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PENHOLD HOLDS ITS FIRST REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE AT ITS NEW CENOTAPH

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Royal Canadian Air Cadets from Penhold march to the cenotaph in the Penhold Multiplex Thursday evening. About 175 residents, including Royal Canadian Legion members, RCMP, elected officials, Town of Penhold emergency service volunteers, and others, attended the Remembrance Day event, which was the first of its kind held in town. See related story on page 3.

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ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION Air Force members meet at noon on Nov. 12 at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca.

NOVEMBER 11 1918 — French Field Marshal Foch and the members of the German Armistice Commission sign a formal surrender to end the First World War at 5 a.m. in Marshal Foch’s railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, to take effect at 11 a.m., as Sir Arthur Currie’s Canadian troops chase the last Germans out of Mons, Belgium, under German occupation since 1914. Over 750,000 Canadians served in the four years of the Great War; 424,589 went overseas; 60,661 were killed. In all, over 10 million people died in the war, including 6 million civilians. Armistice Day will be renamed Remembrance Day and declared a legal holiday for the first time on Nov. 11, 1931.

1976 — Gordon Lightfoot’s single, The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, stays at #1 on the Billboard pop chart.

1982 — U.S. space shuttle Columbia blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Canada’s Anik C comsat into orbit; first commercial flight of the Shuttle.

1995 — Journalist Judy Steed, in a conference speech, attacks the chair of Ryerson University’s journalism program for employing gay activist Gerald Hannon as a part-time instructor.

2002 — George Bowering named Parliament’s first poet laureate; West Coast author of about 50 books and a two-time winner of Governor General’s Award.

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A new tradition began in Penhold yesterday as the town held its first Remembrance Day service at the town’s new cenotaph, unveiled just a year ago.

Donated by lifetime resident Stewart Ford, the cenotaph is a monument honouring First World War fallen soldiers.

The best part said Ford, is that the memorial is inside the Penhold Regional Multiplex, and not outside like most other ceremonies across the country.

“There’s no fun being outside in November on a chilly day like I used to be as a cadet for the Remembrance Day service,” laughed Ford. “So I suggested we could put it in the multiplex.”

From 1939-95, Penhold was home to the Canadian Forces Base. Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper said adding the cenotaph to the multiplex has made this year’s ceremony that much more memorable.

“Penhold has such strong military ties, so it’s a special time for us to stop and think about the people who have served and the people who didn’t return,” said Cooper.

“The cenotaph is dedicated to all the different service levels, the army, the navy and the air force.”

Shorty after Cooper became mayor in 2010, he formed a committee to find out what the town could do to better commemorate soldiers who fought in the war. Cooper said he was grateful when Ford step forward to help.

“I spent my life here,” said Ford. “I came here at six months of age, and it’s where I went to school, had my business, and raised a family. I’m in a very

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Indigenous leader hopes for another court hearing on hunting rights WINNIPEG — The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is hoping for another court battle over indigenous hunting rights.

Last week, two men from the Pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful hunting on private property near Canora, Sask.

Charlie Boucher, who is chief of the First Nation, and Georgie Lamirande were each fined $7,500.

Government officials say that in Saskatchewan, people exercising treaty rights to hunt for food must ask for prior permission to hunt on private land.

But Grand Chief Derek Nepinak with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says the government has obligations under treaties to accommodate indigenous rights.

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Royal Canadian Air Cadets from Penhold stand at the cenotaph in the Penhold Multiplex Thursday evening. fortunate position where I can do things for my community.”

Also on display at the ceremony was a duplicate of the town’s 1918 First World War memorial stage curtain that the town donated to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa in 2006, where it was refurbished

and deemed a national treasure.

Cooper said many of the town’s residents go to Innisfail for the Remembrance Day service on Nov. 11 because it’s the closest Legion to Penhold, and the reason the town’s ceremony is held the day before. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

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Duwaine Giroux sits outside the Safe Harbour People’s Place Shelter in Red Deer Thursday afternoon. Giroux who has stayed at the shelter and camped in forested areas in Red Deer in the past now has his own apartment.

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Housing programs a success

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

The latest report on Red Deer’s homeless show more people are being housed.

Community programs helped house or provided housing supports to 728 people, including 229 who were newly housed or supported, according to Closer to Home: 2015/2016 annual report on Red Deer’s Homelessness Initiatives.

In 2014/15, programs housed or supported 581 people, including 192 newly housed or supported.

Roxana Nielsen Stewart, the city’s social planning supervisor, said while it’s difficult to do a straight comparison between the reports because some clients overlap between the years and some move on to permanent housing, there was an increase in the number housed or supported.

Mayor Tara Veer said the latest report does reflect progress.

“It also speaks to Red Deer as having a substantial need as a regional service hub. I think that we’ll need to watch it closely in terms of the numbers particularly given the provincial economy and the number of citizens living on the threshold of financial vulnerability,” Veer said.

Nielsen Stewart said the biggest change reflected in the report was the move to a co-ordinated process so agencies work together to match clients to Housing First programs.

“That was a real key shift for us in this reporting time period and it was a really successful shift. The agencies have been really happy with the process. The vulnerable people were trying to work with, we served them better. We were able to match the right program to them and that helps in the success rate,” Nielsen Stewart said.

In 2016, the city’s focus was on

Closer to Home: 2015/2016 annual report on Red Deer’s Homelessness Initiatives was released this week with details on services available through grants from federal and provincial governments.

Organizations assisting the homeless included: ● Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society that received $1.38 million for the Red Deer Housing Team. ● Safe Harbour Society received $751,247 for its housing, shelter triage, and winter shelter programs. ● Canadian Mental Health Association got $690,000 for the Buffalo Housing First program. ● McMan Central received $332,285 for housing, youth outreach and family reunification programs. ● Red Deer Native Friendship Society received $276,637 for housing programs and supports. ● Bredin Centre for Learning received $110,831 for PATH (Program to Assist the Homeless).

The report includes quotes from clients and community staff. More of their stories can be found at www. reddeer.ca/homelessness. homeless who sleep outside and those who have been homeless the longest.

Program funding in 2015/16 came from a $3.39 million Outreach & Support Services provincial grant and a $421,528 Homeless Partnering Strategy federal grant.

“Ultimately we’re able to deliver these programs because of service agencies and charities in the community. Because we’re making progress, it’s important to acknowledge the efforts of our front-line service providers,” Veer said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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IN SHORT Weather record falls as warm November continues November’s mild and drier weather will carry on through to Friday with a high of 14 C forecast for Red Deer — making for comfortable conditions during Remembrance Day ceremonies.

Red Deer has seen some warm temperatures since November arrived with one record being broken so far. Overall, though, it hasn’t been much of a year for breaking records.

November has offered a number of days well above zero Celsius, and the record being broken on Tuesday (Nov. 8). The warmest day of the month so far, a fall day turned into a summer day with a high of 22.6 C. The previous record was set in 1961 at 13.9 C. On Nov. 2, the high at Red Deer Airport was 11 C. On Nov. 3 and 4, the daytime highs were the same at 18.6 C. The record for Nov. 3 was set in 1949 at 20.6 C, and for Nov. 4 it was 22.8 C in 1975.

On Nov. 5 it was 19.7 C, just one degrees off matching the record, which was set in 1980 at 20.7 C. Other set day records so far in 2016 were: April 18, highest temperature, 24.8 C; May 3, highest temperature, 27.9 C; June 7, lowest

Collicutt water park reopens Saturday Splash down at Collicutt Centre happens on Saturday when the water park reopens after a 10-week closure.

Public swimming runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The 15-year-old water park will reopen after its lengthiest closure so far for the most extensive maintenance to date that included inspections, cleaning and maintenance of all pool equipment and technical systems. Improvements were made to the filtration and water circulation systems. Roof and wall acoustic tiles were replaced. New tiles replaced stone work around the hot tubs.

“The whole interior of the water park has been painted so to me it looks very refreshed and new,” said Collicutt Centre supervisor Denis Delemont on Thursday.

The addition of new lights further improve the appearance, he said.

“It’s like an HD look in there now as opposed to old-fashioned style of TV. It’s a crisper, sharper look.”

Delemont said regular customers will notice the difference, and other users will notice how vibrant and active the centre is once the water park reopens.

“The water park is our jewel of the building. It’s the family piece of the building where lots of families gather and go. It’s a different look to our building when the water park is not up and running.”

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in under budget and is complete in time for peak season at the water park.

The interactive water playground for young children will reopen the week of Nov. 21.

Blackfalds expanding its community hall Blackfalds will be expanding its community hall in a nearly $1.5-million project.

Town council voted unanimously this week to award Shunda Construction the tender to increase the size of the community hall.

The upgrade is being done to provide more space for Parent Link, a program for parents and youngsters recently introduced to Blackfalds.

Already, 50 participants and their caregivers have joined the program.

Expanding the community hall will give Parent Link a permanent home. The new addition will also have a retractable divider so the existing hall capacity can be boosted to 300 people from 225.

Council also opted to spend an additional $37,000 to cover the cost of winter construction. This is expected to move up the completion date to the end of May rather than the end of September.

Blackfalds has asked Lacombe County to contribute $294,000 to the project based on the number of users from the county.

Parent Link offers various programs including: play groups, musical classes, early literacy programs, parent education and support groups.

It is run by Central Alberta Parent Link Network, which has five centres

in Blackfalds, Lacombe, Ponoka, Rimbey and Wetaskiwin.

Society looking for volunteers for community Christmas dinner The Urban Aboriginal Voices Society is looking for volunteers for its annual Community Christmas Dinner on Dec. 16.

Anyone who wants to help plan the dinner are invited to attend the planning meeting at the Urban Aboriginal Voices Society office (4730 50th Street from 3:30-4:30 p.m.) on Nov. 15.

They are also looking for people to cook food for the dinner.

To RSVP or for more information contact them at 403-505-4049.

The time and location of the dinner has yet to be announced.

Donations are also being accepted.

Ponoka man charged with theft An attempt to grab a ring and run from a jewelry store at CrossIron Mills mall has resulted in a Ponoka man being charged.

The suspect fled the mall in Balzac after stealing it but he was located and arrested shortly by Airdrie Rural RCMP at a nearby gas station. The suspect was also associated to a stolen Audi A4 vehicle that was taken out of the Edmonton area.

The 29-year-old man was charged with theft under, breach, and possession of stolen property. He also had arrest warrants out of Edmonton for possession of a dangerous weapon.

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Jansen weighs options on leaving PCs

SAYS LEADER ‘HASN’T HAD MY BACK’

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DMONTON — Alberta Progressive Conservative member Sandra Jansen is weighing her options on leaving the caucus and party, and is taking leader Ric McIver to task, saying he “hasn’t had my back.”

Jansen quit the party’s leadership race this week, saying the personal and online abuse she has endured from supporters of another candidate became intolerable.

“I was contacted by a lot of politicians,” Jansen said in an interview Thursday. “They reached out and they offered a kind word. And I didn’t get a kind word from our leader at all and haven’t so far, and that’s incredibly disappointing.

“I haven’t felt for a long time that Ric McIver has had my back, and he proved it this week.”

The two-term MLA for Calgary North West said she is now deciding her future, but says there is no definite timeline.

“I’m going to take some time and weigh all my options and talk to my political mentors,” she said.

The legislature is on a one-week break next week during the fall sitting.

Earlier Thursday, McIver told reporters he has not contacted Jansen because he was respecting

her privacy.

“She was out Monday. She said she wanted to take a couple of days. We’re respecting her time to think about what’s best for her and I’m sure I’ll be talking to her soon,” said McIver.

“When are you going to call her?” a reporter asked.

“That’s not really between you and I,” he replied.

Richard Starke, another PC legislature member and a leadership candidate, said he had reached out to Jansen.

“She’s a colleague that I respect and we’re a team. You stay in touch,” he said.

“It’s the human thing to do.”

Starke said the discussion with Jansen was private but said he values her contribution to caucus.

“She’s an important member of our team,” he said.

Jansen said that for a long time she had been receiving social media hate and abuse from supporters in a rival camp who don’t agree with her progressive views.

She said it peaked at last weekend’s policy convention in Red Deer, when her nomination forms were vandalized and she was followed and harassed in the hallways of the convention centre.

She has also accused fellow leadership candidate Jason Kenney of bringing “Trump-style politics” to Alberta.

Kenney, a Calgary MP, issued a statement

Wednesday deploring any abuse and harassment of other candidates.

“My campaign has exhibited a positive and respectful tone since it began,” he said. “Neither I nor any member of our campaign team has engaged in personal attacks against other candidates.”

Jansen was one of two candidates to quit the race this week. Former PC legislature member Donna Kennedy-Glans also left, stating she was concerned the party was moving too far right on social issues.

Four candidates remain in the race: Starke, former Calgary MP Jason Kenney, former PC legislature member Stephen Khan, and Calgary lawyer Byron Nelson.

Also Thursday, Progressive Conservative party president Katherine O’Neill announced the committee running the leadership contest has decided to bring in a neutral third party investigator to check into Jansen’s allegations.

O’Neill said there is no timeline, but said they want to get to the bottom of what happened as quickly as possible.

Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, speaking in the Alberta capital, said Ambrose said women in politics need to keep confronting such abuse head on.

“Any woman who is in politics will tell you that they have experienced intimidation and harassment, but … when you are faced with that kind of situation, you have to call it out,” said Ambrose.

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Body of missing Saskatchewan girl found

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IPAWIN, Sask. — An Amber Alert and the frantic search for a seven-yearold girl ended in tragedy Thursday when her body was discovered in a home in northeastern Saskatchewan.

The alert was issued by RCMP in Nipawin after Nia Eastman was not returned to her mother Wednesday evening. Police said Nia’s father, Adam Jay Eastman, was found dead in a rural area earlier Thursday from self-inflicted injuries.

Vicki Starkell, a mother of three, came out to help search for Nia. “It’s just horrific,” said a tearful Starkell. “My heart just goes to out the family and loved ones of this little angel.”

Then came word that officers found the girl’s body in a house in Choiceland, a small community not far from Nipawin.

RCMP Insp.

Jennifer Ebert struggled to maintain composure as she broke the news o f t h e g i r l ’s death.

“All of us had hoped and prayed Nia w o u l d b e l o - NIA EASTMAN c a t e d s a f e l y, ” Ebert said as she choked back tears. “This was not the outcome any of us were hoping for and our thoughts are with her family and the communities.”

Ebert said investigators were trying

to piece together what happened after Nia’s father picked her up from school on Wednesday.

“Our investigators are working diligently to determine exactly what took place,” Ebert said. “At this point in the investigation, there is no indication anyone else was involved in Nia’s death, and we are not seeking any suspects.”

The house in Choiceland was cordoned off by yellow police tape Thursday. Forensic investigators in white suits could be seen going in and out of the residence.

Just down the road in the small community is the school where Nia attended Grade 1.

“The school is grieving, as is the community, as is the family,” said Rob McKay, superintendent of school services with the North East School Division.

McKay said students stayed in class, though some parents choose to pick up

their children early.

He said councillors will help students and staff cope with the tragedy.

“Often they need someone to talk to.

Sometimes a teacher will need someone to do something as simple as cover a classroom while they’re having a bit of a moment and catching their breath,” said McKay. Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale issued a statement about Nia’s death.

“It is heartbreaking to lose a child, and nothing can ever make that right,” he said. “I wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to Nia’s mother and family, her community and all those who have been touched … We are all grieving together this most terrible loss.”

A Facebook page belonging to a Jay Eastman features several photos of a little girl smiling happily with her father. People who knew Eastman say he went by his middle name “Jay.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, greets veterans at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 128 in Sydney, N.S. on Thursday.

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YDNEY, N.S. — Justin Trudeau paid tribute to Canada’s veterans Thursday during an emotional visit to a Royal Canadian Legion branch in Cape Breton, where the prime minister chatted and posed for selfies with old warriors, many of them wearing rows of medals from past conflicts.

The visit, scheduled a day before Remembrance Day, followed the official reopening of a Veterans Affairs office in Sydney, which was closed amid much protest in January 2014 when Stephen Harper was prime minister.

“The closing of the service centre here in Sydney was a catalyst for change, symbolizing the neglect that veterans were subject to under the previous government,” Trudeau told a crowd of about 200, most of them shiver-

ing as an icy wind cut across the front of the newly renovated building.

“Today, we’re doing what we should do much more of: honouring our men and women in uniform, past and present.”

Ron Clarke of Georges River, N.S., a 36-year veteran with the Canadian Army, was waiting at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 128 when Trudeau arrived to meet with the dozens of veterans gathered there.

The prime minister embraced Clarke like and old friend and thanked him for his hard work.

Clarke, 76, had tears in his eyes and his voice cracked with emotion as he explained what the reopening meant to him.

“The veterans can now go to the office and speak with their counsellors and not worry about telephones or computers,” he said. “They’re going to get their one-on-one, like we asked for …

Jeez, it’s great to sit down and talk to a person and get your message across.”

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Three workers rescued after incident in Ottawa tunnel OTTAWA — Three workers trapped in a collapse in a light rail tunnel under construction in Ottawa have been rescued.

Ottawa paramedics spokeswoman Manon Lavergne says one worker suffered a minor hand injury in the incident, which happened Thursday afternoon.

Lavergne says the injured worker was taken to hospital for treatment.

The other two were not injured.

Ottawa city Coun. Mathieu Fleury said at the scene (on Waller Street) near the University of Ottawa that the majority of workers escaped and the three were trapped in a “safe zone.”

The city said on Twitter that a small amount of shotcrete — concrete that is sprayed on a surface — fell in a construction zone within the tunnel, and said the incident was not a “tunnel collapse.”

Tests reveal infant ingested carfentanil, parents charged WINNIPEG — Police say a nine-month-old boy found in critical condition in a Winnipeg home last month ingested a powerful drug called carfentanil that has recently turned up in the city.

Powder found at the scene was believed to be fentanyl, but tests show it was the much more powerful drug — a synthetic opioid that can be fatal in very small doses.

The infant’s condition has improved.

Const. Jason Michalyshen says it’s not clear how the child ingested the drug.

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Workers look on at the Ottawa LRT construction site at Waller Street, where concrete from the roof of a tunnel fell, Thursday.

But he adds kids are curious and there are a number of ways in which a small amount can get into a child’s system.

The boy’s parents have been charged with failure to provide the necessities of life, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and possession for the purpose of trafficking.

“An incredibly scary circumstance for everyone involved, and we’re so thankful that this ninemonth -old has improved and is now safe,”

Michalyshen said Thursday.

He said the case is a wake-up call for the city.

Carfentanil was first discovered in Winnipeg in September. Police found 1,477 doses in a hotel room and arrested a 37-year-old man.

The bust followed larger seizures in British Columbia and Alberta, including a package discovered by border agents in August that contained one kilogram of carfentanil — enough for 50 million doses.

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BRUNO GOES HOME

Top court dismisses police attempt to appeal lawsuits

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ORONTO — Two class-action lawsuits arising out of the chaotic Toronto G20 summit more than six years ago appear destined for trial after the country’s highest court refused on Thursday to get involved.

Toronto’s police authorities had wanted the Supreme Court of Canada to stop the legal actions in their tracks. The court, however, declined.

It also ordered the police services to pay costs of the appeal.

Sherry Good, one of the two lead plaintiffs, said she was delighted the case could now move forward.

“We’ve been fighting for over six years now and we’re committed to another six if it’s necessary,” Good, 58, said in an interview. “We want justice no matter how long it takes.”

The class actions were spawned by the violence-marred weekend in June 2010 when police arrested or detained more than 1,000 people in what was later described as one of the worst violations of civil liberties in Canadian history. Many of the detainees were kept in appalling condi-

tions at a makeshift detention centre in Toronto. Almost all were released without charge within 24 hours.

Good and co-plaintiff Tommy Taylor are seeking a court declaration that class members’ charter rights were violated. They also are looking for damages they say would be strong “instruments of behaviour modification.” It’s not clear when any trial might take place.

“Nothing is going to get in our way,” Good said. “This is about freedom and democracy. The police need to know we’re not going to stop until we make sure this never happens again.”

After one false start and two bruising court battles, Ontario’s top court in April ruled that the two separate but related civil actions — one for people boxed in on the streets, the other for those sent to the detention centre — should go ahead.

In turning to the Supreme Court, the police services board argued class actions were inappropriate. Instead, the board maintained any claims of wrongful arrest or detention should be treated individually. It also suggested the formulations of the class actions were unfair.

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TTAWA — David Johnston had been Governor General for a month when he flew to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops in Kandahar in November 2010.

During the trip, Johnston met a senior U.S. military officer who praised the Canadians’ battle prowess, but also their ability to “take off the warrior hat” and help rebuild after natural disasters and conflict.

Six years later, with Canadians preparing to mark Remembrance Day, Johnston says he has seen that attribute over and over again during his time in office.

“They’re good warriors,” he said.

“But they have another mindset which has to do with fundamental values of making your society work.”

But Johnston worries that despite a high level of respect, most Canadians don’t know about that unique ability — or much else about the military and those who serve in it.

Soldiers and military personnel routinely place near the top of opinion polls asking Canadians which professions they respect the most.

Annual surveys conducted for the Department of National Defence in recent years have similarly shown overwhelming levels of support for the military among the public.

But the National Defence polls also found public awareness has dropped off since the end of the Afghan war,

with many Canadians having only limited familiarity of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Johnston’s term as Governor General is set to expire next September, meaning Friday will be his last Remembrance Day as commander-in-chief.

He said he had a high level of respect for those in uniform before taking office and that has grown to admiration over the past six years.

“We’re very fortunate in the quality of people that we attract into military service in Canada,” he said. “I’ve seen first-hand how those old-fashioned virtues of duty, honour and service are real and lived out every day. And I recognize that these are people who sign up to face danger. Not to avoid it, but face it head on.”

Johnston’s time at Rideau Hall coincided with a period of great change for the Canadian Armed Forces.

The combat mission in Afghanistan came to a close. Budget cuts and delayed procurement projects raised questions about its long-term capabilities. And concerns about sexual misconduct and the treatment of those with mental injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder bubbled to the forefront.

While Johnston is military commander-in-chief, his wife Sharon was appointed last June as the honorary naval captain of military personnel, a post in which she has focused on PTSD and similar injuries.

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Defence lawyer in New Brunswick python case says Mounties broke deal CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — JeanClaude Savoie has been found not guilty of criminal negligence in the deaths of two boys killed by his

www. r e d d e e r a d vo c a t e . c om escaped python in northern New Brunswick, and now his lawyer says the RCMP broke a deal not to lay a charge in the first place.

“It’s been quite a roller-coaster road for him to have been implicated in this matter, investigated and at one point told that there would be no charges,” Leslie Matchim said.

Matchim said an investigation by New Brunswick RCMP concluded no charge was warranted.

“The investigation does not support an offence of causing death by criminal negligence,” reads a report signed by the lead investigator and the head of the major crime unit on Nov. 22, 2013.

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brother Connor, who were attending a sleepover in Savoie’s Campbellton apartment.

The file was then subjected to an external review by major crime investigators in Halifax, and they agreed with the initial finding that charges were not warranted.

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty Wednesday night after deliberating much of the day.

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A generation’s sacrifices

BY JOHN STEWART ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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oo rarely do we thank our parents — or for that matter, the whole generation that included our parents.

The Canadian baby boomers’ upbringing was strange alchemy: part Cold War paranoia, part unbridled optimism, and a mess of traditional and emerging values all brewed in one cauldron. Blame our parents.

Thank our parents.

We were moulded by the hands, minds and demons of those who survived the Second World War, a time of devastating upheaval. Their perspectives on life were first formed during the Great Depression, then cast in the forge of war.

Today we talk more openly about the devastating impact of post-traumatic stress disorder, and how to address it.

But two generations ago, discussions about mental health were most often unwelcome. Certainly the knowledge and resources available today were non-existent then.

So what did fathers haunted by their war experiences do? Many withdrew. Others drank. Still others were abusive toward family members — wives and children. Many were remote, violent, morose and sought solace — or oblivion — in a bottle.

My father-in-law, Warren Keefe,

served as a Lancaster mid-gunner, flying night missions over the heart of Germany during the Second World War. He had lived a relatively carefree life to that point. He was athletic, bright, handsome, and peaceful by nature.

After the war, he was always haunted by a quirk of fate.

That strange twist allowed him to survive the war, but to him it never seemed like grace. It was something for which he forever felt guilty, even if he knew that was irrational.

His last bombing mission was harrowing. Spotlighted by enemy gunners over Germany, the pilot was forced to take evasive action. He dropped the plane out of the cone of light in a sudden dive. The move saved the plane and the crew, but it burst Warren’s left eardrum. When they arrived back at their base, he was grounded because of the damage to his ear.

Soon after, his crew, with a replacement mid-gunner, left on another mission. They never returned.

Warren was sent home.

Warren died earlier this year, just short of his 95th birthday. He defied all the odds to live a long life.

He survived Nazi flak. He survived depression. He survived an unhappy career that he endured to provide for his family. He survived cancer.

He learned to live alone after his wife died of cancer, just as she retired. He learned to live without sight and with faulty hearing as he

aged.

But he never truly understood how much his children, and their whole generation, owed him, and his peers.

It should not be lost on those few of Warren’s generation who remain that they shaped the baby boomers and the world we have prospered in.

Overcoming monumental tragedy and defeating unspeakable evil, our parents chose with optimism to have big families, and to raise those children with a new, forward-thinking perspective even as they wrestled with their own demons. The 20-year post-war baby boom in Canada resulted in 8.2 million births, an average of 412,000 new Canadians a year. By 2011, according to Statistics Canada, there were 9.6 million Canadians in the baby boom cohort (including immigrants born in the same period).

So by 1965, baby boom children comprised almost half this country’s population.

Baby boomers represented almost a third of the Canadian population.

We helped our parents out of their darkness by our very presence.

Then we were encouraged to thrive because of the extraordinary sacrifices they made.

Lest we forget, thank you.

John Stewart is editorial vice president with Troy Media Digital Solutions Ltd. and editor-in-chief of Troy Media.

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Bold moves towards a new Alberta economy

BY ROBERT MCGARVEY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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wouldn’t want to be Alberta Premier Rachel Notley right now, but all is not lost. Her government can take bold action to kick-start a new economy.

Two years into the deepest recession the province has experienced since the Great Depression, Notley’s government’s most important policy initiative has been a carbon tax.

Albertans are skeptical. Helping the environment is fine, but how exactly does another tax pull a struggling economy out of recession?

It’s obvious the government wants to change the international perception of Alberta. The New Democrats somewhat naïvely assume that being “responsible” on the carbon file will silence critics of Alberta’s energy industry and perhaps open the door to the construction of pipelines that are so important to the economy.

Good luck!

Ironically, we haven’t seen from the NDP the kind of bold action that

could be expected from a socialist party.

If the NDP government really wants to help Albertans, it could boldly change the rules of the economic game.

First, it could target the deep bias in Alberta’s capital markets.

But what can governments do that might help direct capital to other sectors like technology-rich startup companies or undercapitalized rural businesses?

Capital flows in predictable patterns. Savings are mobilized for investment through debt and equity markets.

But many of Alberta’s alternative economic sectors lack a history of reliable returns and often are driven by newer classes of intangible assets.

Fortunately, this is precisely where the real opportunity lies.

Like many developed economies, Alberta’s is being buffeted by deep trends in global capitalism. In the last few decades, the global economy has been radically transformed by an unobserved asset revolution.

Since the late 1950s, intangibles have increased in importance. Today,

intangibles have displaced more familiar tangible assets as the primary engine of growth in all developed economies.

World Bank studies suggest these new sources of value now contribute more than three-quarters of gross domestic product.

New intangible assets underpin many of Alberta’s most exciting growth opportunities.

What could the Alberta government do to help these businesses?

It could start by instituting a policy that the U.S. banking industry is calling intellectual property collateral enhancement (CE). It’s a kind of guarantee on the value of intangible assets for a defined period.

With CE in place, Alberta businesses that wouldn’t otherwise qualify for normal bank financing would have enhanced (intangible) asset strength. That would reduce credit and foreclosure risk. Improved credit profiles would increase the leverage available to the borrower.

This would be a game changer for the technology sector, in the same way Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. insurance created banking

security for the residential housing market.

Would financial institutions support such a move? A government insurance program would help, but they’d also need to modify their banking systems and lending protocols. Those protocols are heavily biased in favour of traditional tangible assets like land, industrial equipment and inventory.

Fortunately, the province owns a bank. ATB Financial could take the lead in developing these new standards, protocols and financial instruments, kick-starting the economy and helping Alberta advance into the emerging creative economy of the 21st century.

Robert McGarvey is chief strategist for Troy Media Digital Solutions Ltd., an economic historian and former managing director of Merlin Consulting, a London, U.K.-based consulting firm.

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U.S. ELECTION

Mr. Trump comes to Washington

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ASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump took a triumphant tour of the nation’s capital Thursday, holding a cordial White House meeting with President Barack Obama, sketching out priorities with Republican congressional leaders and taking in the majestic view from where he’ll be sworn in to office.

Trump’s meeting with Obama spanned 90 minutes, longer than originally scheduled. Obama said he was “encouraged” by Trump’s willingness to work with his team during the transition of power, and the Republican called the president a “very good man.”

“I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including his counsel,” Trump said from the Oval Office. He’ll begin occupying the office on Jan. 20.

While Trump noted that he and Obama had never met before, their political histories will forever be linked. Trump spent years perpe-

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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday. trating the lie that Obama was born outside the United States. The president campaigned aggressively against Trump during the 2016 campaign, warning that his election would put the republic at risk.

But at least publicly, the two men appeared to put aside their animosity. As the meeting concluded and journalists scrambled out of the Oval

Office, Obama smiled at his successor and explained the unfolding scene.

“We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, the country succeeds,” Obama said.

From the White House, Trump headed to Capitol Hill for meetings with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Senate Majority Lead-

er Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to discuss the GOP legislative agenda.

Ryan, who holds the most powerful post in Congress, was a sometime critic of Trump and never campaigned with the nominee.

Emerging from the meetings, Trump sketched out priorities for his presidency.

“We’re going to move very strongly on immigration,” he said. “We will move very strongly on health care.

And we’re looking at jobs. Big league jobs.”

Ryan took Trump on a tour of the Speaker’s Balcony overlooking the National Mall, the scene of Trump’s upcoming inauguration. The view, Trump said, was “really, really beautiful.”

Trump was also beginning the process of putting together his White House team. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who worked his way into Trump’s inner circle during the election, and top campaign official Kellyanne Conway were emerging as possible picks for White House chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the transition planning.

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Anti-Trump protests continue

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EW YORK — Demonstrators took to the streets in San Francisco and gathered in a New York City park Thursday to express their outrage over Donald Trump’s unexpected presidential win while Trump supporters took to social media and denounced demonstrators as hypocrites or worse for not accepting defeat in a democratic process.

High-spirited high school students marched through San Francisco’s downtown, chanting “not my president” and holding signs urging a Donald Trump eviction. They waved rainbow banners and Mexican flags, as bystanders in the heavily Democratic city high-fived the marchers from the sidelines.

“As a white, queer person, we need unity with people of colour, we need to stand up,” said Claire Bye, a 15-yearold sophomore at Academy High School. “I’m fighting for my rights as an LGBTQ person. I’m fighting for the rights of brown people, black people, Muslim people.”

In New York City, about a hundred protesters gathered at Union Square in Manhattan to protest a Trump presidency. They held signs that read

“Divided States of America” and “Not My President” and “Let the New Generation Speak!!”

At a subway station along 14th Street, New Yorkers expressed their thoughts — “Time to Fight Back” and “Keep the Faith! Our work is just beginning!” — along the walls of a walkway using sticky notes.

On Twitter, Trump supporters accused protesters of not respecting the process because it didn’t work out in their favour.

“You’re literally protesting against free democratic elections. Go live in North Korea, you absolute trash,” one said. “They’re not protesting Trump, they’re protesting democracy, and the right to disagree with them. Isn’t that fascism,” said another.

Thousands demonstrated Wednesday around the country, from New England to Kansas City to the West Coast. Flames lit up the night sky in California cities as protesters burned a giant papier-mache Trump head in Los Angeles and started fires in Oakland intersections.

In Chicago, where thousands had recently poured into the streets to celebrate the Chicago Cubs’ first World Series victory in over a century, several thousand people marched through the Loop.

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Kurdish-led fighters marching near Raqqa

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EIRUT — A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, a spokeswoman for the group said Thursday.

Cihan Ehmed of the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces told The Associated Press that its fighters are advancing on two fronts north of Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS’ self-declared caliphate. The push from Ein Issa and Suluk north of Raqqa has been ongoing for days under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

The SDF, which includes Kurdish, Arab, Syriac and Turkmen fighters, say they have committed 30,000 fighters to the offensive aiming to eventual recapture the city of Raqqa, which was announced on Sunday. Iraq is meanwhile waging a major offensive to drive IS from the northern city of Mosul.

Ehmed said once the forces coming from the two directions meet north of Raqqa, they will surround 550 square kilometres (212 square miles) of territory controlled by the extremists.

“The operations are ongoing according to the plan,” she said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said many people are fleeing areas of fighting north of Raqqa. It added that SDF fighters have advanced north of Raqqa, capturing new areas and raising to 17 the number of villages and farms taken from IS since the offensive began.

Later on Thursday, the SDF said on social media that its fighters have captured three farms, a village, and have approached the village of Hayes where intense clashes are ongoing.

The operation to recapture Raqqa has been dubbed “Euphrates Rage” and a joint operations command has been set up to co-ordinate various factions taking part in the battles.

Elsewhere in Syria, a rocket fired by rebels struck a school in the capital Damascus’ central al-Mohajireen neighbourhood wounding three children, state media said without providing further details. In the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of Douma and Saqba, government airstrikes killed at least 11 civilians, including four children and three women, according to the Syrian Civil Defence in Damascus suburbs. The Observatory also said 11 were killed, but said they included four women.

In the northern city of Aleppo, seven people were wounded, some critically, when rebels shelled two gov-

IRAQ

Iraq troops slow Mosul advance

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AGHDAD — Iraqi troops fired at positions held by the Islamic State group in and around the northern city of Mosul on Thursday but did not advance as they regrouped and cleared neighbourhoods once occupied by the extremists, military officials said.

Troops are screening residents fleeing from Mosul, searching for any IS militants trying to sneak out among the more than 34,000 civilians fleeing to displacement camps and host communities in nearby provinces.

Amnesty International reported allegations against security forces of arbitrary detention, forced disappearances and ill-treatment of prisoners, including an account that up to six people were “extrajudicially executed” in late October over suspected ties to IS. The London-based rights organization said the alleged killings took place near the area of Shura and Qayara outside Mosul, and it urged the government to investigate.

“Men in Federal Police uniform have carried out multiple unlawful killings, apprehending and then

deliberately killing in cold blood residents in villages south of Mosul,” said Lynn Maalouf, deputy director for research at Amnesty’s Beirut office.

“In some cases the residents were tortured before they were shot dead execution-style,” she said, adding that it was “crucial” for Iraqi authorities to bring those responsible to justice.

“Without effective measures to suppress and punish serious violations, there is a real risk that we could see war crimes of this kind repeated in other Iraqi villages and towns during the Mosul offensive,” Maalouf added.

Prime Minister Haider alAbadi denied the report, calling it “incorrect information,” and saying in a statement that IS fighters were the ones responsible for the killing of civilians.

Since the offensive to retake Iraq’s second-largest city began Oct. 17, the Shiite-led government has tried to prevent revenge attacks against the mainly Sunni residents of Mosul and surrounding areas. State-sanctioned Shiite militias and Kurdish forces say they won’t enter the city, and the government has vowed to investigate any human rights violations and hold people accountable.

ernment-held neighbourhoods, state news agency SANA said. Later on Thursday, pro-government media also said allied troops moved in on new

rebel advances in the western part of the city, regaining control of parts of the strategic Al-Assad district amid intense clashes.

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Taiwan set to legalize same-sex marriages FIRST PLACE IN ASIA

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AIPEI, Taiwan — Su Shan and her partner are raising 5-month-old twins together, but only one of the women is their legal parent. That could soon change as Taiwan appears set to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

“Now, if something happens to the child, the other partner is nothing but a stranger,” said Su, a 35-year-old software engineer in Taipei. By contrast, either partner in a legally recognized marriage could make legal, medical and educational decisions, she says.

Taiwanese lawmakers are currently working on three bills in support of marriage equality, one of which is al-

ready listed for review and could be passed within months. Same-sex marriage also has the prominent support of President Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female head of state.

About 80 per cent of Taiwanese between ages 20 and 29 support samesex marriage, said Tseng Yen-jung, spokeswoman for the group Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy , citing local university studies. Taiwan’s United Daily News found in a survey taken four years ago that 55 per cent of the public supported same-sex marriage, with 37 per cent opposed.

That’s seen as a reflection of Taiwan’s ready acceptance of multi-party democracy and other inclusive attitudes, as well as the fact that Taiwan’s 23 million people largely follow Bud-

dhism and traditional Chinese religions that take no strong positions on sexual orientation or gay marriage.

Gay and lesbian relationships began to find wide acceptance in the 1990s, aided by the already well-established feminist movement, said Jens Damm, associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies at Chang Jung University in Taiwan.

“The elite became in favour of a kind of gender equality,” Damm said.

Still, same-sex marriage still had to overcome traditional perceptions of gender roles and the strong pressure on children to marry and have kids. The self-ruled island also lacks many openly gay and lesbian celebrities to lead the way the writer and television talk show host Kevin Tsai is

among the few exceptions.

Taiwan would join Canada, Colombia, Ireland, the United States and 16 other countries that have legalized same-sex marriage over the past 15 years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based LGBT rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign . But it would be a notable exception among Asian and Middle Eastern countries, at least 20 of which continue to ban same-sex intercourse.

“It’s a big step forward for the history of human rights,” said Yu Meinu, a ruling Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker who is sponsoring the same-sex marriage bill now in line for parliamentary debate. “If Taiwan can get this passed … it will give other Asian countries a model.”

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TaterGrams Canada one hot potato for Lacombe man

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe man has made voice and digital messaging oh-so-yesterday with the help of a bag of pota-

toes.

Since Wayne Rempel launched TaterGrams Canada about a week ago, business has been baking — much to his surprise.

It’s a pretty simple online enterprise. People can send a special message, written on a russet potato, to someone they may, or may not, have eyes for.

One day Rempel was helping a friend research online how to work

from home and stay in pyjamas all day.

“Me being a bit of a smart ass said, ‘Google funny, strange or weird homebased business.’”

That’s when he came across a potato messaging business in the United States, but he didn’t pay much attention to it.

Later when he did look at it, he wanted to send a potato message in Canada.

It turned out there was no Canadian business doing it, and further research revealed the U.S. business was doing about $225,000 in business annually.

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Wayne Rempel of Lacombe works to complete some Tater-gram orders at his kitchen counter on Thursday.

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‘Agvocates’ bridge gap between farmers and consumers

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ridging the gap between Canadian farmers and consumers is the focus for at least one organization at the Agri-Trade Equipment Expo in Red Deer this week.

Agriculture More Than Ever is an industry-driven cause with close to 3,000 “agvocates” and 470 partners that promote the agriculture and create positive dialogue about Canadian agriculture.

Debbie Bailey, representative for Agriculture More Than Ever, said five years ago the group conducted an awareness survey to find out what the general public knew about agriculture.

“We went out and talked to the people in the industry and found out they were saying the same types of negative things like ‘It’s a risky business’ or ‘It’s weather dependent,’ shining a negative light on farming,” she said.

Bailey said in a country where only a small amount of people are involved in the industry, it’s important for farmers to speak proudly about what they do.

“About three per cent of the population come from a farming background. The rest of the population in Canada really doesn’t have that connection to agriculture. So it’s important to teach people where their food comes from,” said Bailey.

“It’s important to share the good things that are happening in agriculture. Be proud of it and tell your children to speak up and speak positively about it.”

Not only is it important to educate the public, Bailey said it’s important for farmers to learn more about other sectors and start representing the agriculture industry as a whole.

“Sometimes you can be in your own little bubble in the sector you belong to, but we want people to look at it as a broader industry. We want everybody to feel responsible for representing the entire industry,” said Bailey.

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Emmett Sawyer, commercial cattle and grain farmer, said agriculture has gotten so far away from the public eye that people don’t even realize how advanced farming has become.

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Staff shortage in the oilfield, says Calgary firm

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ALGARY — An oilfield services company that laid off almost two-thirds of its workers during the darkest days of the two-year-old energy slump is now warning it can’t find enough staff as its customers react to improvements in commodity prices.

Calgary-based Essential Energy Services (TSX:ESN) cut more than 400 workers in 2015 and almost 250 earlier this year, dropping its staff count from almost 1,000 to a low point of 343 last March.

On Thursday, it said it’s hiring again. Demand in Western Canada for its well completion and production services has been rising.

“For Essential, activity has improved in Q4 2016 … we are continuing to hire in Q4 2016 in anticipation of a busier winter season,” CEO Garnet Amundson told a conference call

Thursday.

But he warned: “If this continues, due to staffing reductions early in the year, we could become constrained in our ability to supply equipment in the short term.”

MARK SALKELD He said Essential has grown its staff to about 440 at the end of October, but still wants to hire an additional 40 to 50 workers.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada issued a forecast last week calling for 4,175 wells to be drilled in Canada next year, up about six per cent over 2016, but 63 per cent lower than the number drilled in 2014.

PSAC president Mark Salkeld said the modest rebound is unlikely to encourage workers to return to what many now see as an unreliable

paycheque. Oilfield services workers are often paid only when their equipment is working and are laid off when it isn’t, he said. “I’m not surprised.

People have moved on … they’ve gone home,” he said.

“They’re not coming back to this industry for one winter’s worth of work and we can’t guarantee them work beyond the winter.”

Amundson said Essential has had to increase hourly wages in recent months to prevent workers from leaving to work for rivals who are also hiring, reversing some wage rollbacks it imposed over the past two years.

“There has been a change in labour dynamics during the third quarter … in terms of supply and demand and wages,” he said, adding higher costs aren’t being matched with higher rates from clients for its services.

“Quite simply, we believe pricing has bottomed but isn’t increasing and, yes, we have had to incur wage increases so, by definition, that will

result in short-term (profit) margin compression.”

Analyst Andrew Bradford of Raymond James said he, too, has been hearing complaints about shortages of specialized field staff, especially from the well completion companies he covers.

“In a very active oilfield, which isn’t what we’re in at all, this would be the norm,” he said. “Trying to find incremental qualified staff is very difficult.”

He said the bright side of a tighter labour supply is it points to a potential recovery in pricing for the sector.

Essential reported a net loss of $3.8 million in the three months ended Sept. 30 on revenue of $30 million, versus net income of $2.9 million on revenue of $48 million in the same period of 2015.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates at least 44,000 direct jobs have been lost in the oil and gas industry since the downturn started.

Canadian oil sector benefits from Trump U.S. PRESIDENT’S HOSTILITY TOWARD OPEC SEEN AS POTENTIAL POSITIVE FOR CANADIAN CRUDE OIL

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ALGARY — Donald Trump’s hostility toward trade with OPEC oil producers and interest in U.S. energy security could boost demand for Canadian oil as he assumes the president’s office, says the head of a

‘TO ASK FOR 30 PER CENT, OR WHATEVER HE’S ASKING FOR, IS BASICALLY SAYING THERE WILL BE NO PIPELINE.’ - BOB SKINNER, WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

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last year, versus about 36 per cent by OPEC, says Tim Pickering, founder and chief investment officer of Auspice Capital.

“Trump has talked about the end of energy imports from DONALD TRUMP hostile OPEC nations,” Pickering said.

“If it were to occur that they reduce the import of oil from Middle Eastern nations, for example, that could be bullish for oil and that could be bullish for Canada, in my opinion.”

In his America First Energy Plan, Trump says the U.S. should “become, and stay, totally independent of any need to import energy from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests.”

Calgary oilpatch observers said any increase in Canadian oil exports will require more pipeline capacity, which makes Trump’s promise to reopen the approval process for the Keystone XL oil pipeline a potential win.

But Trump’s insistence that the U.S. be given a greater financial benefit from the pipeline could still derail the project.

“On the specifics of KXL, he has said he would approve that forthwith, provided they get some kind of uptick,” said Bob Skinner, executive fel-

low with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.

“To ask for 30 per cent, or whatever he’s asking for, is basically saying there will be no pipeline.”

Jeff Gaulin, vice-president of communications with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, says export pipelines from Western Canada are running at near their capacity of four million barrels of oil per day.

Oil production is expected to grow by at least 850,000 additional daily barrels between now and 2021 from oilsands projects under construction, then jump by an estimated 750,000 bpd by 2030, he said.

During the election campaign, Trump said he was open to allowing oil and gas companies to drill more wells on U.S. federal lands, potentially creating more competition for Canadian energy exports.

But Jackie Forrest, vice-president of research at private energy investment firm ARC Financial in Calgary, said she doubts the move would have much impact in the short term on American domestic oil output.

“How fast that actually would result in new production? My gut feel is it could be at the end of his four-year term before you would see any investment that would result in new drilling,” she said.

Skinner said the fact the U.S. is “swimming” in shale oil and gas makes it unlikely that new and unexplored areas would attract a lot of investment.

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Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, right, from Finland, looks back as Calgary Flames’ Johnny Gaudreau scores during secondperiod NHL hockey action in Calgary, Thursday.

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Benn snaps scoring drought as Stars double up the Flames BEING AT HOME IS NO ADVANTAGE FOR CALGARY Stars 4, Flames 2 ALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Jamie Benn snapped a nine-game scoring drought with two goals, including the game-winner, as the Dallas Stars beat the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Thursday night to snap a five-game winless streak.

When an offensive zone penalty by Alex Chiasson put the Stars on the power play early in the third period, it took less than a minute for Dallas to take advantage against the Flames’ 29th-ranked penalty kill.

A quick passing sequence down low was capped off neatly by Benn, who fired a feed from Tyler Seguin past Brian Elliott at 7:20 while alone in the slot to give his team a 3-2 lead.

After a career-best 41 goals last season, Benn had just two goals in his first 13 games and the slow start for him and Seguin, as well as the team, led to coach Lindy Ruff putting the two on separate lines against the Flames.

Lauri Korpikoski and Antoine Roussel, with an empty-netter, also scored for Dallas (5-6-3). The Stars are 1-1-1 with two stops to go on a five-game trip.

Johnny Gaudreau scored both goals for Calgary (5-9-1).

The Flames have lost five of their last six overall. They continue to struggle at home, where they fell to 2-5-0 on the season.

With the Flames trailing 2-0, Gaudreau came out flying to start the second, breaking a six-game scoring drought with his third and fourth goals on his first two shifts to tie it.

At 1:33, he jammed in a loose puck after Kari Lehtonen could not control Brett Kulak’s hard slap shot.

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JOHNNY GAUDREAU SCORED BOTH GOALS FOR CALGARY (5-9-1).

THE FLAMES HAVE LOST FIVE OF THEIR LAST SIX OVERALL. THEY CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE AT HOME, WHERE THEY FELL TO 2-5-0 ON THE SEASON. 2 minutes later, this time it was Gaudreau deflecting the point shot over Lehtonen’s shoulder.

At 12:31, teammates Dougie Hamilton and Sam Bennett lost a puck battle along the end boards with Radek Faksa sliding the puck in front, where it was snapped into the top corner by Korpikoski.

Benn made it 2-0 3 minutes later on some poor defensive coverage. When the entire slot opened up before him and he took the puck to the net and zipped a backhand past Elliott.

Lehtonen, whom gave up four goals on 11 shots Tuesday in Winnipeg, finished with 29 saves to improve to 2-4-2.

Elliott, who had 18 saves, fell to 3-7-0.

NOTES: Calgary was 0 for 2 on the power play and is 0 for 26 with the extra man at home. … Gaudreau’s parents were in the crowd, having just flown in from New Jersey. … Flames rookie Matthew Tkachuk did play after getting stitches in his hand at practice on Wednesday. He’s day to day. … Stars D Jamie Oleksiak was in the lineup after being a healthy scratch the past nine games.

UP NEXT: Stars: Visit Edmonton on Friday.

Flames: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday.

t didn’t take Jill Stewart long to make an impression with the RDC cross-country running team.

Before the season even began, first-year head coach Kari Elliott said the former HuntDanny ing Hills star was one to Rode watch.

Stewart didn’t disappoint. In fact the 18-year-old exploded onto the scene, finishing third among college runners in her first Grand Prix race of the season and never left the top five.

“Jill is laidback and not flashy, but she has an iron will under that quiet demeanor,” said Elliott. “She works hard in practice and during a race, she’s never satisfied with her result … she’s always looking to improve.”

Stewart didn’t know what to expect when she arrived on the college scene.

“I was hoping I would place but didn’t expect to improve as much as I did,” she said.

“It’s really nice to have other teammates to push me, especially Jordanna (Cota). She’s always fast and it’s nice to try to keep up with her. She really pushes me, as do all my teammates.”

Stewart finished third twice, second and fifth in four Grand Prix races this season and took fourth in the ACAC finals, which saw all the top college runners on hand.

“I went into that first Grand Prix hoping I could be in the top 10, or even five, but a third was a wake-up call that I could be that good,” she said.

“As for the finals they had a good field with more runners and more teams than the Grand Prixs. I was happy with the fourth.”

The RDC team placed three runners on the ACAC All-Conference team — Cota, Stewart and Amy Severtson. Cota was second and Severtson seventh at the ACAC finals.

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ON THE ICE WHL Player of the Week Regina Pats defenceman Connor Hobbs received the WHL player of the week award for the week ending, Nov. 6. Hobbs picked up a goal and six assists, in helping the Pats go 2-0-0-0 at home. He had a goal and three Connor helpers and received second star honours Hobbs in a 10-2 win over the Kootenay Ice and then had three assists in a 9-6 win over the Saskatoon Blades. Hobbs is fourth in league scoring for defencemen with 18 points (4g, 14a) in 13 games. The six-foot-one, 196-pound Hobbs was a fifth-round pick (143rd overall) by the Washington Capitals in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. He is in his third season in the league, having collected 80 points (26g, 54a) in 126 games with Medicine Hat and Regina.

CHL Goaltender of the Week Moose Jaw Warriors Zach Sawchenko was named the CHL goaltender of the week for the week ending, Nov. 6. The 18-year-old from CalZach gary posted a 2-0-0-0 record, including a Sawchenko 41-save performance in a 3-1 win over the Brandon Wheat Kings. He made 36 saves in a 3-1 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings. Over the two games he had a 1.00 goals-against-average (gaa) and a .975 save percentage. The six-footone, 175-pound Sawchenko is eligible for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. He was on the NHL Central Scouting ‘Players to Watch’ list with a C rating. He has a 6-1-2-0 record, a 2.82 gaa and a .915 save percentage this season.

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Sass getting comfortable on Rebels blueline

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arson Sass felt comfortable when he arrived in camp with the Red Deer Rebels this season.

The 17-year-old was not only in his third camp with the Western Hockey League team, but he spent time with the Rebels late last season. He played two games with the Rebels after his midget AAA season was over, and then practised and watched during the Memorial Cup. “That was huge playing those couple of games and practising with the team,” he said. “That experience helped so much coming in this season, hoping to be a regular. It was also sweet watching the Memorial Cup and seeing what was going on behind closed doors … that was a great experience.”

The six-foot-one, 183-pound rearguard was expected to grab a regular spot on the Rebels blueline this season, and he hasn’t disappointed.

“He’s played really well … he was a really good player in midget AAA and was their captain and a leader,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“He’s fit right in with us. We’re able to use him in a lot of different situations and he’s come through for us.

“He knows the game and is a smart player. He obviously is still learning, but will be a big part of our future.”

Although he was looked at as a strong candidate to play this season, Sass said he never looked at it that way.

“You’re never guaranteed anything,” he said. “I came to camp and all I wanted to do was work hard and earn a spot and hopefully get more minutes than last year. I came, worked hard, had fun and did my best … that was all I could do.”

Thanks to several players graduating from the blueline after last season, there were a number of spots open this year. Once again Sass didn’t think about that.

“Even with less or more defencemen, it was up to me to earn a spot,” he said. “Hopefully I’d be a regular

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Carson Sass, 17, has become a key contributor to the Rebels blueline. and so far I’ve played in almost every game … it’s been a lot of fun.”

Born and raised in Melville, Sask., Sass came up through their minor hockey system before playing midget AAA in Yorkton with the Maulers. He played two seasons with the Maulers, his last he had eight goals and 16 assists in 43 games.

“They really helped prepared me to make the jump to the Rebels,” he said. “They have a great organization.”

Although he had a solid offensive year in his last season with the Maulers, Sass doesn’t see himself as an offensive defenceman.

“I see myself more of a defensive guy, blocking shots and shutting down other players. I feel I can chip in offensively, but my role with the team is shutting down the other team.”

Sass has two assists in 14 games this season. Lately he’s teamed with fellow rookie, Ethan Sakowich, on the blueline.

“Lately it’s been with Sak, but I also played with (Austin) Strand. They’re both easy to play with. Sak and I are good buddies off the ice which makes it easier on the ice.”

Sass is also someone who knows what he has to work on to continue to improve in what is his draft season.

“Probably my shot from the point and getting pucks through,” he said.

“As well making a good first pass is huge and moving the puck quickly.

A quick transition is something I’ve worked on.”

He could possibly use a bit more size.

“I’m 183 pounds, so probably I could be a little bigger, but I feel good at this weight right now, that’s the main thing,.”

“He’s not a big guy, but he used what he has to his advantage,” said Sutter.

As for looking down the road toward the NHL draft, isn’t something he worries about.

“I’m not really thinking of it. I just have to go out and play and hopefully it happens. If not I’ll just keep working.”

The Rebels are on the second half of an eight-game road trip. They won one of the first four games and left Wednesday for the east where they face Brandon Friday, Moose Jaw Saturday, Regina Sunday and Swift Current Tuesday. They return home next Friday to face Medicine Hat. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@ reddeeradvocate.com.

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Burke dealt because he wasn’t ‘a focused player’ for ’Canes

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ethbridge Hurricanes general manager Peter Anholt dealt leading scorer Brayden Burke and delivered a message about the type of player he’s looking for.

“I think Burke really wasn’t a focused player for us from Day 1 and the first day he showed up at camp,” said Anholt. “There were a number of things that happened in the last month.”

The Hurricanes announced Tuesday they had traded 19-year-old forward Burke to the Moose Jaw Warriors for 1998-born forward Ryan Bowen, a second-round pick in the 2017 WHL draft and a conditional draft pick in 2019.

“So it wasn’t one thing, it was a number of things,” added Anholt.

“And then with me coaching over the last two weeks (with coach Brent Kisio at the U17 World Hockey Challenge in Ontario), and the last five games, I think things really came to the forefront for me.

“I’ve said all along the team is

number one, and if players put themselves out in front of the team that’s going to be rectified.”

The Hurricanes get bigger and younger with the addition of Bowen, He is listed at six-foot-two and 180 pounds and has five goals and 12 points in 18 games with the Warriors.

Burke, who led the Hurricanes with four goals and 19 assists, broke out last season with 27 goals and 82 assists. He was one of the key faces of the team’s resurgence and attended prospects camp with the Calgary Flames after going undrafted in the NHL draft in the summer. “… When it’s all said and done we just felt like we needed to shake things up, and we just felt that he seemed like he was a little bit out of touch as far as our team was going,” said Anholt. “So we just felt we needed to make a move and this was, at this point, the best move we could come up with.”

Anholt said “you never win a trade like this” with a player of Burke’s talent heading out, but that he was looking forward to adding an 18-year-old like Bowen, who turns 18 on Dec. 10.

“We felt that we needed to add to

that group, so that was beneficial for us. We’ve seen him play a number of times. I like his size and his skill set and I think he has some good upside.

I think he has the potential of being a top-six forward.”

The Hurricanes have had their share of drama lately, with the suspension of defenceman Brady Reagan for violating team rules.

They have lumbered to a 7-8-1-2 record and are sixth in the Eastern Conference. The Warriors, meanwhile, are 11-4-2 and in third in the East.

Bowen is currently dealing with a shoulder injury that will keep him out this week.

“He’s getting back from an injury he sustained from the past weekend,” said Anholt. “So it’s not a major injury, but it’s enough to keep him out for a little while.

“But we’ll let people decide for themselves. It’s not for me to tell people what they can see. They can see for themselves and we hope Ryan is going to be a good Hurricane for a few years.”

The Hurricanes host the Saskatoon Blades at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Enmax Centre.

Brett Sutter opened his WHL career with the Kootenay Ice in the 2003-04 season, joining the Red Deer Rebels partway through the 2005-06 season. He played 16 games to open that season with the Ice, scoring eight goals and seven assists, before playing 57 games with the Rebels where he had nine goals Brett and 26 helpers. The Sutter six-foot, 192-pound centre played the 2006-07 season with the Rebels, scoring 28 goals and 29 assists in 67 games. Sutter was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the sixth round (179th overall) in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and joined the Quad City Flames of the AHL in 2007-08. He played the majority of three seasons with the Flames farm team before being shipped to Carolina. During his time with the Flames he played in 18 NHL games over three seasons, scoring once and adding one assist.

He played four seasons in the Carolina system, seeing limited duty in the NHL. He played 19 games with the Hurricanes, including 15 in the 201112 season, when he had three assists.

He then went to the Minnesota Wild, signing a two-year contract, where he joined the Iowa Wild. He played six games with Minnesota in 204-15. The following year he was traded to the Los Angles Kings and joined their farm team the Ontario Reign. After last season he was a free agent but decided to remain with the Reign, signing a one-year contract. The 29-year-old has played seven games this season with two goals and one assist.

Red Deer Minor Hockey Grad Tyler Steenbergen is in his third season with the Swift Current Broncos and is off to a hot start. The 18-year-old Sylvan Lake native has 14 goals and Tyler nine assists for 23 Steenbergen points in his first 19 games. He is tied for second in goals and ninth in points in the league. Steenbergen played bantam and midget AAA in Red Deer. He was called up to the midget AAA Optimist Chiefs as a bantam aged player the two seasons before he finally joined them full time in 2013. He played 32 games, scoring 14 goals to go with 17 helpers that season. During his time in Swift Current he has 39 goals and 41 assists in 158 games. Last year he had 20 goals and 26 helpers in 67 games. The five-foot-10, 188-pound centre was a first round pick (seventh overall) in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft by the Broncos.

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Cash pipeline keeps on flowing to Central Alberta cowboys

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he cash pipeline to Central Alberta keeps flowing from the $1.6 million Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton.

This time it was a Ponoka bull rider who dipped in deep during the second performance at Northlands Coliseum.

Tyler Pankewitz made an 85.75 point ride on Uptown Funk, a score DIANNE that was equalled moments later by FINSTAD season leader Dakota Buttar, so the two talents split top honors, each collecting $10,744.

Pankewitz was thrilled to be matched up with the Calgary Stampede bull.

“I won Innisfail on him, so I was pretty happy to have him,” grinned Pankewitz. “He usually goes left right at the gate. I took him while he was laying down in the chute, and he tried tricking me and went right today, but I ended up making it around the corner, and after that I just kept on hustling and rode him.”

Edmonton marks the first time Pankewitz has dusted off his bull rope in a while.

“I had to sit out six weeks before the Finals because I hurt my hand two months ago, and it wouldn’t heal up. It still hurts a little bit, but not as bad as I thought it would. Hopefully it holds up the rest of the week.”

Pankewitz has ridden both his bulls, but Buttar is making it hard for anyone to catch him. The Saskatchewan cowboy has earned nearly $20,000 already and is widening his lead on the rest of the field with season earnings now of $52,782.

Like Buttar, Bareback rider Jake Vold is trying for a third straight Canadian buckle and he helped his cause by winning a second straight night. The Ponoka-raised cowboy was just one point shy of a CFR record, when he was 89 points on the C5 horse, Virgil.

“He’s phenomenal,” puffed Vold, moments after the outstanding performance. “He’s one of the best horses in the world, if not the best. That’s the third time I’ve been on him. I know what he is. He’s your chance to win a rodeo anywhere you go, any Finals you’re ever at. But he’s a handful, and he’s a lot of work. I knew I had a great chance today. I just had to do my job and I’ll tell you what, I’m just happy it all worked out.”

“I’m ready for Round 3,” he grinned.

Vold has won $24,648 in just two nights, and leads

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RDC: Ran 5km in 20:17 Janaya Garbe, also out of Hunting Hills, was eighth and missed the All-Conference team by one.

The RDC team goes into the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championships Saturday, ranked No, 1 in Canada.

“That’s exciting,” said Stewart. “I think there will be a bit more pressure on us, but we’re all having fun with it. We just hope to finish in the medals as a team.”

Jodi Nesbitt (nee Sanguin) who was one of the top runners in the

Canada with $53,230.

It’s getting to be a Cassidy brothers showdown in the steer wrestling. Curtis Cassidy won the round in 4.1 seconds, for his first $12,324 payout of the week.

He’s moved up into second place for Canada. But his younger brother Cody, also of Donalda, placed Thursday as well, padding his number one spot overall, at $41,134.

Dustin Flundra did not enjoy sitting out last year’s CFR with a shoulder injury, but has come back strong savoring every ride.

The three-time Canadian champion was high man Thursday night with an 85.25 on Weekend Departure, and with the $12,234, the Pincher Creek

bronc rider overtakes Rocky’s Jim Berry again at the head of the Canadian standings.

Kolton Schmidt and Shay Carroll were the fast team ropers of the night with a 4.9 second run, but Klay Whyte and Ponoka’s Brett Buss are still first overall, just barely now. Idaho’s Matt Shiozawa took the tie-down roping with 7.7 seconds, and he’s closing in on leader Al Bouchard, who missed his calf Thursday. Lynette Brodoway of Brooks was first barrel racer to go, and the fastest, with her 14.694 second run. Oregon’s Callahan Crossley remains number one overall.

There’s more CFR rodeo at the Northlands Coliseum at 7:30 tonight.

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Langer eyes the big tour prize

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COTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Bernhard Langer would have wrapped up the Charles Schwab Cup long ago under the old format. Instead, he has only a small lead and is one of five players who can take the season title with a victory Sunday in the PGA Tour Champions finale.

Still recovering from a left knee injury that forced him to withdrew from the playoff opener two weeks ago in California, Langer will open play in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Friday. The 59-year-old German has a tour-high four victories and has wrapped up the season money title with $2,836,459.

“The season was fantastic,” Langer said Thursday. “Just to have four wins, two majors, and what’s even more impressive to me is actually not finishing outside the top 13 all year. That was my worst finish, 13th, which I’ve never done in my whole career. So that’s pretty incredible.”

He re-aggravated the knee injury at home doing routine spinning.

“It’s better. It was pretty bad in L.A. when I pulled out,” Langer said. “I couldn’t really post up any weight on my left leg and follow through the way I wanted to follow through. I couldn’t have walked that hilly golf course, either, because downhill was impossible for me to walk downhill.

“Last week, I was extremely careful. I played

country while at RDC, would be someone to listen to prior to competing at the Canadians.

“Once in a while the nationals will come up and it’s nice to hear what she has to say on it … it’s good advice.”

Stewart had an outstanding high school career, finishing 14th in the high school provincials in Grade 10, sixth in Grade 11 and fifth in Grade 12. She helped the Lightning finish second in Grade 10 and third the next two seasons.

“I started taking running seriously in Grade 9 and 10 and competing at a really good high school program and with a great coach (Brian Johnson) helped prepare me for college,” she said.

Stewart is only listed at five-feet, which could be a negative when it comes to matching strides with tall-

and I could play, but I had my caddie do a lot of the marking the ball, replacing the ball, lining it up.

When it was downhill I went serpentine this way so I wouldn’t put as much pressure on the knee.

Might have to do a little bit of that this week, too, just to make sure I can finish the tournament, but right now it’s not bad.”

The season standings were re-set after the event last week in Virginia, with Langer’s lead over Richmond winner Scott McCarron reduced from 935,657 to 200. The top five — Colin Montgomerie is third, followed by Joe Durant and Miguel Angel Jimenez — would win the season title with a victory Sunday no matter where the other players finish. The tournament winner will receive $440,000 and 2,000 points.

Langer won season titles in 2010, 2014 and 2015, but has never won the season-ending event.

“I love Desert Mountain, everything about it,” Langer said. “The golf course is obviously in phenomenal shape. The people here are so kind and hospitable. Great sponsor with Schwab. Food is fantastic, locker room is great. Practice facility, it’s all first class.”

He played a practice round Thursday.

“The rough’s a little bit up and some of the greens are really firming up,” Langer said. “There were a few shots downwind that I couldn’t stop on the green. It will be interesting to see what the wind does tomorrow, if it switches or how strong it is and all that. But it’s a real test, no doubt about it.”

er runners. But she doesn’t let that bother her. In fact she sees it as a positive.

“I don’t think it matters, in fact it’s easier for me to run Jill up hills with the Stewart shorter stride and cadence.”

Stewart ran 4km in high school and 5km in college.

“I like the 5km it’s a good distance, I like it more than 4km in high school,” she said.

She also has ran in a number of 10km races, including the Woody’s RV World 10km, where she had her personal best.

Earlier this year she had a personal best in the 5km when she ran a 20 minute 17 clocking at SAIT. “When I did that I knew I was go-

ing in the right direction.”

Stewart is in the Bachelor of Science program, but is looking at possibly changing courses. What she will be is around RDC for some time yet, which is exciting for Elliott.

“Next year we’re running 6km, which will be to her advantage … I definitely see her continuing to take strides up.”

Besides continuing to look at winning an ACAC and CCAA championship Stewart has one other goal.

“I would love to run a marathon one day … just to complete it would be an accomplishment.”

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

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Sabres centre Tyler Ennis out after having groin surgery

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Los Angeles Kings goalie Peter Budaj makes a save in front of Toronto Maple Leafs centre Leo Komarov as Kings defenceman Alec Martinez defends during second period NHL hockey action in Toronto on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Kings’ world was momentarily rocked with about 35 seconds left in the first period of their first game this season. Jonathan Quick, their two-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender, Conn Smythe winner and Vezina Trophy nominee, injured his groin and would later be deemed out not days or weeks, but months.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres centre Tyler Ennis is out indefinitely after having surgery to repair a groin injury.

The team says Ennis will miss several weeks in announcing the news on Thursday.

Ennis was hurt in a 4-0 loss at Boston on Monday.

It’s the latest setback for Ennis, who missed the last half of last season because of concussion-related issues.

And it’s another blow for the banged-up Sabres, who are already missing several regulars.

Top-line centre Jack Eichel is expected to miss another few weeks recovering from a sprained left ankle he hurt on Oct. 12. Defenceman Zach Bogosian is out with a sprained knee.

Ennis has scored 20 or more goals in three of eight seasons with Buffalo. He has a goal and assist in 12 games this season.

Coyotes’ Ekman-Larsson fined $2,000 for second diving call GLENDALE, Ariz. — The NHL has fined Arizona Coyotes defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson $2,000 as supplementary punishment for two embellishing calls against him.

The fine was announced on Thursday for Ekman-Larsson’s actions in a pair of games the past two weeks.

Ekman-Larsson was issued the citation for an incident that occurred in the third period of Arizona’s Nov. 3 game against Nashville, when he drew a minor penalty for interference to Predators forward Kevin Fiala.

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How have the Kings survived without Quick? By proceeding exactly as usual

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he Los Angeles Kings’ world was momentarily rocked with about 35 seconds left in the first period of their first game this season.

Jonathan Quick, their two-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender, Conn Smythe winner and Vezina Trophy nominee, injured his groin and would later be deemed out not days or weeks, but months. Their backup, Jeff Zatkoff soon succumbed to injury himself, leaving the crease of a Cup contender to 34-year-old Peter Budaj, who hadn’t started regularly in the NHL in two years.

Just how have the Kings, currently holding down a wild card spot out west, survived the first month then?

By proceeding on exactly as usual.

“There’s no point crying about it,” veteran defenceman Matt Greene said of trudging on without Quick. “Everybody’s got to be a little bit better. You don’t replace a guy like that with one person.”

Budaj, for one, has been surprisingly effective.

The Slovakian is enjoying something of a career revival after winning the AHL’s goalie of the year award last season. He bested all competitors for the Ontario Reign with 42 wins, a 1.75 goals against average and .932 save percentage.

Budaj boasts a .919 overall save percentage so far for the Kings and .944 even-strength mark, which ranks fifth among goalies with at least eight starts (entering play on Thursday).

Budaj came up with back-to-back

shutouts earlier this week over the Flames and Maple Leafs. He hadn’t had two shutouts in one NHL season since 2008-09 when he was playing (and struggling) for the Colorado Avalanche.

“He makes the big saves when we need him to and he does all the little things right,” defenceman Drew Doughty said. “He talks a lot, he’s good at playing the puck, and he’s just steady back there. And as players, it’s easy to play in front of your goalie when you see the confidence kind of coming out of him.”

Kings players heard about Budaj’s AHL dominance last season and haven’t been surprised that he’s done so well this season.

L.A. doesn’t exactly ask for hero’s work from their goaltenders though.

The NHL’s top puck possession team, the Kings surrender a league-best of fewer than 25 shots per game. Budaj had to make just 43 saves total in shutting out Calgary and Toronto.

The Kings often bully foes with their size in the offensive zone while minimizing quality attempts in their own end. They’ve yielded less than 24 five-on-five shot attempts per-60-minutes with Budaj between the pipes, the second-lowest mark for any goaltender this season.

That defensive dominance is nothing new though. Quick saw the fewest such shot attempts per-60-minutes of any true No. 1 last year too.

“That’s how the team’s built,” Greene said.

“The team’s built to do that, to win defensively and capitalize on our chances and not try to give up too much.”

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Michell, Jackson named outstanding player finalists

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ORONTO — Once again Bo Levi Mitchell is a finalist for the CFL’s outstanding player award.

On Thursday, the Calgary Stampeders quarterback got the West Division nod for the second straight year.

Mitchell was the runner-up last season to Henry Burris, who led the CFL in passing and guided the upstart Ottawa Redblacks to top spot in the East Division.

Mitchell faces another Ottawa player for this year’s honour as receiver Ernest Jackson will represent the East Division. But Mitchell, 26, will be the overwhelming award favourite after leading Calgary to a CFL-best 152-1 record.

“So far, it doesn’t mean anything … I haven’t won anything yet,” Mitchell said following Calgary’s practice Thursday. “It will be pretty special if it does happen.

“Hopefully at that time I’m focusing on something else (preparing for Grey Cup).”

Despite sitting out Calgary’s regular-season finale, Mitchell threw a league-high 32 TDs and finished second overall in passing with 5,385 yards while boosting his all-time record as a starter to 43-7-1, the best in league history.

Jackson had 88 catches for 1,225 yards and 10 TDs to help Ottawa (89-1) finish atop the East Division and make CFL history.

Jackson, Greg Ellingson (1,260 yards), Chris Williams (1,246) and Brad Sinopoli (1,036) all cracked the 1,000-yard receiving plateau for the second straight year, the first time four players from the same team have done so.

Voting was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine CFL head coaches. The league will honour its top individual performers Nov. 24 in Toronto.

And Calgary will be well presented as also nominated were: running back Jerome Messam (Canadian), guard Derek Dennis (lineman), receiver DeVaris Daniels (rookie) and Dave Dickenson (coach of the year).

“I’m proud of my players, we’ve got a lot of guys who are going to represent the club,” Dickenson said. “But we’re going to make our best effort to make sure the whole team is there for Grey Cup week.”

The other finalists included: linebackers Solomon Elimimian of the B.C. Lions and Bear Woods of the Montreal Alouettes (top defensive player) Hamilton Tiger-Cats slotback Andy Fantuz (Canadian) Ottawa centre Jon Gott (lineman) Hamilton returner Brandon Banks and kicker Justin Medlock of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (special-teams) and Ottawa offensive lineman Jason Lauzon-Seguin (rookie).

Ottawa’s Rick Campbell is also the East nominee as top coach. He won last year’s honour.

The six-foot-three, 254-pound Messam ran for a CFL-best 1,198 yards

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Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell fires a pass against the Toronto Argonauts during first half CFL action in Toronto. Calgary quarterback Mitchell and Ottawa Redblacks receiver Ernest Jackson are the finalists for the CFL’s outstanding player award.

(5.82-yard average) and 11 TDs. The 31-year-old Toronto native was the league’s top Canadian in 2011 with Edmonton when he rushed for 1,057 yards (5.4-yard average).

Fantuz, 32, of Chatham, Ont., had a team-record 101 catches for 1,059 yards and five TDs, becoming the first Canadian receiver to reach the 100-reception plateau since 2008. Fantuz, who’ll miss Hamilton’s playoff game

Sunday versus Edmonton with a knee injury, won the award in 2010 with Saskatchewan.

Dennis anchored a Calgary offensive line that allowed a CFL-low 20 sacks while blocking for the league’s top rusher and highest-scoring offence (32.6 points per game). The sixfoot-three, 341-pound New York native is in his second season with the Stampeders.

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Stamps deal with question of rest versus rust WEEK OFF AHEAD OF WEST DIVISION FINAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ALGARY — Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and his wife built shelves for a nursery. Wide receiver DaVaris Daniels went home to Chicago to experience his Cubs winning the World Series. Offensive lineman Derek Dennis soaked up a few warm days in Phoenix like a solar battery.

After a 10-day break, the Calgary Stampeders got back to work Thursday.

The CFL’s top team (15-2-1) concluded the regular season with a bye week and don’t play the West Division final at McMahon Stadium until Nov. 20.

Calgary’s opponent will be the winner of Sunday’s division semifinal between the B.C. Lions (12-6) and Winnipeg Blue Bombers (11-7). The victor advances to the Grey Cup on Nov. 27 in Toronto.

How the Stampeders manage their three weeks between games to maximize rest without accumulating rust will be their challenge heading into the division final.

“We want to practise smart, but we want to practise hard,” head coach Dave Dickenson said. “We’re going to try some new wrinkles out.

“There’s still jobs — who is going to be on, and who is going to be off (the roster). There’s still definitely a few positions that are a competitive battle.”

The players reunited wearing helmets, but not pads, for practice on a sunny, breezy day at McMahon.

“I thought guys were locked in and were practising smart,” Mitchell said.

“I didn’t see any lulls from anybody where it was like, ‘oh, first day back’ and they’re kind of still in that vacation mode.”

Backup quarterback Drew Tate, not Mitchell, played in Calgary’s 17-8

loss to the Montreal Alouettes to conclude their regular season Oct. 30.

Mitchell, who leads the league in touchdown throws with 32, won’t have thrown a game ball in almost a month

by Nov. 20.

The West Division’s nominee for the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player award says his brain benefited from the bye more than his body.

“My body didn’t feel terrible. The mental break was better because you’re sitting at home and you wanted to be back,” Mitchell said.

“You kind of got that drive and hunger, to come back right now, and play. That’s how I think we felt on the field today.”

Joining Mitchell among the West Division’s award finalists announced Thursday were Stampeders running back Jerome Messam (offensive player), Daniels (rookie) and Dennis (offensive lineman). Dickenson is a finalist for coach of the year in his first year as head coach of the Stampeders.

The winners will be announced Nov. 24 during Grey Cup week.

Messam said he lifted weights and rode the bike during his break, but the CFL’s top rusher this season with 1,198 yards also conserved his legs.

“Do everything you can to stay off your feet because playoffs is going to be very physical, it’s going to be colder out here, so you’ve got to do everything you can to keep your body right,” Messam said.

Dennis, a man who did a lot of blocking for Messam, pointed out Calgary played 15 straight weeks of football before their bye week and were in need of rest.

“It doesn’t hurt to get your mind off the game and relax,” Dennis said.

“Your body does what your mind tells it to you so if you’re mind is feeling fresh, your body is going to feel refreshed.”

Snow is in the forecast for Calgary next week. The left guard said Arizona was the right place to rest body and mind.

“I had to get out of the cold because I knew coming back here I was going to get some cold,” Dennis said.

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Jays’ Donaldson wins Silver Slugger as AL’s best hitter at third base

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B.C. Lions’ head coach Wally Buono gestures on the sideline during the second half of a CFL football game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Vancouver, B.C., on November 5. Buono’s return to the sidelines this season is at the forefront of the B.C. Lions’ revival.

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Buono’s return to sidelines at forefront of Lions’ revival

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URREY, B.C. — When the television cameras are switched off, a different Wally Buono emerges.

More at ease, the coach with the most wins in CFL history — and counting — will sometimes sit down with reporters in his office at the B.C. Lions’ practice facility to field questions, discuss strategy and even get out from behind his desk to diagram plays on a whiteboard to prove a point.

Every so often Buono will take off his glasses and get almost playfully annoyed at a query, but it seems like on some level he enjoys it all — the back-and-forth, the strategizing, the football banter.

The 66-year-old has had almost all the right answers in 2016 for the Lions, stepping back onto the sidelines to lead the resurgent club to a 12-6 regular season ahead of Sunday’s West Division semifinal at B.C. Place Stadium against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

“I had no expectation,” Buono said this week. “In training camp, you could see certain things that were very optimistic, very positive. You could see the speed and the athleticism on defence.

“I felt coming out of training camp that we had a very athletic, very good team. They had to grow, which they did.”

Citing fatigue and a desire to focus on his front-office duties, Buono retired from coaching after guiding the Lions to a victory in the 2011 Grey Cup, but the itch to teach and motivate remained.

As B.C.’s general manager and vice-president of football operations — two titles he still holds — Buono would often hang around practice during the coaching tenures of protege Mike Benevides and successor Jeff Tedford.

And when Tedford left following a solitary 7-11 campaign that culminated in the Lions’ fourth straight one-and-done playoff appearance, Buono kept a promise to owner David Braley that he would return to coach the team if there were no other viable options.

“The whole atmosphere has just been different,” said wide receiver Bryan Burnham, in his third CFL season. “Wally commands a different level of respect than other coaches. The way he treats his players, he’s always 100 per cent honest.”

An inductee into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2014, Buono entered his 23rd season as a head coach with 254 wins. He added a dozen more to that total with an old-school approach that has been tweaked for the modern athlete.

“The two main principles I feel like he brought back to our team were accountability and discipline,” said veteran defensive back Ryan Phillips, in his 12th season with the Lions. “We went through our growing pains, but now guys are buying in and we’re seeing results.”

One example of the new Buono, who coached 13 years in Calgary before joining B.C. in 2003, is allowing music during certain portions of practice and often ending sessions early if he’s happy with the work that’s been done.

Chicago first baseman Anthony Rizzo, Washington second baseman Daniel Murphy, Colorado third baseman Nolan Arenado, L.A. shortstop Corey Seager and outfielders Charlie Blackmon (Colorado), Yoenis Cespedes (New York) and Christian Yelich (Miami) were named. Chicago’s Jake Arrieta earned the award as a pitcher.

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson won the Silver Slugger on Thursday as the best offensive player at his position.

Donaldson hit .284 with 37 home runs and 99 runs batted in and seven stolen bases, helping the Blue Jays to the American League Championship Series.

“Grateful for silver slugger .2.

Cheers to all my teammates and fans for the support all year long,” said Donaldson from his verified Twitter account adding the hashtag .strivingforexcellence.

Donaldson also won the Silver Slugger in 2015 when he won AL MVP. The award is selected by major league coaches and managers and sponsored by baseball bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger.

Other winners in the AL were: Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez, Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera, Houston second baseman Jose Altuve, Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts and outfielders Mookie Betts (Boston), Mike Trout (Los Angeles) and Mark Trumbo (Baltimore).

David Ortiz, Boston’s retiring designated hitter, also earned the award. In the National League, Washington catcher Wilson Ramos,

42-year-old knuckleballer R.A. Dickey agrees with Braves ATLANTA — Former NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and the Atlanta Braves have agreed to a one-year contract, adding a 42-year-old knuckleballer to a thin rotation as the team moves into a new ballpark.

Dickey’s agreement, announced Thursday, is subject to a successful physical. Dickey he had a career-high 20 wins in 2012, his final season with the New York Mets, won the Cy Young and was traded. The right-hander spent the past four years with the Toronto Blue Jays, going 10-15 with a 4.46 ERA in 2016.

No one had double-figure wins for Atlanta this year, prompting general manager John Coppolella to say he would pursue at least two established starters on the freeagent market.

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NHL

Carey Price solid again as Habs top Kings

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Canadiens 4 Kings 1 ONTREAL — Carey Price made 24 saves as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Thursday night to extend their winning streak to three games.

Paul Byron, Daniel Carr, Phillip Danault and Alex Galchenyuk, into the empty net, scored for Montreal (12-1-1).

Tyler Toffoli scored the lone goal for the Kings (7-7-0). Peter Budaj made 19 saves in defeat.

The Habs are 9-0-0 at home this year, tying a franchise record for most consecutive home wins to start a season since 1953.

Toffoli ended Price’s shutout bid at 11:57 of the third period, on the power play, just minutes after the Canadiens goalie robbed Anze Kopitar while sprawled out on the ice.

Price is now 5-1-0 in his past six career starts against the Kings. Montreal’s starting goaltender is also 19-2-0 in his last 21 starts dating back to last season.

Despite owning the league’s best record, the Habs had been far from dominant in their previous five matches. That led coach Michel Therrien to shake up his lines.

Therrien benched forward David

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Montreal Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber helps goalie Carey Price as they face the Los Angeles Kings during third period NHL hockey action Thursday, in Montreal.

Desharnais, who has two goals and two assists in 13 games this season.

He was also without a point in his last

nine. Danault took Desharnais’ spot on the third line, which meant Carr made his season debut on the fourth

line.

The moves paid off, with Carr scoring just 13:53 into the first period.

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Howard’s 36 saves lead Red Wings past Canucks

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Red Wings 3 Canucks 1 ETROIT — Jimmy Howard stopped 36 shots and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Thursday night.

Dylan Larkin, Brendan Smith and Steve Ott scored for Detroit. Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg, matched against Canucks captain and fellow Swede Henrik Sedin most of the game, had two assists.

Daniel Sedin scored for Vancouver, which is 1-9-1 in its past 11 games.

Ryan Miller made 24 saves.

Miller made a spectacular stop after he began to leave the crease for an extra attacker. Zetterberg got a hold of the puck in the neutral zone and lobbed a shot at the almost-empty net, but Miller made a glove save while diving to his right.

Daniel Sedin cut it to 2-1 at 3:14 of the third period. He finished off a pretty back-and-forth passing play with twin brother Henrik by beating Howard with a shot from the bottom

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Detroit Red Wings defenceman Jonathan Ericsson checks Vancouver Canucks right wing Jack Skille during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, in Detroit.

of the left circle. It was Daniel Sedin’s fifth goal.

The Sedins were not matched against Zetterberg’s line for the goal.

Ott’s first goal with the Red Wings restored Detroit’s two-goal lead with 4:46 left. He tipped in defenceman Jonathan Ericsson’s shot from the left point.

Detroit led 2-0 after the first.

Larkin opened the scoring 32 seconds into the game when he put in the rebound of Zetterberg’s shot.

It was Larkin’s team-leading fifth goal.

Smith made it 2-0 with 1:47 left in the opening period. His slapshot from the point in the middle of the ice trickled through Miller for his second goal.

NOTES: Red Wings forward Andreas Athanasiou left after the first period with a lower-body injury. He took a hit from Canucks defenceman Nikita Tryamkin. . Vancouver sent forward Jake Virtanen to its American Hockey League affiliate, the Utica Comets, on Wednesday. Virtanen has one assist in 10 games.

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Browns still searching for first win

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Ravens 28 Browns 7 ALTIMORE — Joe Flacco threw three touchdown passes, and the Baltimore Ravens beat Cleveland 28-7 on Thursday night to leave the winless Browns at a historic low point in franchise history.

Baltimore trailed 7-3 late in the second quarter before gaining control during a third quarter in which Flacco went 10 for 12 with two scores.

The Ravens (5-4) have won two in a row following a four-game losing streak. Baltimore is the only team in the AFC North above .500.

Cleveland (0-10) has opened a season with 10 consecutive losses for the first time since joining the NFL in 1950. The Browns have lost 11 straight on the road since winning in Baltimore in October 2015.

The loss left Cleveland’s all-time record at 461-461-10. The Browns have never been below .500.

Down 7-6 at halftime, the Ravens moved 64 yards on their first possession of the third quarter to take a 13-7 lead. Flacco connected with five different receivers on the drive, closing with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Darren Waller.

Browns coach Hue Jackson then opted to insert Josh McCown at quarterback after watching starter Cody Kessler go 10 for 17 for 94 yards. McCown’s second pass was intercepted, giving Baltimore the ball at the Cleveland 40 with a chance to break the game open.

The Ravens moved to the 15 before Flacco heaved an ill-advised throw into the end zone that was picked off

by Joe Haden.

Baltimore’s next drive, however, was run on a short field. After a 32-yard punt gave the Ravens the ball at the Cleveland 43, Flacco threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith, and a two-point conversion made it 21-7.

A 27-yard touchdown throw to Breshad Perriman sealed it with 6:21 remaining and marked the 10th straight game in which the Browns yielded at least 25 points.

Flacco went 30 for 41 for 296 yards and two interceptions.

The first time these teams played

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RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman confirmed Thursday he’s been fined by the NFL for his hit on Buffalo kicker Dan Carpenter in last Monday’s game against the Bills.

Sherman said that the explanation from the league makes it nearly impossible for him to appeal the $9,115

this season, the Ravens had to rally from 20 points down to pull out for a 25-20 win. Baltimore needed another comeback in this one, though the deficit wasn’t nearly as imposing.

After their first three series produced two punts and an interception, the Ravens gained possession at the Cleveland 48 following a punt and used a 25-yard field goal to take a 3-0 lead.

Kessler followed with a 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Seth DeValve, and at that point the Browns looked very little like a team that hadn’t won a game in 11 months.

Flacco directed a beat-the-clock drive that produced a field goal as the half ended.

SMITH MOVES UP Smith had five catches for 60 yards and moved into eighth place on the NFL career list with 14,349 yards receiving. He passed Reggie Wayne, and fine. Sherman said the league’s justification in its letter to him was that his hit on Carpenter as he attempted to block a field goal attempt at the end of the first half came after the whistle was blown.

Sherman said he won’t appeal the fine. “It would be a long, thoughtless process,” Sherman said. “Their logic is impeccable, so there’s not really a fight. I’m still fine with everything.”

Sherman was not penalized for unnecessary roughness on the play.

He was flagged for being offside.

now is in pursuit of No. 7 Marvin Harrison (14,580).

INJURIES Browns: CB Jamar Taylor (groin) was inactive.

Ravens: LG Alex Lewis injured his right ankle in the third quarter, was carted off the field and did not return. X-rays were negative. … C Jer-

emy Zuttah injured his right ankle on Smith’s TD. UP NEXT Browns: Host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 20, the first meeting of the season between the AFC North rivals.

Ravens: Travel to Dallas on Nov. 20 to face the Cowboys, a team they’re 4-0 against since the series began in 2000.

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Siganda, Smith share Lorena Ochoa Invitational lead HENDERSON SHOOTS TWO-OVER, 74

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Canada’s Aaron Carpenter, left, is tackled by Italy’s Edoardo Gori, during first half summer series rugby action, in Toronto.

Carpenter will move within one game of Al Charron’s Canadian record of 76 caps when he leads Canada out for a high-profile rugby test against fifth-ranked Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.

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Canadian rugby captain nears milestone in Ireland test

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aptain Aaron Carpenter will move within one game of Al Charron’s Canadian record of 76 caps when he leads Canada out for a high-profile rugby test against fifth-ranked Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.

The Canadian men, ranked 18th in the world, will have to contend with an Aviva Stadium crowd of more than 50,000 looking to celebrate an Irish team coming off a historic 40-29 win over the top-ranked All Blacks last Saturday in Chicago.

“It’s a big occasion,” Canadian coach Mark Anscombe said. “We don’t get Tier 1 games very often. So we’re very conscious of the importance of performing well on Saturday.”

Canada is 0-6-1 all-time against Ireland, including a 50-7 defeat at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The Canadians are a 33-1 underdog this weekend, according to British bookmaker Ladbrokes.

The Irish, meanwhile, are on a high after their first win over New Zealand in 111 years of trying. The All Blacks conceded 40 points for only the fifth time in history while seeing their record win streak end at 18 tests.

The fans Saturday will be seeing a new Irish team. Coach Joe Schmidt has named a totally new starting 15 to face Canada, with an eye to resting players for the Nov. 19 return match against the All Blacks and a Nov. 26 date with third-ranked Australia.

There are three uncapped players in the Irish starting lineup, with another five waiting on the bench.

Flanker Peter O’Mahony, who has 35 caps and captained Ireland to a 40-14 win over Canada in Toronto in June 2013, will lead the home side.

The Irish backline features Keith Earls, who has 52 caps, while the pack includes back-rower Sean O’Brien (42 caps).

“You look at the calibre of some of the players that they have in this team that’s playing against us, and they’re quality players,” said Anscombe.

“They’ll also take it as an opportunity to prove to Joe what they’re capable of doing and want to press on to play the All Blacks the following week.

Saturday’s game is the first on Canada’s three-match European tour.

Anscombe’s team will face No. 16 Romania on Nov. 19 in Bucharest and No. 14 Samoa on Nov. 25 in Grenoble, France.

Carpenter, a 33-year-old forward

‘HE’S STRONG, HE’S TOUGH AND HE’S DURABLE … AND HE HOLDS A LOT OF RESPECT FROM THE SQUAD SO HE WAS AN EASY SELECTION FOR THE CAPTAINCY’ MARK ANSCOMBE TEAM CANADA COACH

from Brantford, Ont., will earn cap No. 75 in Dublin.

“He really impresses me, Aaron, as an individual,” said Anscombe. “He goes about his work in a very professional manner. He’s strong, he’s tough and he’s durable … And he holds a lot of respect from the squad so he was an easy selection for the captaincy.”

Charron, a hard-nosed forward, won his 76 caps from 1990 to 2003. Carpenter, who will start at No. 8 but can also play hooker, made his international debut in 2005 against the U.S. Anscombe is starting an experienced and talented back line featuring: DTH van der Merwe, Taylor Paris, Ciaran Hearn, Conor Trainor, Connor Braid, Matt Evans and Gordon McRorie.

Djustice Sears-Duru, Ray Barkwill and Jake Ilnicki form a tough front row, backed by locks Brett Beukeboom and Evan Olmstead.

Carpenter is joined in the back row by 25-year-old Kyle Baillie and 21-year-old Lucas Rumball.

EXICO CITY — Carlota Ciganda birdied three of the last six holes Thursday for a 5-under 67 and a share of the lead with playing partner Sarah Jane Smith in the Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

Ciganda had a bogey-free opening round at Club de Golf Mexico.

“I really like this course,” Ciganda said. “I really like it because is really similar to my home course in Spain.”

The former Arizona State player won last month in South Korea for her first LPGA Tour title.

“I was home last week and I played four tournaments in Asia, so it was really nice to be home with my family,” Ciganda said.

“I didn’t practice at all. It was just resting and having fun, going out for dinner with friends. And I feel very mentally refreshed, because in Asia I was a little bit tired at the end. It is important how to manage all the tournaments and all the weeks you want to play.”

Smith played the back nine in 5-under 31 after bogeying Nos. 8 and 9 to make the turn at even par. The Australian is winless on the LPGA Tour.

“It makes a difference when you see it,” Smith said about playing alongside Ciganda. “I love playing with her, she is so nice and we always have fun, so it absolutely makes a difference.”

Mexican amateur Maria Fassi, a freshman at the University of Arkansas playing on a sponsor invite, was two strokes back at 69 along with South Korea’s Chella Choi and France’s Karine Icher.

“I was feeling really good,” Fassi said.

“I worked really hard on preparing for this tournament and on the first tee when they said my name I was nervous, I am not going to lie, but after I hit the fairway on the first tee, I was like, ‘OK you got it, just enjoy your round.’ And that’s what I did. … I was really solid off the tee. I gave myself a lot of opportunities to be a little bit more aggressive on my second shots.”

Michelle Wie opened with a 70. The 2009 winner in Guadalajara, she’s also playing on a sponsor invite after failing to qualify for the 30-player event.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 7 in the world, had a double bogey in a 74. No. 14 Anna Nordqvist also struggled, making a double bogey in a 75.

LOCAL SPORTS at St. Mary’s, women at 6 p.m., Today followed by the men.

● 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.

Edmonton Southside, 4:30 p.m., Kinex. ● College basketball: RDC

● 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 GB — 2 2 2 1/2 5 GB — 1/2 3 1/2 4 4 GB — 2 2 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 GB — — 1 3 4 1/2 GB — 1 1/2 1 1/2 3 3 1/2 GB — 1/2 3 3 1/2 4 1/2

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, late Today’s Games Cleveland at Washington, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Utah at Orlando, 5 p.m.

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

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

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

Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

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

San Antonio at Houston, 6 p.m.

Utah at Miami, 6 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Charlotte at Cleveland, 1:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 7 p.m.

NBA Leaders G FG FT PTS AVG DeRozan, TOR 7 90 57 239 34.1 Westbrook, OKC 8 80 71 249 31.1 Davis, NOR 8 84 76 247 30.9 Harden, HOU 8 76 67 245 30.6 Lillard, POR 9 84 79 270 30.0 Durant, GOL 8 82 49 230 28.8 Leonard, SAN 8 68 69 219 27.4 Curry, GOL 8 71 31 209 26.1 Cousins, SAC 9 74 79 232 25.8 Hayward, UTA 3 25 22 77 25.7 Thomas, BOS 7 57 53 180 25.7 Wiggins, MIN 7 58 38 168 24.0 Walker, CHA 7 54 39 167 23.9 Irving, CLE 7 62 24 167 23.9 Butler, CHI 8 56 60 186 23.3 James, CLE 7 58 35 160 22.9 Anthony, NYK 7 59 32 159 22.7 Barnes, DAL 8 70 31 181 22.6 Gay, SAC 8 64 40 179 22.4 Love, CLE 7 47 49 154 22.0 FG Percentage FG FGA PCT Williams, PHX 1 1 1.000 Tavares, ATL 1 1 1.000 Nogueira, TOR 8 8 1.000 Bolomboy, UTA 1 1 1.000 Andersen, CLE 3 3 1.000 Papagiannis, SAC 1 1 1.000 Zubac, LAL 3 3 1.000 Quarterman, POR 2 2 1.000

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HOCKEY WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Regina 16 13 0 3 0 92 51 29 Moose Jaw 18 11 4 3 0 62 59 25 Swift Current 19 10 6 2 1 64 60 23 Brandon 17 7 7 3 0 58 59 17 Saskatoon 19 8 10 1 0 49 70 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 Edmonton 18 7 9 2 0 53 67 16 Calgary 13 6 5 2 0 31 40 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 70 52 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 60 66 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.

Thursday’s results Regina 5 Moose Jaw 4 (OT) Edmonton 4 Saskatoon 2 Prince George at Vancouver, late 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.

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Regina, 3 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 3 p.m.

Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Calgary at Everett,8:05 p.m.

THURSDAY’S SUMMARIES

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 5 2 .714 New York 3 4 .429 Boston 3 4 .429 Brooklyn 3 5 .375 Philadelphia 0 7 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 6 1 .857 Atlanta 6 2 .750 Orlando 3 5 .375 Miami 2 5 .286 Washington 2 5 .286 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 6 1 .857 Chicago 5 4 .556 Detroit 4 4 .500 Milwaukee 4 4 .500 Indiana 4 4 .500 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Houston 5 3 .625 San Antonio 5 3 .625 Memphis 4 4 .500 Dallas 2 6 .250 New Orleans 1 8 .111 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 6 2 .750 Portland 5 4 .556 Utah 5 4 .556 Denver 3 5 .375 Minnesota 2 5 .286 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 7 1 .875 Golden State 7 2 .778 L.A. Lakers 4 4 .500 Sacramento 4 5 .444 Phoenix 3 6 .333 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte 104, Utah 98 Indiana 122, Philadelphia 115, OT Minnesota 123, Orlando 107 New York 110, Brooklyn 96 Washington 118, Boston 93 Atlanta 115, Chicago 107 Toronto 112, Oklahoma City 102 Phoenix 107, Detroit 100 Houston 101, San Antonio 99 Golden State 116, Dallas 95 L.A. Clippers 111, Portland 80 Thursday’s Games Chicago 98, Miami 95 New Orleans 112, Milwaukee 106 Golden State 125, Denver 101

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Oil Kings 4, Blades 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Elizarov 1 (Warm, Bauer) 19:05.

Penalties — MacKenzie Sas (unsportsmanlike cnd.)

17:46 Klatt Edm (roughing) 17:46.

Second Period 2. Edmonton, Irving 5 (Gorda) 0:24.

3. Saskatoon, Christensen 5 (Ramsay) 9:40.

4. Saskatoon, McCarty 12 (Sayers) 13:10.

Penalties — MacKenzie Sas (interference, misconduct) 10:40 Robertson Edm (cross checking) 13:36 Hajek Sas (holding) 15:50.

Third Period 5. Edmonton, Fix-Wolansky 6 (Koch) 11:28.

6. Edmonton, Irving 6 (Mohr) 19:53 (en).

Penalties — MacKenzie Sas, Robertson Edm (major, major-fighting) 11:04 Robertson Edm (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 16:04 MacKenzie Sas (checking from behind) 16:04.

Shots on goal by Saskatoon 11 17 8 — 36 Edmonton 13 8 18 — 39 Goal — Saskatoon: Flodell (L, 7-5-0-0). Edmonton: Dea (W, 6-5-0-0).

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

Pats 5, Warriors 4 (OT) First Period 1. Regina, Ahl 12 (Brooks, Henry) 6:07 (pp).

2. Moose Jaw, Popugaev 12 (Burzan, Gregor) 14:20 (pp).

3. Moose Jaw, Langan 1 (Zaitsev, Thrower) 16:05 (pp).

Penalties — Petruic Mj (tripping) 5:59 Zablocki Reg (tripping) 10:22 Zablocki Reg (high sticking) 13:07 Wagner Reg (high sticking) 13:36 Zablocki Reg (high sticking) 15:07.

Second Period 4. Regina, Ahl 13 (Hobbs, Steel) 10:49 (pp).

5. Regina, Ahl 14 (Harrison, Wagner) 19:59.

Penalties — Thrower Mj (slashing) 2:56 Thrower Mj (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 9:34.

Third Period 6. Moose Jaw, Gregor 7 (Burzan) 11:32.

7. Regina, Leedahl 7 (Leschyshyn, Zborovskiy) 14:46 (pp).

8. Moose Jaw, Popugaev 13 (Sozanski) 16:31.

Penalties — Brook Mj (cross checking) 5:51 Watts Mj (tripping) 5:51 Thrower Mj (boarding) 12:54 Thrower Mj (delay of game) 18:41.

Overtime 9. Regina, Steel 15 (Brooks, Hobbs) 0:19 (pp).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Regina 10 19 21 1 — 51 Moose Jaw 15 1 11 0 — 27 Goal — Regina: Brown (W, 8-0-2-0). Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (L, 6-1-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Regina: 4-7 Moose Jaw: 2-4.

CHL CANADA-RUSSIA SERIES At Sites in Canada GP W L OTLSOL GF GA

Pt

Russia 3 2 1 0 0 8 9 4 WHL 2 1 0 1 0 6 4 3 QMJHL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OHL 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 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.

Thursday’s result At North Bay, Ont. Russia 4 OHL 3 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.

PREVIOUS RESULTS Monday’s result At Prince George, B.C. Russia 3 WHL 2 (OT) Tuesday’s result At Edmonton WHL 4 Russia 1 THURSDAY’S SUMMARIES Russia 4, OHL 3 First Period 1. Russia, Rubtsov 1 (Kostin, Karnaukhov) 4:06.

2. OHL, McLeod 1 (Tippett, Kyrou) 13:38 (pp).

3. Russia, Rubtsov 2, 14:35 Penalties — Gi.Smith OHL (interference) 6:23, Dronov Rus (holding) 13:53.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Smith OHL (slashing) 3:00, Bastian OHL (check to the head) 11:59, Karnaukhov Rus (tripping) 14:24.

Third Period 4. Russia, Urakov 1 (Kvartalnov, Volkov) 5:26.

5. OHL, Cirelli 1 (Capobianco, Gi.Smith) 5:50.

6. OHL, Mascherin 1 (Kyrou,Tippet) 7:48 (pp) 7. Russia, Sokolov 1 (Belyaev) 13:58.

Penalties — Dronov Rus (delay of game) 0:22, Belyaev Rus (high-sticking) 3:38, Chmykhov Rus (slashing) 8:23, Li Rus (interference) 9:10.

Shots on goal by Russia 7 8 10 — 25 OHL 8 11 13 — 32 Goal — Russia: Sukhachev (W, 1-0-0-0) OHL: Cormier (L, 0-1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Russia: 0-3 OHL: 2-6.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 14 12 1 1 25 46 Tampa Bay 14 8 5 1 17 45 Detroit 15 8 6 1 17 41 Ottawa 13 8 5 0 16 32 Boston 14 8 6 0 16 37 Toronto 13 5 5 3 13 37 Buffalo 13 5 5 3 13 26 Florida 14 6 7 1 13 37 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 14 10 4 0 20 58 Pittsburgh 14 9 3 2 20 43 Washington 12 8 3 1 17 33 New Jersey 12 6 3 3 15 29 Columbus 12 6 4 2 14 37 Philadelphia 14 6 6 2 14 49 N.Y. Islanders 14 5 7 2 12 38 Carolina 13 3 6 4 10 33

GA 31 39 38 32 37 48 31 37 GA 34 38 27 27 28 51 44 45

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 14 10 3 1 21 49 34 St. Louis 15 7 5 3 17 33 39 Minnesota 12 7 4 1 15 37 24 Winnipeg 15 7 7 1 15 45 45 Nashville 13 5 5 3 13 34 37 Dallas 14 5 6 3 13 37 48 Colorado 12 5 7 0 10 24 37 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 14 9 4 1 19 43 35 Anaheim 15 7 5 3 17 41 35 San Jose 14 8 6 0 16 34 34 Los Angeles 14 7 7 0 14 36 36 Calgary 15 5 9 1 11 38 55 Vancouver 15 5 9 1 11 28 44 Arizona 13 5 8 0 10 37 47 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Columbus 3, Anaheim 2, OT Ottawa 2, Buffalo 1, SO Chicago 2, St. Louis 1, OT Thursday’s Games Boston 5, Columbus 2 Anaheim 4, Carolina 2 Minnesota 4, Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 3, Vancouver 1 San Jose 4, Florida 2 Montreal 4, Los Angeles 1 Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Nashville 3, St. Louis 1 Winnipeg 3, Arizona 2 Dallas 4, Calgary 2 Today’s Games New Jersey at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Washington at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m.

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

San Jose at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Boston at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 12 p.m.

Dallas at Vancouver, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at Ottawa, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S SUMMARIES Winnipeg 3, Arizona 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Copp 2 (Scheifele, Enstrom) 4:50.

2. Arizona, Vrbata 5 (Martinook, McGinn) 9:48.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Winnipeg, Wheeler 4 (Petan, Myers) 10:18.

Penalties — Richardson Ariz (hooking) 3:33 Chychrun Ariz (holding) 8:17 Thorburn Wpg, Schenn Ariz (fighting) 10:22.

Third Period 4. Winnipeg, Ehlers 4 (Laine) 16:46.

5. Arizona, Rieder 3 (Domi, Doan) 19:58.

Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (interference) 8:43.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 3 9 15 — 27 Arizona 8 11 6 — 25 Goal — Winnipeg: Hellebuyck (W, 5-4-0). Arizona: Domingue (L, 4-7-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2 Arizona: 0-1.

Referees — Brad Watson, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen — Brandon Gawryletz, Lonnie Cameron.

Detroit 3, Vancouver 1 First Period 1. Detroit, Larkin 5 (Zetterberg, Nyquist) :32.

2. Detroit, Smith 2 (Kronwall, Zetterberg) 18:13.

Penalties — Marchenko Det (hooking) 11:45 Gaunce Vcr (tripping) 14:50 Sheahan Det (tripping) 14:54.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Skille Vcr (tripping) 8:55 Stecher Vcr (holding) 15:18 Glendening Det (holding) 18:15.

Third Period 3. Vancouver, Sedin 5 (Sedin, Stecher) 3:14.

4. Detroit, Ott 1 (Ericsson, Marchenko) 15:14.

Penalties — Tryamkin Vcr (holding) 11:01.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 14 11 12 — 37 Detroit 8 8 11 — 27 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (L, 1-7-0). Detroit: Howard (W, 4-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-3 Detroit: 0-4.

Referees — Jake Brenk, Mike Leggo. Linesmen — Steve Miller, Ryan Daisy.

Montreal 4, Los Angeles 1 First Period 1. Montreal, Byron 4 (Radulov, Emelin) 7:48.

2. Montreal, Carr 1 (Markov, Mitchell) 13:53.

Penalties — Greene LA (tripping) 1:56 Petry Mtl (stick holding) 8:18 Danault Mtl (holding) 15:04.

Second Period 3. Montreal, Danault 4 (Petry, Pacioretty) 9:37.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 4. Los Angeles, Toffoli 4 (Kopitar, Carter) 11:57 (pp).

5. Montreal, Galchenyuk 6 (Beaulieu, Pacioretty) 18:11 (en).

Penalties — Brown LA (holding) 7:33 Gallagher Mtl (double high-sticking) 9:17 Markov Mtl (high-sticking) 15:52.

Shots on goal by Los Angeles 6 7 11 — 24 Montreal 13 5 5 — 23 Goal — Los Angeles: Budaj (L, 7-4-0). Montreal: Price (W, 9-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Los Angeles: 1-5 Montreal: 0-2.

Referees — Wes McCauley, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen — Steve Barton, Brian Murphy.

Dallas 4, Calgary 2 First Period 1. Dallas, Korpikoski 2 (Faksa) 12:31.

2. Dallas, Ja.Benn 3 (Klingberg, Faksa) 15:35.

Penalties — Smith Dal, Brouwer Cgy, Roussel Dal (roughing) 8:20.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Gaudreau 3 (Kulak, Monahan) 1:33.

4. Calgary, Gaudreau 4 (Kulak, Frolik) 3:31.

Penalties — Roussel Dal, Ferland Cgy (fighting) :38 Chiasson Cgy (goaltender interference) 7:36 Brouwer Cgy (tripping) 15:21.

Third Period 5. Dallas, Ja.Benn 4 (Seguin, Roussel) 7:20 (pp).

6. Dallas, Roussel 2 (Dowling) 19:06 (en).

Penalties — Chiasson Cgy (high-sticking) 6:32 Dallas bench (delay of game, served by Dowling) 16:51.

Shots on goal by Dallas 10 4 8 — 22 Calgary 10 10 11 — 31 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 2-4-2). Calgary: Elliott (L, 3-7-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Dallas: 1-3 Calgary: 0-2.

Referees — Trevor Hanson, Tom Kowal. Linesmen — Mark Wheler, Vaughan Rody.

San Jose 4, Florida 2 First Period 1. Florida, Demers 1 (McCann) 5:09.

2. Florida, Demers 2 (Barkov, Jagr) 7:26.

3. San Jose, Burns 6 (unassisted) 16:18.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 4. San Jose, Pavelski 5 (Ward) 1:53.

Penalties — Demers Fla (holding) 5:45 Ekblad Fla (slashing) 7:11 Ward SJ (holding) 14:16.

Third Period 5. San Jose, Wingels 2 (Tierney) 8:53.

6. San Jose, Couture 3 (Braun) 19:03 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by San Jose 11 8 10 — 29 Florida 11 6 7 — 24 Goal — San Jose: Jones (W, 7-6-0). Florida: Reimer (L, 2-2-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 0-2 Florida: 0-1.

Referees — Dan O’Halloran, Francois St.Laurent.

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FOOTBALL High School Football Rankings Tier I (Pop 1250 and over) 1. (1) Bev Facey (Sher Park), (11-0) 2. (2) Henry Wise Wood, Calgary (6-1) 3. (3) St. Francis, Calgary (6-1) 4. (4) Harry Ainlay, Edm (9-1) 5. (6) Centennial, Calgary (7-1) 60. (10) Raymond (5-3) 7. (7) Notre Dame, Calgary (5-2) 8. (8) Notre Dame, Red Deer (8-1) 9. (NR) Bellerose, St. Albert (5-4) 10. (5) LCI, Lethbridge (6-3) Tier II (750-1,249) 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Gr Prairie (10-1) 2. (2) Foothills, Okotoks (7-2) 3. (4) Medicine Hat (9-1) 4. (3) Hunting Hills, Red Deer (7-3) 5. (5) Austin O’Brien, Edm (4-4-1) 6. (7) Robert Thirsk, Calgary (4-4) 7. (9) Lloydminster (6-3) 8. (6) Springbank (5-3) 9. (8) Catholic Central, Leth (6-4) 10. (10) Paul Kane, St. Albert (1-6-1) Tier III (450-749) 1. (1) Cochrane (7-0) 2. (2) Holy Rosary, Lloydminster (10-0) 3. (3) Sylvan Lake (8-0-1) 4. (4) Cardston (5-3) 5. (5) Strathmore (5-3) 6. (6) Peace Wapiti, Grande Prairie (5-4) 7. (7) St. Albert (4-5) 8. (8) Bonnyville (6-2) 9. (9) Brooks (4-5) 10. (10) Rundle College, Cal (2-6-1) Tier IV (449 and less) 1. (3) Ardrossan (5-2-1) 2. (5) Willow Creek, Claresholm (6-3) 3. (1) W.R. Myers, Taber (7-1) 4. (2) Sexsmith (8-2) 5. (4) Stettler (6-2) 6. (6) Bow Valley, Cochrane (7-2) 7. (7) Valleyview (6-3) 8. (8) St. Paul (4-3) 9. (9) Canmore (5-3) 10. (10) Cold Lake (6-3) Six-Man 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Brooks (8-0) 2. (2) Buck Mountain, Buck Lake (8-0)

3. (3) Millwoods Christian, Edm (7-1) 4. (4) Rimbey (7-1) 5. (5) Holy Redeemer, Edson (6-2) 6. (7) JC Charyk, Hanna (6-2) 7. (6) Breton (5-3) 8. (8) Sedgewick (5-3) 9. (10) Caroline (4-4) 10. (9) Redwater (3-5) CFL PLAYOFFS Sunday’s games Division Semifinals East Division Edmonton at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

West Division Winnipeg at B.C., 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 20 Division Finals East Division Edmonton/Hamilton at Ottawa, 11 a.m.

West Division B.C./Winnipeg at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 27 104th Grey Cup At Toronto East vs. West Champions, 4:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 1 0.875 217 132 Miami 4 4 0.500 173 182 Buffalo 4 5 0.444 237 203 N.Y. Jets 3 6 0.333 173 235 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 5 3 0.625 137 167 Tennessee 4 5 0.444 217 226 Indianapolis 4 5 0.444 239 256 Jacksonville 2 6 0.250 153 215 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 5 4 0.556 182 160 Pittsburgh 4 4 0.500 184 171 Cincinnati 3 4 1.438 167 189 Cleveland 0 10 0.000 175 301 West W L T Pct PF PA

BOWLING Oakland Kansas City Denver San Diego

7 2 0.778 245 223 6 2 0.750 185 151 6 3 0.667 214 166 4 5 0.444 268 247 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 7 1 0.875 223 140 N.Y. Giants 5 3 0.625 161 164 Washington 4 3 1.563 186 189 Philadelphia 4 4 0.500 202 145 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 6 3 0.667 305 259 New Orleans 4 4 0.500 242 238 Tampa Bay 3 5 0.375 180 232 Carolina 3 5 0.375 204 206 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 5 3 0.625 155 126 Detroit 5 4 0.556 205 206 Green Bay 4 4 0.500 198 187 Chicago 2 6 0.250 131 179 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 5 2 1.688 162 134 Arizona 3 4 1.438 179 140 Los Angeles 3 5 0.375 130 167 San Francisco1 7 0.125 167 260 Thursday’s Games Baltimore 28, Cleveland 7 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: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland 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

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)

TRANSACTIONS HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Arizona D Oliver Ekman-Larsson $2,000 as supplementary discipline for diving/embellishment.

CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled F Linden Vey from Stockton (AHL).

American Hockey League SAN DIEGO GULLS — Signed LW Jordan Samuels-Thomas to a professional tryout agreement.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed F Greg Betzold.

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Loaned F Jordan Samuels-Thomas to San Diego (AHL).

BASEBALL National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP R.A. Dickey on a one-year contract.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released RHP Luis Munoz.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

ATLANTA HAWKS — Acquired the right to own and operate an NBA D-League team that will play in College Park, Ga., beginning with the 2019-20 season.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Seattle CB Richard Sherman $9,000 for unnecessary roughness for his hit on Buffalo PK Dan Carpenter during a Nov. 7 game.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated DT Earl Mitchell off injured reserve.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released OT Sean Hickey from the practice squad. Signed TE MyCole Pruitt to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released RB Tyler Gaffney.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Colorado D Jared Watts an undisclosed amount for his actions (hands to the face, head or neck of an opponent) during a Nov. 6 match against the LA Galaxy.

National Women’s Soccer League

WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Acquired the rights to M Havana Solaun, 2017 first- and fourth-round draft picks and a 2018 second-round draft pick from Seattle for the rights to M Christine Nairn and G Madalyn Schiffel. Signed M Tori Huster to a one-year contract.

Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football CONCACAF — Named Alejandro Lesende chief financial and administration officer.

COLLEGE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE — Named Eric Ziady chief financial officer.

FRESNO STATE — Named Jeff Tedford football coach.

MCMURRY — Announced cross-country coach Will Cooper and men’s soccer coach Tyler Tarango have had the “interim” tag removed from their titles.

SYRACUSE — Named Chris Fuller deputy athletics director, external operations and Kristen Jones Kolod deputy athletics director and chief financial officer.

NHL

Jets’ top line produces again against Coyotes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jets 3 Coyotes 2 LENDALE, Ariz.

(AP) — The Winnipeg Jets’ young top line keeps racking up points.

Forwards Nikolaj Ehlers and Patrik Laine and centre Mark Scheifele combined for three points — giving the trio 26 in the past four games — and Jets beat the Arizona

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Coyotes 3-2 on Thursday night.

Ehlers scored at 16:46 of the third period with a flukey assist from Laine, as a failed clearance glanced off the rookie’s body to Ehlers.

Scheifele logged an assist in the first period and has 10 assists and 19 points in 15 games this season.

Blake Wheeler and Andrew Copp also scored goals, and the Jets won for the third time in four games and

have earned at least a point in four of five.

“They’re pretty skilled.

You look up and down that line and there’s a lot of skill,” Copp said of the first line.

“Each one of them can shoot the puck. They’ve been doing really well for us putting the puck in the net.”

Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck, making his fourth straight start, made 23 saves, offsetting the Coyotes’ Louis Domingue’s 24.

Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday Club plus-55: High single: Mariano Campos, 269. High triple: Campos, 721.

Mondy Mixed: High single: Steve Thomlison, 270. High triple: Thomlison, 693.

Monday Scratch: High single: Gary Baird, 383.

High quad: Shelby Chrest, 1,104.

Tuesday Mixed: High single: Kalie Miller, 388.

High triple: Tony Zirk, 878.

Wednesday Club plus-55: High single: Don Knowler, 281. High triple: Knowler, 708.

Wednesday Mixed: High single: Josh Bota, 313. High triple: Andrew Gallaher, 825.

Thursday Am Ladies: High single: Chris Palm, 277. High triple: Palm, 629.

Thursday Special Olympics: High single: Dan

Critchely, 211. High double: Critchely, 381.

Thursday Mixed: High single: Graham Witherspoon, 312. High triple: John Bridges, 746.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers: High single: Phoenix Hagman, Zaine Oickle, 94.

Bowlasaurus: High single: Maren Convey, 91.

Peewees: High single: Jennika Wudkevich, 144.

High double: Wudkevich, 236.

Bantams: High single: Micayla Convey, 202. High triple: Convey, 423.

Juniors: High single: Dakota Clubine, 263. High triple: Clubine, 690.

Seniors: High single: Landyn Brown, 314. High triple: Brown, 730.

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Much history surrounds Seahawks, Patriots Super Bowl rematch

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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OXBOROUGH, Mass. — Pete Carroll knows he can’t go back in time to 1997 when he arrived in New England as the Patriots’ giddy 46-year-old new head coach.

But if he could, he says he certainly would have done things a lot differently.

It’s been 17 years since Carroll was fired after a three-year run in New England and forced to accept his second failed stint as an NFL coach, unsure he’d ever get — or want for that matter — another shot.

But after reviving his career at the University of Southern California and then returning to the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks in 2010, he returns to Foxborough and the Patriots’ home stadium Sunday for the first time since his departure in 1999. It will also be the first meeting between the teams since New England’s 2015 Super Bowl victory denied Seattle backto-back championships.

“When I went into New England, I was really committed to being able to bring the philosophy and do it exactly the way you wanted to do it, and be in control of it. It didn’t really work out that way, the

way I hoped,” Carroll said.

“I wasn’t on my game enough to pull that off. It was a great lesson learned.”

That lesson hardened his coaching style during an eight-year run at USC that included a pair of national championships. The lessons stayed with him when he returned to the NFL in 2010 and when he led the Seahawks to a Super Bowl win in 2014.

It was even with him when the Seahawks came up a yard short in their Super Bowl 49 loss to the Patriots and his New England successor, Bill Belichick.

It makes Sunday’s rematch one of the most-anticipated games of the season.

Carroll said even with the sour Super Bowl memories he has nothing but respect for what the Patriots have built since he left.

“I think it’s really awesome to watch New England,” he said. “When Bill got the job there, (team owner) Robert (Kraft) gave him the chance to take that thing over and run it and do it exactly the way a football guy sees it, and the rest has been a great history and a great success story.”

The respect is mutual from the other sideline for Carroll and general manager John Schneider.

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Bombardier flying the friendly skies of stronger profits

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ONTREAL — Bombardier says massive cost-cutting, mainly from two painful rounds of job reductions, has put the embattled company on the runway to generate stronger profits and achieve its five-year turnaround plan.

“We still have a lot of work ahead of us but Bombardier today is a much better and stronger company than it was a year ago,” CEO Alain Bellemare said Thursday.

He said an initial move earlier in February to cut 7,000 jobs is 80 per cent completed and a second wave last month to eliminate 7,500 positions or more than 10 per cent of its global workforce by the end of 2018 is gaining traction.

The latest job losses for the aircraft and rail equipment company are to be partially offset by more than 3,700 new hires as it ramps up production of the CSeries plane, the new Global 7000 business jet, and transit cars.

The Montreal-based company (TSX:BBD.B) has seen its profitability and shares plummet as it struggled to develop the CSeries, the largest commercial jet that Bombardier has ever made.

Bellemare said the changes made so far will improve operating margins more than originally forecast at its aerospace and railway divisions.

“Looking ahead to 2017 we feel that we’re in a good position,” he told analysts.

Bombardier’s net loss was reduced to US$94 million or four cents per share for the three months ended Sept. 30. That’s down from a year-earlier loss of nearly US$4.9 billion or $2.20 per share, when Bombardier wrote down the value of the CSeries program and one of its Learjet business jet programs.

Since then, the Quebec government has invested US$1 billion to acquire a 49.5 per cent stake in the delayed and overbudget CSeries aircraft program.

Bombardier has delivered three CS100 aircraft to Swiss Air Lines and is set next month to deliver the first larger CS300 jet to Air Baltic.

Bellemare said the performance of the aircraft is the best he’s seen in 20 years of working on aerospace projects.

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HOT POTATO: More for fun “I thought,’Seriously?’”

Rempel proceeded to set up TaterGrams Canada, more for fun than anything, knowing that anyone who received a potato with a message written on it would probably laugh.

He really wasn’t expecting it to do much. “Maybe take the wife out for dinner at the end of the month.”

But business has been brisk — he and his wife Carmell have been busy in the evening preparing the TaterGram orders. They’ve done about 90 so far.

“You’re one hot potato” is the most popular message, with added glitter or hearts. Another popular one is “You’re my best spud”. Everyone wants the add-on googly eyes, Rempel said.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A plane comes in for a landing at a Bombardier plant in Montreal. Bombardier says massive cost-cutting, mainly from two painful rounds of job reductions, has put the embattled company on the runway to generate stronger profits and achieve its five-year turnaround plan.

That included the Pratt and Whitney engines, whose production issues have forced Bombardier to cut CSeries deliveries to seven this year, down from the previous estimate of 15. The company still expects to deliver 30 to 35 planes in 2017 and perhaps catch up on missed shipments from this year.

Bombardier’s revenue was US$1.31 billion, down 16 per cent from $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2016, following a planned reduction in business aircraft sales and the deferred recognition of some revenue in its rail division.

The adjusted loss was US$10 million or less than a cent per share for the quarter, better than the adjusted loss of three cents forecast by analysts.

Bombardier used less

Most orders are coming from Western Canada and Ontario. A couple went to New Brunswick where the main crop happens to be potatoes.

Rempel, 46, is not quitting his day jobs. He’s a car salesman, and a city councillor there. “Right now I’m pretty happy where I am. A lot of this may just be from the national (media) exposure.”

He gets the potatoes fresh directly from a local producer, Scholing’s Produce.

The TaterGrams go out in bubble wrap envelopes, or if a customer wants to upgrade, in a little box.

Carmell does most of the writing on the potatoes “because she’s a better speller than I am.”

“All my family and friends know that any meal with potatoes is a perfect meal. As a kid, as a grown-up, potatoes have been one of my favourite vegetables. So this actually is natural. If I have any reject potatoes I just can’t use, I eat them. Nothing like a good old mashed potato.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

cash than expected during the quarter and saw margins improve in all of its operating segments.

While the business jet market remains challenging, especially in the smaller jet market, Bellemare said a 2015 reduction in the production rate of Global 5000s is helping to boost margins.

“We saw that coming and adjusted our production rate very early, earlier than anyone else in the industry and as a result I think we are in a much better place.”

Still, Bellemare said further fine-tuning in the manufacturing rate of business aircraft may be required in 2017, but nowhere near as significant as last year’s decision.

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Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.18 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.61 Cervus Equipment Corp 14.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 54.15 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 56.64 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.35

Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.98 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 57.21 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.03 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.89 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.46 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 60.20

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Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.03 Cdn. National Railway . . 87.31 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 197.00

Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.05 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.73 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 27.61

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 137.62

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Investors on Wall Street sent the Dow Jones soaring to an all-time record high Thursday, as the markets viewed the looming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump as good news for business spending.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 218.19 points to 18,807.88, capping off four straight days of gains.

The previous record was 18,636.05, set on Aug. 15.

The party atmosphere in capital markets is in sharp contrast to what had been expected in the weeks and days leading up the historic U.S. election on Tuesday, where it was largely predicted that Trump would lose to Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.

But as the stunning decision continues to sink in for the world’s largest economy, traders are warming up to the idea of a Republican president whose campaign promise included plans to spend large sums of money

on infrastructure.

“At this point, the market is painting a pleasant scenario,” said Patrick Blais, a senior portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

“Given that we have a Republican president that is aligned with Republicans in the House, it is very plausible that he will commit to his program of fiscal spending to drive growth.”

Blais said that stock markets had been forecasting a worst case scenario in the event of a Trump victory, but now seems to have backed away from that forecast because the president-elect seems much more subdued post-election than he was during his campaign.

This has helped calmed fears of uncertainty in the markets.

“Sure we can point to the positives but there are definitely some negatives associated with the new president,” he added.

“Were the negatives just bluster and will he tone

down or will he be more constrained in more of his outlandish, negative views — whether it be on trade, on immigration. That can have some very serious negative impacts.”

The strength wasn’t felt throughout Wall Street though.

The broader S&P 500 was flat, ahead by 4.22 points to 2,167.48, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was down 42.27 points at 5,208.80.

In Toronto, lower gold prices weighed, pulling the S&P/TSX composite index into negative territory for the first time this week.

Canada’s largest stock market was down 15.66 points at 14,744.25, with gold miners leading decliners.

The Canadian dollar fell for a second day as it continued to feel pressure from declining oil prices, a stronger U.S. currency and worries about the U.S. president-elect’s plans regarding free-trade agreements.

Energy

“We don’t expect the U.S, if they were to revisit NAFTA, to incorporate any major changes but I think just the possibility is leading to some weakness in the Canadian currency,” noted Blais.

The loonie lost 0.58 of a U.S. cent to 74.17 cents US, while the December crude contract fell 61 cents to US$44.66 per barrel.

Other commodities were mixed with the December gold contract losing $7.10 to US$1,266.40 an ounce, December natural gas dipping six cents to US$2.63 per mmBTU, and December copper setting a new 15-month record, climbing nine cents at US$2.55 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,744.25, down 15.66 points Dow — 18,807.88, up

AGRICULTURE

Bumper crop stymied by weather

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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any farmers have seen a potential bumper year wilt as unco-operative weather has stymied harvesting.

Harry Brook, a crop specialist at Stettler’s Alberta Ag-Info Centre, said this fall has been a “frustrating disappointment” for many producers.

“The problem is we had a really spectacular crop coming. In a lot of cases, we had almost ideal moisture conditions.

“We had big crops that were looking great, and then the weather turned to crap.”

The trouble started with a wet September.

“It’s frustrating because the crops were ready to harvest. It just never dried up enough to let it finish that last little bit of maturing.

“But we thought we had October. But October was a total disaster.”

About 20 per cent of the crop in Central Alberta remains on the field, he estimated.

November’s warm conditions have provided a welcomed last chance to get crops off.

However, that window is likely to close by the end

of this weekend with cold temperatures forecast for next week.

Brook said his office has been getting regular calls from farmers looking for advice on harvesting and storing wet crops.

Careful management and drying can do much to prevent the worst damage for stored crops, but quality and value has dropped for many grains.

His advice to farmers is to get out this weekend and get their crop off, whether it’s wet or not. The amount of crop may offset some of the quality issues, he said.

“If they can get it all off, or the majority (of the crop) off, and have very little left for next year’s harvest. There will certainly be a lot of value lost but the yield will partially make up for it if they can find a market to sell it to.

“It will end up being kind of an average D income year.

I “But it had the L potential to be so B much more. That’s the E R disappointing part.”

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Friday, November 11, 2016 Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.71 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.30 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 59.37 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.29 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 23.91 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.73 Canyon Services Group. . 5.41 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.00 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.32 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.570 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.05 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.81 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.80 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.33 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.75 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.76 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.08 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.07 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.09

218.19 points (record high) S&P 500 — 2,167.48, up 4.22 points Nasdaq — 5,208.80, down 42.27 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.17 cents US, down 0.58 of a cent Pound — C$1.6914, up 2.97 cents Euro — C$1.4678, up 0.84 of a cent Euro — US$1.0886, down 0.23 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.66 per barrel, down 61 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,266.40 per oz., down $7.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $26.018, down 16.8 cents $836.48 kg., down $5.40 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $4.80 higher $506.90 Jan. ‘17 $4.80 higher $513.90 March

Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.14 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.47 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.31 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0650 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 86.17 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.72 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.22 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.96 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.60 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.55 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.36 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.94 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.08 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.760 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 85.78 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 50.90 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.89

‘17 $4.60 higher $520.60 May ‘17 $3.90 higher $523.70 July ‘17 $3.80 higher $524.00 Nov. ‘17 $4.00 higher $505.20 Jan. ‘18 $4.00 higher $507.90 March ‘18 $4.00 higher $510.40 May ‘18 $4.00 higher $512.70 July ‘18 $4.00 higher $514.70 Nov. ‘18 $4.00 higher $514.70.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 362,940 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley).

Total: 362,940.

Volvo recalls vehicles in US, Canada for seat belt problem DETROIT — Volvo is recalling about 79,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because the front passenger seat belt may not hold people in a crash.

The recall covers certain S60, S90, V60, XC60 and XC90 vehicles from the 2016 and 2017 model years.

Volvo says in government documents that a buckle stud can come loose, allowing the buckle to separate from a bracket. If that happens, the belt may not hold the front passenger in a crash.

The company said Wednesday it has no reports of injuries. It does not expect to find any loose studs but says it’s recalling the vehicles as a precaution.

Dealers will replace the buckle if needed at no cost to owners starting Dec. 12.

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ANGUILLA TAKE A SWIMSUIT AND A DEEP HUNGER, THERE ARE PLENTY OF DELECTABLE OPTIONS FOR EVERY BUDGET AT THIS DESTINATION

Photo by NECEE REGIS/The Washington Post

A child wades through the water along the pier at Road Bay in Sandy Ground on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. The pier is popular with visitors who take shuttle boats out to nearby Sandy Island for lunch and a day of snorkeling.

“

The trip today is about 24 minutes,” announced the captain of our eight-passenger shuttle ferry. That was just enough time, I estimated, to be served and finish the rum punch I planned to order as we left port in St. Maarten.

I settled on a seat in the rocking vessel and squinted across the sparkling Caribbean at our destination.

The relatively small, flat island of Anguilla appeared as a scrub-covered outcropping on the horizon, an easily overlooked smudge on the surface of the sea.

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ANGUILLA: ‘It’s An-gwilla’ With only one main road and a mere six stoplights, the 10-by-2-km island isn’t difficult to navigate. However, visitors like me, hesitant about left-side-of-the-road driving, may opt for the ease of fixed-rate taxis.

En route to Malliouhana, an Auberge resort perched on a bluff overlooking Meads Bay, I peppered my driver with questions about Anguilla, the main one being, “What is the correct pronunciation?”

“It’s An-gwilla, sort of like gorilla.

The name comes from its shape. Like an eel,” said the driver, who was born and raised on the island.

Like many islands in the Caribbean, Anguilla was colonized in the 17th century by alternating groups of Europeans, primarily from Great Britain and France. After a 1967 revolution to separate itself from the Federation of the West Indies (established in the 1950s with nearby St. Kitts and Nevis), Britain intervened. By December 1980, Anguilla became a British Overseas Territory with some measure of governmental autonomy. The language of the island is English, though most of the population — estimated at 15,000 — speak a melodic Caribbean version.

My driver beeped his car horn and waved at other drivers, and those walking along the road, and it soon became apparent that everyone knew everyone. Since the largest slice of the business pie involves tourism, the majority of the people I met were unfailingly polite and happy to share their opinions of what to see and do on the island, including where to hear traditional soca, calypso, reggae and country music.

I arrived hungry — a good thing, as my visit was planned around experiencing as much of the island’s purported tasty offerings as I could schedule in a three-day visit. After check-in and a swim in one of two pools with ocean views, I headed out to dinner.

Before opening Veya, chef Carrie Bogar along with her business partner and husband, Jerry, were looking

Photo by NECEE REGIS/The Washington Post

ABOVE: Pimms restaurant at Cap Juluca, a five star resort on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. The restaurant is known for its Caribbean and European fusion menu, and as a romantic dinner destination overlooking Maundays Bay and St. Maarten.

to escape the gloomy Pennsylvania winters. “We googled, ‘Caribbean restaurants for sale,’ and packed up the kids and moved,” Bogar said.

Located in tropical woodlands, this secluded restaurant has the feel of an exotic treehouse combined with a bohemian lounge. The eclectic menu fuses Caribbean tastes and ingredients with those from other far-flung steamy lands.

“I didn’t want to be pigeonholed as just a Caribbean chef, so I started thinking about other countries with warm climates such as [the ones in] North Africa, South America and Southeast Asia,” Bogar said.

Open since 2007, Veya is no secret. In high season, reservations must be made weeks in advance to sample Bogar’s inventive dishes such as grilled jerk-spiced tuna with

rum-coffee glaze or grilled local lobster with passion fruit mustard sauce. For light bites, tapas plates and crafted cocktails are offered in the garden lounge, Meze, along with music by local artists, including the soulful reggae beats of Omari Banks.

A former celebrated cricketer, Banks is the son of Bankie Banks, a reggae singer known as the “Anguillan Bob Dylan.”

It seems silly that I left the island to head to another island for lunch.

But, indeed, I did.

Sandy Island is one of a number of small, uninhabited offshore islands, or cays — all accessible by boat — that are popular with beachcombers, snorkelers and kite surfers. Several of these islands sport casual tiki-style beach shacks that are open for lunch on varying days of the week.

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FROM PAGE 34 At Sandy Ground in Road Bay, where those arriving by private yacht clear customs and immigration, I caught a shuttlecraft named Joy (the others are Happiness and Bliss) along with several young guys clutching beers and snorkeling gear.

Frigate birds circled overhead as we cruised toward Sandy Island and in minutes, it seemed, we were jumping into the shallows and wading to shore.

The shaded, open-air restaurant, also known as Sandy Island, specializes in traditional local foods, all prepared on a seaside grill: freshly caught lobster, red snapper, crayfish and mahi-mahi, as well as baby back ribs, barbecued chicken and drunken coconut shrimp. I sat at a picnic table, feet in the white sand, enjoying a margarita mixed at the

gaily painted bar while waiting (and waiting) for my meal to arrive. While chatting with guests at nearby tables, I learned that those in the know call ahead to place their orders.

But when on vacation, what’s the rush? My succulent lobster with coconut ginger sauce and accompanying rice, beans and salad were worth the wait — in fact, pure bliss, which was the apt name of the shuttle I boarded back to port after post-lunch snorkeling (mask rentals are available) in the crystalline waters around the reef.

My other notable beachside lunch was at Bayside Bar & Grill, a popular spot overlooking boats and swimmers at Crocus Bay. Though tempted to order another lobster, I opted instead for grilled snapper and Creole sauce with corn, rice and peas while others around me, many of them locals, I guessed by their lilting accents, enjoyed barbecued chicken and ribs, rustic pizzas, burgers and sal-

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CéBlue Valley Road, 1264 The Valley, Crocus Bay 800-304-1484 ceblueanguilla.com Nestled along Crocus Hill, the highest point on Anguilla (213 feet above sea level), eight private villas enjoy stunning ocean views. Each villa includes its own saltwater pool, state-of-the-art kitchen, expansive communal spaces, outdoor rain shower and luxury bathrooms.

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WHERE TO EAT Veya North Hill Village, AI-2640, Sandy Ground 264-498-8392 veya-axa.com In this hidden locale, chef Carrie Bogar fuses Caribbean flavours with cuisines from hot spots around the world, such as carpaccio of conch with Asian slaw, tamarind-glazed roasted chicken and vanilla-cured duck breast with guavaberry sauce. Also features tapas and live music in the garden lounge, Meze. Reservations highly recommended. Entrees range from $32 to $60.

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ads. Before leaving, I peeked inside the grill’s elegant sister property, da’Vida, where the dinner menu is a touch more formal — grilled Angus beef tenderloin, herb-crusted rack of lamb, ginger teriyaki sea scallops – but the vibe remains island-casual.

After a fruit-and-granola breakfast, some hotel guests headed out to play golf at the island’s only course while others planned a day of Auberge spa treatments. I chose a day of lollygagging and swimming at a quiet cove, a short hike down a path from my hotel, where it was easy to imagine I was happily shipwrecked on a deserted island.

I planned a last night splurge at Pimms, a candlelit, open-air restaurant at Cap Juluca, a five-star resort

with its own mile-long beach.

It can be awkward eating meals alone, especially at a place that blatantly conjures romance. Maybe it was days spent in the sun and the relaxed island vibe, but the staff at Pimms seemed extra-welcoming, the meal of lobster ravioli and grilled Anguilla crayfish extra divine. I sat at a table near the edge of the sea, where curved Moorish arches framed a view of Maundays Bay and the mountains of St. Maarten, the setting sun smearing pink and violet stains across puffy clouds. Anticipating my trip home in reverse — the taxi to the port, the shuttle boat and one last rum punch before airport security — I sighed and began plotting my next visit.

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Pimms Cap Juluca, Maundays Bay, AI-2640 888-858-5822 capjuluca.com/anguilla_dining Romantic dining at a five-star resort overlooking Maundays Bay and St. Maarten. Menu fuses Caribbean and European flavours with an emphasis on fresh seafood, including Anguillan lobster bisque with lobster ravioli and seared salmon with stuffed aubergine.

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Vitamin D deficiency widely overestimated, doctors warn

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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octors are warning about vitamin D again, and it’s not the “we need more” news you might expect.

Instead, they say there’s too much needless testing and too many people taking too many pills for a problem that few people truly have.

The nutrient is crucial for strong bones and may play a role in other health conditions, though that is far less certain. Misunderstandings about the recommended amount of vitamin D have led to misinterpretation of blood tests and many people thinking they need more than they really do, some experts who helped set the levels write in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine .

Correctly interpreted, less than six per cent of Americans ages one to 70 are deficient and only 13 per cent are in danger of not getting enough.

That’s concerning, “but these levels of deficiency do not constitute a pandemic,” the authors write.

Yet people may think there is one.

Blood tests for vitamin D levels — not advised unless a problem like bone loss is suspected — are soaring.

Under Medicare, there was an 83fold increase from 2000 to 2010, to 8.7 million tests last year, at $40 apiece.

It’s Medicare’s fifth most common test, just after cholesterol levels and ahead of blood sugar, urinary tract infections and prostate cancer screening.

“I’m not sure when it got popular to check everybody for vitamin D deficiency,” but patients often ask for it, especially baby boomers, said Dr.

‘WE’RE NOT SAYING THAT MODERATE-DOSE SUPPLEMENTS ARE RISKY, BUT MORE IS NOT NECESSARILY BETTER’ DR. JOANN MANSON BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL

Kenny Lin, a Georgetown University family physician and preventive medicine expert.

Vitamin D pill use also grew, from five per cent of Americans in 1999 to 19 per cent in 2012. That may be due to many reports suggesting harm from too little of “the sunshine vitamin,” called that because our skin makes vitamin D from sun exposure. It’s tough to get enough in winter or from dietary sources like milk and oily fish, though many foods and drinks are fortified with vitamin D and labels soon will have to carry that information.

“We’re not saying that moderate-dose supplements are risky, but more is not necessarily better” and high doses can do harm, said Dr. JoAnn Manson of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She and several other advisers to the Institute of Medicine, which set the RDA, or recommended dietary allowance, wrote the journal article.

People vary, biologically, in how much of any vitamin they need. The institute estimated this by comparing various intake and blood levels with measures of bone health. They estimated that, on average, people need about 400 international units of vitamin D per day, and 600 for people over 70. To be safe and ensure that everyone gets enough, they set the RDA at the high end of the spectrum of the population’s needs — 600 to 800 units, depending on age.

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Major advances that have revolutionized stroke treatment

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everal advances have been made in the area of stroke treatment in the past 15 years that have indeed revolutionized care of stroke patients and saved many a precious life. It is doubtful any other area Padmaja whether in modern medicine has Genesh witnessed these many advances during this time. Right here in Alberta, we have one of the best stroke centres in the world, at Foothills Hospital, Calgary.

The first major advance since Aspirin and Warfarin, involved novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) developed as alternative treatments for stroke prevention, particularly in individuals with an irregular heart or atrial fibrillation, who are at high risk for thromboembolism. These NOACs are easier to use, do not require regular blood monitoring, and have less drug and food interactions and bleeding risk compared to Warfarin.

Currently four NOACs have been approved for primary and secondary prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Another significant advancement was the introduction of the clot busting drug Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) in 1996. tPA was the first and only drug approved for stroke treatment and the only drug that could reduce the possibility of stroke related complications in patients. With later clinical studies confirming that the initial treatment window of three hours could be safely expanded to 4.5 hours, the entire stroke care infrastructure changed leading to the establishment of stroke centres and new benchmarks for quality treatment delivery.

Following the heels of tPA, was the advent of telemedicine which made it possible for stroke centres around the world to utilize the expertise of specialists round the clock to coordinate care of their stroke patients. Emergency department physicians can now link up with experts via telemedicine who can guide them in administering tPA. Mobile stroke treatment units are also changing the delivery of care, allowing more patients to access early treatment. These clinics use telemedicine to provide stroke expertise from specialists elsewhere to interpret CT scan and monitor the administration of tPA and other therapies before the patient even reaches the hospital.

The most recent game changer in the realm of stroke treatment is the

development and use of stent retrievers to offer endovascular treatment.

Endovascular therapy involves insertion of a thin tube or catheter through an incision in the groin into an artery that opens into the blood vessel in the brain where the clot is lodged. The clot is then manually removed using instruments inserted through the catheter, restoring blood flow to the brain.

The ESCAPE (Endovascular treatment for Small Core and Anterior circulation Proximal occlusion with Emphasis on minimizing CT to recanalization times) study conducted by Dr. Andrew Demchuk, and his team at University of Calgary, revealed that patients who received endovascular therapy had a significantly higher chance of complete recovery, 23.7 per cent reduced risk of stroke-related disability, and 8.6 per cent reduced risk of death, compared to those who received the standard treatment.

A recent study comparing endovascular treatment with medical therapy alone reported that the benefits of endovascular treatment was beneficial for up to 7.3 hours after symptom-onset — which is significantly longer than the current guideline recommendation of six hours. And the earlier the treatment, the better were the outcomes at three months compared to medical therapy alone.

Now coming to the topic of stroke prevention, two different international studies reported that by controlling modifiable risk factors, especially high blood pressure, and improving broader screening for atrial fibrillation, and by greater use of anticoagulants, we can significantly reduce the incidence of strokes worldwide.

It is exciting to see the tremendous progress that has been achieved in the treatment of acute stroke in the past years. This means that we now have the best chance of recovering from a stroke with very little residual disability if we identify the symptoms of stroke and take immediate action, than any time before in the history of human life.

So the primary step is to spot a stroke FAST (Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, and Take action by calling 911 immediately).

When it comes to stroke, time is brain.

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bachelor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontology, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies.

A past resident of Red Deer, and a past board member of Red Deer Golden Circle, she is now a Learning Specialist at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary. Please send your comments to padmajaganeshy@yahoo.ca

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Opioid use taking toll in Ontario with hundreds of overdose deaths: report

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ORONTO — The use of opioids varies dramatically across Ontario, but overall the potent and addictive medications are responsible for hundreds of overdose deaths each year, researchers say.

A study by scientists at the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network found 638 people died in 2013 from opioid overdoses — a rate of about one death for every 20,000 residents in the province. The report, released Thursday, found 13 per cent of those fatal overdoses were suicides.

In the five years ending in 2013, the most recent year for which statistics are available in Ontario, there were 2,879 deaths from opioid overdoses, the study found.

“I think it highlights that this issue is not going away,” said lead author Tara Gomes, a researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. “We continue to see high rates of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and a large degree of opioid prescribing across the province.”

The report shows that the Thunder Bay and Timiskaming districts had the highest incidence of opioid-related deaths, about four times the provincial average, though it’s not clear why fatality rates in some areas of the province differ from others.

“It becomes really difficult to understand what is driving those patterns,” admitted Gomes. “Is it differences in certain prescribers that are perhaps more broadly prescribing these drugs … (or) is it perhaps that there’s more illicit opioid use in some of these areas … which would certainly contribute to the overdoses and deaths that we are seeing.”

Not all opioid overdoses end up being fatal, but they have a significant impact on those taking the drugs and on the health-care system, the report found. Tapping into 2014 hospital records, researchers identified about 3,200 opioid-related emergency department visits in Ontario, which resulted in 1,620 patients being admitted to hospital.

“It starts to show that the deaths are really the tip of the iceberg when we get down to these overdoses that are ending up in hospital,” said Gomes.

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Benedikt Fischer, of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, speaks to reporters after appearing as a panelist at an open Liberal Senate caucus meeting and panel discussion on the legalization of marijuana on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Fischer says Canadians are the second-highest consumers of opioids worldwide, after the U.S. The highest rates of opioid-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations occurred in health units in northern Ontario as well as in parts of southwestern Ontario, specifically the Erie St. Clair and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant regions.

While some overdoses may be

linked to the use of illicit opioids such as heroin, experts say overprescribing by doctors is the main driver of people using and becoming addicted to such drugs as oxycodone, hydromorphone and fentanyl patches — and accidentally or deliberately taking a deadly dose.

HEALTH

Surprising study finds possible culprit in preterm births

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ASHINGTON — Researchers have uncovered a surprising possible trigger for some preterm births: calcium buildup in the womb, similar to the kind that stiffens older people’s arteries or causes kidney stones.

Ohio researchers studying more than 100 pregnant women found that when a mom-to-be’s water breaks too early, the culprit seems to be abnormal calcium deposits that make the normally elastic amniotic sac prone to rupture.

It’s a small study and more research is needed to prove if calcification really is behind this baffling kind of prematurity and if so, what to do about it. But the research, reported Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, raises the possibility of investigating interventions.

“To have a new potential mechanism for one significant form of preterm birth is quite exciting,” said Dr. Edward McCabe, chief medical officer of the March of Dimes, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Premature birth — being born before 37 weeks of pregnancy — can cause lifelong health problems, and babies who are very premature can die. Sometimes there’s an obvious cause for prematurity, such as an infection. Yet most of the time, doctors can’t explain what triggers preterm birth in an otherwise healthy preg-

nant woman.

Dr. Irina Buhimschi of Nationwide Children’s Hospital took a closer look at a curiosity: Calcified plaques have often been spotted in placentas after birth — both preterm and full term — and no one knows why.

But abnormal calcification is wellknown to play a role in a number of disorders. Clusters of minerals, known as calciprotein particles, that float in the blood may be deposited in soft tissue instead of the skeleton, leading to such problems as artery-stiffening atherosclerosis or kidney stones.

Could that process go awry in preterm birth, too? Buhimschi’s team found higher concentrations of the calcium-containing deposits in the amniotic sac when a mom’s water broke prematurely than with fullterm births or other types of preterm births.

Amniotic fluid can produce calciprotein particles, the team found — and with preemies, that fluid also contains lower levels of a protein named fetuin-A that’s supposed to keep those deposits from being dumped in the wrong place, like the amniotic sac.

Lab experiments found those deposits led to less flexible fetal membranes.

“We’ve shown that formation of these particles in amniotic fluid is unhealthy, and we need to keep it in check,” Buhimschi said.

Importantly, testing mom’s blood didn’t uncover any signal that a problem was brewing. Buhimschi said the problem may be restricted just to the

amniotic fluid — if the fetus’ own organs simply don’t produce enough fetuin-A to protect itself. But that would pose a barrier to uncovering at-risk pregnancies, because testing amniotic fluid is risky.

It’s a plausible theory, said Dr. Catherine Spong, a maternal-fetal specialist at the National Institute

of Child Health and Human Development.

But “the clinical relevance of this finding remains to be explored,” Spong cautioned. “Preferably noninvasive methods for detection might allow for the development of interventions or the opportunity for prevention.”

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Denis Villeneuve on ‘Arrival,’ ‘Blade Runner’ and difficulties of sci-fi

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ORONTO — Quebec director Denis Villeneuve says he grew up dreaming about space.

European sci-fi comic books from the likes of Jean Giraud, Enki Bilal and Philippe Druillet had a big influence on his childhood, as did the films Star Wars, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien.

Over two decades into his career, Villeneuve is finally tackling sci-fi himself, with the Quebec-shot alienshave-landed tale Arrival, in theatres Friday, and an ambitious Blade Runner sequel due out next year.

The 49-year-old calls himself “part of the Star Wars generation,” noting he was 10 when the first film hit theatres and he “was the perfect target audience.”

“There was a boom in science fiction and we were under the massive spell,” said the filmmaker, who has captured Hollywood’s attention with Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario.

“I still remember vividly the first time I saw images from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the emotion I had where I had the impression to be in contact with something that was bigger, that

my father would not be able to explain to me — something that was mysterious, very evocative, strongly poetic and that would create a vertigo inside of me because of the fear of the unknown.

“The movie that was most able to express that vertigo feeling was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I would love to be able to create the vertigo one day in a movie, the fear of the unknown. It’s very powerful. It’s my favourite movie of all time.”

But it hasn’t been an easy transition from dramas to sci-fi for Villeneuve.

Shooting the Blade Runner sequel — with its all-star cast including Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto — has been “intense and rewarding” and “a long journey,” he said.

“I’ve never worked that hard — never,” he said by phone from Budapest, where he’d been shooting Blade Runner 2040 for several months.

“It’s very different for me, by far the most difficult genre that I’ve approached so far. It’s very difficult to do science fiction. I thought that I would be free and that I would feel a relief because I would have the freedom because of the genre, and it’s the

CBC launches Breaking Barriers Film Fund for underrepresented Canadian creators TORONTO — The CBC has announced a new film fund to help underrepresented Canadian creators.

The CBC Breaking Barriers Film Fund will offer “critical resources to filmmakers struggling to make their unique voices heard,” the public broadcaster said Wednesday.

The fund will help finance either 10 or 20 per cent of the proposed budget for English-language features.

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Film director Denis Villeneuve acknowledges applause as he is introduced as one of the latest recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards in Toronto. Villeneuve says he grew up dreaming about space. opposite. It’s so difficult to do but I’ve had a lot of fun.”

Arrival received praise from critics at the Toronto International Film Festival for its visceral look at the world’s reaction to the arrival of 12 giant, half moon-shaped alien spacecraft.

Amy Adams stars as a linguistics expert who tries to figure out the

The funds will be available to films written or directed by “Canadian women, indigenous persons, visible minorities and persons with a disability who have had at least one feature-length film showcased at a recognized film festival.”

The CBC says it will make an initial investment of at least $7.5 million in the fund over the next three years.

To qualify for the fund, projects must be in a fictional genre, have an existing first draft script and not yet be in production. Fund recipients will be chosen solely on creative merit.

“This new model will offer vital resources to writers and directors who have historically been at a disadvantage in accessing financing, and will ensure their films are promoted to much broader audiences in Canada through distribution on CBC’s television and digital platforms,” Heather Conway, executive vice-president of English services at the CBC, said a statement.

Carolle Brabant, executive director of Telefilm Canada, called it an “important step.”

aliens’ language and their purpose on Earth.

It took months of consulting with artist Carlos Huante to craft the squid-like look of the aliens.

“At the beginning I was very excited and very quickly the gift became a nightmare because you realize that everything has been done,” he said.

“Telefilm is committed to financially supporting features chosen by the CBC Breaking Barriers Film Fund,” Brabant said. “As two national cultural agencies, both organizations must take a leadership role in addressing diversity in our industry.

CBC’s Breaking Barriers Film Fund complements our own objective, to have by 2020, a feature film portfolio that better reflects Canada’s diverse population.”

Naomi Klein to get Australia’s Sydney Peace Prize

TORONTO — Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein will receive Australia’s 2016 Sydney Peace Prize on Friday.

The Sydney Peace Foundation at the University of Sydney awards the international prize, which recognizes those who promote peace, justice and non-violence.

The honour comes with $50,000 AUD (C$51,500).

Previous winners include: Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

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Late-night hosts mark Trump’s election with jokes, therapy

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OS ANGELES — Late-night hosts pivoted from candidate Donald Trump to President-elect Trump, combining punch lines and audience group counselling after the billionaire’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.

“For years I’ve come out every night and asked how you’re doing, but I’ve never meant it. Tonight I actually mean it. Does anyone need a hug?” Conan O’Brien said in his monologue Wednesday on TBS. Despite divisions among voters, he said, “the optimist in me chooses today to be happy that we have fair and free elections at all. It’s an amazing thing.”

And then there were the jokes. “The first thing I did this morning was call my old high school bully and congratulate him,” O’Brien said.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took viewers through the stages of grief, including denial (“No, the host of The Celebrity Apprentice is not our president”) and bargaining (“Maybe he’ll only build the wall waisthigh, to keep short people out”) and, finally, acceptance.

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“No matter how you feel about it, Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Of America.

So thank God we legalized marijuana yesterday,” Kimmel said, referring to pot-related measures passed by voters in several states.

Like O’Brien, Stephen Colbert began his monologue by asking CBS’ The Late Show studio audience how they were doing, drawing cheers and applause.

“I’m glad. That’s better than I thought,” he said, suggesting the country was facing “four very interesting years.”

“This is what it feels like when America’s made great again. I was wondering, and I was really hoping it would feel better because this sucks,” he said, drawing out the last word. Noting anti-Trump protests in New York and other cities nationwide, Colbert advised viewers, “Don’t ever be cowed by what happens in the next four years.”

For parents struggling to explain Trump’s victory to their children, he suggested lying: “Tell them anything. Tell them the president is Elsa from Frozen.’

NBC’s Tonight host Jimmy Fallon focused on serving up jokes rather than angst.

“Republicans hope he’ll keep his promise to build the wall, and Democrats hope he’ll keep his promise not to accept the election results,” he said.

“And after the results came in, Donald Trump gave a big victory speech.

“Yep, he said he couldn’t have done it without the love of his life, his rock, his better half — FBI Director James Comey.”

CBS’ Late Late Show host James Corden, recalling the excitement of moving from England to America with his wife and son two years ago, said after the “nastiest” of campaigns it was critical to remember the nation’s values.

“This country isn’t about one election result.

This country is about the people who live here. It’s you. It’s how you treat one another, it’s the tone you set that will define who we are” and reaffirm that America is great, he said.

Seth Meyers, who had sharply criticized Trump’s campaign on his Late Night show on NBC, struck a philosophical tone in hashing over Tuesday’s election.

“I felt a lot of emotions last night and into today: some sadness, some anger, some fear. But I’m also aware that those are the same emotions a lot of Trump supporters felt, emotions that led them to

make their choice. And it would be wrong for me to think my emotions are somehow more authentic than their emotions.”

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CITY OF RED DEER Remembrance Day Holiday Hours of Operation City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Friday, November 11, 2016 RED DEER TRANSIT Transit service will operate on Sunday / Holiday hours including Routes 6 and 12/12A. First departure from the terminal is at 8:45 AM and last departure at 6:45 PM. No service on BOLT Routes 100/101.

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Meyers got a bit choked up when talking about his mother’s excitement prior to the election about the prospect seeing the first woman president.

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Development Officer Approvals On November 8, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Deer Park 1. Arc Surveys Ltd. – a 0.60 m variance to the minimum side yard, to an existing patio, located at 56 Dixon Crescent.

Riverlands 2. Berry Architecture & Associates – a development permit extension of time, until November 5, 2017, for a 4-storey commercial office building, to be located at 5302 43 Street.

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Riverlands 4. Troubled Monk Brewery – the expansion of a microbrewery, until January 28, 2030, to be located at 2-5551 45 Street.

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ura Afia’s YouTube channel has thousands and thousands of subscribers.

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And now you’ll be able to see the 24-year-old Afia — a beauty blogger who wears a hijab — in a CoverGirl advertisement.

Afia will appear in a commercial for CoverGirl, marking the first time a Muslim woman wearing a hijab has been featured in an ad for the brand.

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Nura Afia — a beauty blogger who wears a hijab — will appear in a CoverGirl advertisement.

“It’s a big accomplishment for all of us,” Afia, who has been named an ambassador for the brand’s So Lashy! BlastPro Mascara, told CNN. “It means that little girls that grew up like me have something to look up to.”

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and do everyday stuff,” she told CNN. Afia is not the only groundbreaking CoverGirl model of late; the brand also recently announced that James Charles, a teenager who garnered fame on social media, was CoverGirl’s first male representative. Charles and Afia appear in the CoverGirl advertisement with actress Sofia Vergara and singer Katy Perry.

“I’m so excited to be a part of CoverGirl’s new campaign,” Afia said in a statement. “It feels so surreal. Honestly, growing up and being insecure about wearing the hijab I never thought I would see Muslim women represented on such a large scale.

It means the world to me and I’m so honored to be a part of this campaign with CoverGirl.”

Hijabs are banned in some countries, but mandatory in others — and can at times be seen as controversial. Late last month, for example, a chess player announced that she would boycott an upcoming championship in Iran because of hijabs. The Post’s Cleve R. Wootson Jr. covered that announcement, writing: “Islamic coverings for women in public – required in Iran and some other nations such as Saudi Arabia — have increasingly become a target for both protests and struggles over Muslim identity.

Some activists in Iran have launched online campaigns against the hijab rules, while other women continually test the boundaries by pushing back headscarves to near gravity-defying levels.

“Yet some women in other Muslim countries, such as Turkey, have battled against restrictions banning headscarves in some public settings, while some conservative Muslim women in the West have pushed for permission to wear headscarves in athletic competitions and other venues.”

You might have seen a hijab during the 2016 Olympic Games, when a Muslim American won a bronze while competing in one. And earlier this fall, The Post covered a teenager who was pushing for a hijab emoji. In an interview with The Post, Afia said that when she was first contacted about working with CoverGirl, she initially didn’t think it was real. There was a part of her, she said, that hesitated to respond.

“Because I was shocked,” she said. “I mean, you’ve never heard of anything like that happening before — in the U.S., at least.”

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Macy’s sees happy holidays and shares boom

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Trump barely smiled during his victory speech and kept his eyes fixed on his screens.

FASHION

In victory Trump couldn’t master presidential look

BY ROBIN GIVHAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

D

onald Trump, the president-elect, walked to the stage at his victory party in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. He stood against a backdrop of precisely aligned American flags and took his place behind a lectern, which he gripped on either side with his hands.

America’s most bombastic showman of the century was ready to take his bow.

Trump’s suit was black and better-fitting than usual. His tie was bright red and his shirt, with its French cuffs, was white. A single Old Glory pin was attached to his jacket’s left lapel. His picture-perfect family trailed him in patriotic, color-co-ordinated attire: His daughters in pale blue, his sons in dark suits, a daughter-in-law in red and his wife, Melania, in a flowing white jumpsuit that was just glamorous enough to be authentically her but not so ostentatious as to cause one to stare. It had all the trappings of a perfectly presidential tableau, the kind that the country has come to expect in the age of media optics. It was familiar.

Familiarity was necessary because nothing else for the past year had been. Not the campaign or the candidate. The polls had been wrong; a nation was stunned. The global community was horrified. This postelection ritual – a humbled winner surrounded by family acknowledging that an opponent has conceded and then offering a few admiring remarks about a hard-fought contest – is meant to serve as a balm.

Do not worry, is the message. The republic will hold.

Will it? This time the ritual has become a question.

When Trump opened his mouth to speak, he did not shout, his preferred style of delivery over the past year. Instead, he fixed his eyes on his teleprompters and began to read in a calm rasp.

The showman was playing a different role. He had all the costuming and the props. The script was set.

But as he spoke, Trump’s head was tilted down slightly, as if his screens were set a tad too low. He pivoted awkwardly from side to side – a phrase from one screen, the next paragraph from the other. When his remarks were meant to be warm and engaging, his gaze remained fixed on the teleprompters. Rarely did he look into the audience at those who were cheering him. Even more rarely did he look directly into the cameras in any attempt to connect with the viewers at home – especially those who were not part of his base, who were outraged and disgusted not just by his campaign, but by the man himself.

He didn’t smile. Smile, Trump! You won! That’s what the pundits demanded of Hillary Clinton during the primary.

This fall, Trump said of his opponent: “I just don’t think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look.” No, Clinton did not look like all the men – and only men – who have governed from the Oval Office. Instead, she made the definition of the “presidential look” richer, more vibrant and more expansive for herself and some 58.7 million voters in this election.

NEW YORK — Macy’s is raising its sales outlook for the year after it saw an improvement in its business in the third quarter, a trend that it expects to continue.

Macy’s had been a stellar performer after the recession but has seen slower sales growth in the past year and a half as it faces stiffer competition online and from rivals like T.J. Maxx. Under CEO Terry Lundgren, the company has sought growth opportunities, like the acquisition of upscale beauty brand Bluemercury and particular attention to its exclusive assortments in fashion. In time for the holiday shopping season, it launched an Apple shop last month at its Herald Square store. That marks the first U.S. department store with a hub devoted to the brand. Beyond the Apple shop, it’s highlighting consumer tech at 180 stores, rolling out a display of smart watches.

Macy’s, which will be led by a new chief executive early next year, has also launched its own off-price chain and is testing an artificial intelligence tool that would free up sales assistants to provide higher levels of customer service.

“The trends we saw in the third

quarter give us confidence that we can deliver our expectations for the fourth quarter and our guidance for fiscal 2016,” said Lundgren in company statement. Third-quarter results were an improvement from the first half of the year and merchandising strategies continue to gain traction, he said.

Still, Macy’s faces challenges heading into the holiday season, the most important time of the year for retailers. The company is opening an hour earlier on Thanksgiving this year with hopes of building momentum.

Macy’s reported earnings of $17 million, or five cents per share, for the quarter ended Oct. 29. That compares with $118 million, or 36 cents per share in the year-ago period. Excluding special charges, the company earned 17 cents, compared with 56 cents last year. Analysts polled by FactSet expected 41 cents.

Net sales slipped to $5.63 billion, down 4.2 per cent, but were about in line with expectations.

Revenue at stores opened at least a year fell 3.3 per cent, the seventh consecutive quarterly decline.

Macy’s expects that sales at stores opened at least a year will be down 2.5 per cent to three per cent, compared to the previous guidance of a decline in the range of three per cent to four per cent.

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NIELSEN Rosanna “Florence” (Wiley) Nielsen, age 87, died in Red Deer, Alberta on November 5, 2016. Florence was born May 28, 1929, in Drumheller, Alberta, to Wayne and Pearl Wiley. She married Andrew Nielsen in 1948. Florence is survived by her children: Allan (Darleen), Leslie (Karen), Keith - predeceased in 2015 (Sharon), Kathy (Tim), Norma (Roy), Howard (Amanda), Barry (Maine); 21 grand-children, 23 greatgrand-children (with 4 onmany stepthe-way); grandchildren, and stepgreat-grandchildren; 2 sisters: Evelyn and Donna. Besides her son, Keith, Florence was predeceased by her husband Andy (1989); grandson Brendan (1980) grandson, (Keith/Sharon); Levi (1986) (Norma/Roy); son-in-law, Cameron (2007) (Kathy); brother, Bernard (2003), sister, Marie (2004).

Memorial service will be held on Sunday, November 20, 2016, at 3 p.m, at the Alliance Community Church, 4404, 47th Ave, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, T4S-1N4. Reception to follow.

Condolences may be shared or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Global Advance Fund of the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Canada.

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” Ps 116:15.

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Obituaries FUNK, Margaret March 21, 1928 Lucky Lake, SK November 6, 2016 Red Deer, AB Margaret Funk, of Red Deer, AB, passed away on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at the age of 88 years.

Margaret was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother and a caregiver to anyone who needed help.

Margaret is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Barry and Barb Funk of Red Deer, her daughter and sonin-law Julee and Larry Poole of Kelowna, three grand-children Ryan (Laura) Funk, Chris Lemky and CJ Lemky, one great grandson Marshall Funk, three brothers Bob (Debbie), Tom and Bill, as well as several nieces and nephews.

Margaret was predeceased by her beloved husband Mark on June 16, 2014, three sisters Daisy, Wilma and Anne.

Funeral Services will be held at McINNIS & HOLLOWAY (Cochrane, 369 Railway Street, Cochrane, AB), on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Graveside Service to follow at Cochrane Cemetery.

Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com.

In living memory of Margaret Funk, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Cochrane, 369 RAILWAY STREET, COCHRANE. Telephone: 403-932-4740.

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Wishing you Love, Laughter & Happy Ever After

40 years have passed Since we said our last Goodbyes as you rode away.

If I only knew What lie ahead for you I would have made you stay.

While I can’t change the fact That you never came back Your memory remains alive As you watch over me Until we meet again.

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KEYS, lost at Parkland Mall on Monday, Oct. 31.

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Parents Karen and Del Capner and Blaine and Yvonne Thorvaldson along with friends and family joined in Erika and Coltyn’s special day.

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ONE treasured keepsake, 45 yr. veteran jewel, engraved Shirley Boese.

Reward offered. Lost in Red Deer. ~FOUND~

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The Red Deer Fish & Game Association will be holding a special meeting on November 21, 2016 for the elections of the Elected Executive and to vote on the proposed Alberta Fish & Game membership fee increase. The meeting will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer. Enter the meeting through Molly B’s door. Meeting begins at 7 PM.

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In loving memory of: Greg Dobson, November 11, 2010 Heather Williams, January 13, 2012

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Personals

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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BACKPACK with some personal items, found in Fairview area on old railway tracks.

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F/T IN-HOME Child Caregiver in Red Deer @ Baza Res. for an infant. Cert. & High School Grad. Duties; bathe, dress, feed & maintain safe & clean environment, 40 hrs./wk @$11.25/hr. email resume to: apply@ elmerbaza3@shaw.ca F/T in-home caregiver for employer B. Tamang at Red Deer for 2 children: 2 and 4 yrs. old. Duties: bathe, dress, feed, meal prep., and some light housekeeping. $12.50/hr., 44 hrs. per wk., benefit pkg. Compl. of high school, 1 to 2 yrs. exp. Call 403-896-7768 or e-mail kathytamang@yahoo.ca.

F/T In-Home Caregiver in R.D. @ Ballesteros Res. Children 13, 8 & 5 year olds. Cert. & High School Grad. Duties; bathe, dress, feed & maintain safe, clean environment, Opt. accomm. avail. at no extra charge on a live-in basis -This is not a condition of employment.

40 hrs./wk @$12.20/hr.

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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Highland Green HUGE MOVING SALE 71 Howarth Street Fri., Nov. 11, 4-8, Sat., Nov. 12, 9-6, and Sun., Nov. 13, 9-5.

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SERVICE Writer / Parts Person BVT Truck and Trailer Repair is a diverse mechanic shop specializing in custom aluminum fabrication, repairs and maintenance for all types of trucks and trailers. We are currently looking for a Service Writer / Parts Person to join our team in Red Deer on the day shift!

Responsibilities: ~ Parts sales for current customers. ~ Opening and closing of work orders. ~ Confirming technicians time and work explanations. ~ Distributing parts to technicians and billing out to correct work orders. ~ Shipping and receiving duties. ~ Inventory counts and control. ~ Estimate parts costs for repairs when required. ~ Cost control Desired Skills & Experience. ~ Proven customer and driver service. ~ Heavy Duty parts experience. ~ Structured and detail oriented. ~ Good communication skills. ~ Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.

To join our exciting team, please submit your resume to: P: 800.667.8869 Email: hr@slt.ca

Computer Personnel

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MICROAGE Senior Computer Technician The successful candidate must be a team player with strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to mentor junior technicians.

Exp. in customer service, good organization skills, self-starter and exp. working in the computer industry. Salary based on exp., company benefits.

For further details visit www.microage.ca/red-deer Please forward resume to HR@microage.cc

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Oilfield

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KEYERA is currently seeking a Millwright/Heavy Duty Mechanic to join our Buck Lake Operations which is located approximately 55km from Drayton Valley or 75km from Rimbey. The successful candidate will be responsible for all dayto-day mechanical assignments on Plant and Field equipment while maintaining a safe working environment within the sour gas processing facility. Please visit www.keyera. com to view the complete job posting.

Please send your resume to: careers@keyera.com

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INVERSION Table, H.D. $200.

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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for (eves. and wknds). Must be 18+ yrs.

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GREENHOUSE WORKERS wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold. 40 Full Time Seasonal Positions.

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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020

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BREADMAKER, $55; Rotisserie Oven, $100; Almost new deep fryer, $45. 403-342-6880

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BOOSTER Cables, #2, Copper clad, $40; Metric Socket Set & Ratchets, extensions & tools and tool box, $100. 403-343-6044

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B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar, birch.

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A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP & Recycling avail. weekly or occasional basis.

(403) 505-4777.

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RAY’S Handyman Service, int/ext. reno’s & painting, home repair & maintenance. 403-596-5740

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

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SYLVAN LAKE fully furn. rentals, incld’s all utils. & cable. $1200 - $1500./mo.

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CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE, CLEARVIEW, TIMBERSTONE, LANCASTER, VANIER, WOODLEA/WASKASOO, DEER PARK, GRANDVIEW, EASTVIEW, MICHENER, MOUNTVIEW, ROSEDALE, GARDEN HEIGHTS, MORRISROE

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WELDER, 180 AMP electric, with welding rod & cart, $50. 403-782-2888

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WHITE metal table stand, $10; recorder with lesson book and music stand, $5; stove top popcorn popper, $10; personal room humidifier, $10; 45” Oval braided rug, green, $10; frosted base table lamp with beige shade, $20.

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Duplexes EASTMAN outdoors stainless steel 28L turkey YOU can sell it fast with a percooker. $75. 403-346-7825 son-to-person want ad in the LACOMBE, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2 baths, $1395. Close to Red Deer Advocate amenities. 403-782-7156, LANTERN, propane with Classifieds. Phone 309-3300 357-7465 Case. $75. 403-343-6044

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Greenhouse workers wanted for Blue Grass Nursery & Garden Center in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for 10 full time seasonal employees.

No experience needed, training will be provided Starting in February 2017.

Duration is for 4 months Wage is $12.20 per hour at maximum 44 hrs./week.

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buyer for items you want to GOLDEN Ranch Faux sell is with a Red Deer Mink, long length, new, $100.

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FUTON for sale, good condition. Price reduced to ARE you a family inter$125. Call Viki @ ested in taking piano 403-346-4263 lessons? I have a lovely WANTED piano that I would like to Antiques, furniture and see going to a serious, sinestates. 342-2514 cere family. My piano needs a loving home. $200 obo.

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $14.00 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303

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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

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COMPLETELY reno’d PADS $450/mo. sunny 2 bdrm. suite in Brand new park in Lacombe. adult bldg. at Parkview Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., Place in Innisfail. New 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

6 locations in Red Deer, kitchen incl. appl., and new Down payment $4000. Call well-maintained bathroom. Well-maintained at anytime. 403-588-8820 townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, bldg. with on-site manager.

1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Extra storage, free parking, Westpark, Kentwood, heat incl. in rent. $950/mo.

Highland Green, Riverside Call Jac @ 403-227-1049.

Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more LACOMBE:1 bdrm. suite, info, phone 403-304-7576 storage, 1 car outside or 403-347-7545 plug-in, $795.

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WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $750 inclds. water, 5 appl.

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

2 BDRM. 4 plex, Àreplace, incld’s water, sewer, garbage. $925. rent, $650. sd. Avail. now or Dec. 1.

403-304-5337 ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $875./mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Dec. 1. 403-304-5337

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3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Dec. 1. 403-304-5337

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3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

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ORONTO — The Royal Ontario Museum is apologizing for contributing to anti-African racism in a controversial exhibit nearly three decades

ago.

The exhibit, called Into the Heart of Africa, took place in 1989 and featured objects and images collected by soldiers and missionaries — including one highly contentious magazine cover showing a British soldier plunging a sword into the chest of a Zulu warrior.

At the time, museum staff said that the show was intended as a critical view of Canadian missionaries and soldiers who went to Africa in Victorian and Edwardian times.

But members of Toronto’s black community denounced the exhibit as racist, saying it brought pain to black Canadians because of the way it portrayed Africans while glorifying imperialism.

At an event Wednesday evening, the museum’s deputy director of collections and research expressed “deep regret” for the exhibit and its impact on black Canadians.

Mark Engstrom said the exhibit inadvertently “perpetuated an atmosphere of racism and the effect of the exhibition itself was racist.”

The apology was welcomed by the Coalition for the Truth about Africa, a group that initially formed to protest the exhibit. Spokesman Rostant Rico John said it took persistence to come to an agreement after 27 years.

The group nonetheless said some of its members still feel “vilified and hurt” by the exhibit.

The exhibit is now held up in classrooms as an example of what curators should not do, said Matt Brower, a professor of museum studies at

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“It was an enormous failure,” Brower said of the exhibit. Curators meant for the exhibit to show that the things being presented “were not being endorsed.” It was supposed to be an ironic look at how the items exhibited entered the museums — through damaging colonial relationships.

“And yet when people came in, they saw the Zulu warrior being impaled. They saw the missionary woman teaching Africans how to wash, and they didn’t see any irony,” he said.

The exhibit prompted protests at the time, during which three people were hurt and eight people were charged in a dispute between demonstrators and police.

Protestors demanded that the exhibit be shut down, but the ROM refused.

“Every museum in Canada would hit the roof if we closed the show because it would mean that any group could close a show,” said then-museum director Cuyler Young in 1990.

Brower said that at the very least, the exhibit should have been reframed in response to the protests.

Last year — 25 years after Into the Heart of Africa ended — the ROM launched a new project about Africa.

Of Africa is a three-year project that includes a number of displays in permanent galleries as well as temporary exhibits intended to show the complexities and diversity that exist on the African continent.

The museum also said Wednesday it would would take steps to strengthen its ties with African-Canadian communities, including enhancing its partnerships with black educational networks and offering opportunities for black youth interested in museums.

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ORONTO — Two men are facing murder charges and a third suspect is being sought after an American man visiting Toronto for a bachelor party was beaten to death last week.

Julian Jones, 26, died early Saturday morning after what police have alleged was an unprovoked fight.

They said Jones was in Toronto from Maryland to celebrate a friend’s upcoming wedding when he and his friends were approached by a group of men outside a bar looking for a fight.

Jones was separated from his friends, police said, and was allegedly attacked.

Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux, the lead investigator in the case, said Thursday that in the days since the attack, police were able to piece together what happened using witness statements, surveillance footage and cellphone video.

“The allegations are kicking and stomping of

a semi-conscious Julian Jones while he was on the ground,” Giroux said.

Kenneth Omorogbe, 25, and Kamari Folkes, 24, have both been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

“They have some past criminal baggage,” Giroux said of the men, who appeared in court in Toronto on Thursday morning.

Giroux said the two accused are the “main suspects” in the case but noted that police are still looking for at least one other person.

The circumstances of the case, particularly the fact that Jones and his friends were visiting Toronto from another country, have complicated the investigation to some extent, said Giroux.

“As soon as (Jones’s) friends were interviewed by my investigators, they immediately went home to the United States. So I didn’t have the opportunity to call them back in as I did with the security staff,” Giroux explained.

“I may have to go there, or I may have to ask the Baltimore or Maryland police service to do that on our behalf.”

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MONTREAL — Leonard Cohen — writer, poet, composer, singer, renowned seducer and, for many, the epitome of cool — has died at the age of 82.

His sonorous, tobacco-painted baritone was once described as “the musical equivalent of rotgut whisky” and his lyrics and texts relentlessly studied spirituality, sex, power and love.

Just weeks ago Cohen released a new album, You Want It Darker, produced in part by his son Adam. Cohen was still performing to sellout crowds and drawing new generations of fans at an age when most people would have settled back in their rocking chairs to reflect on their life’s accomplishments.

Now all that’s left is his prodigious body of work, which includes the oft-covered Hallelujah, which was sung by k.d. lang during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Pointing to W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman and Canadian poet Irving Layton among his literary influences, Cohen himself had fans among some of music’s top names, including U2, REM, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

In reviewing his 2008-10 world tour, Britain’s Independent newspaper declared that “to hear him sing is still an experience to truly make young women and romantics shiver and sweat.”

Cohen’s compositions endlessly entranced audiences, who usually treated the reclusive performer with awe. However, his poetic songs were far from being toe-tappers, with some clocking in at seven minutes long and dealing more in substance than sass.

His songs prompted him to be dubbed the “godfather of gloom,” the “poet laureate of pessimism,” the “grocer of despair” and the “prince of bummers.” One reviewer in the 1970s described his songs as “music to slit your wrists to.”

But he was hailed for his intelligence, humility, curiosity and generosity, donating unpublished poems, poems-in-progress, drawings and archival material to a fan website where it could be enjoyed by followers.

The 2003 Order of Canada inductee is said to have had a fantastic sense of humour and loved to crack jokes.

He wasn’t adverse to poking fun

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Leonard Cohen is photographed in Toronto. Montreal-born poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. at himself, as he did before a soldout crowd at Montreal’s Bell Centre during a 2012 concert.

“Sometimes, I stumble out of bed, look at myself in the mirror and say to the mirror, ‘Lighten up, Cohen’,” he said to laughter.

Compared to some entertainers who march through their famous lives with brass-band personalities, Cohen glided along unassumingly, although any tidbit of news or sighting was almost treated with second coming-type excitement.

He could show up in the darndest places other than the sun-drenched streets of Los Angeles, where he often recorded. Cohen was so taken with the Greek island of Hydra that he bought a house there in 1960 for $1,500 and lived in it even though it had no electricity or running water.

He also stayed in a Zen Buddhist monastery on Mount Baldy near Los Angeles for five years and popped up in his Montreal hometown where he strolled around the city. The singer once left a TV reporter doing manin-the-street interviews gobsmacked when the journalist unknowingly tapped him for an opinion. Cohen shyly declined.

He also liked to slide into a booth at the fabled Montreal deli The Main for a smoked-meat sandwich.

“A lovely man,” recalled Diane Bass, whose husband owns the restaurant.

But the 2008 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame struggled to define the location of the creative well that spawned his offerings.

“If I knew where the songs came from, I’d go there more often,” he said in a 1992 interview with The Canadian Press.

“Some people write great tunes in the back of taxicabs but it takes me endless amounts of writing and rewriting to come up with something I can wrap my voice around.”

Another time he compared it to being like a “bear stumbling into a beehive.”

The ever-dapper Cohen, who favoured black suits, fedoras and tweed caps, was born in Montreal on Sept.

21, 1934, to a middle-class family. His father, who ran a well-known clothing store, died when he was nine.

He pursued undergraduate studies at McGill University and became president of the debating union. He flirted with a legal career and attended McGill law school for a year after completing his bachelor’s degree. He also went to Columbia University for a year.

But literature had a stronger call than litigation.

Let Us Compare Mythologies, his first book of poetry, was published in 1956 when he was an undergrad. The Flowers For Hitler poetry collection and the novels The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers followed in the 1960s.

But as eloquent as he could be on the printed page, establishing himself as a poet and novelist of renown by the age of 32, Cohen decided that songwriting might pay better.

It was a career change that raised a few eyebrows and agents in New York reportedly asked him, “Aren’t you a little old for this game?”

It didn’t stop him.

A big break came in 1966 when Judy Collins recorded his standard Suzanne, and he came out with his first album Songs of Leonard Cohen the same year.

That was followed up with Songs from a Room in 1969, which included the popular Bird on the Wire.

He had a fairly steady output although his popularity dipped in the 1970s as disco, not doom, was deemed to be the treat for consumers’ ears.

But Cohen began a comeback in 1984 with Various Positions, which included Hallelujah.

At the height of his popularity in France in the 1960s, it was said that if a French woman owned one album, it was likely to be by Cohen.

But he dismissed it all with a resigned shrug.

“No one masters love and I don’t seem to ever master the song,” he said. “You have to struggle with it, like it was the first time you ever did it.”

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ear Annie: My youngest sister, “Rebecca,” and I have not spoken in over 25 years. She was the golden child — never getting into trouble, always getting anything and everything she Annie wanted. On the other hand, my elder sister Lane and I were our parents’ worst nightmare. Fortunately, we were able to grow up before it was too late to repair our relationships with our parents.

Our problem with the younger sister is that as she got older, she completely abandoned our parents. When my mother finally had to be put in a nursing home because of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, Rebecca did nothing to help. I live 1,300 miles away, so it fell to my elder sister to deal with

everything. My younger sister went to see my mother once in 10 years, even though she only lived four miles away.

She never asked Dad to come over for dinner, Christmas or any holiday.

I have reached out over the years, especially because we are all getting up in age. I have given up completely, as has my elder sister. Sometimes, siblings or not, it is just best to let go.

Some people just do not want to be involved with their family. As much as we try, there are some things that can’t be forgiven — and shouldn’t be. I have prayed over this for many years and have finally found peace. When my dad died, again, nothing. Why should we even be concerned with her at all?

— Over and Out Dear Over: I’m so sorry for what you and your family went through with Alzheimer’s disease, and my condolences on the death of your father.

Everyone deals with grief and stress in different ways, and it sounds

as if Rebecca resorts to avoidance. It’s not the healthiest coping mechanism by any means. But just because she wasn’t there doesn’t mean she wasn’t hurting.

Though you say you have found peace regarding your relationship — or lack thereof — with your sister, your tone suggests otherwise. You’re right that “sometimes, siblings or not, it is just best to let go.” But you can’t very well let go if you’re holding on to all that anger. Find it in your heart to accept your sister for the flawed person that she is, whether or not she ever reaches out again (and if she does, don’t shut her down).

Dear Annie: To “Tea Drinker,” who wanted to know why coffee refills are free but tea refills sometimes aren’t: You’ve been led astray somewhat. It’s in the bag. Coffee is relatively inexpensive to brew pot after pot. Tea you purchase by the box, and it’s filled with all these individual bags.

When a customer orders tea, yes, the presentation is more detailed, but frankly, it doesn’t take that much more time. But you are serving with a lemon, which has its cost, and honey, which also is an additional cost, and the selection of tea bags.

I have never worked anywhere where we charged for a second cup, but I do work in nicer restaurants, where the selection of teas is already on the table —and you can be certain that bags of desirable tea flavors are stuffed in some people’s purses when they leave. It’s a cost we’ve always just absorbed. But some places maybe can’t afford to basically be giving free tea bags away and serving the honey and lemon free. For what it’s worth, that is my experience over 40 years of restaurant work. — Server of Tea Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

Little People, Dungeons & Dragons top Toy Hall of Fame class

ceremony, albeit a lower key one than when the much-nominated soap actress got her Emmy.

“One of their challenges has been, frankly, that they’ve been kind of little and they’ve been easier to overlook or postpone for our national selection advisory committee,” said Chris Bensch, The Strong’s vice-president for collections. He said their relatively limited audience of one- to fiveyear-olds has been another hurdle.

Since being introduced in 1959, more than two billion Little People have been sold. The earliest tubular wooden versions evolved over the years to the plastic figures with arms, legs and dimensional faces of today.

“Moms have always loved Little People because it’s really whole-

some. … It’s all about sharing, caring, nurturing,” Andolina said.

The company works to preserve that affection, she said, even changing the audio chip in the Little People SUV recently after a working mother complained that one of the toy mom’s phrases — “Time for yoga and a smoothie” — missed the mark.

“Somebody called us out that that wasn’t the best portrayal, it didn’t resonate, so we reconsidered it and it was an easy change for us to make,” Andolina said.

Fellow inductee Dungeons & Dragons is, in some ways, the adult version of Fisher-Price Little People, Bensch said.

“It essentially is a vehicle for empowering them to make up sto-

ries,” he said of the 1974 role-playing game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It has a well-known celebrity fan in actor Vin Diesel, who has called it the “training ground for imagination” and said it helped him embrace the mythology of the Riddick movies.

Curator Nic Ricketts said the game’s mechanics have lent themselves to computer applications, and that has had an impact on electronic games such as “World of Warcraft.”

The swing was recognized for its longevity over centuries. Versions of the staple of modern playgrounds and backyards are depicted in ancient cave drawings in Europe, carved figures from Crete and ceramic vases from early Greece.

worrying about situations that will probably never happen. Instead, focus your attention on the here and now. Seize the day! As Taurean Katharine Hepburn declared: “Life is to be lived.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When it comes to a close relationship, you want to zoom full steam ahead. Whereas they want to take things more slowly. So you are going to have to be patient — not one of your strengths!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t complicate matters today by becoming dependent on the counsel of others. Asking for advice is fine but it’s up to you to make the final decision.

Especially involving money matters.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A loved one or business partner may surprise you with their energy and enthusiasm for a joint project. When it comes to a long-term friendship, show your commitment in kind and caring ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When it comes to a work matter or a health issue, it’s time to take charge Virgo! If you are proactive and initiate a feasible plan, then you’ll feel much more positive about the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The winds of change are sweeping through your world and transforming your attitudes towards love, life, the universe — and everything. New opportunities are opening up so stay alert Libra!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t rush financial matters Scorpio. The stars encourage you to be focused and thorough. Plus, if you surround yourself with family and close friends, then you’ll have an enjoyable day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your motto for the moment is from fellow Sagittarian, Bruce Lee: “Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith

in yourself.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re an expert at multi-tasking but try to complete current projects before you launch the next batch. With Saturn in your solitude zone, it’s also time for some serious contemplation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Local community connections are highlighted today, as you combine a proactive approach with your idiosyncratic style. When communicating with others, express your feelings openly and directly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t hide your feelings today Pisces! Mars encourages you to express your emotions boldly, honestly and directly. It’s also a good time to turn imaginative ideas into dynamic action.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — At long last, a big honour for the Little People.

After seven times as finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, the tiny tenants of Fisher-Price’s house, barn and school bus were enshrined on Thursday. They were joined by the swing and Dungeons & Dragons in the hall’s class of 2016.

“People have called us the Susan Lucci of the toy world,” Fisher-Price spokeswoman Brenda Andolina said.

The East Aurora-based toy maker sent a busload of employees to the

Horoscopes Friday, Nov. 11 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Demi Moore, 54; Leonardo DiCaprio, 42; Calista Flockhart, 52 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s a great day to share your feelings with others.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re in a hurry to get your message out loud and clear. But, if you rush too much Rams, then you may broadcast the wrong message. So be careful, especially when using social media.

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