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DRIFTER IN CUSTODY ON CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ONCE CALLED CITY HOME

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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ABOVE: This photo from the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team’s Twitter feed shows Gabriel Klein taken just hours prior to the Abbotsford Senior Secondary attack. Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the stabbings at the school and 21-year-old drifter Klein is in custody on charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

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BELOW: Abbotsford Senior Secondary school stabbing victim Letisha Reimer in shown in a photo from the Facebook page ‘In Loving memory of Letisha Reimer.’

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Something definitely happened to him.”

Tanner McDougall is talking about his former Red Deer high school classmate, Gabriel Brandon Klein, who he hasn’t seen Students since 2012.

The two attended shop classes say ‘it’s together at Lindsay Thurber scary’ to Comprehensive High School. return to Klein, 21, is charged with second-degree murder and school after aggravated assault after two stabbing students — 13-year-old Letisha Page 9 Reimer and an unidentified 14-year-old girl — were stabbed in their Abbotsford, B.C., high school a week ago. Reimer was killed, and the other girl was seriously injured.

Police said it was a random knife attack by a homeless drifter who went into the school and attacked the girls before staff were able to stop him.

Klein had apparently gone to B.C. earlier this year and had been in Calgary before that.

McDougall, also 21, and who still lives in Red Deer, said Monday he was shocked when TANNER he first heard news reports MCDOUGALL about Klein, but he recognized him right away from the photo released by police who were trying to find out more information about the man.

Klein looked “identical” to what he looked like in school, with close cropped hair.

“That’s how I recognized him so quickly,” McDougall said.

The two shared a shop locker in their shop class in 2011 and 2012. They took full mornings of intermediate mechanics together.

“From what I remembered he was really friendly to everybody … I never heard anything bad,” McDougall said.

“As far as my experience with him and what I remember about him he was never in fights or anything like that. Just a typical high school kid … a very generic high school kid.”

“He was very personable, very approachable, very welcoming. … He was really like a good guy to talk to. Every time I talked to him it wasn’t really a disappointing conversation. I never walked away from him without a smile.”

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DAYTIME DOCUMENTARIES This month Red Deer Public Library presents a documentary on a journey through the British Isles and Ireland on Nov. 9, 2 p.m., in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown branch. To find out more or to bring a group, call 403-342-9100 ext. 1500.

WALK WITH THE MAYORS Kick off Senior Falls Prevention month on Wednesday, Nov. 9, starting at 9 a.m. at the Penhold Multiplex with mayors Dennis Cooper of Penhold, Jim Wood of Red Deer County, and Sean McIntyre of Sylvan Lake. To learn more, visit the Finding Balance website at www.findingbalancealberta.ca.

MAGSPARKS: SCULPTURE MAGsparks is an inclusive and accessible visual art program for everyone offered on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1 to 3 p.m., at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. On Nov. 9, create a sculpture. Materials are supplied.

There is a drop-in fee of $3, and memberships are available to persons with disabilities for $50 per year. Children under 12 years must be accompanied by an adult. For information, see reddeermuseum.com or contact museum@reddeer.ca or 403-309-8405.

NOVEMBER 8 1905 — Fred E. Simpson and A. S. Bennett publish the first edition of the Lethbridge Weekly Herald newspaper; the declared in an editorial, that: “As long as there is paste in its pot or lead in its pencil, The Herald will bow to no one and endeavour to do justice to all. It will spare no effort to obtain legitimate news from whatever source it might come.”

1915 — The Supreme Court of Ontario rules that Regulation #17 is valid; bans the French language in Ontario schools past Grade 1.

1940 — Mackenzie King government appoints a joint committee of the Senate and House of Commons to recommend adopting a new Canadian national flag; 2,695 designs were submitted and on May 9, 1946, the committee will report back with a recommendation “that the national flag of Canada should be the Canadian red ensign with a maple leaf in autumn golden colours in a bordered background of white”. The Legislative Assembly of Quebec, however, had urged the committee to not include any “foreign symbols”, including the red ensign, and King declined to act on the report.

1945 — House of Commons debates creating a joint committee to “consider and report upon a suitable design” for a distinctive national flag.

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Rally calls for end to carbon tax

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF

Hundreds gathered in Red Deer to protest the carbon tax on Saturday.

It was one of 12 Alberta-wide rallies against the carbon tax, which is set to begin Jan.1.

“The government’s plan on the carbon tax is to try to tackle the environment by taxing “hockey” moms and dads and it’s not going to work. What we’ve seen from this crowd here today is that Albertans are fundamentally rejecting this plan and are really trying to send a message to Premier (Rachel) Notley that this is not the way to go,” said Wildrose MLA Jason Nixon.

Protesters signed a petition calling for a referendum on the carbon tax.

Nixon said the chances of the carbon tax being revoked are very slim, but he believes these types of rallies can bring forward change.

“When Albertans are standing up to the government and sending a clear message that they don’t accept which way the government is going, it does have an impact. It doesn’t stop everything the government is doing, and, the reality is, they a have a majority government, but things can change,” said Nixon.

“Rachel Notley and her caucus are going to move forward no matter what.

It’s disappointing. We’ve tried as the opposition to move on a different track and have different discussions.”

Nixon said he has a hard time believing that any good can come from a carbon tax. He said the carbon tax is essentially a provincial sales tax on our economy. It’s going to cost us directly on our fuel costs, heating costs and the cost of everything.

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Hundreds of protesters rallied against Bill 20 at City Hall in Red Deer on Saturday. It was 1 of 12 Alberta-wide rallies.

‘Miscreants’ unfurl confederate flag at rally

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer’s anti-carbon tax rally was sabotaged by a couple of “miscreants” who unfurled a confederate flag as the event was winding down, say organizers.

“We do not support it,” said the Alberta-wide rally main organizer, Todd Beasley of Calgary, of a flag

associated with southern racism.

“In fact, we find it repugnant.”

“We … want to do things to help the people of Alberta. We are not extremists,” he added.

“To put a flag like that next to our banner, I believe it was a couple of young miscreants, (or) maybe anarchists …”

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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ommunity agencies are teaming up to push for a 65unit emergency and shortterm transitional housing project for people facing homelessness, domestic violence, abuse and more.

Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter (CAWES), said the agencies also want to provide services close to, if not connected, to the housing project.

Agencies include CAWES, Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, Canadian Mental Health Association, Central Alberta Women’s Outreach, Cosmos, Central Alberta Sexual Assault Centre, Piper Creek Foundation, Red Deer Housing Authority, and possibly the child advocacy centre that is planned for Red Deer.

“Rather than everyone doing their own separate project, we’re trying to accommodate as many needs within the community as possible under one roof,” Wheeliker said on Monday.

“There’s more that we share in common than differentiates us. We

see we can do more together.”

By working collaboratively and integrating services, less people will fall through the cracks, he said about the project CAWES made public about a year ago.

He said among those in need of emergency housing are families with both a mother and father, seniors experiencing financial difficulties or abuse, and stable, short-term housing for the homeless at People’s Place, operated by Safe Harbour, that is in need of a new home.

Housing would provide emergency accommodations, as well as three- to six-month, and six- to 12-month stays to help people get back on their feet.

Wheeliker said possible locations for the $13- to $15-million project are downtown near CAWES or in the area near Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Agencies are waiting to see the results of a shelter study that Stantec is working on for the city.

The project already received $50,000 from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that will be used to develop a business plan and preliminary designs to prepare for when the government calls for housing project proposals in the spring. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Remembrance Day Ceremony, regularly held at the downtown arena, will be relocated to CrossRoads Church due to arena construction.

Transit: Veterans’ Park is a short walk from Sorensen Station.

Action Bus: Anyone wanting to book a trip to Veterans’ Park can book up until November 9.

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Transit: FREE transit from Sorensen Station every 15 minutes from 9 a.m. with the last bus leaving from Sorensen Station at 10:15 a.m. The bus will pickup at the Red Deer Arena en route to CrossRoads.

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Red Deer resident wins $250,000 The holidays are looking brighter for one Red Deer resident.

Laurayn Radford won $250,000 from this year’s first Cash and Cars Lottery supporting the Alberta Cancer Foundation.

Radford said she received a phone call from her mother who had watched the draw on television.

“Three minutes later, people from all over the province were calling me to let me know,” said Radford.

The Cash and Cars Lottery grand prizes were part of 3,023 prizes worth more than $4.2 million.

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RALLY: Where will revenue go?

When trucking fuel goes up and locomotive fuel goes up, everything goes up. From the carrots you buy at the grocery store to the Christmas presents you buy for your kids, said Nixon.

Notley has said the revenue from the carbon tax will be used solely on green programs and incentives.

Protester Trevor Freimark said he would like the premier to be more specific on how the government will spend the revenue from the carbon tax.

“Rachel Notley wants to bring in a carbon tax, and I can guarantee you it’s going to go towards anything else besides carbon. I have no problem paying the tax, but tell me where it’s going, and they can’t tell us that,” said Freimark. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

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KLEIN: Had a lot of friends McDougall did not recall him having a girlfriend, but he said Klein had a lot of friends although he didn’t seem to belong to any particular circle.

“We never really partied that much together. … He was more mature than I was that’s for sure,” McDougall said.

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Murder trial in 2018 A man accused of second-degree murder will not go to trial until spring 2018.

Police allege that a 47-year-old man was dropped off at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Feb. 13 by a suspect who then drove away.

A short time later, William Blaine Baker died in hospital. An autopsy later determined his death was a homicide.

A few days later, Shane Dion McPhee, 41, was charged in connection with Baker’s death.

McPhee’s jury trial has been set for March 19 to April 6, 2018.

City of Red Deer after photos of the confederate flag, featuring maple leafs instead of stars, were taken in City Hall Park and circulated on social media on the weekend.

Mayor Tara Veer responded by saying: “The city prides itself on being a welcoming and inclusive community.” After telling complainants the city also has concerns with this flag being in City Hall Park, she urged them to contact event organizers as “this was not a City of Red Deer event.”

But Beasley and co-organizer Shelley Leinweber, of Sylvan Lake, said the flag wasn’t approved by them.

They maintain they didn’t even see it at Saturday’s rally of some 700 people. Leinweber believes the Alberta-wide event was likely over when the flag bearers came into the park, since circulated photos show some placards in the background resting on the steps of city hall.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the flag, yet it sabotaged the rally by taking the public focus off its message of supporting the energy sector, said Leinweber.

“The whole thing is really, really upsetting… this should not be the topic (that steals the spotlight) from what many hard-working volunteers have dedicate themselves to — which is saving families’ livelihoods,” she added. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com “He was extremely regular.

Nothing crazy about him. Never saw him in a bad mood.”

A recent report by another student who said she had seen Klein angry in high school was the first time McDougall said he had heard anything like that.

Klein is to appear in person in Surrey court on Wednesday. He was in Abbotsford provincial court on Monday by video conference, but refused to speak. He had been in hospital immediately after the incident, but has since been transferred to jail. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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REMEMBRANCE DAY

Central Albertans ready to pay their respects

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Nick Melnechuk, of Lacombe, spent two tumultuous years in England as an air force medic during the Second World War.

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Cost of war always too high: veteran

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ar can mean playing softball with airmen in the afternoon, then hauling their broken bodies out of a plane wreck that night, said former air force medic Nick Melnechuk.

“I’m not for war,” said the 94-year-old veteran.

Although he served during the Second World War and spent most of his post-war career in the military, he said, “I think we should manage to get along with other people … But it’s a crazy world …”

Melnechuk was one of hundreds of thousands of young men transported to England between 1939 and 1945 to stop Adolf Hitler.

He understands that “sometimes we can’t prevent war.” But the cost is always too high, concluded the Lacombe senior, who worked to help the sick and injured at an air force hospital in Yorkshire.

His best friend, Walter, was among those he never had a chance to save.

The two joined the air force on the same say as 18 year olds. Melnechuk became a medic, while Walter became a gunner. His plane later went down

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When Melnechuk visited Walter’s mother after the war, he could see “it was hard on her to see me and not him.” She said, “ ‘You came back.’ ” Melnechuk replied, ‘That’s what war is. Some of us made it, some of us didn’t.” He didn’t visit again.

The war years weren’t all bleak. Melnechuk played softball, golf, as well as hockey for a team that included Johnny Mowers, a goalie for the Detroit Red Wings.

He was a right-winger on the air force team that won the overseas championship in Glasgow in 1943 or ’44. “Oh how we partied!” Melnechuk recalled, with a laugh.

At the hospital he’d treat everything from the flu to burns and broken bones. Occasionally, guys he’d been hanging out with during the day would be in a plane that got so shot up by the Germans, it would make a crash landing at the base, “and we were back to pick up the bodies that night,” he recalled.

Those were the toughest days.

Many evenings, German bombers would drop whistling payloads over Yorkshire, forcing him to dive under tables.

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housands of Central Albertans will pay their respects this week as they remember Canadian soldiers who died while serving their country.

Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School’s program includes more than 200 students involved in a multi-media presentation (Tuesday). The event starts at 1 p.m. The public is asked to arrive by 12:30 p.m. for seating. There is reserve parking in front of the school for guests, and a reception will follow.

Other students across Central Alberta are participating in various events in their schools prior to Friday’s Remembrance Day ceremonies.

Red Deer has two ceremonies on Nov. 11 — one downtown at Veterans’ Park, and one at CrossRoads Church. Both events start at 10:30 a.m.

The larger ceremony, hosted by the Red Deer Legion, will be held at CrossRoads Church, which is just outside the west edge of the city off 32nd Street (3105 Range Road 275).

The City of Red Deer says free transit to CrossRoads Church is available that day from Sorensen Station every 15 minutes from 9 a.m. with the last bus leaving Sorensen Station at 10:15 a.m. The bus will also pick up at the former Red Deer Arena en route to CrossRoads. Buses will depart CrossRoads Church following the ceremony and will continue until demand is over.

The other ceremony in Red Deer, hosted by the Korean War Veteran’s Association, is at Veterans’ Park where the cenotaph is located at 49th Avenue and Ross Street.

Action Buses, for people who cannot use regular transit, may be booked up until Wednesday to go to either CrossRoads Church or Veterans’ Park.

For the first time, Penhold will hold a ceremony, but it will be on Nov. 10. It starts at 7 p.m. at the town’s Multiplex.

Sylvan Lake’s ceremony is on Nov. 11, starting at 10:30 a.m. at that community’s Multiplex.

Lacombe will hold its ceremony on Nov. 11 at 10:45 a.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre. There will be a community breakfast at the Lacombe Legion from 8 to 10 a.m. (cash donation at the door).

The ceremony in Innisfail on Nov. 11 will begin at 9:45 a.m. in the Auditorium. At 10:45 a.m., community members are invited to assemble at the town’s Cenotaph for a wreath laying ceremony, and a two-minute silence at 11 a.m.

Blackfalds will hold its Nov. 11 ceremony at the Abbey Centre. It runs from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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CELEBRITY DANCE OFF

Record number of exhibitors for equipment expo

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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ne of Western Canada’s premier agriculture shows is off to a good start with a record number of exhib-

itors.

Agri-Trade Equipment Expo, running Wednesday through Saturday, is coming off its best show in a decade in 2015. Last year, about 425 exhibitors showcased their wares.

More than 470 exhibitors have already been signed up for the 33rd version of Agri-Trade run by Westerner Park and the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce, said show manager Dave Fiddler.

“We’ve had more outdoor exhibits than we’ve ever had,” said Fiddler.

While weather has been messing with harvest season, with many farmers still busy getting their crops in, the growing season was excellent.

“There were lots of good prices in canola and different commodities and I think that is encouraging people to consider that this is going to be a year when farmers are going to be spending money,” said Fiddler.

“Even though the harvest has been

delayed, the harvest that was got off was a very valuable commodity.

“For example, I talked to one farmer the other day, he had 55 per cent of his crop off, but he had more grain in the bin than he had all of last year.”

As is custom, Ag Innovation winners were announced ahead of the event. A panel judged some of the ingenious innovations agricultural producers have dreamed up.

First place this year went to The STOCKade St400i, a cordless fencing stapler and a FenceFast Ltd. product.

The device allows one-handed fencing stapling with the power of pneumatic stapler, but without the compressors and hoses.

Second place went to Raczynski Sales Inc. for its Tire Jogger. The skid steer farm tire handler is pitched as a safe and easy way to handle large farm tires.

A tire lying on the ground can be picked up, flipped and rotated to be mounted without the operator needing to touch it.

Tires were again part of the latest innovations with Michelin North America (Canada) Inc.’s third-place winning Cargo X Bib High Flotation 750/60R30.5 tire. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Three dancers from Calgary among participants

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ays after announcing the headlining celebrity, the Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off announced the 15 other participants in the annual fundraiser.

Joining Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player and child abuse prevention and education advocate, are Colleen Manning, owner and manager of Studio Pilates; Dustine Snider, manager of Earls Red Deer, Jesse Wallin, a former NHLer and Red Deer Rebel; Karen Goranson, Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre board member and Sherri Ryckman, Central Alberta at The Co-operators district manager.

Rollie Cyr, Calgary Flames vice-president of sales, and Jodie Schreiner, Calgary Sports and Entertainment executive, will join the event.

“We usually choose people from different professions, business community leaders and politicians,” said Christine Moore, event co-chair. “This year is a little different because we have three dancers from Calgary, but it works well.

“We’re basing our child advocacy centre on what Sheldon Kennedy does in Calgary, and we have the hockey flavour this year.”

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MELNECHUK: Thankful for peace

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He was thankful when peace was declared in 1945. “I did more kissing that day…!”

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— CHRISTINE MOORE EVENT CO-CHAIR

At the centre of the fundraiser is the joint effort between the CACAC and the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre to put several resources, including RCMP, family services, mental health, addictions programs and the Crown Prosecutor’s office, into one location. This is based on the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre in Calgary.

Moore said they received two strong applications from the CACAC and the CASASC. Realizing the organizations’ needs were actually fairly similar, the board left it in the organization’s hands to get together and it didn’t take long for the two to collaborate.

“It actually embodies what we always wanted the dance off to be,” said Moore. “It’s a sharing of community.”

The celebrities will partner with professional dancers.

“We’re going to blow people away,” said Moore. “We’re already packed to the brim.”

Eight couples will compete on April 7, 2017, at the Red Deer Sheraton. Tickets go on sale on Jan. 23, 2017. Visit www.celebritydanceoff.ca. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com The Saskatchewan native later met and married his wife Thelma, from Lacombe, and the couple raised two sons.

Melnechuk rejoined the military and lived all over the country, before retiring in Lacombe 20 years ago.

“I am fortunate I’m still alive,” said Melnechuk, who recently received a lifetime membership from the Lacombe Legion. He still thinks of Walter, and the other young men who never had a chance to grow old. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

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till nursing a leadership debate hangover, Alberta Progressive Conservatives took to the policy convention floor to put a cap on their weekend meeting on Sunday.

Though much of the policy proposals were far from controversial — supporting economic growth through regulatory certainty and a competitive tax regime, advocating for market access for the energy sector and striving for the highest performing universal health system in the world — some issues drew spirited discussion.

A motion supporting nuclear energy drew a lengthy vote count Sunday morning at the Red Deer Sheraton Hotel. The end result was a party in favour of nuclear power as an alternative energy.

Members emphatically declined to debate on an issue of protecting parental rights in terms of education. Though on the policy proposal package, it was withdrawn late Saturday night and then, after brief mention during the policy debate, it was shouted down by the members.

PCs from across the province descended on Red Deer for a weekend policy convention and leadership debate.

The leadership candidates took centre stage the night before, trading barbs over uniting the right and the future of the PC Party.

In that debate, it was Calgary lawyer and leadership candidate Byron Nelson who said the contest

needs to be about ideas.

Saturday morning, Jason Kenney, one of the leadership candidates, bused in a number of supporters. Those supporters defeated a motion that would have accepted a carbon tax, in principle, if it were revenue neutral.

The move drew the ire of some leadership opponents, including Stephen Khan, who announced his candidacy on Friday.

“We’ve talked about the delegate system for a long time,” said Khan. “We found out exactly what was going to happen. It’s a wake-up call and a call to arms for PCs who share our values.”

The change in how the PC makes decisions came to the forefront this weekend. When they vote for their new leader, they will not operate under the one member one vote model, but instead function through delegates.

Under the new system, each electoral district will elect delegates to attend the leadership convention and vote for a new leader.

“It’s been a while since we had the delegate system in place,” said Khan. “In a delegate system we all want to be everybody’s first choice, but we need to be everyone’s second choice. By the nature of the delegate system there is going to be a level of collaboration between the candidates.”

Other leadership include Richard Starke, Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans. The PCs will choose their next leader at their March 18, 2017, convention in Calgary. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Coalition honoured for leadership in family violence prevention

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coalition addressing domestic violence and bullying in Central Alberta was recognized by the province during Family Violence Prevention Month.

Last week, Central Alberta Regional Vision for Non-Violence Coalition was one of three groups to receive an award for leadership in family violence prevention at the 2016 Inspiration Awards ceremony held in Edmonton.

Twenty-one groups and individuals were recognized for leadership in family and community safety in the prevention of family violence, sexual assault, child abuse and bullying.

Coalition communities include: Benalto, Bentley, Blackfalds, Bowden, Delburne, Eckville, Elnora, Innisfail, Lacombe, Rimbey, Rocky Mountain House, Stettler and Sylvan Lake.

Coalition co-chair Alissa McDonald said the

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Innisfail RCMP were called to the collision at 9:30 a.m. Police said a northbound vehicle on

coalition has only operated since March 2015 so it was exciting and a huge honour for the coalition’s work to be noticed.

She said there’s a lot of people to organize with so many communities involved, but working together has allowed resources to be shared to increase public awareness and provide training for volunteers and staff.

“A lot of the smaller communities had barriers to being able to meet the demands of domestic violence, and bullying issues. They had small budgets. There was a lack of funding and training resources in their areas,” McDonald said on Monday.

“As agencies we’re dealing with the same complex issues so we’re able to support each other as well.”

She said the coalition hosts an annual conference in November that attracted more participants this year so interest has grown. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com Range Road 30 went off the road and rolled over several times, striking a number of trees.

The Spruce View fire department, Sylvan Lake EMS and STARS Air Ambulance were called to the scene to provide medical care.

The 80-year-old female was pronounced dead at the scene.

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proposal to build a temporary 20-stall commercial parking lot on a residential street in Riverside Meadows was defeated at city council at first read-

ing.

The proposal was back before council on Monday after council requested administration explore options in regards to the request to build a parking lot at 5917 51st Ave. The applicant, who owns the nearby Occu-Dent Professional Centre, wanted to develop a parking lot on the site for up to five years to provide temporary parking for staff at Occu-Dent.

The motion was defeated 5-3 with councillors Buck Buchanan, Lawrence Lee and Frank Wong voting in favour to allow a public hearing. Coun.

Paul Harris was absent from the meeting.

Mayor Tara Veer said council grappled with the application, trying to balance the needs of the applicant, while keeping to the planning vision for the area.

“Council ultimately said the duration on the application on the parking lot for five years didn’t keep with the planning vision for Riverside Meadows,” Veer said.

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Addiction experts call for national opioid strategy

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ORONTO — Canada needs a comprehensive national strategy to curb rampant overprescribing of opioids and to reduce escalating numbers of deaths caused by overdoses of the powerful narcotics, experts say.

Writing in Monday’s edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Benedikt Fischer of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and co-authors say an estimated 2,000 Canadians died from opioid overdoses in 2015, and many provinces are on track for an even higher number of deaths in 2016.

“It’s a real public health disaster,” Fischer said in an interview. “Over the last 10 years, we’re looking at somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 dead people in Canada just from opioid overdoses alone.”

In a separate report Monday, the Toronto centre urged Ottawa to launch a review of all prescription painkillers sold in Canada and said high-dose opioid medications should be pulled from the market.

Worldwide, Canadians are the second-highest consumers of prescription opioids like oxycodone, hydromorphone and fentanyl, after the U.S. “We have hundreds of thousands of people now who are dependent on these drugs because of misuse or

overprescribing or excessive exposure,” said Fischer, laying the blame on the medical system that sees too many physicians prescribing the drugs for chronic pain, when research “clearly shows” it is not efficacious for that kind of pain and can actually do harm.

Medical evidence suggests opioids should be restricted to patients with acute pain, such as that related to cancer or following surgery, and should be given in limited doses and for a short duration to prevent dependence, and accidental overdoses.

But instead of focusing on overprescribing — the major driver of opioid misuse and abuse — Fischer said governments and the medical system have instead tinkered with downstream effects, such as increasing access to naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose, and treatment of dependency with another medication called suboxone.

While Ontario has delisted Oxycontin on its provincial drug benefit program, that move merely shifted the problem to other prescription opioids like morphine and fentanyl patches, said Fischer.

However, the Ontario government announced in July it would remove those high-dose opioids from its insurance plan next year, except for patients requiring the medications for palliative care.

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CRIME

‘Smell of food would really excite’ python, trial hears

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AMPBELLTON, N.B. — Two boys killed by a python may have become prey because they had been playing with farm animals, a reptile expert testified Monday.

Bob Johnson, the now-retired former curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Toronto Zoo, told the criminal negligence trial of the python’s owner that a snake’s keen sense of smell lets it know prey is nearby.

“The smell of food would really excite,” he said. “That could be the trigger.”

Noah Barthe, four, and his six-yearold brother Connor had spent Aug. 4, 2013, petting animals and playing at a farm owned by the father of JeanClaude Savoie before a sleepover in Savoie’s apartment. Savoie is on trial on charges of criminal negligence causing death.

Johnson said snakes become more aggressive when they detect possible sources of food — and an attack would have been unlikely had there been no animal smells on the boys.

“Those boys could have been a stimulant to that snake,” he said.

The brothers were killed by Savoie’s African rock python after it escaped an enclosure in his apartment by travelling through a ventilation duct and dropping into the living room where they slept. Savoie’s own son, sleeping in another room, was unharmed.

A number of witnesses have said

it was common to see the cover of the vent on the enclosure’s floor.

Defence lawyer Leslie Matchim told the jury in his opening statement Monday that Savoie believed the snake was too big get through the duct, so he didn’t see a need to secure the opening.

Savoie, he said, was clearly wrong.

“Being wrong isn’t necessarily criminal negligence,” Matchim said.

The lawyer reminded the jury of testimony from a volunteer at Savoie’s reptile shop downstairs from his apartment: she said Savoie told her that the snake had gotten into the ventilation pipe before, but only made it part way through.

In his testimony, Johnson said any snake enclosures for the Toronto Zoo would have a system of double doors and any openings would be securely caged. The enclosure in Savoie’s apartment had a “dryer vent” style of cover for the ventilation duct that was not secured with screws or tape, he said.

Johnson said the enclosure lacked items such as rocks and branches to stimulate the python.

“I would not say that is very conducive to the well-being of the snake,” he said.

Last week, a veterinarian who conducted the necropsy on the snake testified it appeared the snake hadn’t fed in at least 24 hours.

A pathologist who performed autopsies on the boys said they died of asphyxiation and each were covered in puncture wounds from snake bites.

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INNIPEG — A man who pleaded guilty in two high-profile sex attacks, including one that left a victim near death along the shores of a frigid Winnipeg river, suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and reads at a Grade 3 level, a court was told Monday.

The man, who cannot be named because he was 17 at the time of the attacks in 2014, also suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder due to sexual abuse he suffered as a child, reads a forensic psychology report entered into evidence.

Testing showed the man’s “fullscale IQ value falling below 70 — considered within an ‘extremely low’ range,” the report states.

The man pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of aggravated sexual assault. The Crown wants the man sentenced as an adult, and a four-day hearing on the issue started Monday.

A co-accused, Justin Hudson, 22, has also pleaded guilty to the same charges.

The two men happened upon a 16-year-old girl on the night of Nov. 7.

They robbed her, repeatedly beat her, sexually assaulted her and stomped on her head.

She ended up in the Assiniboine River, crawled out 100 metres away before being attacked again with a hammer.

The girl was found by a passerby the next morning and later became an advocate for an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

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ABBOTSFORD

Students say ‘it’s scary’ to return to school after stabbing

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BBOTSFORD, B.C. — Students returned to a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., on Monday where a Grade 9 girl was stabbed to death last week, with some expressing apprehension about being back in class.

Grade 11 student Samwel Uko said dealing with the death of Letisha Reimer and injuries suffered by another student at Abbotsford Senior Secondary last Tuesday has been difficult.

“I think we’ll get through this,” he said, adding that he is scared about going back. “I hope the school moves on but we’ll still be missing (Letisha).”

Police and school district officials have said a homeless man walked into the school and attacked the girls before staff confronted and restrained him. They have said the accused did not have a connection with the girls and that the attack was random.

The name of the 14-year-old girl who was injured has been banned from publication.

One Grade 9 student said going back to school made her fearful.

“Knowing that that happened in there and going back in there scares me inside, but you have to go back to school. It’s school,” she said.

“After I go back in there and see my friends it’s all going to be all fine, because I know it’s safe again. But (it’s the) first day, so I’m scared.”

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The school was scheduled to open for a half day on Monday.

Shaquille Anwar, who’s in Grade 11, said it’s nerve-wracking to be going back for the first time since the attack, but that everyone has to stick together.

“It’s scary but I think stuff like that happens randomly out of the blue, and you can’t hold back,” he said.

Students weren’t the only ones who were apprehensive Monday morning as Lori O’Lane shared her concern after dropping off her Grade 12 daughter at school.

“You always fear for your children.

You want the best for them. But if you let fear take over then they don’t get to live,” she said.

“I also have great faith in God, so I believe she’s watched over and, yes, things happen. They can happen any time, anywhere, so there’s always some fear, but you can’t let fear control you.”

O’Lane said her role is to be open when her daughter wants to talk, and to support her decisions, thoughts and feelings.

“You can’t tell them how to feel.

They have their own way of dealing with things,” she said. “It’s so individual. Communication is huge. And just support.”

Gabriel Klein, 21, who faces one charge each of second-degree murder and aggravated assault, was scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

Air Canada says in-flight crews can wear poppy pins for Remembrance Day Air Canada says it has revised its uniform policy to make it clear that in-flight crews can wear poppy pins in honour of Remembrance Day. The airline says that while it has regulations on non-service pins to “maintain a consistent uniform look,” poppies are allowed.

Spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says the company has apologized to its crew members for “any confusion surrounding this issue” and updated its policy to prevent any further misunderstandings.

Air Canada says many of its employees have ties with the military and the company recognizes the contribution of service members and veterans.

The airline also says it will be

making special announcements on board to mark Remembrance Day.

Montreal mayor says he never asked police to spy Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre defended himself Monday against accusations a call he made to his police chief in 2014 caused a journalist to be put under surveillance.

The mayor said he contacted then-police head Marc Parent in 2014 because he felt he was being unfairly targeted by the police union.

“I understand why you are being aggressive — this issue touches all of you,” Coderre told reporters in Levis, near Quebec City.

“I have absolutely no responsibility — none,” he said.

The Quebec government announced last week the creation of a public inquiry into police surveillance of journalists.

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Case of juror seeking compensation goes to Appeal Court

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ORONTO — The case of a woman who claims she should be recognized as a victim of crime because she developed post-traumatic stress disorder after serving as a juror in a horrific murder trial goes before Ontario’s top court on Tuesday.

The woman, who cannot be identified, was a juror in the trial of Michael Rafferty, who was convicted in 2012 of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering eightyear-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, of Woodstock, Ont. The 57-year-old argues that she suffered psychological injury as a result of coming “face to face” with Rafferty’s horrific crimes.

She first sought compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board — a tribunal that assesses financial compensation for victims and family of deceased victims of violent crimes in Ontario — but her

application was dismissed. She then appealed to the Divisional Court, which also dismissed her case.

She then turned to the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

“This is a test case,” the woman’s lawyers argue in documents submitted to the court. “It examines what it means to be a victim as defined by the Compensation for Victims of Crime Act, and whether that definition may include a juror in a criminal trial who suffers PTSD as a result of her participation in that trial.”

The woman’s lawyers argue that unlike those who choose to work in the criminal justice system, jurors are “effectively ordered” to participate in it and have evidence of violent crime “imposed upon them.”

“As a result, (the woman) claims she suffered an injury of nervous shock, now more commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder.

(The woman) continues to suffer a psychological injury and to struggle emotionally and financially.”

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Spying exposes weak-kneed judges C

onnect the dots between Quebec’s police corps and the half-dozen or more investigative journalists who were put under surveillance over the past decade and you will find a gaggle of judges potentially derelict in Chantal their gatekeeping duHébert ties.

In each of the spying episodes that have come to light over the past week, the police had to persuade a judge to sanction the surveillance and, in some cases, to do so more than once.

The evidence submitted to the courts by the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to secure surveillance mandates is under seal, but not for long. Those affidavits will eventually be out in the open as a result of an upcoming public inquiry or the legal procedures undertaken by the media.

It may be that an unspecified number of provincial and municipal police officers testifying under oath pulled the wool over the eyes of a yetto-be-determined number of gullible justices of the peace. But based on the information released this week, securing a court’s approval to spy on a journalist in Quebec amounts to little more than a formality.

In theory, the names of the journalists who were the targets of the police surveillance should have given pause to any judge mindful of his or her responsibility to protect the freedom of the press. The list reads like a who’s who of Quebec’s

investigative reporters.

At the time the SQ went to court to access Alain Gravel’s phone records, he was the host of Radio-Canada’s Enquête program.

The show’s revelations gave impetus to the creation of a provincial commission of inquiry into corruption and collusion in the construction industry.

Isabelle Richer, who succeeded Gravel as one of Enquête’s co-hosts, cut her teeth covering the justice beat. For years, she was a constant presence at Montreal’s Palais de Justice. She would be a familiar figure to anyone who toils in the province’s courts.

Gravel, Richer and their RadioCanada colleague Marie-Maude Denis were spied on by the SQ for five years. Denis’s husband, who is also a journalist, seems to have had his phone put under surveillance for the simple reason that he is her partner.

Between 2008 and 2013, the numbers of all their incoming and outgoing calls were logged by the police. That is the period they spent investigating collusion between the construction industry and various orders of government.

Their stories would not have come to light without the co-operation of sources operating under the presumption that their identities were protected.

With 222,000 followers, Patrick Lagacé, the La Presse columnist who was revealed to have been under surveillance by the Montreal police this week, may be the only Canadian journalist to have a Twitter following approaching that of the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge. (Chances are Lagacé boasts more police followers than the anchor of The National.)

In Lagacé’s case, the SPVM’s spying expedition was the object of more than 20 surveillance mandates.

There have been years when Denis Lessard, La Presse’s veteran correspondent at the national assembly, has come up with far more scoops than the sum of his press gallery colleagues.

It is a fact of elected life in Quebec that members of the national assembly wake up at night wondering when —and not whether — Lessard will get his hands on information they would rather keep private. He, too, was the subject of SQ surveillance.

Quebec is a tightly knit society with less than six degrees of separation between members of its chattering class. And yet it seems the police spying operations raised no red flags within the justice system. The request or requests to access their phones and track their movements seem to have been treated as a matter of routine.

Retired Superior Court judge John Gomery led the federal inquiry into the sponsorship scandal between 2004 and 2006 and then went on to head Quebec’s press council until 2014.

From Gomery’s perspective, this week’s debacle does not result from an overly weak legal protection of journalist sources as much as from weak-kneed judges who are failing to enforce the existing law.

The notion that Quebec police forces would go on a spying spree on the province’s top investigative journalists is troubling; the fact that it was all done legally is the opposite of reassuring.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer.

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Getting the most value for infrastructure spending

BY BRIAN DJIKEMA ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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he federal government’s new infrastructure bank won’t solve a huge problem: infrastructure projects cost up to 25 per cent more than necessary.

The Liberal government isn’t totally wrong in trying to leverage its ability to access cheap credit and create partnerships with investors to fund the repair of sewers, build new roads and bridges, and ensure Canadians have clean water. But that’s only half the problem.

Many will note that the bulk of our national conversation about infrastructure focuses on how to generate revenue for projects.

The proposal for a bank to provide project funding is just the latest example of debt-and-deficit-laden governments looking for a way to pay for pricey infrastructure.

Alongside the discussion about a bank have been proposals to tap private pension funds for capital and introduce user fees to create ongoing

revenue, among others. These plans tend to only excite policy wonks.

What gets lost is the spending side of the infrastructure investment story.

Investment involves getting capital and then spending it in ways that maximize value for investors.

And when it comes to a conversation on whether government investments in infrastructure provide that value, it’s tough to find evidence.

What’s our investment priority?

Is it economic growth? Is it maintenance of our standard of living? What kind of processes do we need to have in place to ensure we’re not overspending?

We don’t talk about this because it’s as boring as watching concrete cure. Discussing the procurement processes and the competitive environment required to make Canada an attractive place for infrastructure investment just doesn’t have the same shine as a bank.

But how we spend matters just as much, if not more, than whether we will have the financial capital to leave a well-built Canada to our

children.

Going through the itemized list of projects receiving federal funding, you see pretty quickly that Toronto - partly because of its enormous population relative to other cities - receives a huge amount of investment. The trouble is that Toronto, along with the Ontario communities of Hamilton, the Region of Waterloo and Sault Ste. Marie, can only tender projects to firms affiliated with particular unions. This means that projects worth billions of dollars receive fewer bids.

Still awake? If not, maybe the effects of this type of restricted bidding will wake you up.

A forthcoming paper from Cardus, which reviews the literature on the costs of restricting tendering, notes that scholars agree that restricting competition imposes real costs and adds huge price premiums to construction projects.

A study by Martin Skitmore on projects around the world estimates that bid prices fell by 20 to 25 per cent as the number of bidders increased from two to 15.

And a University of Texas A&M

study estimates that going from two to three bids reduced the price of an infrastructure project by about eight per cent, while going to four bidders resulted in a 14 per cent reduction. When eight bidders were present, prices were discounted by a whopping 25 per cent.

To put that into perspective, Toronto is slated to spend $20.9 billion on infrastructure over the next decade. If you include the projects it needs but for which it has no funding, you’d have to add another $22.3 billion. Cost savings of 20 to 25 per cent would go a long way to finding cash for these unfunded infrastructure projects.

Getting our house in order by introducing competitive bidding on all projects receiving government funds should be a top priority for all levels of government.

It might not be as exciting as putting together a new bank, but it could give taxpayers more bang for the buck in building up Canada.

Troy Media columnist Brian Dijkema is Cardus program director for work and economics.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SAVE THE LAND We are faced with a major choice: to develop a community centre inside an environmentally significant area or to preserve this area as a special area at the entrance to Gasoline Alley and the City of Red Deer.

I would like to share with you a vision for the south entrance to Red Deer and Gasoline Alley. Slack Slough is a federal migratory bird sanctuary and many species of migratory birds have used it for hundreds of years. However there is a problem: an 18 acre piece of private land is located between the federal bird sanctuary and provincial Crown land to the south. We must ask ourselves, is this the right area for commercial development?

This area is part of an environmentally significant area and would make an excellent ecological area with possibly an environmental interpretative centre, viewing platforms, trails, and so on. This would be a major statement for Red Deer and Red Deer County. One does not have to look far to see success. The County of Lacombe with its Ellis Bird Farm had a record 12,000 visitors this year. Imagine what such a centre would have adjacent to QEII, at the entrance to Gasoline Alley and Red Deer.

The County of Red Deer has given

second reading to a Sikh Temple and Community Centre inside this environmentally significant area. This is a three-acre plot of land inside an 18acre area. One can only imagine what the remaining 15 acres within the ESA will be developed into in the future. The impact on the water quality in Slack Slough could be devastating.

I would hope that the environmental impact study will demonstrate the problems and then I hope citizens of Red Deer and Red Deer County will speak out to save this special area.

The Gasoline Alley East Structural Plan emphasizes the link between the City of Red Deer trail system and Slack Slough. A lake destroyed by sewage will hardly be a welcome addition to the trail system or the entrance to our city and county.

Please contact your local councillors to advise them about your concerns.

Bob Mills, Red Deer County

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BRING ON THE CARBON TAX Warning: $50 per tonne carbon tax will increase the cost of gas by 10 cents per litre.

So do long weekends. Gas went up 12 cents per litre one Wednesday night, probably because the temperature dropped or a refinery is being upgraded, no wait there was a long weekend coming up. Right it was Thanksgiving weekend, so of course gas would be going up.

It is just a coincidence then, when all the gas stations’ prices increases the same amount, at the same time, and apparently just before every long weekend.

The government says it will phase in over five years this $50/tonne carbon tax, and it will be revenue neutral so taxes will decrease elsewhere as revenue increase. The long weekend gas hikes do not benefit the general population, and it does not stop people from driving, so I look forward to a carbon tax if it cuts my income tax.

My home heating costs will go up too, they say. If you look at your home heating bill, it has very little to do with the cost of natural gas, but the majority of the bill comes from various delivery, distribution, and administration charges.

So bring on that $50 carbon tax, if it will decrease my other taxes and

if it will help the environment. Let us make it $100/tonne carbon tax, if it will completely eliminate income tax. I would gladly walk and wear a sweater if it meant no income taxes.

If I did not have to pay income tax, I could probably afford solar electricity, to power electric heat, electric cars etc.

I know this is simplistic and unrealistic, but it is with much of what is thrown at us by businesses, politicians and lobbyists.

My community bills me about $100 every month for water, sewer and garbage collection. The more water I use and the more sewage and garbage I produce, the higher the bill, and I would expect to pay more. So I am quite willing to accept and promote a carbon tax for polluting the air, and if it means lifestyle changes, I am okay with that. But it has to accomplish something, and my biggest fear is it won’t.

I am a senior and I truly believe that this will be doable and I encourage everyone to think positive and hope that it works.

By the way, gas went down on Tuesday, after the long weekend.

What a surprise.

Garfield Marks, Red Deer

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ENVIRONMENT

Ottawa unveils marine protection plan $1.5 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS

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ANCOUVER — The federal government announced a $1.5 billion marine safety plan Monday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will make Canada a world leader in protecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

The money will be spent over five years starting in 2017-18 and includes funding to create a marine safety system, restoring marine ecosystems, and using new methods and research to clean up oil spills.

The government says change will be seen as early as next year, such as opening a Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre in St. John’s, N.L. Trudeau said the funding will strengthen the Canadian Coast Guard, get tough on pollution from industry, fund coastal habitat restoration and create new legislation to increase responsibility for vessel owners.

The announcement comes just a day after a barge flipped and sank not far from the site on British Columbia’s central coast where a tug ran aground last month, spilling more than 100,000 litres of diesel fuel from its tanks.

“The ongoing incident at Bella Bella is unacceptable. I know this, you know this, Canadians know this,” said Trudeau, who made the announce-

ment in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, right next to the Burrard Inlet.

“It’s time for a change. As a community we need to protect our magnificent oceans and reopening the Kitsilano Coast Guard base was an important first step.”

Trudeau said the coast guard station was a down payment on a much larger plan.

“We must make sure we protect all of our coast lines, not just the ones we’re on right now.”

The prime minister says because Canada has the longest coastline in the world, it’s vital to have a plan to ensure protection in modern and advanced ways.

The announcement also sets the stage for the possible approval of the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Trudeau’s government is expected to announce a decision on the project by Dec. 19.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would triple the bitumen-carrying capacity of the pipeline from near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., and increase the number of tankers leaving Vancouver-area waters seven-fold.

The B.C. and federal governments have been in talks to develop a West Coast marine spill response system for much of the past year.

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Sunday that the province has been “cheated” by the federal government when it comes to spill response, adding that she believes Trudeau can be the one to change the “historical wrong.”

She has long insisted that her government would not allow a heavy oil pipeline to be built in the province unless five conditions were met, including a “world-leading” spill response regime.

Trudeau said the federal government looked extensively at what a world-class system would look like, citing Norway and Alaska as examples.

“We know what we need to do to protect these coasts and make sure that, in responsiveness to incidents but also being proactive and grounded in strong science, we’re doing everything right.”

The decision to reopen a search and rescue sub-centre in St. John’s was welcomed by a union representing workers in the fishing industry on the East Coast.

“The previous federal government attempted to cut costs and balance the books at the expense of marine safety,” said Keith Sullivan, president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union.

Sullivan said the sub-centre would provide an effective response to vessels in distress on the Atlantic, in addition to lifeboat stations in Twillingate, Bay de Verde and St. Anthony in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Air Canada ready to fly competition skies BUT OPPOSES QUICK EXEMPTIONS FOR RIVALS

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ONTREAL — Air Canada says it’s not afraid of competition from new Canadian low-cost airlines, but is opposed to Ottawa’s decision to fast-track new foreign ownership rules for two potential rivals.

“If there is a process to change the laws, to change restrictions, then we look forward to everybody to benefit within the same time frame,” CEO Calin Rovinescu said Monday after the airline smashed analyst forecasts with large gains in third-quarter profit and revenue.

Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced last week that Ottawa plans to raise the foreign ownership cap for airlines to 49 per cent from 25 per cent in a bid to spur competition and lower fares.

Until the legislation is changed, the minister said he would grant exemptions that will allow aspiring discount airlines Canada Jetlines and Enerjet to land more international investors.

Canada Jetlines said the move will allow the Vancouver-based company to lock up investors so it can launch service next summer, while Calgary-based Enerjet said it plans to partner with Arizona’s Indigo Partners to fast-track development of its low-cost service.

Rovinescu said Air Canada (TSX:AC) already faces low-cost competition in many markets. In Canada, it squares off against WestJet Airlines (TSX:WJA) and Transat AT (TSX:TRZ), along with other providers such as Sunwing.

With its Rouge service, he said the airline has a tool that can be deployed for longer haul flights, including inside Canada, that is more cost competitive.

Air Canada said it’s studying the government’s proposed changes, but like WestJet it wants action to reduce other costs like airport rents and related charges, security surcharges and fuel taxes.

Rovinescu added that any move by Ottawa to privatize Canadian airports should reduce costs to airlines that can be passed on to travellers.

The Montreal-based airline earned $768 million or $2.74 per diluted share during the period ended Sept. 30, up from $437 million or $1.48 per diluted share a year ago, despite feeling competitive pressure on flights this summer to Europe.

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Air Canada says it’s not afraid of competition from new Canadian low-cost airlines, but is opposed to Ottawa’s decision to fast-track new foreign ownership rules for two potential rivals. The Montreal-based airline also revealed it’s latest earnings Tuesday. had $821 million in profits, or $2.93 per share, compared with $734 million, or $2.50, a year ago.

The airline had $4.45 billion in quarterly revenue, compared with $4.02 billion during the same period last year. Air Canada was expected to earn $2.55 per diluted share in adjusted earnings on $4.29 billion of revenues, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

Ben Smith, Air Canada’s president of passenger airlines, said increased industry capacity is keeping prices competitive to and from North America.

“Our internal analysis shows we gained significant market share from various competitors, which bodes well for our long-term market position, especially in our key hubs of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver,” he told analysts.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Air Canada shares closed up 7.4 per cent to $12.83 in Monday trading.

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Record grain haul for CP

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ALGARY — Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) says it moved more Western Canadian grain in October from the Prairies to Vancouver than in any other previous single month.

The Calgary-based railway says the record haul shows it will be able to handle this year’s expected bumper crop, although a spokesman was quick to add that it doesn’t guarantee it will be able to duplicate the feat in upcoming months.

Farmers have been worried there could be a repeat of the rail transport bottleneck that followed the large crop in 2013-14.

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CP Rail says it delivered 15,865 carloads to the Vancouver ports in October, besting the previous single month record of 15,449 carloads last March.

It says total grain movements from Western Canada to all destinations climbed 3.9 per cent over the same month last year, just behind the record set in May 2014, thanks in part to “millions” invested in country elevator and port capacity.

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NEW POWER SOURCE

Giant turbine placed on seabed to harness powerful Fundy tides

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ARRSBORO, N.S. — A giant tidal turbine has been lowered into position on the Bay of Fundy seabed

near Parrsboro, N.S., a “huge milestone” for a test project aiming to demonstrate the industry’s potential.

A spokesman for Cape Sharp Tidal says the 1,000-tonne turbine was put into place on Monday morning during an ebb tide that lasted about four

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“I believe it’s a huge milestone in the tidal industry,” said Jeremy Poste, the manager of Cape Sharp Tidal, a joint venture between Emera Inc. and OpenHydro, a DCNS company.

“At the completion of the project we will be able to demonstrate the technical and financial viability of tidal.”

The company had planned to install the five-storey-high turbine over the weekend, but had to delay installation while preparation work was being done on the tail portion of the unit.

Poste said that in the next few days the turbine will be connected to the power grid through a subsea cable and is expected to begin generating electricity in the next few weeks that will eventually be enough to supply 1,000 residences.

The partnership says it eventually plans to install a pair of two megawatt, in-stream tidal turbines at the testing site, in what would become North America’s first tidal array connected to an electrical grid. The Cape Sharp project is one of several that plan to test different turbine technologies in the Bay of Fundy, which has some of the world’s most powerful tides.

However, a spokesman for the 175-member Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association said his group is upset it was deployed in the middle of lobster season, arguing it was timed deliberately for when op-

ponents had to be at sea.

Colin Sproul also said in an interview that placing the turbine in the water prevents the proper collection of data on the normal flow of marine life in the area.

He said he is worried that the vessels operating in the area may damage lobster gear and displace fishermen from their usual fishing areas nearby.

“We’re scared that we will lose a lot of buoy lines and when the buoys are lost the traps continue to ghost fish and then … there’s the risk of damaged gear being set adrift and becoming entangled with whales,” he said.

Late last month, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge denied an injunction sought by Sproul’s group to stop the deployment. In February, the court will hear an appeal of the government-issued deployment permit.

Sarah Dawson, a spokeswoman for Cape Sharp Tidal, said the company has identified for some time that it “had opportunities to deploy every two weeks based on the tidal conditions.”

“We had all the regulatory requirements and permits in place to deploy, and our marine operators always follow best practice for marine safety,” she wrote in an email.

“It’s important to remember that this is a demonstration scale project to demonstrate it can be done safely, economically, and without environmental harm.”

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Queens turn in a solid two-way performance for win

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Queens 68 Lightning 58 he RDC Queens have the talent to take a significant step up in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League this season.

What they needed to do was show that against the higher ranked teams.

They did just that Saturday as they turned in a solid two-way performance in downing the St. Mary’s Lightning of Calgary 68-58 at RDC. The Lightning came in with a 2-0 record and ranked ninth in the country. The win gave the Queens a 2-1 record, and left them tied with Lethbridge, 2-0, and St. Mary’s for first in the south.

“It was a big win for us, for sure,” said Queens star forward Emily White. “I think it shows how together we are as a team. There’s a lot of chemistry and we have a lot of talent, but the most important thing is everyone doing their job. Our team moto is ‘Do Our Job’.”

Queens head coach Ken King agrees.

“I thought we did a lot of things for each other tonight,” he said. “When we did receive a scare in the fourth quarter it was when we were a little selfish, when we weren’t playing as a team. When we were we did a good job.”

The Queens led by as much as 21 in the third quarter, but the Lightning narrowed that gap to five in the fourth and appeared to have all the momentum.

But the Queens pulled together defensively and didn’t panic on the offensive end and did an excellent job of distributing the ball.

“Our people on the floor stayed together and played solid defence and remained poised offensively,” said King, adding he was impressed at the team’s poise for most of the game.

“Being ahead against a team of St. Mary’s calibre and to play with poise most of the time, was impressive,” he said.

King went into the game, making a couple of changes to his starting line. One was inserting Lauren Bailey at point guard.

“That helped us in two ways,” said King.” It allowed us to have someone else on the bench who could come in early, plus Lauren gives us energy and she does a good job of allowing the girls to stay focused.”

Newcomer Kiana Mintz also provides energy and defensive quickness.

“She plays with a lot of effort and enthusiasm,” said King.

Mintz struggled a bit offensively, finishing with seven points, but had six steals, several at key times.

White led the team with 21 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, four steals and two blocks.

She also always seemed to make the big play at both ends..

“I have a slightly different role this season in that I don’t focus on offence, but rather on defence and when I do that the offence comes,” she said.

Dedra Janvier also had a strong game with 14 points. Montana Romeril had 20 points and Kassandra Baptiste 14 for the Lightning.

Kings 94 Lightning 76 The Kings, much like the Queens, led by double figures most of the way, only to see the lead shrink to four in the fourth quarter. However, they, too, picked up their defence and pulled away to a 94-76 victory.

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Red Deer College Queen Hannah Foley lays up a shot as St. Mary’s Lightning player Abigail Gibb reaches in during first-quarter action at Red Deer College Saturday.

“When they got to four we forced three turnovers in a row with solid defence and created scoring chances on the transition,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“I was proud of the way we finished the game. It could have gone the other way.”

Pottinger wasn’t pleased with the defence in the second quarter when they allowed 25 points.

They led 52-41 at the half, but Pottinger brought his troops back early in the break to work on defence.

It paid off as they allowed just 35 points the second half.

“We played good defence in spurts and did a really good job down the stretch,” said Pottinger.

“This is the least number of points we allowed this season,” added Pottinger. “But they were also missing their top player (Cordell Minifee), who had 35 against us last week.”

But to the Lightning’s credit, they did a good job

of distributing the ball and got points from other sources.

Jordan Britton, who red shirted with the Kings three years ago, had 20 points and eight rebounds, while Brad Hassal came in off the bench and hit five three-point baskets for 15 points. Tavis Lee and Brandt Seibel, both from Ponoka, added 12 and 10 points each.

“They’re a scrappy team, but don’t have a lot of depth or height,” said Porttinger. “We need to use our height, which will be key against some of the bigger teams.”

Ian Tevis had a strong game for the Kings with 20 points, nine assists and 10 steals. Mat Matear and Shayne Stumpf added 13 points each, Spencer Klassen 12 and Anthony Robbs 11.

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

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Sports

Kings exact revenge on the Clippers on the volleyball court

BRIEFS Kings find their scoring touch, and how, against the Voyageurs Kings 8 Voyageurs 1 PENHOLD — The RDC Kings found their scoring touch much to the chagrin of the Portage Voyageurs.

The Kings got goals from seven different players in downing the Voyageurs 8-1 in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play at the Penhold Regional multiplex Saturday.

The win completed a doubleheader sweep over the Voyageurs, who lost 4-0 to the Kings at home Friday.

Nick Fountain, Zak Hicks and Austin Hunter scored for the Kings in the first period with Tyler Berkholtz and Scott Ferguson making it 5-0 before Portage’s Brandon Syms spoiled Troy Trombley’s shutout bid.

Dustin Gorgi and Berkholtz connected at 19:30 and 19:55 on the power play to give RDC a 7-1 lead after 40 minutes.

Arie Postmus, who also had two assists, scored in the third period.

Tanner Butler was the RDC player of the game, finishing with three assists, while David Heath and Logan Sceviour had two helpers each.

Trombley, who made 33 saves in the shutout Friday, finished with 31 saves while the Kings had 47 shot son two Portage netminders.

The Kings finished three-for-seven on the power play and killed off six of seven shorthanded situations.

The win gave the Kings a 4-5-2-1 record while Portage dropped to 4-5-0-0.

The Kings meet the Augustana Vikings in a home-and-home series next week – Friday in Camrose and Saturday at 7 p.m. in Penhold.

Queens sweep Griffins to move four points up in standings Queens 2 Griffins 0 EDMONTON – The RDC Queens entered the week tied with the MacEwan University Griffins for second place in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League.

They leave four points up after sweeping a twin bill from the Griffins.

The Queens won 3-1 at home Wednesday and completed the sweep with a solid 2-0 victory Saturday.

Kaci Jones provided all the scoring the Queens needed with a goal at 10:10 of the second period. Jessica Anderson put the finishing touches on the win scoring into an empty net at 19:45 of the third period.

Tracie Kikuchi was outstanding in the RDC goal, finishing with 31 saves for the shutout.

The Queens had 32 shots.

The Queens sit with a 6-2-0-0 record, two points back of the NAIT Ooks, 7-1-0-0. MacEwan is third at 4-4-0-0.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Houston and Matt Sylvester scored for Stettler.

Lane Brann made 30 saves for the Wranglers.

On Friday the Thrashers dropped a 6-3 decision to the visiting Mountainview Colts.

Tyler Newsham, McCubbing and Ryan Spiller scored for the Thrashers.

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Kings 3 Clippers 0 CARONPORT, Sask. — After letting a match get away on Friday the RDC Kings looked like themselves on Saturday.

The Kings, who blew a 2-1 lead and lost 3-2 to the host Briercrest Bible College Clippers on Friday, whipped the Clippers 25-19, 25-17, 25-20 on Saturday afternoon.

The win kept the Kings in first place in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball League South Division with a 6-2 record. BBC dropped to 5-3.

Regan Fathers led the Kings with 10 kills and eight digs while Luke Brisbane had two kills, 33 assists and five digs.

Matt Lofgren added six kills, eight digs and two blocks, Brian Grenier five kills and three digs and Ty Moorman five kills and five digs.

Clippers 3 Queens 1 While the Kings pulled ahead of the Clippers, the Queens were falling further behind.

The BBC Clippers ran their women’s South Division record to 7-1 while the Queens dropped to 5-3 with a 25-17, 18-25, 21-25, 16-25 loss to BBC Saturday.

They also lost 3-2 on Friday.

Miranda Dawe continued to lead the Queens with 14 kills and 10 digs while Ashley Fehr had 27 assists and seven digs. Hanna Delemont added eight kills, Jade Van Dyke six kills, five digs and two aces and Megan Schmidt four kills and seven digs.

The RDC squads return home Friday when they host Olds.

The Sylvan Lake Lakers captured the Rural Division of the Central Alberta High School Football League with a 33-14 victory over the Stettler Wildcats Saturday afternoon in Sylvan Lake.

Both teams will be in provincial action on the road Saturday.

The Lakers will travel to Lloydminster to take on Holy Rosary in a 2 p.m. North Division semifinal.

The Wildcats will be in Edmonton for a noon clash with Ardrossan in a Tier IV North semifinal.

The Hunting Hills Lightning and Notre Dame Cougars will host provincial play at M.E. Global Athletic Park in Lacombe on Saturday.

The Lightning will face the Robert Thirsk Comets of Calgary in a Tier II South Division semifinal game at 1:30 p.m.

The Cougars meet the Harry Ainlay Titans of Edmonton in a Tier I North Division semifinal contest at 4 p.m.

Two Central Alberta teams will compete in the 6-Man North semifinals.

The Buck Mountain Mustangs host Sedgewick Rams at 5 p.m. Friday in Lacombe. The Rimbey Spartans host Holy Redeemer at 2 p.m. Saturday.

In other placement games in the Central Alberta Rural Division, Rocky Mountain House downed Drayton Valley 26-21 and Wetaskiwin stopped Camrose 21-12.

Red Deer Vipers split games against Three Hills and Airdie

Olds Grizzlys better Okotoks in AJHL action

The Red Deer Vipers split a pair of Heritage Junior B Hockey League games during the weekend.

The Vipers downed the visiting Three Hills Thrashers 7-1 Saturday after losing 7-6 to the homestanding Airdrie Thunder Friday.

Mack Differenz had two goals against Three Hills with singles added by Kale Lapointe, JC Ingram, Declan Johnston, Carter Trenerry and Bailey Lawson.

Tyrell McCubbing spoiled Branden Bilodeau’s shutout bid at 19:14 of the third period.

Bilodeau finished with 14 saves while his mates had 56 shots on goal.

On Friday, Tristyn Zarubiak, Logan Linnell, Spencer Yeats, Brett Hoppus, Dalton Angeltvedt and Brody Kalinowski scored once apiece for the Vipers.

In other action Sunday, the Blackfalds Wranglers downed the Stettler Lightning 8-3 in Blackfalds.

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OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys edged Okotoks 3-2 in a shootout in Alberta Junior Hockey League play Saturday.

Jared Bowman and Ryley Smith scored once each in regulation with Smith scoring the lone shootout goal.

Ben Geisbrecht made 40 saves then stopped the three Okotoks shooters in the shootout.

Carstar beats Orangemen by a single point in Sr. men’s basketball Carstar edged the Orangemen 89-88 in one of the premier matchups in the Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association Sunday.

Jacob Cusumano led Carstar with 27 points while Taylor Armstrong added 19. Jarrett Hart had 19 points and Ray Teskey 15 in a losing cause.

Meanwhile, the Spurs downed Btown Maple Jordans 69-63 with Adam Bullock dropping in 22 points and Josh Matthies eight. Trent Gutterink had 14 points for the Jordans.

In other action the Alkin Basin Drillers defeated KJ Concrete 68-60.

Dustin Shaber had 12 points and Owen Waytt and Nick Saari 11 each for the Drillers. David Torwald had 20 points and Kevin Remple 19 for KJ.

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MINOR HOCKEY

Red Deer and area hockey teams busy at the rink

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

idget AAA The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs managed to earn one of a possible four points in Alberta Midget Hockey League play during the weekend.

The Chiefs lost 4-0 to Leduc Saturday then tied Edmonton Boston Pizza Athletics 2-2 at home Sunday.

Affiliated player Adam Heindel and Kyle Budvarson scored against the A’s with Levi Mitchell making 17 saves.

Midget AAA Girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs recorded a pair of 2-1 victories over the Rocky Mountain Rebels Sunday and the Edmonton Pandas Saturday.

Kaley Mueller and Skylar Colonna scored against the Raiders with Camille Scherger making 24 saves.

On Saturday, Carly Wlad and Faith Gette scored once each and Chantelle Sandquist made 15 saves.

Minor Midget The Red Deer TBS Chiefs split a pair of games and the Northstar Chiefs dropped a pair on the road during the weekend.

TBS downed the Southeast Tigers 6-2 and lost

14-2 to the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

Tye Carriere had two goals and Cole Muir, Isaac Lee, Kyle Gerrits and Payton Wright one each against the Tigers with Jager Thompson making 36 saves.

Gerrits and Wright connected against Lethbridge.

The Northstars lost 6-4 Sunday and 7-4 Saturday to the Calgary Blue.

Caleb Berge had two goals and Sloan Garrity and Cole Hardman one each on Sunday with Cameron Loomis-LaBrosse making 35 saves.

On Saturday, Jackson Rider, Kayden Gatz, Berge and Kyle Richmond scored once each with Jared Lee making 29 saves.

Midget Elite Girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs ran their record to 8-0-0 as they defeated Airdrie 5-0 Sunday and the Lethbridge Cyclones 3-0 Saturday.

Julianna Goulayets and Danica Polson had two goals each and Sage Sansregret one against Airdrie with Jayda Thompson making 22 saves for the shutout.

Jenna Hollman, Sansregret and Shaelynne Bilodeau scored against Lethbridge and Rebecca Bridge made 40 saves for the shutout.

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t was a tough weekend for the Innisfail Eagles as they dropped a pair of Chinook Hockey League games at home.

They lost 4-2 to the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs Sunday after losing 3-2 to the Lacombe Generals in overtime Friday.

Tyler Haarstad and Parker Evans-Campbell scored against the Chiefs, who got goals from Brett Holmberg, Jordan Hoffman, Brendan Baumgartner and James Dodrowsolski.

Ryan Demharter made 38 saves for the Chiefs and Mike Muir and Dan Dunn both allowed two goals on 15 shots for the Eagles.

On Friday, Teegan Moore scored the winning goal with seven seconds left in the second overtime period.

The teams split goals in both the first and third periods.

Ian Barteaux scored for Lacombe and Mark Bommersback for Innisfail in the first period while Moore and Sam Lawson of Innisfail connected in the third.

Baxter, LeMasurier lead the Sting past St. Albert in ringette action The Central Alberta U19AA Sting downed the St. Albert Open A team 7-2 in ringette action during the weekend.

Shae-Lyn Baxter and Emily LeMasurier had two goals each with singles added by MacKenzie Lindholm, Hailee Pluister and Makenna Tonery.

Baylee Schulhauser earned the win in net.

In U16AA play the Sting battled the Zone 5 U16AA squad to a 4-4 tie.

Carly Cherniak, Kianna Doyle, Megan Grubb and Madison Pluister scored once each. McKenna Smalley was in goal.

The Red Deer Rebels earned three of a possible four points during the weekend.

The Rebels edged the Calgary Royals 5-4 Sunday after tying Camrose 4-4 Saturday.

Kyle Wallace had two goals with singles added

by Brett Meerman, Connor Sholdice and Wyatt Fluet. Caleb Trotter made 30 saves.

On Saturday, Konnor Green, Sholdice, Brady Caruth and Meerman scored once each. Carter Vooys made 38 saves.

Bantam Elite Girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs edged the Rocky Mountain Raiders 3-2 in a shootout Friday, then dropped a 6-0 decision to the Calgary Fire White Sunday.

Paige Dodd scored the only goal in the shootout with goaltender Kameryn Guhl making 21 saves in regulation and stopping the three Rocky Mountain shooters in the shootout.

Stephanie Keeper and Madison Rutz scored in regulation time.

Meanwhile, Olds downed the Raiders 1-0 Sunday on a 13-save performance by Jocelynn Pearce and a goal from Sarah Wozniewicz.

Hapless Canucks no match for Islanders Islanders 4 Canucks 2 EW YORK — There was relief all around the Islanders dressing room.

In one corner, Andrew Ladd and Jason Chimera finally could exhale after scoring their first goals as Islanders in their 13th games with the club.

And everywhere else it was a breath of fresh air to be the team to break a tie in the third period and finish strong.

Cal Clutterbuck’s backhand past Canucks goaltender Ryan Miller broke a tie with 10:49 to go and Ladd’s first 1:39 later sealed a much-needed 4-2 Islanders win.

“People don’t ask how it happened for you at the end, we just have to start getting two points every time we’re in position to do that,” Thomas Hickey said. “That’s what good teams do, that’s what playoff teams do.”

The 5-6-2 record does not reflect the way the Isles feel about their game as they finished a stretch of 10 home games out of 11 total going 5-3-2 at Barclays Center, with Monday’s win coming against a hapless Vancouver squad that is 0-8-1 in its last nine after winning the first four of the season.

But for a team that has expectations for itself, the Islanders can’t take any solace in lost points.

The Lightning drubbed them 6-1 a week ago and the Isles followed with shootout losses to the Flyers and Oilers, both games the Isles led.

Despite getting only 12 points in 13 games, the Islanders have held a lead or been tied in the third period in all but two games this season.

“We’ve had some pretty good trust in the way we’ve played,” said Clutterbuck, who was elevated to John Tavares’ right side on Saturday and

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has points in two straight after needing 15 stitches inside his upper lip to close a horrific gash from Thursday’s game.

“It’s just about sticking with the plan and not worrying about the result. Worrying about results gets you scored on in the final few minutes of a game.”

Daniel Sedin picked Shane Prince’s pocket and beat Jaroslav Halak 4:22 into the game to put the Isles behind, but Chimera jammed home a nicely batted puck from Anders Lee to tie it at 9:42.

The Isles took the lead at 7:38 of the second on Nikolay Kulemin’s first of the year but gave that edge back on Markus Granlund’s power-play goal, the 10th man-advantage score the Islanders have allowed in the last seven games.

So, for the fifth time in the last seven games, the Islanders were tied entering the third. They were 0-2-2 in the other four.

But Clutterbuck was in the right spot to collect the rebound of Johnny Boychuk’s shot and put the Isles in front. And Ladd blasted a one-timer from the point to get that crucial two-goal edge as well as well as a smile on the ice.

“It’s big for Jason and me, getting that good feeling that you can put a puck on net and it goes in,” Ladd said.

“We got two points, we can still shore up some areas but it’s what we needed.”

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Notre Dame Cougar head coach Gino Castellan is surrounded by his players after the team captured the Central Alberta High School Football League championship on Saturday. The Cougars beat the Hunting Hills Lightning 39-15. The Cougars now advance to the provincial championships play starting Nov. 12.

(Photo by Jeff Stokoe/Advocate staff)

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Notre Dame wins first title since 2009 ENDS HUNTING HILLS STREAK OF FOUR STRAIGHT CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Cougars 39 Lightning 15 ACOMBE - It’s been a while coming but the Notre Dame Cougars are finally back on top of the Central Alberta High School Football League.

The Cougars won their first title since 2009, taking the City Division crown with a convincing 39-15 victory over the four-time defending champion Hunting Hills Lightning before close to1,000 fans at MEGlobal Athletic Park Saturday afternoon.

“We prepared hard for this game … the kids wanted it badly,” said Cougars head coach Gino Castellan. “I’m proud of the kids, this was for them.

They worked hard to get back here, especially the Grade 12s who worked three hard years.”

The Cougars have been a step behind the Lightning the last eight years.

“It’s nice, a bit of revenge, but we haven’t been her since 2009, so it’s good for our program overall,” added Castellan.

The Cougars got on the board with a safety at 4:27 of the first quarter after an exchange of punts left the Lightning deep in their end. The Lightning managed just a seven yard punt with their first attempt while new Notre Dame kicker Triston Taylor pinned the Lightning deep with a 35-yard kick.

Turnovers then proved costly for the Lightning. The Cougars picked up a fumble on the Hunting Hills 37 and two plays later Johannes Smith went

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in from the 24 on what looked to be the final play of the first quarter. Isaac Colosimo kicked the convert. There was a penalty on the convert and they allowed one more play to the quarter. On the kickoff the Lightning once again fumbled and Aidan Vida picked up the loose ball and scored from the five. Colosimo once again converted making it 16-0.

“We knew if we got some points early it would start from there and it got the wheels rolling,” said Cougars veteran Jacob Plamondon. “We had some nerves early but those two touchdowns got rid of them.”

Plamondon proved to be the offensive story the rest of the way. He hauled in touchdown passes of 26 and 51 yards from Devin Desormeau in the second quarter and later added a third touchdown on an 11-yard run in the third quarter. Colosimo converted all three.

Third quarter lead The Cougars also added another safety in the third quarter to take a 39-0 lead.

“We knew they were an aggressive team and knew they would give a bit more because of that and we were able to take advantage of that,” said Castellan, who inserted Plamondon into the offence late in the season.

“We ran into some injuries and they moved me in and it worked and I stayed there,” said Plamondon, who said it was nice to beat their rival.

“We’ve wanted this for a long time and we pulled together this week. We knew what we were capable of and just did it.

“It’s always good after three years of losing to them. This was good for

the whole athletic program.”

Castellan used his bench in the final quarter and the Lightning got a pair of one-yard touchdown runs

by Brandon Rees and Eric Thomson. Eder Arias kicked a convert and Thomson grabbed a Rees pass for a two-point convert.

Lightning head coach Kyle Sedgwick was naturally disappointed but gracious in defeat.

“I congratulate Notre Dame. I respect that program and they played well today and deserved it. They’re a veteran team and we shot ourselves in the foot on three straight plays and it’s 21 points. They have a team that knows how to capitalize on those mistakes.

“I told the team that when you’re on top everyone wants to knock you down. We were in this game seven straight years and won the last four.

I’m very proud of our guys at how they battled to the end, which will lead us into the provincials.”

Provincials Both the Cougars and Lightning will host provincial games Saturday in Lacombe. The Lightning meets Robert Thirsk of Calgary in Tier II play and the Cougars face Harry Ainlay of Edmonton in Tier I. “I believe we have a good chance to advance in the provincials,” said Sedgwick. “We went to the semifinals last year and feel we can make it again.”

Castellan believes the win will help them next Saturday.

“Whoever loses this game has a tougher time in the provincials,” he said. “It’s tougher to get motivated. It was good for us, but I also feel Hunt-

ing Hills has a good shot to go to the Tier II finals. Best to them.”

Smith led the Cougars with 93 yards rushing on 11 carries and Payton LaGrange had 45 on five carries.

Sympho Nkuela had 46 yards on 12 carries for the Lightning.

In play Friday the Lacombe Rams came from behind to down the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 27-16 to take third place in the City Division.

A safety gave LTCHS a 2-0 first quarter lead with Kade Best grabbing a Sean Vandervlis pass for a 20-yard touchdown in the second quarter. Wyatt Hawkes kicked the convert and it was 9-0 at the half.

Jonathan Ericson scored on a oneyard run and converted Bryce Woodrow’s major, which came on a fouryard run, to give Lacombe a 13-9 lead after three quarters.

However, it appeared as if the Raiders would pull out the win when Max Arnold intercepted a pass and went 17 yards for a touchdown at 7:12 of the fourth quarter, which Hawkes converted.

However, David Mueller scored on a four-yard run at 10:02 and Kyle Popp went in from the 10 at 11:49. Ericson converted both.

Woodrow had 54 yards rushing on eight carries and Mueller 51 on four.

The Rams held the Raiders to 10 yards rushing.

However, Vandervlis connected on 23 of 36 passes – seven to Best for 90 yards, six to Colin Wilkinson for 87 yards and five to Max Abraham for 50 yards.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@ reddeeradvocate.com.

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Clockwise from top left: Players from the Hunting Hills Lightning and the Notre Dame Cougars shake hands after the game.

Hunting Hills Lightning Sympho Nkuela makes a gain as Notre Dame Cougar Jordan Muirhead runs him down.

Notre Dame Cougars, Bedo Wande, Devin Desormeau, Reiss Flunder, Payton LaGrange and Jacob Plamondon (left to right) hoist the Central Alberta High School Football League trophy after defeating the Hunting Hills Lightning 39-15 in Lacombe on Saturday.

The Hunting Hills Lightning join the Notre Dame Cougars in a post game prayer.

Notre Dame Cougar Johannes Smith and Hunting Hills Lightning Edward Kim hit the turf together.

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RODEO

Luke Butterfield grabs top award headed into the CFR I cycle out of the lows, so you can’t get Cody Cassidy of Donalda in steer wrestling; Dakota too low and stay there. It’s changed Buttar of Kindersley, SK in bull riding; and Kirsty my outlook, and I feel better.”

White of Big Valley in barrel racing. Cassidy, Buttar, Over his decade in the pro ranks, and White are all season leaders in their respecButterfield would put plenty of pres- tive events. South Dakota’s Chuck Schmidt won the sure on himself to excel, and he did. Alberta bronze for saddle bronc riding, while the LUKE But the maturity of experience has bareback one went to Utah’s Caleb Bennett, who BUTTERFIELD rounded out his approach to rodeo, is also season leader in his event. The team roping and it showed in steady, consistent honours were claimed by the top gunners for 2016, success all 2016, netting him nearly $20,000 in Can- Kolton Schmidt of Barrhead and his Texas heeler, ada.

Shay Carroll. Tanner Young of Sylvan Lake won the A family bonus this year is that he and Brock novice bareback for the province, with the novice will be competing at Edmonton together. saddle bronc going to Kolby Wanchuk of Sherwood “We’ve never been there at the same time. It’s Park, and steer riding to Luke Ferber of Irricana. really cool to have him there with me.”

The season’s top 12 competitors in each of the The Butterfields are among a large contingent events head to Edmonton knowing the city will conof Ponoka area CFR contestants, and the Ponoka tinue to be the home for the CFR for at least the Stampede had a special send-off party for them all next two years, after the CPRA and Northlands exlast week. tended their contract.

“Those bronzes are coveted, and a lot of thanks The $1.5 million purse for the 2016 CFR will be goes to Jack Daines for keeping them going. There’s paid out over six performances, beginning at 7:30 a lot of history in the Alberta circuit, so it means a Wednesday evening at Northlands Coliseum. lot to me to win one.”

Luke Butterfield hopes the bronze will HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL remind him that having fun while rodeoing can translate into winning, and that’s something he wants to practice this week.

“For me, I try not to look at the draw, and

BY DANNY RODE 17-25 decision to H.J. Cody in a the money. If you worry play-in game. The Lightning were SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE about that, you get beat. I 0-4 in their pool while H.J. Cody know it’s not ‘just anothwas 2-2. er rodeo’, but you have he Lindsay Thurber Spruce Grove defeated Harry to treat that ride like you Raiders captured gold Ainlay 25-16, 16-25, 15-13 to take would anywhere. Stick and silver at the annual third place. to the basics and don’t Hunting Hills Lightning On the boys’ side, the Raiders over think it.” senior volleyball tournament. defeated Notre Dame 25-23, 25-22 Other Alberta circuit The Raiders won the girls’ title in the semifinal and Spruce Grove award winners include with a 25-20, 25-13, 25-22 victory 19-25, 25-18, 19-17 in the quarter-fiKyle Lucas of Carstairs over the Notre Dame Cougars. The nals. Ainlay stopped Charles Spenin tie-down roping; Harry Ainlay Titans of Edmonton cer 25-15, 25-23 in the semifinals captured the boys’ crown, defeat- and Ernest Manning 25-16, 25-20 in ing the Raiders 24-26, 25-20, 25-21, the quarter-finals.

22-25, 17-15.

Notre Dame, who defeated Paul The LTCHS girls defeated Har- Kane 25-12, 25-10 in the quarter-firy Ainlay 25-6, 25-12 in the semifi- nals, went on to take third place nal after beating Charles Spencer with a 25-21, 25-18 victory over 21-25, 25-18, 15-6 in the quarter-fi- Charles Spencer. nals.

In pool action, the Raiders In pool play, the Raiders downed downed Ernest Manning 25-16, 25Hunting Hills 25-19, 25-15, Bishop 22 and Paul Kane 25-14, 23-25, 15-13 Carroll 25-15, 25-10 and Paul Kane and lost to Notre Dame 25-23, 17-25, 17-25, 25-15, 15-7 while losing 22-25, 8-15 and Charles Spencer 15-25, 2325-18, 12-15 to Spruce Grove.

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Notre Dame reached the final Harry Ainlay posted a 4-0 rewith a 25-12, 25-16 win over Spruce cord in pool play.

Store Hours: Grove in the semifinals. They Monday – Friday: Notre Dame was also undefeat10:00 am - 6:00 pm downed Bishop Carroll 25-11, 25-15 ed as they stopped Ernest Manning Saturday: in the quarter-finals.

25-13, 25-16, Charles Spencer 25-19, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm In pool action, the Cougars 25-16 and Paul Kane 25-16, 20-25, Weekends & Holidays: stopped H.J. Cody of Sylvan Lake 17-15.

Closed 25-15, 25-17, Archbishop O’Leary In play-in games, Ernest Manof Sherwood Park 25-19, 25-20 and ning downed Hunting Hills 25-22, Charles Spencer 25-22, 25-16. They 25-16 and Paul Kane stopped Lalost 20-25, 20-25 to Ainlay. combe 25-12, 25-21.

Other quarter-final play saw In their pool, Hunting Hills lost Spruce Grove defeat H.J. Cody 25- 17-25, 22-25 to Lacombe, 16-25, 1115, 25-19 and Ainlay down O’Leary 25 to O’Leary, 18-25, 14-25 to Spruce dontgoviral.ca Grove and 18-25, 19-25 to Ainlay.

25-18, 26-24.

Lacombe was 1-3.

Hunting Hills dropped a 23-25,

t’s GO time for pro rodeo competitors. All year long they look forward to when their sport takes centre stage in Edmonton for the season end “playoffs,” with gold buckles on the end of the line, and a lot of cash earning opportunities along the way.

The 43rd annual Canadian Finals Rodeo week kicked off for many with DIANNE the Monday night Alberta Circuit Awards, held in Red Deer.

FINSTAD Those who have topped the charts at the rodeos held in our province are honored with trophy bronzes.

Luke Butterfield collected the one this year in the All-Around category, winning over $17,000 at Alberta rodeos in saddle bronc riding and steer wrestling. The Ponoka cowboy managed to win the award in 2012 as well, but the difference that year was that he didn’t have the required three cheques in both his timed and riding events, so he wasn’t eligible for the Canadian title. This year, he got that done, and heads to Northlands Coliseum with a $1,043 lead over fellow qualifier, and defending Canadian All-Around champion, Josh Harden of Big Valley, for the national honour.

Butterfield is also in the hunt for a second Canadian saddle bronc champion’s buckle, to go with the one he claimed in 2012. So you’d think he’d have a lot on his mind as he heads north.

“Honestly, I try not to think about either,” contended the 32-year-old. “I just want to show up, ride my horses, have some fun and let the chips fall on Sunday.”

“It will be a fun little race with Josh, since we’re both in the same event,” added Butterfield, who will be at his eighth CFR. After missing the cut for Edmonton in 2015 by one spot, Butterfield finds himself approaching rodeo, and this year’s Finals, with a different mindset.

“I want to enjoy everything associated with it.

I’m happy to be rodeoing. I know I can’t do it for the rest of my life, and you’re not going to win everything. I still want to win, but realize now that you

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James Harden leads Rockets past struggling Wizards THIS WAS HIS FOURTH CONSECUTIVE GAME WITH AT LEAST 30 POINTS AND 10 ASSISTS FOR HARDEN, WHO ENTERED THE DAY LEADING THE NBA IN ASSISTS AT 12.3 PER GAME AND FOURTH IN SCORING AVERAGE AT 31.5 POINTS. road and cruised against a Sixers team again mired at the bottom of the NBA standings. The Sixers have lost 43 straight games in October and November. The Sixers last won a game in either of those two months on Nov. 22, 2013, against Milwaukee.

The Sixers are 0-6 for the third straight season and have lost 10 straight dating to last season.

Jahlil Okafor led the Sixers with 15 points.

THUNDER 97, HEAT 85 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Enes Kanter had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead Oklahoma City.

Kanter made 10 of 12 shots in 21 minutes off the bench. Victor Oladipo scored 17 points, rookie Domantas Sabonis had a season-high 15 to go with 10 rebounds, and Russell Westbrook added 14 points and 11 assists for the Thunder. Oklahoma City improved to 6-1, the best seven-game start for the franchise since moving to Oklahoma City in 2008.

Miami’s Hassan Whiteside, who entered averaging 20 points and 14.2 rebounds, finished with five points on 1-for-9 shooting and 12 rebounds.

James Johnson led Miami with 18 points. The Heat shot just 36.9 percent.

BULLS 112, MAGIC 80 CHICAGO (AP) — Jimmy Butler scored 20 points and Taj Gibson had 16 points and 11 rebounds for Chicago.

Dwyane Wade scored 16 points and Doug McDermott finished with 11 for Chicago, which had dropped three straight. Wade went 7 for 12 from the field in 25 minutes.

Orlando had won three straight, but it played listless defense as Chicago pulled away in the third quarter. Aaron Gordon scored 15 points for the Magic, and Evan Fournier added 13 on 6-for-12 shooting.

Butler was a perfect 10 for 10 as the Bulls went 25 for 31 at the free throw line, compared to 5 for 6 for the Magic.

CFL

Jim Popp gone from Als

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — For the first time since the Montreal Alouettes returned to the Canadian Football League 21 seasons ago, they are searching for a new general manager.

Team president Mark Weightman announced Monday that Jim Popp, the architect of three Grey Cup champion teams, has parted ways with the Alouettes under mutual agreement with owners Bob and Andrew Wetenhall.

Weightman hopes to have a new GM in place as soon as possible, but cautioned that some candidates may currently be working for teams that are still playing and cannot be approached until their season is over.

“It’s been a difficult last few years with our results and I think we just mutually agreed that this was the

right time to make this change,” said Weightman, whose 7-11 club missed the playoffs for a second year in a row.

Neither Popp nor the team owners were present for the announcement, but Popp issued a statement that said: “When a team doesn’t meet expectations, every general manager and head coach understands that it may be time to make a change. I understand this and wish to thank everyone for a great run in Montreal.

“The City of Montreal will always be very special to me. I got engaged to the most incredible woman here, and my six wonderful children were all born here.

“I also had the privilege of participating in three Grey Cup parades through the streets of Montreal. I will bring all of these good memories and so many more to my next opportunity in this great sport.”

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ROCKETS 114 WIZARDS 106 WASHINGTON (AP) — James Harden set aside a rough first quarter to finish with 32 points and 15 assists, leading Houston past the struggling Wizards 114-106 on Monday night.

Washington’s John Wall broke the franchise record for career assists before getting ejected in the final minute.

Harden shot just one for four and had five turnovers in the opening period, which ended with Washington ahead 30-23. But he got more and more involved at the offensive end and scored eight consecutive Houston points in one stretch of the fourth quarter, including half of a 12-0 run that gave the Rockets a 106-95 lead with a little more than 3 1/2 minutes left.

This was his fourth consecutive game with at least 30 points and 10 assists for Harden, who entered the day leading the NBA in assists at 12.3 per game and fourth in scoring average at 31.5 points.

HORNETS 122, PACERS 100 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kemba Walker had 24 points and 10 assists to help Charlotte to their best start in franchise history.

The Hornets (5-1) scored on their first 12 possessions and led by as many as 21 points in the first quarter.

Charlotte tied a 23-year franchise record with 75 points in the first half on 56.5 percent shooting. The team’s starters were 17 of 25 from the field as the Hornets built a 20-point halftime lead.

Charlotte scored 35 points off 18 Indiana turnovers.

Spencer Hawes had 13 points and 13 rebounds and Cody Zeller chipped in with 13 points.

C.J. Miles led the Pacers with 23 points, while Al Jefferson had 12 points and nine rebounds in his return to Charlotte.

JAZZ 109, 76ERS 84 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Derrick Favors had 16 points and 14 rebounds and Rodney Hood scored 18 points to lead Utah over winless Philadelphia.

Gordon Hayward scored 20 points in the second game of his return since he broke his right ring finger in training camp. He led the team in scoring last season, averaging nearly 20 points per game.

The Jazz won their second straight game on the

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’Riders’ Jones downplays Durant’s contract talks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

R

EGINA — Chris Jones wasn’t taking the bait.

Following Saskatchewan’s season-ending 41-18 loss to the B.C. Lions on Sunday, veteran quarterback Darian Durant told reporters his contract talks with the Roughriders were “pretty much at a standstill.” Durant, 34, the club’s starter since ‘09, is scheduled to become a free agent in February and admitted adopting the mindset that negotiations will last until February.

On Monday, Jones, the Riders’ head coach/GM, reiterated Durant remains the club’s starter. Saskatchewan (5-13) finished last in the West Division standings in Jones’ first season with the franchise.

“Darian’s been with this organization a long time,” Jones said. “He’s won a Grey Cup and so he’s the guy we feel like is our starting quarterback.

“That’s why we initiated the talks prior to the season being over (in September). Darian’s certainly earned the respect that he can say what he wants.

But at the same time … I’m the kind of guy that likes to keep things in-house. But that’s Darian’s option to do what he needs to do.”

Jones cautioned reporters “not to make this a me-versus-Darian Durant thing,” noting talks with starting quarterbacks involve numbers where two sides try to reach the middle ground.

When asked about Saskatchewan’s quarterback depth, Jones said the B.C. loss was a good chance to evaluate the team’s younger passers. Mitchell Gale, G.J. Kinne and Brandon Bridge all logged significant playing time, with Bridge, a native of Mississauga, Ont., finding the most success.

“We feel very confident we can win with one of those four,” Jones said.

Jake Waters seemed poised to also be in the quarterback mix prior to suffering a shoulder injury against the Lions on Oct. 29.

Jones gave the Riders a failing grade this season for good reason.

“You win five football games, that’s not very good,” he said. “You’ve got 18 opportunities to win.”

Jones expects to keep his coaching staff intact for next season and plans to see far less turnover on his roster. Jones said there are six or seven key free agents he’d like to re-sign but wouldn’t divulge who.

But Jones will do that soon to give those players he’s no longer interested in as much time as possible to find jobs with new teams.

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Chris Jones, the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach/GM, isn’t taking the bait concerning his quarterback’s talk about contracts. Durant told reporters his contract talks with the football club are ‘pretty much at a standstill.’ sacks — second only to Montreal (64) is a priority.

“We’ve got to protect the quarterback,” Jones said. “That’s the one area we may address in free agency.

“We’ve got to look at every option there. And certainly we’ve got to look at the option of changing the ratio and leaving an American at guard.”

The linebacking corps also poses some unique choices for Jones and position coach Phillip Lolley.

Jeff Knox Jr., Greg Jones, Otha Foster III, Henoc Muamba and a healthy Samuel Eguavoen can all vie for starting spots, Jones admitted.

One alternative is keeping all five players and

rotating them in and out of different schemes, Jones said. But that will depend on Knox and Foster both wanting to try to crack NFL rosters.

On the immediate horizon, Jones will visit seven player-evaluation camps before Christmas, all in the United States.

“We’ve targeted where all the NFL players have come from and we have a map of the United States that shows (target areas) — Texas, Florida, California, the Atlanta area, Ohio, Detroit,” he said. “If we find one guy out of those seven workouts, then that’s successful.”

CFL

Veteran Argos defensive lineman Foley bracing for uncertain off-season

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Experience has taught Ricky Foley the only constant in pro football is change.

So despite being under contract for two more seasons, the Toronto Argonauts’ veteran defensive lineman is bracing for an unsettled off-season following the club’s dismal 5-13 campaign. CFL contracts aren’t guaranteed so there’s no assurance Foley, or another player, will return next season.

“Being a free agent or having two years left on my deal, when you’re 5-13 it might as well be the same thing,” Foley said matter of factly. “I think a lot of us are kind of concerned … whether we’re on a contract or not.”

Toronto opened 2016 winning four of its first six games but dropped 11-of-12 from that point on. The Argos finished their disappointing season losing seven straight to finish last in the East Division behind Ottawa (8-9-1), Hamilton and Montreal (both 7-11).

But Toronto also missed an opportunity to become relevant in its own market. This was the franchise’s first season under new ownership — Bell and Larry Tanenbaum, the chairman of Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment — and it relocated from the cavernous Rogers Centre to a refurbished BMO Field, the site of the 2016 Grey Cup game.

However, the Argos were just 2-7 at BMO Field and never a threat to play for the Grey Cup on home soil like they did in 2012 when they beat Calgary at Rogers Centre in the 100th Grey Cup game.

Then again, six of the CFL’s nine teams posted losing home records this year.

With 24 players slated to become free agents in February, Toronto will definitely sport a different look in 2017. Some Argos will look for more lucrative CFL offers, others will pursue NFL opportunities and a few will be forced to ponder retirement.

But the change might not stop there. The organization will also undoubtedly evaluate general manager Jim Barker and head coach Scott Milanovich following the worst of their five seasons together in Toronto, although both have two years remaining on their deals. Eleven defensive starters — including Canadian linebacker Cory Greenwood, safety Matt Black and defensive linemen Bryan Hall and Justin Hickman — are among Toronto’s free agents.

LOCAL SPORTS Edmonton Southside, 4:30 Wednesday p.m., Kinex.

● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Blackfalds at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Friday ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Brandon, 2:30 p.m. ● College volleyball: RDC vs. Olds, women at 6 p.m., followed by the men, RDC. ● College basketball: RDC at SAIT, women at 6 p.m., followed by the men. ● College hockey: RDC Kings at Augustana Vikings, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs.

Lloydminster, 7 p.m., Kinex. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs.

Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m., Olds. ● CHL: Chinook League, Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Strathmore at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Saturday ● High school football: Provincials, Tier III South semifinal, Calgary Robert Thirsk vs. Hunting Hills, 1:30 p.m.; Tier II North semifinal, Harry Ainlay Titans vs. Notre Dame Cougars, 4 p.m. ● College volleyball: RDC at Olds, women at 1 p.m., followed by the men. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs.

● College basketball: RDC at St. Mary’s, women at 6 p.m., followed by the men. ● College hockey: RDC Queens at NAIT, 6 p.m. ● College hockey: RDC Kings vs. Augustana Vikings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Bantam AAA hockey: Red Deer Rebels vs. Leduc, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Regina, 4 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Coaldale at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Mountainview at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Monday

● Senior women basketball: Big Ballers vs. Funk, 7:15 p.m., Triple Threat vs.

Dynamo, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS Gym 11; Storm vs. Xpress, 7:15 p.m., Shooting Stars & Age Gap vs. Pink Panthers, 8:30 p.m., CACHS; Hoosier Daddy vs. Rampage, 7:15 p.m., Spartans vs. Raptors, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS North; Average Joe’s vs. Quarter-Pro, 7:15 p.m., LTCHS South.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 4 2 .667 Boston 3 3 .500 New York 2 4 .333 Brooklyn 2 4 .333 Philadelphia 0 6 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 5 1 .833 Atlanta 4 2 .667 Orlando 3 4 .429 Miami 2 4 .333 Washington 1 5 .167 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 6 0 1.000 Detroit 4 2 .667 Chicago 4 3 .571 Milwaukee 4 3 .571 Indiana 3 4 .429 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 5 2 .714 Houston 4 3 .571 Memphis 3 4 .429 Dallas 1 5 .167 New Orleans 0 6 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 6 1 .857 Utah 5 3 .625 Portland 4 3 .571 Denver 3 3 .500 Minnesota 1 4 .200 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 5 1 .833 Golden State 4 2 .667

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Sunday’s Games Utah 114, New York 109 Portland 100, Memphis 94 Sacramento 96, Toronto 91 Dallas 86, Milwaukee 75, OT Denver 123, Boston 107 L.A. Lakers 119, Phoenix 108 Monday’s Games Charlotte 122, Indiana 100 Houston 114, Washington 106 Utah 109, Philadelphia 84 Chicago 112, Orlando 80 Oklahoma City 97, Miami 85 Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

New Orleans at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Boston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at New York, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Utah at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Chicago at Miami, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

Montreal Canadiens called up forward Sven Andrighetto from St. John’s of the AHL on Monday and placed rookie Artturi Lehkonen on injured reserve with an upper-body injury.

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HOCKEY WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Regina 15 12 0 3 0 87 47 27 Moose Jaw 17 11 4 2 0 58 54 24 Swift Current 19 10 6 2 1 64 60 23 Brandon 17 7 7 3 0 58 59 17 Saskatoon 18 8 9 1 0 45 62 17 Prince Albert 17 5 11 1 0 41 52 11 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Medicine Hat 18 12 5 1 0 85 58 25 Red Deer 18 9 7 1 1 58 65 20 Lethbridge 18 7 8 1 2 56 72 17 Calgary 13 6 5 2 0 31 40 14 Edmonton 17 6 9 2 0 45 63 14 Kootenay 18 3 10 4 1 43 77 11 Western Conference U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 17 13 2 2 0 58 34 28 Tri-City 19 12 6 1 0 71 68 25 Spokane 17 6 6 4 1 50 62 17 Portland 19 8 11 0 0 69 69 16 Seattle 15 7 7 0 1 41 47 15 B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 19 14 3 2 0 68 50 30 Victoria 19 10 7 2 0 65 54 22 Kamloops 20 10 9 1 0 66 49 21 Kelowna 19 10 9 0 0 55 66 20 Vancouver 19 8 11 0 0 58 64 16 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.

Saturday’s results Edmonton 6 Brandon 3 Seattle 5 Moose Jaw 1 Calgary 3 Swift Current 2 Saskatoon 3 Kootenay 2 (OT) Prince George 4 Kamloops 2 Vancouver 7 Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 6 Kelowna 2 Everett 5 Portland 2 Tri-City 5 Spokane 4 (OT) Sunday’s results Tri-City 3 Portland 2 Thursday’s games Regina at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday’s games Red Deer at Brandon, 1:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Calgary at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Portland, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

WHL SCORING LEADERS G A 14 14 5 23 13 13 7 18 7 18 11 13 9 15 16 7 14 9 4 19 10 12 11 10 9 12 9 12 7 14 7 14 7 14 5 16 11 9 10 10 10 10 7 13 6 14

Sam Steel, Reg Mason Shaw, MH Kailer Yamamoto, SPO Chad Butcher, MH Cody Glass, Por Nikita Popugaev, MJ Morgan Geekie, TC Michael Rasmussen, TC Tyler Steenbergen SC Brayden Burke, Let Michael Spacek, RD Skyler McKenzie, Por Jake Leschyshyn, Reg Collin Shirley, Kam Patrick Bajkov, EVT Ryley Lindgren, Let Brad Morrison, PG Aleksi Heponiemi, SC Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ Tyler Soy, Vic Jack Walker, Vic Josh Mahura, RD Dawson Leedahl, Reg

Pts 28 28 26 25 25 24 24 23 23 23 22 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 20 20 20 20 20

CHL CANADA-RUSSIA SERIES GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt OHL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 QMJHL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WHL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

Florida Detroit Buffalo

13 6 6 1 13 35 13 6 6 1 13 35 12 5 5 2 12 25 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 13 10 3 0 20 55 Pittsburgh 12 8 2 2 18 37 Washington 11 8 2 1 17 33 New Jersey 11 5 3 3 13 26 Philadelphia 13 6 6 1 13 47 Columbus 10 5 3 2 12 32 N.Y. Islanders 13 5 6 2 12 37 Carolina 11 3 5 3 9 29

33 35 29 GA 29 31 24 25 48 21 40 38

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 13 9 3 1 19 47 33 St. Louis 13 7 4 2 16 31 34 Minnesota 11 6 4 1 13 33 22 Dallas 12 4 5 3 11 31 38 Winnipeg 13 5 7 1 11 34 41 Colorado 11 5 6 0 10 22 33 Nashville 11 3 5 3 9 28 35 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 13 9 3 1 19 40 31 Anaheim 13 6 5 2 14 35 30 San Jose 12 6 6 0 12 27 32 Los Angeles 12 6 6 0 12 28 32 Calgary 14 5 8 1 11 36 51 Vancouver 13 4 8 1 9 22 38 Arizona 11 4 7 0 8 31 42 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton 2, Detroit 1 St. Louis 5, Colorado 1 New Jersey 4, Carolina 1 Chicago 4, Dallas 3, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Winnipeg 2 Anaheim 4, Calgary 1 Monday’s Games Boston 4, Buffalo 0 N.Y. Islanders 4, Vancouver 2 Florida 3, Tampa Bay 1 Today’s Games San Jose at Washington, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Carolina at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

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

Boston at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 7 p.m.

MONDAY’S SUMMARIES Florida 3, Tampa Bay 1 First Period 1. Florida, Marchessault 7 (Yandle, Barkov) 3:10 (pp).

Penalties — Coburn TB (high-sticking) 2:28 MacKenzie Fla (hooking) 8:40 Smith Fla (tripping) 9:54 Stamkos TB (hooking) 20:00.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Killorn TB, Ekblad Fla (slashing) 7:01 Brown TB (delay of game) 15:03.

Third Period 2. Tampa Bay, Palat 2 (unassisted) 1:15.

3. Florida, Smith 3 (unassisted) 15:32.

4. Florida, MacKenzie 1 (Yandle) 19:24 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 12 11 12 — 35 Florida 10 14 8 — 32 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 5-4-0). Florida: Luongo (W, 4-5-0).

NY Islanders 4, Vancouver 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Sedin 4 (unassisted) 4:22.

2. NY Islanders, Chimera 1 (Lee, Nelson) 9:42.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. NY Islanders, Kulemin 1 (Tavares, Hickey) 7:38.

4. Vancouver, Granlund 3 (Horvat, Hutton) 16:30 (pp).

Penalties — Leddy NYI (holding) 4:17 Tavares NYI (tripping) 15:44 Hutton Vcr (delay of game) 19:19.

Third Period 5. NY Islanders, Clutterbuck 2 (Boychuk, Quine) 9:11.

6. NY Islanders, Ladd 1 (Leddy, Pelech) 10:50.

Penalties — Skille Vcr (embellishment) 3:45.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 13 13 6 — 32 New York 13 8 11 — 32 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (L, 1-6-0). NY Islanders: Halak (W, 3-3-2).

Monday’s game At Prince George, B.C. Russia vs. WHL, late Tuesday’s game At Edmonton Russia vs. WHL, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s game At North Bay, Ont. Russia vs. OHL, 5 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 14 At Hamilton Russia vs. OHL, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 15 At Chicoutimi, Que. Russia vs. QMJHL, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 17 At Baie-Comeau, Que. Russia vs. QMJHL, 5 p.m.

Boston 4, Buffalo 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Moore Bos (hooking) 5:34 O’Reilly Buf (tripping) 10:29 Spooner Bos (slashing) 17:29.

Second Period 1. Boston, Marchand 5 (Pastrnak, Beleskey) 5:44 (pp).

2. Boston, Krejci 1 (Krug, Spooner) 10:12 (pp).

3. Boston, Nash 1 (unassisted) 14:41.

Penalties — O’Reilly Buf (high-sticking) 4:03 Girgensons Buf (double high-sticking) 7:50 McCabe Buf (tripping) 9:16 McCabe Buf (unsportsmanlike conduct) 9:16 Carlo Bos (holding) 18:06.

Third Period 4. Boston, Pastrnak 8 (Czarnik, Liles) 9:45 (pp).

Penalties — Grant Buf (goaltender interference) 3:47 Grant Buf (interference) 8:50 Grant Buf, Beleskey Bos (fighting) 8:50.

Shots on goal by Buffalo 13 5 14 — 32 Boston 12 15 15 — 42 Goal — Buffalo: Lehner (L, 4-4-1). Boston: Rask (W, 7-1-0).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 12 10 1 1 21 39 Tampa Bay 13 7 5 1 15 41 Ottawa 11 7 4 0 14 29 Boston 12 7 5 0 14 30 Toronto 12 5 4 3 13 37

SUNDAY’S SUMMARIES Anaheim 4, Calgary 1 First Period 1. Anaheim, Stoner 1 (Perry, Getzlaf) 2:29.

2. Calgary, Chiasson 2 (Gaudreau, Monahan) 16:15.

Penalties — Vermette Ana (hooking) 4:28 Engelland Cgy, Boll Ana (fighting) 6:48 Vermette Ana (roughing) 16:23 Backlund Cgy (cross-checking) 16:23 Holzer Ana (tripping) 18:00.

GA 28 38 28 32 41

Second Period 3. Anaheim, Kesler 3 (Perry, Getzlaf) 3:18 (pp).

4. Anaheim, Cogliano 5 (Silfverberg, Manson) 7:54.

Penalties — Hamilton Cgy (holding) 2:52 Tkachuk Cgy, Cramarossa Ana (fighting) 8:45 Backlund Cgy, Garbutt Ana (roughing) 16:38 Kulak Cgy (tripping) 19:26.

Third Period 5. Anaheim, Kesler 4 (Perry, Getzlaf) 13:29 (pp).

Penalties — Giordano Cgy (slashing) 13:04 Kesler Ana, Bennett Cgy (roughing) 19:13.

Shots on goal by Calgary 12 10 4 — 26 Anaheim 9 7 5 — 21 Goal — Calgary: Johnson (L, 2-2-1). Anaheim: Bernier (W, 1-1-0).

Chicago 4, Dallas 3 (OT) First Period 1. Dallas, Seguin 6 (Roussel, Eaves) 15:34 (pp).

Penalties — McKenzie Dal (hooking) 5:55 Hamhuis Dal (tripping) 10:02 Keith Chi (hooking) 14:37 Panarin Chi (tripping) 20:00.

Second Period 2. Dallas, Smith 1 (Hamhuis) 8:29 (sh).

3. Chicago, Kane 5 (Toews, Seabrook) 10:24.

Penalties — Faksa Dal (hooking) 7:24.

Third Period 4. Chicago, Toews 3 (Hossa, Keith) 3:39.

5. Chicago, Anisimov 8 (Toews, Keith) 4:35.

6. Dallas, Smith 2 (Klingberg, Ja.Benn) 18:40.

Penalties — Roussel Dal (broken stick) 2:36 Kane Chi (hooking) 3:02.

Overtime 7. Chicago, Hossa 6 (Seabrook, Anisimov) 4:31.

Penalties — Kane Chi (hooking) :50.

Shots on goal by Dallas 10 9 12 4 — 35 Chicago 7 14 10 2 — 33 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 1-3-2). Chicago: Darling (W, 3-0-0).

NY Rangers 5, Winnipeg 2 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Hayes 6 (Klein, Skjei) 2:12.

2. Winnipeg, Laine 8 (Chiarot, Scheifele) 10:45.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 6 (Kreider) 10:02.

4. Winnipeg, Scheifele 7 (Postma, Ehlers) 12:02.

5. NY Rangers, Miller 5 (Holden) 13:01.

6. NY Rangers, Fast 2 (Klein, Pirri) 16:24.

7. NY Rangers, Buchnevich 2 (Pirri, Clendening) 17:05.

Penalties — None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Zuccarello NYR (interference) 6:26 Nash NYR (hooking) 12:48.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 8 9 9 — 26 New York 10 8 0 — 18 Goal — Winnipeg: Hellebuyck (L, 3-4-0), Hutchinson (2 shots, 1 saves). NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 7-3-0).

New Jersey 4, Carolina 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Stalberg Car (holding) 1:30 Skinner Car (hooking) 17:00.

Second Period 1. New Jersey, Cammalleri 1 (Zajac, Bennett) 4:31.

2. New Jersey, Cammalleri 2 (Josefson) 7:56.

Penalties — Severson NJ (high-sticking) :46 Parenteau NJ (tripping) 11:55 Hall NJ (goaltender interference) 17:27.

Third Period 3. New Jersey, Cammalleri 3 (Bennett, Moore) 8:30.

4. Carolina, Nestrasil 1 (Hanifin, Staal) 13:01.

5. New Jersey, Greene 1 (unassisted) 19:05.

Penalties — Lovejoy NJ (slashing) 18:08 Di Giuseppe Car (goaltender interference) 19:31.

Shots on goal by New Jersey 11 2 8 — 21 Carolina 5 14 15 — 34 Goal — New Jersey: Kinkaid (W, 1-0-1). Carolina: Lack (L, 1-2-1).

Edmonton 2, Detroit 1 First Period 1. Detroit, Abdelkader 3 (Smith, Nielsen) 8:53 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Pitlick 4 (Lucic, Draisaitl) 16:39.

Penalties — Gryba Edm (interference) 7:47.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 2 (McDavid, Klefbom) 19:40 (pp).

Penalties — Larkin Det (interference) 17:04 Green Det (tripping) 19:32.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Nurse Edm (hooking) 1:36.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 13 10 5 — 28 Detroit 12 7 4 — 23 Goal — Edmonton: Gustavsson (W, 1-0-0). Detroit: Howard (L, 2-2-0).

St. Louis 5, Colorado 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Fabbri 1 (Jaskin, Shattenkirk) 1:37.

2. St. Louis, Lehtera 1 (Gunnarsson, Tarasenko) 3:35.

Penalties — Grigorenko Col (hooking) 3:51 Shattenkirk StL (double high-sticking) 6:02 Tyutin Col (tripping) 16:09 Bouwmeester StL (holding) 19:19.

Second Period 3. Colorado, Duchene 6 (Beauchemin, Tyutin) 6:38.

4. St. Louis, Schwartz 2 (Steen, Shattenkirk) 14:54 (pp).

5. St. Louis, Upshall 2 (Reaves, Brodziak) 17:03.

6. St. Louis, Perron 4 (Parayko, Shattenkirk) 19:06.

Penalties — Wiercioch Col (tripping) 14:09.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Jaskin StL (tripping) 4:45 Lehtera StL (slashing) 8:34 Lehtera StL (tripping) 11:07 Martinsen Col, Steen StL (fighting) 14:07 Steen StL (misconduct) 14:07 Martinsen Col (interference) 14:07 Steen StL (instigator) 14:07 Bourque Col, Brodziak StL (fighting) 18:33 Bourque Col (cross-checking, served

by McLeod) 18:33.

Shots on goal by Colorado 6 10 7 — 23 St. Louis 15 10 3 — 28 Goal — Colorado: Pickard (3 shots, 3 saves), Varlamov (L, 2-6-0). St. Louis: Allen (W, 5-3-2).

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FOOTBALL CFL Final for 2016 Regular Season East Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Ottawa 18 8 9 1 486 498 17 x-Hamilton 18 7 11 0 507 502 14 Montreal 18 7 11 0 383 415 14 Toronto 18 5 13 0 383 568 10 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 18 15 2 1 586 369 31 x-B.C. 18 12 6 0 545 454 24 x-Winnipeg 18 11 7 0 497 454 22 x-Edmonton 18 10 8 0 549 496 20 Saskatchewan 18 5 13 0 350 530 10 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 20 Bye: Calgary Saturday’s Games B.C. 41 Saskatchewan 18 Montreal 32 Hamilton 25 Edmonton 41 Toronto 17 Friday’s Games Winnipeg 33 Ottawa 20 End of Regular Season NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 1 0 .875 217 Miami 4 4 0 .500 173 Buffalo 4 5 0 .444 237 N.Y. Jets 3 6 0 .333 173 South W L T Pct PF Houston 5 3 0 .625 137 Tennessee 4 5 0 .444 217

PA 132 182 203 235 PA 167 226

Indianapolis Jacksonville

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5 6

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 4 4 3 0

L 4 4 4 9

Oakland Kansas City Denver San Diego

W 7 6 6 4

L 2 2 3 5

0 .444 0 .250 North T Pct 0 .500 0 .500 1 .438 0 .000 West T Pct 0 .778 0 .750 0 .667 0 .444

239 153

256 215

PF 154 184 167 168

PA 153 171 189 273

PF 245 185 214 268

PA 223 151 166 247

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 1 0 .875 223 N.Y. Giants 5 3 0 .625 161 Washington 4 3 1 .563 186 Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 202 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 6 3 0 .667 305 New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 242 Tampa Bay 3 5 0 .375 180 Carolina 3 5 0 .375 204 North W L T Pct PF Minnesota 5 3 0 .625 155 Detroit 5 4 0 .556 205 Green Bay 4 4 0 .500 198 Chicago 2 6 0 .250 131 West W L T Pct PF Seattle 5 2 1 .688 162 Arizona 3 4 1 .438 179 Los Angeles 3 5 0 .375 130

PA 140 164 189 145 PA 259 238 232 206 PA 126 206 187 179 PA 134 140 167

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Thursday, Nov. 3 Atlanta 43, Tampa Bay 28 Sunday’s Games Dallas 35, Cleveland 10 Detroit 22, Minnesota 16, OT N.Y. Giants 28, Philadelphia 23 Baltimore 21, Pittsburgh 14 Miami 27, N.Y. Jets 23 Kansas City 19, Jacksonville 14 Carolina 13, Los Angeles 10 New Orleans 41, San Francisco 23 Indianapolis 31, Green Bay 26 San Diego 43, Tennessee 35 Oakland 30, Denver 20 Open: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland Monday’s Games Seattle 31, Buffalo 25 Thursday’s Games Cleveland at Baltimore, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

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

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati Monday’s Games Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS Knockout Round (Single-game elimination) Eastern Conference Wednesday, Oct. 26 Toronto FC 3, Philadelphia 1, Toronto advances Thursday, Oct. 27 Montreal 4, D.C. United 2, Montreal advances Western Conference Wednesday, Oct. 26 LA Galaxy 3, Real Salt Lake 1, LA Galaxy advances Thursday, Oct. 27 Seattle 1, Sporting Kansas City 0, Seattle advances

Sunday, Oct. 30 Montreal 1, NY Red Bulls 0 LA Galaxy 1, Colorado 0 Toronto FC 2, NYCFC 0 Seattle 3, FC Dallas 0 Conference Semifinals (Second Leg) Sunday, Nov. 6 Colorado 1, LA Galaxy 0, 1-1 aggregate, Colorado advances 3-1 on penalty kicks Montreal 2, NY Red Bulls 1, Montreal advances 3-1 on aggregate Toronto FC 5, NYCFC 0, Toronto FC advances 7-0 on aggregate FC Dallas 2, Seattle 1, Seattle advances 4-2 on aggregate

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Conference Championships Eastern Conference Tuesday, Nov. 22 Toronto FC at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 30 Montreal at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.

Western Conference Tuesday, Nov. 22 Colorado vs. Seattle, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 27 Seattle vs. Colorado, 2 p.m.

MLS Cup Saturday, Dec. 10 Eastern champion vs. Western champion, 6 p.m.

Conference Semifinals (First Leg)

BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent C Adam Moore outright to Columbus (IL). Activated OF Michael Brantley and RHP Carlos Carrasco from the 60-day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Announced LHP Giovanni Soto was claimed off waivers by the Chicago White Sox. SEATTLE MARINERS — Acquired C Carlos Ruiz from the Los Angeles Dodgers for LHP Vidal Nuno and exercised the 2017 club option on Ruiz.

TEXAS RANGERS — Declined a 2017 club option on LHP Derek Holland. Reinstated 1B-DH Prince Fielder and RHP Adrian Sampson from the 60-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Selected RHP Jose Rosario from Iowa (PCL). Claimed RHP Conor Mullee off waivers from the New York Yankees and activated him from the 60-day DL. Activated RHP Aaron Brooks, LHP Zac Rosscup and INF Christian Villanueva from the 60-day DL. Activated RHP Dallas Beeler from the 60-day DL and sent him outright to Iowa.

Sent RHP Andury Acevedo and C Tim Federowicz outright to Iowa.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Named Bud Black manager.

NEW YORK METS — Reinstated RHPs Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler and INF David Wright from the 60-day DL. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Promoted Erik Greupner to chief operating officer.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Named Jose Alguacil first base coach and Phil Nevin third base coach.

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed INF Ryan Fitzgerald.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Exercised the 2017 contract option on RHP Mark Hamburger.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed OF Kenny Bryant.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Justin Trapp and OF Alexi Colon.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Waived G Lance Stephenson.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Waived G Jordan Farmar.

NBA Development League DELAWARE 87ERS — Released C Christian Macauley, G Brett Olson and F Benito Santiago Jr. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed general manager Thomas Dimitroff to a three-year contract extension.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DE Wallace Gilberry.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed FB Joe Kerridge from the practice squad. Released S Jermaine

NFL

Graham catches two TDs, Seahawks hold off Bills

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Seahawks 31, Bills 25 EATTLE (AP) — Jimmy Graham needed only one hand to catch two first-half touchdown passes from Russell Wilson, and the Seattle Seahawks held off a late rally for a 31-25 win over the Buffalo Bills on Monday night.

Seattle won its 11th straight Monday night game behind a huge game from its tight end. Still less than a year removed from a major knee injury, Graham used his right arm to catch a 17-yard touchdown from Wilson on the first play of the second quarter and later used the same arm to cradle an 18-yard TD pass in the final moments of the first half.

But the Seahawks had to hold on in the final seconds as Buffalo quarterback Tyrod Taylor led the Bills inside the Seattle 10 in the final seconds.

Taylor was sacked by Cliff Avril

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Seattle Seahawks tight end Jimmy Graham (88) makes a one-handed catch for a touchdown with coverage from Buffalo Bills strong safety Robert Blanton, right, in the first half of an NFL football game, Monday. on third-and-goal from the eight yard line and on fourthand-goal Taylor’s pass into the end zone fell incomplete.

Buffalo would not have needed a touchdown if not for mistakes by the officiating crew at the end of the first half that cost the Bills a chance at a shorter field goal.

Dan Carpenter eventually missed a 54-yard attempt on the final play of the half, only

after Seattle’s Richard Sherman got away with an unnecessary roughness penalty that wasn’t called and a delay of game caused in part by the officiating crew standing over the ball.

NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino tweeted during the game that Walt Coleman’s crew did not make the correct call.

Whitehead.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed TE RaShaun Allen to the practice squad. Waived OT Jeff Adams.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated CB Chris Culliver from the PUP list. Signed CB Lafayette Pitts from the practice squad. Waived DT Chris Jones. Waived-injured CB Chimdi Chekwa.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Trevor Bates to the practice squad. Released FB Glenn Gronkowski from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed WR Josh Huff to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed TE Niles Paul on injured reserve. Signed OT Blaine Clausell from Baltimore’s parctice squad.

GOLF PGA TOUR — Announced the resignation of commissioner Tim Finchem. Named Jay Monahan commissioner.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled D Anthony DeAngelo and C Tyler Gaudet from Tucson (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F DeBrincat on a three-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Tyler Bertuzzi from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed LW Thomas Vanek on long-term injured reserve, retroactive to Oct. 25.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Activated G Jeff Zatkoff from injured reserve. Reassigned G Jack Campbell to Ontario (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned D Vojtech Mozik to Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled D Adam Pelech from Bridgeport (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with D Jacob Trouba on a two-year contract.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Stockton F Brandon Bollig two games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent during a Nov. 4 game against San Diego; Charlotte D Matt Tennyson one game for a boarding incident in a Nov. 3 game against Rockford; San Diego D Stu Bickel one game for his actions at the conclusion of a Nov. 4 game at Stockton; and San Diego F Antoine Laganiere one game for a high-sticking incident in a Nov. 5 game at Stockton.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Announced G Brandon Halverson was reassigned to the team from Greenville (ECHL) and G Mackenzie Skapski was reassigned to Greenville.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Acquired F Kenton Miller from Wheeling Nailers for future considerations.

COLLEGE BAYLOR — Suspended RB Shock Linwood because of attitude issues.

KENT STATE — Suspended senior S Nate Holley indefinitely.

POST (CONN.) — Named Gregg Schmidt assistant cross-country/track & field coach.

GOLF DOMINION CHARITY CLASSIC At The Country Club of Virginia Richmond, Va. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,029; Par: 72 Final Scott McCarron, $305,000 67-67-69—203 Tom Byrum, $180,000 65-69-69—203 Brandt Jobe, $131,900 69-69-67—205 Kevin Sutherland, $131,90070-72-63—205 Fred Funk, $95,000 70-69-67—206 Jay Haas, $69,500 67-71-69—207 Bernhard Langer, $69,50067-69-71—207 Scott Parel, $69,500 72-66-69—207 Duffy Waldorf, $69,500 68-71-68—207 Joe Durant, $50,000 71-70-67—208 Paul Goydos, $50,000 71-73-64—208 Willie Wood, $50,000 72-70-66—208 Michael Allen, $44,000 69-69-71—209 Tom Pernice Jr., $44,00068-71-70—209 Jerry Smith, $44,000 70-70-69—209 Paul Broadhurst, $34,80070-68-72—210 Doug Garwood, $34,80071-69-70—210 Colin Montgomerie, $34,80071-69-70—210 Jesper Parnevik, $34,80070-71-69—210 Jeff Sluman, $34,800 70-70-70—210 Mark Brooks, $22,000 73-69-69—211 Marco Dawson, $22,00069-73-69—211 Jeff Maggert, $22,000 71-72-68—211 Billy Mayfair, $22,000 68-72-71—211 Rocco Mediate, $22,00067-71-73—211 Lee Janzen, $18,200 74-68-70—212 Miguel Angel Jimenez, $18,20066-76-70—212 Kenny Perry, $18,200 71-73-68—212 Tommy Armour III, $16,20073-70-70—213 David Frost, $16,200 75-67-71—213 Carlos Franco, $14,400 69-72-73—214 Mike Goodes, $14,400 72-75-67—214 Steve Pate, $14,400 73-73-68—214 Woody Austin, $12,600 73-71-71—215 Wes Short, Jr., $12,600 74-74-67—215 Esteban Toledo, $12,60069-76-70—215 Joey Sindelar, $11,200 73-69-74—216 Ian Woosnam, $11,200 76-72-68—216 Bart Bryant, $10,000 73-72-72—217 Glen Day, $10,000 70-73-74—217 Scott Dunlap, $10,000 71-72-74—217 Rod Spittle, $10,000 70-72-75—217 Jim Carter, $9,000 76-73-69—218 Billy Andrade, $8,200 74-70-75—219 Mark O’Meara, $8,200 72-72-75—219 Kirk Triplett, $8,200 72-75-72—219 Loren Roberts, $7,400 72-74-74—220 Todd Hamilton, $6,600 75-75-71—221 Larry Mize, $6,600 75-75-71—221 Gene Sauers, $6,600 73-73-75—221 Stephen Ames, $5,800 76-74-72—222 Scott Verplank, $5,400 73-81-69—223 Olin Browne, $5,000 75-76-73—224 CHARLES SCHWAB CUP LEADERS Bernhard Langer 2,836,459 Scott McCarron 1,900,802 Colin Montgomerie 1,728,118 Joe Durant 1,704,397 Miguel Angel Jimenez 1,589,904 Kevin Sutherland 1,532,672

Woody Austin Tom Pernice Jr. Gene Sauers Duffy Waldorf

1,286,069 1,276,460 1,219,848 1,203,395

TOTO JAPAN CLASSIC At Taiheiyo Club (Minori Course) Ibaraki, Japan Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,646; Par: 72 Final Round Shanshan Feng, $225,00069-64-70—203 Ha Na Jang, $136,903 68-68-68—204 Kotone Hori, $72,143 69-69-68—206 So Yeon Ryu, $72,143 69-69-68—206 Sun-Ju Ahn, $72,143 71-65-70—206 Soo-Yun Kang, $72,14366-69-71—206 Pornanong Phatlum, $37,60270-67-70—207 Mi Hyang Lee, $37,602 70-67-70—207 Suzann Pettersen, $37,60269-66-72—207 Minjee Lee, $27,320 69-69-70—208 Sandra Gal, $27,320 68-70-70—208 Jenny Shin, $27,320 67-69-72—208 Ariya Jutanugarn, $27,32066-68-74—208 Charley Hull, $20,687 75-66-68—209 Lexi Thompson, $20,68773-68-68—209 Megumi Kido, $20,687 71-69-69—209 Ritsuko Ryu, $20,687 71-68-70—209 Jiyai Shin, $20,687 69-67-73—209 Jessica Korda, $15,769 72-71-67—210 Akane Iijima, $15,769 73-68-69—210 Mo Martin, $15,769 72-69-69—210 Xi Yu Lin, $15,769 70-70-70—210 In Gee Chun, $15,769 70-70-70—210 Danielle Kang, $15,769 71-68-71—210 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $15,76970-69-71—210 Haru Nomura, $15,769 70-69-71—210 Teresa Lu, $12,498 72-71-68—211 Azahara Munoz, $12,49873-69-69—211 Asuka Kashiwabara, $12,49872-69-70—211 Brittany Lang, $12,498 70-70-71—211 Junko Omote, $10,033 76-69-67—212 Mi Jung Hur, $10,033 71-74-67—212 Beatriz Recari, $10,033 71-71-70—212 Misuzu Narita, $10,033 70-70-72—212 Mi-Jeong Jeon, $10,03369-71-72—212 Stacy Lewis , $10,033 67-73-72—212 Cristie Kerr, $10,033 69-68-75—212 Haruka Morita, $7,810 77-69-67—213 Serena Aoki, $7,810 74-70-69—213 Ai Suzuki, $7,810 73-67-73—213 Kaori Ohe, $7,810 70-70-73—213 Karrie Webb, $7,810 71-68-74—213 Lala Anai, $6,271 75-72-67—214 Lydia Ko, $6,271 74-71-69—214 Sei Young Kim, $6,271 75-69-70—214 Erina Hara, $6,271 74-69-71—214 Ha-Neul Kim, $6,271 72-71-71—214 Momoko Ueda, $6,271 70-70-74—214 Bo-Mee Lee, $5,112 73-72-70—215 Su Oh, $5,112 72-73-70—215 Jennifer Song, $5,112 76-68-71—215 Moriya Jutanugarn, $5,11272-69-74—215 Paula Creamer, $5,112 71-70-74—215 Hee-Kyung Bae, $4,42274-73-69—216 Hyo Joo Kim, $4,422 71-72-73—216 Phoebe Yao, $4,422 70-72-74—216

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McDavid, Nuge connect for game winning goal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Oilers 2 Red Wings 1 ETROIT — Connor McDavid didn’t need a shot on goal Sunday night to deliver for the Pacific Division-leading Edmonton Oilers.

McDavid perfectly set up Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for a go-ahead goal late in the second period, giving Edmonton a 2-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings.

“On a night where the team was more important than the individual and Connor was a little bit quiet, he still found a way to have an impact on maybe the most important play of the game,” Oilers coach Todd McLellan said. “A lot of guys would’ve shot that puck. He had enough patience to find Nugent for a wide-open goal.”

McDavid made the goal happen, starting with a faceoff he won in the left circle. After the draw, the 19-yearold centre skated toward the net before subtly finding a spot on the bottom of the right circle. McDavid got the puck back, drew three Detroit players, and threaded a pass between two of them to Nugent-Hopkins on the inside of the left circle, where he shot into an empty net.

“If that pass gets picked off or

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knocked down, we’re having a different debate on why I didn’t shoot it,” McDavid said. “I saw a play. Lucky it worked out.”

McDavid has five goals and nine assists in 13 games in his second NHL season, and his skill seems a bigger factor than good fortune.

“He made a great play,” said Detroit’s Justin Abdelkader, who scored his team’s only goal. “He froze everyone.”

Edmonton’s Tyler Pitlick scored a tying goal late in the first period on a wraparound and Jonas Gustavsson made 22 saves, helping hold off his former teammates with a one-goal lead in the final period.

“We played real well, especially in the third,” Gustavsson said. “We didn’t open up, kept it real simple and didn’t give them a lot of chances to tie it up. We played a real mature period.”

The Oilers have won two straight, playing their first set of back-to-back games this season, after losing three in a row. Abdelkader put the Red Wings up 1-0 midway through the first period on a power play, making them the first team to score with an extra skater at home against the Oilers, who rank among the NHL leaders in penalty killing.

Jimmy Howard made 26 saves for

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Edmonton Oilers goalie Jonas Gustavsson knocks the puck away from Detroit Red Wings defenseman Mike Green during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Detroit, Sunday. the Red Wings, who have has lost five straight after winning six consecutive games.

“We got off to a good start and got the lead, but then we spent too much time outside,” Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg said.

Detroit pulled Howard with a min-

ute left and a faceoff in the Edmonton end but couldn’t score to send the game to overtime.

“There are too many times where we are passing up shots and trying to take an extra pass,” Abdelkader said.

“Sometimes, the best play in hockey is putting the puck on the net.”

CFL

Franklin throws 4 TDs as Esks end regular season with win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Eskimos 41 Argonauts 17 DMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos seem to have a pretty good backup plan for the playoffs if something should happen to regular starter Mike Reilly.

James Franklin threw for four touchdown passes, including a pair to rookie Brandon Zylstra, as the Eskimos finished off the regular season by beating the Toronto Argonauts 4117 on Saturday in a game that meant nothing in terms of the playoff picture. The defending Grey Cup champion Eskimos (10-8-0), who rested several of their starters, won their final two games and five of their last six.

Edmonton moves on to a cross-over East semifinal game against the Tiger-Cats in Hamilton next Sunday.

“It was nice to get out there. There was a little thought in the back of my head that I felt like I would have been rusty since it’s been a long time,” said Franklin, who was 18 for 23 passing for 335 yards. “But it helped out that the O-line and receivers made it pretty easy for me.”

Eskimos head coach Jason Maas said he was pleased to see the depth

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of his team on display.

“We set out this week to get better as a football team, and I think we accomplished that goal,” he said. “Obviously, we did it with a different group of guys playing, but it’s all guys that we expected big things out of.”

The Argos (5-13-0) are done for the season. Toronto lost its last seven games and won only one out of its last 12.

“It was obviously not the way we wanted to see the season go,” said Toronto quarterback Ricky Ray. “We had high hopes, especially early in the season, but we just didn’t play well enough in the middle of the second half. We got what we deserved.

We didn’t do what we needed to do to be a good team in this league, which is the frustrating part of it.”

Ray engineered a long opening drive, capped by a two-yard touchdown run by Brandon Whitaker. Ray was making his 200th career start in the city where he began his CFL career.

There has been talk that Ray may have been playing his final game in the CFL, but he said he hasn’t made a definitive decision yet.

“I’m not sure, so I’m going to take some time,” he said.

Edmonton tied the game two plays

later as Franklin, getting the start at QB with the Eskimos resting Reilly, found Zylstra for a 28-yard passing

TD. The Esks went up 14-7 to start the second quarter with Shakir Bell reeling in a four-yard TD pass.

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Ti-Cats look to playoffs Lions down Riders to clinch after closing out regular season with loss to Als home field advantage Lions 41 Roughriders 18 VANCOUVER — Players and coaches grinning ear to ear, the B.C. Lions posed for a team picture in their locker-room on Saturday night.

They hope to take a couple more over the next few weeks.

Jonathon Jennings threw for 307 yards and three touchdowns, including two to Emmanuel Arceneaux, as the Lions defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 41-18 for a third straight victory that locked up their first home playoff game since 2012.

Jennings eclipsed the 5,000-yard mark for the season, and Arceneaux hauled in 10 catches for 180 yards to give him 105 receptions on the year for B.C. (12-6), which will host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (11-7) next Sunday in the West Division semifinal.

“It’s huge for the organization,” said Jennings, who was 17-of-25 passing with an interception. “This is getting us on track to do the things we want to do.”

Winnipeg (11-7), which owned the tiebreaker over B.C. after winning both games between the clubs, put pressure on the Lions to either beat or tie Saskatchewan on Saturday to secure home field after the Blue Bombers posted a 33-20 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks in the nation’s capital on Friday.

“The biggest thing we talked about all week was just taking care of ourselves,” said Jennings, in his second CFL season. “We never lost focus.”

A victory by the lowly Roughriders (5-13), who lost three straight to close out the season, would have meant B.C. getting on a plane to play at Winnipeg next weekend.

“It’s always good to be able practise winning when you have to,” said Lions head coach/GM Wally Buono.

Alouettes 32 Tiger-Cats 25 HAMILTON — A playoff berth gives the Hamilton Tiger-Cats a fresh opportunity, as far as head coach Kent Austin is concerned.

“The only thing that matters up to this point … is what you’ve learned and how you’ve grown as a football player,” he said. “How we’ve grown as a football team. Because you really can wash it all away. Because the year comes down to one game now and two games to get to the Grey Cup, and we just have to play our best football. We have a chance.”

The Ticats finished the CFL regular season on a two-game losing streak, with a 32-25 home loss to the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday.

Their 7-11 record puts them in second spot in the East Division, behind Ottawa and tied with Montreal. But Hamilton gains the playoff berth because they hold the tiebreaker with two earlier victories against the Als. The Tiger-Cats host the Edmonton Eskimos next week in the East semifinal. Edmonton finished fourth in the West but won a crossover spot with a better record than Montreal.

Hamilton has also lost its last four home games, last winning at Tim Hortons Field on Sept. 16 — against Montreal. They are 1-5 since then.

“We’ve got to flush this one and get ready for the real season,” said Hamilton starting quarterback Zach Collaros, who played most of the first quarter of the game before giving way to third-stringer Jeff Mathews.

“Everything to this point is in the past and we’re excited for the challenge.”

Collaros completed 8-of-12 pass attempts for 134 yards, but he couldn’t connect with his receivers in the end zone, including a couple dropped balls, before leaving the game.

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Calgary Flames right winger Alex Chiasson pushes the puck past Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonathan Bernier in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday.

NHL

Flames futility in Anaheim continues

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ducks 4 Flames 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Ducks haven’t lost at home to the Calgary Flames since before the 2004-05 NHL lockout.

The streak’s start even predates Rick Carlyle’s first tenure with Anaheim.

Ryan Kesler scored two power-play goals, Jonathan Bernier had 25 saves and the Ducks beat the Flames 4-1 for their 24th consecutive home win against Calgary.

The victory broke the Philadelphia Flyers’ mark of 23 straight wins at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins from February 1980 through January 1987.

Carlyle and the Ducks are mystified by the run, and captain Ryan Getzlaf said any streak is “pretty amazing in this league.”

“You string some wins together and maybe they don’t feel as comfortable in this building,” said Clayton Stoner, who scored the opening goal.

Andrew Cogliano also scored for the Ducks. Alex Chiasson had a goal for the Flames, who have not won at Honda Center since Jan. 19, 2004.

Chad Johnson made 17 saves.

“For us, we want to ride the wave.

And for them, they’d like it to crash, right?” said Carlyle, who returned this season for his second tenure as Ducks coach. He also led Anaheim from 2006-12.

After Stoner and Chiasson scored in the first period, Kesler put the Ducks ahead 2-1 early in the second with his third power-play goal of the season. Kesler and Corey Perry were creating traffic in front of Johnson when Getzlaf passed in to Perry. The puck slid to Kesler at the top of the crease, and he lifted it in from there.

Kesler got his other goal with 6:31 left in the third in similar fashion.

Getzlaf shot into a screen set by Perry, and the puck again found Kesler atop the crease for a quick putback score.

In between Kesler’s goals, Cogliano followed up his own miss on a 2-on1 break to extend the Ducks’ lead to 3-1 7:54 into the second. Getzlaf had three assists, tying Teemu Selanne’s team record of 531 career assists.

Getzlaf and Selanne played together for eight seasons, and the only Ducks player with his number retired sent Getzlaf a text message recently letting him know about the upcoming mark.

“He’s well aware of it. He bugs me, are you kidding me?” Getzlaf said.

“It’s a big honour for me to have spent as much of my career here as I have.

Those things are a natural progression and hopefully they continue. Being up there with Tee is a big honour for me.”

Aside from a brief first-period flurry after veteran Deryk Engelland got into a fight with Jared Boll, the Flames had no answers for the second consecutive night after getting pasted 5-0 at Los Angeles.

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New rules increase tax on annuity payments W

hile purchasing a life annuity with non-registered money has had the benefit of providing a lifetime guaranteed income unaffected by the market and interest rates, tax TALBOT changes coming into effect next year could be BOGGS a great incentive to buy now.

An annuity is a contract with a life insurance company.

You deposit a lump sum of money at a locked-in interest rate and the company agrees to pay you a guaranteed income for a set period of time or for the rest of your life.

Annuities are most often used to generate a secure retirement income. They can be purchased with money from a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) or a non-registered account. The minimum purchase amount for an annuity with Sun Life Financial is $5,000.

Income from a life annuity purchased with non-registered money may qualify for preferential tax treatment called prescribed taxation provided certain qualifications are met.

The upcoming tax changes, however, will increase the taxable portion of each payment and reduce the after-tax income that you receive.

Here’s how prescribed taxation works.

After the life insurance company calculates the income for an eligible annuity purchased with non-registered money, it calculates the taxable portion of each income payment using a formula specified by the Income Tax Act (ITA).

The formula takes into account the premium used to purchase the annuity, the amount of each annuity payment and the number of payments you’re expected to receive depending on your life expectancy, which is determined by using tables specified by the ITA. The taxable portion remains the same for every payment. Generally, the older you are when you buy the annuity the lower the taxable amount.

For some people there will be no

ELECTRONICS

Class action lawsuit filed over Samsung phones

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ORONTO — A class action lawsuit has been filed in Canada regarding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones, which were recalled last month following reports of overheating batteries that pose a fire hazard.

The lawsuit against both the U.S. and Canadian divisions of Samsung was filed in Ontario Superior Court by London, Ont.-based McKenzie Lake Lawyers, LLP. The claim alleges Samsung was negligent because they knew or should have known that the devices could harm consumers.

The allegations have not been proven in court.

The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of Canadian residents who bought the Note 7, seeks damages and a declaration that the defendants’ actions were false and misleading and contravened the Consumer Protection Act and the Competition Act. The South Korean electronics giant stopped making and selling the devices and advised owners to turn them off and stop using them last month.

Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.

says customers who return the phone can either exchange it for a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge, or receive a full refund.

The plaintiffs in the case are Hannah Shaheen of Burlington, Ont., and Daniel Fuller, a Michigan resident in the process of moving to Burlington.

While returning from their honeymoon in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the couple says they were forced to destroy and discard their Note 7 phones because they had been banned from air transportation. They allege that in the process of destroying the devices, one caught fire.

Because they had been forced to destroy the phones, Shaheen and Fuller lost all the personal information, photos, videos and contacts that were on the devices.

The couple says they have not received any compensation from the company or a replacement device.

“We believe that through this action, the defendants will be required to account for their actions in bringing these devices to market,” lawyer Matthew Baer said in a statement.

“Canadians who owned these devices deserve to be properly compensated.”

Samsung did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

tax payable.

After January 1, 2017, the formula is changing and will use update life expectancy tables. People are living longer these days. The current tables use life expectancy data from 1971 but the new tables reflect the significantly improved expectancies.

Under the new rules the annual taxable portion for a male purchasing a single life annuity at age 65 that provides an annual income of $5,906 will rise to $980 from $412. For a single male at age 70 providing an annual income of $6,808 the annual taxable portion will rise to $926 from $272. At age 80 with an annual income of $8,662 the annual taxable portion will rise to $532 from 0 under the existing rules.

Taxable amounts for females purchasing single life policies also will rise. Taxable amounts on a policy purchased at 65 providing annual income of $5,327 will increase to $902 from $496; to $842 from $279 at age 70 providing an annual income of $6,161; and to $291 from $0 at age 80 providing an annual income of $8,043.

Annuities purchased on or after

Jan. 1 2017, will use the new life expectancy table to calculate the taxable portion of each payment but annuities purchased before will still use the old tables, even if payments won’t begin until after Jan. 1, 2017.

This grandfathering provision is a good reason to purchase before Jan. 1, 2017.

“With high volatility in the markets and with people living longer, annuities provide a stable, guaranteed income and decrease the risk of you out-living your money, but the new tax changes can be quite material, so if you are considering an annuity now might be a good time,” says Brennan Kennedy, vice president of individual wealth products with Sun Life Financial Canada.

If you are considering investing in an annuity talk to a financial adviser to determine if it is right for you.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Major North American stock markets soared Monday as investors placed their bets on Democrat Hillary Clinton emerging victorious over Republican Donald Trump, on the eve of a historic U.S. presidential election.

Wall Street surged at the open as investors digested news that the FBI has found no evidence to warrant charges against Clinton following a criminal probe into her private email server.

The Dow Jones industrial average spiked 371.32 points to close at 18,259.60 — its largest one-day gain since late January.

The S&P 500 was up 46.34 points to 2,131.52, while the Nasdaq composite jumped 119.80 points at 5,166.17. All the indexes each racked up gains of more than two per cent.

“It’s pent-up buying demand… a feeling of relief in the market that the worst case scenario is not going to pan out,” said Andrew Pyle, a portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont.

Monday’s rally was in sharp contrast to last week’s performance, which saw all three U.S. stock markets on a seven-session losing streak that was spurred after the FBI announced its new investigation into Clinton’s email — a move that was viewed to increase Trump’s chances of winning.

Investors generally view Clinton as a more stable candidate for stock markets than Trump.

Even so, Pyle said he was still surprised by how big the “knee-jerk reaction” was to the latest FBI news.

He said at this point, if Trump secures the vote, markets will be caught by surprise — somewhat similar to how investors were shocked when the U.K. defied predictions and recently voted to leave the European Union.

A Trump victory has the ability to send stock markets tumbling. Pyle anticipates the S&P would fall to post-Brexit lows, below the 2,000-mark.

But unlike Brexit, the common term used for Britain’s exit from the EU, it’s

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unclear what kind of impact a Trump presidency would have on the U.S. economy and how long that impact may linger.

“Most would agree that if Trump wins tomorrow, we are dealing with a four-year term full of policies that the market has been pretty unambiguous in their view that they wouldn’t be economically positive or market positive,” said Pyle.

In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index rose 143.20 points at 14,652.45, with gains kept slightly in check by a decline in gold stocks.

December bullion tumbled $25.10 to US$1,279.40 an ounce.

Oil markets were also up, as the December crude contract climbed 82 cents to US$44.89 per barrel. The boost helped lift the Canadian dollar up 0.17 a U.S. cent to 74.78 cents US. Other commodities were also positive as December natural gas added five cents to US$2.82 per mmBTU and December copper contracts gained four cents to US$2.30 a pound.

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Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.35 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.43 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.76 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.87 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.80 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.78 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.78

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,652.45, up 143.20 points Dow — 18,259.60, up 371.32 points S&P 500 — 2,131.52, up 46.34 points Nasdaq — 5,166.17, up 119.80 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.78 cents US, up 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$1.6586, down 1.86 cents Euro — C$1.4770, down 1.58 cents Euro — US$1.1045, down 0.93 of a cent Oil futures:

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.87 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.84 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.71 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.25 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.32 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.64 Canyon Services Group. . 5.16 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.78 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.64 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.550 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 85.45 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 47.44 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.61 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.21 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.65 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.86 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.12 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.90

US$44.89 per barrel, up 82 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,279.40 per oz., down $25.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $25.201, down 54.2 cents $810.21 kg., down $17.43 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $4.10 lower $497.30 Jan. ‘17 $4.10 lower $504.30 March ‘17 $3.30 lower $509.80 May ‘17 $2.50 lower $512.50 July ‘17 $1.00 lower $513.10 Nov. ‘17 $2.20

Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.10 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.93 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.27 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.99 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0700 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.94 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.77 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.78 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.82 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.11 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.59 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.55 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.55 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.21 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.750 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 83.08 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 45.19 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.37

higher $494.40 Jan. ‘18 $2.20 higher $497.40 March ‘18 $5.70 higher $502.20 May ‘18 $11.10 higher $508.70 July ‘18 $13.10 higher $510.70 Nov. ‘18 $15.10 higher $512.70.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 326,720 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley).

SMARTPHONES

Different Samsung phone model exploding

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

P

ARIS — A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded on Sunday.

The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide.

Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press on Monday that she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over during a family gathering at her home.

She said she threw the phone away when she realized it had “swollen up” and smoke was coming out.

“I panicked when I saw the smoke

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and I had the reflex to throw it away,” said Bouyirdane, a mother of three in the southwestern French city of Pau. The phone then caught fire and the back blew off. Her partner quickly extinguished it.

Bouyirdane said she bought the phone new last June on a website offering discounts. She said she will sue Samsung.

The South Korean company recently recalled millions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones globally because of a problem that caused the batteries to overheat and catch fire.

Samsung did not immediately respond to an email from the AP seeking comments following the latest incident.

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Poppy a symbol of what we have to remember

T

he little red poppy, which no doubt has dropped off someone’s lapel, is a scarlet splash of colour against the gray cement driveway outside the nursing home.

I pick it up as I head through the doors of the nursing home.

It is cold outside with a biting wind and I’m grateful for the warmth that assails me when I walk inside. I wrap my bright wool scarf around me tighter.

My brother waits patiently for my sister and me in his room. The walls, decorated with many pictures of war memorials, medal presentations and awards save the room from being somewhat cold and Spartan with its single bed covered with a nondescript caramel coloured blanket.

Thanks to the loving hands of his wife, the room is a reflection of the man and a life well lived. And it is also a vivid reminder of why we all wear that little red poppy on Nov. 11.

Quietly he waits. His green Korean Veteran’s cap has slipped down over

his forehead almost covering his penetrating blue eyes.

I tilt it back at a more jaunty angle and kiss his cheek, pinning the poppy I found onto his T-shirt.

“Did you pay for that, Treen,” he questioned sharply.

Treena “No,” I said quietly.

Mielke “You did.”

And as I sit there talking about this, that and the other thing and finally wheeling him out for his supper, my mind drifts out of the nursing home to all the Remembrance Day ceremonies I have covered and to all the men and women I have had the privilege of interviewing. Men such as my brother. Men who faced fear and an unknown enemy on land, sea and in the skies.

Men and women who would do it again. And again.

Always there will be wars and rumours of wars, I think.

And always there will be men and women who go to these wars. Some come home.

Some do not!

As I drive home I notice the highway lined with Canadian flags.

The flags blow fierce and proud in the November winds.

And once again as Remembrance Day 2016 draws closer I am reminded to count my blessings, not the least of which are the freedom to drive by these flags, blowing fierce and proud in the November winds.

I think of the words written by newspaperman William S. Ogden in a column that appeared in the New York Times on Dec. 30, 1945.

Ogdon was home, back in the newsroom, back in civilian clothes, after serving in Guam and on the Pacific.

As fate would have it, he was one of the lucky ones. He got to come home.

For that privilege, he was eternally grateful. This sentiment, however, did not appear to be shared by his co-workers, or, for that matter, people in general.

They grumbled. They complained.

They wanted somebody, preferably the government to fix their woes.

I think of Ogdon’s words written in 1945. “to live content with small means; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully and do all bravely.

It will be noted that no government can do this for you; you must do it for yourself.”

And I’m thinking those same words could be written now.

It’s great to wear a poppy. But to be grateful and to remember why we have that privilege is what’s important.

That’s what counts!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

FAMILY

Family meals coming to an end with kids going to college

BY AVIVA GOLDFARB ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

“M

om, are you or dad going to be home for dinner tonight?” our 17-year-old high school senior asked me. Did I notice a tone in her voice that was preparing for disappointment, or was that the sound of my own guilt?

Lately, work and social events had kept me out more than usual in the evening and I had been missing too many family dinners. On top of my husband’s more demanding work schedule last month, I realized that Celia, who was in the midst of college application stress and a minor health challenge, was feeling our absence and the absence of our nightly routine.

Family dinners at our house are central - and centering. In the mornings one or more of us race out of the house by 7:15, exchanging few words.

After school, my husband and I work and Celia often has ultimate Frisbee practice, homework, or other commitments. But at 6 p.m. most days, I am in the kitchen pouring my energy into making dinner for our family. In addition to being the focus of my meal planning business, The Six O’Clock Scramble, family dinner is the heart of our family time.

At almost exactly 7 p.m. we sit down together to eat. Even our 11-year-old yellow Labrador, Suerte, takes his foot-warming spot under the

table. Family dinner is one of the few times when we have a chance to connect and converse with each other. We keep the topics low stress - no college app or test talk at the table, for example, unless Celia brings it up.

Afterward, we share the cleanup and continue the chatter. When our son Solomon left for college last year, I worried we would feel a loss at dinnertime. But we soon resumed the routine and found that, while we miss him a lot, a bonus is that Celia talks more when she doesn’t have to share the air with her brother.

Since Celia is a senior, I am keenly aware that this is the last school year that we will enjoy regular family dinners with either of our kids. While we each sometimes have a commitment that keeps us from the dinner table, every time the three of us are together, or even when I cook with and share a quiet meal with Celia, it feels poignant, a lovely taste to savor before it fades from my tongue.

So what happened last month to throw us off course? In a way, I think I have been overcompensating. With Celia’s impending departure for college - although still nine months away - I have been steeling myself to face weekday dinners with neither of our children at the table. For any parent, that prospect is probably daunting. For one who has built her career around fostering family dinners, it’s devastating. Even our beloved dogs are ever more gray in the muzzle. Life changes loom large.

Ever since the minor trauma of my

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Celia and Andrew at mealtime; when dinners have been a centerpiece of family life, kids leaving for college create spaces that are hard to fill. family moving cross country and away from my friends and extended family when I was 11, my coping mechanism for change has been to embrace it early and enthusiastically to minimize and guard myself against the shock.

I’ve been saying yes to more evening activities because subconsciously, I believe, I wanted to reassure myself that I would have plenty to keep me busy and stimulated even after Celia leaves, in the misguided hope that I will feel her absence less acutely.

As I write this, the aroma of a whole chicken and vegetables simmering in the slow cooker for tonight’s chicken soup, I am filled with gratitude that Celia spoke up when she did. This week, I will be home for dinner every night. If Celia makes other plans one

night, I may consider getting out of the house, too. But if she craves her spot at our little wooden table, Andrew and I will happily settle into our chairs - he to her right, me across the table like always.

As 20 years of family dinners dwindle to the final nine months, I’ll count on these last meals to fill my soul until she leaves.

Come next September, I’m sure Andrew and I will continue the family dinner hour, though Suerte will have a little too much room under the table for our tastes. But how will I fill that empty spot in my heart that will ache at 7 p.m.? A new passion project?

More classes at the gym? Tequila? I have little doubt I’ll figure it out when the time comes.

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Hillary Clinton’s Quebec ancestry dates back to New France

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

M

ONTREAL — If Hillary Clinton wins Tuesday’s election, Canada’s relationship with the White House could soon be cast as a family affair, thanks to the presidential candidate’s well-documented French-Canadian ancestry.

Clinton’s family ties to Canada stretch back to the days of New France, making her a distant relative of many prominent Quebecers, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Celine Dion, genealogists have noted.

Gail Moreau-Desharnais of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan has traced a branch of Clinton’s family tree all the way back to the Filles du Roi or “King’s Daughters,” a group of young women who were sent from France in the 17th century to help populate the colony.

Clinton briefly mentioned her maternal grandmother’s French-Canadian roots in her 2003 memoir, “Living History.” But as she researched the connection, Moreau-Desharnais says she was surprised by how deep those roots went.

“She really has a good French-Canadian line,” she said in an interview.

“And when you trace her matrilin-

‘SHE HAS A REALLY GOOD FRENCH-CANADIAN LINE’ GAIL MOREAU-DESHARNAIS FRENCH-CANADIAN HERITAGE SOCIETY

eal line, or female to female to female, her ultimate female ancestor is Jeanne Ducorps, one of the Filles du Roi.” Ducorps was one of more than 700 women sent to New France — often against their will — by King Louis XIV between 1663 and 1673 to serve as brides for the men in the colony.

Many were orphans or had been abandoned in refuge houses, and were sometimes unfairly labelled

“women of ill repute,” according to the president of a historical society dedicated to studying them.

“For the most part (the King’s Daughters) were girls who didn’t have a lot of future in France,” Irene Belleau said in a telephone interview.

But while a small percentage had worked as prostitutes and many were poor, she said others arrived in New France with possessions or furniture, implying a slightly higher status.

What they had in common was a mission: all were given a sum of money and chosen or obligated to come to New France with a “royal mandate” to marry and help populate the colony, which was overwhelmingly male.

Extreme Esteem

Healthy self-esteem can help us become more empathetic “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

– Anais Nin, French essayist and memoirist

“B

ut that’s not what it means,” I protested.

“Yes, but that’s how they interpret-

ed it.”

I was flabbergasted. How could so many different meanings be drawn from something that seemed so obvious to me?

My high-school English teacher had been so impressed by the multi-stanza poem I had written for class that he had asked permission to read it to

we’ll make you one

the class below mine.

I was surprised by the A and his request — it was certainly no work of Robert Frost — but had granted him permission.

“I read the poem aloud,” he said, “then asked students to write down what it meant.”

Murray I did my best to exFuhrer plain what the poem really meant, since, as the author, I knew definitively what the words meant, and none of them had gotten it right. But he responded that everyone assigns different meaning to what they perceive, depending on the personal perspective. Poetry was the perfect example.

It was a powerful lesson about poetry and about our perspectives on everything we encounter in life. We all interpret situations and events differently, and those interpretations are based upon our core beliefs. Core beliefs are comprised of three components: how I think of myself, how I think about others and how I think about the world. They are influenced by childhood upbringing, culture, faith, values and our natural and genetic predispositions. Our self-esteem evolves out of our core beliefs and can itself become a core belief, having a tremendous impact on how we interpret the world. If our self-esteem is low, we may view ourselves as victims, or unworthy of happiness and success. If we’re feeling vulnerable, useless and unlovable, this will colour everything we experience. If our self-esteem is high, meaning we have faith in ourselves, we feel capable of dealing with life’s challenges and feel worthy of success, we will likely see opportunities and life lessons everywhere, and interpret the world in vastly different ways.

Our minds are always trying to

make sense of the world around us, and the better our self-esteem, the easier it becomes to develop a positive interpretation. This is not to say that having healthy self-esteem guarantees that we will unbiased, but it generally allows for a more honest, open-minded assessment.

If you want to change your perception, you’ll need to change your story.

Trust me, it’s easy to get caught-up in our stories. I lived my disempowering tale for years. Start by thinking about your life right now. Are you feeling happy and fulfilled or is the opposite true? Ask yourself, “Who wrote my story? My family, culture, or religion?” If it wasn’t you and you don’t like the storyline, sit down right now and start drafting a new one. To find the answers, look at your core beliefs.

Remember, beliefs are like filters that can distort everything we see, do and experience. Open your eyes and get real with yourself. Once you’ve come to some realization, set some new and positive goals and spend a few minutes everyday visualizing their achievement. Celebrate your successes and persevere. It’ll take some work, but you’re worth it.

American author, coach and lecturer Debbie Ford wrote, “It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.”

Healthy self-esteem can help us free ourselves from narrow and limiting interpretations. As a result, we will not only improve our own mental health and happiness, but become more understanding and empathetic toward others as we learn to step out of our personal perspective.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

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Mansbridge predicts ‘good numbers’ for ‘unconventional’ U.S. election

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

T

ORONTO — CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge has covered some rather unpredictable U.S. elections.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan beat incumbent Jimmy Carter to many pundits’ surprise. In 2000, it took a recount in Florida and a Supreme Court decision to declare George W. Bush had defeated Al Gore. And in 2004, it seemed John Kerry was going to win, right up until polls closed, but Bush emerged victorious.

But the current battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, which culminates in Tuesday night’s vote, is unlike any Mansbridge has ever seen.

“Everybody says the same thing,” says Mansbridge, the CBC’s chief correspondent and anchor of The National, noting he was in New York last week speaking with friends at other networks.

“Some of these people I’ve talked to have been covering U.S. elections for 40 years and it all comes down to Trump.

“His campaign is so unconventional, it’s all about him, he defies the old rules, does things differently and as a result, everybody counted him out early and they kept counting them out. Now suddenly he seems to be back in the game.”

The unprecedented nature of the election is, in part, why CBC News is “going to go wall-to-wall” with its coverage on Tuesday, says Mansbridge.

Mansbridge will host CBC News: America Votes, starting at 8 p.m. ET on CBC News Network and 9 p.m. ET on CBC. CBC contributors will be based in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Washington, at the Trump and Clinton headquarters, and at some U.S. polling stations.

“U.S. election nights have been a spectator sport for those of us in Canada and elsewhere in the world,” says Mansbridge.

“This one is different because I think everybody feels some ownership of the story. They can’t have an impact on the result but the result can certainly have an impact on them in ways that I’m not sure we’ve seen before.

“Obviously there’s a lot of feeling about what happens if Trump wins, but either way there’s a lot at stake on this election that’s going to affect a lot of people and not just Americans.”

CTV News Channel also promises “wall-to-wall” coverage, including live reports from several key U.S. cities and the candidates’ camps. Beverly Thomson and Todd van der Heyden will co-host America’s Choice 2016 starting at 7 p.m. ET. Live coverage will also be included in CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme at 11 p.m.

ET. On Global, anchor Dawna Friesen will lead the coverage from the U.S. capital. It streams online beginning at 8 p.m. ET. The coverage will also be featured in all Global News local evening newscasts.

Mansbridge predicts Canadians

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CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge has covered some rather unpredictable U.S. elections. will watch homegrown networks in “good numbers” on Tuesday night, noting “Canadians watch Canadian networks on nights like that in numbers that might surprise you.”

“We had a great run through the Canadian election a year ago but this

now, on all stations, all networks, I can’t think of a year that compares to this and most of it because of the kind of guy Trump is,” says Mansbridge.

“But it’s not just the spectacle, it’s the impact of what happens on Tuesday can affect everybody.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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OTTERDAM, Netherlands — Justin Bieber’s “Beliebers” helped turn him into the biggest winner Sunday at the MTV EMA European music awards. Again.

Bieber, who carried away the most silverware at the MTV EMAs last year with five awards, won Best Song this time around for his smash Sorry, and also took away the title of Best Canadian Act. His army of so-called Beliebers earned him his third crown of the night, Biggest Fans, in online voting via Twitter and Instagram that closed shortly before the show started.

Bieber was one of the many winners on the night who did not attend the show.

A number of other Canadians also

came away as big winners.

Drake took the Best Hip Hop category, but was absent from the ceremony.

Shawn Mendes gave his mom a shoutout after winning the Best Male category.

“My mom’s birthday is today, so happy birthday mom, I love you,” Mendes said.

Another Canadian took Best Video, with the Weeknd featuring Daft Punk winning for Starboy.

Just two days ahead of the U.S. presidential election, veteran punk rockers Green Day closed the raucous show with their anti-establishment anthem American Idiot.

“It is nice to be out of America just for a second because of this horrendous election that is going on right now,” lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said.

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Six authors in contention for $100,000 Giller prize

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

T

ORONTO — Lauded author Madeleine Thien could land another windfall tonight as the glitzy Scotiabank Giller Prize takes place in Toronto.

The Vancouver-born, Montreal-based writer is up for the $100,000 honour for Do Not Say We Have Nothing.

The top-selling novel recently won a $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.

Other Giller finalists this year include Ontario-based Emma Donoghue for The Wonder and Montreal-born author Mona Awad for 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, which won a $40,000 Amazon.ca First Novel Award in May. Hamilton-based Gary Barwin made the cut for Yiddish for Pirates, Zoe Whittall is on the list with The Best Kind of People, and Montreal’s Catherine Leroux is a finalist for The Party Wall translated by Lazer Lederhendler.

The six titles were chosen from 161 books submitted by 69 publisher imprints.

This year’s jury is made up of Canadian writers Lawrence Hill (jury chair), Jeet Heer and Kathleen Winter, along with British author Samantha Harvey and Scottish writer Alan Warner.

Steve Patterson will host tonight’s ceremony, which will air on CBC-TV. Presenters include YouTube star Jus Reign,

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Writer Madeleine Thien poses for a portrait in Vancouver, B.C. Thien could land another windfall tonight as the glitzy Scotiabank Giller Prize takes place in Toronto. The Vancouver-born, Montreal-based writer is up for the $100,000 honour for ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing.’ playwright Ins Choi, musician Tanya Tagaq, and actors Gordon Pinsent and Annie Murphy, Catherine Reitman.

The Giller awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story col-

lection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists.

The prize’s founder, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch, named it in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.

‘Doctor Strange’ spins magic at re-energized box office

this weekend, including Marvel’s Doctor Strange, the animated Trolls and Mel Gibson’s Second World War drama Hacksaw Ridge, effectively waking up the sleepy fall box office. The top three films all garnered largely positive reviews from critics and all recorded A CinemaScores from opening weekend audiences too.

As the superhero in the bunch, Doctor Strange easily dominated with $85 million in North America theatres according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the neurosurgeon turned sorcerer, Doctor Strange opened internationally last weekend. It’s already grossed $325.4 million globally.

It’s the fourteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the fourteenth to open at No. 1.

As one of the lesser-known properties, it farsurpassed Ant-Man’s $57.2 million launch, but fell a little short of Guardians of the Galaxy’s $94.3 million debut.

Much of the Doctor Strange business came from premium large format screens and 3D showings, which, according to RealD, made up 47 per cent of the domestic gross.

“Movie theatres exist for a movie like “Doctor Strange,” said Dave Hollis, the executive vicepresident of distribution for The Walt Disney Company.

For one, Hollis said, it’s just visually different.

“Yes, for a marketing tagline the idea that it’s something that you haven’t seen before is a great way to sell something, but having something that arrests and totally disrupts what people are expecting to see inside of a movie theatre is part of what will help jump start what has been a bit of a slower box office lately which is good not only for us but for the entire marketplace,” Hollis said.

The weekend also drove The Walt Disney Studios to surpass the $6 billion mark globally — a first for the studio and a second for the industry.

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eorge Gabriel Stokes was a bushy-sideburned Irish physicist and mathematician, who for half of the 19th century, was the University of Cambridge’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position held at other times by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking. A theorem Stokes formulated is taught to math and physics students today.

Stokes’ contemporary, James Clerk Maxwell, was a bushy-bearded Scottish physicist who came up with the equations that formed the foundations of electromagnetism and underpin the design of everything electronic, including the device you’re reading this on. He is known as the “father of modern physics.”

Besides genius, Stokes and Maxwell shared something else in common: A fascination with holding cats upside-down and dropping them.

“He was much interested,” Stokes’ daughter later wrote of her father, “in cat-turning, a word invented to describe the way in which a cat manages to fall upon her feet if you hold her by the four feet and drop her, back downwards, close to the floor.”

In 1870, Maxwell wrote in a letter to his wife that upon visiting his alma mater, Trinity College, he’d learned there was a legend that he used to toss cats from school windows to watch them acrobatically land on their padded paws: “I had to explain that the proper method was to let the cat drop on a table or bed from about two inches, and that even then the cat lights on her feet.”

Were they sadists? No, said Greg Gbur, a physics professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte who has blogged about what is now known as the cat-righting reflex: “They were ahead of the curve.”

That’s because while this feat of kitty gymnastics is a useful instinct for animals that climb trees, it’s also a physics conundrum — one that has occupied photographers, scientists and even NASA over the many decades since Stokes and Maxwell dropped felines. (Yes: Cats are even more mystifying than we knew.)

The issue is that the cat flip appears to violate the law of conservation of angular momentum, which says that when one thing rotates, something else rotates with equal and opposite angular momentum in another direction. Put more simply, Gbur said, when you push on the pedals of your bike and make its wheels rotate, the wheels push the surface of the Earth below with an equal force in the opposite direction (though the planet is way too heavy to actually move). But the cat is dropped with nothing to push off of – with no angular momen-

tum to start with – and rotates all the same.

For a long time, Gbur said, the belief was that the cat must have been pushing off its dropper’s hands. That changed with the advent of high-speed photography in the late-19th century, which early on was used to answer questions about animal motions – like whether all four feet of a galloping horse are ever off the ground at once (they are, which Gbur said means pre-19th-century “paintings of horses can often look very odd to the modern eye, because people were just guessing at the motion.”)

Etienne Jules Marey, a French scientist and engineer, applied highspeed photography to cat dropping.

He presented his sequence of 32 shots of a cat in midair at the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1894, and Nature published them the same year. The accompanying article, titled Photographs of a Tumbling Cat, said that the images had “excited considerable interest,” though it wryly noted that the cat’s “expression of offended dignity … indicates a want of interest in scientific investigation.” Marey said his now-iconic photos showed the cat first tucked in its forelegs while stretching out its back legs, then switched them, which allows it to use the inertia of its own mass to flip.

Gbur said Marey called this “the tuck and turn” method, and it’s illustrated by what figure skaters do: They pull their arms in to spin faster. When a plummeting kitty pulls in its forelegs, its upper body spins faster than the lower part counter-rotates. Then it switches them, slowing the front part of its body so it becomes the fulcrum for the flipping back part.

In 1935, the Dutch physiologists G.G.J. Rademaker and J.W.G. Ter Braak came up with a mathematical drawing of a falling cat, which introduced the idea that the cat’s bent waist – as seen in the high-speed photos – was important. Their drawing basically made the case that the front and back parts of the cat are two soda can-like cylinders that rotate on two axes in opposite directions, resulting in a net angular momentum of zero, a move Gbur calls the “bend and twist strategy.”

The math behind this cylinder idea was nailed down in the 1960s, when Stanford University engineer Thomas R. Kane tackled it, coming up with equations that could predict the amount of turning a cat could do with all this bending, tucking and twisting.

And that led to cats’ improbable contribution to the heady space race of 1960s America.

NASA turned to Kane for help figuring out how astronauts could turn themselves around in zero-gravity, which a 1967 San Francisco Examiner article said they did at the time with “gas jets” whose gas ran out. They gave a $60,000 research grant to Kane,

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Marey’s 1894 high-speed photos of a “tumbling cat.” who used math to make computer drawings of the moves that gymnasts then acted out on a trampoline. “As for the cat, he does it without any mathematics at all,” the Examiner article said. “He is therefore ineligible for a NASA grant.”

Life magazine featured photos of Kane’s falling cats and trampolining gymnasts in “spacemen” costumes in a 1968 issue. A year later, Kane and a colleague published what remains the definitive examination of the topic: A paper titled A Dynamical Explanation of the Falling Cat Phenomenon — which probably brought the first and only cat photos to the pages of the International Journal of Solids and Structures. Falling felines have continued to mesmerize corners of academia and the Internet. A University of California-Santa Cruz mathematician built on Kane and Scher’s work in the 1990s. In 1998, an Italian researcher dropped a cat named Esther 600 times – yes, 600 – to determine that she could fall on her feet when dropped from two to six feet, but not from one foot (Esther failed 100 attempts at that

height. Ouch.) Last year, researchers published a study on how cat-righting might be applied to robotics.

“It turns out that it’s an example of a very deep phenomenon in physics that’s usually referred to as a geometric phase, and that connects to optics, quantum mechanics, geophysics,” said Gbur, who occasionally lectures on the topic. “There’s a lot of depth that you can learn about just from that cat behavior.”

You read it here: Cats can teach us physics. Deep physics.

Gbur said the exact mechanics of the cat flip are still being debated, and he thinks that is because there’s not one answer, which is frustrating to scientists.

“Probably the cat uses multiple different strategies to turn over,” Gbur said. “Physics prefers and tends to look for the simplest possible explanation for a phenomenon, whereas evolution – if I anthropomorphize it – is always looking for the most efficient. Living creatures are doing whatever works best, which may not be the simplest option.”

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s I sat in gridlock on the George Washington Memorial Parkway during my 45-minute morning commute into Washington, I looked out the window. There was a woman my age running along the Mount Vernon Trail. I longed to be outdoors – and vertical.

That moment last fall, when I was 42, marked the beginning of a change in my life that would give me more energy and better fitness.

Like most Americans, my life is sedentary. I sit down to eat. I sit at my desk on days I freelance from home, and I sit at a different desk on days I work as a contractor in the city. I sit when I read at night. I sit at book club, in church on Sundays and when I get together with a friend at a coffeehouse. Even exercising involves frequent sitting – for instance, on the drive to the tennis courts where, after a match, I climb right back into my car for the ride home. A run rarely takes more than an hour. Half of a yoga class involves seated poses.

“Let’s meet for a walk instead of lunch,” a friend said one day. “I feel like we’re getting sitting disease.”

Yes, sitting disease, a term describing the effects of a lifestyle that makes a person more susceptible to illness and early death. Research shows that regular exercise isn’t enough to reduce these risks if you spend the rest

of the day on your buttocks.

Trapped in my car that morning, I tried to breathe calmly, but even as I listened to a podcast on happiness, I was miserable. Washington has some of the worst traffic congestion in the country, and there was no way I could feel anything but tense that day and many others as I watched people engage in the worst of human behaviour: cutting into lanes, yelling curses and making obscene gestures, as if we were all a bunch of toddlers throwing an R-rated temper tantrum.

It was clear: After years of city traffic, I had to escape the constant conga line of cars. A bike seemed like a good idea. About four per cent of Washingtonians bike to work, one of the highest percentages for a major metropolitan city, a 2014 U.S. Census Bureau report found. But it has a huge drawback: sitting. My body was begging to be upright and in motion. The ElliptiGO, a stand-up bike, seemed like the perfect solution until I saw the price: $1,200 for the least expensive model.

Paddleboarding across the Potomac River from Virginia into the city side sounded totally impractical, especially if I were in a mad rush. I also nixed the idea of running because I didn’t want to run while lugging a backpack.

My mom lived in Nashville and had a horrible commute. When she and my dad downsized and moved even farther away from her job, I asked how she planned to handle the situation.

“Retire,” she said.

Getting desperate, I came up with a creative idea: rollerblading. It was great. I felt free and overcome with joy at so much fresh air. But all that ended one night last winter when I crash-landed at the bottom of the hill by the 14th Street Bridge. As I plucked dead leaves out of my hair, a woman ambled by, and that’s when it hit me: I’d walk.

No special equipment necessary, just my two feet.

Because I’m not a morning person, I decided to Metro in to work (45 minutes door-to-door) and walk back. My home in Alexandria, Virginia isn’t exactly close to my work, but it’s not insanely far, either: 7.2 miles on sidewalks or paths that take me past the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art, the Washington Monument and the cherry trees near the Jefferson Memorial until I reach the walkway that leads to the Mount Vernon Trail. The route is well-lit in the city, and I wear a headlamp for the trail’s dark sections. How often I work in the city varies, but when I’m there, I pack yoga pants, layered tops, a sports bra and my Nike Air Zooms and change out of my business attire in the bathroom at the end of the day. (Walking with a backpack doesn’t bother me the way running with one does.)

What a difference my new commute makes. After a little over two hours (arriving home after 7 p.m. instead of around 6 p.m.), I actually feel I have more time in the evenings, not less. I feel energized and happier.

HICAGO — Anesthesia during early childhood surgery poses little risk for intelligence and academics later on, the largest study of its kind suggests.

The results were found in research on nearly 200,000 Swedish teens.

School grades were only marginally lower in children who’d had one or more common surgeries with anesthesia before age four, compared with those who’d had no anesthesia during those early years.

Whether the results apply to sicker children who have riskier surgeries with anesthesia is not known. But the researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and doctors elsewhere called the new results reassuring, given experiments in young animals linking anesthesia drugs with brain damage.

Previous studies of children have been relatively small, with conflicting results. The new findings, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, don’t provide a definitive answer and other research is ongoing.

The study authors and other doctors say the harms from postponing surgery must be considered when evaluating any potential risks from anesthesia in young children.

The most common procedures in the study were hernia repairs ear, nose or throat surgeries and abdominal operations.

The researchers say the operations likely lasted an hour or less. The study did not include children with other serious health problems and those who had more complex or risky operations, including brain, heart and cancer surgeries.

The research involved about 33,500 teens who’d had surgery before age 4 and nearly 160,000 who did not.

School grades at age 16 were less than half a per cent lower on average in teens who’d had one childhood surgery with anesthesia versus the no-surgery group.

Average grades were less than two per cent lower among teens who’d had two or more surgeries with anesthesia.

The researchers also looked at IQ tests given to Swedish boys at age 18 upon joining the military. Scores were about the same for those with one early surgery and the non-surgery group scores were less than three per cent lower in boys with three or more early surgeries.

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LEUNG, Vivian Vivian Leung passed away on November 4, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 93. She is survived by her children, Anita (Ed), Warren (Cherry), and Sylvia (Larry), extended family, Cher and daughter Chloe, Matthew and Chelsea and sons Luke and Cole, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Soman and her son Timothy.

Vivian was born in Victoria, the youngest of seven children. The family relocated to Calgary when she was 15 and started a group of small grocery stores in the city. In 1944, she married Soman and the couple moved to Red Deer where he and a partner established Sterling Cleaners.

Vivian was an enthusiastic golfer and enjoyed her days as a member of “the Sloppys” gang of golf hackers. She also curled and her skill on the ice far surpassed that exhibited on the golf course. She was an avid bridge player and fierce opponent. In her final years, her fiesty nature prevailed as she suffered a series of strokes; she remained determined and undaunted by any setbacks to the end. For Vivian, her family always came first. She was a dedicated mother to her children and to a special niece, Karina, who lived with the family for a number of years. At Vivian’s request, there will be a private family burial. Memorial contributions in Vivian’s honour can be made directly to either Stars Air Ambulance (www.Stars.ca) or Red Deer Hospice Society (www.reddeerhospice.com). Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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BOLANDER, Grace May Nov. 13, 1920 - Nov. 5, 2016 DOORNENBAL Gerrit “Gerry” April 18, 1928 - Nov. 5, 2016 At 88 years of age, Gerry passed away peacefully with family members around him in the early morning of November 5. Gerry was a humble man of faith and integrity! He lived a full life working hard for his family, his church and his community, and doing things he loved: biking, gardening, curling, camping, travelling, reading and making music. He loved to smile and have fun. The grace of God was so evident in everything he did. He was a devoted family man and leaves a legacy of love through them. He is survived by Pita, his loving wife and friend of over 64 years, his six children: Phil (Odette), Ed (Joanne), John (Deb), Brian (Kathy), Linda (Martin), Bob (Kathy), 15 grand children, 26 great grand children, his sister Anneke (Jan) and many in laws, nieces and nephews. Gerry was predeceased by his parents, four siblings and two great grandsons. Heartfelt thanks go out from the Doornenbal family to the staff at Royal Oak who lovingly cared for Gerry in his final years and who were especially compassionate in his final days. A celebration of Gerry’s life will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at Bethel Christian Reformed Church, 5704 - 51 Ave. Lacombe. Interment at Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca.

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Grace May Bolander passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at the Red Deer Hospice. Grace was born on a farm east of Delburne, Alberta to Harry and Beatrice Randall.

She had an older brother Dick and a younger sister June (Warren).

She attended Woodlake School prior to working at the Dairy Pool in Alix, Alberta. In 1946 she married Harry and they raised their family in Delburne before moving to Red Deer in 1965.

In 1976, her husband Harry became a paraplegic from a work-related accident and Grace selflessly became the “nurse” she had always aspired to be. In spite of Harry’s mobility issues, they managed to travel with friends and family.

Grace enjoyed square dancing, gardening, needlepoint, baking, playing cards, watching figure skating and was an avid Toronto Blue Jays fan. When Harry passed away in 2003 she remained in their home until she was 92 years old. Although the ALS took a toll on her body, her mind and wit remained strong. Grace will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by all who knew her. She is survived by three daughters: Betty (Wayne) Martin and their two daughters Kimberley (Trevor) Stephenson (Blake and Chloe) and Tracey (Aaron) Landers (Jadyn and Damon); Dixie (Terry) Brandt and their children Kelly and Leah; and youngest daughter Pat. Special thanks to the Hospice staff for providing her with the TLC she deserved. It was Grace’s wish that there be no funeral service. Condolences may be forwarded to the family at www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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Call Prodie at 403-314-4301 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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Condos/ Townhouses

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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Acreages/ Farms

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 RURAL Farm home to rent, 20 min. SW of Red Deer. 403-396-7862

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Houses/ Duplexes

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 - $1500./mo.

NEG. Call 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

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3 + 4 BDRM. townhouse, close to school & all amenities. 6 appls., small pets welcome.

403-506-0054

ATTRACTIVE Townhouse Right on the Green Belt AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

Please contact Katie at 403-318-1250

Suites

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3050

MORRISROE MANOR

Suites

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Dec. 1. $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

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Entertainment

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

EASY!

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Seniors’ Services

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Snow Removal

1380

PLACE an ad in Central SNOW REMOVAL Alberta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buy- Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459 ers. 309-3300.

Misc.

Services

1290

A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP & Recycling avail. weekly or occasional basis.

(403) 505-4777.

Painters/

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The easy way to find a Decorators buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

309-3300.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

SINGLE CAR, RED DEER $150/mo. 403-348-6594

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Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Realtors & Services

Engagement & Wedding Announcements say it Loud & Clear in Classifieds 403.309.3300 | classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lots For Sale

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DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

3150

Garage Space

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

1280

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

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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WAREHOUSE or SHOP SPACE

BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 ROOM ALL FACILITIES. $450. 403-350-4712

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Contractors

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3090

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Massage Therapy

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Rooms For Rent

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious ROOM to Rent. $500 very suites 3 appls., heat/water Large, all facilities, prefer incl’d., ADULT ONLY F. 403-350-4712 BLDG, no pets, Oriole TWO fully furn. rooms, all Park. 403-986-6889 util. incl., Deer Park, AND Rosedale.

403-877-1294 CITY VIEW APTS. 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Warehouse Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospi- Space tal. No pets. 403-318-3679

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 COMPLETELY reno’d or 403-347-7545 sunny 2 bdrm. suite in adult bldg. at Parkview SOUTHWOOD PARK Place in Innisfail. New 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, kitchen incl. appl., and new bathroom. Well-maintained generously sized, 1 1/2 bldg. with on-site manager. baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Extra storage, free parking, heat incl. in rent. $950/mo.

Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca Call Jac @ 403-227-1049.

ELNORA, 3 bdrm., main fl., $775/mo. Incld’s all util.

4 Plexes/ Avail. Dec. 1. 403-348-6594 6 Plexes LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 2 BDRM. 4 plex, fireplace, SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 incld’s water, sewer, garbage. $925. rent, $650. sd. Avail. now or Dec. 1.

403-304-5337 Rental incentives avail.

ACROSS from park, 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, only, N/S, No pets.

4 appls. Rent $875./mo.

403-596-2444 d.d. $650. Avail. now or Dec. 1. 403-304-5337 NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent GLENDALE $750, last month of lease 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., free, immed. occupancy. $975. incl. sewer, water & 403-596-6000 garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm.

Dec. 1. 403-304-5337 bsmt., fridge, stove, all util. incl. except power and ORIOLE PARK cable, n/s, no pets, 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. $850/mo. + $850/DD. rent, s.d. $650, incl water Avail. immed. Contact sewer and garbage.

403-754-5693 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

3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms $1075/mo with a SD as low as $200 1 month absolutely free (1 year lease)

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SECOND 2 NONE Fall Clean-up ~ Trim brush, clean eavestroughs, snow removal. 403-302-7778 SNOW/junk/tree removal, and garage door services.

403-358-1614

4160

FOR sale or lease, prime real estate in Ponoka, 11/2 acres off of Hwy. 2A. Phone 403-963-0204

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Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

(4) MICHELIN X-Ice, 235/60R16, mounted on Dodge rims w/pressure sensor. $400. 403-754-2427 15” STEEL wheel rim, $25.

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TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

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Annie’s Mailbox

Husband’s bad habits return after job loss Dear Annie: When my husband and I got married a little over three years ago, we both had our vices. Mine was that I was smoking a pack a day of cigarettes, and his was that he was 20 pounds overweight and did not watch what he ate. On our wedding night, we vowed to really try to overcome our unhealthy habits. I quit smoking within six months of being married (it took a few tries), and he started eating better and running five times a week.

Within the year, he had lost his 20 pounds. We were both feeling great.

I have not had a cigarette in three years, and he had kept off the weight until recently.

About a year ago, he was laid off from his job, and he’s not been able to find a new one since. He has been trying really hard but with no luck.

Needless to say, he has been very discouraged and is not feeling great about himself — which has caused him to start back with some of his old unhealthy eating habits. He has

stopped running and is eating close to a pint of ice cream almost every night before we go to bed.

I don’t want to say anything to him about our pact because I know that this is a stressful time for him and I want to be supportive, but Annie it hurts me to see him Lane going down a self-destructive path. Should I say anything to him about our pact, or should I wait to see whether he gets a job and starts to feel good again? — Made a Pact Dear Pact: When is the ideal time to improve my physical fitness? No matter when you ask the question, the answer is always the same: Now. Your husband doesn’t need to wait to get a job to start getting back in shape. In fact, if he starts eating better and exercising more, he will prob-

ably have a better chance of finding a job, because he’ll feel better about himself and exude more confidence.

Gently remind him about the pact, and help him put down the pint of rocky road for some healthful bedtime snacks, such as an apple, a banana or cereal.

Make clear that you’re coming from a place of love, not judgment. Keep an open line of communication and check in on his emotional well-being, as mental health impacts physical health, and vice versa.

And congrats to you on quitting smoking. That is no small feat.

Dear Annie: One of your readers asked what the benefit is of putting yourself out there to heal wounds between siblings. I can tell her.

My siblings and I got into a long-lasting argument. Finally, when my husband became ill, each began to talk to me. They were not, however, talking to each other.

When my husband passed away

and my brother got ill, I moved back home to take care of him in July.

Still, I only saw one at a time until, at Christmastime, I had a party and invited both of them. I told each the other would be coming, and I expected both to be there and act decently toward each other.

Imagine my delight when my sister came in, went directly to my brother and gave him a huge hug, which he returned! They only needed a referee to pull them together.

Since that time, we have all been close to one another, helping whenever it’s needed, enjoying fun times and realizing how much we missed with the previous quarrels. The quarrels were not about minor things, but the coming together as brother and sisters was so much larger.

It’s worth the effort, because family is the one thing we need around us.

— Happy to Referee Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

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after the man, whose name was not released, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary.

wearing both pants and a dress standing next to a person in a wheelchair.

Underneath it reads: “Whatever.

Just wash your hands.”

Some students at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary School in Maple Ridge, east of Vancouver, came up with the idea and the sign was made as part of an art project.

It was recently put up on a former staff-only, single-use washroom.

Carrot unearths lost wedding band BERLIN — A retiree in Germany has struck gold in his garden, finding the wedding band he lost three years ago wrapped around a carrot.

Germany public broadcaster WDR reports that the 82-year-old lost the ring while gardening in the western town of Bad Muenstereifel.

The incident happened shortly

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. — A gender-neutral bathroom in a British Columbia high school is providing some chuckles with a lesson in hygiene.

A large, blue sticker on the washroom door has an image of a person

Toilet paper used to repair road cracks

LITTLETON, Colo. — It’s not pranksters or vandals who placed toilet paper all over the streets of Littleton, Colorado, it was city workers.

The Denver Post reports that Littleton crews have used bathroom tissue to help seal up cracks along more than 120 streets.

Officials say toilet paper was applied with a paint roller over freshly laid tar used to fill asphalt cracks.

The paper absorbs the oil from the tar as it dries, keeping it from sticking to pedestrian’s shoes or car and bike tires. The biodegradable paper will break down and be gone in a few days.

comes to close relationships, communication will be easier than usual as Venus helps calm troubled waters. Connecting with a cosmopolitan international friend is also favoured.

CANCER (June 21July 22): Don’t be afraid to feel things deeply to- Joanne day. You do it so well!

Be inspired by birthday Madeline Moore great, blues singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt: “I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Moon moving through your relationship zones, it’s time to put others first.

If you direct your fiery energy into helping family and close friends, then you’ll have a fabulous day.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time

for versatile Virgos to get cracking!

When it comes to friends, relatives, neighbours, social media and travel, the more inventive you are, the better the outcomes will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s positive stars favour creativity, companionship, entertainment and social functions. Plus take the opportunity to spoil yourself with some soothing personal Libran pampering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Money matters look more positive, as Venus helps you nurture your nest egg. And a family member or work colleague may also be able to assist with some surprisingly good financial advice.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): All forms of study and communication are emphasized. Plus you’re keen to learn something new and share it with others. Travel and study are also likely, as your curiosity is stimulated.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Don’t let your job become your whole life. Be inspired by birthday great, blues singer Bonnie Raitt: “I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The more creative and innovative you are at work, the better the day will be. Are you looking for employment?

Don’t dismiss the numerous contacts you have within your circle of family and friends.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you worrying about a financial matter?

If you keep doing what you’re doing, then you’ll just keep getting what you’re getting. So maybe it’s time for a more innovative and intuitive approach?

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

‘Just wash your hands’ sign posted on gender-neutral bathroom

Horoscopes Tuesday, Nov. 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Gordon Ramsay, 50; Bonnie Raitt, 67; Rickie Lee Jones, 62 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Innovation and conversation are emphasized today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: When it comes to your feelings, still waters run deep.

2017 is the year to bring more harmony and balance into your busy world.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fiery Rams don’t do things by halves! With today’s stimulating and impulsive stars, chances are you’ll go overboard on a project or relationship. Just make sure you finish what you start.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to improve your relationships with loved ones and work colleagues. And avoid the temptation to be a stubborn Bull. You’ll get a lot further with a fun and flexible approach.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When it

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