon and make a twice-baked “potato” casserole.

PERFECT WHIPPED CAULIFLOWER PUREE Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 6 1 large head of cauliflower (or 2 small heads) 3 cloves garlic, smashed 4 ounces firm lite silken tofu (1/3 of a 12-ounce carton) 1 tablespoon unsalted butter

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Whipped cauliflower puree. This dish is from a recipe by Melissa d’Arabian.

1/4 cup chicken or vegetable broth, or a little more if needed 3 tablespoons half and half (or whole milk or sour cream) Salt and pepper Core the cauliflower and cut into florets and boil (or steam) with the garlic until very tender, about 15 minutes. Drain well and set aside.

Place the tofu into a food processor and process until creamy, about 30

seconds. Add the cauliflower, garlic, butter, broth and half and half and process until very creamy, about one minute. Add more broth if needed.

Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Nutrition information per serving: 57 calories 21 calories from fat 2 g fat (1 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 6 mg cholesterol 131 mg sodium 6 g carbohydrate 2 g fiber 2 g sugar 4 g protein.

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Baked apples with caramel rum sauce SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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efore food-fashionable hand-pies and mini cheesecakes hit the scene, baked apples blazed the trail of individual-serving desserts.

The rum contributes flavour to the sauce, but doesn’t affect the overall consistency or cooking process.

BAKED APPLES 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar 1/2 cup toasted walnuts, chopped 1/3 cup dried cranberries 1/4 cup melted salted butter 1 tbsp all-purpose flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg

8 Gala apples 1/2 cup apple juice Vanilla ice cream* 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. To prepare filling, combine brown sugar, walnuts, cranberries, melted butter, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside.

3. Using an apple corer or knife and spoon, cut out and discard apple core from each apple, leaving bottom of apple intact.

4. Place apples, bottom side down, in a greased 9x13 inch baking dish.

5. Fill apple holes with filling, dividing equally and packing down as needed. Pour apple juice over filled apples.

6. Bake for 40 - 50 minutes or until apples are soft.

7. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

8. Serve warm with ice cream.

Serves 8.

CARAMEL RUM SAUCE 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar Water 1 1/4 cups whipping cream 2 tbsp spiced rum 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp salt 1. Place sugar in a small heavy saucepan. Gently pour enough water over sugar to just cover surface; do not stir. Bring to a boil, without stirring, over medium- low heat.

2. Boil gently, uncovered, without stirring, until mixture is golden brown, about 18 - 20 minutes.

3. Gradually whisk in cream and cook, whisking, until sugar is dissolved and mixture is smooth, about 3 - 4 minutes. Remove from heat.

4. Stir in rum, vanilla and salt.

May be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 1 month. Reheat over low heat. Makes about 2 cups.

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Anthony Bourdain poses for a photo during an interview with The Canadian Press in Toronto. Anthony Bourdain thinks so highly of three Montreal chefs that he believes they should be declared national heroes.

COOK BOOK

Bourdain turns to home cooking in new book ‘Appetites’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ORONTO — Anthony Bourdain thinks so highly of three Montreal chefs he believes they should be declared national heroes.

The globe-trotting host of “Parts Unknown” visited Quebec while filming the first season of the show, where he ice fished with Frederic Morin and David McMillan, chef-owners of Joe Beef and Liverpool House restaurants, and trapped with Martin Picard, who owns Au Pied de Cochon.

“I’m a huge fan and loyalist and evangelical on the subject of Martin Picard and Fred and Dave at Joe Beef. I mean, I think they’re not just good for Montreal. They’re good for Canada. They’re good for the world,” the Emmy-winning television personality says.

“I’d put all three of those guys on the Canadian currency. If I were in charge of such things they would be national heroes. They’d be iconic figures. The Canadian version of Mount Rushmore would have those three guys up there and maybe Jen (Agg)

from Black Hoof (in Toronto) also.”

Bourdain was in Toronto this week to promote his 13th book, “Appetites: A Cookbook” (Ecco), co-authored with Laurie Woolever and featuring favourite family recipes.

Now 60, Bourdain writes that having a “normal” family lifestyle became top of mind after the birth of his daughter, Ariane, though he confesses it’s been hard to wrap his head around what that means.

He’s spent much time on the margins, working while most people played and playing while most people slept. Now he’s on the road 250 days a year chronicling food and culture for his CNN program.

“This is a book that brings to bear 30 years as a professional to a relatively new situation where I’m cooking for a nine-year-old girl and her friends, using my organizational skills and controlling nature to try and show love for food,” he explains.

Bourdain thinks it’s important to teach children to cook and has included some of his daughter’s favourite recipes in the book — along with his characteristic profanity and rants.

“The sooner they start, the better. In a perfect world, all teenagers would already know how to feed themselves and a few friends, reasonably competently, a few basics, just to be good citizens of the world. Sadly that’s not the case.”

Bourdain has made sure his daughter knows her way around the kitchen, though he admits feeling anxiety in the process.

“My daughter loves to bake ratatouille because she loved that rat in the movie and she gets to use a knife, which fills me with terror but makes her very happy,” he says, adding “I stand very, very, very close and I do my best to keep her out of harm’s way.”

Ariane is a big fan of pasta and particularly likes macaroni and cheese, but Bourdain says he doesn’t glam up the dish for her with lobster or truffles.

“I think it’s monstrous to try to improve on something perfect like mac and cheese, or hamburger. I mean, truffles might make it different. Do they make it better? No.” When it comes to school lunches, Ariane isn’t getting a peanut butter

and jelly sandwich every day.

“We have a little bit of a game going on where I try not to repeat myself. If I’m home for two weeks I’ll try to do something different every day to send her to school with,” he says.

“I want her to like it, but at the same time if I could freak out the other kids, I want them to feel envious and confused and go home and make their parents feel bad about what they’re putting in their lunch boxes…. Whatever she’ll express an interest in I’m going to try that.”

Bourdain, who lives in New York, says much attention was paid to the book’s photography and graphics.

The colourful cover art was done by Ralph Steadman, known for his illustrations of Hunter S. Thompson’s cover of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”

The very first image inside the book is a full-page photo of a dead, plucked chicken with its head dangling off a chopping board.

“We gave the photographer, Bobby Fisher, pretty much licence to kill.

All the other things that no other author would let him do, we said: ‘do that,”’ Bourdain says.

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Taco Tuesday any night of the week

Slow cooker Pork Taco Verde

Ingredients ● 1-2 lb pork tenderloin, cut into cubes ● Olive oil ● 6 or more cloves garlic, coarsely chopped ● 2 tsp oregano, 2 tsp chili powder, 2 tsp cumin, separated ● 1 bottle salsa Verde (President’s Choice brand is so good!)

● 1 small can of sliced green jalapenos (optional) ● 1 white onion, chopped ● 1 cup chopped grape or heirloom tomatoes ● 1 large green pepper, seeded and chopped Shannon To make: Yacyshyn Lightly coat a large non-stick skillet with olive oil and bring the heat up to medium. Prepare the pork by cutting the meat into cubes and tossing them with 1 tsp each of the seasonings. Add 3 cloves of garlic to the hot skillet and heat — basically you are flavouring the oil here; careful not to get it too hot, or you will scorch the garlic and ruin the flavour (the rest of the garlic will go into the slow cooker). Next, take your seasoned cubes of tenderloin and brown on all sides — don’t overcook!

Now, add the rest of the ingredients to your slow cooker, along with the browned meat and juices and stir. Set your slow cooker on low for six hours. Depending on the size of the cubes you have cut the meat into, you could shred the pork, or serve in chunks – I leave that to you, but I like it shredded.

The fun part: assembling your tacos! Serve on soft corn tortillas, warmed as per the package direction. Salted sliced radishes, cabbage, sliced jalapenos, avocado slices, more tomatoes, a bit of cheese and sour cream and you’re ready to chow down. Variations of this recipe would be by changing the protein and the type of salsa you add to the slow cooker, based on your preference.

Make sure you have lots of napkins on hand and bon provecho!

IN SHORT In Dubai, a showdown on shwarma is reportedly coming

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UBAI, United Arab Emirates — A showdown over shawarma has come to Dubai.

A state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday that nearly half of all shawarma stands in Dubai either will be shut down or have stopped selling the popular Mideast street food.

The National newspaper of Abu

Dhabi quotes Sultan al-Tahir, head of food inspection in Dubai, as saying the city-state’s over 570 shawarma stands had six months to update their operations to comply with new hygiene regulations.

Al-Tahir says 113 stopped making the meat wraps, while another 141 took no action and will be shut down.

The others followed the rules or are in the process of complying.

Shawarma is typically cooked outdoors, with spiced chicken, lamb and beef shaved off a vertical spit. Al-Tahir said Dubai’s high heat can cause bacteria to spread.

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Slow cooker pork taco verde.

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ello. My name is Shannon and I’m a tacoholic.

I will literally follow a stranger into an unmarked food truck for a taco. I will trade miscellaneous goods and services for a taco. I have no discretion when it comes to tacos; beef, pork, fish, shrimp, even cauliflower tacos.

And I’m not talking about the pre-fab taco kits that come in a red and yellow box at the grocery store that contain little packets of sodium enriched flavouring and salsas that have an infinite expiry date. I’m talking about real food – creating real flavours with real ingredients that you buy or even grow! You can make tacos in a hurry on the stove top or with a ready prepared protein, such as the rotisserie chickens found at the local market, or you can slow it down and assemble everything in the slow-cooker – ensuring the most tender, juicy tacos ever! Fresh add-ins that make a good taco a great taco: avocado, cilantro, red cabbage, limes, white onion, sliced jalapenos, tomatoes – there are no rules for taco night.

One of my favourite tacos is made with pork tenderloin and reminds me of a street taco one would actually get when travelling to Mexico – made in the slow cooker, this is easy to throw together and have ready when you get home from work.

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ravelling, whether touring, business or visiting friends and family can be tiring. Taking a few hours or a day to visit a garden on a warm day can be a relaxing change of pace. Most gardens have pleasant Linda surprises and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London, England is Tomlinson one of those gardens. The 300 acres (121 hectares) garden borders the River Thames and can be entered by four different gates making it easy to use public transportation as parking spaces are minimal.

Paths and grassy spaces — and according to the guide — over 100 major attractions are spread throughout the park make it important to pick up a map and plan the day. Very few visitors see the complete garden in one day.

Attractions can be broken down into a number of groups, plants, activities, seasonal, glasshouses and exhibitions.

The garden is more than 250 years old as are some of the plants. They include local plant material as well as plants from throughout the world.

All plants are labeled with Latin names with many also carrying common names. Look for the easy to find tags and be surprised at how many are similar to ones that grow in Central Alberta. It depends on the season as to which part of the garden is highlighted. In the fall it was the Arboretum and Pineturm highlighting the different types of trees as they prepare for winter.

The Tree Top Walk way is a must for young and old. There is a choice of walking up a number of flights of stairs or taking the lift. Once on the top a sturdy walk way allows visitors to enjoy the view as well as the activities in the upper canopy.

Glass houses date from the Victorian era to present. The Palm house is home to many tropical plants but the highlight is different varieties of Palm trees. The water lily House is filled with

tropical water lilies which can be fragrant as well as beautiful. The newest addition is the Princess of Whales Conservatory which was opened in 1987.

This greenhouse takes one through the different temperate zones around the world. A small side garden is home to carnivorous plants from around the world. There is also an Alpine house with a dry windy climate providing the needed climate for the plant collection it contains.

Children will be drawn to the Climbers and Creepers section as well as the Tree House towers which are set back from many of the other attractions allowing children to have fun and not disturb others.

Kew offers a climb on/climb off bus that runs regularly during the high season. Off season it does a park circuit every hour. Volunteers provide information about the park as part of the tour. The land train offers participants with shelter from the sun or rain.

Each season highlights a different part of the park. Making visitors want to visit again and again.

For a more personal tour, book ahead and get a free walking tour from a knowledgeable volunteer.

There are many more attractions within the garden but they would be impossible to include in a short article as one can’t see the entire garden in a day.

The park is a research and working facility with a library and herbarium that offers courses that may be of interest.

There are numerous places to stop to purchase a bite to eat or bring your own picnic. Kew Gardens also has shops with a diverse stock from souvenirs to plants and garden related items.

Using trained volunteers allows the park to operate charging visitors up to 15 £ for adults or 62 £ a year.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com Contributed photos

The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London, England offers a wide range of pleasant surprises, including a lily house that includes water lilies (top left) and a spectacular view from the tree top walkway (below).

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Collared wolf dead, three others survive Idaho wilderness

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three of four wolves fitted with tracking collars in a central Idaho wilderness area last year by state officials without federal approval are surviving as another winter approaches.

The surviving wolves from three different packs are still roaming the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, officials said. An adult female died in May near the middle of the wilderness because of unknown causes.

The U.S. Forest Service in January issued a notice of non-compliance to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game after the state agency violated an agreement by using a helicopter to put collars on the wolves while also collaring about 60 elk for an approved elk study.

State officials blamed miscommunication with the helicopter crew.

“The collaring of wolves in the wilderness was a black eye,” Jim Hayden, an Idaho Fish and Game biologist, said Tuesday. He confirmed the three wolves remained alive by checking a computer that downloads information from the collars.

The collars give the location of the wolves once every 12 hours. That information isn’t accessible to the public. Hayden said the wolves represent three packs and that each pack has a territory of about 265 square miles.

It’s not clear how many wolves are in the packs.

The wolf collaring resulted in a

State raising fees for hunting, fishing licences in 2017 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state Department of Fish and Game has announced that fees will increase for sport fishing, hunting and trapping licences starting next year.

The agency’s announcement Thursday comes as the result of a bill approved by lawmakers earlier this year. The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, was supported by conservation groups, sportsmen’s organizations and the guiding industry, the department said.

Officials said it’s the first time in 24 years that fees for Alaska hunting licences will increase. Fees for fishing licences haven’t gone up in a decade, KTUU-TV reported.

Hunting licences will cost Alaskans $45 next year, up from the current $25. Sport fishing licences will increase from $24 to $29.

Nonresidents seeking an annual hunting licence will pay $160 in 2017, nearly double the current cost.

The department said the new licensing fees will be more “in line”

federal lawsuit filed in January initially challenging the use of helicopters in a federal wilderness, where machines are generally banned. A ruling is pending on whether to prevent Idaho from using information from the collars to track and kill the wolves and other members of their packs.

“We want to prohibit the use of any of the data to further or advance Idaho’s wolf-killing program in the wilderness,” said Tim Preso, an attorney with Earthjustice.

The 3,700-square-mile mountainous and inaccessible River of No Return is generally considered a sanctuary from which young wolves disperse in search of new territory.

Idaho officials have previously targeted that population.

In January 2014, Earthjustice asked a federal judge to stop a statehired hunter from using the Forest Service’s backcountry airstrips to reach and kill wolves in the wilderness. The judge rejected the request for a temporary restraining order, but state officials pulled out the hunter after he killed nine wolves.

State officials opted to not send a hunter into the wilderness last winter. Fish and Game spokesman Mike Keckler said Wednesday he wasn’t aware of any plans to send a hunter into the area this winter.

Hayden said that because of the accidental and random nature of the collaring of the wilderness wolves, and the small number of collared wolves, the only information being gleaned is anecdotal. with other states, and in some cases, will still be significantly lower than what people in other parts of the country are paying.

“The nonresident tag fees that are charged doubled with this bill. But even with that doubling, they’re still in some cases less than what an outof-state person pays in other states,” said Maria Gladziszewski with the state Division of Wildlife Conservation. “Even with the increases, (the fees) are still definitely less expensive for residents and not out-of-line for non-residents.”

Groups such as the Territorial Sportsmen, Kenai River Sportfishing Association, the Alaska Professional Hunters Association and the Alaska Outdoor Council were among those that advocated for the fee hike, Gladziszewski said.

“Basically sportsmen groups realized the need and started lobbying the state Legislature a couple years ago to say ‘Hey, we want to pay for this. We want to continue the partnership to pay for what we use,’ ” Gladziszewski said. “It was in the tradition of sportsmen paying for conservation.”

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A wolf track, imprinted in the snow, was left near the carcass of an elk in Avery, Idaho. Three of four wolves fitted with tracking collars in a central Idaho wilderness area last winter by Idaho officials, despite not having federal authorization to do, so are still alive heading into this winter.

“It’s not very useful for management,” he said. “It’s providing us information on where the territory is for these three packs and how they use the wilderness. Since capture, they’ve been almost entirely in the wilderness.”

The lawsuit involving the wolf collars includes the much bigger aspect about helicopter use in a federal wilderness, which Preso said could set a precedent for other wilderness areas

around the country when a ruling is made.

He said Idaho’s use of helicopters to collar the elk was the most extensive helicopter intrusion the Forest Service has ever authorized in a wilderness area.

He said his group is also concerned about altering wilderness predator-prey dynamics through human intervention by killing wolves.

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“The fee increases will enable the state to leverage tens of millions of Pittman-Robertson and Dingell John-

son federal aid dollars, which provide core management and conservation funding,” Fish and Game said in a Thursday press release.

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Oregon weighs whether all kids should get outdoor education

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OUNT HOOD NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. — Each year, thousands of Oregon parents hug their kids goodbye and send them tramping into the wilderness for up to a week to learn about their state’s natural wonders.

The Outdoor School program was groundbreaking when it started more than a half-century ago. Since then, more than one million children have enjoyed — or endured — this rite of passage at campsites scattered from Oregon’s stormy coast to its towering evergreen forests to its rugged high desert.

At the program’s heyday, 90 percent of sixth-graders spent the week testing water samples, studying fungi and digging through topsoil. Today, just half of Oregon’s 11- and 12-year-olds take part, mostly through a patchwork of grants, fundraising, parent fees and charitable donations. Caps on property taxes, plus the recent recession, have forced many school districts to scrap the program or whittle it down to just a few days.

Now, backers of a statewide ballot measure want to use a slice of lottery proceeds to guarantee a week of Outdoor School for all children. If it passes, the measure would make Oregon the only state with dedicated funding for outdoor education, including students in charter, private and home schools, said Sarah Bodor, policy director for the North American Association for Environmental Education.

Opponents, however, say its passage would mean deep cuts to a state agency tasked with economic development by siphoning away millions

in lottery money critical to expanding Oregon business. And at least one outspoken state lawmaker worries Measure 99 would impose liberal Portland’s values on children in rural Oregon where farming, mining, logging and fishing are a way of life.

The push to fund Outdoor School dovetails with a national trend toward outdoor learning, Bodor said.

More than two dozen states have developed environmental literacy plans as educators realize the importance of outdoor time for developing critical thinking and leadership skills, she said.

“But these are really unfunded mandates and … the outdoor component is the piece that very often gets left behind,” Bodor said.

Measure 99 would cover that unfunded cost by taking up to $22 million — or four per cent a quarter — from the state lottery’s economic development fund to send 50,000 fifthor sixth-graders to Outdoor School each year. The Oregon State University Extension Service would dole out the money to school districts using a process that will be determined if the measure passes.

Applying for the lottery funds would be voluntary, and schools, educational districts and nonprofits that already run Outdoor Schools around the state could continue to do so.

To get the state funding, programs would have to meet certain criteria, including a curriculum that includes the study of plants, animals, soil and water; discussion of the role of natural resources in the state economy; and lessons on the relationship between economic growth, natural resources and conservation.

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Outdoors School students gather for a lesson under a canopy in the forest at Camp Howard in Mount Hood National Forest near Corbett, Ore. The outdoor education is unique to Oregon and is a rite-of-passage for public school students that’s meant to instill a respect for nature in each generation – studies show it improves attendance and boosts test scores. it was a real one, which means providing sufficient funding to cover the cost of a good, high-quality program,” said Rex Burkholder, chairman of the Measure 99 campaign committee.

With two weeks to go before the election, Measure 99 has no organized opposition, and polls indicate it will pass — but not everyone is buying it.

State Sen. Betsy Johnson, a Democrat who represents a rural district northwest of Portland, says lottery proceeds are for economic development, not camp. She worries Oregonians who remember their own Outdoor School experience will vote for the measure out of nostalgia without understanding it could hurt other programs.

Economic Development for Central Oregon, a non-profit that promotes job growth, says the money for Outdoor School would be equivalent to 70 per cent of the budget for the state’s economic development agency, which relies on lottery money. Efforts to bring television productions like Grimm, Leverage and Portlandia to Oregon could suffer as a result, it said.

“It’s so feel-good, it’s so ‘Oregon’ that I just worry that people are not going to give it the level of scrutiny it deserves,” Johnson said. “The assumption is Outdoor School … will produce better citizens and good Oregonians. What’s my metric to know if that really happens?”

Supporters point to a Portland

State University study that found students who participated in Outdoor School had improved attendance.

They also highlight surveys by the Multnomah Education Service District — which provides 7,000 students a year with Outdoor School — that show the program boosts self-confidence and interest in math and science.

At a recent five-day camp in Mount Hood National Forest, sixth-graders from Portland’s Jackson Middle School seemed unaware of the politics surrounding their adventure.

As a light drizzle fell, they dipped nets into a fog-cloaked pond surrounded by stands of Douglas fir trees, sketched water bugs in notebooks and tested the water’s acidity and turbidity as rainbow trout jumped just a few feet away. Each child wore a “wood cookie” — a cross-section of a small log — emblazoned with their name and cabin assignment and decorated with beaded pins to denote their completion of field studies on plants, animals, soil and water.

“It’s definitely better out here,” said 11-year-old Maya Herring, showing off her wood cookie festooned with beads and bling awarded by her counsellor. “You can actually feel the nature. It’s not just saying, ‘This is what this fern looks like.’ You can actually feel the fern for yourself.”

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Oil spill response far from ‘world class’

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n July, a pipeline leak near Maidstone, Saskatchewan, spilled about 250,000 litres of diluted oil sands bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River, killing wildlife and comprising drinking water for nearby David communities, including Suzuki Prince Albert. It was one of 11 spills in the province over the previous year.

In October, a tugboat pulling an empty fuel barge ran aground near Bella Bella on the Great Bear Rainforest coastline, spilling diesel into the water. Stormy weather caused some of the containment booms to break. Shellfish operations and clam beds were put at risk and wildlife contaminated.

Governments and industry promoting fossil fuel infrastructure often talk about “world class” spill response. It’s one of the conditions B.C.’s government has imposed for approval of new oil pipelines. But we’re either not there or the term has little meaning. “This ‘world-class marine response’ did not happen here in Bella Bella,” Heiltsuk Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett told Metro News.

If authorities have this much trouble responding to a relatively minor spill from a tugboat, how can they expect to adequately deal with a

spill from a pipeline or a tanker full of diluted bitumen? The simple and disturbing truth is that it’s impossible to adequately clean up a large oil spill. A 2015 report commissioned by the City of Vancouver and the Tsleil-Waututh and Tsawout First Nations concluded that “collecting and removing oil from the sea surface is a challenging, time-sensitive, and often ineffective process, even under the most favourable conditions.”

What the oil and gas industry touts as “world class spill response” boils down to four methods: booms, skimmers, burning and chemical dispersants. An article at Smithsonian. com notes, “For small spills these technologies can sometimes make a difference, but only in sheltered waters. None has ever been effective in containing large spills.” Booms don’t work well in rough or icy waters, as was clear at the Bella Bella spill; skimmers merely clean the surface and often not effectively; burning causes pollution and greenhouse gas emissions; and dispersants just spread contaminants around, when they work at all.

Researchers have also found that cleaning oil-soaked birds rarely if ever increases their chances of survival. A tiny spot of oil can kill a seabird.

After the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off the Alaska coast, industry only recovered about 14 per cent of the oil — which is about average — at a cost

‘SPILLS AND DISASTERS ILLUSTRATE THE IMMEDIATE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF OUR OVER RELIANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS. CLIMATE CHANGE SHOWS WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO BURN COAL, OIL AND GAS, THAT WE HAVE TO LEAVE MUCH OF IT IN THE GROUND. IF WE GET ON WITH IT, WE MAY STILL HAVE TIME TO MANAGE THE TRANSITION WITHOUT CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES. BUT THE LONGER WE DELAY, THE MORE DIFFICULT IT WILL BECOME.’ of $2 billion. The 2011 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has cost more than $42 billion so far, and has not been overly effective. In that case, industry bombed the area with the dispersant Corexit, which killed bacteria that eat oil! Record numbers of bottlenose dolphins died.

We’re not going to stop transporting oil and gas overnight, so improving responses to spills on water and land is absolutely necessary. And increasing the safety of pipelines, tankers and trains that carry these dangerous products is also critical, as is stepping up monitoring and enforcement. With the Saskatchewan spill, the provincial government deemed an environmental assessment of a pipeline expansion connected to the one that leaked as unnecessary because the Environment Ministry did not consider it a “development.”

University of Regina geography professor Emily Eaton, who has studied oil development, told the National Observer that Saskatchewan “gives a pass” to most pipelines it regulates.

Beyond better response capability and technologies, and increased monitoring and enforcement, we have to stop shipping so much fossil fuel. The mad rush to exploit and sell as much oil, gas and coal as possible before markets dry up in the face of growing scarcity, climate change and ever-increasing and improving renewable energy options has led to a huge spike in the amount of fossil fuels shipped through pipelines, and by train and tanker — often with disastrous consequences, from the Gulf of Mexico BP spill to the tragic 2013 Lac-Mégantic railcar explosion.

Spills and disasters illustrate the immediate negative impacts of our over reliance on fossil fuels. Climate change shows we can’t continue to burn coal, oil and gas, that we have to leave much of it in the ground. If we get on with it, we may still have time to manage the transition without catastrophic consequences. But the longer we delay, the more difficult it will become.

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.

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SEISMOLOGY

Drilling may have caused 1933 quake: study MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE KILLED IN DEPRESSION-ERA CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — New research suggests oil drilling decades ago may have triggered earthquakes in the Los Angeles region, including the 1933 quake that killed more than 100 people.

If confirmed, it would be the first time oil operations have been linked to a deadly quake in the United States.

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey combed through historical records and identified several quakes in the 1920s and 1930s that were potentially caused by industry activities, including the 1933 magnitude 6.4 jolt that struck the port city of Long Beach.

Until now, “we pretty much assumed that earthquakes in the LA area are natural and that induced earthquakes are either not happening or not significant,” said USGS seismologist Sue Hough, who led the study.

Drilling techniques have changed through the decades so the findings don’t necessarily point to a current risk.

A separate study last year by a team at

USGS and California Institute of Technology found no significant evidence of human-caused quakes in the LA region after 1935.

Man-made quakes have been in the spotlight after a sharp uptick in seismic activity in Oklahoma and Texas. Studies have linked the spike to the practice of injecting leftover wastewater into the ground after drilling for oil and gas using newer technologies such as hydraulic fracturing. The induced quakes have rattled nerves and caused property damage, but no deaths.

Southern California’s oil boom was sparked in 1892 when oil was discovered near what would become the site of Dodger Stadium, north of downtown LA. After tapping the wells dry, drillers headed to points south, including Santa Fe Springs, Inglewood, Torrance and Long Beach.

In the study, Hough and colleague Morgan Page pieced together a list of quakes between 1915 and the early 1930s, and reviewed oil permits and drilling operations during that time period. They found 13 cases of shaking

that may have been caused by oil production ramping up.

The Long Beach quake hit not long after operators began drilling wells at different angles, the researchers said. Some 115 people died and many schools collapsed, spurring new laws requiring stricter building standards for new schools and retrofitting of old ones.

The findings appear in Tuesday’s edition of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

“They have certainly raised the possibility that these earthquakes could have been induced, but it’s difficult with the lack of observations to definitively say these were induced earthquakes,” said Bill Barnhart, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Iowa who had no role in the research.

Deadly quakes triggered by oil and gas drilling are rare. In 1984, a magnitude 7 quake in Uzbekistan linked to gas extraction killed one person and injured 100.

Oil recovery techniques have

‘THEY HAVE CERTAINLY RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT THESE EARTHQUAKES COULD HAVE BEEN INDUCED.’ BILL BARNHART UNIVERSITY OF IOWA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOPHYSICS changed through the years. In the early 20th century, oil was sucked out of the ground and that sometimes caused the ground to sink. Beginning in the 1940s, operators would flood water into reservoirs to drive out oil.

Earlier this year, Cliff Frohlich, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, found that human-caused quakes from oil and gas operations in Texas have been happening since 1925, much earlier than previously thought. In recent years, the increased shaking in Texas has been linked to the injection of wastewater deep underground.

The possible connection between past LA quakes and oil activity sounds “plausible” and should be investigated further, said Frohlich, who was not part of the latest study.

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Facebook gold streak continues in third quarter

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EW YORK — Whether it’s a video clip of your friend’s dog or a live stream of the presidential debates, you are likely watching more videos on Facebook than ever.

And that means you’re also more likely to see video ads.

Facebook’s latest strategy is to grow both user-generated and advertiser-created videos as it tries to get a firm foothold in this nascent but growing market. The strategy appears to be working. While Madison Avenue is not known for risky experimenting, advertisers are already testing the waters with live video. General Motors, for example, launched its electric Chevy Bolt EV through Facebook Live this year.

“People are spending more and more time on mobile, especially video,” David Wehner, Facebook’s chief financial officer, said in an interview.

He said this has been a big factor in helping drive up overall mobile advertising.

It helps on the video front that Facebook had successfully transitioned from desktop to mobile, despite early doubts. Now, when Facebook tries to sell video to its ad-

vertisers, it can simply point to past financial results. The percentage of ad revenue that came from mobile has increased every quarter since the company began reporting this figure in 2012.

In the July-September quarter, Facebook had $6.8 billion in advertising revenue, a 59 per cent increase from a year earlier. Mobile advertising accounted for 84 per cent of this.

Facebook had 1.79 billion monthly users as of Sept. 30, up 16 per cent from a year earlier.

Facebook earned $2.38 billion during the third quarter, or 82 cents per share, up sharply from $896 million, or 31 cents per share, a year earlier. Adjusted earnings were $1.09 per share, above the 97 cents that analysts polled by FactSet had expected.

Total revenue rose 56 per cent to $7.01 billion, surpassing analysts’ expectations of $6.92 billion.

Video ads will become more important as Facebook sees a slowdown in how many ads it shows between all the updates from friends, a measure known as ad load. Facebook’s stock fell $8.77, or nearly seven per cent, to $118.20 in extended trading after Wehner told analysts that “ad load will play a less significant (role in) driving revenue growth” after

mid-2017, leading to slower growth overall.

In addition, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will “invest aggressively” to accomplish its goals and will continue hiring, especially engineers, in 2017.

Where Twitter failed with the quirky, killed-off video app Vine, Facebook is succeeding with Instagram, not to mention its main service.

Users are posting and watching live and recorded videos, thanks to more powerful smartphones and a relentless prodding by Facebook to do so.

If you use Facebook, for example, you likely received notifications that your friend “is live now” or “was live” — that is, broadcasting live video from wherever they happen to be, doing whatever they happen to be doing.

While Facebook does not break out how much money it makes from video advertisements, the Menlo Park, California, company needs them to keep growing revenue at the impressive rates it has since going public in 2012. Video ads make up a small but growing slice of the overall digital ad market. Research firm eMarketer expects U.S. mobile video ad spending to hit $7.1 billion in 2018, up from $4.5 billion this year. That’s about 10 per cent of the overall mon-

ey spent on mobile advertisements.

Live and prerecorded videos are just one example of the new ways Facebooks is finding to show you ads.

Down the road, expect ads on the messaging service WhatsApp, or on Oculus Rift, its virtual reality headset. If you are one of the 1 billion people who use Facebook Messenger, you are likely seeing the precursor of ads in the service, in the form of businesses messaging you with automated “chatbots.”

EMarketer estimates that Facebook’s global ad revenue will hit $25.9 billion this year, up from $17.1 billion in 2015. The company is the world’s No. 2 digital ad publisher behind Google. Another tidbit: eMarketer estimates that each Facebook user, on average, will generate an estimated $15.83 for the company this year.

There have been some hurdles.

In September, Facebook disclosed that it overstated the average length of time users watched video ads on its site. The measurement didn’t affect how much Facebook charges to run video spots, but analysts say ad agencies may have used the Facebook estimates as a key metric when they plan campaigns and decide how much advertising to place on Facebook or competing sites.

COMPUTERS

Microsoft adds new chat-based services for workers

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AN FRANCISCO — Taking a cue from competing online services like Slack, which let workers chat and share information on the job, Microsoft is adding a new program called “Teams” to its Office 365 suite of Internet productivity software.

Analysts say Microsoft is catching up to a trend in which a host of tech companies — even Facebook — are competing to offer specialized online networks for organizations, as workers increasingly find that email and simple document-sharing services are too limited for communicating and collaborating. Like competing services, Microsoft’s new “Teams” product provides a central place online for workplace groups to chat, share files and perform other tasks.

But unlike competitors, Microsoft is offering the ability to easily transition into other widely used Microsoft programs, such as Outlook for email and calendars and Skype for voice and video conferences. “Teams” can also incorporate artificially intelligent “bots” and other software programs created by outside developers.

Workplace software is a big business for Microsoft. While the giant

tech company is best known for making the Windows operating system for PCs, it racked up more than $26.4 billion in revenue last year from workplace “productivity” programs like Office, which includes software for email, calendars, word-processing and other functions. Although other divisions bring in more revenue, Microsoft’s “productivity” division is its most lucrative, with $12.4 billion in operating profit. But the company has been threatened by new offerings from big competitors like Google, as well as upstarts like Slack, which provide a central meeting place online where teams of workers can hold running conversations and share files that are easily accessible.

Microsoft bought the workplace social networking service Yammer for more than $1 billion in 2012 and will continue that service, which some companies use as an interactive bulletin board. Analysts say newer, competing services have more functions. And new companies like Slack have entered the market by making their services easily available to individual departments or groups.

But Microsoft has the advantage that its email and other programs are already widely used by companies, which could make it easier to add Teams.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses a Microsoft media event in New York.

Taking a cue from competing online services like Slack, which let workers chat and share information on the job, Microsoft is adding a new program called “Teams” to its Office 365 suite of Internet productivity software. Analysts say Microsoft is catching up to a trend in which workers increasingly look beyond email and simple document-sharing services to communicate and collaborate.

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Longtime CBC comedian Dave Broadfoot dead at 90 WON JUNO, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S PERFORMING ARTS AWARD AND NAMED TO ORDER OF CANADA

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ORONTO — Canadian comedy pioneer Dave Broadfoot, who was considered a national treasure for his political satire on the CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce, has died at the age of 90.

“We are all deeply sad,” Lucy Stewart, producer of Air Farce, said Wednesday in confirming his death.

“He was a Canadian icon in comedy,” added Gerry Dee, star of the CBC sitcom Mr. D. “He was a name synonymous with Canadian comedy and paved the way for a lot of us to make that leap into comedy.

“He was just someone that was relatable. He just had that appeal, that lovability that attracted people to his comedy.”

Broadfoot was born in Vancouver on Dec. 5, 1925, and began acting shortly after serving in the navy during the Second World War. In the 1950s and ’60s, he appeared on the small screen in the Wayne and Shuster Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Big Revue and Comedy Cafe. He also appeared on CBC Radio with Funny You Should Say That.

Broadfoot also toured in revues across the country and in the United States and England.

It was in 1973 that Broadfoot began his 15-year-run on Air Farce,

where he endeared audiences with memorable characters including Sgt. Renfrew of the RCMP who “never gets his man” and a hockey-playing dunce named Big Bobby Clobber.

Then there was David J. Broadfoot, the member of Parliament from Kicking Horse Pass.

Broadfoot won numerous honours, including a Juno for comedy, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and was named an officer of the Order of Canada. “(In Canada) you can be the biggest success ever and still have a very, very small bank account because that’s the way we are,” he said in 2003 as he received the Governor General’s award.

He also remarked on receiving an honour from the same government he often poked fun at.

“We’re loose enough, liberal enough, accepting enough in this country, we’re mature enough that we can make fun of each other and still have great respect and honour each other.”

In 2004, Broadfoot joined a troupe of younger performers for a show tour of Canadian military sites in Afghanistan.

“I have always believed if we expect others to put their lives at risk on our behalf, then we have an obligation as performers to back them up,” he said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “It’s part of our job.”

Cosby lawyers say comedian is too blind to defend himself NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s eyesight has deteriorated to the point where he cannot identify his accusers in photographs or otherwise help with his defence, his lawyers said Wednesday as they waged a multipronged effort to get the sexual assault case against the 79-year-old comedian thrown out.

His attorneys also portrayed Cosby as a political pawn who is being prosecuted only because a suburban Philadelphia district attorney used the public furor over the comic to get elected last year.

And they renewed their argument that Cosby’s lurid 2005 deposition from a related lawsuit should not be admitted at his trial, saying he answered questions under oath only after being assured he would not be charged with a crime.

Cosby leaned back in his chair as his lawyers made their case at the two-day pretrial hearing, which ended with no rulings from the judge and no indication of when he might issue one. Another set of hearings is scheduled for next month.

The Cosby Show star, once known as America’s Dad, is scheduled to go on trial by June on charges he drugged and molested Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, at his home in 2004.

He could get 10 years in prison.

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Comedian Dave Broadfoot speaks to reporters as at a funeral, in Toronto in a January 16, 2002, file photo. Broadfoot, known for his wit on the network’s Royal Canadian Air Farce, has died at the age of 90.

Cosby has said the encounter was consensual.

He is free on $1 million bail.

Dozens of additional accusers have come forward, including 13 women whom prosecutors want to call as witnesses at the trial to show that they were drugged and violated in similar fashion. Cosby’s lawyers are fighting that strategy.

Defence attorney Angela Agrusa argued that prosecutors unfairly prejudiced Cosby by waiting a decade to charge him. Cosby has memory problems and is also legally blind, according to the defence, which presented a medical report that said he is blind in his right eye and has glaucoma in both eyes.

“Mr. Cosby cannot look at a photograph or any evidence and help his counsel or explain who those people are,” Agrusa said.

However, prosecutors said Cosby himself caused the delay by fighting efforts by The Associated Press — in 2006 and again in 2014 — to unseal his testimony in Constand’s 2005 lawsuit. Prosecutors said that it was not until a judge unsealed the material last year that they learned that Cosby had admitted to a series of affairs and acknowledged obtaining quaaludes to give to women before sex.

“He had never admitted to using powerful drugs to facilitate sex with women. That’s a big deal,” Deputy District Attorney Robert Falin said.

“In our case, it goes to what exactly did he give to Andrea. … I think any reasonable prosecutor would have taken another look at the case.”

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CARTER, Flora The family of Flora Carter is sad to announce her passing on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.

Flora was born on December 4, 1920 on her parent’s farm at Delburne. In 1940 she married Dell Carter and after Dell returned from the war, raised two daughters Colleen Butler and Marlene Bysterveld. Flora remained in her own home on the farm until March of this year where she enjoyed gardening, baking bread and gathering her family around her. She was very proud of her family and her home and was very active in her community. She was predeceased by her husband Dell (1989); her parents Sam and Jessie MacDonald; her brothers Dave, Ike, and John, and her sister May Auvigne; and son-in-law Rod Butler. She is survived by her daughters Colleen Butler and Marlene (Keith) Bysterveld and their families Stephen (Charity) Butler and children Kennedy and Kassidy; Kathy (Kevin) Guard and their children Kaden and Katana; Jennifer (Sonja) Bysterveld; Jessica (Shane) Powers and their children Jorja and Josie; and Jocelyn (Bryce) Pennock and their children Carter, Clancy, and Porter. She has been a role model to all of us with her quiet strength and her zest for life. She lived every moment to the fullest even water sliding and tobogganing at age 93, and zip-lining just 3 short months ago. We “count our blessings” that we had her in our lives for so many years. A celebration of life will be held on Friday, November 4 at 11am at the Delburne Community Hall. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to St. Mary’s Health Care Centre (Trochu) in Flora’s name.

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ANDREW, Mary May 14, 1927 - Oct. 28, 2016 It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of our dear mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend.

Mary was born and raised on a small farm in Southern Saskatchewan. Mary met her husband, John, while working as a nurse’s aide in the Wakaw hospital. After five children and two moves, Mary and John settled in Red deer. Mary was married 40 years to her husband John when he passed away.

Mary’s joy came from watching her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow.

Mary will be sadly missed by her children, Pat (Bernie), John, Jim, Ken (Susan) and Kathy (Darryl); grandchildren, Curtis (Shantel), Michael (Sarah), Ryan (Holly), Lucas, Karson, Samuel and Zachary; Great-grandchildren, Kylie, Brock, Wyatt and Weston; as well as numerous family and friends that Mary touched along the way. A service will be held in Red Deer at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 48a Ave on Saturday, Nov 5, 2016 at 11am.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

EDGECOMBE, Velma Lydia July 22, 1928 - Nov. 1, 2016 While the family is saddened

by Velma’s passing, she was drawn by the loss of her husband, Don, who had passed just eight days earlier. They had happily celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on October 11th. Velma was born in Fort Vermilion, AB and after working a short time as a school teacher, joined Don, managing Hudson’s Bay stores in Canada’s north. Velma got into the retail business for herself in 1958, opening Velma’s Kiddie Korner in Whitehorse, YT. From there she partnered with her husband, operating Don’s Mens Wear in Grande Prairie before retiring to Sylvan Lake in 1987. Velma was predeceased by her parents, four brothers and four sisters and son-in-law, Philip Borle. She leaves children, Don (Bonnie), Deb (Gerry), Ron, Kathie (Perry), Wendy (Terry), Kevin (Linda), and 26 cherished grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. The family will be forever grateful to the wonderful staff of the Red Deer Hospital and the Red Deer Hospice. A prayer service will be held at the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home, 5019-47A Ave. at 7:00 PM on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. A funeral will be held at 1:00 PM on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, 5033-47 A Ave., Sylvan Lake, AB, officiated by Father Les Drewicki.

RAINBIRD, Robert “Shawn” Shawn Rainbird passed away suddenly on Monday, October 31, 2016 at the age of 58 years. Shawn is lovingly remembered by his family. A Celebration of Shawn’s Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #35, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB on Friday, November 4, 2016 at 10:30 am. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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MATHESON, James Dalhousie Apr. 6, 1031 - Sept. 29, 2016 Jamie passed away peacefully on September 29, 2016 at his home in Sunset Manor, Innisfail.

He is survived by his sister-in-law, Betty Matheson and eight nephews and nieces. He will also be sadly missed by his good friend, Lauro Ligad.

Jamie was predeceased by his parents, the late Jack Matheson and Mary Murray; two brothers, Ian and Glen Matheson; one sister, Mary Stewart; and a sister-in-law, Eileen Matheson. Jamie’s family would like to give a special thank you to the wonderful and caring folks at Sunset Manor, Innisfail and the Public Guardian’s Office.

He was loved and cared for well.

Cremation was entrusted to Heartland Funeral Homes, Innisfail. A funeral is not planned.

FOLKERTS, Frederick Ernest 1950 - 2016 Fred Folkerts passed on to glory October 26, 2016 in Calgary, AB surrounded by his loved ones. Fred was born June 6, 1950 in Brooks, AB. He was predeceased by his father, Johannes Folkerts, and his mother, Mary Folkerts.

He will be dearly missed by his dearest friend, Marion Wearmouth, and her family; his siblings, Emmy (Arnold) Meetsma, Agnes (Jim) Wolstenholme, Betty Reiter, MaryJoan (John) Pyper, Thea (Mike) Farlinger, John (Caroline) Folkerts, Rita Haynes (Randy), and 26 nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Life will be held at First CRC, 14 McVicar Street, Red Deer, AB Nov. 4, 2016, at 1:00 P.M. We want to acknowledge the wonderful care provided by Cochrane Big Hill Lodge, Cochrane Home Care and Sarcee Hospice. If friends so desire donations can be made to the Mustard Seed (previously Loaves and Fishes) at http://theseed.ca. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca ALTERNATIVES® FUNERAL AND CREMATION SERVICES Serving Red Deer and Surrounding Areas since 1997 403-341-5181

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JONES, Donald Evan 1956 - 2016 The family of Donald Evan ‘Don’ Jones sadly announce his passing on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at the age of 60 years. Don will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Audrey; son, Emmett; two sisters, Marilyn Romanyk (Dennis), and Donna Kafara (Harvey Montpetit); as well as nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

A Memorial Service for Don will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 - 50 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, November 4, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Don’s honor may be made directly to a Trust Fund for Don’s son Emmett, at any ATB Branch in Alberta.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

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BACKPACK with some personal items, found in Fairview area on old railway tracks.

Must identify to claim.

403-346-7235

Personals

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

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jobs

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

F/T IN-HOME Child Caregiver in Red Deer @ Baza Res. for an infant. Cert. & High School Grad. Duties; bathe, dress, feed & SECRET SALE ~ 50 % off maintain safe & clean For Lovers Only environment, 40 hrs./wk READ the classifieds and @$11.25/hr. email resume to: apply@ find just what you’re looking elmerbaza3@shaw.ca for. 309-3300 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

WENTWORTH, Margaret (nee Runnalls) Margaret Wentworth of Lacombe died on October 16, 2016 at the Red Deer hospice at the age of 94. She was predeceased by her Births husband Willis (2006), her son-in-law, Jim Sanford (2010) and her daughter-inlaw, Johanne (nee Desjardins) (2015). Margaret is survived by her daughter Arleen Sanford of Sylvan Lake and ARE YOU EXPECTING her son Cliff of Lethbridge.

A BABY SOON? She has six grandchildren, Welcome Wagon three great grandchilren, and has a two great-great grandchildren. special package No funeral by her request. In just for you & lieu of flowers, donations can your little one! be made to the Red Deer For more information, Hospice Society.

Call Lori, 403-896-6100

The Linklater family extends our heartfelt thanks for the care we received during Ben’s illness and passing.

First, to our granddaughters who brought Ben so much joy, and who stayed by his side, supporting him and us. Thanks to the caregivers and doctors at the LCHCC. And also thanks to our family and friends who ensured we were looked after and well-fed.

Ben’s celebration was perfect, thanks to Eileen, Jessie and Megan; Reverend Ross’s comforting and insightful message; and Ken Oliphant’s lovely music. Our appreciation extends to Steve and the staff at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, and to the St. Andrew’s UCW. To the many who took time to come to the service, thank you. Ben would have been humbled (and secretly pleased) by the love you showed. We only wish we could have spoken with all of you personally.

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FT in-home caregiver for 9 hrs/OT. Household chores & care for 2 children.

Wage $12.20/hr. Caregiver course, CPR, police clearance. Send resume w/ref. to louieandpamie @yahoo.com.

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Clerical

720

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Winter Wonderland Tea & Bake Sale at St. Leonard’s Church 4241 44 Street, Red Deer. Admission $4, Sat. Nov. 5, 9 - noon.

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KEYS, lost at Parkland Mall on Monday, Oct. 31.

Key for a Chrysler Van as well as house and garage keys. Has name Dale, also War Amp tags. If found please call 403-347-3792 LOST a Kia fob with key inside on a key chain with a pewter silver cat. Possibly lost at Memorial Centre by Lindsay Thurber High School If found, please call 403-346-0170.

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GREENHOUSE WORKERS wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold. 40 Full Time Seasonal Positions.

No experience necessary, training provided. Starting Feb. 2017. $12.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252 or email to sales@mbrook.ca

Calfrac Well Services has built a world-class pressure pumping Services Company with locations worldwide.

If you’re like most people, you want to be part of a winning team.

By providing industry leading training and attracting people who are focused on the right core values: ethics, energy, and an entrepreneurial spirit we’ve created that winning team. We are eager to learn more about what you’ve done, what you can do, and where you would like to go!

GREENHOUSE Laborers are req’d for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, AB. Resp. incl’d. transplanting, watering, handling & caring for plant material & preparation of customer orders. This position is labor intensive & entails working in both hot & cold environments. Laborers are required to work a min. of 40 hours/wk. Laborers must be avail. to work different shifts, 7 days/wk. positions are avail. starting mid Jan. & last til late June. No previous work exp. or qualifications are req’d. Starting wage is $12.20/hr. Please email l resumes to Kevin@ cagreenhouses.ca or fax resume to 403-885-4147 (Attn. Human Resources.)

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0

Calfrac Well Services Offers: • Flexible work schedules • Competitive Compensation including Medical and Dental coverage on day 1 of employment • Extensive Training LQFOXGLQJ DOO UHTXLUHG RLOÀHOG WLFNHWV

• Coiled Tubing Operators (Class 1 drivers license is required) CLASSIFIEDS Remembrance Day Hours & Deadlines

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• Fracturing Operators (Class 1 drivers license is required)

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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MEDICAL Receptionist JJAM Management (1987) required for a 2 month Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s term. This position could Requires to work at these lead to full-time. Exceptional Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. customer service skills are 37444 HWY 2 S essential as this position deals with the public.

37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. and occasional Saturdays.

Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T Starting wage is $15/hr. permanent shift, early Please send your resume with avail. dates to Box morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day 1124, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description The easy way to find a www.timhortons.com buyer for items you want to Experience 1 yr. to less sell is with a Red Deer than 2 yrs. Education not Advocate want ad. Phone req’d. Apply in person or 309-3300. fax 403-314-1303

As we grow, we are currently recruiting talent in a number of permanent and seasonal field positions including:

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All interested applicants are encouraged to attend our upcoming Calfrac Job Fair in Red Deer. Don’t forget your resume and a clean 5 year drivers abstract; you will be interviewed on the spot!

Location: Red Deer, Alberta When: Friday, November 4, 2016 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Where: Quality Inn, North Hill – 7150 50 Ave, Red Deer, Alberta For more information about our career opportunities or to apply for a position in advance visit www.calfrac.com/careers

Greenhouse workers wanted for Blue Grass Nursery & Garden Center in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for 10 full time seasonal employees.

No experience needed, training will be provided Starting in February 2017.

Duration is for 4 months Wage is $12.20 per hour at maximum 44 hrs./week.

Please fax resume to 403-342-7488 Or by email: edgar.rosales@bg-rd.com

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for (eves. and wknds). Must be 18+ yrs.

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

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Employment Training

900

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

278950A5

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Clothing

1590

GOLDEN Ranch Faux Mink, long length, new, $100.

Sz. large. 403-309-6653

1605

Electronics

PS2 SLIM with 11, $70.

403-782-3847 X BOX, older, with 14 games. $80. 403-782-3847

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

Household Appliances

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

1710

Misc. for Sale

PROPANE barbecue with side burner, $50.

403-309-4518

1720

SMALL CEILING FAN for bedroom, football/hockey design. Exc. cond. $15.

403-346-5423

COFFEE table and 2 matching end tables, $90.

403-309-4518

WEDDING dress, size 10, fits small, $200. NEW 403-309-4518

FUTON for sale, good condition. Price reduced to $125. Call Viki @ 403-346-4263

WOODEN shelving, $75.

403-885-5020

TWO armed chairs, one ~ dark green leatherette with Chrome arms, $10; and one ~ gray upholstery office chair w/black metal sides. exc. cond., $15.

403-346-5423

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. ~ SOLD ~ BOOKCASE with sliding doors, wood with adjustable shelf $15; table stand, $15; white metal table stand, $10; recorder with lesson book and music stand, $5; stove top popcorn popper, $10; toaster oven, $10; I love tea, teapot, $10; personal room humidifier, $10; set of 4 seat cushions, $10; jewelry craft material for making your own creations, $10; 45” Oval braided rug, green, $10; Box of Christmas candles, $10; white toy box w/moving bear, plays is a small world, original box, $20; babies surround by animals, music box, plays, playmates, $20. frosted base table lamp with beige shade, $20. 403-343-1266 BOX Spring, twin $80; China, glassware, dishes; lots of Christmas ribbon bows, buttons, craft items, gift wrap and bags and pieces for making Christmas gifts, $20 for all.

403-343-1266

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Cats

KITTEN TO GIVE AWAY, adorable F. Apprx. 12 wks old. Litter box trained.

403-343-8727

Sporting Goods

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

HUGE garage sale rain or shine or snow located east of Blackfalds 10 miles or 16 km to Range Road 25-5 also known as freedom Road go north 1 mile first place on the left several items to choose from tools to truck toppers too clothes to child children stuff too many items to mention inferred sauna,antique filing cabinets,furniture . starting November 3rd, 4th & 5th: 8 am - 5 pm

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A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

1860

REMINGTON Classic 700, 338 Win Mag. 6 to 24 custom muzzle break, $800. obo. 403-348-9606

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

WANTED TO BUY, HIGHCHAIR in good, clean condition reasonably priced.

403-346-6058

WANTED: Old Tonka toys or parts. 403-318-5310

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

GULL LAKE VIEW ACREAGE. Newly reno’d, 2 bdrm. + den, 1 bath.

1550 sq.ft. all on 1 level.

Approx. 15 miles NW Lacombe on E side of lake.

Barn, no inside pets. Lrg. yard, lots of trees. Carol, 403-273-0775

Houses/ Duplexes

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 BDRM., 1.5 bath, Kentwood duplex, 5 appl., fenced yard, shed, deck, new paint. $1150/mo. + util., $900/s.d. No pets. n/s. 403-986-0077 or 403-350-5404 HOUSE in Woodlea area, 3 bdrms., 2 baths, 4 appl., no pets, $1000 rent/d.d.+ util. 5302 42A Ave. 403-729-2984 NEWER 4 bdrm., 2 bath, house in Vanier, pet friendly, $1500./mo.

Christmas bonus, Dec. 1/2 price. 403-341-5005 SYLVAN LAKE fully furn. rentals, incld’s all utils. & cable. $1200 - $1600./mo.

NEG. Call 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM. townhouse in Red Deer, 1.5 bath, 4 appl.

403-887-4670 or 403-350-6194 AVAIL. NOW, 3 bdrm. townhouse close to schools and all amenities, 6 appls., rent $1050. + utils. + DD. 403-506-0054

3020

1 YR old 3 bdrm. house with garage, in Laredo. 6 appls. $1450. no pets. N/S 403-350-7421 2 BDRM. Blackfalds, duplex, 4 appl., $1000/mo. + utils., 403-318-3284

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1095. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $750 inclds. water, 5 appl.

403-348-6594

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Dec. 1. 403-304-5337 YOUR old don’t wants could become someone else’s treasure. Sell if fast with an Advocate Want Ad. Phone 309-3300.

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Available now or Dec. 1.

403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650.

Incld’s all utils. Avail. now or Dec. 1. 403-304-5337

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3060

Suites

CARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Painters/ Decorators

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For your small jobs around the house such as painting, laminate flooring, bathroom reno.

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Roofing

10 - 2am Private back entry

Misc.

Services

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $875./mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Dec. 1. 403-304-5337

A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP & Recycling avail. weekly or occasional basis.

(403) 505-4777.

403-341-4445

1290

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Snow Removal

1380

SNOW REMOVAL Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

Yard

Elite Retreat, Finest Care in VIP Treatment.

2 BDRM. 4 plex, fireplace, incld’s water, sewer, garbage. $925. rent, $650. sd. Avail. now or Dec. 1.

403-304-5337

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Entertainment

CLEARVIEW RIDGE, CLEARVIEW, TIMBERSTONE, LANCASTER, VANIER, WOODLEA/WASKASOO, DEER PARK, GRANDVIEW, EASTVIEW, MICHENER, MOUNTVIEW, ROSEDALE, GARDEN HEIGHTS, MORRISROE

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1160

3060

3090

MORRISROE MANOR

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Suites

THE NORDIC

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

1100

3060

COMPLETELY reno’d SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm. sunny 2 bdrm. suite in bsmt., fridge, stove, all util. adult bldg. at Parkview incl. except power and Place in Innisfail. New cable, n/s, no pets, kitchen incl. appl., and new $850/mo. + $850/DD. bathroom. Well-maintained Avail. immed. Contact ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious bldg. with on-site manager.

403-754-5693 suites 3 appls., heat/water Extra storage, free parking, incl’d., ADULT ONLY heat incl. in rent. $950/mo.

BLDG, no pets, Oriole Call Jac @ 403-227-1049.

Park. 403-986-6889 Rental incentives avail.

CITY VIEW APTS. LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, SUITES. 25+, adults only N/S, No pets. newly reno’d adult building. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 403-596-2444 Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 Rooms bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease For Rent free, immed. occupancy.

BLACKFALDS, $500, 403-596-6000 Rental incentives avail. all inclusive. 403-358-1614 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

services

Contractors

Suites

2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Dec. 1. $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337

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FORMER SHOWHOME, Clearview townhouse, 2 bdrm./2 1/2 bath, 2 yrs. old, fully dev. bsmt., could be 3 bdrm., 2 parking pads, no pets, n/s, $1295/mo. + $1295 security/DD. David @ 403-350-5950

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

WANTED ~ Trip hammer.

403-728-3454

Acreages/ Farms

Out of Town

1760

WANTED: Dead or alive major appliances. Cash for some. 403-342-1055

Household Furnishings

Industries #1 Choice!

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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1430

SNOW/junk/tree removal, and garage door services.

403-358-1614

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS, BOWER, HIGHLAND GREEN, INGLEWOOD, JOHNSTONE, KENTWOOD, RIVERSIDE MEADOWS, PINES, SUNNYBROOK, SOUTHBROOKE, WEST LAKE, WEST PARK

Call Tammy at 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week

INNISFAIL, PENHOLD, LACOMBE, SYLVAN LAKE, OLDS, BLACKFALDS, PONOKA, ECKVILLE, SPRINGBROOK

Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED 5 DAYS A WEEK BY 6:30 AM TUESDAY - SATURDAY WOODLEA/WASKASOO

Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

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Rooms For Rent

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ROOM to Rent. $500 very Large, all facilities, prefer F. 403-350-4712

CLASSIFICATIONS

3140

WAREHOUSE or SHOP SPACE

for lease Riverside Light Industrial, 4614 - 61 St., Red Deer (directly south of Windsor Plywood), 2400 sq. ft. warehouse space with 1,200 sq. ft. mezzanine 55’ x 85’ fenced compound.

Chuck 403-350-1777

3150

Garage Space

SINGLE CAR, RED DEER $150/mo. 403-348-6594

3190

Mobile Lot

45

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ROOM ALL FACILITIES. $450. 403-350-4712

Warehouse Space

NEWS

5000-5300

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A man records a video on his smartphone with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Nikki’s African Braiding in North Las Vegas, Nev., Wednesday.

U.S. ELECTION

Trump goes all in on Florida

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ENSACOLA, Fla. — With the turbulent White House race scrambled in new directions, Donald Trump is campaigning with rare discipline like his presidential campaign hinges on one all-too-familiar swing state: Florida. “‘Stay on point, Donald, stay on point,”’ the Republican nominee, in Pensacola, teasingly quoted his staff as saying. “No sidetracks, Donald.

Nice and easy. Nice and easy.”’

There was late action Wednesday in such unlikely arenas as Arizona

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Clinton has also been a frequent visitor. She posed for pictures and shook hands during a surprise visit to a South Florida Caribbean-American neighbourhood Wednesday morning.

Both sides agree the New York businessman has virtually no chance to win the presidency without Florida’s trove of 29 electoral votes. Clinton has been ahead there in opinion polls, but Democrats acknowledge that the FBI’s renewed attention to her has helped rally reluctant Republicans behind their nominee. That’s given Trump an enthusiasm boost in Florida and across Midwestern battlegrounds long considered reliably blue territory.

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Suspect in officer deaths has history of racial provocations

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and Michigan, too — and in North Carolina, where President Barack Obama tried to energize black support for Hillary Clinton. But Trump marched ahead in his third multi-day visit to the Sunshine State in recent weeks.

The Republican nominee lashed out at “Crooked Hillary” in Miami, predicting that a Clinton victory would trigger an “unprecedented and protracted constitutional crisis” as federal investigators probe the former secretary of state’s email practices. But Trump did not take the bait dangled by the Clinton campaign about his treatment of women.

Conceding nothing in the state,

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ES MOINES, Iowa — A white man with a history of racial provocations and confrontations with police ambushed and fatally shot two white officers Wednesday in separate attacks as they sat in their patrol cars, authorities said.

Police took 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody hours after the killings and less than three

weeks after he argued with officers who removed him from a high school football game where he had unfurled a Confederate flag near black spectators.

Greene flagged down an Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee in a rural area west of Des Moines, identified himself and asked that the employee call 911. Sheriff’s deputies and state patrol officers took him into custody.

He’s suspected in the early morning slayings of 24-year-old Justin Mar-

tin, who had been with the force in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale since 2015, and 38-year-old Sgt. Anthony Beminio, who joined the Des Moines department in 2005.

Greene was taken to a hospital for treatment of unknown health issues and was to be questioned later at Des Moines police headquarters, Sgt. Paul Parizek said.

Police responded to a report of shots fired shortly after 1 a.m. and found the Urbandale officer.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Incestuous friend group has head spinning ear Annie: My friend “Mary” was dating “Lance.”

Behind her back, our mutual friend “Sarah” started a physical relationship with Lance while he was still in a relationship with Mary. Mary did not know about this. I was often in the company of the three of them and was uncomfortable watching Lance and Sarah making goo-goo eyes at each other every time Mary turned her back.

Now Mary and Lance have broken up, and Lance has another girlfriend.

He is still hooking up with Sarah, behind the other girlfriend’s back. Sarah wants to make a go of it with Lance.

He has told her that he’ll leave the other girlfriend for her. Oy vey!

Here’s my question: I am trying to persuade Sarah to tell Mary what’s up and ask Mary whether she is OK with her dating Lance. Otherwise, she’ll

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find out through the grapevine. Sarah keeps saying she will talk to Mary, but she hasn’t yet. I feel as if I’m in the middle of this ugly, cheating relationship.

Mary would be so hurt and angry with me if she found out that Lance had been cheating on Annie her and I knew about it. Lane Or if she didn’t find out about the cheating and she just heard about Lance’s “new” relationship with Sarah, she’d be hurt I knew about it and said nothing. Do I have any responsibility as a friend here, to either Mary or Sarah? — Head Spinning in North Carolina Dear Spinning: Your head might be spinning, but I guarantee it’s still on straighter than Sarah’s and Lance’s.

Those two need to wise up and calm

down, Lance in particular. He’s spun you and these three women into a very tangled web.

Normally, I tell people not to get in the middle of friends’ relationship problems. But I think this situation is a little different, and Mary deserves to hear the truth in a respectful way.

It’s crummy news no matter what, but it would be better delivered from a close friend than from the gossip mill.

Please advise Mary that she is the luckiest one, whether she realizes it yet or not.

Dear Readers: I recently printed a letter from a man who is fed up with servers asking, after he has given them cash, whether he needs any change. I asked you, my readers, what your thoughts were on the matter, and boy, I heard from a lot of you. Here’s just one of many responses. Stay tuned for more.

Dear Annie: I can so relate to the

gentleman who gets angry with clueless waitstaff asking whether he needs change. Unlike you, I think this is a trained and calculated maneuver.

It happens too often for it not to be.

I once went to a fairly expensive chain restaurant for brunch. It was busy, and we waited a bit too long, but otherwise the service was OK. My bill was $9 and change, and I handed the waiter a $20 bill. He asked that question: “Do you need change?” Really?

A 120 percent gratuity?

Ever since then, I have become more and more aware of this tactic.

And my conclusion is that there can’t be that many oblivious servers. This is a directive and probably an effective one. I, for one, react as the gentleman does — by truncating what would have been a healthy tip. — Hugely Peeved Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

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also in the Catholic Church in the next few decades?”

When Francis said no, the journalist reportedly asked, “But really forever? Never?”

The pope reportedly replied, “If we read carefully the declaration made by St. John Paul II, it goes in that direction.”

Francis was referring to the earlier pope’s 1994 letter that noted that Jesus chose only men as his apostles.

“The exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God’s plan for his Church,” John Paul II wrote in that letter.

Some advocates for the ordination of women saw a glimmer of hope in

Francis’ decision earlier this year to create a commission to study the role of female deacons in the church.

Deacons are clergy in the Catholic church, who can perform many of the functions of priests, including officiating at weddings and baptisms and preaching at Mass. Women served as deacons in the early centuries of the church, but are banned from doing so. Some saw the commission, which Francis appointed seven men and six women to in August, as a harbinger of priesthood for women.

Boston College theologian James Bretzke said when Francis created the committee, “If women can be ordained as deacons, then this is

going to weaken — not destroy — but weaken significantly the argument that women absolutely are incapable of being ordained as priests. So this is opening more than a crack in the door.”

This is not the first time Francis has stated his objection to the idea of women ever becoming priests.

The subject came up again Tuesday because Francis had traveled to Sweden to commemorate the 499th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation with leaders of the Lutheran church. The leader of the Lutheran church in Sweden is Archbishop Antje Jackelen, the first woman to fill the role.

GEMINI (May 21June 20): Geminis often have a superficial knowledge about a lot of different things. Today’s positive Mercury/ Pluto aspects encourage you to delve into one subject in a serious, deep and vast way.

CANCER (June 21Joanne July 22): All types of focused work and intense Madeline study are favoured Moore today Crabs. With the Moon visiting your well being zone, nurture yourself with some of your favourite healthy and hearty treats.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid being a know-it-all. When it comes to a work problem or a relationship issue, things are much more complex than they appear. So it will take time to get to the bottom of the real situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Put aside some quality time so you can share a profound new insight with a special loved one. And the more undivided attention you lavish on family members, the better you’ll feel today Virgo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’ve ever been interested in your ancestors and family history, the next few weeks will pique your curiosity even more. Perhaps it’s time to take a more thorough peek back into the past?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today’s stars make for intense communication with others, as you engage in meaningful conversations and exchange profound insights. Which is just what Scorpios like to do!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Marvellous Mercury/Pluto aspects make for a stimulating day — mentally and physically. So get out there Sagittarius and get things moving and shaking! But avoid being rash with

cash.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All types of communication are favoured today as you converse with a wide range of family, friends and acquaintances. Don’t accept information at face value though. Scrutinize it thoroughly first.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fabulous professional opportunities are all around you. Especially if you’re involved in areas like communication, computers, media or transport.

But don’t skip over important details today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The best research tools you can use today are the internet, local friends and international connections. With all three on your side, you can tick the to-do list and power through projects with ease.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Pope Francis says the Catholic Church will likely never have female priests Pope Francis said the Catholic Church will probably continue banning women from serving as priests forever, according to journalists who were traveling on a plane with him.

According to the National Catholic Reporter, a Swedish journalist on the plane asked, “Is it realistic to think that there might be women priests

HOROSCOPES Thursday, Nov. 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kate Capshaw, 62; Roseanne Barr, 64; Anna Wintour, 67 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour intellectual discussions, rigorous research and uncovering secrets.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Moderation is the key to a happy and successful 2017. Take the time to relax and unwind, otherwise you’ll end up super stressed.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’ll be plenty of opportunities to make pleasing progress with finances, work or business today. You’ll find the more professionally strategic you are, the more successful the day will be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you got a problem that’s really perplexing you? It’s a good day to talk things through until they are properly sorted out. Slow, smart and steady wins the race at the moment Bulls!

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‘Friends forever’ THE EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN A LITTLE BOY AND A SECOND WORLD WAR VET

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he way Erling Kindem told it, the tomatoes brought them together.

“Every time he saw me out there, he would come running over,” Kindem, a Second World War veteran, told KARE, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis. “ ‘Erling, got any ‘matoes?’ ” He is speaking of his dear friend and young next-door neighbor, Emmett Rychner, in Farmington, Minn.

Although Rychner was just a boy and Kindem an elderly man, the pair grew close, and their friendship was featured on the local news.

“They kind of bonded over the tomatoes in his garden,” Emmett’s mother, Anika Rychner, told KARE. “Because Emmett loves tomatoes.”

Emmett and his family eventually moved to a neighbouring town. Erling

moved, too. Still, the unlikely pair remained friends. Emmett sang Happy Birthday to Erling when he turned 90.

He was there last month, too, when it was time to say goodbye to Erling one last time.

ABC News reports that Erling Kindem died in October, a few days after Emmett visited him.

Emmett was three years old and Erling 89 when KARE reported on their friendship. The raced lawn mowers, Emmett zipping around on a toy and Erling perched on the real thing.

“Emmett was the only kid on the block. There wasn’t any other kids, so he would come over and knock on Dad’s door,” Erling’s adult son, Charlie Kindem, told ABC News. “And he would say, ‘Can Erling come out and play?’ ” But at the time, both Emmett and Erling were headed for big changes.

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Emmett and Erling, about a week before Erling’s death. ing to move to a new house; Erling was going to move to a senior apartment.

Even after the move, the friends still saw each other. Emmett was on hand for Erling’s 90th birthday party, for example. (KARE reported that Emmett gave Erling two sets of dog tags, which read “Emmett & Erling” and “Friends Forever,” so that they could each wear one.)

In late October, he visited before Erling’s death.

Charlie Kindem, Erling’s son, told ABC News that his 91-year-old father died after suffering heart failure, a death that KARE also confirmed.

Kindem told ABC that Emmett – who is now six years old – was able to visit with his friend and read a prayer to him.

KARE has reported that Erling Kindem was a veteran of the Second World War, who “flew combat mis-

sions in Europe.” Kindem told ABC News that his father took part in more than two dozen missions.

Aside from his military service, Charlie Kindem remembered his father as a kind man, who had “all kinds of friends.”

“He just made friends with everybody,” he told ABC. Boyd Huppert, the KARE reporter who has worked on the Erling-Emmett story, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that he was frequently stopped by viewers who wanted to know about the pair.

“I’m not exaggerating,” Huppert told the paper. “When I was at the [Minnesota] State Fair, I had probably a dozen or more people approach me and ask me about them. I’m going to miss that, honestly, as word gets out that he has passed away. I’ve dreaded this day because that ends now, and it was so much fun.”

Zombies’ in Rio groan, lurch at tourists along Copacabana

The day is a holiday in Latin America’s largest nation, a time when many visit the grave sites of deceased relatives or simply take advantage of the time to head to the beach.

“Zombies are so cool,” said Yago Cavaleante, a 21-year-old university student who along with his girlfriend was dressed in tattered clothes and had scars painted onto his face. “I know that they are supposedly dead, but technically they are still living beings.”

Such celebrations have taken off worldwide in recent years thanks to AMC’s The Walking Dead television series.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of Brazilians dressed as zombies dragged their rotting limbs on Wednesday while groaning and playfully lurching at tourists along Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.

The “Zombie Walk” was among several planned in Brazil on All Souls Day, also known as Day of the Dead.