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iant steps in development achieved by tiny babies in Red Deer’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was recognized on Thursday during World Prematurity Day. “These little guys are great survivors,” said San-

dra Walker-Kendall, NICU and pediatrics unit manager at a celebration for past and present families at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s NICU. “It’s a team approach.

There’s pediatricians, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, dietitians, that all work together to support these babies from the time of birth to the point they

are going home.”

Red Deer’s NICU has 17 beds available for premature babies. In 2015, the unit had 478 admissions. Up to Oct. 31 this year, there were 260.

Mother Lisa Smikles, 32, of Ponoka, said her son Keaton, who turned 36-weeks old on Thursday, was making great progress in the NICU where there was lots of support and resources and a wonderful

staff.

“He’s doing really, really well. What they can do for them now is amazing,” Lisa said.

“There’s hope for them.

Just because they’re born early doesn’t mean they’re not strong and they’re not going to do well and not going to develop properly.”

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Jennifer Jerome, of Blackfalds, is staying at Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta while her premature baby Naomi remains in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

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Celebrate the holidays and take in a beautiful display of twinkling lights at Red Deer Lights the Night, presented by Stantec in City Hall Park, Ross St. and Red Deer Public Library, 4 to 7 p.m., on Nov. 19. Enjoy a visit from Santa from 4 to 6 p.m. Enjoy hot chocolate and popcorn during the lighting of City Hall Park at 5:15 p.m. and lighting of Red Deer’s biggest Christmas tree at 6:15 p.m. Free family friendly event co-hosted by Downtown Business Association. #RDlights16

BUSINESS: 17-18, 27-28 SPORTS: 19-26 TRAVEL: 29-31 LIFE: 32-37 CLASSIFIED: 38-40 COMICS: 41-42

THE ART OF SPORT: ARTISTS INVESTIGATES THE NOTIONS OF SPORTS PORTRAITURES BY JOE VERSIKAITIS The Art of Sport exhibit opens on Nov. 19, 2 to 4 p.m., at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. This exhibition includes traditional acrylic paintings with a twist of realism to investigate and push the boundaries of the portrait. Free admission. Contact 403-341-8614 or info@ashfm.ca.

RED DEER RIVER NATURALISTS NATURE HIKE Join Keith Kline for a nature walk at Riverbend Upper Trail on Nov. 18, 1:30 p.m. Contact redkline@hotmail.com or call 403-347-6883. 7 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 18 1883 — North American railways adopt Sanford Fleming’s system of one-hour time zones that remains in force today. His Standard Time scheme begins at midnight Atlantic Time in Nova Scotia and the eastern Seaboard of the U.S.; Canada and the U.S. agreed to divide the continent into four time zones, primarily to manage the nightmare of local times clashing with railway timetables; 25 world nations will endorse the Canadian engineer’s idea at a 1884 Washington conference; Fleming first proposed global time zones at a meeting in Toronto in 1879.

1899 — St. Paul Globe publishes a fanciful story describing Medicine Hat as the coldest, snowiest place on Earth.

1916 — Canadian Fourth Division again attacks the Germans on the Somme; the other three Canadian divisions had been transferred to Artois mid-October; Haig is winding down the massive Allied offensive, started on July 1, 1916, after a total gain of just 200 square km along the Western Front, and the loss of over 600,000 soldiers killed, wounded, or missing in action. German casualties were over 650,000.

1942 — Guy Bieler parachutes inside France to act as secret agent; First Canadian Army secret agent inside France.

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One-year-old Kinsley and her mother, Danielle Buckland, dropped a donation into the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle at Bower Place on Thursday.

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Kettle campaign sets $220,000 goal

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en Salvation Army red kettles are now set up around Red Deer waiting to be filled with cash to help more people in need.

Maj. Larry Bridger, Red Deer Salvation Army director and pastor, said the target this year is to raise $220,000 to fund local Salvation Army programs.

“We’ve seen an increase of probably 25 to 30 per cent in clientele coming for help this year,” Bridger said at the kettle campaign kickoff at Bower Mall on Thursday.

Last year the annual campaign raised a record $235,000. But since

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PREEMIES: ‘Mostly good days’ Keaton’s father, Andrew Smikles, who was in a recliner holding his tiny infant, agreed they had everything they need in the NICU. The couple had another premature baby in 2015 who died and Andrew said if there’s a chance that something is wrong with a pregnancy and the baby is viable, having a premature birth is the safest option.

“In my opinion, if there are any signs of distress or anything, you’re better off in here with all the technology and all the staff. At least you can know what’s going on with them as opposed to just making assump-

times are still tough, the organization wanted to set a hopeful but responsible goal, he said.

One of its programs, that costs $75,000 a year to operate, is a weekend breakfast, lunch and dinner program for 197 school-age children. On Fridays, children are sent home with a backpack of healthy, easy to prepare food.

To fund that program and others, an estimated 300 volunteers are needed for the kettle campaign.

Bridger said even if people can only do one two-hour shift, it would be greatly appreciated.

“We’ve still got quite a few open spots that need to be filled. We need lots more help yet.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com tions,” said Andrew, 27.

Another NICU mother Jennifer Jerome, 35, said her daughter Naomi, who was born at 29 weeks weighing 850 grams (one pound and 14 ounces), was making fantastic progress.

“There’s been a few bad days, but mostly good days. She’s gaining weight like a champ. She’s my chubby little baby now, almost two and a half times her size,” Jerome said.

City Coun. Lynne Mulder, who declared Nov. 17 World Prematurity Day in Red Deer, said it’s startling that one in 12 babies born in Canada are premature, and Alberta has the highest rate of premature births among in the country.

“Our overarching goal at the city is to build a healthy community and that every citizen has access to a high quality life and it’s because of places like this,” Mulder said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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TRANSPORTATION

City launches survey to help planners

BY JONATHAN GUIGNARD ADVOCATE STAFF

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urveys will be issued to residents across Red Deer to learn about their travelling habits in order to prepare for future city planning.

The City of Red Deer has hired R.A. Malatest Associates Ltd. to randomly select households to participate in the Household Travel Survey.

Participants began receiving letters or phone calls earlier this week inviting them to be a part of the study.

The survey will give transportation planners a better understanding of where people are going and how they get there, whether by car, bicycle, transit or on foot.

“The more information we have about the types of choices people are making when travelling, helps us predict how they might travel in the future,” said Niki Burkinshaw, transportation engineer with the City of Red Deer.

“That allows us to make improvements to those corridors that need it.”

The survey is part of the city’s transportation model which Burkinshaw said they are always trying to improve.

“We’re looking at how growth areas are going to develop in the city, we look at the existing traffic patterns now and that helps us project future traffic patterns. It also identifies other areas that need to be addressed,” said Burkinshaw.

The city hopes 850 households will participate in the survey.

“It is voluntary, but we really do hope they choose to take part because it really helps us make better informed decisions. They (R.A Malatest Associates Ltd.) will continue to send out invitations until they reach that number,” said Burkinshaw.

For more information about the survey or the transportation model contact Burkinshaw at 403342-8158. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com

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Colour Specialist Matt Toonders provides the Grade 7 students at Central Middle School tips on wood finishing.

Toonders was at the school for the District Recognition Night Thursday evening.

EDUCATION

Moores receive Friends of Education Award for contribution to school

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itness boot camp, chainsaw artists and wood working were all part of the excitement at Central Middle School as Red Deer Public Schools celebrated two community contributors to public school education Thursday afternoon.

The Friends of Education Award went to 360 Fitness and Shawn and Natalie Moore for their commitment to improving education for students.

Stu Henry, superintendent for Red Deer Pubic Schools, said the recipients have done incredible amounts of work and it’s been beneficial to the students.

“They’ve (360 Fitness) done some tremendous things. They’ve done fundraisers to help drive our nutrition programs and they’ve even led wellness activities for our staff to make our staff healthy,” said Henry.

Henry said the Moores’ generosity is something that shouldn’t go unnoticed.

“The Moores have been fantastic neighbours in the Mountview community. Shawn shovels the walks in front of the school every time it snows. He does educational programs about trees and donates ski

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Stolen vehicle collides with police car; suspects arrested A stolen vehicle in Red Deer was in a collision with a police vehicle before RCMP and a police dog were able to catch up with two suspects.

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Thursday, a blue Ford Edge was stolen from a West Park residence after the owner left it unlocked and idling briefly while running back into their home.

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and golf passes to the kids,” said Henry.

Keeping the kids active is something Henry said is extremely important, especially when it comes to learning.

“If the kids aren’t healthy and well, we can’t expect them to learn. It’s important for us to keep them moving. We need them thinking about healthy choices and good nutrition,” said Henry.

“If they’re healthier, they’re going to learn better and we love that.”

Not only has Henry seen a change in students over the years when it comes to living healthier lifestyles, but said he’s also seen a change in the parents.

“We have every single school concentrating on how to make kids healthier and one of the nice spin-offs is that some of these activities seem to be going home too and making families healthier,” said Henry.

Henry said the best part is that the recipients expect nothing in return and are doing it only because they care.

“They really don’t ask about what’s in it for them.

They’re doing it because they genuinely care about the kids and want to make them better while making our schools a better place,” said Henry. jonathan.guignard@reddeeradvocate.com the South Hill neighbourhood in the area of 51st Street. Police initiated a traffic stop, but the suspect vehicle refused to stop, and collided with the police vehicle causing minor damage to it before fleeing the scene.

RCMP did not pursue the vehicle due to public safety concerns, but located it again in the Riverlands neighbourhood where it had been abandoned. The area was contained and the male suspect was apprehended with the help of Police Dog Services. The female passenger was arrested soon afterward in the West Park neighbourhood.

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Christmas Wish Breakfast generates buzz

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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t’s never been done before in Red Deer, and at the end of it Lynn Iviney expects to be crying for one of two reasons.

Sunday’s inaugural Christmas Wish Breakfast, which will help ensure there’s a gift under the tree for every child in Red Deer, is the start of a long run if she has her dream come true.

If it’s a success, she’ll be crying. If it’s not, she’ll be crying. But there are good signs in the community that it’ll be tears of joy when all is said and done.

Iviney, Christmas Wish Breakfast chair, said Thursday that she’s had a lot of interest in the event, including many people offering to volunteer.

The event, to be held from 8 to 11 a.m. on Sunday at the Black Knight Inn, involves a hot breakfast being served in exchange for the donation of a new present for a child.

A very successful Christmas Wish breakfast event that began about 30 years ago in Vancouver, and which Iviney once participated in, was the seed for her idea to establish something similar in Red Deer.

Iviney, who is thankful she’s backed by a strong local organizing committee, said the hope is the event will tap into people who might not normally donate to the local Christmas Bureau or Salvation Army programs that help people in need at Christmas.

The gifts that come in on Sunday — and word has it Red Deer firefighters will be arriving with some to the tune of bagpipes — will be passed along to the Christmas Bureau and Sally Ann. The two charities served a record 4,500 people last year, and it could be even higher this year given the tough economic climate in Alberta.

The gifts should not be wrapped. Besides toys and other things, they can include donations like gift cards, tickets to concerts, or even cash

donations to the two agencies.

No stuffed animals please.

There will be entertainment including the Hearts of Harmony, Wild Rose Harmo-

nizers and Soliloquay. Santa will be there, as will the Red Deer Rebels Wooly Bully.

Iviney said they don’t need additional volunteers be-

cause the three main sponsors, the Black Knight Inn, Stantec and IFR workwear, will be helping out. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BUSINESS

Chef meets butcher at Midtown Meats

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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idtown Meats is bringing a new flavour to downtown Red Deer.

One-Eleven Grill owner Mahziar Peyrow, “extreme foodie” Will Castro and sixth-generation butcher Robertus Peters are behind the shop at 4928 Ross St., which opened its doors a few days ago.

“With this whole mixture of all three of us together, we created this whole Midtown Meats,” said Peyrow.

“It’s kind of like the chef meets the butcher.”

Peyrow and Castro were thinking of opening a diner at first, but the idea morphed into their shop selling all-natural beef, pork and free-range chicken along with seasoning salts and rubs to accentuate flavours. They haven’t fully stocked their shelves yet, with pickled items and other products from Italy, Spain, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom on the way.

While they don’t have restaurant-style seating, beginning next week they will offer lunches. Sandwiches, sausage on a bun, soups and

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Midtown Meats owners Will Castro, right, and Mahziar Peyrow in their new shop on Ross Street. See video at www.reddeeradvocate.com. stews will be on the menu, said Castro.

Besides his restaurant business, Peyrow owns Wholesome Farms Meat Co., which supplies organic meat to restaurants and other consumers

throughout the area.

Peters, who operates as Six on the Block, supplies the cured and smoked meats, which come from Crossfield.

Peyrow said they make their cuts of meat themselves and it’s oven-ready

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Arena taking shape Red Deer’s new arena is starting to take shape.

Site preparation and foundation work is almost done, said project superintendent Curtis Martinek.

Construction crews were working on foundation walls and footings this week with some exterior walls expected to go up next week. The $21.6-million facility is expected to

for customers.

They have a large variety of cuts and types of meat available. There are sirloin, rib-eyes, tenderloins, prosciutto, sausages, bacon, pork roasts, cutlets and chops, seasoned chicken and many others. All are free of antibiotics and from animals that were raised without growth hormones.

The 100-Mile Diet popularized the idea of getting your food close to home. Midtown Meats falls neatly into that philosophy.

The pork comes from a farm just east of Red Deer, the chicken is from just south of Calgary and the beef comes from Central Alberta sources.

“The furthest away is south of Calgary. Otherwise, we try to keep it local.”

Word is already getting out. An Alix all-natural meat producer had stopped by on Thursday afternoon to see if Midtown Meats had an appetite for their product.

Castro said the feedback they have gotten so far has been very positive.

Customers like being able to speak with the butcher and knowing where the product is from. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com open in the fall of 2018 to be ready for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

The arena will be a significant upgrade over its venerable predecessor, which was torn down last summer.

Room-temperature seating, indoor walking track, team warm-up areas, skate sharpening and laundry facilities are just a few of the modern twists envisioned for the new facility.

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Jansen jumps to Notley’s NDP

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DMONTON — Alberta Progressive Conservative member Sandra Jansen crossed the floor to the governing NDP Thursday, saying the moderate party she called home for 30 years is moving to embrace a farright ideology.

“I need to be true to the values of my constituents and my own values,” Jansen told reporters at the legislature, standing beside Premier Rachel Notley at a news conference.

“So I’m supporting a party now that believes in those values, too.”

Jansen, a two-term MLA for Calgary North West, has been a longtime champion of equality issues, such as allowing gay-straight alliances in schools.

She quit the PC leadership race earlier this month, saying online and in-person abuse from supporters of another leadership candidate became intolerable.

“The dog-whistle politics that I heard at the PC policy conference (earlier this month) were chilling to me: eroding public education, taking away women’s reproductive rights and trying to out gay kids in schools,” said Jansen.

“That is not my Alberta.”

She said under former PC premier Peter Lougheed, the party championed progressivism.

“To see that legacy being kicked to the curb by extremists who are taking over the PC party has been heartbreaking,” she said.

Notley said Jansen is a good fit.

“We share some very important values and priorities that serve Alberta well in government,” said Notley.

It’s the first time in Alberta history

an MLA has crossed the floor to join the NDP. Jansen has never addressed by name those she believes to be extremist, but has been critical of PC leadership candidate Jason Kenney.

She has suggested he is bringing “Trump-style politics” to Alberta from Ottawa. Earlier this year, she promised to quit the party should he become leader.

Kenney is a former Calgary Conservative MP under former prime minister Stephen Harper. He has said abuse of any public official is intolerable.

He is one of four candidates in the race to become PC party leader. He has stated his plan, should he win, will be to put to the membership a vote to merge the PCs with the socially and fiscally conservative Wildrose party.

In a statement, Kenney wished Jansen well but urged her to let voters ratify her decision, given the policy differences between the PCs and the NDP. “Ms. Jansen owes it to those constituents to let them decide in a byelection whether they should be represented by someone voting for higher taxes, including the carbon tax, as a member of the NDP government,” said Kenney.

Nick Maskaluk, president of the Tory riding association in Calgary North West, declined comment, saying only that he was “still trying to absorb what has happened today.”

Jansen also disparaged her former PC caucus, saying few reached out to her after she reported the harassment in her leadership bid.

The party’s interim leader, Ric McIver, said he learned of Jansen’s departure in a Tweet from media shortly before the announcement.

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Sandra Jansen, left, and Premier Rachel Notley announce jointly that Jansen is crossing the floor from the Progressive Conservatives to join Notley’s NDP at the legislature in Edmonton on Thursday.

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No safety plan at fundraiser where woman killed by Jeep

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DMONTON — The grieving parents of a woman killed at a charity fundraiser by a Jeep that rolled during a stunt want legislation requiring safety plans for such events in Alberta.

John and Mira Green made the submission to a fatality inquiry examining the May 2013 death of their daughter Melinda at an Edmonton shopping centre parking lot.

During the inquiry, witnesses testified that the Jeeps Go Topless show had no safety plan or event insurance and did not require a city permit because it was held on private property.

“We would like to see enough change that safety becomes a priority rather than it is an inconvenience to have permitting or regulations,” Mira Green said outside court.

“Public safety (should) be the first in people’s minds when they plan these kinds of events.”

Melinda Green, who was 20, was watching drivers take part in a stacking demonstration when she was struck by one of the Jeeps as it fell on its side.

The stacking manoeuvre involves a Jeep climbing up the front wheel of another to show off its suspension system.

In September, the man who drove the Jeep that hit and killed Green testified that the vehicle jumped forward when he turned the key in the ignition

instead of rolling back.

One of the organizers of the show previously testified that they were careful to keep the crowd at a safe distance as the Jeeps got into position.

Spectators were allowed to approach once one Jeep was atop the other with the engine off and the emergency brake engaged.

David Aitken, manager of community standards for the city, testified it would be more effective if the provincial government brought in regulations rather than just Edmonton.

He said if the city brings in too many rules and regulations it would force people underground or to other municipalities.

A provincial approach would be best “so that all Albertans have a sense of security.”

City lawyer Michael Teeling said the danger posed by such events that involve vehicles and spectators could best be dealt with by the province making changes to the Traffic Safety Act. John Green said outside court that Melinda was full of hope and joy when she died and had her whole future ahead of her.

He said they don’t want other families to suffer the same anguish.

“As parents, living with the loss of a child — that is the hardest part.”

Provincial court Judge Jody Moher thanked the Greens for pushing for the fatality inquiry and said their efforts will make a difference.

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IN SHORT Ministers booed as they discuss climate-change plan with rural leaders EDMONTON — The Alberta government got a bit of a rough ride at a meeting with rural politicians in Edmonton.

Deputy premier Sarah Hoffman was booed Thursday as she defended the NDP’s climate-change plan, which includes a carbon tax and a phase-out of coal-fired electricity.

Hoffman said it’s necessary to address climate change because the science behind it is real and there are serious health concerns tied to burning coal.

Hoffman and other cabinet ministers fielded questions from hundreds of delegates to the fall convention of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties.

Premier Rachel Notley said in a speech that she understands concerns and debate is always healthy.

Alberta Justice appealing murder charge stayed due to five-year delay EDMONTON — Alberta Justice says it’s appealing after a judge threw out a first-degree murder charge that took more than five years

to get to trial.

Lance Regan was accused of stabbing to death fellow inmate Mason Tex Montgrand at Edmonton Institution in August 2011.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Stephen Hillier stayed the charge in early October.

He found Regan’s constitutional right to be tried in a reasonable time had been violated.

Hillier cited a Supreme Court ruling over the summer, known as the Jordan decision, that spells out what constitutes an excessive delay.

Under the Jordan framework, the top court said an unreasonable delay should be found in cases that take 18 months in provincial court or 30 months in a superior court to get to trial from the time an accused is charged.

University of Calgary says it will restrict but not ban use of BitTorrent CALGARY — University of Calgary officials are hoping to set the record straight after limiting the use of the popular file-sharing program BitTorrent over the wireless network on campus.

The move happened last week and prompted criticism on Twitter suggesting that the post-secondary school was trying to ban its use outright.

Linda Dalgetty, vice-president of finance and services, says it’s a restriction, not a ban.

She says the university is implementing a process to ensure those with a legitimate need for BitTorrent can have access to it.

But she says the university was also addressing notice provisions of Canada’s Copyright Act about BitTorrent being used to download illegal materials.

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Carbon tax comes with a cost

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he success and vibrancy of our community is a function of the economy. We should all be concerned about the fine line our government is walking when making policy decisions affecting the competitiveness of business.

The incoming carbon tax is another cost for business that will be added to a growing list that includes increases to minimum wage, payroll taxes, corporate, and municipal tax.

The ongoing Power Purchase Agreement lawsuit that has the Government of Alberta not only suing the municipally-owned Enmax and Epcor, but proposing retroactive legislation to punish the utility companies adds serious investment uncertainty and risk by damaging our reputation and the sanctity of contracts.

These changes threaten the overall competitiveness of our region as a place to do business by adding layers upon layers of costs and liabilities that are not found in other jurisdictions. This is especially the case since President-Elect Donald Trump campaigned on backing out of climate agreements and slashing tax rates in the United States.

While some businesses are rooted here, others are able to move freely to neighbouring provinces or even other countries when cost benefits arise. This is particularly the case for larger companies with the resources and capability to shift capital investments.

Everybody in Alberta remembers when then Premier Ed Stelmach initiated a royalty review back in 2007.

The idea was that we as Albertans were not receiving our ‘fair-share’ from energy royalties. By increasing royalty rates, the Alberta government hoped for an additional $1.5 billion in revenue. Instead the change sent billions in drilling and service activity outside of Alberta and eventually forced Premier Stelmach to roll back the changes.

As we get closer to the Jan. 1 implementation date of the carbon tax, we should all be concerned of the potential repercussions arising from being one of the few jurisdictions to institute such the tax. Doing so, it is important to keep in mind that when British Columbia introduced its carbon tax, it made cuts to personal and corporate tax rates to partially offset some of the added costs. Alberta will reduce the Small Business Tax by one per cent and will send income-tested rebates to individuals and families. While small business will surely appreciate the potential savings (for those fortunate enough to still be turning a profit), we should also recognize that more than twothirds of Albertans are employed by large companies.

The carbon tax will make almost everything more expensive here in our province as the requirements for heating and transportation are indiscriminate. Individuals, families, businesses, non-profits, and even the municipalities of Red Deer and Red Deer County will be paying more for almost everything. Those that are able to pass along the addi-

tional costs will, and unfortunately at this time, the costs to mitigate the tax through building retrofits or low emission vehicles are not financially worthwhile to most.

With the federal carbon tax not coming into effect for a number of years, and without the United States having any plans to implement a carbon tax and probably reducing business taxes, Alberta is left with the dubious distinction of going it alone.

While many will applaud Alberta for taking action to fight climate change, money talks, and the reality is Albertan businesses will be burdened with a significant expense. Climate change is a global issue and Albertans may want to question how much they are willing to spend to go it alone in the fight.

If Alberta is to remain competitive and continue to fight climate change, our governments will have to make serious policy changes to ensure Alberta remains an attractive place to own, operate, and make business investments. This should especially be the case considering the current fragility of our weakened economy and President-elect Trump’s plans for the United States.

The future well-being of our community depends on it.

Reg Warkentin is the policy and advocacy manager for the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce.

Letters to the editor LOUIS RIEL

travelled up north in the ’80s for the Manitoba govern-

I read with interest in the Nov. 16 Advocate about Asooahum Crossing (Housing, culture project about 30 per cent complete) and also Tanya Ward-Schur’s Coyote Tales Riel was a good leader that never backed down. I congratulate the Red Deer Native Friendship Society for undertaking this long-awaited project and the City of Red Deer for facilitating a suitable location.

As a former Manitoban, I’m well aware of the controversies about Louis Riel. Known as the “Father of Manitoba,” this Métis leader led two resistance movements against the Canadian government. The Red River Rebellion of 1869-70 and the provisional government established by Riel ultimately negotiated the terms by which Manitoba entered into Confederation. The North-West Rebellion of 1885 in Saskatchewan was unsuccessful and resulted in Riel hanged for treason in Regina.

Growing up in Winnipeg in the ’50s and ’60s, the only observations I had of indigenous people was when we had to drive along Main Street north of Portage Avenue beside the beer parlours. I saw a different view when I

ment, inspecting water treatment plants and instructing native operators in chlorine testing and water sampling.

Back then, Métis communities were served with a central water treatment plant with standpipes, but no distribution system. If you wanted water, you brought your bucket to the “pail-fill” and carried it home. It beat chopping a hole in the ice in the wintertime, but the lack of running water and modern plumbing in the home made it difficult to maintain hygiene. Judging from the news reports about water systems on Indian reserves, I suspect not much has changed.

Since then I’ve been privileged to work with Métis and indigenous colleagues, of who I have much respect for.

Bill Franz, Red Deer

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Trump casts pall over PM’s Latin American trip

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ne can run but not hide from the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finding that out first-hand this Chantal week as his first trip outside Canada since Hébert the American election turns into a damage assessment mission.

It is a testimony to the magnitude of the shift in the tectonic plates brought about by the U.S. outcome that there is not an international forum and precious few of the world’s capitals that are not scrambling to pick up the post-election pieces.

The questions raised by the imminent changing of the guard at the White House go well beyond the narrow scope of whether progressive governments such as Trudeau’s can find productive common ground with a conservative president.

Cuba was the first stop on the PM’s itinerary this week. Until the U.S. vote, the prime minister might have expected to find some lingering buzz from President Barack Obama’s historic visit to the island this spring. It was part of a thaw in the relationship

between Cuba and the U.S. But in Havana, excitement has given way to trepidation. Uncertainty as to whether Trump will follow up on his predecessor’s overtures has replaced momentum. On the campaign trail, the president-elect blasted Obama’s visit to Cuba.

Later this week Trudeau will land in Peru for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

The organization’s 12 member countries recently negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

But the American election has sapped the impetus for the ratification of the massive free trade agreement. Last week, Obama formally abandoned plans to submit the deal to Congress for ratification before the end of his term in January. Trump wants no part of the TPP. The president-elect’s shadow loomed large over this week’s international climate change summit (COP22) in Morocco. In theory, its participants had good reasons to celebrate. Propelled by international support, the global climate agreement struck in Paris last year has come into effect years earlier than expected.

The accord’s signatories — including Canada — argue that the changing of the guard in the White House will not diminish the political will to act in

concert on climate change. Time will tell whether they are whistling past the graveyard of the Paris accord.

A pivotal part of the infrastructure of the accord was an alliance between China and the U.S. They jointly agreed to a reduction in their carbon emissions. But Trump is not expected to hold to the American side of the bargain.

On the heels of the U.S. election, Trudeau reaffirmed Canada’s intention to lead a military deployment in Latvia as part of NATO’s latest strategy to deter Russia. In Moscow, Trump’s victory has been interpreted as an encouraging sign that could lead to NATO being forced to reconsider the deployment.

A bit more than a week after Trump’s victory, it has already become conventional wisdom that his installation in the White House will at least complicate, if not derail, Trudeau’s Liberal agenda. There is truth in that.

But more than a few policy tenets close to the heart of past Conservative governments are equally on the line.

Think of NAFTA — the brainchild of Brian Mulroney’s Tory governments — but also of the moribund TPP. It was negotiated on the watch of the previous federal government. The final deal was arrived at in the heat of the last federal campaign.

Under Stephen Harper, Canada

took credit for playing host to the secret meetings that led to the U.S.-Cuba rapprochement.

The Conservatives set the climate change targets that Trudeau is seeking to achieve as part of the obligations Canada contracted under the Paris agreement.

One of the distinguishing features of Harper’s foreign policy doctrine was his strong stance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military goals. Trudeau’s Latvia deployment fits into that doctrine, as does the ratification by the Liberals of the Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement initially negotiated under the Conservatives.

And then, what would Harper — as a staunch champion of Israel — have made of the anti-Semitic undertones of some of the rhetoric of Trump’s campaign?

On Wednesday, interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose offered her caucus a few positive thoughts about Trump’s victory. But when all is said and done, the president-elect poses a greater threat to Harper’s trade and foreign policy legacy than Trudeau ever did.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer.

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Canadian soldier found dead in Jordan

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TTAWA — A Canadian soldier who was looking at ways to train the Jordanian military as part of Canada’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has died, the Department of National Defence said Thursday.

Maj. Scott Foote, 50, of Carbonear, N.L., was found unconscious in a military gym in Jordan’s capital city of Amman, officials said. Foote was pronounced dead after attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

His death has been labelled non-combat related. National Defence has launched an investigation, but officials said there were no indications of foul play.

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A veteran of Afghanistan, Foote arrived in Jordan at the beginning of September as part of a small team tasked with examining ways in which the Canadian Forces could train Jordanian counterparts.

“This mission is not a combat mission,” said Maj.-Gen. Omer Lavoie, commander of 1 Canadian Division in Kingston, Ont., where Foote was most recently serving as a logistics officer.

“It’s a mission where we’re there to enhance the capabilities of the Jordanian Armed Forces in areas such as resources, planning, organization and equipment.”

A similar team is currently working in Lebanon. Lavoie said both missions fall under the umbrella of Canada’s broader effort to fight ISIL. Foote was to return to Canada just before Christmas, Lavoie said.

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Alleged sex assault of child leads to arrests

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AMILTON — The alleged sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl is being called “one of the most heinous crimes” Hamilton police officers have had to deal with.

The six-month investigation left nine people in handcuffs, including the child’s mother and her boyfriend, as police said they uncovered a “horrific” sexual assault where the girl was allegedly being offered up “to be sexually assaulted” in an online advertisement.

Det. Sgt. David Dunbar with the Hamilton police victims of crime branch said the investigation that began last May after the force received a tip from the Catholic Children’s Aid Society in Hamilton has left many officers struggling.

“It’s a very unique case because we’re not used to a victimization of this nature — it’s really graphic,” Dunbar told The Canadian Press.

“It’s one of the worst, most heinous crimes we’ve seen because we’ve got multiple offenders and one young victim.”

The investigation, dubbed Project Links, started after the tip when officers interviewed the girl and she told them she was being sexually assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend, he said.

Officers seized numerous electronic devices during two raids that contained many “horrific, awful” images of the girl, Dunbar alleged.

“We uncovered a young female victim who was sexually assaulted by more than one person and made available to be sexually assaulted through Craigslist,” Dunbar said at a news conference earlier Thursday.

Following the interview with the girl, Dunbar said a 34-year-old man, who police did not identify to protect the identity of the child, was arrested on May 3 and faces 40 charges that include sexual assault, sexual interference, making and possessing child pornography.

As part of those charges, police allege the man also sexually assaulted the seven-year-old girl’s 16-year-old sister.

The girl’s mother — a 39-year-old woman from Hamilton — was arrested in September and charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life to a child. She was released on a promise to appear.

The officers continued to pull the string on the case, Dunbar said, as they had to analyze the images and where they were being sent.

“To hear it is one thing, but to go through it and have to visualize and deal with images and graphic sexual violence against children is very difficult, very difficult,” he said.

Dunbar said four other people were arrested, including two men from Hamilton aged 36 and 50, and two people from Waterloo, Ont. — a 38-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman.

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Firefighters battle a blaze in Montreal’s Chinatown district at the Robillard building, which once housed Canada’s first movie theatre, on Thursday. According to a city-run historical centre, the Robillard building was a 300-seat variety and vaudeville venue called the Palace Theatre. In June 1896, Louis Minier used a room in the Robillard to project the first indoor moving picture film in Canada, using the famous Lumiere brothers’ cinematographe. Authorities said there were no injuries and the exact cause of the blaze was not immediately known.

CYBERATTACK

National Defence investigating possible hack of its recruiting site

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TTAWA — The federal government was unable to say Thursday whether any personal information of potential military recruits was stolen during what appears to have been a hack of a National Defence website.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said federal officials were investigating after people trying to access the military’s recruiting website were instead directed to what appeared to be the Chinese government’s main webpage.

The website was taken down soon after the problem was discovered.

The minister was reluctant to label the incident as a security breach, saying there could be any number of reasons and that he didn’t want to jump to conclusions.

But he said the government is taking the incident seriously.

“When something of this nature happens we treat it with real gravity, and we’ll investigate it,” he said. “That process is underway right now, and as soon as we know the facts, we’ll be commenting

further on that.”

The recruiting website is one of several operated by the Canadian Forces and provides information about the various jobs available in the military.

Prospective recruits can also apply online.

Goodale said it wasn’t immediately known if the personal information of any potential recruits had been compromised that’s one of the things being investigated.

“Obviously with any breach of a computer system you’re concerned about all dimensions of the information that may be on that system and how it might be either tampered with or contaminated or improperly or illegitimately released,” he said.

The government will conduct a complete examination of its entire online system to ensure there were not any other problems, he added.

Only this week, Canada’s top soldier, Gen. Jonathan Vance, told the House of Commons defence committee that the military has a number of initiatives underway with regards to cyber operations, with the main focus being on defence.

“We have our own organizations and agencies that look after the defence of our networks,” he said Tuesday.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Trudeau looks to gain foothold in Argentina

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UENOS AIRES, Argentina — Canada’s prime minister and his Argentine counterpart took direct aim Thursday at the walls of protectionism set to be erected around the United States, saying that freer trade is the best way to pull their countries out of economic uncertainty.

Justin Trudeau and Mauricio Macri said there is real anxiety that progress and global trade have resulted in people being left behind or children being robbed of the same opportunities afforded their parents and grandparents.

That anxiety has propelled anti-trade and anti-immigration movements in various places around the world, the most compelling examples of which are the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. and Britain’s vote to exit the European Union.

“It is an indisputable fact that trade is good for economic growth and can and should be good for all citizens,” Trudeau told a news conference Thursday.

“The challenge we’re facing right now is to demonstrate that we can create trade deals that give benefits

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives with President of Argentina Mauricio Macri and wife Juliana Awada to an official dinner at Quinta de Olivos in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday. to small and medium-sized enterprises, that give benefits to the middle class and to the communities they call home. That’s exactly where Mauricio and I agree entirely.”

Speaking in Spanish, Macri said his government believes that trade

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is the way to raise his citizens out of poverty, alleviate pressure on middle income earners and help the country’s finances overall.

He could use the help.

Macri is moving the country to the political centre after years of populist, nationalistic governments. He has made changes to currency rules, the tax code and the central statistics office in an effort to rebuild credibility and investor interest.

But Macri’s moves have been prob-

lematic for Argentines: their currency fell in value by 30 per cent after controls were removed, some 200,000 jobs have been lost based on estimates from the Argentina Center of Political Economy, and the loss of energy subsidies has seen electricity costs shoot up by about 300 per cent.

Domestic polling figures suggest the majority of Argentines are not pleased with the state of affairs in their country.

“We are paying for decisions we have made in the past. They weren’t bad decisions, but they have a cost,” said Melisa Argibay Rojas, who says she struggles to pay her electricity bills in the Argentine capital.

“I think we need investments. I think we need regulations. I don’t think we need to sell everything. But I think it’s good for the country that (foreign) money enters. We need it.”

So what’s in it for Canada?

The duo declared that Argentina would open its doors to Canadian pork products for the first time since 2002, collaborate on resettling 3,000 Syrian refugees into Argentina — including through an Argentine version of Canada’s private sponsorship program — and work through the World Trade Organization to further open borders to goods and services.

Macri also said he expected Canadian companies to be interested in investing in his country’s infrastructure program, which he compared to the multi-billion, multi-year program the Liberals are undertaking.

HOICELAND, Sask. — Hundreds of mourners gathered in a small Saskatchewan town to remember the life of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead.

Nia Eastman was the subject of an Amber Alert on Nov. 10 after her father didn’t drop her off as planned at her mother’s house in Choiceland.

Police say Adam Jay Eastman committed suicide and hours later, his daughter’s body was discovered in a home by investigators.

The family requested mourners wear bright colours to Thursday’s memorial service because Nia enjoyed wearing colourful things.

The Grade 1 student was described as a happy girl who enjoyed playing in puddles.

People at the service wept as Nia’s mother, Crystal Eastman, read a poem

titled “If Tomorrow Never Comes.”

“If I knew it was the last time, I would have recorded everything so I could replay it day after day,” Eastman recited.

RCMP are in the final stages of the investigation. No charges will be laid and police will not release any other details, including cause of death for both.

The day before Nia was to be returned to her mother, there was a photo posted of the girl and an unidentified woman with the super-imposed caption “My World.”

On Wednesday, the page’s cover photo was changed to a picture of a skull and crossbones with the slogan: “Leave me alone. I’ve had enough.”

There were no further posts.

A provincial court document indicates Eastman was facing an assault charge. A Nipawin peace officer said he believed Eastman committed an assault on Crystal Eastman on Aug. 23 in Choiceland.

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Society pitches gray jay as national bird

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TTAWA — Smart, hardy and friendly — the Royal Canadian Geographic Society says its choice for Canada’s national bird epitomizes the best of the country’s national traits.

The gray jay, also known as the whiskey jack, was announced Wednesday evening as the winner of the society’s laborious two-year search for a fitting avian Canadian representative.

“The gray what?” you may ask.

The gray jay, once known as the Canada jay and the “wisakedjak” of folklore in indigenous cultures, is found in the boreal forests of every Canadian province and territory but nowhere else on the planet.

The robin-sized cousin of the raven and crow has the same brain-tobody ratio as dolphins and chimpanzees, is lauded for its friendliness and intelligence, and spends its entire life in the Canadian woods — observed incubating eggs in temperatures as low as minus 30 C. “It’s a wonderful poster child for the boreal forest, our national and provincial parks, and for climate change,” said ornithologist David Bird, part of the expert panel that helped debate the final choice whittled from a list selected by tens of thousands of Canadians.

“So it’s a perfect bird for Canada.”

The gray jay muscled out higher profile contenders, including the common loon, snowy owl, blackcapped chickadee and Canada goose, in a contest that garnered national attention and attracted almost 50,000

online voters.

“That kind of engagement really was certainly not something we expected,” Aaron Kylie, the editor of the society’s Canadian Geographic magazine, said in an interview.

And it wasn’t simply that so many Canadians voted online, or the national media attention.

“We had thousands of comments, and the comments aren’t just a sentence,” said Kylie.

“They’re paragraphs, they are full pages and they are very impassioned, passionate, personal stories about people’s connections to a specific bird they wanted to put forward as the national bird. It almost doesn’t matter which bird you’d want to pick in the end.”

The federal government has not committed to naming a national bird — let alone the gray jay — but the Canadian Geographic Society argues that Canada’s 150th anniversary in the coming year offers a perfect opportunity.

The gray jay actually came third in voting behind the loon and the snowy owl, but was chosen following a public debate and deliberations by a panel. The winner was announced Wednesday evening at the society’s annual dinner in Ottawa.

Bird (the ornithologist, not the jay) said the whiskey jack has been shown to be “the smartest bird on the planet.”

They’re renowned in First Nations lore for warning people of predators in the woods and even leading lost travellers home by calling from tree to tree.

BILINGUALISM

Ottawa launches review of language rules

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TTAWA — The federal government will review the rules that govern how communications and services are delivered to the public in English and French, the president of the Treasury Board of Canada said Thursday.

Scott Brison said the rules would be “modernized” in order to better reflect changing demographic realities of minority linguistic communities.

The rules, which determine the circumstances under which a federal institution is required to offer services in both languages, haven’t been significantly updated since they were introduced 25 years ago.

“We have the potential to offer more services in both French and English today in more places and in more ways than we would have dreamed in 1991,” he said.

Brison said the government would also put a moratorium on changing the status of bilingual offices until the review is completed, as a gesture to reassure minority linguistic communities who have seen services eroded under the current rules.

“Several groups and organizations have quite rightly pointed out that the demographic realities of linguistic minority communities today are not well reflected in the regulations,” Brison said.

The moratorium means some 250 government offices will continue to offer services in both languages.

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A whiskey jack sits on a post in Lake Louis. A two-year-long, Canada-wide search has resulted in the gray jay, also known as the whiskey jack, being chosen as Canada’s national bird by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

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Top grades for naming reindeer CALGARY SANTA SCHOOL TRAINS ST. NICKS

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ALGARY — A student’s cellphone goes off in the middle of class.

“Sorry,” he says. “That’s my head elf.”

Some institutions of higher learning may not take kindly to that kind of disruption, but at Santa School the quip gets full marks, especially when a big part of the morning lesson is staying in character.

The Calgary-based school trains professional Santas and Mrs. Clauses for corporate events, private parties and malls during the holidays.

About two dozen pupils are seated at tables set up in a horseshoe shape at a suburban community centre on a sunny October morning.

The hall is decked with tinsel and festive tchotchkes. Up front there’s a spread of butter tarts, shortbread cookies, chocolate Santas and Tim Hortons coffee. A diffuser sends a nutmeg-scented vapour into the air.

Most of the students are men with Santa-like builds and beards — both rookies and veterans looking to brush up on their skills. There are a handful of aspiring Mrs. Clauses.

An improv performer leads games about thinking quickly should a child act out or lob a touchy question Santa’s way.

There is also voice training with a professional baritone singer, a movement class with a dancer and lessons

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Santa Clauses Brian Dore, left, and Tim Carlisle work on their improve technique during a class at Santa School in Calgary. in beard care and proper donning of gay apparel.

The course ends with a class photo and students being granted their MSC — Master of Santa Claus — degrees.

Once the graduates have cleared police background checks, they’re

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ready to be deployed.

Jennifer Andrews — who refers to herself as Dean of Santa School, Head Elf or Auntie Claus — has been professionally training Santas for about a decade.

“Santa can’t be everywhere all of the time. He’s asked me to train his best regional representatives,” she says.

Andrews caps each of the two-day courses at 25 students and holds several sessions a year. Tuition is $500 a person.

Many students have retired from the police or military, she says. She figures it’s a way for them to continue to serve in a more lighthearted way.

“I don’t want cookie-cutter Santas,” she says in her opening presentation to students. “I want you to be like snowflakes.

“You’re not all going to have big booming voices and that’s OK. Don’t have voice envy, beard envy, tummy envy.”

First-time student Jeff Badyk says he’s looking for pointers on how to gracefully respond to the unexpected.

“The only thing with children that scares me is they’re so honest and they’re pure and you don’t want to say something that will really affect them,” says the 64-year-old retired oil and gas landman.

When Badyk’s hair began to turn white two decades ago, kids started

calling him Santa so he decided to embrace it.

He says he’s still honing his Santa persona and aims to use the role to impart lessons about the importance of giving.

“This is a chance to teach a little good, I hope.”

Lee Bradley, a professional opera singer, stopped in Calgary for two days between concerts in Beijing and London, where he lives.

He has crafted a cheeky character who goes by Santa Chris Nicholas.

“He likes to be really humorous,” says Bradley. “All within good taste and family fun, of course.”

Bradley, a clean-shaven 33-yearold, says his transformation takes a good deal of makeup and phoney hair.

For Merrell Dickie, achieving the Santa look also takes commitment.

The real-estate agent and part-time actor is on his second run through Santa School, and says it takes three days at the salon to get his ginger hair and beard the right shade.

Dickie says listening is key for St. Nick.

“Sometimes you get a sad child and sometimes that’s where the listening comes in.”

He recalls meeting one boy whose mother had recently died.

“He wasn’t a very happy young man, but we got him to talk about it …

I actually gave him a lot of time.”

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Tremors can last months, says new study DATA SHEDS LIGHT ON ALBERTA’S HYDRAULIC FRACKING EARTHQUAKES

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ALGARY — Research suggests hydraulic fracking can cause earthquakes in at least two ways — and one of them can cause tremors months after the activity

stops.

“The seismicity is persistent after the operations are completed,” said David Eaton, a University of Calgary seismologist, whose paper has been published in the journal Science.

Eaton has been studying earthquakes that have shaken the Fox Creek region of northwestern Alberta for years.

The largest, measuring between 4.2 and 4.8 on the Richter scale, occurred in January. The area, which is in the centre of the Duvernay oil and gas field, has experienced hundreds of tremors since 2013.

Scientists have long known the shakers are associated with oilfield practices.

In the United States, underground waste-water disposal seems to be the cause.

In Alberta, research points to hydraulic fracking, which involves pumping high-pressure fluids underground. That creates tiny cracks in rock and releases natural gas or oil held inside.

How the widely used technique creates earthquakes has largely remained a mystery — until now.

Eaton and his co-author Xuewei Bao used a mathematical algorithm to isolate and locate more than 900 earthquakes in the Fox Creek area.

“That gave us the ability to image the fault structure,” Eaton said. “We could see that there were steeply dipping faults that extended from the injection level down into the Precambrian basement.”

The pair also realized there were two hairline faults that hadn’t been spotted in previous work.

One fault, some distance from the fracking site, quaked as fluids were pumped down and stopped when the pumping did.

Eaton said those quakes were caused by stress changes on the rock from the pumping. When the pumping ended, the stress was reduced.

But the other fault, very close to the site, remained active for months.

The researchers combined their precise fault-mapping with equally precise data on how

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An attendee walks past hydraulic fracking equipment at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, this past June.

A new study into fracking in Alberta has been published. much fluid was pumped underground, when it was pumped and where.

Eaton concluded the ongoing movement in the nearby fault was caused when injected fluids infiltrated tiny spaces in the porous rock and increased what’s called pore pressure.

“If that pressure increases, it can have an effect on the frictional characteristics of faults,” Eaton said. “It can effectively jack open a fault if the pore pressure increases within the fault itself and make it easier for a slip to initiate.”

The increased pore pressure was what made the difference between earthquakes along the two faults, said Eaton. “(There’s) persistent activity in the case where

fluids penetrated into a fault.”

Eaton said that although the most powerful quake occurred due to pore pressure, it’s too soon to conclude that more dangerous quakes are created that way. The next step, he said, is to better understand the relationship between pore pressure changes and earthquakes.

He’d like his findings to have an impact on how hydraulic fracking is regulated in the future.

“It’s our hope this will contribute to science-informed regulation,” he said. “We’re also hoping this will improve risk assessment.”

Alberta’s energy regulator has already changed its rules around fracking in the Fox Creek area.

British Columbia is also considering the issue.

OIL SPILL

Ground movement to blame for spill: Husky

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ALGARY — Husky Energy says ground movement is the reason a section of its pipeline burst in July, leaking crude into the North Saskatchewan River and jeopardizing the drinking water of thousands downstream.

The firm said a detailed report into the incident showed the sudden break was caused by “geotechnical activity” that forced a section of the pipe to buckle.

The pipeline leaked an estimated 225,000 litres

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The incident forced the Saskatchewan cities of North Battleford, Prince Albert and Melfort to shut off their water intakes from the river and find other water sources for almost two months.

Husky said it has spent about $90 million responding to the spill and wrapped up shoreline clean-up efforts in October after recovering about 210,000 litres of what spilled. Provincial regulators continue with their own investigation into the incident and will file a separate report.

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Investment tips now that Trump is president-elect N

ow that Trump will be the next U.S President, how should I invest?

I think most agree that the election result was indeed a surprise, but now that the anticipation is over investors can look ahead to see what the future may bring. While I won’t attempt to dissect Donald Trump’s personality or provide an Derek opinion on whether he will do a good as president, I can offer some Fuchs job insight to how some of his proposed policies may impact investors.

One key point is that with the uncertainty of the election behind us, markets can now focus on the future. This means that investors who have been waiting on the sidelines may get their funds invested again. In short, this could prompt a rally in the markets as investors are worried about missing out on potential gains. The focus has turned back to the US economy, instead of the debates and pre-election rhetoric.

With this in mind, Trump’s suggested policies will likely benefit some sectors of the markets more than others. Here are a few considerations.

The financial sector in the United States may benefit from a Trump presidency. Trump has suggested that there will be fewer regulations imposed on the banks. Furthermore, additional growth in the US economy should lead to higher interest

rates, which generally helps the margins and profits of the financial sector.

The heath care sector may also benefit. Hillary Clinton was expected to make broad changes to health care regulation which had put the group under selling pressure prior to the election. With a Trump presidency, health care stocks rallied because we likely expect reduced regulations. That said it’s very early to be able to predict this accurately and it will remain a hot topic for a long time. Keep in mind not all companies in the health care sector will benefit from a Trump presidency; as such investors should watch the sector and pick their investments carefully.

Energy stocks could be a big winner. Trump has indicated that projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline will be a priority. As such, he has indicated the energy sector may enter a period of expansion and growth. While any change in share prices will continue to be dictated by the ever changing price of oil, a more business friendly environment for energy companies could be just around the corner.

It is expected there could be more fiscal stimulus injected in the US economy through defence and infrastructure spending. While these projects may take years to develop, you may want to understand which companies could benefit from this spending and invest accordingly.

A few potential investments you may want to avoid include companies who are multinational.

Any question about trade could hurt their profitability. Another to watch would be companies who are sensitive to increasing interest rates, any movement higher could be a negative on their balance sheets. Finally, any company that operates in Mexico will be under the microscope as it is no secret what Trump was suggesting here.

Before making broad changes to your portfolio I think it’s important to ask yourself whether you are a long-term investor, or a short-term speculator.

Said another way, a properly designed investment portfolio should be able to stand the test of time, with some small changes along the way. Speculators are hoping to cash in on very short-term trends and need to make many assumptions; the success of their strategy relies on the accuracy of these assumptions. In comparison, long-term investors who maintain a diversified portfolio may not need to make any changes and have confidence knowing they are in well managed basket of securities. In either case, it’s best to consult with your Wealth Advisor before making changes.

Happy investing.

Derek Fuchs Senior Wealth Advisor Scotia Wealth Management Derek Fuchs is a Senior Wealth Advisor with Scotia Wealth Management in Red Deer and holds the designations of Chartered Investment Manager, Certified Financial Planner, Financial Management Advisor, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.

PHARMACEUTICALS

Ex-Valeant, Philidor execs charged with fraud, conspiracy COMPANY, CURRENT EXECUTIVES AND IT’S FORMER CEO AND CFO ‘HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED AT THIS TIME’

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ederal prosecutors are filing criminal charges against former executives of Valeant Pharmaceuticals and a mail-order pharmacy it helped to establish as the backlash against skyrocketing drug prices grows.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Man-

hattan on Thursday released a complaint against ex-Valeant executive Gary Tanner and Andrew Davenport, who ran the now-defunct Philidor mail-order pharmacy, outlining charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in an alleged scheme to bilk Valeant out of tens of millions of dollars.

The complaint states Tanner and Davenport conspired to enrich themselves with Valeant funds.

It alleges Tanner was employed by

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Valeant to head its “access solutions team,” which worked to get patients’ insurers to cover brand-name Valeant medicines instead of much-cheaper generic ones.

But according to the complaint, Tanner focused on building up Philidor’s business, worked at its Hatboro, Pennsylvania, offices and ultimately received a $10 million kickback from Davenport, who helped found Philidor and served as its chief executive.

In exchange, Tanner allegedly facilitated transactions that brought Davenport more than $40 million.

Philidor was shut down early this year amid an investigation of irregularities in reporting of its financial dealings with Valeant.

Prosecutors were to discuss the charges and their investigation at a news conference at noon in Manhattan.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., has been under scrutiny for aggressively jacking up prices of old drugs with little competition and for questionable accounting practices involving Philidor.

Valeant is the target of more than 10 different government probes, plus multiple shareholder lawsuits.

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Its stock price has plunged more than 90 per cent since the once fast-growing Wall Street darling came under the microscope for its business and accounting practices.

In a statement, Valeant said the company, its current executives and its former CEO and chief financial officer “have not been charged at this time.”

“Valeant continues to co-operate with all relevant authorities in this matter,” the statement said, noting that Tanner left the company in September 2015 and Davenport was never an employee.

Valeant, which technically is based in Canada but operates from headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, sells numerous generic medicines but also brand-name ones for conditions in the fields of dermatology, gastrointestinal disorders, eye health and neurology.

In morning trading, Valeant shares fell 30 cents, or 1.7 per cent, to $17.58.

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‘It’s worked out better than I hoped’ LONEY FINDING SUCCESS WITH RDC QUEENS

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Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl, right, tries to pass the puck while under pressure from Los Angeles Kings center Jeff Carter during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, in Los Angeles. The Oilers lost the game 4-2.

here was a time last year when Kristen Loney wasn’t completely sure what she would do after high school.

She decided to join the RDC Queens basketball team and she’s obDanny viously made the right decision.

Rode “I kind of knew what I wanted to do and it’s worked out better than I hoped,” said the 17-year-old Hunting Hills grad, who played in the summer league and got to know some of the Queens staff and players. Still this year has been a surprise for her.

“It’s a lot more work than in high school, that’s been my biggest surprise,” she said. “There’s school and basketball and I’m also working some, so it’s busy, but I’m enjoying it a lot.”

Loney has also impressed head coach Ken King, who is using the fivefoot-11 forward more and more as she gains experience.

“She is very coachable, has a great attitude and the ability to work hard,” said King. “She is also a quick learner and willing to play physical amd use her strength. She will constantly continue to get better once everything comes together.”

Loney is averaging close to 10 minutes a game, 4.4 points and three rebounds. In the last three games she’s averaging over seven points per start and close to four rebounds.

“The more I get to play, and practice, the better it is,” she said. “The experience definitely helps, plus we even film our practices so we can see where we need improve.”

She found the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League do be a lot tougher than high school.

“I’m not used to being one of the smaller forwards and that’s the way it is here,” she said. “I had to learn how to play inside against bigger forwards and learn when to move the ball outside instead of trying to go to the basket all the time.

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ON THE ICE WHL/CHL Goaltender of the Week Patrick Dea of the Edmonton Oil Kings became the fourth WHL netminder to be named the Canadian Hockey League goaltender of the week. Dea posted a 2-0-0 record. He Patrick made 34 saves in a 4-2 win over the SasDea katoon Blades then stopped 27 shots in a 3-0 triumph over the Kootenay Ice. The 19-yearold is in his third season with the Oil Kings after being selected in the first round of the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft.

He has a 7-5-0-0 record this season with a 3.24 goals-against-average and a .897 save percentage. Zach Sawchenko of the Moose Jaw Warriors, Ryan Kubic of the Vancouver Giants and Logan Flodell of the Blades have also received the award.

Player of the Week Regina Pats veteran forward Adam Brooks has been named the WHL player of the week ending Nov. 13.

Brooks, who won the WHL scoring race last season with 38 goals and 82 assists, had a goal and five assists to help the Pats record Adam a 2-0-0-0 record. The 20-year-old Winnipeg Brooks native had three assists in a 5-4 win over Moose Jaw then added a goal and two helpers in an 8-4 win over the Red Deer Rebels. Brooks is 11th in league scoring, having collected 25 points (7g, 18a) in 11 games since returning from the Toronto Maple Leafs camp.

The five-foot-10, 175-pound centre was a fourth round pick (92nd overall) of the Leafs in the 2016 Entry Draft. He is in his fifth season in the league and has 230 points on 83 goals and 147 assists in 262 games.

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Pederson making great impact with Broncos

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he Brandon Wheat Kings will be happy to see the last of Lane Pederson for a while.

The 19-year-old Swift Current Broncos forward scored twice in the final 12 minutes on Saturday and twice in the final 10 minutes on Sunday as the Broncos rallied to tie the Brandon Wheat Kings both nights.

Brandon went on to win the games in shootouts.

Pederson, who has 10 goals and 12 assists in 19 games, said the team’s success is ultimately more important.

“It’s fun when you score, but the two points for a win is a little more important,” he said.

It has been a better season for the Broncos so far, who sit second in the East Division with a record of 11-6-2-3.

They are four points up on Brandon, who hold two games in hand. Pederson admits that even he wasn’t sure what to expect when he arrived at training camp, but quickly saw that they would be much improved from their 24-38-7-3 finish in 2015-16 that left them in fifth in the East Division and outside of the playoffs.

“I think before the season quite a few people probably low-balled and didn’t give us much of a chance to be where we’re at right now, but even looking back at the start we’ve had, we could be sitting even better,” he said. “We’ve let quite a few games slip away, and we’ve had a lot of overtime games. I think when we get a full healthy lineup back, we’ll be a really strong team in the East.”

The Broncos were missing four players when they began the weekend series with the Wheat Kings, including forward Glen Gawdin, and lost two more.

Part of Swift Current’s reversal can be credited to new coach Manny Viveiros, who replaced former coachGM Mark Lamb in the off-season.

Where last season the Broncos played a lot in the neutral zone trying to force mistakes, this season they create offence with their fleet forwards.

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Red Deer Rebel Lane Pederson reaches in to steal the puck from Swift Current Bronco player Max Lajoie during second period action at the Centrium in 2015. The Rebels traded Person to the Broncos on Dec. 27, 2015.

“We play with a lot of speed,” Pederson said. “That’s the system that Manny’s implemented here. He’s brought a different style of play coming over from Europe and some fresh ideas. We have a skilled fast team that the system really benefits.”

Pederson began his WHL career with the Seattle Thunderbirds, a big adjustment for the Saskatoon product.

“It was pretty crazy at 17 years old going to Seattle and going and playing for the first time by myself and being 16 hours away from home,” he said.

“It was a bit of an eye-opener. It made me mature and grow up faster. That experience in Seattle has helped develop me into the guy I am today.”

After scoring eight goals and adding 12 assists in his rookie season, Pederson was acquired on Aug. 5, 2015 by the Red Deer Rebels for goaltender Taz Burman, who he now plays with Swift Current.

With Red Deer set to host the Memorial Cup, it was an ideal situation.

He played exactly 35 games with the Rebels before being included with

two bantam draft picks in the Jake DeBrusk deal that sent him to Swift Current on Dec. 27, 2015.

He quickly settled into his new location, earning 34 points in 37 games.

(DeBrusk had 39 in 37 games in Red Deer.) Pederson credits the Rebels with allowing him to grow as a player by putting him in different situations, but admits he was disappointed to be leaving a few months before the national tournament started.

“The sting was lessened with the success I had in Swift and the opportunity that I was given in Swift,” he said. “The trade was probably the best thing ever happened to me. It gave me the opportunity to show what kind of player I am, get pro opportunities and even get more opportunities at this level.”

Pederson said he immediately felt comfortable with the Broncos — and with the chance to get power-play time, his confidence grew as a result.

This season his linemates have juggled, with time spent on the ice with Tyler Steenbergen, Aleksi Heponiemi, Gawdin, and others.

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Red Deer Rebel Brandon Hagel keeps the puck in the Kelowna Rockets’ zone as Rocket Conner Bruggen-Cate gives chase during first period action at the Centrium in Red Deer.

WHL

Hagel-Spacek combination working out well for Rebels

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

B

randon Hagel is the first to tell you he didn’t get off to a good start to the Western Hockey League season.

Returning from the Buffalo Sabres camp the Red Deer Rebels winger took some time to readjust.

“At the pro camp I was playing with elite players and just returning here it took time to adapt and to get my game to where it should have been,” said the 18-year-old from Morinville. “I wasn’t in the right mind set, and it took time to build that back up as well.

‘My game simply wasn’t there. I wasn’t working hard enough and doing the things that make me my best.”

It’s that ability to be critical of himself and know what he has to do to be successful, is what makes him a top six forward with the Rebels.

Returning from the Sabres he registered points in only one of his first five games. Once back on track the sixfoot-one, 165-pound Hagel has points in six of his past seven.

“Things been working of late,” he said.

He’s also been lining up alongside team scoring leader Michael Spacek.

“Hags was moving around early on as we mixed and matched, but once he got on a line with Spacek they clicked,” said Rebels assistant coach Pierre-Paul Lamoureux. “They have that chemistry on the ice. We’ll continue to see where that goes.”

Hagel agrees playing with Spacek benefits his game.

“We seem to fit together,” he said.

Lamoureux likes everything about

Hagel’s game.

“One thing Hags always brings is a strong work ethic and he competes.

He’s a worker on the ice … a gamer, which we appreciate.”

Hagel grew up in Morinville and played his bantam and midget hockey in Fort Saskatchewan. He played the 2014-15 season with the Fort Saskatchewan midget AAA Rangers, scoring 24 goals and 28 assists in 34 games and was a second team all-star in the Alberta Midget Hockey League.

He wasn’t picked in the WHL Bantam Draft, but was put on the Saskatoon Blades list. It was something that didn’t interest him and he joined the AJHL’s Whitecourt Wolverines late in the 2014-15 season, playing six games and scoring once and adding an assist. He started the next year with the Wolverines and had a goal and two helpers in three games when he was contacted by the Rebels.

“Red Deer called and asked if I’d come to practice. I felt it was a good opportunity for me because of the organization and the Memorial Cup being here. It was one of the best decisions I could have made.”

Hagel fit right in last season and finished with 13 goals and 34 assists in 72 games. This year, he is averaging a point a game with eight goals and 12 assists in 20 games.

Hagel was picked by the Sabres in the sixth round — 159th overall — in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

“I was surprised. I didn’t think about being picked,” he said. “As for the bantam draft, I thought about it for one day and then went on.”

But he was five-foot-two and 103-pounds the year of his draft.

“A little small,” he said with a

smile.

He has grown considerably, but knows he still has to get stronger.

“When I left Buffalo they just said to continue to get bigger and stronger and to work on my shot, which will come as I gain strength. If I get those I will have a better opportunity with them.”

“He does need to continue to work on his conditioning and strength,” agreed Lamoureux. “I know it’s tough at this level, but in those three (games)-in-three (days) situations he has to get his body and mind right.”

But Lamoureux knows Hagel has the right mind set to continue to develop.

“He wants to contribute and he gets upset with himself when he doesn’t make a play he knows he could have made. He has the right mind set to be a difference maker. He wants to do the right things within our structure.”

Hagel’s skating is one of his strengths, and alongside Spacek, puts the opposition defencemen on their heels.

“When Hags uses his speed and attacks he’s rewarded for it,” added Lamoureux. “That’s why he works so well with Spacek. They bring so much speed and tenacity they’re tough to defend. They attack with speed, which other teams have to respect.”

The Rebels will need the Hagel-Spacek combination to contribute when they host the Medicine Hat Tigers tonight at 7 p.m. at the Centrium.

The Rebels will be without forward Grayson Pawlenchuk (lower body) and rearguard Alexander Alexeyev (upper body).

‘We’ve also have the flu bug going around,” said Lamoureux.

Although he only spent one year with the Red Deer Rebels, Byron Froese made an impression. The Winkler, Man., native scored 43 goals and added 38 assists in 70 games during the 2010-11 WHL season after being picked up from the Everett Silvertips.

Froese played two years with Everett scoring 48 goals and Byron adding 70 assists in Froese 142 games. He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fourth round (119 overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. On May 31, 2011, he signed a three-year entry level contract with the ’Hawks. He spent most of the following two seasons with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL and the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL. In the 2013-14 season he was assigned to the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL and played a major role in the team’s second-place finish in the Kelly Cup. He had 21 points (11g, 10a) in 25 regular season games and added eight goals and 17 helpers in 23 playoff games.

As a free agent Froese opted to remain with Cincinnati for the 2014-15 season, but was loaned to the Toronto Marlies of the AHL where he had 18 goals and 24 assists in 46 games. Early in the 2015 season, Froese signed to a two-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was called up to the NHL early in the season. He played 56 games, scoring twice and adding three assists and drew praise from the Leafs coaching staff. This season he’s back with the Marlies where he has six goals and two assists in 12 games.

Who’s Been Bad Zach Fischer of the Medicine Hat Tigers has been the bad boy of the WHL so far this season. The six-foottwo, 207-pound right winger has 55 minutes in penalties which is more than he accumulated in his previous Zach two seasons with the Fischer Tigers. The 19-yearold has 13 goals and six assists in 19 games this season.

The Lloydminster native had 12 goals and 11 assists in 89 previous games.

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NHL

Claimed off waivers from Calgary last season, Byron is thriving in Montreal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ONTREAL — Paul Byron is too busy scoring goals for the Montreal Canadiens to wonder what may have been had the Calgary Flames never put him on waivers.

The speedy five-foot-eight, 160-pound winger, who was claimed from Calgary a day ahead of the 201516 season, has been the Canadiens’ hottest scorer of late with four goals in his past five games.

“It’s just confidence and a great summer,” Byron said Thursday. “I had a strong summer here working out and skating, and it’s translated into my game on the ice.

“And having come here last season, there’s no adjustment to a new system or getting comfortable with new guys. So it was a good fit for me.”

Byron had a career high 11 goals in his first campaign in Montreal and already has six goals and five assists in 17 games this season, helping the Canadiens to a 13-2-2 record.

It has helped that, after starting the season on the third line, he has been on the top line with centre Alex Galchenyuk, the team scoring leader with 18 points, in the past four games.

The third member of the unit was Alexander Radulov, but the gifted Russian missed a 4-3 overtime loss to Florida on Tuesday night with an illness and was not expected to play Friday night in Carolina, although he may be ready for a home game Satur-

day night against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

What coach Michel Therrien likes best about Byron is his versatility.

The Ottawa native does not look out of place on a scoring line or a checking unit, and he also kills penalties.

“He’s just playing his game and he’s getting rewarded for his hard work,” said Therrien. “It’s easy to say he’s got speed but it’s more than that.

“He competes. He fights for his space in front of the net and that’s how he gets his goals.”

Bob Hartley, Calgary’s coach at the time, felt much the same, but circumstances intervened. The Flames felt they had depth at forward and were concerned about the run of injuries Byron sustained in 2014-15, including wrist and sports hernia surgeries.

Montreal had just lost forward Zack Kassian after an off-ice incident and grabbed Byron and his attractive contract, which called for a $900,000 cap hit for one season. He inked a new three-year deal with a $1.166 million annual hit in February.

Byron, whose NHL career started in Buffalo in 2011, played 130 games for Calgary over four seasons. He has no hard feelings for the Flames.

“You could think like that, but I just think about how positive it’s been here in Montreal,” he said. “Who knows what could have happened in Calgary?

“As soon as I got here my focus was on doing well here. For me and my family the adjustment and settling

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Given the choice, defenceman Victor Hedman and the Tampa Bay Lightning would prefer not being thrust into the position of having to once again prove they’re capable at succeeding without captain Steven Stamkos.

The only real consolation is knowing the Lightning have done it before.

“You live in this reality now, and we’ve just got to have to face it,” Hedman said,

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Getting an opportunity to play against six-foot-two Emily White in practice has been a definite help.

“We go up against each other, and if I make a bad play, or mistake, she’ll talk to me about it. That’s been a big help. I’m

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Montreal Canadiens’ Paul Byron scores against Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard during first period NHL hockey action in Montreal. Speedy winger Byron, picked up last season on waivers from the Calgary Flames, is the Montreal Canadiens’ hottest scorer with four goals in his past five games. It helps that he has been playing on the first line lately, but what coach Michel Therrien likes most about the Ottawa native is his versatility. in has been incredible. The comfort Fans have even come to anticipate level we have here we might not have breakaways when he kills penalties. had out west. Maybe they regret the “I try not to do that,” he said. “My decision and maybe they don’t, but to number one goal is to get the puck out me it was one of the best things that of our zone and prevent goals. ever happened.”

“When I see a loose puck, my reacThe bilingual Byron and his tion is to jump on it if I have the enerFrench-Canadian wife like being gy and I think I can get it. But as soon close to family and friends. And the as you start chasing breakaways, start Bell Centre crowd has started taking a cheating, for whatever reason, you shine to him. Two of his goals this sea- don’t get the breakaways and you get son were on breakaways after causing scored on.” turnovers at his own blue line and Speed is only one part of his surthen outracing opponents to the net. vival skills. Another is toughness.

Thursday.

“It’ll be a good test for us. But at the same time, we know we can handle it, and we know we can win hockey games even though we’re going to miss him.”

Hedman spoke before the Lightning played at Buffalo, and a day after the team announced Stamkos was out indefinitely with a torn ligament in his right knee. Stamkos was hurt in the first period of a 4-3 win at Detroit on Tuesday.

The Lightning have not provided a timetable for Stamkos’ return, though coach Jon Cooper suggested the centre

could be back in time for the playoffs in April.

“If we put ourselves in a position to make the playoffs, he’s going go to be back,” Cooper said. “And that’ll be better than any trade deadline acquisition than anybody else is going to get.”

The challenge now is for the Lightning to make the post-season without the two-time NHL scoring champion and the team’s on- and off-ice leader.

“You’ve got to take your head out of the sand, dig your heels in and march on,” Cooper said.

happy to get all the help I can get.”

King believes all the credit for development goes to Loney herself.

“She is willing to bring it to practice every day and she has the demeanour to forget about mistakes right away, and learn from them.”

Loney has to laugh when asked about what role the coach wants her to play.

“He wants me to run,” she said. “It’s my job to get up and down the floor and get back on defence. I don’t really worry about scoring … it will come.”

Loney usually replaces White when she needs a break.

“Usually although we do play together on occasion, a high-low post. That’s fun.”

Loney is taking Open Studies this season and has her eyes set on getting into a full-time program next year, so she will

be around for a while, much to Kings’ delight.

Loney will be counted on this weekend as RDC hosts Briercrest today and Medicine Hat Saturday. The women tip off tonight at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m., followed by the men.

The Queens have a 2-3 record with Medicine Hat at 2-1 and Briercrest 1-3.

“I don’t know much about either team, just that we have to play our game,” said Loney.

The Kings are first in the South Division with a 5-0 record while MHC is 3-0 and BBC 1-3.

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

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Wearable tech designed for elite swimmers

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As her teammates look on from the sideline, Lindsay Thurber Raider Journey Flewell makes a one-handed play during game-three action against the Notre Dame Cougars at Notre Dame Thursday night. The Raiders took the first of a best-of-three Zone 4A final match 3-0 – 25-18 25-20 and 25-23. On the boys side, the Raiders beat Notre Dame 3-0 with scores of 25-22, 25-21 and 25-19. The teams play today at Lindsay Thurber – girls at 6 p.m. with boys to follow at 8 p.m. – with a third match to go Saturday if necessary. See game highlight slideshow at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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ALGARY — Wearable technology designed to help Penny Oleksiak swim even faster was unveiled Thursday at an Own The Podium sport science and technology summit in Calgary.

It looks similar to a Garmin or Fitbit worn on the wrist, but a lot more data is extrapolated, crunched and analyzed from the accelerometer within it.

Yes, “swimlytics” is here.

“Swimlytics is what we call the system because it’s about swimmers, it’s about swimming and it’s data analytics,” said Dr. John Barden, a University of Regina associate professor in kinesiology and creator of the technology.

“We’re taking data from the sensor, sending it to a server and we’re doing more processing, more analysis of that data outside the sensor itself.”

The technology wasn’t far enough along for Canada’s swim team to make use of it prior to the Summer Games in Rio in August.

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“Swimming Canada is fully engaged in this project,” Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger said. “It will be a game-changer for swimming.

“What this helps coaches gather is data. The more data we can give them that is valuable and practical really helps athletes eventually get on the podium.”

University of Calgary swimmers Rob Hill of North Vancouver, B.C., and Peter Brothers of Victoria wore the sensors in a workout Thursday.

Barden then took the sensors to a conference room to demonstrate data analysis.

Hill has already worn the sensor half a dozen times in the pool. Data analysis tells him how to make his stroke more powerful and efficient and also when his stroke breaks down during a hard set or session in the pool.

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CFL

Jennings confident leading Lions into West Division final

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URREY, B.C. — Solomon Elimimian has heard plenty of motivational halftime banter.

The script between teammates tends to be pretty similar in most cases — players imploring each other to continue fighting if they’re behind or to keep the foot on the gas if they’re ahead.

But every so often there’s an unexpected twist.

With the B.C. Lions down 13 points at the break in last Sunday’s playoff game, soft-spoken second-year quarterback Jonathon Jennings stood up in the locker-room and calmly let everyone know things were going to be fine if the club stayed the course.

He would lead them to victory.

“When people say that, sometimes you might not believe them, but when Jon says it he actually means it,” said Elimimian, the star B.C. linebacker who led the CFL with 130 tackles.

“Guys know when other guys are telling the truth, and when Jon said that, guys were like: ‘We’re going to be all right.’ ” And they were.

Jennings rebounded from two early turnovers to lead the Lions all the way back to a dramatic 32-31 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in

the West Division semifinal.

The 24-year-old orchestrated consecutive long touchdown drives in the fourth quarter with the poise of a veteran, taking what the defence gave him with short passes underneath before a memorable nine-yard scramble to the end zone with just over a minute to play for the game-clinching points.

“The bigger the moment, the better he is,” said Lions head coach and general manager Wally Buono.

But no one predicted it would happen this soon. An unknown quantity when he showed up at B.C.’s spring passing camp in April 2015 after a couple of failed pro tryouts, Jennings’ rise with the Lions has been nothing short of meteoric.

The club announced his signing in a short press release earlier that month — he was the sixth quarterback to join the roster — but he won the No. 3 job at training camp, and moved to the top of the depth chart out of necessity partway through the schedule because of injuries.

“You never know what’s going to happen, but all you can do is continue to work hard and hope that opportunity comes,” said Jennings. “It came for me early.”

The Saginaw Valley State product showed well enough to maintain the starters’ role even once veteran QB Travis Lulay was healthy, and earned

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B.C. Lions’ quarterback Jonathon Jennings gestures as he leaves the field after defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL western semifinal playoff game in Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 13. a new contract over the winter. Jennings helped the Lions to an impressive 12-6 record this season prior last weekend’s playoff victory to set up Sunday’s West final in Calgary against the Stampeders thanks in large part to an attention to detail not often seen in young players.

“There’s always exceptions to the rule,” said Lulay, who has been a solid teammate and an even better friend to the man who took his job. “If you’re that guy and you buy into the ‘young quarterback narrative’ and you feel OK with making mistakes, then you’re likely going to make mistakes.”

Jennings hasn’t made many in 2016, throwing for 5,226 yards and 27 touchdowns with a 67 per cent completion rating over 18 games. He did lead the league in interceptions with 15, but also engineered six game-winning drives in the fourth quarter before doing it against the Bombers in the playoffs.

“I was impressed with his composure,” said wide receiver Bryan Burn-

ham. “We were breaking the huddle on that last drive against Winnipeg and everyone’s like: ‘We’ve got to go!

We’ve got to hurry up!’ And he’s like: ‘Guys, calm down. Relax. I’ve got this.’

“That gives you a lot of confidence.”

Lulay said even though Jennings has only been the starter for a short time, the roller-coaster the Lions have endured from last season’s 7-11 campaign to now has sped up his development.

“He’s gotten a lot of experience in those moments,” said Lulay. “You’ve seen them go both ways — having lived through a moment that didn’t pan out, and having lived through the moment that did. He’s been on both sides so he knows the feeling.”

Asked why he almost always seems to comes up big when the pressure’s on, Jennings said it boils down to treating each situation the same.

“I don’t think it’s some type of magic,” said the Columbus native. “It’s just going out there and executing play by play.”

Harvard study on NFL player safety calls for outside doctors

letes recovering from a concussion, much like the system that baseball adopted five years ago.

The 500-page report includes 76 recommendations addressed to 20 NFL stakeholders — everyone from players and teams to equipment manufacturers and government regulators.

The biggest message: Player safety will never be the top priority as long as those involved have competing calls on their loyalty.

“So long as the club doctor is chosen, paid and reviewed by the club to both care for players and advise the club, the doctor will have, at a minimum, tacit pressures or subconscious desires to please the club by doing what is in the club’s best interests,” the report said.

BOSTON — Doctors who decide whether an NFL player is healthy enough to go into the game shouldn’t be paid by the teams that have a stake in winning and losing — an “undeniable conflict of interest.”

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Monday ● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic, 9 a.m., 12:30 p.m., men’s and women’s finals 3:30 p.m. ● Women’s basketball: Red Deer League, Triple Threat vs. Average Joe’s, 7:15 p.m., Storm vs. Funk, 8:15 p.m., LTCHS Gym 11; Shooting Stars &Age Gap vs. Dynamo, 7:15 p.m., Hoosier Daddy vs. Xpress, 8:30 p.m., CACHS; Spartans vs.

Pink Panthers, 7:15 p.m., Big Ballers vs. Quarter-Pro, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS North; Rampage vs. Raptors, 7:15 p.m., LTCHS South.

Wild send Eriksson Ek back to Sweden ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild have assigned rookie centre Joel Eriksson Ek (AIR-ihk-suhn EHK) to his team in Sweden.

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4 7 .364 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 10 2 .833 Golden State 9 2 .818 L.A. Lakers 7 5 .583 Sacramento 4 8 .333 Phoenix 3 9 .250 Wednesday’s Games Indiana 103, Cleveland 93 Orlando 89, New Orleans 82 Philadelphia 109, Washington 102 Atlanta 107, Milwaukee 100 Boston 90, Dallas 83 New York 105, Detroit 102 Golden State 127, Toronto 121 Oklahoma City 105, Houston 103 Denver 120, Phoenix 104 Memphis 111, L.A. Clippers 107 San Antonio 110, Sacramento 105 Thursday’s Games Washington 119, New York 112 Miami 96, Milwaukee 73 Houston 126, Portland 109 Minnesota 110, Philadelphia 86 Chicago at Utah, late Today’s Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Boston, 6 p.m.

Portland at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 7 4 .636 — Boston 6 5 .545 1 New York 5 7 .417 2 1/2 Brooklyn 4 7 .364 3 Philadelphia 2 10 .167 5 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 9 2 .818 — Charlotte 7 3 .700 1 1/2 Orlando 5 7 .417 4 1/2 Miami 3 8 .273 6 Washington 3 8 .273 6 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 9 2 .818 — Chicago 7 4 .636 2 Detroit 6 6 .500 3 1/2 Indiana 6 6 .500 3 1/2 Milwaukee 5 6 .455 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 9 3 .750 — Houston 7 5 .583 2 Memphis 6 5 .545 2 1/2 Dallas 2 8 .200 6 New Orleans 2 10 .167 7 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 7 5 .583 — Utah 7 5 .583 — Portland 7 6 .538 1/2 Denver 4 7 .364 2 1/2

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The Wild made the move Thursday with one of their top prospects, prior to their game against Boston. Eriksson Ek, who has two goals and three assists in nine games, will return to Farjestad BK in the Swedish Elite League.

WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Regina 18 15 0 3 0 104 57 33 Moose Jaw 20 12 4 4 0 74 68 28 Swift Current 22 11 6 2 3 72 69 27 Brandon 20 10 7 3 0 70 66 23 Saskatoon 22 9 12 1 0 56 80 19 Prince Albert 21 5 15 1 0 48 72 11 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Medicine Hat 20 14 5 1 0 96 63 29 Red Deer 22 10 9 2 1 74 88 23 Edmonton 20 8 10 2 0 54 69 18 Lethbridge 20 7 10 1 2 60 81 17 Calgary 17 7 8 2 0 38 61 16 Kootenay 21 4 12 4 1 49 86 13 Western Conference U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 21 15 2 4 0 69 41 34 Tri-City 22 14 7 1 0 83 74 29 Seattle 18 9 8 0 1 52 55 19 Spokane 19 7 7 4 1 55 69 19 Portland 21 9 12 0 0 79 73 18 B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 22 16 4 2 0 81 56 34 Victoria 22 12 8 2 0 73 62 26 Kamloops 23 12 10 1 0 73 59 25 Kelowna 21 11 10 0 0 64 71 22 Vancouver 22 10 12 0 0 70 74 20 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 Moose Jaw 5 Saskatoon 1 Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Prince George, 8 p.m.

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

Calgary at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Saskatoon at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Regina at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kamloops at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Regina at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Lethbridge at Portland, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Edmonton at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

THURSDAY’S SUMMARIES Warriors 5, Blades 1 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Burzan 6 (Gregor, Popugaev) 18:39.

Penalties — Odgers Mj, Hausinger Sas (major, major-fighting) 14:35.

Second Period 2. Moose Jaw, Burzan 7 (Popugaev, Sozanski) 1:40.

3. Moose Jaw, Gregor 8 (Burzan) 7:00.

4. Saskatoon, Sloboshan 3 (Graham) 7:23.

5. Moose Jaw, Halbgewachs 13 (Popugaev, Sozanski) 11:39 (pp).

Penalties — Wouters Sas, Wood Mj (major, major-fighting) 2:18 Moose Jaw bench (too many men, served by Burke) 3:29 MacKenzie Sas (slashing) 10:52 McCarty Sas (slashing) 12:19 Odgers Mj, Fantillo Sas (roughing) 15:32 Thrower Mj (hooking) 17:39.

Third Period 6. Moose Jaw, Gregor 9 (unassisted) 4:03 (sh).

Penalties — Popugaev Mj (high sticking) 2:07 Ramsay Sas (tripping) 9:10 Armstrong Mj (interference) 9:10 Zaitsev Mj (charging) 11:17.

Shots on goal by Moose Jaw 11 9 15 — 35 Saskatoon 15 8 10 — 33 Goal — Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (W, 7-1-3-0). Saskatoon: Hamm (L, 1-7-1-0).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 17 13 2 2 28 56 Tampa Bay 18 11 6 1 23 58 Ottawa 17 10 6 1 21 39 Boston 17 10 7 0 20 41 Toronto 17 8 6 3 19 56 Detroit 17 8 8 1 17 44 Florida 17 8 8 1 17 45 Buffalo 17 5 8 4 14 31 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 17 13 4 0 26 72 Washington 16 10 4 2 22 45 Pittsburgh 16 10 4 2 22 48 New Jersey 15 9 3 3 21 37 Philadelphia 18 8 7 3 19 62 Columbus 14 8 4 2 18 47 Carolina 15 5 6 4 14 39 N.Y. Islanders 16 5 8 3 13 40

Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg Minnesota Dallas Nashville Colorado Edmonton Anaheim

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF 17 11 4 2 24 54 18 9 6 3 21 44 19 9 8 2 20 56 16 9 6 1 19 42 18 7 6 5 19 48 16 7 6 3 17 46 16 7 9 0 14 33 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF 17 9 7 1 19 47 17 8 6 3 19 45

GA 38 46 42 39 58 47 48 45 GA 38 37 46 31 64 33 46 51

GA 43 50 55 29 59 44 45 GA 45 41

San Jose 17 9 8 0 18 39 39 Los Angeles 17 7 9 1 15 40 45 Calgary 18 7 10 1 15 42 60 Vancouver 17 6 10 1 13 35 55 Arizona 15 5 9 1 11 39 51 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, Buffalo 1 Philadelphia 5, Winnipeg 2 Toronto 6, Florida 1 Nashville 5, Ottawa 1 St. Louis 3, San Jose 2 Minnesota 1, Boston 0 Dallas 3, Colorado 2 New Jersey at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Detroit at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

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

Montreal at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

New Jersey at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Florida at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Boston, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Columbus at Washington, 10:30 a.m.

Winnipeg at Carolina, 3 p.m.

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

Calgary at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

THURSDAY’S SUMMARIES Colorado 2, Dallas 3 First Period 1. Dallas, Oduya 1 (Korpikoski) 8:15.

2. Dallas, Ritchie 4 (Shore, Jo.Benn) 10:19 (pp).

3. Dallas, Eaves 8 (Seguin, Spezza) 19:39 (pp).

Penalties — Zadorov Col (hooking) 8:49 Zadorov Col (holding) 12:46 McLeod Col (slashing) 19:14.

Second Period 4. Colorado, MacKinnon 3 (Martinsen) 12:06 (sh).

Penalties — Ja.Benn Dal (interference) 1:37 Dallas bench (too many men, served by Seguin) 7:46 Soderberg Col (goaltender interference) 7:57 Wiercioch Col (delay of game) 10:22.

Third Period 5. Colorado, Grigorenko 1 (MacKinnon, Greer) 1:51.

Penalties — Rantanen Col (high-sticking) 5:53 Zadorov Col (high-sticking) 17:53.

Shots on goal by Colorado 6 16 14 — 36 Dallas 6 10 6 — 22 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (L, 4-8-0). Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 4-4-3).

Tampa Bay 4, Buffalo 1 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Nesterov 2 (Filppula, Drouin) 8:15.

Penalties — Koekkoek TB (stick holding) 10:18 Sustr TB (interference) 13:44 Grant Buf (hooking) 17:05.

Second Period 2. Tampa Bay, Killorn 7 (Filppula, Point) 7:39 (pp).

3. Buffalo, Franson 1 (Kane, Fedun) 12:50 (pp).

4. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 9 (Killorn) 19:42.

Penalties — Okposo Buf (holding) 6:05 Point TB (hooking) 11:00 Larsson Buf, Hedman TB (roughing) 11:00.

Third Period 5. Tampa Bay, Point 2 (Johnson) 18:00 (pp).

Penalties — Sustr TB (tripping) 2:55 Garrison TB (high-sticking) 7:46 Franson Buf (delay of game) 16:59.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 11 16 11 — 38 Buffalo 15 10 8 — 33 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 7-5-0). Buffalo: Lehner (L, 4-7-2).

San Jose 2, St. Louis 3 First Period 1. San Jose, Couture 4 (Donskoi, Ward) 6:16.

2. St. Louis, Schwartz 5 (Pietrangelo) 10:38.

Penalties — Perron StL (hooking) 2:02 Jaskin StL (stick holding) 14:42.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Schwartz 6 (unassisted) 8:45.

4. San Jose, Labanc 1 (Thornton, Braun) 9:04.

5. St. Louis, Perron 5 (Stastny, Fabbri) 15:56 (pp).

Penalties — Schlemko SJ (cross-checking) 3:23 Bouwmeester StL (hooking) 11:52 Brodziak StL (high-sticking) 13:29 Boedker SJ (interference) 14:57 Vlasic SJ (holding) 20:00.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Fabbri StL (tripping) 6:07 Labanc SJ (interference) 11:16 Brodziak StL (delay of game) 19:04.

Shots on goal by San Jose 7 11 13 — 31 St. Louis 4 9 12 — 25 Goal — San Jose: Jones (L, 8-7-0). St. Louis: Allen (W, 7-3-3).

Boston 0, Minnesota 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Folin Minn (roughing) :56 Backes Bos (boarding) :56 Haula Minn (hooking) 5:28 Krejci Bos (interference) 11:36 Hayes Bos (roughing) 17:26.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Kuraly Bos (high-sticking) 3:08 Spurgeon Minn (high-sticking) 15:11.

Third Period 1. Minnesota, Granlund 4 (Brodin, Folin) 19:15.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Boston 9 8 8 — 25 Minnesota 9 12 8 — 29 Goal — Boston: Rask (L, 10-2-0). Minnesota: Dubnyk (W, 7-5-1).

Florida 1, Toronto 6 First Period

1. Toronto, Brown 2 (Rielly, Kadri) 5:55.

2. Florida, Ekblad 4 (McCann, Malgin) 10:21.

3. Toronto, Brown 3 (Komarov) 15:36.

4. Toronto, Marner 7 (van Riemsdyk) 17:03.

Penalties — Marner Tor (holding) 7:01 Malgin Fla (hooking) 11:04.

Second Period 5. Toronto, Komarov 3 (Brown, Kadri) 7:45.

6. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 8 (unassisted) 18:53.

Penalties — Ekblad Fla (interference) 8:36 Ekblad Fla (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:36 Kadri Tor (interference) 11:56 Ekblad Fla (interference) 19:11.

Third Period 7. Toronto, Gardiner 3 (Brown) 17:05.

Penalties — Polak Tor (tripping) 11:38 Gardiner Tor (interference) 14:58.

Shots on goal by Florida 7 9 11 — 27 Toronto 10 12 8 — 30 Goal — Florida: Reimer (L, 2-3-1). Toronto: Andersen (W, 8-4-3).

Winnipeg 2, Philadelphia 5 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Couturier 5 (Konecny) 9:13.

2. Philadelphia, Raffl 3 (Read, Gudas) 9:47.

Penalties — Konecny Pha (slashing) 4:31.

Second Period 3. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 1 (Petan, Dano) 6:57.

4. Philadelphia, Streit 4 (Provorov, Giroux) 12:58.

5. Winnipeg, Wheeler 6 (Ehlers, Scheifele) 17:19.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 6. Philadelphia, Simmonds 9 (MacDonald, Schenn) 5:46.

7. Philadelphia, Manning 3 (Gudas) 19:11 (en).

Penalties — Thorburn Wpg (interference) 15:22.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 9 12 11 — 32 Philadelphia 5 9 8 — 22 Goal — Winnipeg: Hellebuyck (L, 7-5-0). Philadelphia: Mason (W, 4-5-3).

Nashville 5, Ottawa 1 First Period 1. Nashville, Sissons 2 (Watson, Ekholm) 2:14.

2. Ottawa, Brassard 2 (Wideman, Stone) 8:36 (pp).

3. Nashville, Ellis 3 (Ribeiro, Forsberg) 15:34.

Penalties — Fisher Nash (double high-sticking) 5:42 Phaneuf Ott, Neal Nash (slashing) 19:02.

Second Period 4. Nashville, Aberg 1 (Fisher, Wilson) 17:10.

Penalties — Puempel Ott (hooking) 2:10 Johansen Nash (high-sticking) 6:37 Stone Ott (slashing) 8:37 Johansen Nash, Smith Ott (roughing) 9:22 Johansen Nash (high-sticking) 13:16 Smith Ott (double roughing, served by McCormick) 13:16 Forsberg Nash (tripping) 13:24 Neal Nash (hooking) 19:40.

Third Period 5. Nashville, Neal 8 (Subban, Johansen) 10:22.

6. Nashville, Ribeiro 2 (Subban, Smith) 14:36.

Penalties — Aberg Nash (hooking) 4:07 Borowiecki Ott (roughing) 12:35.

Shots on goal by Nashville 17 17 6 — 40 Ottawa 7 14 10 — 31 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (W, 6-4-3). Ottawa: Condon (L, 2-1-0).HKN-Sums-New-Jersey-Anaheim New Jersey 2, Anaheim 3 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Henrique NJ (cross-checking) 8:48.

Second Period 1. New Jersey, Smith-Pelly 2 (Quincey, Moore) 10:32.

2. New Jersey, Quincey 2 (Zacha, Henrique) 14:09.

3. Anaheim, Rakell 5 (Getzlaf) 17:24.

4. Anaheim, Silfverberg 6 (Cogliano, Holzer) 17:40.

Penalties — Bennett NJ (interference) :07 Lindholm Ana (interference) 5:20.

Third Period 5. Anaheim, Kesler 8 (Silfverberg, Manson) 16:20.

Penalties — Manson Ana (hooking) 4:35 Manson Ana (tripping) 16:31.

Shots on goal by New Jersey 8 9 12 — 29 Anaheim 8 9 6 — 23 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (L, 7-4-2). Anaheim: Bernier (W, 3-1-0).

Edmonton 2, Los Angeles 4 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Forbort 1 (Clifford, Shore) 5:09.

2. Los Angeles, Toffoli 5 (Carter, Martinez) 7:42.

Penalties — Sekera Edm (hooking) 5:38.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Nurse 3 (Draisaitl) 3:44.

4. Edmonton, Klefbom 1 (Nugent-Hopkins, Eberle) 8:32.

5. Los Angeles, Carter 6 (Toffoli) 9:06 (sh).

Penalties — Nolan LA (interference) 8:58 Maroon Edm, Nolan LA (fighting) 13:47 Larsson Edm (interference) 18:37.

Third Period 6. Los Angeles, Setoguchi 3 (Forbort, Dowd) 13:15.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 7 12 11 — 30 Los Angeles 10 6 9 — 25 Goal — Edmonton: Gustavsson (L, 1-1-0). Los Angeles: Budaj (W, 8-6-1).

Arizona 2, Vancouver 3 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Richardson Ariz (interference) 12:43.

Second Period 1. Arizona, Richardson 5 (Doan, Chychrun) 1:22.

2. Arizona, DeAngelo 2 (Hanzal, Domi) 10:45 (pp).

3. Vancouver, Sutter 4 (D.Sedin, Edler) 15:45.

4. Vancouver, D.Sedin 6 (Edler, H.Sedin) 17:58 (pp).

Penalties — Horvat Vcr (holding) 9:41 Stone Ariz (interference) 17:00 D.Sedin Vcr (delay of game) 19:35.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Overtime 5. Vancouver, Hutton 2 (unassisted) 2:34.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Arizona 11 16 7 2 — 36 Vancouver 13 14 13 2 — 42 Goal — Arizona: Domingue (L, 4-8-1). Vancouver: Markstrom (W, 5-3-1).

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FOOTBALL CFL PLAYOFFS Sunday’s results Division Semifinals East Division Edmonton (W4) 24 Hamilton (E1) 21 West Division B.C. (W2) 32 Winnipeg (W3) 31 Sunday, Nov. 20 Division Finals East Division Edmonton (W4) at Ottawa (E1), 11 a.m.

West Division B.C. (W2) at Calgary (W1), 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 2 0.778 241 163 Miami 5 4 0.556 204 206 Buffalo 4 5 0.444 237 203 N.Y. Jets 3 7 0.300 179 244 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 6 3 0.667 161 188 Tennessee 5 5 0.500 264 251 Indianapolis 4 5 0.444 239 256 Jacksonville 2 7 0.222 174 239 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 5 4 0.556 182 160 Pittsburgh 4 5 0.444 214 206

Cincinnati Cleveland

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1.389 187 210 0.000 175 301 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 7 2 0.778 205 168 Oakland 7 2 0.778 245 223 Denver 7 3 0.700 239 189 San Diego 4 6 0.400 292 278 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 8 1 0.889 258 170 N.Y. Giants 6 3 0.667 182 184 Washington 5 3 1.611 212 209 Philadelphia 5 4 0.556 226 160 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 6 4 0.600 320 283 Tampa Bay 4 5 0.444 216 242 New Orleans 4 6 0.400 285 286 Carolina 4 6 0.400 244 246 North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 5 4 0.556 205 206 Minnesota 5 4 0.556 175 152 Green Bay 4 5 0.444 223 234 Chicago 2 7 0.222 141 215 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 6 2 1.722 193 158 Arizona 4 4 1.500 202 160 Los Angeles 4 5 0.444 139 173 San Francisco1 8 0 .111 187 283 Thursday’s Games Carolina 23, New Orleans 20 Sunday’s Games

Baltimore at Dallas, 11 a.m.

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

Jacksonville at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

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

New England at San Francisco,2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Open: San Diego, Atlanta, Denver, N.Y. Jets Monday’s Games Houston at Oakland, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 24 Minnesota at Detroit, 10:30 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 27 San Diego at Houston, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Miami, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

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

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m.

Carolina at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 28 Green Bay at Philadelphia, 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 Semifinals (First Leg)

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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.

TRANSACTIONS HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Tyler Bertuzzi from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed F Darren Helm on long-term injured reserve.

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned C Joel Eriksson Ek to Farjestad BK (Swedish Elite).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned C Cristoval Nieves to Hartford (AHL).

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced F Tyrell Goulbourne was assigned to the team from Lehigh Valley (AHL). Placed D Jesper Pettersson on the 21-day injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 3. Placed F Matt Robertson on the ECHL reserve list.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Designated John Fisher as the control person of the Oakland Athletics and John Middleton as

the control person of the Philadelphia Phillies.

American League TEXAS RANGERS — Named Jack Hill senior vice-president, project development.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Ron Gardenhire bench coach, Tony Perezchica third base coach, Mike Fetters bullpen coach and Robby Hammock quality control and catching coach. Retained hitting coach Dave Magadan, pitching coach Mike Butcher, first base coach Dave McKay and coach/ interpreter Ariel Prieto.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Signed RHP Bartolo Colon to a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with RHP R.A. Dickey.

American Association SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released C Michael Pair.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Sold the contract of

RHP Johnny Hellweg to Cincinnati (NL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Tennessee OT Taylor Lewan $30,000 for making contact with an official during a Nov. 13 game against Green Bay. SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Acquired M Kristie Mewis and D Kassey Kallman and the No. 1 spot in the distribution ranking order from Boston for D Megan Oyster, the Number 3 and 9 overall picks in the 2017 NWSL college draft, and the No. 2 spot in the distribution ranking order.

COLLEGE LIBERTY — Announced the resignation of athletic director Jeff Barber.

UTSA — Named Christine Moeller associate athletics director for sport administration & student-athlete welfare.

Leafs spoil Reimer’s return to Toronto Leafs 6 Panthers 1 ORONTO — Connor Brown set a career-high with four points and Mitch Marner scored another impressive goal as the Toronto Maple Leafs spoiled James Reimer’s first start as an Air Canada Centre foe.

Brown scored two goals and added two assists in the 6-1 win over Reimer’s Florida Panthers (8-8-1). Leo Komarov, James van Riemsdyk and Jake Gardiner also added tallies in Toronto’s seventh victory in nine tries at home (7-2-0), Nazem Kadri chipping in with a pair of assists.

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stopped 26 shots, improving to 6-2-0 in November for Toronto (8-6-3).

Aaron Ekblad scored the lone goal for Florida, Reimer pegged for six goals on 30 shots in his first start in Toronto as a member of the opposition. A former fourth round pick of the Leafs, he played more than 200 games with the club over six seasons.

His former team got to him quick, popping three by in the opening frame, including a pair by Brown.

The 22-year-old Brown got his third career NHL goal when he deflected an innocent-looking Morgan Rielly point shot past a surprised Reimer nearly six minutes into the first.

The goal was initially ruled

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Calgary Flames left wing Johnny Gaudreau, left, collides with Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Los Angeles, Nov. 5.

off on account of a high stick, but was later overturned on video review.

After Ekblad evened the score at 1-1 with only his fourth point of the season (all goals), Brown scored again.

This time, he eluded a check along the boards by Ekblad, continued a hard drive down the right side of the ice and then flung a shot on goal as he avoided a diving Jason Demers. Brown crashed into the boards and popped up with a visor full of snow after the shot beat Reimer, who was taken aback by the goal once more.

Signed for five years and US$17 million this past summer, Reimer has been just OK with a 2-3-1 record in his first seven games with Florida.

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ALGARY — The Calgary Flames are preparing for life without talented left-winger Johnny Gaudreau for the next six weeks.

That was the message from Calgary general manager Brad Treliving on Thursday afternoon, as he met with the media upon his return from the league’s GM meetings in Toronto. Gaudreau suffered a broken finger in the third period of the Flames 1-0 win in Minnesota on Tuesday.

“They’re really happy with how everything went,” said Treliving about the operation where Gaudreau had some hardware was inserted into his finger. The surgery was performed in Vancouver on Wednesday by hand specialist Dr. Rod French.

Six weeks would put his return at Dec. 28, which would mean an absence of 20 games.

“Hopefully it’s shorter.

Everybody heals in different ways and different time frames,” said Treliving. “But when you’re talking about a broken bone and the procedure that’s been done, that’s sort of the time line that’s been done.”

What Treliving was most upset about is the quantity of slashes his star player has been taking lately, especially that night.

“The frustrating and disappointment from my standpoint was that this is not just a single act. There’s rules in the rulebook when you get whacked like he’s been getting whacked,” said Treliving.

“By our count, there were 11 chops on the guy that game.

OK, 2, 3, 4… I get it. But maybe at nine, we need to dial-it-in here a little bit.”

After a chop to his left hand earlier in the game that forced him to go to the dressing room to get a blood blister on a finger on his left hand drained, the crippling blow that broke the finger on his right hand came from Eric Staal, early in the third period.

“When you have a good player, there are tactics.

Whether you put more men on them, you try to be physical, you try to take away space, all the things that we know and talk about,” said Treliving.

“But when you chop a guy in the hand, there’s a rule that says you can’t do that.”

While he was in Toronto, Treliving said he met at length with Stephen Walkom, the league’s vice-president and director of officiating.

“Stephen was good. We walked through it and it’s a difficult one. These aren’t baseball swings. It’s hard and we get it. But it’s also losing a good player for a long time,” he said.

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ASHINGTON — NAFTA is out of date and needs to be brought into the 21st century, says one of the trade agreement’s original negotiators and most ardent champions, adding his voice to the explosion of commentary following the election of Donald Trump.

Mickey Kantor was the negotiator brought in by Bill Clinton to finalize the deal in 1993, when the then-rookie president promised to add side agreements on labour and the environment and appointed Kantor as his first U.S. trade czar.

He remains a huge booster of the pact — he says it has promoted economic growth in all three signatory countries, in addition to encouraging more harmonious relations between neighbours.

But don’t count him among all the people hand-wringing about changes to NAFTA. He says it and other agreements he reached in the 1990s were tailored to an economy that no longer exists, and require modernization.

“There was no Internet. There was no cloud. There was no problem with data transfer. We had a whole different world,” Kantor told a symposium organized this week by the libertarian Cato Institute.

“No agreement — certain none I ever negotiated — is perfect. They all need to be updated.”

Kantor said he’d advise a Trump administration to make that among its top priorities. Trump indeed has promised to renegotiate or scrap the treaty, which has caused some anxiety among U.S. neighbours who send the overwhelming majority of their ex-

ports to the U.S. Both Canada and Mexico have responded to the election result by saying they’d be willing to sit down for a discussion, prompting more debate about whether they’ve weakened their negotiating position with Trump.

Another trade veteran at the symposium wholeheartedly agreed with Kantor. Like Kantor, Susan Schwab was a U.S. trade representative, albeit with a Republican administration under George W. Bush.

“NAFTA is an ancient trade agreement. It’s hopelessly out of date.

That’s not to say it’s a bad agreement,” Schwab said. She saluted the Canadian government’s approach: “I thought that was a very, very clever response.”

A third former U.S. trade representative, Robert Zoellick, has suggested inviting the United Kingdom into NAFTA — especially as that country seeks new trade relationships in light of its vote to leave the European Union. There are pros and cons to talk of reopening NAFTA, said Canadian trade lawyer Mark Warner.

A more modern trade deal could indeed produce better standards for labour, the environment, state-owned enterprises, fighting corruption and resolving disputes, as adjusted in more recent agreements, Warner said.

It would also allow Canada to revisit the energy rule that forces it to sell a certain amount of oil to the U.S., potentially limiting its options with market diversification. In addition, he said Canada could seek more beneficial rules on government procurement and worker mobility.

Frustration with current mobility rules has been repeatedly voiced by Canadian officials. They would love to add new, digital-economy jobs to the

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NAFTA is out of date and needs to be brought into the 21st century, says Mickey Kantor, one of the trade agreement’s original negotiators and most ardent champions, adding his voice to the explosion of commentary following the election of Donald Trump. list of professions eligible for easy-access visas under NAFTA — an out-ofdate index almost completely devoid of references to computers.

One official said in a recent interview that multinational companies are now bedevilled by red tape when sending employees to do work in a branch across the border. “They can’t cross the border without getting hassled.”

But there’s also an obvious downside risk to opening this discussion, said Warner: the fear of opening up a Pandora’s box of complications.

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The agency tested its mortgage loan insurance and securitization businesses against several scenarios including different changes in the unemployment rate and home prices.

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They also looked at what would happen if a U.S. style housing correction occurred in Canada.

CMHC says the tests confirm that its capital holdings are sufficient.

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“The risk of opening NAFTA for negotiations is that the update can’t get limited to minor tweaks but spreads to traditional bilateral Canada-U.S. irritants like supply management (of dairy), softwood lumber, country of origin labeling for beef,” he said.

“If NAFTA talks failed, and President Trump terminated NAFTA, Canada might be able to rely on the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement but that would also likely need to be updated also and many of the same sticky issues would arise.”

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets edged higher Thursday as the U.S. Federal Reserve strongly hinted that an interest rate hike is likely to come in December.

Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen testified before Congress that signs of an improving U.S. economy has strengthened the case for a rate increase sooner rather than later.

She also noted that the risk of spurring a recession climbs if the central bank continues to wait to make a move and then is forced to raise rates too quickly later.

“This is a much stronger hint than ever given before,” said Peggy Bowie, a senior equity trader at Manulife Asset Management.

“Her guidance after that basically is, if they don’t make a move, I think she hinted that they could end up behind the curve. The near-term risk could be unbalanced and they would have to move faster.”

Investors have anticipated for months that the Fed would raise rates at its next two-day meeting starting Dec. 13, after the dust settles on the U.S. election results earlier this month.

It’s expected that it will be a small increase of a quarter of a percentage point, from the current range of 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent.

The central bank last made a move on rates a year ago in December. It had forecasted multiple rate hikes in 2016, but economic data showed weak growth, forcing it to pause its plans.

On Wall Street, stock markets reacted favourably, with bank stocks seeing a sharp rise. Higher interest rates bode well for financial institutions who will earn more profits on loans.

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 35.68 points at 18,903.82, while the S&P 500 advanced 10.18 points at 2,187.12.

Almost all of the S&P 500’s gains since the presidential election have gone

to financial stocks. They lagged the market for much of this year, but they’re now trading at their highest levels since May 2008, months before the financial crisis peaked.

Investors hope banks will benefit from higher interest rates, faster economic growth and lighter regulation under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

The Nasdaq composite jumped 39.39 points at 5,333.97.

In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite gained 92.87 points at 14,826.09, pushed higher as consumer discretionary and industrials stocks advanced.

Bowie said the industrials sector is still enjoying the optimism from Trump’s victory. One of Trump’s biggest promises has been that he will put money towards new, massive infrastructure projects.

In currencies, the Canadian dollar dipped 0.36 of a U.S. cent at 74.04 cents US, as oil tracked lower and the

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In commodities, the December crude oil contract declined 15 cents at US$45.42 per barrel, while the January contract, which traded at a higher volume, fell 12 cents at $45.98 per barrel.

The December gold contract lost $7 at US$1,216.90 per ounce and the December copper contract gained two cents at US$2.49 per pound. The December contract for natural gas fell six cents at US$2.70 per mmBTU. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Thursday at world financial market trading.

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Nasdaq — 5,333.97, up 39.39 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.04 cents US, down 0.36 of a cent Pound — C$1.6776, up 0.63 of a cent Euro — C$1.4349, down 0.10 of a cent Euro — US$1.0623, down 0.60 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.42 per barrel, down 15 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,216.90 per oz., down seven dollars (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.653 oz., down 8.6 cents $760.44 kg., down $2.77 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘17 $3.10 higher $515.70 March ‘17 $2.70 higher $522.30 May

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VICTORIA — A survey found nearly half of those questioned plan to make a career change in the next five years but many feel they’re not prepared.

The Ipsos survey, conducted for Royal Roads University in Victoria, found 45 per cent of the more than one-thousand employed people questioned are eyeing a new career.

The survey found that 29 per

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cent of those asked don’t feel their current skill set leaves them ready for a new line of work.

An overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they recognize the importance of life-long learning, but 61 per cent said they don’t anticipate furthering their education to upgrade skills.

The survey also found a significant portion of those questioned are worried about losing their jobs due to a downturn in the economy, with the greatest level of concern in Alberta.

Ipsos questioned 1,004 people for the survey last month. It’s considered accurate to within 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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JAPAN: Off-trail skiing forbidden Ten buddies and I have come from all over the United States to Akakura Onsen, a village in the highlands surrounding the city of Myoko, in late January, hoping to tap a powder spigot renowned among committed skiers. In a normal winter, cold fronts pulse down from Siberia, suck moisture off the Sea of Japan and spiral ashore, dumping up to 16.5 metres of snow per season on the mountains here on Honshu and the northern island of Hokkaido.

This meteorological blitzkrieg is most active from December through February, a pattern that has spawned the noun “Japanuary” among powder chasers worldwide.

Alas, this isn’t a normal winter in Myoko, something we will hear often this week. From my home in Washington, I watch with increasing gloom as front after promising front fizzles offshore or rockets up to Hokkaido.

The Myoko area, according to a forecast blog I am following, is having its driest winter in memory.

But hope — especially when cornered by nonrefundable reservations — springs eternal, and the dry spell breaks the night we arrive. After a partly cloudy shuttle ride from Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, we take an exit for Akakura and smack straight into winter.

Snow falls in wind-driven sheets, blanketing the road and the surrounding forests of oak, maple, beech and aspen trees. In the village, revellers and couples backlit by neon signs stroll a snow-quilted main drag of bars, restaurants and stores. The storm, one of two we will get during the week, comes too late to rescue this hobbled season, but to us it feels like a welcome parade.

We find our way to the Morino Lodge, a three-storey, Australian-owned hotel. The entire first floor is open-flow communal space, with couches, bookshelves, dining tables and a small bar manned by a lanky, bearded Scot named Paul. In the glow of Japanese microbrew, with the powder factory churning away

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Skiers and snowboarders take a lunch break at the lodge atop Charmant Hiuchi, a two-lift ski area near Itoigawa, Japan.

Ramen adorned with fresh vegetables, meat and seafood is a staple on lunch menus throughout Japan’s ski country. outside, I feel the haze of 22 hours of travel start to lift. “Yoga at 6, bre-aykfast at 7,” Paul says as he taps out for the night.

In the morning, we watch the continuing snow through big picture windows as waves of pancakes, eggs, bacon, oatmeal and fruit stream out of the kitchen. We suit up and walk five minutes to the closest ski hill, also named Akakura Onsen, where our lodge manager’s crystal-clear direction — buy ticket here, ride this lift, then transfer to this one — smashes into an impenetrable language barrier. With two adjacent resorts, we don’t know if we want a pass for one, the other, or both. Do we buy the lunch-included ticket, or is that a marketing gimmick? Where, exactly, are the most coveted powder stashes?

Eventually, the smiling ladies at the ticket counter take a pile of yen from us, slide 11 tickets across the counter and gesture us toward the slopes. After riding one lift over dead-flat ground and another up a bunny slope, we solve the map and make our way to the top of the interconnected Akakura Kanko resort, where the new snow is more than a foot deep and still accumulating.

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gathered in minor force on the mountain, sticking mainly to the center of the marked runs. That leaves ample lanes of powder on the margins, and we spend the morning feasting on the new snow, bumping farther into the woods with each run.

Akakura, like most Japanese resorts, forbids off-trail skiing, a rule that many foreigners ignore. As the storm peters out, I notice that we are sharing the trees with a broadening multicultural group. Someone else notices too: I emerge from the aspens after yet one more powder bash to see a strategically positioned ski patroller motioning me into a circle of worried-looking dudes. He points to my lift pass and, without a spoken word, adds it to a stack in his hand.

As we plead our cases in our native tongues, the patroller shakes his head and points up at the trees with a clear message: off limits. Just as we’re all giving up and starting to shuffle away, he calls us back and redistributes the seized passes.

I meet my friends for lunch in a small mid-mountain restaurant, where we are challenged to order and pay for the food at a wall-mounted machine — with photos and prices but no English instructions — before stepping around the corner to receive our steaming bowls of noodles

and tempura from a more-familiar cafeteria line of humans.

The tech-assisted ordering is a rare nod to Japanese efficiency in the country’s ski industry, most of which is stuck in the 1980s, and not intentionally.

“When something gets hot in Japan, everyone — and I mean everyone — does it,” says Bill Glude, an affable Alaskan who has been a ski guide in Japan since 2004. “That was skiing in the 1980s,” a decade when the country’s economy was on fire.

“They built up all this infrastructure to support the obsession. Then the economy crashed and people just stopped skiing.”

Some resorts shut down. Others limped along in bankruptcy protection, which left little cash for on-mountain improvements. As a result there are few high-speed lifts in Japan, and some areas, including Seki, feature what are affectionately known as “pizza box” lifts — single-seat chairs with only the suggestion of a backrest. There are exceptions to this throwback vibe, notably at the bigger resorts on Hokkaido and in the Hakuba area, a two-hour drive south of Myoko.

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FROM PAGE 30 The lack of new investment is most evident in the layout of the resorts. Too many lifts terminate just below the most alluring terrain, and I continually catch myself gazing up at chutes, glades and bowls, willing a chairlift to appear.

We find the best pitches at a burly mountain called Madarao, where 15 lifts serve 30 runs on a vertical drop of 1,500 feet, including numerous glades and a few shots of steep trees.

I can see how this would be a powder hound’s paradise in a normal year, but we make the best of it by finding scraps of unsullied snow in the woods before turning to soft moguls and long, ripping groomers.

The drought, thankfully, has not impacted the food supply. We hit a different restaurant every night, most decorated in an odd mix of traditional art, yellowing ski photos and trail maps. Each is a restorative adventure, including udon noodles in black squid ink, kimchi ramen, traditional Japanese oden and, at Sushi Takasago, buttery cuts of fish and hot sake delivered by an ever-smiling matron.

As we are leaving, she and her husband, who is cleaning up the sushi bar beneath a glass-cased display of 29 large, gleaming fishhooks, hands us slices of the sweetest, crispiest

IF YOU GO WHERE TO STAY Morino Lodge Myoko 585-23 Akakura, Myoko 011-81-261-85-9098 morinolodge.com/lodges-chalets/morino-lodge-myoko This bright, three-storey hotel features a ski-snowboard room, separate gear-drying room and spa-like onsen. It is a five-minute walk from the Akakura Onsen ski area and village centre. The lodge has a small bar, includes a full Western-style breakfast with stays and, at least once a week, serves dinner onsite. Staffers are often available to shuttle guests to nearby resorts. Double rooms from around $155.

Kougakuro 115 Akakura, Myoko 011-81-255-87-2036 myoko-kougakuro.jp/english A delightful, Japanese-style hotel with English-speaking staff, spacious rooms, indoor-outdoor onsen, buffet breakfast and small bar. A three-minute walk to the slopes of Akakura Onsen. Rooms from $88.

WHERE TO EAT Takasago Sushi 721-1 Sekikawa, Myoko 011-81-255-86-3052 A small, family-run restaurant in a residential neighbourhood, featuring the best

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www. r e d d e e r a d vo c a t e . c om apple I have ever tasted. Upon realizing that half our group has already departed, the owners insist we wait while they slice up more, which they bag for us to take back to our crew.

On our second day, we hire Glude and his apprentice, Mitsui, a cheerful, snowboarding son of a salaryman from Osaka, to lead us on a two-hour backcountry tour from the top of Akakura Kanko.

The same design flaw that frustrated me inbounds at the resorts makes Japan a backcountry skier’s dream, with lifts doing half the work and leaving the choicest labour — as well as views and powder shots — to those with the quads, lungs and time to march up the mountains. Many foreigners come here more for the hiketo terrain than the inbounds runs.

We zigzag through a forest of burly beech trees called bunas, which yields to an open ridge cloaked in mist.

Atop a wind-scoured peak, we look down a delightfully steep pitch of untrammeled snow falling away to the north.

“In a normal year … ” Glude sighs, and he doesn’t need to finish the sentence. We’ll be skiing back the way we came. In the United States, thin snow cover means hitting rocks.

Here, it means risking a face plant by sasa vine, a bamboo derivative that grows in tangled loops and is infamous for snaring skiers. Even with

the dicey conditions, we get a whisper of how good it can be, surfing a feathery quilt through the buna trees and back to the resort.

The following day we reap a richer reward. With Glude and Mitsui we drive an hour southwest from Akakura to a one-lift resort where we find fewer than 10 other people skiing the place. From the summit we can see the dark blue horizon of the Sea of Japan. The powder that fell three days ago is undisturbed, as Glude knew it would be because the resort had been closed throughout the weekend due to high winds.

After a ramen break in a log cabin at the top of the lift, where a vintage 1980s Pioneer stereo system idles in a corner – a totem to a bygone era in

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Japan – Glude and Mitsui lead us on a short backcountry tour to one of the best views in Japan: an alpine mosaic of peaks and valleys, contours and ridges, snow, rock, trees and more snow, culminating in the smoking cone of a volcano five miles away.

On the drive back, we stop for photos of a distant Mount Myoko when movements in the woods draw our attention: snow monkeys. Two, three and suddenly dozens skitter up and down trees, swinging from branches, cautiously checking us out before darting off.

Seeing these guys in the wild wasn’t on my list, but I retroactively add it — one less thing to check off when I return during a normal winter.

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WHAT TO DO Skiing Akakura Onsen and Akakura Kanko rise right from the village, and Suginohara and Ikenotaira are short bus or shuttle rides away. Seki Onsen, for example, is a 25-minute drive from Akakura village.

Of these, Suginohara offers the greatest vertical drop – 3,600 feet – and the longest run in Japan, a five-mile serpentine descent. It also has the most interesting on-mountain dining, a row of small wooden and houselike restaurants serving ramen, seafood, meats, and fresh salads.

A one-day lift ticket to access both Akakura Onsen and Kanko costs $44, and single-day tickets to the other resorts are similarly priced. Free shuttle buses run between Akakura Onsen/Kanko, Ikenotaira and Suginohara. For more information, visit myoko-nagano.com/access/myoko_transport.

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Running with Rhyno

Running through the tears Learn to love hills.

They will make you stronger.

Do not give up.

It will make you tougher.

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n this day, on top of a mountain, curled up in Crystal a ball, these motivationRhyno al mantras did not do the trick.

Tears are flowing down my cheeks.

I’m hugging my knees as I try to keep it together.

My training pal, Rachel Crocker is sprawled over the edge trying to capture the perfect valley photo. She’s doing a bang up job at ignoring my moaning and groaning. (Note to self: this is one quality you want in a friend.)

That morning we met at the West Bragg Creek parking lot to climb Moose Mountain. Return, it’s about 30K. We have ran/hiked/crawled

countless times. We’ve been up the trail so many times that we could do it blindfolded.

The last time I was in Kananaskis had to be before I ran Lost Soul in September, so it had been a couple of months. That realization didn’t come until we were about a quarter into our run.

Man, I had been lazy.

I haven’t been running long distances or on any trails with significant inclines for nearly two months. Not to mention, I have been choosing a book over a run on weekend day mornings.

That lazy combination does not lend itself to someone driving two hours to run/hike 30K up and down a mountain on a random day in November.

Something likely will go wrong and it will definitely hurt.

Every good runner knows that consistency is the key to creating successful running (and most) habits. The more you do it, the better it gets.

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wagon, you have to get back up again and (often) start from square one.

Recently I wrote about the postrun blues, and I am well on my way to getting back on track.

Some days I run 5K. Other days I run 8K around my neighbourhood.

I have no plan.

The randomness of my runs makes me happy.

So why did I start crying near the top of a mountain on a beautiful, somewhat chilly, day in November?

I have cried at the finish line before (the Death Race or Lost Soul comes to mind), but never in the middle of a training run.

Honestly I have no clue what opened up the floodgates. Sure my

right hip and leg were hurting as heck but it wasn’t that painful.

It only lasted long enough for Rachel to take four selfies. Shortly after I resumed my regular “let’s get it done” attitude.

Now thinking about the experience I wonder how does running or exercise bring up those feelings or emotions. Was it a runner’s high? (No because I was slowly hiking.)

Perhaps I was simply overwhelmed with running-induced clarity or it was the sheer beauty of my surroundings.

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FITNESS

Gift ideas for gym rats

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ecause golf balls and yoga mats are so predictable.

From spinners to CrossFitters and all the barre lovers in between, here’s a look at 10 gift ideas to keep every sweaty body in your life moving and motivated.

STOCKING STUFFERS Exo protein bars: The latest ‘it’ bars will hit every picky dieter on your list. Exo bars are gluten-, soyand dairy-free, offering 10 grams of protein per bar from cricket flour.

Yep, as in insects. The company says crickets are full of zinc, iron and calcium to help power you through a spin class. They’re sweetened with natural sugars like dates and come in flavours like peanut butter and jelly and banana bread. $3 per bar or $36 for 12pack TAva DVD: Celebrity to the stars Tracy Anderson’s newest DVD feels more like a dance party than a workout. Expect some serious booty shaking since the cardio routine was inspired by her sessions training Jennifer Lopez. $19.99 YOGA AND BARRE LOVERS Online barre class: Former New York City Ballet dancer Mary Helen Bowers trained Natalie Portman for her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan.

Now the founder of the Ballet Beautiful workout streams classes online for those who can’t work out alongside her.

Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid and Karlie Kloss are all regulars. Try the Ultimate Supermodel Workout. $12.99 Warm-up hoodie: Spiritual Gangster’s hip athleisure line offers a new kind of street cred. This cozy “love is the answer” hoodie will keep your

warm post savasana. Sizes tend to run a bit small. $78 CROSS TRAINERS/RUNNERS Jabra Elite Sport: Whether they’re into boxing, jump-roping or onearmed handstands, every gym rat is looking for one thing.

Wireless headphones that will stay put despite serious sweat and movement.

Two microphones in each bud help filter out background noise for up to three hours. Works with Android or Apple iOS. $249.99 Nike LunarEpic Flyknit Shield: Ice, snow and mud are no problem for Nike’s most popular running shoe which now features a water-repellent bootie to keep feet warm and dry. The cool kicks are also safety conscious with reflective details on the heel and laces as well as multi-surface traction. $200 WORKOUT RECOVERY “Taller, Slimmer, Younger: 21 days to a Foam Roller Physique” and travel foam roller: Learn to improve posture ailed by too much time slumped over the computer. Lauren Roxburgh’s method is a great balance to high-intensity workouts that focuses on alignment.

The mini foam roller’s raised circular bumps aid in lymphatic drainage and decreasing inflammation.

Book $13.95. Travel roller $14.95 Power Dust: Gwyneth Paltrow says she puts Moon Juice dusts in her daily protein shakes.

The power dust includes Chinese herbs like rhodiola, astragalus and eleuthero that the company says helps sore muscles recover and reduce inflammation. Use it to heal from a heavy lifting session or find stamina for the next one. $30

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HEALTH

‘More common than asthma’

HIGH RATES OF MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG MANITOBA KIDS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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INNIPEG — A new study suggests the rate of mental illness among Manitoba children is almost double the national average, and even higher in Winnipeg’s inner-city neighbourhoods and the province’s north.

About one in seven Manitoba kids between the ages of six and 19 were diagnosed with a mental disorder by a physician between 2009 and 2013, the study by health sciences researchers at the University of Manitoba said.

Among teens, the rates of suicide, substance-use disorders and psychotic disorders followed a similar pattern — exponentially higher in the north and the adjacent downtown and Point Douglas neighbourhoods in Winnipeg than in other parts of the province.

“Mental health problems in children are more common than asthma or diabetes,” lead researcher Mariette Chartier, an assistant professor in the department of community health sciences, said in a release Thursday.

The actual rates could be higher because the study only counted kids seen by a physician and not those treated by a psychologist, school counsellor or other health care professional, the authors said.

The report found the common link is poverty. A poor family can be under financial and emotional stress, live in inadequate housing and have a hard time getting nutritious food.

“Our study doesn’t give us a simple answer, but we know that social issues like poverty and poor housing have a huge impact on children’s mental health.”

The findings came as no surprise to Sel Burrows, an inner-city activist in Winnipeg. He said many problems start with poor housing conditions, and a lack of affordable recreation programs.

“In much of the inner city, you’ve got … kids left living in substandard, cold housing. Of course they get depressed,” Burrows said.

Social agencies should focus more on preventative measures — keeping kids busy with sports, and helping troubled families when kids when they start missing school — rather than reacting to a crisis, he added.

The report calls on governments to increase mental health services, particularly in low-income areas and at earlier stages of a child’s development.

“Our longitudinal findings show that mental disorders are associated with children’s development before they start school, particularly in high-risk family environments with greater social and economic needs,” the report stated.

“This reinforces the need for a considerable, concerted and cross-sectoral shift to prevent mental illness before it starts, by tackling its root causes in early childhood across multiple systems and sectors.”

Premier Brian Pallister said Thursday his government recognizes the link between low incomes and mental health issues.

“We see the problem, and we recognize it as a severe and very real one. Beyond that, we’ll get into the details in the not-too-distant future.”

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Development Officer Approvals On November 15, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Laredo 1. Falcon Homes Ltd. ñ a 2.32 m variance to the minimum rear yard, to an existing detached dwelling, located at 6 Locke Place.

Discretionary Use Bower 2. Keryluke, N. ñ a home-based personal training business, within an existing detached dwelling, to be located at 295 Barrett Drive.

Southpointe Common 3. National Neon ñ a 0.18 m2 variance to the maximum area of the dynamic portion of a proposed Free Standing Sign, to be located at 1100 & 1110-5001 19 Street.

A Discretionary Use decision may be appealed to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 2, 2016. A Permitted Use decision may not be appealed unless it involves a variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

PUBLIC NOTICE THE CITY OF RED DEER WATER ACT NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is given that The City of Red Deer has filed an application under the provisions of the Water Act for a Master Drainage Plan approval. The Master Drainage Plan will allow the city to manage storm water management systems within the area north of HWY 11A, east of HWY 2, south of the Blindman River and west of the Red Deer River. The area in question is outlined on the related map and includes lands within: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 14, 15, 16 of TWP 39 RGE 27 W4M Sections 6, 7, 18 of TWP 39 RGE 26 W4M Any person who is directly affected by the application may submit a statement of concern to Environment and Parks Regulatory Approvals Centre 5th Floor, South Petroleum Plaza 9915 108 Street EDMONTON AB T5K2G8 Phone: 780-427-6311 Fax: 780-422-0154 Email: esrd.waapplications@gov.ab.ca Within 30 days of providing this notice.

The written statement of concern should include the following: • The application number: 001-00381629 • Describe concerns that are relevant to matters regulated by the Water Act. • Explain how the filer of the concern will be directly affected by the activity and/or diversion of water proposed in the application.

• Provide the legal land location of the land owned or used by the filer where the concerns described or believed to

Road Closure Announcement Red Deer Lights the Night Saturday, November 19, 2016 The following roads will be closed this Saturday, November 19th to accommodate the staging of the Red Deer Lights the Night event.

Ross Street from 48 to 49 Avenue from 8:30am-9:30pm Watch for signage stating ìNo Parkingî as there will be parking bans that will remain in effect until after the event.

Please watch for detour signs and use alternative routes as indicated. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238.

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• State the distance between the lands owned or used by the filer and the site in the application.

• Contact information including the full name and mailing address of the filer. Please provide the phone number and/ or email address for ease of contact.

Environment and Parks will review each written statement of concern, seek more information if needed and notify each filer by letter of the decision to accept or reject their written submission as a valid stamen of concern.

Please quote file number: 00381629 Further information regarding this project can be obtained from: The City of Red Deer James Beck, P. Eng. Box 5008, Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 Phone: 403-309-8580 Email: james.beck@reddeer.ca Statements filed regarding this application are public records which are accessible by the public. Statements should explain why the filer is directly affected and provide the full printed name, phone number and/or email address, postal address and legal land location of the filer.

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FASHION

Michelle Obama’s Vogue cover is more celebrity glamour than pearl-waving first lady

BY ROBIN GIVHAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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he December issue of Vogue arrives with first lady Michelle Obama on its cover wearing a slinky white Carolina Herrera gown. It is sleeveless.

Her hair is swept back and flowing.

Her makeup is perfectly natural. She is wearing a magnificent sparkly ring and a pair of Monique Péan earrings.

The backdrop offers no hint of the White House, the nation’s capital or the ornate stateliness that has long attached to the occupant of the East Wing. The portrait exudes the sort of casual glamour in which Vogue specializes, but that is not typically associated with first ladies.

If there is any takeaway from the images by photographer Annie Leibovitz, it is that Obama is offering up a version of herself to the public that is separate and distinct from the role she has filled for nearly eight years.

The message is not brusque or without nostalgia and gratitude. But she is done. Finished. Free.

The accompanying article, which was reported by Jonathan Van Meter over the course of several months, is a review of her time in the White House.

A victory lap. It highlights Obama’s work with students, her garden and her focus on the nation’s veterans.

Van Meter was there when she surprised students at Howard University and co-hosted Ellen. And he takes the readers along as he moves from roomto-room in the White House, chatting with her staff and noshing on hummus and crudites. He gazes at the portraits of previous first ladies and muses on their legacy. There is even a moment when he wonders where a portrait of Bill Clinton – as a first gentleman to a president Hillary Clinton – might hang.

“Presumably, should Hillary prevail (this story went to press just prior to the election), Bill Clinton’s portraits will eventually hang in the White House in two places: upstairs on the State Floor, as president, and a new one that will replace Mrs. Obama’s, which will move down the line, further into history,” Van Meter writes. “And who will Michelle Obama be then?”

Critics jab ‘safety pin’ campaign amid Trump presidency fear PHILADELPHIA — A “safety pin movement” post-Brexit offering solidarity to those who fear they’ll be disenfranchised by a Donald Trump presidency is getting jabbed on social media by those who say it’s no substitute for action.

The campaign originally was launched by an American living in London amid reports of hate crimes

What will she do? The first lady doesn’t answer that question. (Valerie Jarrett assures him that Obama will not be running for political office.) “I will take the same approach leaving as I did coming in,” Obama says. “I won’t know until I’m there. I’ve never been the former first lady of the United States of America before.

“But I will always be engaged in some way in public service and public life,” she adds.

The photographs make plain that Obama is moving on from the rigors, the expectations and the limitations of the White House. Obama is photographed mostly in Atelier Versace, rather than American designers, which is more typical. And while she is standing or seated in various corners and porticoes of the White House, the background is more graphic than iconic. Her hair is tousled – a little messy, even. And in one portrait, she is wearing a black Atelier Versace dress and matching jacket with a belt cinched neatly around her waist. Her legs are bare and her black pumps are by Jimmy Choo. She’s seated on a stone staircase with her hands resting against her hips, and her head is thrown back as she leans against the steps. It is a posed look of quiet meditation, one with which regular readers of glossy magazines are familiar.

It is part of the canon of sexy. Not in a plunging evening gown, pinup way, but more: “I might take him on a flight on my chopper, I slay.”

It is impossible to imagine Obama sitting for a portrait and arching her back and looking toward the sky during the early years of the Obama administration. Indeed, one of the first images of her in Vogue had her styled in a manner that recalled Jackie Kennedy – curled alongside her husband and her children, a strand of pearls around her neck. The then-senator’s wife had even nixed a mussed hairstyle, saying that it made her look as if she’d just gotten out of bed.

Whether in Vogue or elsewhere, her early pictures were more formal, regal or homey. They seemed aimed at reassuring an audience that she could fit into their preconceived notions about how a first lady should look, even if she happened to be African American. in the United Kingdom following that country’s vote in June to leave the European Union. The pin was intended to show that the wearer is a safe person to turn to. Now the pin has gained popularity in the U.S. following Trump’s election, with some people joining in on social media, posting pictures of themselves.

On Instagram on Monday, Johanna Dickson, 33, posted a selfie with a pin on her shirt. “I chose to be an ally and not be silent,” she wrote.

But she also reminded people that wearing a pin isn’t enough, and she said she plans to make monthly

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The December cover of Vogue magazine features first lady Michelle Obama.

As Obama settled into the White House, her approach to fashion was more contemporary than her predecessors, and she brought her individuality and personality to her tenure as first lady. But she kept her promise of being a caretaker of the position’s traditions. She transformed the look and feel of the role, but not the essence of it, no matter how murky that essence might be. Her successor will be freer to be more of herself rather

than a two-dimensional visitor’s guide version of it – if that is her choice.

These photographs speak to an exit strategy. They serve as a bridge between the symbol Obama has been and the woman she will become.

Obama is a celebrity. Charismatic and influential. Other portraits have tended to put that fame in the context of politics, Washington or first ladies.

These pictures remove all those modifiers.

donations to groups such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union.

blouses in her first appearances to her later life. It’s the first palace exhibition in a decade to focus solely on the princess. Included are celebrated outfits, featuring evening gowns worn on engagements in the 1980s and Catherine Walker suits of her “working wardrobe” in the 1990s.

It will also include Victor Edelstein’s ink blue velvet gown, which Diana wore as she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985.

Curator Eleri Lynn says every fashion choice Diana made was scrutinized and the exhibition shows how she quickly learned the rules.

New exhibition celebrates the style of Princess Diana LONDON — Kensington Palace says a new exhibition tracing the evolution of the late Princess Diana’s style is set to open in February.

The palace said Tuesday that the exhibition, “Diana: Her Fashion Story,” will follow from the ruffled

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Anna Kendrick arrives at the 23rd annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles. Kendrick released a book, ‘Scrappy Little Nobody’ with anecdotes and musings from her life.

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EW YORK — After a recent signing session to promote her new book, Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick joked about having a hand cramp.

“It’s going to be OK. It’s going to release from its claw-like shape any second,” she joked by phone.

It’s that kind of sharp wit and self-deprecating humour that Kendrick is known for, especially on social media and in interviews, which she swears she’s not good at.

Kendrick, 31, describes in her book how a number of female celebrities have launched a campaign called .AskHerMore to be asked smarter questions on red carpets, rather than just what they’re wearing. Kendrick writes she wishes journalists would instead “ask her less” because she finds the situation to be so awkward.

The Oscar-nominee for the 2009 film Up in the Air, shares anecdotes and musings from her life thus far in the new book. She told The Associated Press what she learned from writing it and how Hollywood compares to Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. AP: You recently wrote on social media that you felt conflicted about launching a book tour right after the presidential election. How are you feeling a week later?

Kendrick: I feel better about it and I felt immediately better even the day after the election.

I felt better knowing I wasn’t doing a traditional media tour. I’m interacting with groups of people who want to come out and hang out with me, but you know that it wasn’t like a press junket where we’re all just going through the motions and doing our jobs… It made me feel like it was maybe about connection and that’s probably a really good thing.

AP: Did you learn anything about yourself while writing this book?

Kendrick: I think the thing that surprised me was when I tried to write about money and growing up with two working parents who sometimes struggled … it kind of spiraled. I was like, ‘Oh, maybe this is something I should work on and maybe not do it in a book for other people.’ I just realized, ‘I have these issues around money and I should probably get over it.’ There are bigger fish to fry in the world than me having money issues because of growing up with a very — in the grand scheme of things — a very privileged situation, but letting those insecurities eat at me in spite of the fact that I grew up white, middle class. I really just need to get over it and that was

definitely really interesting. It wouldn’t have been something that I assumed I would have to work on.

AP: You really seem to have managed to stay grounded through fame. Why do you think that is?

Kendrick: I’m me all the time. It’s like a less depressing version of The Bell Jar. You’re still you, wherever you go. It would be really tricky to try to normalize it and to feel like (fame) is all natural…

In fact, trying to do that made me a little bonkers for a while. I’m very happy I’m allowed to be goofy and off-centre.

AP: And being an insider in Hollywood, do you find most people are pretty normal?

Kendrick: I think everybody’s a little more normal than when they’re doing their red carpet face, but I have met a handful of people who seem to always be in red carpet face. Maybe that’s always who they were? Maybe if they were working in a toll booth they’d be living in their really glamorous Bell Jar?

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ORONTO — Matthew Good knows a good opportunity when he sees it.

And one was staring right at him when a reissue of Beautiful Midnight, his band’s 1999 smash album, climbed to the top of the Canadian vinyl chart in January.

Nearly 17 years after its release — and with more than 300,000 copies sold across Canada — there was still a thirst for the Matthew Good Band’s Juno-winning album.

So Good, 45, returned to the studio to reimagine several of his favourite songs, which culminated in the five-track EP I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited, available Dec. 2.

An accompanying tour starts in February with 28 dates at smaller venues than Good usually plays, offering fans a more intimate experience.

“I won’t lie, it was just a promotional thing,” Good says of the new EP.

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Matthew Good poses in this undated handout photo. Matthew Good knows a good opportunity when he sees it. And one was staring right at him when a reissue of ‘Beautiful Midnight,’ his band’s 1999 smash album, climbed to the top of the Canadian vinyl chart in January.

“If I could be selling fridges that say Beautiful Midnight on the side I’d do it. It’s how I make my living.”

Aside from the commercial prospects, Good is stoked to revisit an album that delivered hits like Load Me Up, Strange Days, The Future is X-Rated and Hello Time Bomb.

But he’s not pandering to the charts. Rather than choose only hits, Good picked songs he thought

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could be improved or reworked to reflect “greater maturity” and more technical restraint.

“You’re not buzzing around the board (trying to) make it bigger,” he says. “You have a more temperate outlook. They’ve been dramatically changed but, in my opinion, for the better.”

Highlights include an unsettling version of I Miss the New Wave that puts a stronger focus on the guitars and a startlingly different take on Load Me Up, which is slowed down so much that it will be unrecognizable to some.

Good especially likes the new version of Born to Kill, which he thinks is better than the original.

Coming back to Beautiful Midnight after so many years offered a chance to reflect on a painful stretch of time in Good’s life.

As the album was enjoying chart success around the time of its release in September 1999, Good was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that can lead to lung lesions and eye inflammation. He required throat surgery in early 2000.

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“You’re a part of one of the biggest renaissances in Canadian music history, at the time, and (I’m) dealing with having this inferiority complex thrust upon me.”

An interview with Seventeen magazine in Manhattan went particularly sour.

“I had two young girls interviewing me who looked like the Stepford Wives,” Good says.

They asked him to reflect on his first kiss, a question that made him snap. Within a few minutes he’d dragged them through the explicit tale of the night his drunken teenage self got hot and heavy with a girl he knew.

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This might be the ultimate do-ityourself project: Doctors are testing a device that would let women do part of their own breast reconstruction at home.

It’s aimed at not only making treatment more comfortable and convenient, but also giving women a sense of control — something cancer often takes away.

More than 100,000 women each year in the United States have surgery to remove a cancerous breast, and many of them choose reconstruction with an implant. To make room for a permanent one, many of them get a tissue expander, a temporary pouch that is gradually enlarged with saline to stretch the remaining skin and muscle. This means trips to the doctor every week or two for several months for injections of saline into the pouch, which can be a painful ordeal.

“We would put as much saline as we could until basically the patient would say, ‘I can’t stand it anymore,’ ”said Dr. Daniel Jacobs, a Kaiser Permanente plastic surgeon in San Jose, California.

While biking home one day, Jacobs had an idea: Why couldn’t a tiny can of compressed gas, like the one he carries to fix a flat tire, be used to let women inflate their own tissue expanders, a little each day so there is less stretching at a time and less pain?

He helped found a company — AirXpanders Inc. of Palo Alto, California — to develop the device, called AeroForm. It’s sold in Australia, approved in Europe and under review

by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its use requires no special training, wires or tubes — just a palmsized remote control that activates a tiny cartridge inside the pouch to pump gas, up to three times a day according to how the woman feels.

In a company-sponsored study of 150 women, AeroForm patients finished tissue expansion in half the time and were able to get implants a month sooner than others who had the usual saline treatments, said the study leader, Dr. Jeffrey Ascherman, a plastic surgeon at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center in New York.

“My patients love it,” he said.

When some women who agreed to be in the study learned they had been assigned to get the saline device for comparison, “I had one who started crying, and other women said, ‘please Dr. Ascherman, can’t you change it?’ ” he said.

There was no difference in rates of side-effects such as infections, but seven of the air expanders malfunctioned versus only one saline one, Ascherman said. The device was tweaked to fix the problem, he said.

“It’s a really interesting concept,” said one outside expert, Dr. Deanna Attai, a University of California, Los Angeles, surgeon who is a past president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.

“Giving the patient a sense of control is very psychologically important,” because many women feel robbed of that, Attai said. “To a patient that’s going through cancer treatment that could be a big deal.”

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Obituaries JACKSON, Betty Jan. 9, 1928 - Oct. 30, 2016

Our beloved Betty Jackson of Lacombe, Alberta passed away at the Lacombe Hospital on Sunday October 30, 2016 at the age of 88 years.

She was the loving mother of, Paul (Diane) Jackson of Calgary, AB, Alexandra Schultz of Red Deer, Ab and Stephen (Shirley) Jackson of Brandon, MB. And will be dearly missed by her 11 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. She will also be lovingly remembered by her brother, Kevin (Jackie) Whitaker, sisters Sallie (Peter) Doyle, Mollie Hyrnyk, Jackie (Stephen) Haythorne, and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Betty is predeceased by her son Michael Jackson, her parents Willie and Edith Whitaker, brother Barrie Whitaker, brother-in-law Nicholas Hyrnyk and sister-in-law, Maureen Whitaker.

Betty was born in Batley, Yorkshire, England. While raising her four children, Betty obtained her Psychiatric Nurse Certificate, and went on to a very successful career. In 1965 she immigrated to Canada, continuing her career in the Mental Health field until she retired in 1988. She loved spending time with family and adored her grandchildren and great grandchildren, spending untold hours reading and chatting with them. She had a great sense of humor and was always up to some mischief. Her favorite line was “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do (wink) and that’s not much!” Betty loved to debate politics endlessly, read, create art, do crossword puzzles and watch Coronation Street.

Memorial contributions can be made on Betty’s behalf to the Canadian Cancer Society, 6, 5015 48 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1S9 or Multiple Sclerosis Society, 105-4807 50Ave, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4A5.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the Red Deer Funeral Home 6150-67st, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 3M1 on Monday November 21, 2016 from 2:00-4:30pm.

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SUSAN ADCOCK 1929 - 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our Mom and Nanny, Susan Adcock on November 7, 2016 at the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 86 years.

Susan was born on November 24, 1929 in Bay du Vin, New Brunswick. There she met and married Tom in 1950. With his military career, they travelled across Canada and Europe.

They retired in Innisfail in 1976 and called Innisfail home until her passing.

Susan was a kind and gentle person and loved spending time with family and friends. Her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren brought her great joy and pride. She especially loved the “surprise” visits. Susan was an avid CFL fan and longtime Saskatchewan Roughrider fan, as could be seen by all the Rider memorabilia around the house and the many discussions around the kitchen table.

Susan was predeceased by her husband Tom (2011) and daughter Deborah (2014). Susan will be sadly missed by her two sons: Terry (Marsha) Calgary, AB; Bruce (Colleen) Red Deer, AB; and daughter Firth Red Deer, AB.: her grandchildren and great-grandchildren along with numerous nieces and nephews.

Our Mom - our Nanny - We will miss you “Forever In Our Hearts” Susan’s family would like to thank the staff at Red Deer Hospice for your compassion and care given to our mom.

At Susan’s request no service will be held. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made to Red Deer Hospice.

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GALLANT, Connie 1926 - 2016 Constance “Connie” Marie Gallant, of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully into the arms of Jesus on November 14, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with family by her side.

She was 90 years old. Connie was born in Kelso Washington to Evert and Ethel Tisdale. Once she graduated from high school, life took her to California, Florida and Texas. In 1960, she and her husband moved their family to Alberta to try their hand at farming. In 1967 they moved to Red Deer where Connie resided until her death. She held a number of jobs and eventually settled into a 17 year career with the City of Red Deer, retiring in 1991. Connie enjoyed all things outdoors and love to “go” almost anywhere. She especially enjoyed golfing, fishing, skiing, gardening and travelling. She made friends wherever she went and will always be remembered for her smile, warmth, love of family and passion for life. She will be lovingly remembered by her daughters Lynn, Marilyn and Joni; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. Connie was predeceased by her parents; brother Evert, sister Yvonne and sons Randy and David. At Connie’s request no service will be held. If desired, in lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, 202, 5913 - 50 Ave. Red Deer AB T4N 4C4. Condolences to Connie’s family may be emailed to meaningful@telus.net.

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Flynn, who served as the director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, has advised Trump on national security issues for months. As national security adviser, he would work in the White House and have frequent access to the president.

The official wouldn’t say whether Flynn had accepted the job. The official was not authorized to discuss the offer publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Trump held his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader since winning the presidential election, huddling privately with Japan’s Shinzo Abe. While Trump made no comments following the private meeting, Abe said the president-elect was “a leader in whom I can have great confidence.”

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IN SHORT IS attacks in Mosul as poor visibility slows Iraqi advance MOSUL, Iraq — Cloudy skies neutralized air power in Mosul on Thursday, Iraqi forces said, hampering their advance in the northern city, although they still faced deadly attacks by Islamic State militants that killed seven civilians and two soldiers.

The civilians were killed and 35 others were wounded when militants fired mortar rounds on governmentcontrolled areas of eastern Mosul, said army medic Bashir Jabar, who is in charge of a field clinic run by the special forces.

A soldier was killed and three were wounded when a car packed with explosives sped out from its

Earlier Thursday, Trump consulted with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and sat down with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a potential contender to lead the State Department.

In Washington, Vice-President-elect Mike Pence huddled with Republican leaders in Congress. He then met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the newly elected leader of the Senate Democrats, seeking to convey respect as Democrats prepare for Republican rule of both chambers and the White House for the first time in a decade.

“We look forward to finding ways that we can find common ground and move the country forward,” Pence said outside Schumer’s Senate office.

In a separate gesture of reconciliation with establishment Republicans, Trump planned to meet with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who lambasted Trump as a “con man” and a “fraud” in a stinging speech last March. Trump responded by repeatedly referring to Romney as a “loser.”

The two began mending fences after Trump’s victory when Romney called with congratulations. They

are to meet this weekend, a transition official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss Trump’s schedule publicly. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said they were still “working on” the meeting.

Trump’s actions Thursday aimed to show leaders both in the U.S. and overseas that he could soften his rhetoric, offer pragmatism in the White House and reaffirm longstanding American alliances. Since his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton last week, Trump has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May and nearly three dozen other world leaders by telephone. But Abe’s visit to Trump’s midtown Manhattan highrise was his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since the end of the campaign.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, also visited the skyscraper and called Trump “a true friend of Israel.” He specifically cited as another “friend” Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon, whose selection as a top White House adviser has created a backlash among Democrats. Bannon’s news website has peddled conspiracy theories, white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

hiding spot in a school complex in the eastern Tahrir neighbourhood, ramming Iraqi troops’ position and exploding into a ball of fire, according to two officers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Another soldier was shot and killed by a sniper in the Bakir neighbourhood.

Clouds over Iraq’s second-largest city obscured the visibility of drones and warplanes. The troops used the pause to secure areas they had seized, set up checkpoints and sweep for explosives, said Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil.

editorial on Thursday that China must break monopolies over core technologies and standards and remain untethered to other countries’ technology supply chains.

The commentary, aimed apparently at Silicon Valley in unusually stark terms, comes one day after President Xi Jinping called for “more fair and equitable” governance of the internet at the opening of the state-run World Internet Conference. Since 2014, China has hosted executives from the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Alibaba in eastern China to promote its vision of an internet that is more tightly controlled by national governments rather than running unchecked as a transnational network.

The conference this week has highlighted U.S. and China’s competing and increasingly entrenched views about the internet, trade and cybersecurity, and the potential for these issues to become an enduring irritant in bilateral relations.

Xi reiterated on Wednesday the Chinese position of “internet sovereignty” over its 700 million Internet users, while other top leaders declared the country’s willingness to work with the global industry for mutual benefit — if security could be assured on China’s terms.

China doubles down on internet control after tough new law BEIJING — China’s leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-reaching Chinese cybersecurity law loom over a gathering this week of the world’s leading tech firms and Chinese officials.

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Birthday party at the mall worries mom

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ear Annie: My 13-yearold daughter has been invited to her classmate’s birthday party.

The mom of the birthday girl plans to drop off the girls at the mall — six of them — for four Annie hours, during which they’ll wander around Lane with money, cellphones, credit cards and a plan to get food at some point.

I am not comfortable with this. I called the mom and asked why she isn’t going with them. Her daughter doesn’t want her there. I suggested the two of us go with the girls and perhaps even let them go off on their own for short periods and meet up with them a few times. But no. She wants her daughter to feel “independent” and to give her her “space.”

Besides the safety issue, I don’t

like the idea of just going to the mall to hang out. Not much good comes from that. My daughter always comes home wanting a bunch of stuff she doesn’t need. When she buys clothes or junk impulsively, it always ends up in the trash or on the charity pile a few months later. We’re on a tight budget, and this is not in it. I don’t mind getting her friend a birthday gift, but that’s different.

If it were anyone else, we’d just skip it. But this is her closest friend, so it would be devastating for both of them if she didn’t go. But I really don’t want her to go under these circumstances. — Between a Rock and a Hard Place in Ohio Dear Between: Personally, I think your suggestion to the mom was a bright idea. That being said, it’s her daughter’s birthday, and they can do what they want. Likewise, you can make choices about what’s right for your own family. If this mall idea is absolutely unacceptable to you, you

are entitled to put your foot down and explain that different families have different rules.

But if you’d like to make an exception and let your daughter attend, lay down some ground rules to help her be safe and responsible. 1) She can only spend her own money — and not too much of it. Set a limit you feel is fair, such as $30-50. 2) Cash only. No credit cards. 3) Have her call to check in with you halfway through the night, perhaps while they’re eating dinner.

There will come a time when she’s always out shopping without her mom, so this could be the perfect opportunity to get her practicing good habits.

Dear Annie: I read your column about the bride who invited a co-worker to her wedding who asked whether she could bring her boyfriend. No wedding gift was received, and the bride asked what to do.

This happened to me, too, when I invited a co-worker to my wedding, along with her husband. We received

gifts and cards from everyone but her.

I always say that a card is more than enough and was saddened by this lack of etiquette.

So I asked a friend of mine whether he could mention it to her. She had left the company, and I had no contact with her. I didn’t want to exclude her when I was sending my thank-you notes. I thought that perhaps she had given us a card and we’d misplaced it.

Her answer was that she had found the gift under her car seat and would mail it to me. I never received the gift or a card.

I realized that some people are just inconsiderate. We had a wonderful wedding, and I refused to let anyone ruin even a minute of it. I realized that she was not really a friend at all, and her total lack of etiquette was how I choose to view her. — Disappointed Bride in California Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

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nia State Police are hoping to prevent a detergent thief from making a clean getaway.

Troopers say an unidentified man loaded up his shopping cart with more than a dozen 150-ounce bottles of laundry detergent early Tuesday then left the Giant Food Store in South Hanover Township without paying. Police say the man drove away in a dark grey sport-utility vehicle.

Police say that happened about 3:20 a.m. at the store near Hershey.

Police believe the same man stole detergent form the same store on

Nov. 3, too.

VICTORIA, B.C. — An usual sight in the skies south of Victoria prompted curiosity and concern from some Vancouver Island residents.

Early Wednesday afternoon people reported seeing a low-flying Air Canada jet circling over the area for

more than an hour.

Witness John Kelley said the airliner appeared to be followed by a fighter jet.

But Air Canada has a simple explanation for the sighting.

The company says the second plane was not a fighter jet but crew taking pictures of the Air Canada Rouge aircraft for a commercial.

The low and twisting flight path allowed the crew to capture the plane and the spectacular scenery of the southern Gulf Islands in the same shot.

the confidence to speak from the heart and say what’s really on your mind today Taurus. Others may not agree with your comments, but they will respect you for being open and honest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Relationships will be somewhat confusing today, as work colleagues or loved ones view your behaviour as being selfish. If you are a smart Twin, you’ll choose compromise over confrontation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep your Crab energy in check today — especially at work. Someone may question your plans for the future. So it’s time to ask yourself, “Am I full of big dreams but short on practical details?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Expect an entertaining ride, as your emotions fluctuate. But is a partner, friend or colleague confusing you by sending mixed messages? Don’t be too hard on

them. They have a lot on their plate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you uncharacteristically blurt out the first thing on your mind, then communicating with others will be complicated and confusing. So hold your tongue and bide your time — for the moment!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With Jupiter in your sign, your confidence and natural style shine through. Be inspired by Libran writer Gore Vidal: “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your daily routine will be shaken and stirred today Scorpio. Money matters could also become confusing, especially if finances are mixed with friends. So try to keep the two separate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Chatty Mercury is now moving through your sign until Dec. 2. So you’re at your communicative Sagittarian best.

But avoid the tendency to talk too

much and listen too little.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you annoyed that you’re doing so much work behind-the-scenes and no one seems to notice? Calm down Capricorn! Your efforts will be acknowledged and appreciated further down the track.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Mercury is in your social networking zone, which means others are sitting up and taking notice of what you are posting.

So make sure you communicate clearly and there is no room for confusion.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you want to get ahead financially, aim to combine a creative approach with a proactive strategy. But a discussion could become confusing today, so step back and observe from the side-lines.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

IN SHORT Police seek Pennsylvania detergent thief HERSHEY, Pa. — The Pennsylva-

Innocent explanation for strange, circling flight south of Victoria

Horoscopes Friday, Nov. 18 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Owen Wilson, 48; Chloe Sevigny, 42; Peta Wilson, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Misunderstandings are likely today so proceed with care.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Joanne You are intuitive and Madeline emotional, but you can Moore also be very needy. 2017 is the year to spend less time worrying and more time developing your spiritual side.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep on your toes Rams, as the day develops in a rather shambolic fashion. If you are flexible and adapt to changing circumstances, then you’ll handle any confusion or disruptions along the way!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have

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